"Click! Click!"
Hayato snapped a photo of the scene with lightning-fast reflexes, recognizing the Fish King's true identity at the same time!
It looked like an enormous catfish, and that Pokémon's name was...
"D-Dondozo!"
Tong Hua recognized it at the same moment, and a flood of questions instantly filled his mind.
Why would a Pokémon from Paldea be in the coastal waters of the Almia Region?
But he had no time to ponder those questions now.
The shell that struck Dondozo seemed to have angered it. Tong Hua clearly felt the fishing rod in his hands shudder even more violently!
"Turt!" Turtwig's vines instantly pulled taut as it did its best to keep Tong Hua from being dragged into the sea.
The anglers nearby all put down their things and gathered around. Everyone watched anxiously, but no one dared step forward to help.
"Click! Click!" Hayato's camera kept snapping away, capturing Tong Hua bent over like a shrimp as he strained against the rod, as well as Dondozo repeatedly twisting through the coastal waters, poised to strike!
"Dooooonzo!!"
Dondozo seemed to have been enraged, unleashing a powerful Noble Roar to intimidate everyone onshore!
Tong Hua gripped the rod tightly, refusing to let go.
In fact, when Dondozo surfaced completely, Tong Hua gave the rod a mighty heave, trying to fling it straight onto shore!
"Are you insane?!" Hayato was stunned by Tong Hua's actions. Never mind how a young man like him could possibly have the strength to swing it out of the water-the rod looked ready to snap!
There's no way this will work! All the other anglers had the same thought, yet Hayato's camera continued snapping away.
Because they saw it. They saw Tong Hua fling that twelve-meter-long Dondozo, weighing several hundred pounds, toward them with a single