The man in sunglasses swore, "Fuck, first a Snorlax, then a Milotic. Are rare Pokémon really this cheap now?!"
"Skarm!"
Skarmory also felt unbelievably unlucky. How had it run into a Milotic when it would normally go years without seeing one?
"Third Brother, are you done yet?!"
The other two Pokémon Hunters were barely holding on and shouted impatiently.
They were all small fry with mediocre strength. They had spent all their previous savings buying even these few Pokémon; otherwise, they would not have needed to resort to petty crimes like these.
The man in sunglasses cursed inwardly at their words. He had been hoping they would come help him, but that clearly was not happening.
Ye Qing pointed at Skarmory on the ground and shouted, "Use Icy Wind!"
Milotic exhaled a biting wind laden with ice crystals. Wherever it passed, raindrops instantly turned into hail and hurtled toward Skarmory.
The man in sunglasses paled. All his other Pokémon were surrounding and attacking the silver-haired boy, leaving him without a single spare Pokémon to protect him!
"Oh no, Air Slash!"
Skarmory flapped its wings, sending two invisible blades of condensed air slicing through the rain toward Milotic!
" Dusclops, Disable!"
The silver-haired boy released another Pokémon, a Dusclops, and pointed at Skarmory as he shouted.
The Icy Wind seeped through every gap. Skarmory tried to climb higher to evade it, but its body abruptly froze in place!
In that brief instant, the man on its back was frozen into an ice sculpture.
"Block it with Iron Tail!"
Milotic raised her steel-hardened tail. With two bangs, the Air Slash left only two faint marks on it.
Having lost its Trainer, Skarmory fell into disarray. A single Water Pulse from Milotic blasted it to the ground, robbing it of the confidence to