The moment Axel and the others leapt down, Gyarados roared and jumped out of the water, steadily catching the three on its head.
"Gimmighoul, come here quickly, when do you plan to finish swimming on your own?"
Splash~ Splash~
Gimmighoul shook its chest, its silver body froze, looking at Axel with emotion.
Over all these years, he had already gotten used to solo fighting. As long as he spotted a coin, he would think of ways to charge forward alone.
But Axel made him feel the warmth of a home.
So there were still people who could help collect coins for him... people who could work together for something that concerned only him.
Splash~ Splash~
Gimmighoul shook the chest, then turned and hovered on the sea surface.
Gyarados' huge body dived under the water, and when it surfaced again, it had already picked up Gimmighoul resting on the sea with its head.
"ROAR!"
"Splash~ Splash~"
One Pokémon is old but small, the other is young but huge.
The two Pokémon quickly bonded in this incident...
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Hearing the dragon roar from afar, the Wailord eating small fish on the sea surface paused.
It looked at Gyarados with vigilance, shock flooding its heart.
'What the heck, how is that thing barely smaller than me?'
[A/N: Wailord's 14.5 meters is height, Gyarados' 30 meters is length]
'This Gyarados can't be legal!'
Glancing at the sunken ship not far away, a glint flashed in Wailord's eyes.
'No matter what, this big guy cannot be allowed to pass.'
'My little master is still here. If this vicious species like Gyarados approaches, who knows what might go wrong.'
"Woooo~"
A low sound spread across the sea, Wailord opened its mouth, and towering waves surged beside it.
"That's... Water Pulse?", Axel was a bit surprised looking at the waves next to Wailord, clicking his tongue.
No doubt about it, as long as your size reaches a certain level, many moves will undergo a qualitative change in power.
"I must go and learn well from Raihan and the others afterward," The combat strength of this world was clearly higher than what GF (Game Freak) had set, but in Axel's view, this was more reasonable.
Can you believe a Regigigas over three meters tall could drag a continent?
Can you believe Arceus, the one who created the world, was trapped by humans and fell into a tough battle?
Only by greatly improving strength and fully mastering Dynamax power could one stand toe-to-toe with the radiant gods.
But right now, the most important thing was Gimmighoul's coins.
Knowing this Wailord had a trainer, Axel had no intention of resolving things through violence.
He floated up with Gardevoir onto Gyarados' head and waved toward the distant Wailord.
"Hello, we mean no harm. We just want to explore the ship!"
"Wooo~?"
Wailord's call came, but compared to earlier surprise, this time it was filled with doubt.
'Such a massive Gyarados... actually have a trainer?'
'If that's the case...'
Professor Birch had once said, ("Don't interfere with the normal lives of other Pokémon and their trainers.")
Wailord nodded apologetically, its body slowly sinking into the water, revealing the abandoned ship behind it.
"Thank you," Axel recalled Gyarados into the Poké Ball and followed Gimmighoul into the cave.
From the inside, the whole ship was extremely vast, like a small patch of land.
After years of silence and neglect, the soil here had already hardened, and even flowers, grasses, and trees had grown.
Pheromosa remained alert, ears twitching slightly, walking behind Axel and Gardevoir.
["Master, there seems to be a trace of fire here."]
Hearing Pheromosa's voice in his mind, Axel nodded, "Got it. Let's see if we'll run into them."
"If we do, don't hold back."
"Splash~ Splash~"
Gimmighoul shook its chest hard, its small body poking out from the chest crack, excitedly pointing toward a fork ahead.
"You sensed the presence of coins over there?"
Gimmighoul nodded hard, then used its hand to make a large circle.
"You mean... there are a lot of coins?"
"Splash~ Splash~", Gimmighoul nodded.
Its eyes sparkled as it looked at Axel, making an action of eating coins.
Axel guessed at Gimmighoul's meaning, "You mean... the coins here might allow you to evolve?"
"Splash! Splash!"
"Alright, then let's go help you find those coins first."
"Splash! Splash!", Gimmighoul shook its chest and made a heart-shape gesture to Axel, happily dragging its box deeper in.
Axel couldn't help but feel some anticipation.
'That will be Gholdengo.'
Once a sensation in the game, nearly everyone had one.
After coming to this world, he had thought he might get a legendary Pokémon, especially with how awesome the system was.
But he'd never thought he would own a Gholdengo. Until he met this Gimmighoul with over 900 coins, and that Ursaluna who liked to pick up things.
"Oops, I might just become a rich guy's Pokémon master, truly worthy of being me," Axel chuckled as he led Gardevoir and the others to catch up.
Gimmighoul's ability to sense coins was incredibly accurate. At almost every fork, it could instantly make the right decision.
In less than ten minutes, they had already bypassed many paths and reached the central part of the ship.
Just then, a proud voice reached Axel's ears, "You scoundrel, how dare you launch a sneak attack!"
"Don't say that, little girl~", another voice responded, gentle with a hint of seductiveness, and sounded a bit 'tea' (fake sweet).
"I even put hot chili sauce in my gloves, how could I not use them?"
"If we villains don't act like this, we'll be laughed at, you know?"
"You bastard!", Sapphire's voice rang out again, clearly furious to the extreme.
"Oh hoho, thank you for the compliment."
"Leader and the others always say I'm too kind-hearted and easily suffer losses in the competition against Team Aqua~"
"But now it seems, I'm not that soft after all."
Axel: "..."
He knew that Pokémon had a lot of twisted villains, but this one was too twisted, right?
If his guess was correct, this person definitely had a bit of a masochist trait.
Walking a few steps forward, Axel saw a short-haired woman wearing a red cloak with two horns on her hood, staring at him aggressively.
"Who are you!"
Axel pondered a bit, "I'm the trainer of Pheromosa and Gardevoir?"
Pheromosa and Gardevoir blushed in unison.
It felt sweet, but also way too embarrassing.
Courtney: "..."
"You little brat, trying to mess with me?"
"If I don't make you eat two pounds of chili today, I'll take your surname!"
The blush on Pheromosa and Gardevoir's faces instantly vanished, and cold gazes fell upon Courtney.
'Talk to our master like that?'
'If we let you escape today, we'll take your surname!'
[A/N: The three admins of Team Magma use the special manga world setting, Courtney, Tabitha, and Blaise]
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