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Chapter 313 The Kind Flame Queen Lizard

Chapter 313 The Kind Flame Queen Lizard

Natsuki had no idea what kind of commotion the sudden explosion had caused. Although he was unharmed thanks to Mibrim's protection, he still looked miserable.

"Waaaaah, you scared me to death!"

Xia Mu tried to find warmth and soothe his wounded heart in Xiao Yao's large chest, but Xiao Yao, who had seen Xia Mu feign pitifulness to gain benefits countless times, was no longer the simple and naive girl she used to be.

While pressing down on Natsuki's head with one hand to prevent him from getting closer, Haruka raised her other hand high.

"scare!"

Xiaoyao made a threatening sound and used her hand chop skill at the same time.

but----

"Mu Da Mu Da!"

Having anticipated this, Natsuki dodged Haruka's attack with a leap and uttered a sarcastic taunt.

"You little Haruka thinks you can defeat me—ah!"

Completely forgetting the steep cliff he was on, Xia Mu, who was eager to see Xiao Yao's angry expression, jumped and disappeared from Xiao Yao's and the others' sight.

Not to mention Haruka and the others, even Mibrim, who was perched on Natsuki's head, was momentarily stunned that her trainer would do something so idiotic.

Fortunately, Xia Mu still had a Rotom phone in his arms.

As a phone specifically designed for trainers, the Rotom Phone not only features automatic map projection and functions as a Pokédex, but also has a dedicated owner-rescue system.

When the owner accidentally falls from a great height, the Rotom Phone will automatically act to slow down the trainer's descent by crawling into the trainer's hand or flying under the trainer.

So, Natsuki, holding the Rotom phone in her right hand, slowly landed on the ground.

Seeing this, the group of people who had been lying on the rock wall with worried expressions breathed a sigh of relief.

"Xia Mu, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, this kind of game is so exciting, you guys should join in too!"

Natsuki invited Haruka and the others to use the new features of the Rotom phone, but Daigo, who didn't have a Rotom phone, was the first to act.

With a single leap, Daigo landed safely off the rock face, thanks to Metagross's psychic powers.

However, Daigo wasn't as happy about this as Natsuki. He walked up to Natsuki and said with a serious expression, "Natsuki, the most important thing for a trainer is to ensure their safety during adventures. Every year, many trainers are seriously injured while exploring outdoors, and if they're unlucky, they might even face life-threatening situations. Today—"

Considering that Natsuki's heart had stopped twice in just one minute, Daigo felt it was necessary for him to make Natsuki understand the importance of exploring caves in the wild.

Lessons from the past, the teacher behind the car.

Daigo tried to persuade Natsuki by citing the tragic incidents caused by carelessness during past adventures by trainers.

But in the face of Daigo's cautionary tale, Natsuki's mind inappropriately conjured up images of American horror movies he had watched in the past.

A reliable tour guide and an idiot team member. Because the idiot team member caused all sorts of trouble, the reliable tour guide died a heroic death, and in the end, only Xiaomei survived.

Therefore, in order not to become an idiot character who would be cursed by the audience, Xia Mu immediately nodded with a serious expression.

"I understand, I'll change into women's clothes next!"

???

Daigo looked at Natsuki's expression, which was filled with shock and complexity. For a moment, he was unsure what he had just said that had caused Natsuki to give such a response.

After pinching his thigh hard to make sure he wasn't hallucinating from the poison gas, Daigo looked at Haruka and the others not far away.

"Um—was I referring to a proper cautionary lesson?!"

"Hmm!" 3

The three girls' affirming expressions reassured Daigo somewhat, but also made him feel a little overwhelmed.

"No, what exactly did you just hear?!"

Daigo, the young master, lost control of his facial expressions once again.

He even imagined that young trainers like Natsuki disliked his lectures and would arrogantly say things like, "You're an old-timer from the old days, there's no ship for you in the new world."

But he just couldn't understand why Xia Mu would obediently nod and then utter such outrageous remarks about preparing to wear women's clothing.

Natsuki's behavior, which seemed to be a battle between his left and right brains, greatly shocked Daigo. At that moment, he felt as if he were unloading cargo in the toilet and found a classmate eating curry rice in the next stall looking at him with a disgusted expression.

While it's wrong for me to go to the toilet while you're eating, it's even stranger that you're eating curry rice while you're on the toilet!

With such mixed feelings, Daigo fell silent.

His expression became even more complicated after he saw Natsuki enthusiastically ask the three girls, Xiaoyao and the others, for clothes and then get surrounded and beaten up by them.

Similar to Daigo, the Flame Queens not far from them also had complex expressions.

They neither arrest nor treat the disease.

Did these humans deliberately come here to put on a comedy show?!

As native inhabitants of the Bagu Hollow, these Flame Queens and Night Thief Salamanders are not seeing humans for the first time.

They knew that some humans would lust after them and invite them to battle with those things called Poké Balls, while some humans would kindly leave them food after seeing them and even help heal them when they were injured, and some would talk to them with those things that could speak human language and then shake their heads and leave.

but----

"Flame (These humans seem to be out of their minds, maybe we should retreat!)"

"Flame (I still have some medicine I found here, how about I treat them? Maybe I can even get a reward from the humans!)"

"Flame (Are you going?)"

"Flame (I'm not going, let ————)"

Amidst the sympathetic gazes of the fire lizards, one of the fire lizards that had been singled out left, clutching its wound medicine and glancing back repeatedly.

Sneaky, tiptoeing.

Salamence climbed up to the rock wall next to Steven, and then, under Metagross's curious gaze, Salamence raised its spray at Steven.

puff-

Daigo's hair, which he had styled for a long time after getting up, immediately became limp and lifeless.

Then, the fire lizard continued its operation.

Amidst everyone's shocked expressions, he walked up to Xia Mu and then...

puff--

Xia Mu was shot in the face by the Night Thief Fire Lizard.

"Ouch~ What are you doing~"

Xia Mu immediately jumped up from the ground and frantically wiped the liquid off his face.

However, before Xia Mu could retaliate against the fire lizard, the fire lizard threw down its empty spray can and dashed back to the flame queen lizard.

"Yay! (Your Majesty, I've finished treating those two guys with mental problems!)"

"flame!"

The Flame Queen Lizard nodded in satisfaction, then waited for the humans to give her a reward that satisfied her.