Take advantage of the free time when Big Mouth Baby and Goldfish King are resting.

Adam asked the question again.

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

"Mastery of timing, control of moves..." Kashiwagi responded softly, paused and then asked: "Do you still have enough experience?"

The middle-aged gentleman showed an approving smile and said, "Yes, if you want to control the opponent's moves at will, you must know as much as possible the moves of various attributes and the differences in how different Pokémon release the same moves."

He suddenly threw another elf ball.

boom!

The light flashes.

The catfish, which has a blue body, a bright yellow belly, thick lips, and a W-shaped pattern between its eyebrows, fell into the pool with a splash.

"Use Tickle on the surface."

"Nah!"

The Catfish King controlled the long whiskers that glowed white from his mouth and began to stir the water surface.

Adam said: "See? Menus' tickling is done through his tail fin, while Catfish King's tickling is done through his whiskers."

Beard... This doesn't look like a beard! It's obviously a tentacle!

Kashiwagi watched in silence as the Catfish King fiddled with its "beard" at will. He remembered that in the animation, this guy also tied up the big king swallow, and at the same time micro-manipulated the lower part using tickle.

"If you want to master using offense instead of defense, it is very important to understand this knowledge."

Adam said softly and took out a USB flash drive from his pocket, "This is a multi-angle video of different Pokémon using different moves that I asked someone to edit. Please keep it."

"Thank you, teacher."

He took it flattered.

Similar video materials for Porygon 2 have been shown to him, but most of them are not as good as Adam's edited version, which is specially designed for training to use offense instead of defense.

"After all, video data cannot be as profound as practice, which is one of the reasons why I became a gym leader."

Adam crossed his arms and reminded: "But don't be too impatient. For trainers, seeing more Pokémon and fighting them is a long and necessary journey... huh?"

He suddenly turned his head.

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

When their eyes met, Lucia smiled sheepishly.

"Uncle! Kashiwagi! Good morning!"

A cry like an oriole coming out of the valley rang in their ears. After that, she and the Tanabata Blue Bird disappeared. Apparently they felt that they had disturbed the teaching process and hurried away.

Adam laughed and planned to stop him to help with teaching, but when he thought about the fact that the Michaeli Cup was only two days old, Lucia needed to adjust her condition in time, and letting her become a sparring partner would affect her.

——The same is true for cypress.

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

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

Influenced by the organizer Mikri, the Mikri Cup has an unwritten habit of coordinating trainers to mostly use water-type Pokémon to compete.

In fact, using Pokémon with other attributes will not interfere with the final score, but when everyone does this, the herd mentality will affect everyone.

Homogenization is undoubtedly a good thing for cypress.

"yes!"

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

——

afternoon.

After a period of lunch break.

The old butler Sebastian brought Cypress to a huge glass greenhouse.

There is no doubt that this is where Adam and Mikri's Pokémon live daily, a place similar to the back of Dr. Oak's house.

His eyes passed over the water-type Pokémon that looked either strong or weak, and looked like giant pandas to him. He thought to himself that there were so many types, almost covering the first generation to the eighth generation.

But why doesn’t it seem like there is no Padea...

Huh? Wait!

What is that? Kentero!?

Kashiwagi looked at the mud-covered black cow not far away with a face full of astonishment, and his mind was filled with confusion as to why there was Kentero here.

Then he recalled that there was a special regional form in Kentero in the Padia region - the Water Lan species.

Because of its high fat content, it floats easily on the water and can swim by spraying water from its horns...

Buffalo.

"Moo!"

As if he could hear his thoughts, Padya Kentero howled.

"Oh ho ho ho, I'm really energetic today." The old butler greeted it with a smile. Apparently he was also involved in taking care of the Pokémon.

Travel through dense rainforest.

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

He soon saw Adam and the energetic Lucia on the shore of the pond that seemed to be connected to the inner sea of ​​Liuli City.

"Kashiwagi!"

Lucia, who also saw him, waved cheerfully, and next to her was the Tanabata Bluebird, which was pacing back and forth like a hen, raising its head and chirping in response.

"Chirp~~"

What an enviable voice.

Kashiwagi has inherited some music appreciation ability from musicians, otherwise he would not be so whimsical as to let Happy Egg perform singing performances.

A Pokémon like Tanabata Blue Bird that is born to sing is really hard to catch up with a Happy Egg that works hard.

"Good afternoon, teacher... Lucia."

He said hello and saw Lucia suddenly glaring and then letting out a sigh of relief, followed by another glaring expression and twitching the corner of her mouth.

The two of them had a teacher-student relationship where they were joking with each other. As a result, the girl thought she was calling her, and her head almost fell off in fright. But after she realized what she was doing, she was unconvinced.

Kashiwagi calls Teacher Adam, isn't that a bad thing?

Are we talking about our own issues?

I call you uncle, but you call me teacher?

Good boy! I got you!

Lucia was making faces at Kashiwagi where no one else could see her. If it weren't for the difficulty of playing on her mobile phone in public, the chat interface between the two would have been filled with all kinds of emoticons.

"good afternoon."

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

"Milu~"

Menas suddenly crawled ashore, swung his wet tail fin and lay down on the blue air mattress prepared nearby.

He said softly: "In the afternoon I am going to teach you the massage techniques that are unique to Menas, and how to maintain your scales, fins and down."

The cultivation of a Pokémon should obviously not be limited to combat. For a coordination trainer, it is also important to ensure that the Pokémon has a perfect external image.

Lucia is here to help. There is no notice that she needs to go out today, so she is very busy.

Kashiwagi skillfully released the heterochromatic menas, making it lie on the blue air mattress in a long, upright posture like Adam's menas.

"Mirr~" is too much

The heterochromatic Menas chirped lazily.

Adam glanced at it, crouched down beside it and waved to Cypress, "Come, come and take a look."

He pointed to the root and the upper three inches of the tail of the heterochromatic Menas, "The tail fin structure of the Menas is more flexible than you think, but without proper massage, it is difficult to expand and rotate. "

Expand, rotate.

It is the change that occurs when Adam's Menas uses tidal whirlpools and tornadoes, and the tail fin transforms into a propeller-like structure.

Kashiwagi has always been curious about how it was done, and now that he said it, it seems that it has something to do with the massage technique?

I saw Adam put his three fingers together and rotated the two places he just touched and kneaded them a few times.

There was a crisp click.

The heterochromatic Menas' expression was startled, and then he turned his head in disbelief. He looked at the tail fin that had changed from a combined fan to a cross-shape like a flower. He flicked it twice and was amazed.

Kashiwagi was also surprised, "It's amazing!"
To be continued...