"Expedition~Expedition~" Yurika strode forward humming an unknown tune, and Marry silently followed behind her, observing the Pokémon in the institute.

After all, most of the Pokémon in the research institute are used to assist Pokémon research, so they are not particularly cultivated in combat, and only a small number of them are stored here by other trainers, but they are all in good condition and look very healthy.

"Marie Marie, are you also good friends with Ash?" Humming a song, Yurika asked.

"No, not even friends." Ma Li replied lightly.

"What about Serena?" Yurika asked curiously.

“……”

"Not friends either?" Yurika looked back at Marley in surprise.

"Sort of acquaintance." Ma Li replied calmly, and then added: "But you have to analyze what you can be considered a friend ...... first."

"Yurika is not good at this kind of analysis and the like, you should let my brother ......" Before Ma Li finished speaking, Yurika nodded her head in annoyance, "But my brother can only study robots......"

Marley didn't reply.

After a while, Yurika asked again, "Huh?" Marley Marlie, do you have any friends? ”

"......" Ma Li sighed lightly, she was not a person who liked to talk a lot, but as a child under the age of ten, she would not be too careful, so she replied, "There is one." ”

"Who, who? Is it the cute Yurika? Yurika's eyes lit up, and she immediately grinned and asked happily.

“…… Xu Qiansu. Ma Li didn't seem to want to admit it, but she still pursed her lips for a while and whispered.

"Huh? Perverted big brother? Yurika nodded her chin and tilted her little head.

Although he was always a cheeky, flattering and narcissistic person, he never budged on some matters of principle, so he left it at that...... Not a pervert yet? Ma Li raised her eyebrows slightly, and retorted for Xu Qiansu.

"Why use interrogative sentences? Aren't you friends? And Yurika felt that Marly's opinion of him was so big......" Yurika's eyes widened, and her face was full of puzzlement.

"Although the opinions are big, they are also friends." Mary replied calmly.

"This sentence is so handsome~" Yulijia's eyes lit up, and she said: "Marie Marie, can Yurijia become your friend?" ”

Marley sighed lightly again, then nodded lightly and rubbed her eyebrows, a little bad at dealing with Yurika's overly energetic type.

"Hey, hey, Yurika is also a friend of Marly, even if Yurika has many shortcomings, Marie will treat Yurika as a friend~ Even if Marie has a lot of opinions about Yurijia, Marie will also treat Yurika as a friend~"

Yurika grinned, took brisk steps, shook the wooden stick in her hand, and hummed an unknown song, "Even if there are many shortcomings, they are still friends~ This is a friend~ Just like Yurika and Dongdong Mouse, just like Yurika and Xiaosoft~"

The area of the research institute is not small, and there is a dense forest in the north for Pokémon such as flying and insect to live.

The two women walked briskly, but in a few moments they reached the interior of the forest.

"Quack Bubble Frog ~ Quack Bubble Frog ~ Where is it ~" Yurika shouted loudly waving a wooden stick.

Apparently the croaking bubble frog usually exercises in this forest.

Ma Li glanced at the slightly quiet environment around her, frowned slightly, and subconsciously touched her shoulder bag to hold the Poke Ball, but remembered that she had let Mo Lu Beike and them play.

However, within the Institute...... What could happen?

Yurika's voice fell, and within a moment, the soft sound of something rushing by suddenly came.

Ma Li subconsciously grabbed Yu Lijia's wrist, looking a little wary.

Yuli Jia tilted her head slightly, looked up at Ma Li in confusion, and said: "Yu Lijia always comes to the institute to play, the children here are very gentle, Ma Li doesn't have to be so ......"

Before the words fell, a shrill sound of water running through the air sounded twilight.

When Ma Li heard the prestige, she saw a ball of highly compressed water shoot at the two of them from the direction of a tree canopy.

Waves of water!

Ma Lidai raised her eyebrows slightly, but she was prepared, grabbed Yurika and took a few steps back.

Before she met Xu Qiansu, she had been traveling alone for half a year, and no matter what, the most basic vigilance would never be let go.

Bang!

The ripples of the water slammed into the ground a few steps away from Marly, and in an instant the ground disintegrated, the rubble flew and the water splashed, and a water-stained hole appeared in its place.

Ma Li glanced at the pit and judged from the scale that the strength of this Pokémon was okay.

"Huh...... Huh? Quack, quack bubble frog? Yurika was visibly frightened by this abnormality, and her lips turned a little pale.

Ma Li put Yurika down and looked over, only to see a croaking bubble frog standing on a branch with a terrible pain in her eyes, and her whole body flashed with a blue-white halo from time to time.

"It's ...... Evolve? Marie muttered to herself.

"Evolution? Quack Bubble Frog is going to evolve!? But why should it hurt us!? Yurika broke free from Marly's hands, took a few steps forward, spread her hands, and stood in front of Marly, glaring angrily at the croaking bubble frog standing on the trunk of the tree, "Quack bubble frog! ”

The croaking bubble frog jumped and stood behind Yurijia, but he didn't look at Yurijia, but stared at Marley with cloudy eyes, and the extremely huge hostility poured out unabashedly.

Ma Li's eyebrows frowned slightly, and she understood the reason with a turn of thought...... This croaking bubble frog is on the edge of evolution, but for some reason it is unwilling to evolve, and it is suppressed with all its heart, resulting in confusion...... And the reason why there is such great hostility...... Is it to protect Yurika?

Its previous attack was aimed at Marie.

With its mind at the moment, it couldn't tell if Marley was hostile to Yurika...... It's just the instinctive vigilance of being a creature that makes it make this choice.

In other words, the croaking bubble frog at this moment is like a lioness protecting her cubs, only attacking all creatures that come close to Yurika.

But why does it suppress evolutionary instincts?

Regardless of the reason, it seems that Yurika is really very pleasing to Pokémon......

Her mind was racing, but Ma Li did not relax at all, staring closely at the croaking bubble frog.

Ma Li's physical fitness is not very good, but she is barely better than the average person because she travels a lot...... It is impossible to be the enemy of Pokémon's move.

At this moment, in the face of the confused croaking bubble frog, one accidentally ...... Even if you can't die, serious injuries are inevitable.

And if you run away like this...... With Ma Li's physical fitness, how could he run past the croaking bubble frog.

Morubec, Pickpocket Cat, and Ievees are all around...... I can only save myself.

She glanced around, then slowly reached out and reached for the stick that Yurika had thrown on the ground.

At the moment when Ma Li's white and tender hand grasped the wooden stick, the croaking bubble frog suddenly opened her hands, and a bright light like a long knife appeared in her hand, and the chill spread all over it.

Iai Slash!

"No way!" Yurijia's immature face turned white, and she hurriedly pounced on the croaking bubble frog, but she was pushed by the quack bubble frog and fell to the ground.

But it also delayed the croaking bubble frog for a short while, and Ma Li's eyesight as a trainer allowed her to judge the speed, strength and even attack direction of the quack bubble frog in an instant.

I saw Ma Li bend down suddenly, and saw Juhe slash over her hair in the next second.

Ma Liqiao's face remained unchanged, without hesitation, her body swirled slightly, and the wooden stick in her hand leaned forward and poked straight into the soft abdomen of the croaking bubble frog.

"Poof!" The stinging pain made the croaking bubble frog wake up a little, and with this trace of sanity, it canceled the Iai slash, but the pain also aroused its ferocity as a Pokémon, and its sanity was confused again.

I saw that it was in mid-air, its hands were folded, and countless water lights appeared in it, which was to give Ma Li a water fluctuation at a near-zero distance.

Without hesitation, Ma Li poked the wooden stick into the unformed water waves, and the wooden stick was immediately twisted to pieces, but she heard a loud 'bang', and countless splashes exploded.

Marie hastily raised her forearm to block in front of her, but she was still shocked by the impact and took a few steps back, pressing against a tree behind her.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem————" Ma Li coughed a few times in pain, and her hand was shaken by the aftermath of the ripples of the water.

But she is uncomfortable, and the croaking bubble frog is naturally not very comfortable.

But it was a Pokémon after all, and after a little breath, he looked at Marie again.

"Croaking Bubble Frog !!" Yurika got up from the ground, her immature face was full of guilt and anger, she didn't care about her own safety, she hugged the croaking bubble frog with both arms, and dragged it tightly.

The blue-white halo of light couldn't stop dancing on the croaking bubble frog's body, but it was still staring directly at Marly.

This time it didn't regain any of its senses.

Ma Li held her hand trembling with the force of the shock, and stared at the croaking bubble frog as well.

Because he was in the research institute, he let down his guard and didn't carry a Pokémon with him...... It's her problem.

…… This is the kind of mistake she will not make in the future.

However, the priority is not to introspect, but to save oneself.

She looked around the forest out of the corner of her eye, but saw no trace of the rest of the Pokémon......

Marie pursed her soft cherry lips...... Only... Find a way to contact Xu Qiansu.

But at this moment, as long as she makes the slightest rash move, the croaking bubble frog will definitely attack without hesitation.

Ma Li moved slightly, leaning against the trees, slowly widening the distance between her and the croaking frog, and at the same time slowly reached into her satchel to take out her mobile phone.

But she only did a little action, and the croaking frog violently shook Yuricar, causing Yurika to roll on the ground several times, with a slight bruise on her body.

Ma Lidai raised her eyebrows slightly, and when she saw this, she didn't hesitate, she took out her mobile phone directly, and just dialed Xu Qiansu's number...... It's just that most of them have to get some injuries.

Ma Li secretly reflected in her heart that this accident was all because she lacked the necessary precautions.

The razor-sharp light resurfaced in the croaking frog's hands.

Just when Ma Li was about to get hurt and contact Xu Qiansu, she heard a thunderous dragon roar coming from a distance.

The croaking bubble frog was slightly startled, and the only remaining instinct made it turn its head, only to see a glass-colored dragon-shaped pillar of light tear through many trees, plough through the ground, and swept towards it.

The croaking bubble frog was stunned, and the extremely thick glass-colored pillar of light flooded it like a tide, and then unabated to the edge of the forest, and then heard an earth-shattering explosion, attracting the attention of all the Pokémon and people in the backyard.

"Moroube?" Mo Rubei was slightly startled, and then suddenly fell down and ran wildly in the direction of Ma Li.

The pickpocket cat, who was taking care of Eevee, straightened up and looked up, only to find that Xu Qiansu and Ma Li were missing.

Her demonic tail tightened so violently that even Eevee couldn't bend her limbs as she scurled toward the explosion.

Ibu tilted his head in confusion, and immediately left his new friend behind and hurried over.

Chirulian, who was learning 'protection', also sensed that something was wrong, and disappeared in place with an instant.

……

Looking at the extremely deep ravine in front of her, Ma Li's hand holding the mobile phone paused slightly, stunned on the spot.

"Are there any injuries?" Xu Qiansu's voice came from her ears, and it made her come back to her senses.

Ma Li turned her head to look at it, there were some fine beads of sweat floating on Xu Qiansu's forehead, and she couldn't help panting, obviously in a hurry.

The little saccharmon stood at his footsteps, and touched his little skull cap with some trepidation.

"Marie Marie ......" Yurijia was also stunned, and then quickly got up and hugged Mali, and couldn't help crying, "I, I didn't know that the croaking bubble frog would suddenly go crazy......"

"It's not crazy...... It just wants to protect you. Ma Liying's lips pursed for a while, and she said in a low voice, then looked at Xu Qiansu and shook her head slightly, indicating that she was fine.

Xu Qiansu glanced at Ma Li's trembling red hand, and didn't say much, but turned his head to look in the direction of the ravine.

The blue-white dots of light on the Croaking Frog's body grew brighter and brighter, almost obscuring the injuries it had suffered from the dragon's fluctuations.

It had a look of obvious pain, and it was clear that it was about to lose its ability to suppress its evolution.

But it still insists on not evolving.

"Quack!" It slammed its head on the ground, and its painful expression improved slightly.

"It's a little out of control because it's desperately suppressing its evolutionary impulse......," Ma Li explained softly after looking at the croaking bubble frog a few more times, "It's better to make sure it loses its combat ability first, and then send it to the doctor for treatment......"

The croaking frog once again cast his gaze on Marley, who was closest to Yurika, with a very obvious hostile expression...... It seems that Miss Marley guessed correctly, this croaking bubble frog has lost her mind.

Xu Qiansu nodded slightly, took a step forward, and stood in front of Ma Li.

"You love fighting?" Xu Qiansu glanced at the croaking bubble frog, and his calm face had a bit of a smile on it.

Before the croaking bubble frog could answer, Xu Qiansu sneered and said, "I'll accompany you." ”

"Little guy......" Xu Qiansu squatted down and scratched the chin of the little saccharine, just when the little saccharine thought that Xu Qiansu was going to let himself go on the field to clean up this stupid frog that had lost his mind, Xu Qiansu took her bone stick.

"Karuka!?" The little pouch beast looked up at Xu Qiansu in disbelief.

The bone stick that is just right for the pouchy beast, in Xu Qiansu's hand, resembles a pure white bone dagger, which is inexplicably extremely handy.

But Xu Qiansu had no intention of explaining, he stood up directly, danced a knife flower with a bone stick in his hand, took a few steps forward, and glanced coldly at the croaking bubble frog.

"Come on."

Xu Qiansu is very fond of Pokémon, and even refuses to make the lake water containing life force public in order to protect the Pokémon in the underground lake, but for him, these things have a priority after all.

Since the ultimate goal is to make this croaking bubble frog incapacitated, he will never mind taking action himself.

(End of chapter)