Rope and the others rushed over as they heard the commotion.
"I'll go over first, you hurry and follow!"
Rope's brows furrowed slightly as he felt the enormous pressure over there, and he immediately said to Leon at his side.
Then without waiting for Leon to respond, he immediately unfolded the fire wings behind him and then flew towards the front.
Leon was just about to reply to him before he was stunned by the scene before him. Dumbfounded, he watched Rope leave the area.
That being said, he didn't stop running.
It was a good thing Leon wasn't such an unseasoned man. Even now, this scene was truly unseen. But the speed of returning to his senses was also very fast.
"A pair of fire wings... Rope what kind of thing are you anyway?"
Leon asked himself as he shook his head, somewhat helplessly.
Without the slightest hesitation, Leon quickened his running pace.
Even if a trainer was strong, the orders he could give were only critical. Pokémon were not puppets in the hands, not every move had to be at your disposal.
And in the middle of a wild fight, the trainer's main task is not anything else, but to protect himself...
Protecting yourself is not an easy task. You have to keep your eyes and ears open, and sometimes there are even wild Pokémon involved in the fight.
Like right now.
Ursaring, who was being held back by Zarude, kept letting out angry growls. Bisharp, on the other hand, was looking at the other Zarude in front of him, his eyes filled with cold arrogance.
"Is this actually a pack?"
Malkin said so as he stroked his chin.
He took another look at the papa Zarude that was fighting with Ursaring, and realized that he was actually fighting Ursaring back and forth. Although it was with the advantage of being faster and more agile in the forest.
But such a situation was still a great surprise. This Zarude's energy level was very low.
Of course, Malkin could also see that the temporary increase in energy level was related to the emerald green glow of papa Zarude's body.
It was evident that this Pokémon had really good potential.
So he looked at the second Zarude in front of him, who had later barged into the battlefield intending to sneak up on him, only to be stopped by Bisharp once again, and revealed a smile.
"It looks like this forest is really just a blessing for me! Not only can I get a large amount of money! I can also harvest a Pokémon with great potential!"
Malkin had a smug look on his face. As he spoke, he had already pulled out an empty Pokéball from his backpack.
As for why he didn't use a Pokéball to fit Zarude in it?
It had to be said that this was a matter of different habits for each person. Some people just have an almost instinctive rejection of Pokémon that have been in other people's Pokéballs...
Lawrence III is one such person, and you're asking Malkin to take in Zarude before giving it to Lawrence III?
You're not going to make a deal?
But the second Zarude in front of him doesn't have to be so scrupulous!
"Bisharp!Fury Cutter!"
Bisharp muffled his voice and just silently raised his arm blades before darting towards the front with a single backstroke of his legs.
"Za!"
Second Zarude was also taken aback at the sight. Honestly, he had only intended to help that guy in the beginning. After all, even though he was now separated from the pack, he was still a member of their Zarude.
Zarude's honor would not allow to be insulted. So he charged straight over without even thinking about it.
But when he faced the Bisharp's blade head-on, he realized what kind of opponent he was facing...
Koko was being watched by the Umbreon at his side, whose mouth was placed at Koko's neck.
Although he looked like a rabbit, when a rabbit is anxious, it can bite!
If he really bit down with this bite, Koko's blood could spray up high.
And even if Koko did die, it would only be a matter of renegotiating the price.
After all, Koko's words could only be said to be incidental to this deal. A little heavier than an add-on. But far, far less important than Zarude.
Koko was being stared at by Umbreon like this, naturally he didn't dare to make any moves... after all, he was still young and didn't want to die yet...
The survival instinct was normal.
And just at this time, a hot wind suddenly came out from behind Umbreon.
Umbreon instinctively sensed something bad, and then directly gave up on Koko and leapt towards a short distance ahead.
As soon as he landed on the ground, he immediately turned back, and then spat out the Shadow Ball in his mouth.
The black and purple Shadow Ball struck in the direction of the original Koko character. Obviously, this Umbreon really didn't care about Koko's death.
But the Shadow Ball was melted by a crimson flame before it could fly far.
It melted quite irrationally...
Umbreon stared blankly at the wall of crimson flames. Feeling the intimidating feeling like a churning volcano, he gulped.
And the other Pokémon behind them were all steeped in shock. After all, the current situation was clearly in their favor. If possible they didn't want any external factors to affect them.
The two Zarudes, on the other hand, were equally nervous.
They didn't need to think much to be able to tell that the guy over there was just as much of an outsider as the one in front of them. They just didn't know whether the other party was a friend or foe.
But in the end, even if they were comrades in arms when dealing with this man. When it was just them and the flame, they really didn't know if the other party's position would change...
The flame, naturally, was Rope.
A smile appeared on his face as he looked at the shocked looking teenager in front of him.
"Hello, I'm Rope. a Pokémon Professor."
With that, Rope extended his hand towards Koko.
And Koko looked at from Rope's hand, for a moment he was a bit overwhelmed.
Rope was also dumbfounded by the situation. He still hadn't thought it through enough.
He reached out his left hand and stroked Koko's head, calming the little guy, then took Koko's right hand with his left hand and put it in his own.
"Koko, this is called a handshake, it's a move we humans would use to express our friendliness."
Rope explained rather patiently.
This child was truly pitiful. After all, he hadn't seen his parents since he was a child, and he hadn't even met his own kind. Naively thinking that he was a Zarude as well.
But this child's luck was also very good. After all, he had a Zarude by his side, and this Zarude was a very good father...
He's a good father... He's a good addition to the missing piece of Koko's life...
Koko seemed to understand Rope's words, or maybe he didn't, but he could tell that the human in front of him, like himself, didn't have the same aggressive and vicious face as the previous human. It was just the general warmth and enthusiasm of a wanting flame.
So he took Rope's hand.
Rope had a big smile on his face.
With a thought, the thick wall of fire dispersed.
Looking at the menacing Umbreon in front of him, the wary Malkin and Bisharp, the frantically snarling Ursaring, and the two Zarude's carefully observing him, Rope smiled naturally.
"My name is Rope, and I'm a researcher. And by the way, I'm also here to arrest you... Malkin..."
Rope didn't pretend to be a god, and laid out his attitude and stance for Zarude, and Malkin, to see right from the start.
In fact, there was no need for Rope to even open his mouth, Malkin knew that Rope was definitely coming for himself.
Servants of God might have ignored Rope in the beginning, but if by now, so many people who had suffered losses at Rope's hands still underestimated Rope, it would be disrespectful to their own intelligence.
"Professor Rope... how did you know my location..."
Malkin frowned deeply. It was useless to know that even if there was a mole within the organization, their mission this time was issued separately. That meant that only he and that Rai guy knew about the Forest of Okoya as a mission location.
It couldn't just happen that Rai guy was the undercover agent...
Everyone knew that there must be an undercover agent within the organization, it was just that they never knew who that undercover agent actually was.
Just as he was making up the electricity silently in his mind, he suddenly thought of something...
There was someone else who knew he was coming to the Zi Kin Forest...
"What did you... do to my grandfather?"
His face instantly changed from vigilant to fierce.
And just as he asked that, the Ursaring which was a straight up angry growl.
He understood Malkin's question, and almost instinctively felt bad...
What happened to the youth, no, the old man, now?!!!
"Kumas is the sinner..."
Rope didn't answer his question, just said it lightly.
Such words were far more thought provoking than a direct answer.
Malkin's eyes steeped in gloom.
"Ursaring! Hyper Beam! Bisharp! Guillotine!"
Malkin gave the order while putting Umbreon back, in a fight like this, Umbreon could no longer intervene to put it away. Or rather even if it intervened it would have little effect, it would just get hurt for nothing.
Malkin took out another Pokéball in his hand while putting away the Umbreon.
"Go, Pyroar!"
A Pyroar with an even more exaggerated aura than Bisharp appeared in front of Rope.
The eyes were a kind of madness that would choose anyone at any time.
"I want him alive! Trade him for Grandpa!"
Malkin immediately spoke. He knew that if he let these three Pokémon play out, then it was expected that Rope would not fare well. But Kumas was now in League's hands, he absolutely couldn't do anything to Rope, otherwise it would be a provocation to League.Kumas would only suffer more heavily.
So Rope must be captured, and absolutely nothing must happen to him...and I have to say, that's still a lot to ask.
But with three Champion-level Pokémon, it wasn't unachievable.
"Trade me for Kumas? Can you not insult me!"
Rope laughed.
He's only worth one Kumas? That's like cursing Rope!
"But trying to catch me... aren't you thinking too highly of yourself?"
As Rope spoke on this side, both Hyper Beam and Guillotine on that side had already attacked in front of him.
Rope's right hand turned into a pillar of fire and slammed into Hyper Beam's white pillar of light.
Bisharp, who had a white light wrapped around his arm blade, saw that Rope didn't react, and instead of being ecstatic, he instinctively felt that something was not good. But the knife has been raised to the air, how can it not fall down?
So he still ruthlessly slashed towards Rope's neck.
But when the blade cut through Rope's neck, it didn't feel like it had cut into flesh and blood. Instead, it was like cutting through flames.
A pained expression appeared on Bisharp's face. It couldn't be helped, that kind of searing pain was just too much to bear. It wasn't like the arm blade was being scorched at all, it was more like the soul at the arm blade was being scorched.
And the last Pyroar to appear, orange-red flames condensed out of his mouth, and almost instantly, a pillar of blazing fire rushed towards Rope.
Rope, seeing the flames coming closer and closer to him, raised his other hand and blocked it in front of him without panicking.
The next scene was a complete reversal of Malkin's and the other Pokémon's perceptions.
The pillar of fire was only half a meter away from the palm of that hand, but it couldn't advance an inch. It was as if it was unwilling to move forward and hurt that person.
At the same time, Pyroar sensed the flames getting out of control...
He immediately stopped spraying flames. And the moment he stopped spewing flames, the original orange-red fire pillar immediately reeled back and charged towards Pyroar.
Pyroar's pupils tightened, and then he took a backward step to avoid the flames that were rushing towards him. When he looked up at Rope again, he felt that he was no longer simply looking at a human.
This guy was like a god... the king who ruled the flames...
How could such a guy be a human?
And Leon had just witnessed such a scene when he came to this battlefield...
To be reasonable, he didn't feel that Rope was acting like a god with this kind of behavior.
After all, they had all seen the greatness of the gods. But even the gods still hurt and were still injured when faced with an attack.
Even when you were fighting against the Sheikh Reim, the Ice Skills and Dragon Skills still had an effect. Just the normal effects. Something like Rope snatching the opponent's moves right out of the air...the gods can't do that.
Or maybe it was just that Leon hadn't seen the full-bodied Arceus.
If he had seen the real Arceus, the one with seventeen pieces of Plate, then he would have realized that this kind of behavior from Rope was similar to that of Arceus.
Only Rope was taking away control of the other side. Arceus, on the other hand, just didn't care about the damage of the skills with those attributes at all.
Malkin wasn't overwhelmed by anger, so he saw the bearded man who had appeared in the jungle.
"Leon...you're here too?"
Malkin's face suddenly became even more gloomy. The current situation could be said to be unfavorable to the extreme.
Rope's god-like stance had already shocked him. And there was this Galar's Champion in front of him. This gave Malkin a feeling of 'the house is falling apart'.
"Malkin, bind your hands. Just confess and you won't be a capital offense!"
Leon also came back to his senses in the middle of Malkin's cry, then looked at Malkin in front of him and said seriously.
"Heh, I do believe in what you guys are saying, but... release my grandfather!"
Malkin responded without showing any weakness.
On the other side, the two Zarude looked at the sight in front of them and glanced at each other, not knowing how to react, after all, it now looked like the fight that was originally caused by them had little to do with them now. The very strong human trainer was being pestered by two even stronger looking humans.
Or maybe the human with flames wrapped around his body gave them the feeling that they wanted to worship him.
"Let's escape! The humans here don't have the energy to care about us anymore!"
Second Zarude spoke up.
Papa Zarude didn't look at him, he just stared at Koko over there behind Rope and shook his head, "You go ahead, I'm going to watch Koko."
Second Zarude was immediately about to open his mouth to berate him at that, but opened his mouth and remained silent.
How could you convince a father to give up his child? Unless he wanted to give it up himself, there was no other way.
"Convinced..."
Even though he said that with his mouth, second Zarude didn't leave. Instead, he followed along and watched the scene in front of him.
It was said that they wanted to leave, but with such a wonderful scene in front of them, who would want to leave so easily!
This was a big scene that they had never seen before.
"Leon, cut the crap, can you handle that Ursaring?"
Rope deflected Ursaring's Hyper Beam as he did so, then forced the approaching Bisharp back. Once again, he defended himself against Pyroar's Fire Blast and said helplessly.
His side really wasn't holding up too well. He didn't even have the strength to pull out a Pokéball.
Leon didn't hesitate for a second after hearing Rope's words and directly pulled out his Pokéball.
"Come out, Charizard!"
A stocky Charizard appeared from the ball, then simply and directly attacked towards Ursaring with a jet of flame.
Ursaring naturally sensed that he absolutely could not take this move, and left to dodge it.
As a result, Rope's pressure was instantly reduced.
He smoothly removed Pokéball from his own waist.
"Come out Entei!"
Entei growled before charging towards the Bisharp behind Rope that had once again lit up its arm blades.
Entei was no fool and knew who he should deal with the most. Although that Pyroar was the strongest Pokémon on the other side.
But the strongest among Rope's team was Rope himself!
What's more, harming Rope himself with his fire-type skills was something that even Entei hadn't wanted to do for a long time. Even the Sacred Flame would be firmly suppressed under Rope's Red Flame.
Pyroar's flame was powerful, but it was powerful based on the strength of the energy level.
Rope's red flames, on the other hand, were strong in their own right...
Red flames surged from Entei's body, and his flame armor instantly coalesced. He growled, then charged towards the Bisharp with a flash of flame!
Bisharp's scalp was numb as he watched, this Entei's strength itself was not inferior to his own, and it was even stronger than his own after being strengthened like this.
This move, can not be hard to receive, can only be avoided!
Leon looked at Charizard, who was fighting with Ursaring, and then looked at the berserk Entei.
If he remembered correctly, Rope had put Entei on the field at the League convention back then...
What kind of mentality did it have to be to let a Champion-level Pokémon fight in a League convention????
And a normal tournament instead of a title challenge...
Rope, are you really human?
Leon mentally spat helplessly at Rope's inappropriate person. But it probably wouldn't have occurred to him that Rope was happy to claim the title of Inappropriate Person is all...
Rope also had a bit of a headache looking at the Pyroar in front of him.
It wasn't that he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to defeat this Pyroar, he wouldn't have to deal with this Pyroar, but he wanted to give his Pokémon a chance to fight.
But Pyroar was too strong, even after Charizard and Growlithe had been strengthened, Rope still didn't think they could beat this Pyroar one-on-one.
Even with Charizard and Growlithe's enhancements, Rope still didn't think they could beat the Pyroar one-on-one, and group combat would be too easy. Rope's several Pokémon worked very well together. They were able to achieve the effect of one plus one being greater than two.
After pondering for a moment, Rope shook his head then removed Arcanine and Chimchar's Pokéballs from his waist.
Chimchar had been held back for such a long time, and it was indeed time for it to evolve. Let's use this sparring match as an introduction to evolution.
Although Arcanine couldn't defeat the Pyroar in front of him in a single fight, but with Chimchar's cooperation, it would be a close match. After all, Chimchar was also very strong!
"Come out, Chimchar, come out, Arcanine!"
At Rope's shout, both Chimchar and Arcanine appeared out of the ball, and then instantly finished attuning themselves in their flame armor.
"Free to fight!"
Rope wasn't going to give them much command, his combat style and battle power itself didn't allow him to protect himself and command carefully when facing a strong enemy like a normal trainer.
What he had to do instead was to confront strong enemies head on, meaning that there was very little command that could be given.
At least when facing a strong enemy.
As Chimchar and Arcanine attacked Pyroar, Rope had begun to walk towards Malkin.
Malkin didn't release his Pokémon to block Rope, but just watched silently.Malkin's Pokémon was completely out of his command this time.
Bisharp, who witnessed this scene, immediately tried to return to help, but Entei didn't give him a chance to do so!
He once again stepped forward, and then forced Bisharp back again.
Bisharp finally let out a roar of anger.
Then he attacked Entei frantically.
Entei, of course, would not take it, but chose to avoid it for the time being.
At this moment, Rope had already walked up to Malkin's front.
"Well? Let's talk."