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Besides, even if it failed, the Pokémon Center was there, so nothing could go too badly wrong. After all, Beedrill could already consume the toxic essence of Pure White Star Grass. All that remained was one final push.

Although Dian had thought it through over and over and confirmed that nothing should go seriously wrong, he still broke into a cold sweat for Beedrill when the moment actually came.

After all, this was Arbok's deadly venom.

Looking at the purple venom that filled its vision, Beedrill used its powerful will to suppress the urge to dodge. Not only that, it stirred up its own equally potent venom, wrapped itself in a blue glow, and charged straight in.

The instant it entered the purple venom, Beedrill felt its entire body become enveloped, just as it had during its time as a Kakuna. The difference was that back then, nutrients had flowed inward from outside. Now, what flowed in was poison.

The potent venom kept seeping into its body, destroying everything it encountered.

But a surge of blue bee venom was constantly fighting back. As it resisted, the blue bee venom and purple snake venom began colliding violently, gradually breaking through some kind of barrier.

Although all this seemed to take a long time, it actually happened in a single instant.

Beedrill was shrouded in purple mist, looking as though it had been badly poisoned. In reality, however, as a Poison-type Pokémon, it could not be badly poisoned at all.

That purple mist was venom expelled from Beedrill's body by its own bee venom, but it also showed just how powerfully Arbok's deadly toxins could penetrate.

Arbok froze for a moment when it saw that Beedrill was still brimming with energy after taking a blast of its Acid infused with deadly venom.