Why is my Pokémon acting a little weird?

"Um……?"

Looking at his two glowing hands, Qiao Ran suddenly had a strange idea. He slowly put his two hands together.

The two hands overlapped together, and gradually, the power of the two hands blended with each other. In Qiao Ran's eyes, which looked as if he had seen a ghost, the two colors actually gradually merged into one, becoming an even more strange blue.

"Absolutely."

Qiao Ran really didn't expect something like this to happen. He had no way of understanding what this meant, but this extraordinary phenomenon still made his heart pound - even in the Pokémon comics, movies, and games that he knew, he had never seen a similar phenomenon.

Two powers that are extremely rare in the Pokémon world have actually come together!

And most importantly, the originally uncondensed and very loose wave power, after being fused with the Evergreen power that Qiao Ran had mastered to perfection, actually became much more condensed. Perhaps, under this state...

"feasible!"

Qiao Ran stretched his back leg backward, rotated his waist, and opened his palms at the same time, making a ball-rolling posture.

The whole body's strength is gathered together——

With a roar from him, this strange energy was actually released by him.

"Success!"

Qiao Ran shouted excitedly. His target was a stone not far away. After launching the missile, he stared at the location of the stone, wanting to see the subsequent effects.

However——at this moment.

The space in front of Qiao Ran flickered, and two figures suddenly appeared in front of Qiao Ran.

"Qiao Ran, you..."

These two people were Mei and Lillie who came to look for Qiao Ran. However, they obviously came at the wrong time, and the location they appeared in was too "appropriate".

"Danger!"

The first one to react was Mei. She pushed Lillie away and was hit by the energy. She let out a scream as if her neck was being strangled and fell straight down.

“Mei…!”

Lillie and Qiao Ran were both startled by this sudden situation. They both quickly ran to Mei's side to check on her condition.

"..."

however--

When they saw Mei's appearance clearly, their hearts suddenly relaxed. Lillie even covered her face with her hands, blushing profusely.

Although Mei's body was curled up into a ball, her face showed no trace of pain. Instead, it was filled with something they couldn't understand... a sense of refreshment and joy. Her slippers had long since been thrown off, and her long, white legs were stretched straight, her jade-like toes curling up involuntarily.

Qiao Ran muttered to himself with a strange look on his face.

While he felt relieved, he also began to doubt his life.

"This thing...could it really be that it has no power at all?"

Chapter 340 [Waveguide Messenger]

Most of the time, things don't go as planned.

After all, nothing in the world can be completely satisfactory.

Qiao Ran sighed. Originally, he had the fantasy that "the combination of two powers can produce a more powerful force". The power of Tokiwa and the power of wave combined can at least be a special Rasengan with great destructive power, but now it seems that it is just a special-effect massage with added effects.

Not only did it not hurt, but it also...

He couldn't possibly throw it out and let the enemy die comfortably on the spot, right?

and many more……

"It seems... that's also a solution?"

Qiao Ran's expression became increasingly strange. He could only pat his head and quickly dismiss this idea, which was extremely dangerous even to imagine.

"..."

After taking a look at Meiyi who was still lying on the ground twitching, Qiao Ran could only walk a few steps to the side and try not to look at her. If he continued like this, he would become abnormal.

Liliae asked quietly beside her.

"Is it really okay to leave her there?"

"then what should we do?"

Qiao Ran turned around and gave her a cold look, and just this one look scared Liliae so much that she screamed "Ouch" and took a step back.

Qiao Ran: “……?”

Are you serious about taking a step back?

What are you afraid of?

"...Anyway...anyway, let's just wait a little longer." Liliae lowered her head, feeling a little confused.

She knew that Qiao Ran had a power that she liked very much, but she never knew that this power was so outrageous!

Looking at Meiyi's appearance, she has already...

That was definitely not the level of familiarity she had.

Continuing to secretly glance at Mei, Lillie felt a little itchy in her heart, but her reason told her that she absolutely did not want to become like that.

"Hey."

Qiao Ran sat on the big rock next to him, looking at the sky with a melancholy look on his face.

This waveguide...it's better not to have it.

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The farce of the wave power was over. That night, after returning from the frontier, Mei didn't say a word the whole night. If she looked at Qiao Ran or Lillie for more than half a second, she would automatically look away with a red face.

It was the first time that Qiao Ran saw this extremely slow-witted guy acting like a little girl.

She didn't even play with Little Nebula. After coming back, she just took a shower and fell asleep on the bed.

It's time for the next day.

Several people did not sleep well that night. Lillie and the others were preoccupied, while Qiao Ran's mind was inexplicably active. Perhaps it was some kind of aftereffect of the wave power. He always felt that his mind was like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins. As long as he closed his eyes, he would involuntarily begin to mobilize his strength and feel everything around him.

His vision penetrated the walls and the ground, and he could clearly sense what strange things were happening next door or next door to the next door.

Under such influence, he was completely unable to fall asleep.

How did the previous wave guide messengers sleep?

Qiao Ran was really overwhelmed.

However, after one night, Mei discovered that some changes seemed to have occurred in her body.

“…My whole body feels so comfortable, it really feels so comfortable!”

Early in the morning, she stood in front of the bathroom mirror and shook her arms. The muscles that had been sore from training for the exhibition match were no longer painful at all. She even felt that she was in much better spirits and it was no problem for her to run several kilometers in one breath.

The strangest thing was that when she put her face close to the mirror, it must not be her illusion, she felt that her skin had improved.

"Isn't this too amazing? Is this real? I'm not dreaming?"

"Mei?"

Hearing the strange noise, Lillie couldn't help but come over and ask Mei what happened.

However, after Mei leaned close to her ear and whispered something for a while, she also opened her mouth in surprise.

"Is it so... magical?"

They didn't do anything strange yesterday, nor did they meet any strange people. So, there is only one reason for all these changes.

——“That thing” that Qiao Ran sent out yesterday.

Even now, Lillie still remembers the scene. It was even the first time she saw Mei become such a strange person.

"Really, my whole body feels so relaxed right now, as if some shackles have been taken off! My whole body feels alive!"

Mei was also a little excited. As a trainer, it was sometimes difficult to completely relax. Although what happened last night made her blush and her heart beat fast, such an outstanding result made her have to praise it as really great.

"No wonder... After that power hit my body last night, it felt like a full-body massage. It feels completely different from the usual feeling of Viridian's power. Not only the places I touched, but my entire body is now relaxed."

Normally, the power of Changpan would just gradually spread from the place where Qiao Ran's hand touched. The effect of direct contact would be stronger than the effect of using it through the air. But this time it was different. There was no contact point, nor any transmission process. Instead, it directly wrapped around the whole body, which was a completely different experience.

"I even feel like my heart has been healed a little bit!"

Mei was extremely confident. Although she was usually an optimistic person, today she not only had endless energy physically, but her heart was also full of strength and passion.

"Is this true?" Lillie didn't know what expression she should show. After listening to what Mei said, she couldn't help blushing and her heart beat fast. Is this really so good?

Is it really that great?

"real!"

Mei patted her chest to assure herself.

If it wasn't really that good, would she praise it so generously?

"Look at my hands, here, and here, they're not stiff at all...wait."

Suddenly, Mei seemed to have thought of something, stopped talking, and took out a Poké Ball from her waist.

"Mei?" Lillie didn't quite understand what she was going to do.

Is this...releasing Pokémon in the bathroom?

All I saw was—Mei just looked at the ball in her hand and muttered to herself.

"Lilia, tell me...if I take a Pokémon Ball to Qiao Ran and ask him to do this for my Pokémon...will he agree?"

Lillie was stunned, her face full of question marks: "......???"

Are you... serious?

Chapter 341 [Watch My Show]

At this moment, Lillie finally understood that sometimes it might not be that there was something wrong with her, but that the people around her were not very normal.

"No, it's just that this thing is really great. If it works on me, it will definitely work better on Pokémon."

Mei's thinking is exactly that of a Pokémon trainer. When encountering such things, the first thing she thinks of is the effect on Pokémon.

"Just think about it, if you give your Pokémon a full-body relaxing massage the day before challenging a gym, it will be in top form the next day. In this state, even opponents it previously couldn't defeat will be easily defeated!"

Defeating a strong enemy is the best reward for a trainer, but sometimes, victory and failure depend on the state of the Pokémon, and Qiao Ran's ability can just solve this huge problem.

"That's great...why don't I have this ability?"

Mei said that she was really envious.

"But... wouldn't this effect be a bit too..."

Liliae was still a little hesitant.

Thinking about what happened last night, wasn’t it a bit too extreme?

"It's okay. Look, I'm fine now. I feel even more relaxed."

Mei turned her arms and stretched, fully demonstrating her flexibility.

However, after hearing Mei's answer, Lillie just nodded with a helpless smile.

"Hmm...hmm."

What I want to say is that this is not the problem at all!

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The preliminary rounds for the exhibition match were divided into two rounds. The first round eliminated some contestants, while the remaining contestants entered the second round. However, there was a slight difference: the top three contestants in the first round would directly advance to the city finals, without having to participate in the fierce second round.

In the first round, Qiao Ran and the others performed very well, and in the evening of that day, all three received notification of direct advancement.

However, the qualification for advancement is a bit strange. After all, Naz also participated in that competition. Qiao Ran could clearly feel that her performance level was not as good as hers, and the same was true for the other two girls.

Mei and Lillie have no experience in exhibition matches. They were able to advance more by relying on the tacit understanding between them and Pokémon. As a trainer, Mei is already good enough, while Lillie relies on her own temperament and the mental connection between her and Hollowid.

"Really? You're withdrawing from the competition?"

"Yeah, otherwise do you think you can advance directly?"

After Qiao Ran called Nazi, he learned that Nazi had chosen to withdraw after the game. This was consistent with Qiao Ran's previous thoughts. She didn't need the "direct qualification" at all.

Even if she broke into the competition venue, the organizers would probably give her an extra chair on the spot.