Take advantage of the free time when Bigmouth and the Goldfish King are resting.

Adam asked again.

"What do you think are the key points of replacing offense with defense?"

"The mastery of timing, the control of moves......" Kashiwagi responded softly, paused and asked, "Still have enough experience?" ”

The middle-aged gentleman smiled approvingly, "That's right, if you want to control the opponent's moves as much as you want, you must know as much as possible about the moves of various attributes, as well as the differences between different Pokémon casting the same moves. ”

Suddenly, he threw another Poké Ball.

Bang!

The light flickered.

The catfish, with a blue body, a tender yellow belly, thick lips, and a w-shaped pattern outlined in the center of the eyebrows, fell into the pool with a thud.

"Use tickling on the water."

"Nah!"

King Catfish manipulated the long whiskers that glowed white from his mouth and began to play with the water.

Adam said, "See? Menas' tickling is used through the tail fin, while King Catfish's tickling is through his beard. ”

Whiskers...... Where does this look like a beard! It's clearly a tentacle, okay!

Kashiwagi silently watched the catfish king fiddle with its "beard" at will, remembering that in the animation, this thing was also tied to the king swallow, and at the same time, the bottom part of the micro-manipulation was used to tickle.

"If you want to master the offense instead of the defense, it's important to understand this knowledge."

Adam whispered and took out a USB flash drive from his pocket, "This is a multi-angle video of different Pokémon using different moves edited by me, you can put it away." ”

"Thank you, teacher."

He was flattered to take it.

Similar video materials Polyman 2 have been looking for him to see, but most of them are not as good as Adam's edited version of which is specially designed for training to attack and defend.

"After all, video materials are not as profound as practice, which is one of the reasons why I will become the owner of the gym."

Adam clasped his arms in his hands and reminded, "But don't be too impatient, it's a long road for trainers to see more Pokémon, and fighting them is a long way...... Well? ”

He turned his head suddenly.

Kashiwagi followed the trend and immediately found that two sneaky little heads were squeezing around at the gate - who could it be if it wasn't Rukia and Tanabata Blue Bird?

Seeing that the sight collided, Rukia smiled embarrassedly.

"Uncle! Cedar! Good morning! ”

The cry like a yellow warbler sounded in the ears of the two of them, and after that, she and the Tanabata Blue Bird disappeared, obviously feeling that she had disturbed the teaching process, so she hurriedly left.

Adam laughed, and was going to stop him to help with the teaching, but when he thought that the Mikoli Cup was two days away, Rukia needed to adjust her state in time, and then making her a sparring partner would affect her.

- The same is true of cypress.

So he said, "You and the Big Mouth Baby need to be in good shape to prepare for the Mikoli Cup, so I won't be practicing you and your Pokémon too much in the past two days."

"Considering the environment of the Mikoli Cup, let's start training based on the moves of the water-type Pokémon."

Influenced by the organizer Mikkeli, there is an unwritten habit of coordinating trainers to use water-based Pokémon to compete.

In fact, Pokémon with other attributes will not interfere with the final score, but in the case of everyone doing this, the herd mentality will affect everyone.

Homogenization is undoubtedly a good thing for Kashiwagen.

"Yes!"

He nodded in agreement, and began to practice the boring and lengthy sparring under Adam's guidance, but it was a necessary accumulation process.

——

Afternoon.

After a period of lunch break.

Sebastian, the old butler, took the cypress wood to a large glass conservatory.

There is no doubt that this is where Adam and Mikkeli's Pokémon live on a daily basis, similar to the mountain behind Dr. Ohki's house.

His gaze swept over the water-type Pokémon who looked strong or weak, looking at him like looking at giant pandas, and thought that there were so many types, almost including the first generation to the eighth generation.

But how does it seem that there is no Pardea......

Well? Wait a minute!

What is that? Kentaylor!?

Kashiwagi looked at the mud-covered black bull not far away, his mind full of confusion as to why there was a Kentero here.

Then he remembered that there was a special regional form in the Kentello in the Pardea region, the water and the land.

Because of its high fat content, it is easy to float on the surface of the water, and it can also swim by spraying water with both horns......

Buffalo.

"Moo!"

As if hearing his thoughts, Padiak Kentello snorted.

"Oh, roar, roar, it's really good today." The old butler greeted it with a smile, apparently he was also involved in the care of the Pokémon.

Walk through the dense rainforest.

A vast pool of water connected to the river outside appeared in front of the cypress.

He soon saw Adam on the shore of the pond, which seemed to be connected to the inland sea of Ruri City, and the energetic Rukia.

"Kashiwagi!"

Rukia, who also saw him, waved happily, next to the Tanabata bluebird, pacing back and forth like a hen, raising its head and making a soft song in response.

"Chirp~~"

What a jealous good voice.

Kashiwagi has inherited some music appreciation from musicians, otherwise he wouldn't have been whimsical enough to let Happy Egg perform singing.

Pokémon like Tanabata Blue Bird, which is naturally suitable for singing, is really difficult to catch up with the happy egg that works hard the day after tomorrow.

"Good afternoon, teacher...... Rucia. ”

He said hello, and was relieved to see Rucia's sudden glare, followed by another glare, and tugged at the corners of his mouth.

The teacher-student relationship between the two was joking with each other, which caused the girl to think that she was calling her just now, and her head was almost frightened, but after reacting, she was inevitably unconvinced.

Kashiwagi shouted to Mr. Adam, isn't that a bad boy!

Let's go our separate ways?

I call you Uncle Shi, and you call me Teacher?

Attaboy! Your!

Rukia grimaced at Kashiwagi in a place that others couldn't see, if it weren't for the fact that she was not good at playing with her mobile phone in public, the chat interface between the two of them would probably have been swiped by various emojis.

"Good afternoon."

Adam nodded, and with a wave of his right hand, he summoned Menas up from the water.

"Milu~"

Menas suddenly crawled ashore, flicking his wet tail fin and lying on the blue air cushion he had prepared beside him.

He said softly, "In the afternoon, I am going to teach you the massage techniques that are exclusive to Menas, the maintenance of scales, fins and fluffs. ”

The cultivation of a Pokémon should obviously not be limited to combat, and it is equally important for a coordination trainer to ensure that the Pokémon has a perfect appearance.

Rukia is here to help, and today she has no notice that she needs to go out, so she is in a panic.

Kashiwagi learns how to release a heterochromatic manas, making it lie on a blue cushion in a long, vertical posture like Adam's manas.

"Miro~"

Heterochromic Menas chirped lazily.

Adam glanced at it, half-crouched down beside it and beckoned to Kashiwagi, "Come, come and see." ”

He pointed to the root and three inches of the tail of the heterochromatic Menas, "The tail fin structure of the Menas is more dexterous than you might think, but without the correct kneading, it is difficult to achieve both the two methods of unfolding and rotating. ”

Expand, rotate.

It was the change that Adam's Menas had when he used tidal whirlwinds and tornadoes to transform the tail fin into a propeller-like structure.

Kashiwagi has always been curious about how he did it, and now that he said this, it seems that it has something to do with massage techniques?

I saw Adam kneading a few times with his three fingers together in the two places he had just clicked.

There was a crunch.

Heterochromatic Menas was stunned, and then turned his head in disbelief, looking at the tail fin that had changed from a combined fan to a cross-shaped shape like a flower, and gently flicked it twice in amazement.

Kashiwagi was also surprised, "Amazing! ”

I never thought that I could develop a Pokémon's body with massage.

"Doesn't it seem simple? However, you should know that if there is no human maintenance, this change can easily increase the burden on the tail fin joint of Menas, which may lead to the loss of the tail fin. ”

Adam spoke eloquently and emphatically warned: "Once the tail fin falls off, it will be difficult to grow back, and Pokémon like Menas generally only have four tail fins in their lifetime. ”

"Understood."

He nodded, and then saw the cross-shaped tail fin revert back to its original fan blade shape.

"It takes time to get used to the change, so don't try to rotate until you can complete the change without relying on massaging the acupoints, which will burden the muscles on its tail."

Adam made a few more points, gestured with great emphasis, and asked Kashiwagi to try it out on his own.

He deftly pressed the tail of Heteromenas, his heart filled with joy.

That's right, that's what he wants.

I remember that Xiao Gang also taught him how to cultivate Pokémon in this way, and this valuable knowledge does not mean that it is not available on the Internet, but it will be confused with false and unreliable knowledge.

"A little bit above, this area plus this one, these two places are the common physical weak points of Menas, and you must ensure that this place is not attacked when fighting."

Adam points out why Menus, the heterochromat, has just been immobilized by the restraints.

"Two ......"

Kashiwagi blinked, he only knew one place, that is, the part where Menas looked the fattest, and the purpose of thickening fat was to protect the fragile internal organs.

"This part is the dense point of its nervous system, and it is easy to lose its ability to resist briefly once it is hit hard." Adam explains another piece that is also the cause of the weakness.

The weakness of the Great Steel Serpent is the joints, but the weakness of the Hetermenas is the internal organs and nerves......

Long snake Pokémon are so complicated.

In the time that followed, Adam used his Menas as a sample to teach Kashiwagi massage techniques that were unique to this type of Pokémon.

From the top horn to the tail, even the two long whisker-like eyebrows have not been spared.

"The eyebrows are their vital organ for sensing the direction of the current underwater, do you see these three black dots? In fact, it is passable, and it is generally used to filter turbid water quality, pay attention to cleaning it, otherwise there will be a smell. ”

Adam didn't even let go of the three "black spots" on Menas's neck.

He really knows this kind of Pokémon from beginning to end, and even the tail fin is equipped with a special maintenance oil, which makes Kashiwagi admire.

Interestingly, during this period, Heterochromatic Menas learned new moves-

[Water Cannon].

The trigger is that when the cypress rubs the water reservoir in the front of its abdomen, the strong desire to spray forces it to release all the water mixed with attribute energy in the organs at one time.

As we all know, water-based moves need to use the water in the Pokémon's body as a medium to be successful.

Therefore, just as an electric-type Pokémon has a power storage bag and a fire-type Pokémon has a fire-storing organ, water-type Pokémon also have a similar structure.

And to be able to learn the powerful moves of this department, Kashiwagi is naturally happy.

I just hope that it won't be like Laplace, the inner ghost of a well-known anchor, the fourth company of water cannons will quickly drain the PP.

——

The next two days.

Kashiwagi has always been immersed in the cultivation of Menas and the study of attacking instead of defending.

Adam didn't teach him how to perform, because everyone's aesthetic is different, and at most he describes his feelings about acting from his own perspective, which doesn't mean that he faces the same judges as he does.

"There is no fixed formula for acting, it requires enough imagination and creativity, as well as the aesthetic that can satisfy the public, and I really can't teach you much in this regard."

In fact.

This is Adam's excessive self-humility.

Although the outside world claims that he has retired as a top coordination trainer, his [Water Art] performances are often held in Liuli City, and he is deeply loved by ladies and ladies of all ages.

The venue is full per capita, and the audience is endless.

Hoenn is undoubtedly one of the most famous coordination trainers.

Some people say that Michaelly's growth to this point has a deep connection with the hard work of the ladies who admired his master.

Kashiwagi must admit that the performance he designed for Menas was a reference to Adam's water art performance, and there was always an embarrassment of Li Ghost seeing Li Kui when performing in front of the latter.

Adam was not angry, but rather happy, but his joy was often accompanied by sorrow.

He was puzzled.

What other stories are there in the Water Art Show? It's like a performance designed for someone, but the other party unfortunately dies or something.

Mr. Adam is still single, and there may be some kind of unknown past......

All right.

Such irresponsible speculation is too impolite.

Kashiwagi secretly admonished himself.

Adam knew that his cheap student had orchestrated himself behind his back, and he just let out a sigh from the shipwreck.

The contact and observation in the past two days are even more like the various evaluations that big data stuffed into him, and he simply described "Cypress" as a must-draw phantom god and human rights card, persecuting him all the time.

Of course.

As an elegant gentleman, Adam also understood that there are times in life that must be had, and there is no time in life to force it, so he did not be depressed for too long.

Ordinary students are not students?

Adam, who has adjusted his mindset, teaches more seriously, and he likes the feeling of passing on knowledge and experience, especially to people he admires.

This kind of spiritual satisfaction became a big reason why he didn't try to compete for the Four Heavenly Kings of the Alliance many years ago, and in his opinion, it might be difficult for him to contact so many different trainers if he became the Four Heavenly Kings.

After all, the League of Champions is only for conference winners.

Thereupon.

The opening day of the Mikoli Cup.

Adam offered his blessings to Kashiwagi and Rukia as they set off, "I wish you all the best of luck, and this competition will definitely be one of the precious experiences of your lives." ”

"Yes, Teacher."

"Uncle, I will definitely win!"

The two of them each made different sounds.