Tsareena Strikes! The Peak of Champion Level

"I am the divine envoy appointed by the Sea God! Every sea in the world is my god's domain. You faithless wretches are the shameless squatters here!"

Atop Wailord, the gaunt Fajar spoke with astonishing force.

If he hadn't been in Yanhuang League waters, Mu Yun might almost have believed him.

"You old crook! If you were even a third as good at fighting as you are at running your mouth, you wouldn't be here like a beaten dog, doing nothing but yapping at me!"

Xia Rongquan gave him no quarter and cursed him outright.

"Wherever my god's glory shines is where we belong. The vast seas are all our home!"

Fajar showed no anger. His voice remained loud, every word ringing with conviction.

"Seriously, how does this old geezer talk so much?"

On the deck, Zhu Mingze watched Fajar and Xia Rongquan trade insults without any sign of fighting. His nerves settled enough for him to grumble.

The vast seas are all your home? How do you make fleeing for your life and drifting from place to place sound so noble?

Taking 'the whole world is my home' a bit literally, aren't you?

"It looks like he only wants to hold us up," Qin Yilin said, her tense expression easing.

As long as they don't fight.

Otherwise, getting away safely would be a real problem.

"Then he's awfully confident. This is Yanhuang League territory. Once the other Regional Elite Four arrive, how could he possibly escape?" Zhu Mingze asked.

"Champion Level Pokémon have tremendous stamina. Even with several opponents against one, they won't go down quickly," Qin Yilin said.

In other words, she thought the old geezer might genuinely be confident he could break out of an encirclement—or that he had timed things well enough to leave before one