In the afternoon, Ash sat outside the tent, sitting on a chair holding a drawing board, holding a notebook and not knowing what he was writing.

Not far away, Pikachu and Sika were briefly exercising the strength of their tails, tying small stones, constantly lifting their tails, and then falling.

However, compared to Pikachu, Sika's tail flick is obviously much more rusty, and the tail flick is stiff and deliberate.

After all, I've been a human being for nearly 20 years.

Although most of the time, the body is driven by instinct and can naturally cooperate with the body to make many movements, but once it is deliberately controlled, it is a little uncomfortable.

However, this is also something that can't be helped, for a Pokémon that will have additional steel attributes after evolving in the future, the move of Steeltail should not be very difficult.

When Ash asked Dr. Ohki, who had contacted the researchers in the Sinnoh region, he had already decided to let him learn this move.

Although Sika has repeatedly protested because he doesn't plan to use it when he focuses on tails in future battles, he has no choice but to end under the threat of Ash's various strange flavors of meals and nutritious meals every time.

The shovel is turning the sky upside down...

It doesn't make sense.

In short, Sika had no choice but to do what Ash asked while doing push-ups with a stone tied to his tail and flicking his tail.

Why does Pikachu only need to flick his tail while I have to do push-ups!

Treat it differently, be careful that I run away and don't come back.

"The challenge rules of the Nibi City Taoist Temple are divided into 2v2 rocky fields, 3v3 normal versus battlefield fields, and measures are implemented for novice trainers and trainers who have already earned badges."

"As long as you train martial arts for the gym in the battle, or act as the hall master Xiaomi, any of the three Xiao Gang shows outstanding potential, qualified command ability, and strength, etc., you can get the Rock Badge regardless of victory or defeat..."

Ash looked at the "Pokémon Gym Challenge Rules Guide" on his lap, and kept writing and drawing in the notebook sandwiched on the drawing board in front of him, a little entangled in who would be better to send in the first gym battle in his life.

Whether it's a 2v2 rocky field or a 3v3 normal field battle, Bibi Bird has been ruled out...

After all, the manual has also indicated that the range of elf attributes that the Taoist Temple of Nibi City will probably use to meet the challenge:

"Nibi City Dojo is the official Pokémon Dojo that has a login record in the Pokémon League. Pavilion Master Wu Neng is good at using rock-based Pokémon, and rarely uses other Pokémon to fight unless there are special occasions. ”

"Sometimes, when the Pokémon trainer Wu Neng in the Gym in Nibi City is leaving, his wife Xiaomi and son Xiao Gang will use water-based Pokémon and rock-based and ground-based Pokémon respectively to conduct a gym duel instead of Wu Neng."

"Note: Xiao Gang, who has passed the Junior Pokémon Breeder Assessment, uses Rock Pokémon instead of his father in Gym Battle Duels, and often uses water-based Pokémon when he duels..."

"When the hell are you going to read here?"

The book in front of Ash was suddenly taken away by Xiaoxia who walked to him, interrupting Ash's thoughts.

"How did you get back? Didn't you say you were going back to Nibi City to live? ”

"I suddenly thought of something, so I came back to ask you."

"Although attribute restraint between Pokémon is important in battle, it is not an absolute chance of winning. You don't want to play on Leo Road when you've just recovered from your injury, or even when you're still a baby? ”

Xiaoxia squinted and asked Ash, her eyes were dangerous.

"What the hell... I didn't plan on for Sika to participate in the gym competition... Please, I'm not that much of a jerk, okay, don't use that kind of scum standard on me, Xiaoxia! ”

Ash replied and suddenly felt that something was wrong, rolled his eyes, took off the notebook on the drawing board in front of him, and was about to close it, when a hand reached out next to him and suddenly withdrew it.

"What are you writing about?"

Xiaoxia raised her eyebrows, and Ash pulled it back.

"Don't just do anything with other people's belongings."

"You're so ugly."

"That's not the point, okay!"

"Why isn't it the point, seeing that you write so ugly, people don't even have the courage to read it."

“...”

"Forget it, anyway, Miss Xiaoxia can hurry back to Nibi City? Otherwise, be careful that you can't go back after dark, and you will be trapped in the forest and spend the night with the bugs. ”

Ash didn't know what to say, so he waved his hand in disgust, stood up and walked towards the riverside Ba Da Butterfly, which was struggling to dodge the attack of Bibi Bird's wings, which had obviously slowed down deliberately.

Because the reaction speed is a little too slow, and the gym competition has not yet decided whether it is 2v2 or 3v3, so Ash specially asked Bibi Bird to train for Ba Da Butterfly, and then bring it to the gym together.

After all, given the Ba Da Butterfly, maybe it can come in handy at some point.

After all, although Ash already has six Pokémon, Pikachu, who is almost unable to effectively attack rocky and ground-based Pokémon under the restraint of attributes;

Except for Sika, who is not suitable for playing because of the juvenile stage and the initial recovery from a serious illness, as well as the strength and body shape difference between most rocks and ground Pokémon;

Then remove the Bibi Bird, which has a very poor effect on rocky and ground Pokémon. There are only three options left.

It is highly likely that the damage will be seriously insufficient;

Blastoise with an unclear attitude and uncertainty about whether he will listen to orders;

And in a sense, Jenny Turtle, who is already the only one who can breathe a sigh of relief for Ash, is constantly drinking water by the river, and then using a water gun to concentrate the water as much as possible, and learn the skills of using Xiaoxia's white sea lion's water gun tricks.

Ash hopes that the water cannon will be faster and more focused, and maybe it will show its outstanding abilities in the battle of the Gym in Nibi City...

However, since the skill of the water gun wants to improve, there is no way to trick it except for the Pokémon's own energy increase, so in fact, Ash is not hopeful about the results of his training with Jenny Turtle.

"Sure enough, you still have to find a way to improve your actual combat command level."

After checking the five Pokémon that were working him and making sure nothing unexpected had happened between them, Ash called them together.

Sika was finally allowed by Ji Ye to get the stone off his tail, and the fatigue from the half-day non-stop exercise made him lazy to the ground and didn't want to move.

But just because he's lazy and doesn't want to move doesn't mean that this damn thing, the stones that bullied him all day can be exempted from the death penalty.

The angry tail used its last strength to lift, and then in a flash of silver light, it violently smashed the stone that had been hanging from Sika's tail in the sky and dangling for a long time.

The stone was forcefully embedded directly into the sand, and the white light on his tail faded away, and Sika suddenly realized that he had done something good.

Sika is not the only Pokémon who is aware of this, Ash was originally untying the rope on Pikachu's tail, and when he turned around, he accidentally saw this scene as well. The movements of two creatures of different races are unexpectedly synchronized at this moment...

Looking at Sika's (herself) tail, she was quietly stunned. It took a long time for Ash to come back to his senses and blink.

"Which... It won't be... Tail of Steel, right? ”

For some reason, the corners of Xiaoxia's mouth, which was still rubbing against the camp, twitched.

"No... It's only the first day..."