Inside the boiler room, seeing that man's expression, the Glastrier that had been clinging tightly to Axel finally let go.
As a pretentious king that had lived for thousands of years, Glastrier knew very well when to make an entrance to shock the enemy the most.
That was when the opponent believed victory was already theirs, and then suddenly appear.
Only like that could it easily crush the enemy's spirit and satisfy itself.
["Master, the moment to show off is almost here!"]
["Let Faba wait here and not go out. I promise I'll help you shine in front of everyone!"]
Looking at Glastrier's excited expression, Axel felt a bit speechless. But he didn't want to ruin Glastrier's enthusiasm, so he could only speak helplessly.
"Fine, but when the time comes go easy, don't accidentally make a huge mess."
"Tch!", Glastrier flicked its hoof, tone relaxed.
["Don't you still have Giratina in your hand? If things really collapse, just let Giratina step in and ambush the Aether Foundation people on the way."]
["He's an evil god, anything he does is expected, right?"]
Axel: "..."
As expected of Glastrier, it had already arranged both Giratina and the Aether Foundation.
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At the center of the field, as the middle-aged man moved, the people beside him took out a huge pile of Poké Balls and handed them to more than ten participants.
As white light flashed, the faces of the researchers on Professor Rowan's side all darkened.
Because among those flashes, almost all of the Pokémon that appeared were Malamar and Metagross.
And judging from their levels, most were around level 40.
Thanks to their incredible species capabilities, both kinds of Pokémon were top-tier in the mind domain.
Even before the "mind domain" topic was formally defined, there had already been evil trainers who used Malamar or Metagross to control civilians on a large scale.
Standing beside Lucian, Professor Rowan's disciple, the head of the Berlitz family, had an ugly expression.
He pointed at the Aether Foundation's middle-aged man and couldn't help roaring, "Zaci, you academic thieves, you still say you didn't plan this ahead of time? Then what's with all these Pokémon!"
"Our researchers have been pouring their hearts into studying the mind domain, working hard so Pokémon can compensate for their weaknesses in the mental aspect."
"But you? Not only did you not contribute during this time, you even secretly collected these Pokémon beforehand."
"This battle has obviously been planned long ago!", Zaci folded his arms and looked at Mr. Berlitz, his tone mocking, "We've been researching this topic for a long time, only recently worked with you, and unexpectedly got results."
"But... whether manpower or resources, we've always contributed more. You really thought you deserved half?"
"As for these Pokémon, they were all rescued by our Aether Foundation from different regions. How is that considered preparation?"
"You're just too greedy."
"You didn't want the money we offered, and now both the money and the results belong to us."
"Bullshit!", Seeing that Zaci was shameless to this degree, Mr. Berlitz completely exploded.
"You think I need your lousy money? My daughter's yearly allowance is more than that, and you dare call that a penalty fee."
"Also, without the professor stepping in, you would never have broken through the core research barrier!"
Zaci laughed coldly, completely unfazed by Berlitz's anger, and said something extremely infuriating, "So what, the winner is king and the loser is nothing."
Right as he finished speaking, ice crystals suddenly began spreading from the ground, sweeping across the entire field like ripples.
Lucian and the others subconsciously backed away, but realized the ripple caused no harm to anyone, seeming to be only a decorative effect.
The Aether Foundation people were confused, not understanding why a trainer would have their Pokémon do such a useless trick.
But some League staff members showed excitement in their eyes.
Glastrier had been extremely active in the League recently, showing off in front of almost everyone without discrimination.
Many of them had dealt with Glastrier before and recognized this as its handiwork.
Lucian also looked with curiosity toward the center from where the ice crystals spread. He had just seen Axel appear and wondered why he suddenly disappeared.
Now, with Flint's reaction and Glastrier's entrance, things seemed already stable.
["Winner is king, huh? Interesting."]
A divine voice of psychic communication appeared, spreading into the mind of everyone present.
The boiler room doors opened lightly, and Axel, sitting on the ice-forged throne version of Glastrier, looked utterly embarrassed.
'This damn horse never said the entrance would look like this.'
The ice crystal effect hadn't even finished yet. As Glastrier and Axel moved toward the center, a road of ice formed in front of them, and ice-made flowers and trees appeared by their sides.
By the time the two appeared in the center, the entire field looked like an ice kingdom of a god.
Under Glastrier's fierce gaze, the Aether Foundation members instinctively backed away, afraid they would be run over if they blocked the path.
Lucian exhaled deeply in relief, "Axel, you finally came."
As the Psychic-type Elite Four, in all of Sinnoh, hardly anyone understood the terror of Axel's Gardevoir better than he did.
Although it was a Gardevoir, and although it had only been out of the breeding house for at most a year, Lucian swore, aside from Gardevoir itself, he had never seen another Pokémon that had honed killing intent to such a level.
If he didn't have enough intel, Lucian would have suspected Gardevoir had killed gods before.
Mr. Berlitz also looked at Axel, his eyes lighting up first, obviously impressed by Axel's presence.
He muttered in spite of himself, "No wonder my daughter likes Axel so much. Who wouldn't get confused seeing this at his age?"
Axel had only just appeared, and the Zaci who had been yelling at him earlier immediately shut up and backed away.
If Axel were really his son-in-law, wouldn't that scare Zaci to death?
"Hiss~ no, no!", Berlitz jerked awake.
Whether his daughter liked him or not didn't matter. Axel was practically publicly announced as Cynthia's boyfriend.
His daughter would one day take over the entire Berlitz family. How could she possibly share a man with another woman?
Berlitz hurriedly threw away this thought and smiled in a refined manner.
"So you are Axel. My daughter has mentioned you. Very good!"
"Ahem~", Seeing Mr. Berlitz, Axel cleared his throat.
He quickly unbuckled himself from Glastrier's ice throne "safety belt" and hopped to the older man's side.
That was the young lady's father.
If Platinum found out he had been sitting on a horse looking down on her dad, she would probably bite him to death next time they met.
Not only must he be polite to Mr. Berlitz, he also had to be extremely rude to that Zaci, only then could he raise the young lady's favorability.
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