Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 374 A Powerful Dragonite Arrives at the Inkstone Gym
"The Dragonite that Lance used?"

Natsume curiously leaned closer.

The two people talking to Xiaozhi paused, as if they remembered something, and nodded blankly:

"Speaking of which, we did see Mr. Watari appear at the Yanmo Dojo."

Upon hearing this, Natsume's expression turned strange.

It seems that Du can participate in the Chengdu Alliance without needing a badge.

"Your opponent isn't that Dragonite, is it?"

Natsume said with a strange expression.

"Yes, we are the challengers, and we've been in Ink City for a long time. We're just one badge away from being here."

"Damn it, if we had known this would happen, we would have come to challenge it sooner. Maybe we would have collected all eight badges by now."

The two rivals beat their chests and stamped their feet, showing no remorse whatsoever.

Natsume shoveled a mouthful of mashed potatoes into his mouth, exchanged a glance with Satoshi, and both of them looked on with a hint of confusion in their eyes.

"What does this have to do with the time we arrive here?" Ash asked curiously.

"Of course it's related!" one of them said, patting his chest and full of regret.

"The day I came here, the gym leader was still testing gym trainers with Dragonair."

"But when I went there the next day, I found that there was only one Dragonite standing on the battlefield, and it has been going on for more than a week now."

"That's exactly right, that Dragonite has no chance of winning!"

The other person nodded in agreement.

"The Dragonite that we couldn't defeat more than a week ago?"

Natsume raised an eyebrow.

Could it be that Lance, after catching the red Gyarados, suddenly wanted to try his hand at being a Gym Leader when he passed through Blacksmith City?
Thinking about it that way, it does seem quite possible.

"You said you saw Mr. Lance, could that be Mr. Lance's Dragonite?"

Xiao Zhi exclaimed excitedly.

The two men were taken aback, exchanged a glance, and nodded in unison:
"That's what we thought too. But..."

"Get out of the way!"

Before he could finish speaking, a commotion broke out at the door.

Turning my head, I saw a trainer covered in dirt rushing in, pushing a shopping cart.

On the trolley, a hamster had a sunken chest, wide pupils, and its eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets.

Natsume frowned, his gaze falling on the huge claw-shaped indentation on the chest of the Magnus.

"My God, that person must be a challenger too!"

"It's too awful!"

The two rival trainers looked on with sympathy as they watched as the other trainer called Nurse Joy over and took Machamp into the emergency room.

"Are you sure that Dragonite belongs to Mr. Lance?"

Natsume shifted his gaze from the Machamp to the two opposing trainers.

"We're not sure about that."

"But who else could have bred such a powerful Dragonite besides Mr. Lance?"

The two trainers shrugged.

"Is that so?" Natsume asked with a strange expression.

A-Du wouldn't be so reckless.

"Wait a minute, when you're challenging it, is there anything unusual about that Dragonite?"

As if he had thought of something, Natsume suddenly asked.

"Something's not right?" The two trainers exchanged a glance, hesitated for a moment, and then said:

"Indeed!"

"Tell me about it!" Natsume pulled out his notebook.

Lance possesses the latest, unreleased gene-suppressing agent for Dragonite's Mega Evolution.

After Yanmo City, Baiyin Mountain is not far away.

The other party likely wants to try out Dragonite's Mega Evolution form here.

If that's the case, it would explain why I can't control my strength right now.

"That Dragonite was huge!" one of them said, sounding a little uneasy.

"My Charizard looks like a little kid standing in front of it!"

“It’s very large.” Natsume nodded.

Generally speaking, the size of a Dragonite increases after Mega Evolution. "Is there anything that you remember that makes it significantly different from other Dragonites?" Natsume continued to ask.

Seeing that the two had begun to ponder, Natsume thoughtfully took out a picture of a regular Dragonite.

They stared at the picture of Dragonite in Natsume's hand, stroked their chins, and slowly said:

"The wings are noticeably different!"

"Will the wings become longer and thinner like this, or will they become wider and thicker like this?"

As Natsume spoke, he took out photos of Charizard Y and Charizard X.

"It looks much wider than a normal Dragonite, like this one!"

One of the trainers pointed to the X-Beat's wings and said.

"No, this is definitely more like it!"

Another trainer pointed to Y-Blast's wings.

"Ok?"

Natsume looked at the two of them strangely.

Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?

"No, it's definitely like this, with huge wings. With a single flap, my Wigglypuff can't even get close!"

"No! The wings haven't changed much, but it's incredibly fast, much faster than my Charizard!"

Another trainer shook his head.

The two held firm to their own opinions and refused to give an inch.

Natsume stroked his chin and wrote down all the words the two of them had said.

Does Dragonite also have two sets of suppression genes?

"Natsume-san"

Xiao Zhi tugged at Natsume's sleeve and pointed to a large group of people not far away:
"Why don't we go ask them too?"

Natsume looked back and saw a group of more than a dozen people gathered in a corner of the dining area.

They were dressed in a motley collection of clothes, each with an indignant expression on their face, and a very large banner was hung above their heads:
'Smoky Dojo - Dragonite Victims Alliance.'

Natsume approached with a strange expression.

These people seemed to have just arrived; Natsume arrived with a large pile of lunch boxes.

"Huh? What are you doing?"

Natsume grabbed Sanhe, and the leading trainer was taken aback.

"We'll give you an extra meal."

As Natsume spoke, he took out a middle-part hairstyle.

"Pickup?"

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Don't drop any feathers into my lunchbox!"

When they saw this strange guy take out a Pikachu and shake it onto a pile of lunchboxes, the group of people quickly shouted to stop him.

"Plop~" A hard-boiled egg rolled down and fell into the lunchbox.

Grilled sausages, meatballs, spare ribs... Food tumbled off the Pikachu's body, guided by golden telekinesis, and landed precisely in each lunchbox.

In the end, even a roast chicken almost the size of Pikachu was discovered.

How was this packed in?
Everyone stared in astonishment at the man with the middle parting.

Finally, their gazes all fell on Natsume.

"Street magic?"

The lead trainer tore off a piece of roast chicken, holding the chicken leg in his hand. The aroma was irresistible, and it didn't seem fake at all.

He took a bite, and his eyes lit up.

"It's delicious, is it really true?"

"Alright, we've finished our snack. I have something to ask you."

Natsume let his middle-parted hair fall to the ground, allowing the other person to hug his thighs and headbutt him.

"what's up?"

The group became noticeably more enthusiastic towards Natsume.

"To be honest, my brother was also a victim of that Dragonite at the Inkstone Gym!"

"Huh? Yes, me!" Ash was pushed forward by Natsume, looking bewildered.

"Now he's asking me to review the match, but I still can't quite remember some of the details," Natsume continued.
"I'd like to ask about the details of your battle with that Dragonite."

(End of this chapter)