Rope looked at the Mightyena's whose mouths were beginning to coalesce with energy and the black suits who were either cold-faced or scowling with a helpless smile on their faces.
"Why? Why do you people always think that other people just don't have what it takes to clean you up?"
Rope just couldn't figure it out, shouldn't you be more careful the higher up in the hierarchy you are? And in normal bullying of others, you have to inquire about the background of a good person's family before you bully them, right? That's no reason to assume that the person you're bullying is a nobody...
Let's not talk about those low-profile bigwigs who hardly show their faces in front of the public. But even Rope, a newcomer with a low profile who is now famous but whose reputation hasn't spread to thousands of households, can't be easily offended.
But in these people's behavior, not only did Rope not see their concern about 'messing with people they can't mess with', Rope only saw madness and arrogance...
What the hell is this world coming to...
"Chimchar, Charmeleon, finish them off, and move fast..."
"Hoo cha! (Promise to finish the job!)"
"Roar~ (Yes.)"
Then only crimson flames were seen leaping out of these two of them, transforming into armor and weapons.
Chimchar was wrapped in armor and carried a stick formed by the curing of flames in his hand. Charmeleon, on the other hand, wore arm armor that looked like gloves.
The Mightyena's were sent flying before they had time to react. Mightyena wailed and rose from the ground, wincing but staring menacingly at Charmeleon and Chimchar, who were already a far cry from their normal selves, before pouncing once more.
Charmeleon and Chimchar, on the other hand, unanimously revealed a sneer before charging up without fear as well. They didn't need Rope's command, or rather the past training was the best command, and after undergoing the reinforcement, they themselves were similar to 6-sided fighters without any obvious shortcomings. The abuse was simply no easier than that, they didn't even need to worry about which one of them was injured, and Rope usually gave them training to fight on their own.
So with Rope's command they can naturally do better, but without Rope's command they won't do worse. So at this moment, the battle situation was greatly one-sided.
The men in black suits were stunned, Naoi who was sitting in his chair watching the show was also stunned, and the men in black suits by the river were also stunned. They didn't even react and asked the Pokémon who was "frying fish[1]" - actually it was Mightyena - to help.
And the only one who reacted was none other than the knowledgeable Inch.
Although Inch was also surprised by Rope's Charmeleon and Chimchar's battle prowess, he also knew that the situation was that the fight had already begun, and the point was that there was nothing wrong with them being wrong in this case, but this was Rope taking the initiative to find fault with them. Obviously it wasn't a problem that could be solved by admitting fault and surrendering.
So...
"Hairy boy, ever played wild fight? Let's show you!"
Saying that, standing very close to Rope, he directly slammed his fist towards Rope's face, aiming for the nose and controlling the force himself.
He just wanted to make Rope stop, he also now reacted to the fact that this guy in front of him was afraid that he was not the kind of 'righteous partner' that he had dealt with before who had no money or power and only had a passion for justice. After all, Pokémon with this kind of talent were rare, and the young man in front of him looked like he wasn't a simple trainer after the battle started.
However, young people... this kind of young people usually grew up under the shelter of the League's rules, and there was basically no possibility that they had ever fought in a wild fight. The danger of wild fights was really hard to accept.
Nowadays, I'm afraid that only those guys who had made a living in the wilderness could still accept the rules of wild fights, like himself.
So, I wonder if this young man would be surprised to see himself as a trainer suddenly attacking him?
A smooth smile had appeared on Inch's face.
Genius is better, teach those who have not yet grown up genius is his hobby, and geniuses are good face, wait until they grow up in the future they come to the door to apologize, not only can be forgiven, and there are even some people in order to show their own atmosphere is willing to become friends with him.
He was just a small ant, those divine eagles soaring in the sky wouldn't care if an ant had bitten them...
With this thought, his fist was already less than an inch from Rope's nose.
Then, he fiercely blasted it...
[Ha! Feel the pain? Let me teach you a lesson!]
He thought so, then suddenly felt that something was wrong...
No... the feel is wrong... I missed?
He looked to his fist, and his fist...passed through Rope's head...
[Phased... through...]
His fist stopped in mid-air, and Rope's head was passed through the center of his fist. But there was no blood... only leaping flames...
In Inch's horrified eyes, Rope cocked his head, then moved his head out of the way of Inch's arm.
"Wild battle? My favorite..."
Rope tilts his head and squints his eyes into a wide smile.
Then with a hard punch he blasted into Inch's stomach, his fist had crimson flames exploding from it...
Inch only felt a pain in his stomach, then a sensation of being burned by the flames...
Then came the sensation of flying...
The burning sensation caused him to scream out in agony, " Water!!! Hot!" and he got what he wanted...
He landed in that river...
And at that moment the black suits and Naoi looked at Rope not too far away, dumbfounded for a moment.
Mightyenas were instead still fighting, and since they had a tricky opponent as well, they weren't even focusing on Rope...
So they still had the conviction to fight Charmeleon and Chimchar...
"You... what are you?"
Naoi looks at Rope with wide eyes, rather confused...
"Well, who knows? None of your business..."
Rope shrugged, then replied.
"Now, leave your names, and the forces behind you...and then get the hell out of the Safari Zone..."
Rope said indifferently.
"You... you... I... just so you wait, our Naoi family will definitely teach you a lesson!"
Naoi wanted to have a fit as he listened to Rope's arrogant words, but the desire to survive didn't allow him to bare his teeth towards Rope, so he could only say a couple of painless harsh words and then reveal his power in passing.
Being able to make Rope afraid is naturally the best, and even if he can't...he can still answer Rope's question just now...
That's right, the goading is just so fast...
Rope looked at the unusually knowledgeable Naoi, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say...he was still waiting for this before him to be Big Young Master to make one more arrogant wave, and then he could make a move to teach this side of Big Young Master a lesson.
Then the big young master could go home and cry, and then the old man of his family also came out with a whole bunch of people ready to teach Rope a lesson, and then he was beaten up by Rope again in a reverse frenzy.
He scripted it all, but it turns out that this young master is also a master who doesn't follow the rules, admitting defeat and recognizing so quickly, won't it fall off your young master's platoon?
Hurry up, give me courage! Damn it!
But this word Rope and can not say, after all, he also want to maintain their own style...
Naoi looked at his eyes, even more do not dare to jump out of the...
In front of this do not know what is a thing thing on their own malice seems to be very large said...
So the scene fell into a kind of strange silence! ... probably is the desire to survive and malicious confrontation it.
In the end, Rope gave up on the idea of picking a fight. Because this not-so-young brat in front of him was too experienced in recognizing weaknesses, what with hitting not returning blows and cursing not returning words. Even, also hit the left face to give the right face... Emm, in a sense this is kind of the philosophy of life...
Rope also can only let them go.
Good thing Charmeleon and Chimchar fought and fought too.
As they were leaving, Naoi saw Growlithe, who was originally crouching in the bushes and had just gotten up, and was again incredibly glad that he had been wise (and wimpy).
Rope watched them leave, with a big feeling inside that his fun toy was gone. But the feeling was fleeting.
But Rope still didn't look too good.
Whitley, who was watching a not-so-good scene on the side, asked, "What's wrong? Still not happy?"
Rope nodded, then said, "I shouldn't have let Charmeleon and the others make a move at that time..."
Whitley pondered for a while after hearing this, then said, "You're thinking that in this way, you, the one who made the rules, also broke that rule?"
Rope nodded and fell silent.
This was what he was thinking. As the maker of the rules, he was the one who should set an example to follow the rules, and the big event anger got the best of him and he still broke his own rules. In a sense, he was the loser in this fight...
Whitley understood Rope's discomfort, but honestly, she couldn't make Rope happy... because she reacted to it too...
[I should have warned Rope about this...]
Whitley thought guiltily.
In the end these are still two immature guys...
"Maybe it's because I don't care much about things like rules per se... I'm a person who doesn't like rules myself, whether they're other people's rules or my own. But I know myself that worse rules are better than no rules at all..."
Rope said in a voice that didn't know if he was talking to Whitley or to himself.
But as soon as that was said, Rope's emotions came back...
Traveling out and about on a trip is a process of clarity in itself.
Everyone was lost when they first went out, and even if they had a goal, it was too nebulous. And after the experience of the journey, whether it is to change the ideal or adhere to the ideal, as long as the ideal is still there, then it is considered a successful travel.
Rope patted Whitley's head and said: ''Don't think so much, it's not your fault, it's my problem. Don't think about anything else either, if you think this is bad then change it. If you think it's okay then keep it up. Take you out for a walk, Professor Oak and Juniper are thinking of asking me to change you."
Rope's tone of voice rarely lost its frivolity and playfulness, all that was left was gentleness, "I don't want to change you, just walk out and see for yourself, just figure it out for yourself, and no matter what your choices are after that, as long as you feel it's the right thing to do then just do it."
"Even if I don't do the right thing?"
Whitley tilted her head at Rope with the same rare hardness in her tone...
It was also the first time she'd ever said outright in front of Rope that she wasn't thinking along the same lines as the crowd.
"Feel free, and what I'm going to tell you is... what you're doing isn't wrong... it just doesn't fit our philosophy. Something like right or wrong comes with a position in itself. If you put the stance aside, it's just a clash of ideas, there's no such thing as right or wrong..."
"Even if it deviates from human nature?"
"No kidding...you're human alright...I can't be considered fully human..."
Rope said as he rolled his eyes.
He, Rope, could no longer be considered a fully normal human, but Whitley was a living, breathing human being. The so-called human nature is also the consistency of most people...
Rope smiled and touched Whitley's head, "Don't be in a hurry to shed tears ah... think about it yourself, our journey is still long, I don't dare to say that I can accompany you all the time to go on, but at least I can accompany you for a very long time.... ...There's no rush, think slowly..."
Said Rope as he withdrew his hand and then walked towards the creek.
"Let's go to you see cute little Dratini..."
Whitley looked at Rope's back and wiped away the tears that slipped from the corners of her eyes. How could she not know the reason why Professor Juniper had sent herself here...and really, she had never thought N was wrong. A lot of humans just enslaved Pokémon, and was there a problem with freeing those enslaved Pokémon?
Of course, Whitley didn't share N's paranoia that Pokémon should be allowed to enslave humans.
Unconsciously, Whitley is still changed by Rope...
Recognizing from the bottom of his heart that Pokémon and human beings are equal is probably the reason why Rope values Whitley so much...
After all, Rope's successor must have this kind of underlying thinking...
This is the reason why Rope, a guy who just started working and is thinking about retirement.
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"Dratini! Mimi[2]!"
Rope shouted as he stood by the river.
Whitley was at his side with his hands propped up on his knees, looking down at the river and asking suspiciously, "Are you going to get him out by shouting like that???"
Rope shrugged and said, "It used to be able to anyway... If he doesn't respond, he's either forgotten me or something's wrong..."
Rope said it easily, but the content of the words made it less easy...
On the contrary, it was quite brutal ...
While the two of them were chatting, the calm water surface rippled...
Then a small snake-like Pokémon leapt out from the bottom of the river, and wrapped itself around Rope's arm while screaming "Woo~".
Rope looks at the clingy Dratini, then turns to Whitley and says, "Look... here it comes..."
Whitley: ...
Pseudo- Legendary? Where's your pride?
[1] Chinese internet slang - refers to the behavior of players with higher game skills who maliciously play games among low-level players for a long time through certain means
[2] also known as "pspspspsps"