Jessie froze when she heard the woman say that.
What was that supposed to mean?
She thinks she's already got this in the bag?
She's seriously underestimating me.
With that thought, Jessie hurled a Poké Ball into the middle of the battlefield.
She shouted,
"Dustox, come on out!"
A moth with green wings appeared in the middle of the battlefield.
Xu Mu was startled when he saw the Pokémon.
It was plain to see.
Jessie really wanted to win this match!
In the original world, Dustox was the Pokémon she had used to win her first Pokémon Contest.
He hadn't expected her to bring Dustox out here too.
Xu Mu watched the match even more closely.
But when the woman across from Jessie saw her Pokémon,
she showed no sign of worry. She threw out her own Poké Ball.
A Squirtle suddenly appeared in the middle of the battlefield!
Jessie blinked in surprise.
She didn't mean to look down on Squirtle!
It was just that, after hearing the woman talk, Jessie had expected some formidable Pokémon.
She hadn't expected a Squirtle.
Jessie felt embarrassed for her.
The woman opposite her, though, seemed not to feel embarrassed at all.
She gave Jessie a disdainful smile
and asked coolly,
"What's wrong? Ready to lose?"
Then she fixed Jessie with an intent stare.
Jessie was at a loss.
Why were there so many oddballs at an ordinary Pokémon Contest?
In their world,
does embarrassment not exist?
Jessie said to the woman helplessly,
"I'm not conceding!"
"Dustox!"
"Protect!"
At Jessie's command, Dustox immediately wrapped itself in a protective barrier.
The woman saw what Jessie had done
and shouted to Squirtle,
"Squirtle, Protect!"
And so, under everyone's gaze, the two of them
frantically kept putting up protective barriers around their Pokémon.
Finally, Jessie couldn't take