Shen Qi could fly over the pebble obstacle too. The problem was that large boulders blocked both the inside and outside of the apex, clearly showing that the organizers did not want drivers flying off the ground to cross it.
Using Pokémon moves to carry a car through the air left almost no room to steer. "Splash" probably also...
He watched as Shūji's Moon Shard jumped straight off the track, landed on a rock, then bounced sideways to complete the turn.
Now he remembered... Shen Qi recalled that Moon Shard had indeed been able to jump sideways during the T2 Expansion Race.
Just like that, Shūji seized first place.
The Rainbow Flying Sword and Little Sheep cleared the difficult section right behind him, turning toward the entrance to Diglett Cave.
"Wen Jiu! Driver Wen Jiu!"
Shen Qi had not turned on the commentary's Public Channel. At that moment, a referee's warning came through the internal line in his headset.
"You've damaged a track obstacle. That's a violation!"
What happened?
Listening closely, it seemed Toy Car had pulled some maneuver in the gravel section and flung all the pebbles away, leaving the cars behind with one less obstacle. They had gained a huge advantage and were all catching up.
Twelve cars were now crammed together in the second group, creating utter chaos.
In his headset, Wen Jiu argued, "Destroying an obstacle with a Pokémon move is a foul. I used Toy Car's spinning-top rotation to fling all the pebbles away. That's not a foul."
Shen Qi broke into a sweat at Wen Jiu's description.
What kind of Dance of Death was that...
Still, under the racing rules, destroying obstacles with Pokémon moves was indeed a foul. Destroying obstacles with a car... that was not even supposed to happen!
"Well..."
After discussing