Today, the Snake Bit Me... (Bonus chapter for "Moonlit Falling Flowers and Flowing Water"'s 10,000-point tip)

Mamoswine also saw the lake ahead. It was just about to fire off an Ice Beam when it glimpsed a streak of black light. Its footing suddenly tilted, and its entire body flipped over.

Its ferocious white tusks plowed two huge furrows, and its massive body performed a full three-hundred-and-sixty-degree somersault into the water. Even the Monkey King would have praised his junior brother Pigsy for mastering such an advanced technique.

With a thunderous crash, the lake looked as though a meteor had struck it. Spiraling waves surged in every direction, reaching more than twenty meters high by the time they approached Dian.

Chinami, who had turned her car around and driven back, took one look at the enormous wave and turned around again without the slightest hesitation. The two conscientious Trainers who had rushed over, on the other hand, were slapped flat onto the grass by the wave.

Dian leisurely picked up the still-dry wet wipe beside him and made a show of wiping nonexistent droplets from his face. "The willing fish have taken the bait."

Indeed, the catch included not only Chinami and Azisa, but a Mamoswine thrown in for good measure.

The male Trainer stared slack-jawed at Mamoswine, which lay motionless in the lake with yellow electricity crackling around its body, and hid the rock he had picked up behind his back.

Wasn't Thunderbolt supposed to be useless? How had it gotten paralyzed, then?

The female Trainer beside him, however, once again displayed her talent for courting disaster by throwing a Poké Ball at Mamoswine in the lake.

Smack! A Magikarp suddenly leaped out of the lake, directly into the Poké Ball's trajectory. Its pinprick black eyes flicked over in disdain, and it smacked the Poké Ball with a swish of its tail.

Home Run!

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