Axel had a very long dream.
He dreamt that he was in a boundless fairy-tale kingdom, the ground soft like jelly, lying there felt extremely comfortable.
In the sky, giant butterflies and dance birds kept dancing, and from time to time sang beautiful songs.
The only flaw in this beauty was that there was a little shark constantly gnawing on him.
It would occasionally spit out a few muffled human words, saying something like the food today was too hard and couldn't be bitten through at all.
Because Axel had the physique of a super rookie, he didn't care about the little beast gnawing at him, and still slept soundly.
But in the second half of the night, Axel suddenly felt the urge to find a bathroom, and had no choice but to open his eyes and wake from his deep sleep.
But just as he opened his eyes, Axel couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
'What is this thing?'
He had just thought he was dreaming, but didn't expect that there really was something biting him.
'Is the security at Blueberry Academy really that bad?'
'And outside his room was Glastrier with king-level strength, yet someone actually made it into his room?'
Before Axel could react, his close partner Gyarados had already instinctively unleashed a Water Gun.
Puff!
A dense stream of white water instantly shot from Gyarados's mouth, blasting the "pokémon" gnawing on Axel up from the floor.
Hit by the fierce Water Gun, Iono also subconsciously shivered, waking up from her dazed state.
Looking at herself soaked in water, Iono blinked blankly.
'Wasn't I being attacked by Glastrier?'
'Why did the opponent change?'
Seeing her own attacked state, Iono subconsciously clenched her silver teeth and angrily pounced on Axel.
"Ahhh! it's fine if you ab*se me in the game, after all you cook and I can endure it."
"But you actually made Gyarados attack me?"
"My yellow clothes got stained, I swear I'm killing you today!"
"Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!", Axel quickly waved his hands, trying to get Iono to give him a chance to explain.
He had been sleeping soundly, who could resist attacking in this situation?
"Hmph! Let me make you like this and I'll believe it's a misunderstanding!"
"Luxray!", Iono angrily threw out a Poké Ball, nothing happened.
"Bellibolt!"
Still nothing happened…
Iono threw out several Poké Balls in a row, but without exception they were all empty.
No matter how she called, not a single Pokémon responded.
After eating and drinking their fill, Luxray and the others had gone to sleep in the next room.
With the soundproofing created by Glastrier, no sound could penetrate this room.
"AHHH! Damn Axel, you're well-prepared, ambushing me huh?"
"You really think I have no other means of defense besides Pokémon?", Iono grabbed Axel's neck with one hand, and with the other touched the decoration of the Magnemite on her head.
"I'll electrocute you!"
Powerful electric currents surged, but Iono was clearly so blinded by anger that she didn't remove her left hand from Axel's body.
The next moment, the strong current wrapped around both of them.
Several flashes of lightning later, massive energy burst out centered on the two of them, and everything nearby was torn apart.
Iono's trump card Pokémon, Clamperl, appeared, while Axel's upper-body muscles were fully exposed to the air.
Gulp~
Looking at the full eight-pack abs, Iono instinctively took half a step back, and Clamperl trembled at Gyarados.
After firing a Water Gun at Gyarados, Gyarados was completely enraged.
'You attacked me first, and now you're shooting back at me?'
'No justice!'
Dynamax instantly activated, the massive body crashed at full force into Clamperl.
Even with Light Screen and Reflect, Clamperl still couldn't withstand Dynamax Gyarados's terrifying charge.
One-hit KO!
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"Axel!"
"Mm~", Looking at Iono wearing his clothes, Axel inexplicably felt a little guilty.
But soon, that guilt vanished.
"You clearly attacked me first!"
"I just asked Gardevoir, she said she stopped you last night but you insisted on barging in."
The more Axel thought about it, the more he felt he was the victim.
He just wanted a good night's sleep, but got attacked in the middle of the night.
What was wrong with fighting back?
Seeing Axel's mind turn, Iono lightly bit her lip, glanced at his abs without a word, then directly changed tactics, gently shaking Axel's arm.
"Doesn't matter, it must be you mentally…"
"Stop!", Axel looked at Iono helplessly, putting his palms together in a begging gesture.
"Girl, what exactly do you want?"
Iono grinned, a victorious look on her face, "Today I'm not eating Pokémon food, I want to eat spicy sandwiches."
Axel: "…"
'That's all you wanted?'
'Why didn't you say so earlier!'
"Fine, just once today," Axel carefully set the limit, afraid she'd stick to him.
"Three times!"
Axel shook his head, "No, just once."
Iono snorted proudly, "But you ate me three times, so I should eat you three times too."
Axel: "…"
"Fine~"
After succeeding with her scheme, Iono smacked a kiss on Axel's face, her shark-like teeth paired with her little-devil expression making her look extra lively.
"Axel, can I ask you something?"
"What is it?"
"The two of us… this shouldn't be considered a transaction, right?", Iono's voice was very soft, almost only she could hear it.
In fact, last night Iono had thought a lot.
She had thought about Axel having a girlfriend, also about Axel having so many terrifying Pokémon around him, destined not to stay in one place.
But in her heart, she still couldn't help feeling a little moved.
Thinking back to her first encounter with Axel, Iono knew clearly that she had deep feelings for him.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have excitedly taken Axel to meet Elesa.
It was just that too much had happened in just a few days, burying those feelings for the moment.
So now, she had thought it over and very seriously asked this question.
When she said this, Axel could clearly feel Iono's nervousness.
'Great… here we go again.'
Axel had high resistance to someone like Caitlin's forcefulness or Blue's relentless pursuit of her goals.
But he couldn't handle Iono like this.
Right now Iono was like a little beast, a little beast afraid of losing her good friend.
More importantly, saying he didn't like her would be a lie.
"Come here for a hug, I'll cook for you all later."
"Besides sandwiches, want to eat anything else?"
Seeing Axel's change in attitude, Iono grinned and quickly burrowed into his arms.
"Axel, you're so nice, you're the best in the world!"
"This morning, will you play games with me?", Iono looked up at Axel, completely opening up.
"Those viewers always snipe me, it's so hard to play!"
Axel smiled, "Alright, today let the general and the others go do ranked matches themselves."
"And have them take Sirfetch'd and Nihilego with them, they shouldn't throw the match."
"As for those viewers of yours, I'll crush them for you!"
"Yay!", Iono secretly pecked Axel's chest, her face flushed red.
"Then… since it's still early, should I teach you a move?"
Axel blinked suspiciously, "I don't have any Electric-type Pokémon, what could you teach me?"
Iono got up with a grin, lightly blinking at him, "Teach you 'Encore' of course!"
Axel: "???"
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