The Amazing Lickitung! The City Selection Competition Begins!

The next few battles held no surprises either. The higher-ranked students on the red side won with ease.

They did not crush their opponents quite like Mu Yun had, but their victories were still comfortable.

As time went on, though, each battle lasted longer.

The last five were especially fierce, with the opponents so evenly matched.

Apart from a few unlucky students who ran into bad type matchups or made mistakes, the Small Class students won every match.

With that, the first round of eliminations came to an end.

After a brief ten-minute break, the second round began: the final eliminations that would cut twenty contestants down to ten.

The matchups were as blunt as ever. First place faced last place, second place faced second-to-last, and so on.

As the number-one contestant, Mu Yun was first to battle again.

This time, his opponent was a round-faced girl with a single ponytail. She was also one of the few Regular Pokémon Class students to survive the first round.

Her Pokémon was pink, plump, and so ugly it was cute—a Lickitung!

True to its name, Lickitung had a thick, long pink tongue. At rest, it was about as long as its body was tall; when extended, it could stretch to more than twice that length.

The tongue was packed with nerves, making it as nimble as an arm and capable of remarkably precise movements.

It could thicken, thin out, bend, and change shape. Even finer, more complicated movements were no trouble.

As far as Mu Yun knew, Lickitung Eggs had remained expensive ever since California in the Free Federation passed the Human-Pokémon Intermarriage Act.

Plenty of single female Trainers with the money to spare raised one. Some had even registered marriages with them.

All he could say was that the human body