On the dunes.

At dusk and sunset.

Kashiwagi looked into the distance and saw the center of the Pokémon that was accompanied by an oasis in the sunset, with a huge Poké Ball signboard lit up with a shimmering light.

"It's here, it's not a mirage."

The soft warm light in the floor-to-ceiling windows came into view, unconsciously dissipating the heat and exhaustion in his heart.

"It's finally here! Thank goodness!"

Alice and the Axetooth Dragon followed, and when they heard this, they all threw themselves into the sand with tears in their eyes, only tilting their heads slightly to leave themselves with a surplus of breath.

The two of them went from afternoon to evening under the sun, and it was still a special desert environment, which was already a great test of physical strength.

This guy went to the mirage twice in a row, ran wildly for a long distance in vain, and when he saw a desert dragonfly chasing after him like crazy, he consumed a lot of physical strength again.

Kashiwagi walked with her for half a day, and the idea of traveling alone deepened again and again.

Of course.

Walking together is not without fun, and having a companion chatting while walking can forget a lot of tiredness, which is very different from the feeling of chatting with Pokémon such as Bosco Dora.

A lot of personal information was revealed to each other during the exchange between the two sides -

Strictly speaking, Alice talks a lot.

This one, like Ash, can't help but describe his dream of becoming a Dragon Master whenever he chats with others.

Maybe I didn't have this habit before, but after traveling with Ash for a long time, I unconsciously got involved.

Nothing bad.

Except for some annoying imps and villains, most adults in the Pokémon animated world appreciate and support other people's ideals, so no one will laugh at them even if they talk about it all the time.

Kashiwagi, who also has a goal in her own right, is even less likely to laugh at her.

What's more, he is the champion of the United Nations, one of the eight masters of the World Championships, and the only powerful trainer who does not rely on any system to reach this level.

No matter from which point of view, the strength is very admirable.

But it's only about strength.

"Excuse me."

Kashiwagi strode into the Pokémon Center, a frowning dragon behind him hugging its trainer Alice with a sad expression.

As soon as the sensor door on the inner layer opens, the cool air of the air conditioner rushes in.

It's like a spring breeze.

Rao is Alice, who has always been insensitive to air conditioning, will know what it is to be comfortable.

"It's so comfortable~"

Since the Pokémon Center is located near the desert, Miss Joy here is often very relaxed, and it is rare for a trainer to come to the door to appear very enthusiastic.

Kashiwagi and Alice handed over a bunch of Pokémon, sat down on the sofa in the center of the hall to rest, and talked about the topic they didn't finish talking about just now-

How to learn the Heart of the Dragon.

"So the point is to understand and experience the mood of dragon-type Pokémon, and understand their thoughts."

"That's right!"

"Isn't that stuck in some kind of dead loop, I want to rely on the heart of the dragon to understand and experience the mood of dragon-type Pokémon, but I have to understand and experience their mood first?"

"Ugh...... It's a bit of an endless loop...... Yes! I don't understand the principle or anything!"

"I'm sorry for you."

He apologized to Alice, who was so annoyed that she scratched her head.

The ability that is already a talent has to come up with a principle and logic for him to learn, and it's strange that people can come up with it, and it's very good to be able to cooperate.

It's just that Kashiwagi is really interested in the heart of the dragon.

After all, if he uses the clues next, he will most likely meet a quasi-god with a complete body dragon attribute who is not young and has a high level.

Having a dragon heart can quickly make that dragon-attribute Pokémon understand his mood, let him understand the mood of those dragon-attribute Pokémon, and everyone can communicate with each other for the benefit of others and themselves.

Otherwise, it is no less difficult to cultivate a quasi-god who can be regarded as a full-grown god in all aspects than to cultivate a quasi-god from scratch.

It's a pity that the heart of the dragon may be even more

Difficult!

When Kashiwagi was regretting, Alice next to him suddenly said, "Let's fight! A Pokémon that understands dragon attributes through battles!"

"Huh?"

He was stunned for a moment.

"Fight!"

Alice thought he hadn't heard clearly, and repeated, "Pokémon and trainers are one and the same during the battle, don't you think you can better see what your Pokémon is thinking at that time?"

"This ......"

Kashiwagi inexplicably felt that there was some reason.

It's just that if you want to fight, it's probably not feasible tonight, Alice's Pokémon is tired for a day, and she herself is too tired to get up, and she urgently needs a good rest to recover her state.

The two agreed to fight tomorrow morning.

Night.

The temperature outside plummeted.

Kashiwagi, who was too lazy to cook, rubbed a meal in the cafeteria of Pokémon Center, and Miss Joy's craftsmanship was good, and he ate quite happily.

Since I have money, I rarely live in a Pokémon center, and the cafeteria is even less, usually either cooking by myself or going to the restaurant, and I am quite happy to come here suddenly.

Compared to the extravagant him, Alice, who was born in the land of dragons, is much more simple as the future successor of the Double Dragon Gym.

There is a Pokémon center to live in a Pokémon center, and there is no Pokémon center to find a lush tree to climb, and lie on the trunk of the tree is a bed, living like a wild animal.

As a result, it has been mistaken for a wild Pokémon smashing ball by other trainers many times.

She didn't learn her lesson, she was smashed again and again, ran into trees again and again, and was occasionally driven down by Miss Junsha or other administrators.

When asked why, she replied that she was comfortable and comfortable in the tree.

The creature even tried to climb the shrubs in the oasis outside, but the front foot went out and the back foot was frozen, shivering and rubbing his arms.

The desert wind blowing at night can freeze people to the point of hypothermia.

And Kashiwagi recalls Alice's childhood, and can roughly understand the latter's thoughts, living with wild Pokémon since childhood, and developing habits in all aspects.

When it was time to feed the Pokémon, the two sides were almost "honest with each other".

Alice was amazed by Pokémon such as Bosco Dora.

"You can't tell from your team that you're a dragon trainer!"

During the previous small talk, Kashiwagi told her that he was barely a meteor folk from Meteor Falls, a dragon trainer who was not particularly formal.

She didn't understand what "not particularly formal" was at first, but now that she saw Boskodora, she realized that there was only one dragon-type Pokémon in a dragon trainer's team for a long time.

Counting the Menas of the dragon group is counted as one and a half.

"You're not much better than me."

The cypress swept past the dragon gopher and the electric flying squirrel, and finally his gaze fell on a fierce and strange bird and beast creature with colorful feathers and a snake-like head—

The Ancestral Bird, an ancient bird Pokémon, has one of the most wasteful traits of the [Weakness].

I didn't expect Alice's sixth Pokémon to be it.

Remember if you held it in the game?

"This child was resurrected from a fossil I picked up from a stall, and it took a lot of trouble to get rid of it!" Seeing that he was very interested in the Ancestral Bird, Alice told a little story.

It's probably a standard plot where I was lucky enough to pick up a fossil and successfully resurrect it with the help of others, but I was accidentally lost by a poaching group, and then successfully searched for it with the sensing ability of the round land shark.

There is also a bridge to gain the trust of the Archaeopteryx by being gnawed.

No matter how irritable the Pokémon is, as long as it bites on people, it will soon be conquered by their eyes and words, and the gentle Dafa will always be the magic weapon to conquer the animated version of Pokémon.

Replace it with the group of ...... in the game "Legend of Arceus" It's good not to beat you up to the point of amnesia.

"By the way, does your Ancestral Bird know how to hammer it with a double-edged head?"

Kashiwagi asked suddenly.

A bos with a double-edged hammer

But Dora is so hard to find that the big monster has the characteristics of a hard head, but he still hasn't learned this rock-attribute ultimate.

The Sharp Stone attack is sufficient, and after the super evolution, the trait has become filtered, and the rock attribute is gone.

But no, the double-edged hammer always feels like something is missing. Besides, even though it's an egg move, maybe Boskodora can learn it from the Archaeopteryx?

Alice shook her head.

"It's a pity."

Kashiwagi patted Boskodora's arm with regret.

The latter doesn't matter, even if there is no so-called double-edged hammer, its strength will not be shaken.

——

Next.

Morning.

An energetic Alice came knocking on the door.

"Good morning! Cedar! Get up! Kashiwagi!"

Although the two are together, they don't live in the same room as when they traveled with Ash, and whether Alice cares or not, Kashiwagi must be the first to be unwilling.

「happy~」

The happy egg pushing the cleaning cart tugged at the corner of her clothes and pointed outside.

"Huh? Is he already out?"

Alice easily understood the meaning of the happy egg, and deftly rushed downstairs and ran out of the Pokémon Center, and suddenly saw the pool in the oasis in the distance, and Kashiwagi was doing her morning exercise.

Heterochromatic Menas twisted its body in the sparkling pool, its golden scales and tail fin illuminated in its radiance.

She couldn't help but lose her mind for a while.

"It's so pretty......"

"Indeed."

A voice sounded in her ears, startling her.

Alice realized that Kashiwagi had come to her during the morning exercise.

Kashiwagi said with emotion, "Even as its trainer, I am often fascinated by it. Obviously, when I watched other Menas videos on the Internet, I would only think it was good, and then I flipped through it without any memory."

"Why?"

"Why...... Maybe it's the heart."

He smiled, "In the past, those Menas were all from someone else's family, but now there is one of my companions, and the mood is completely different, and the feeling is very different. Another possibility is that the video only uses sight and sound, and at the same time, it is limited by pixels and image quality, which is not as realistic as it actually is."

Alice was thoughtful.

In the blink of an eye, she woke up from a dream and said, "Wait! War! Let's fight! I said it yesterday!"

"Do you want to fight without breakfast?"

"It's the same if you eat it after you've beaten it!"

Alice said eagerly, as if she had been looking forward to this fight for a long time.

Kashiwagi looked at her expression, and for a moment he didn't know whether the other party wanted him to learn the heart of the dragon, or simply wanted to challenge him as a dragon trainer.

But.

"Okay!"

He nodded, "How are you going to fight?" One? Three-on-three?"

"Three-on-three, of course! I'll send all my dragon-type Pokémon!" Alice made her choice public.

Seeing this, Kashiwagi looked at Menas in the pool and said, "In that case, I'll use the three most dragon-flavored Pokémon in my team."

"Good!"

The two of them arrived at the battlefield behind the Pokémon Center.

Despite the fact that it is rarely used, the Happy Egg Nurse still keeps it clean, with only a thin layer of wind-blown gravel on the floor.

Since there are no drone referees, Miss Joy and Happy Egg are also busy, so they have to make their own rules.

"What's the point of attacking and releasing Pokémon one after another?"

Kashiwagi asked.

Alice, who was standing in the trainer's seat opposite, replied loudly, "Let's put it together! Attack together!"

"Okay."

He pulled out a Poké Ball and exposed it to sunlight, "Ready?"

"Ready!"

"Let's go!"

As the sound of cypress fell, two Poké Balls flew up and opened with a bang.

The white light swayed.

The Axetooth Dragon and the Heterochromatic Menas each landed on either side of the field.

"Wow!"

"Miro~"

The sun in the morning is not particularly violent, and it has little effect on the water attribute heterochromatic Menas, so Kashiwagi chose it as his @ debut Pokémon.

It's just that Alice actually chose @ the first axe tooth dragon, which surprised him a little.

What are the features?

Fighting? Exceptional?

It would be interesting if it was the former, where the male Axetooth Dragon met the female Menas, and the power of the move inevitably decreased...... It's a pity that there is a high probability that it is an exceptional feature.

"Dance of the Dragon!"

"Rush over! Black Mist!"

Both trainers ordered.

The axe-toothed dragon danced a fierce war dance in place, and its body lit up with an orange-red light.

Before he could swim up, Menas suddenly spewed out a thick black mist like a cloud of smoke, covering most of the field in an instant, causing the orange-red growth light that had just been lit up to quickly turn into a light blue descending light.

Alice was stunned for a moment, then keenly aware of the icy blue light flickering in the black mist.

"Get out of the way!"

She shouted.

The next moment.

"Blizzard!"

The visible ice-blue cold current mixed with milky white snow droplets suddenly dispersed the black fog and froze the ground of the small half of the venue into ice ballast.

Its source came from the mouth of the heterochromatic Menas and the dazzling golden fan-like tail fin, the former spewing out cold breath, and the latter rapidly fanning to exacerbate the power and range of the blizzard.

"Yikes!"

Alice, who proved that she felt the aftermath of the blizzard, folded her arms and trembled.

Fortunately, thanks to her timely command, the axetooth dragon standing at the edge of the field managed to dodge Menas's attack, and looked at the frozen ground not far away with a horrified expression.

An opponent who can use ice moves.

It's the type that can't cope with the most.

However, with such a powerful and large-scale move, there will inevitably be an attack gap when it is used - or a backswing of the move, which also makes Alice choose to be reckless.

"The Axetooth Dragon uses dragon claws!"

"Wow!"

The axe-toothed dragon, shouting to give himself courage, rushed over and approached Menas as if he had just finished exhaling his breath, raising a pair of bright green claws and grabbing them fiercely.

Bang bang!

The dragon's claws landed on Menas's body, exploding two clouds of smoke and dust, causing the latter to show a slight tingling expression.

Without waiting for the axetooth to retreat, a brilliant golden tail wound around it at a speed far greater than it could.

Call!

Even if the move can't be used, it doesn't mean that Menas's body can't move, and for a "snake", binding the opponent is a basic skill!

"Whew!?"

The Axetooth Dragon was startled, and Alice followed with a surprised expression, "The Axetooth Dragon, break free!"

"Hypnotism!"

Kashiwagi didn't give them that chance.

Menas's jewel-like light blue eyes lit up with a moving brilliance, and countless translucent pink-purple circles of light were released forward, and the eyelids of the axe-toothed dragon quickly became heavy.

In the blink of an eye.

It actually buried its head and fell asleep!