And after this intensive training, he also had to prepare to enter the tropical rainforest known as Earth's Lung.
Dangers lurked everywhere there, so he had to raise everyone's strength to a higher level.
Gardevoir pointed at Slaking and Azurill with one hand, instantly disappearing from the island with them. A few flickers later, they were above the turbulent sea.
Listening to the crashing waves, Gardevoir smiled faintly and casually tossed Slaking into water over ten meters deep.
The wind whistling past his ears woke Slaking from his sound sleep. Before he could react, there was a splash, and the icy seawater swallowed him whole.
Azurill hugged her tail and swam freely across the surface, calling for Slaking to hurry up and chase her.
Terror filled Slaking's eyes. He choked on several mouthfuls of seawater, frantically paddling his enormous hands and kicking his legs wildly. As a land-dwelling Pokémon, he couldn't swim!
Azurill noticed the problem too and anxiously demonstrated how to swim beside him, but Slaking was in no state to watch her.
"Garde..."
Gardevoir hadn't left yet. One look at Slaking told her he wasn't pretending, but she couldn't swim either, so she had to teleport back to ask Milotic for help.
As for Slaking? With his lung capacity, he wouldn't die anytime soon.
"Garde, Garde!"
Appearing before Ye Qing, Gardevoir anxiously pointed into the distance, then acted out how Slaking was struggling.
"He can't swim? Then why didn't he say so when I assigned the tasks?"
Ye Qing scratched his head. He had overlooked that.
Thinking about it, a Pokémon like Slaking would probably never leave the forest where he was born in his entire life. He could barely be bothered to eat, much less learn to swim.
After arranging for Milotic to help him, Ye Qing