With Nemona serving as an "outstanding example," the other students who had originally wanted to challenge Teacher Yu quickly left in groups.
Were they kidding...
Even a first-year monster like Nemona had only barely taken down two of Teacher Yu's Pokémon after giving it everything she had. She was still nowhere near beating him. How could ordinary students like them, whose strength fell far short of Nemona's, possibly have the nerve to challenge him after her?
After collecting several Gym Badges, many students had felt their strength was improving by leaps and bounds. They had even thought they might try their luck against an Elite Four member.
However, after Teacher Yu gave them a little demonstration of the strength an Elite Four member should possess, the students were instantly dumbfounded.
Besides, had Teacher Yu really gotten completely serious even in his battle against Nemona just now?
It was hard to say, actually.
Nemona, who had been locked in that fierce battle with Teacher Yu, might not have noticed certain details, but the spectators had seen them perfectly clearly.
Leaving aside subjective factors like fighting strength, Teacher Yu had decisively recalled Sylveon even though it clearly still had some fight left in it, and he hadn't used Terastallization on Ogerpon, who was obviously better suited to it. To some extent, he hadn't just gone easy on her-he'd practically given her an ocean's worth of slack.
Even with concessions that obvious, Nemona had only forced Teacher Yu to bring out four Pokémon. There was still an Indeedee who was exceptionally good at getting under people's skin waiting in reserve.
Perhaps because Nemona hadn't lost heart even when the entire battle had fallen apart, and had kept racking her brains for a way to turn things around, Teacher Yu had decided Indeedee's tactics