The Smiling Devil

"Just pick one head to use it," Baimu said.

Baimu watched Zweilous hesitate instead of answering him right away. This hardly required much thought, which meant it had probably come up with some wild idea.

"Stop."

He held Zweilous's heads steady and told it with utmost seriousness, "You can think about that after you've learned the move. For now, put those wild ideas aside."

"Hey-woo!" "Hey-woo!"

At its trainer's command, Zweilous reluctantly abandoned its half-baked idea.

With only one mind controlling both heads, Zweilous wasted no time deciding which one would use Draco Meteor. Having the other head free could even help it keep the move stable.

Of course, it had to master the first step before any of that mattered.

Baimu broke Draco Meteor down into three steps: focus and gather energy, release the gathered energy, then guide it to burst apart and fall on the designated spot.

Given Zweilous's talent, it might manage one step a day.

Nearby, Wally fell into deep thought when he learned how Baimu taught moves.

He had long relied on sheer spirit to learn moves, but that did not mean he would reject a method that looked more "scientific."

Just as Baimu wanted to learn Wally's intuition-driven approach, Wally wanted to learn how Baimu broke moves into steps.

They could both improve by sharing what they knew.

Besides, teaching Baimu's Pokémon moves helped Wally's own Pokémon deepen their understanding of those moves. By the time Zweilous finally completed the first step and gathered energy, Garchomp's control over Draco Meteor had improved too.

"Hey-woo!"

Feeling the orange ball of energy it had worked so hard to gather, Zweilous could not resist guiding it to its left head. Its right head watched as the left fired it into the sky!

Bang!

The ball of light