Xia You's opponent in this round was a red-haired woman much older than him. She was fairly pretty and dressed fashionably, clearly the sort who traveled in style.
She was just Brock's type, but not his. Besides, in an arena like this, Xia You would not go easy on her just because she was a woman, even if she was one of the few women to reach the Round of 16.
Waving to the others in the Rest Room, Xia You walked out through the Contestant Entrance amid their cheers and took his place on the Battle Field.
On the other side, the female Pokémon Trainer stood facing him from a distance.
Unlike Xia You, who knew nothing about his opponent, this woman had clearly looked into him.
She had specifically gone back and watched recordings of all his battles. She took a man who brought out different Pokémon in every match, yet still effortlessly swept three opponents with one, very seriously.
Not to mention that he also had a strange, enormous, snow-white Snorlax, as well as a peculiar Pokémon resembling Zoroark that she had never seen before!
But the frightening thing about Xia You was that, just when you thought you had taken him seriously enough and prepared for everything, you discovered after battling him that you still had not taken him nearly seriously enough.
The woman had meticulously studied every Pokémon Xia You had sent out so far, but she never expected that, once the battle began, he would send out a black tree frog.
The appearance of this tree-frog-like Pokémon effectively sent all her previous efforts down the drain.
And what troubled her most was not the wasted time, but the fact that she knew absolutely nothing about this Pokémon.
It involuntarily cast a shadow over her