Kurokane is a mining city, the main source of economy is minerals, and the main job of the citizens is also miners, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the mining center of the entire Sinnoh region. As we all know, one of the responsibilities of the owner of the gym is to protect the peace of the party, and for the black gold market, it is naturally an unshirkable responsibility to ensure the normal output of minerals.

Because of this, Mr. Hirata, who has always led by example, was unlucky, and the citizens of Kurokane City expressed their deep condolences.

Wait, people aren't dead yet, okay, maybe they can save it, okay? There's no one to say that monsters or anything must eat people, right? As the person in charge of the mine, don't say these clichés with a heavy face, tell me something practical, okay?! Let's talk about what kind of monster it is! Isn't it a Pokémon, what does it look like? It's really not okay to talk about what kind of injuries the miners have suffered, let's prescribe the right medicine and analyze the attributes, right?

The mine manager in front of him looked embarrassed, so Shinji understood - you are the leader who left first, right! It's no wonder that as soon as you ask three questions, you don't know the official words.

So Shinji turned around with a black face and left, meow, go directly to the gym and grab the badge and leave, okay?

But Shinji just thinks about it, each badge has a unique number and registration to prevent forgery, and badges of unknown origin cannot be used as a certificate to enter the conference, but may be detained and interrogated or something, and there is a lot of trouble, no matter how you think about it, you can't do that.

Glancing back at the cave tunnel in the direction of the entrance to the city, Ash and the others never appeared.

Where are these bastards? I don't think I'm going to get lost again.

Shinji sighed slightly, and finally ran to the elf center to ask about the injured.

"It's a monster! Monster! - This is a frightened miner.

"Black! Enormous! - This man seems to be in slightly better spirits.

"Dragon! That's a dragon! It is impossible to judge the veracity of this statement, because he would not have come to such a pit if he wanted to crack the empty seat or something.

"Terrible monster! Never seen before! Attack humans casually! Apparently I just shouted at it twice to drive it away,,,"—this one, well, looks like the culprit.

"Bloody mouthful! Blood-red wings! If this person's statement is correct, then it looks like a flying species, well, apologies to the former miner, indeed, the wyvern is also a dragon.

Well, then it can be inferred, according to the information gathered, the monster has the following characteristics: "One, huge, two, black, three, winged, four, dragon, five, irritable,,, and so on! ”

After imagining it in his mind for a moment, Shinji's face suddenly changed.

Hey, why is this setting so familiar? No way

Now Shinji is a little glad Ash didn't arrive first. At the same time, I'm glad that the mysterious Interpol doesn't know if it's instigated or how it didn't come together.

Shinji directly sped up his speed and almost rushed to the mine with a run, and the miners who were on guard and blocked along the way were directly ignored by him.

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Deep in the pit.

Hirata was on the verge of running out of ammunition. As a professional trainer and gym owner, Hirata has always been quite confident in his own strength, after all, in terms of real strength, there are only a handful of trainers who can beat him, and every time he faces a door-to-door challenge, the trainers themselves only show fifty percent of their strength. However, this time, Hirata felt like he was really going to capsize in the gutter.

In this dark cave, it should have been his home field, but the monster that rushed out of the darkness caught him off guard, the blood-red eyes and roaring roar disrupted his rhythm, and he almost couldn't see how the other party made a move, his big rock snake and small fist stone lost their ability to fight, and the rest could only rely on the head skull dragon to take themselves around this underground mine.

Fortunately, the other party is not as familiar with the terrain here, otherwise Hirata really doubts whether he can survive until now. However, even so, I am almost at the limit.

Oh, what kind of elite trainer, immersed in all kinds of battles, but forgetting the simple and understandable truth that real enemies will not give you a fair chance to fight at all, laughing to death.

I'm sorry, grandpa, but, at least, the last battle, be dignified,,,

"Roar――――――!!"

Was it discovered? But, as I like, I'm not going to hide like a rat anymore.

"Skull Dragon! Use Earthquake! ”

"Huh-" The skull dragon raised the huge ball of his foot and stomped to the ground. The monster on the opposite side flapped its wings and flew up.

"Hmph, can you really fly monsters! But it's useless, this is an underground mine! ”

Boom - As the two supporting beams break, the whole cavern begins to mourn, and sand and gravel continue to fall from the top.

"Roar!!"

Hearing the monster with blood-red wings flapping on the opposite side finally let out an angry roar, Hirata endured the cough choking on the smoke and dust, but still laughed: "Haha, what's wrong, monster? Started to panic? Even if it is to pay with your life, I will not let you hurt the people here again, come, come and bury with me! ”

More wooden supports began to crack with a palpitating sound, only for Hirata to find the monster on the other side suddenly staring at him, and then let out a furious roar again.

"Oops!" Finding that the other party did not panic and try to flee as he thought, but instead sent a final charge towards him, Hirata panicked. In this way, you will lose the opportunity to escape from Ascension through the burrowing skill. Tut! Do you really want to die here with the monsters?

"Skull Dragon! Run! ”

This is the speed of life and death, and using the familiarity of this place to find a way to get rid of each other is the only way.

But this time, the monster behind it was not as easy to shake off as the previous times, and I don't know if the other party really didn't have a long-range attack, in short, it kept biting three or four meters behind him.

Tut! A cunning monster, could it be that he deliberately followed after calculating that he would escape?

So do you want to lead the other party into the depths of burial like this?

Looking at the exit that meant to live not far away, Hirata hesitated again, in the case of having a chance to live, the choice of death is not so easy to make.

"Skull Dragon! Hold on! Going a little further, and then suddenly turning around and using the Thoughts Mallet so that he could hit the other person by surprise and knock him back into the depths of the pit, Hirata's eyes became firm again.

Three meters, two meters, one meter! This is the location!

"Skull Dragon, turn around!" Grasping the protrusion on the back of the head cover dragon, Hirata lay down tightly on the back of the head cover dragon, and endured the huge inertia of suddenly braking and turning around without being thrown out, and at this moment the head cover dragon was just opposite the monster just now.

"It's now! Missing—"

"Electromagnetic waves!" An unexpected sound appeared, and Hirata watched as an electric current ran through him and the head cover dragon, not only did he obviously fail to send it out, but even the head cover dragon stumbled in pain.

At the same time, the monster slammed into the brake skull dragon, and together with Hirata, one man and two beasts rolled together and rushed out of the last distance deep in the pit, crashing into the rock wall.

"Whew! Call! With his hands on his knees, Shinji gasped violently.

"Finally ,,, caught up with ,,,"