No longer paying attention to the Rotom Drone, Xia You turned his attention to his opponent.
Beside him, Dawn and Cheryl smiled and wished him luck. Having two beauties, one older and one younger, watching meant little to Xia You, but it clearly stirred his opponent, giving the young man the idea of defeating Xia You in front of them.
Well, the young man had never intended to lose after accepting the match in the first place. Now that he was jealous, he had even more reason to put on a good performance.
For Xia You, meanwhile, this battle was actually quite memorable as his championship debut.
But that was all.
What trouble could a competitor currently ranked in the nine thousands possibly cause him?
Oh, he had almost forgotten. He was currently ranked in the eleven thousands, even lower than this man.
But what did that matter?
Even if the current Masters Eight were here, so what!
Using only Infernape, Xia You easily swept aside his opponent's Krookodile and Samurott, leaping straight to 9,929th place. His opponent, having lost the match, dropped one place to 9,930th.
The young man clearly found this somewhat hard to accept.
After all, when he had first found his opponent, he had seen that the other party was just a passerby ranked below eleven thousand and assumed he was a nobody, so he had thought he could use the match to pass some time. He had never expected his opponent to be hiding such strength, easily defeating two of his Pokémon with just one!
What was more, after losing the first round and seeing how powerful his opponent was, he had deliberately sent out Samurott, which had an advantage against Fire-type Pokémon and was part of his original lineup. Yet even it had been