novelAlta Chapter 567 - 567: 565
Chapter 567 - 567: 565
Even Gardenia was stunned."In a sandstorm, every Pokémon except Ground-, Rock-, and Steel-types takes continuous damage."
"But Shedinja used Sandstorm on itself?! That's not how weather is supposed to work, is it? If it uses Sandstorm, isn't that basically suicide?!"
"But, but... those Goggles can protect it from sandstorm damage! And after its type changed, Wonder Guard actually doesn't fear Knock Off anymore! Hey, that's way too unfair! Doesn't that mean only status moves can hit it now? But don't tell me you're about to say..."
Hikaru snapped his fingers and said to the dumbfounded Dawn:
"That's why, to guard against status moves, you raise your evasion and lower the opponent's accuracy!"
"Double Team and Sand Attack!"
Shedinja split into countless afterimages and kicked up a violent wave of sand and dust, obscuring Rotom's vision.
"Even though it's a Ground-type move, it ignores type matchups and can hit Flying Pokémon and Pokémon with Levitate."
At that moment, Psychic Terrain disappeared.
Dawn immediately responded.
"Use Air Slash to blow them away! Blow the sandstorm aside!"
Hikaru said, "Blow away the sandstorm? That's pretty reckless. Still, it does sound like your style! Shedinja... use Toxic!"
Shedinja's eyes flashed eerily again.
From its hollow shell, it spat out a stream of spiritually charged venom.
"Rotom, raise your evasion! We'll use Double Team too!"
Fan Rotom let out a mischievous laugh, using countless slicing gusts to scatter the poison and create a host of afterimages of its own.
However, although most of Toxic's venom was blown away, a single clump of condensed poison still struck Rotom's electric fan dead on.
"Ro-Rotom! Krrtah!"
Rotom's expression changed at once.
It had been badly poisoned.
Dawn was shocked. "Its evasion had gone up. How did it still get hit?"
Hikaru said, "Trick Room is still active right now, so the slower Pokémon moves first. The light flashed twice. The first flash was Mind Reader. Once Mind Reader is in effect, all moves become guaranteed to hit."
Dawn said, "In that case... right! Use that Rotom to steal the Safety Goggles! Use Trick!"
Here it came.
Trick was either one of Rotom's inherited moves or one it naturally knew. It seized an opening and swapped its held item with the opponent's. It worked even if Rotom itself wasn't holding anything.
But if neither side was holding an item, the move would fail.
At the same time, only a small number of special items were unaffected by Trick.
Rotom's fan condensed into a broad white beam.
It spread over the field and then - switched!
But Shedinja's eyes suddenly flashed twice again with a bizarre glow.
The strange burst of light made Rotom stop cold. Fan Rotom was struck by a ghostly ring of light, and its eyes began spinning.
"Confuse Ray."
Hikaru raised a hand. "A target hit by Confuse Ray falls into confusion."
A confused Pokémon has a one-in-three chance of failing to use its move each time it acts, and instead deals itself 40-power typeless physical damage.
Each time a confused Pokémon successfully uses a move, or hurts itself, the remaining number of confusion turns drops by one.
In the games, a confused Pokémon still has a chance to use a move and hit the opponent. But in real battle, once its eyes go all swirly, it basically can't use moves properly anymore unless the Trainer has some special method.
Like Iris's Haxorus, which used "headbutting itself" to control its confusion. That was really another example of "taking recoil to reduce confusion turns." But Pokémon that can keep attacking through confusion are rare.
Confuse the opponent, lower their accuracy, and raise your own evasion. That was the best way to avoid getting hit by status moves.
After all, Shedinja couldn't get Taunt. Otherwise, a Tera Electric Taunt Shedinja wouldn't even need a teammate with Safeguard up. Right now, it was almost invincible - enough to make a million people cry.
Rotom was confused.
[Rotom hurt itself in its confusion!]
[Rotom was buffeted by the sandstorm!]
[Rotom was hurt by Toxic poison!]
Hikaru said, "This is lesson five."
"Sure-hit moves."
With multiple status conditions piled onto it, Rotom couldn't keep fighting. Dawn hadn't expected the ace of her rain team, whom she had just obtained, to get disrupted this badly before it could really do anything. She could not help sighing inwardly.
Maybe choosing Fan Rotom as this form really had been a mistake.
She had thought it was a perfect surprise tactic.
And at the very start, she really had nearly seized on Hikaru's weakness.
"Prince! Please take the field!"
"Rain Dance!"
Manaphy entered the battlefield in a bright, cheerful mood and changed the weather from Sandstorm to rain.
In the end, it had come back to a weather war. Sandstorm was just as bad for Water-types. The constant chip damage, on top of being unable to hit that Shedinja, would make the battle extremely difficult.
But Manaphy wasn't afraid of that.
And Prince had a Ground-type move.
"In rain, Manaphy's Hydration will remove any status condition it has, and its signature move Take Heart can clear all status conditions too!"
"Trick Room wore off!"
"I get it now, the sure-hit move angle! Prince, use Heart Swap!"
Dawn didn't rush to have Prince knock Shedinja out. Instead, she first used the move that swapped stat changes. Red light glowed from Prince's antennae, and it exchanged its stat boosts with Shedinja.
Evasion rose by one stage.
And Shedinja's evasion returned to normal.
Hikaru said, "There's no helping it. Wonder Guard can't block status moves... that's right, Heart Swap is one of the sure-hit moves too. It swaps all stat changes with the opponent. Heart Swap never misses."
Dawn said, "Tail Glow!"
There wasn't much trickery to Manaphy's fighting style. One of its styles was simple and direct.
"Water plus sand and dirt gives you... mud!"
The moment Hikaru heard Dawn say that, he immediately recalled Shedinja.
Its stat boosts had been taken away, and with Prince still having a Ground-type move, leaving it on the field was not a wise choice. That Ground-type move might have pitiful power, but...
Shedinja only had 1 HP, so any move at all could kill it.
Hikaru said, "Tail Glow into Mud-Slap... that's the combo you want, right? Using the dirt-based combat technique I taught you. Mud-Slap only has 20 power, but if it lands on Shedinja, that's all it takes."
"Even Tera Electric isn't completely without weaknesses. There really are 'invincible' Pokémon, but there are still lots of ways to beat them - like Rocky Helmet for chip damage, or Abilities like Rough Skin."
Dawn pursed her lips. "That's so sneaky! You actually withdrew that Pokémon!"
"But if Prince stays on the field... he'll become a fortress you can't break through! Prince, use Take Heart!"
"Ma-na!"
Manaphy hugged its little arms to its chest, then raised them high into the air in excitement.
Happy, happy. Build courage!
Its Special Attack and Special Defense rose.
Dawn said, "Again. Take Heart!"
Hikaru said, "If you keep stacking that, it really will become impossible to break. In that case... come out, Flutter Mane!"
The Flutter Mane that Dawn was fairly familiar with took the field. The moment Flutter Mane saw Dawn, she waved a feather in greeting and let out her signature mocking laugh.
Polite first, then hostile.
Well, well. I was wondering who was battling. So it's the little prince who only just hatched. Sure, you may have mysterious ancient power, and you may be a Mythical Pokémon called the Prince of the Sea, but at the end of the day, your level's still too low, isn't it?
You finally got a chance to battle, so don't make me look bad, all right?
And don't think Take Heart means there's no way to deal with you. Your Speed tier is a huge problem, you know?
Prince stared blankly at Flutter Mane, then suddenly got angry, shouting noisily and interrupting his own move.
Dawn immediately felt danger.
Gardenia, meanwhile, had already recognized it.
"That was Taunt! Dawn, your Take Heart can't be used anymore! Taunt shuts down all status moves!"
Flutter Mane's mocking laughter rang through the rain.
Hikaru said, "As an ancient hunter, Flutter Mane has an extremely wide movepool, and she can pressure all kinds of Pokémon effectively!"
"Lesson six: no blind spots."
"In the rain... a sure-hit move."
"Use Thunder!"
Golden electricity lit up in Flutter Mane's eyes. A powerful surge of Electric-type energy rose into the sky, and beneath the storm clouds and pouring rain, the weather turned into a roaring electric storm.
And Dawn had just used that exact same Electric-type move with Rotom in the previous battle against Gardenia.
But Thunder was a top-tier Electric attack. It wasn't the kind of move a weak, underdeveloped Pokémon could normally learn. It required far more electrical power than that...
So even though...
"Even though it's a Ghost- and Fairy-type Pokémon, it can use electricity this strong?!"
"Prince, use mud on yourself!"
"Wah!"
Dawn shouted the order, then staggered back several steps from the shockwave blasted out by Thunder.
Lightning struck down, swallowing the Prince of the Sea in a blaze of radiant electricity. Prince's cries rang across the field. Even though Take Heart had raised its Special Defense, the fact that Water-types were weak to Electric moves could not be changed.
"Mamamana!"
"Mud...?" Hikaru noticed muddy water splashed all over Manaphy's body. It had reduced Thunder's damage. But Manaphy itself couldn't naturally know Mud Sport the way Piplup could.
Giving it Mud-Slap for Ground-type coverage was already more than enough, and later generations had even removed that weak move entirely.
That was also to keep its strength in check. Otherwise it really would become a lonely monster of the sea - raising its own Special Defense while lowering the opponent's accuracy.
But because the earlier sandstorm had mixed with the rain, a great deal of mud had formed across the battlefield. That meant Manaphy could use the natural terrain itself to reproduce the effect of Mud Sport.
"Just like Ash - always using the battlefield to pull off amazing tactics! Since simply messing with mud isn't technically a move, does that mean it doesn't count as a status move?"
"Come to think of it, in order to let moves like Dig actually work in battle, Gym battlefields are usually made of natural soil instead of concrete."
Hikaru did not hold back his praise. He was genuinely impressed.
"Thunder's power was greatly weakened. Electric-type power has been cut to one-third. And with Special Defense raised by two stages, that's a 200% boost."
Dawn said, "Right, just like that! The move may be powerful, but it barely hurts! Prince, start your counterattack!"
Manaphy turned to look at Dawn and raised both hands.
Dawn, Dawn! Taunt wore off!
"That's great. Use Rest!"
This was one of the techniques Hikaru had taught Dawn about how Prince should battle, and Dawn had remembered it the whole time.
Manaphy went to sleep. Manaphy's energy was restored.
Under the effect of Hydration, Manaphy immediately woke up from sleep.
Dawn said, "As long as there's rain and Hydration, we don't need the Sleep Talk boosting style at all! Prince, use Hidden Power!"
Because Prince had not yet learned Shadow Ball, its only Ghost-type offensive move, it couldn't hit Flutter Mane with a super effective attack.
And it still didn't know any high-powered Water-type attacks either.
In fact, Prince could only learn Hydro Pump in Sinnoh - or rather, Hisui.
Before that, the strongest Water-type moves it had were Surf and Scald.
And Flutter Mane was only weak to Ghost and Steel, which just so happened to be types Prince wasn't good at using.
Of course, while Flutter Mane had few weaknesses, most things hit her neutrally. That meant neither weakness nor resistance. And in certain situations, that could actually be very troublesome.
For example, when facing a Manaphy with Take Heart at +2, Tail Glow at +3, and Special Attack raised to stage five.
At that point, no matter what move it used, the force would become terrifying.
Manaphy puffed out its cheeks and took a huge breath.
Aahh. Inhale!
A huge inhale!
And then -
whoosh - it blew it out!
"Hidden Power - Flying!"
The power of that Hidden Power was beyond expectation. And more than that, Hikaru noticed a little pouch hanging from Prince.
It was probably meant to trigger Natural Gift, or to hold a Berry to resist Grass- or Electric-type attacks.
Gardenia was a Grass-type Gym Leader, so she definitely cultivated some Sinnoh-exclusive Berries here, meaning Dawn had obtained a few of them.
Still, in an earlier battle, Dawn had also used one of those unfamiliar Belue Berries that even Gardenia hadn't seen much of. She seemed to have bought them casually in Jubilife City as ingredients.
Once you had the move Natural Gift, even ingredients could be turned into powerful weapons.
"Prince not only has Take Heart, but also Light Screen, Acid Armor, Tail Glow, and Rest... if it ever fully sets up, and there are no move restrictions, it becomes an almost invincible, almost unsolvable Pokémon."
"But even a Pokémon like that has ways to be handled!"
A green shield of light appeared in front of Flutter Mane, blocking Prince's raging attack.
Protect!
"Huff! Hahaha!"
Flutter Mane broke out in a cold sweat. She hadn't expected this little prince to hit so hard when it had only been born not long ago.
Still, thankfully, she had lived a lot longer. No matter what, the longer you lived, the more stamina you had. Protect obviously wouldn't be broken so easily.
That scared me.
Trash prince! Trash prince!
Flutter Mane used Taunt again, making Prince hop in place in rage and sealing its status moves once more. But for Prince, who now had +2 Special Defense, +5 Special Attack, and +1 evasion, that hardly mattered anymore.
Hikaru said, "A sure-hit move: Mean Look."
"A Pokémon trapped by Mean Look becomes unable to escape. Only certain moves and items can ignore that condition and pivot out."
Black light filled Flutter Mane's eyes, locking Prince in place. Dawn still did not realize what was about to happen - until Flutter Mane began singing a bizarre song from ancient times, a terrifying cry even stranger than a Misdreavus's voice.
"A sure-hit move... Perish Song!"
"After a short time, any Pokémon affected by Perish Song loses all will to fight and faints."
"Lesson seven: status changes other than status conditions!"
Prince, furious, used Hidden Power again, only for it to be blocked by Flutter Mane's Protect once more. Time passed, and Prince began to feel a strange force eroding away at its strength.
"Prince?!"
"Mamamana!"
Dawn, Dawn! I feel awful!
Manaphy wore a pained expression. The Perish Song count dropped to 1.
Ah... I'm going down.
Hikaru recalled Flutter Mane, removing the Perish Song effect from his own side.
Hikaru said, "Switching a Pokémon out will clear the Perish Song effect. Removing it this way does not cause the Pokémon to faint."
"Manaphy!"
Dawn could only watch helplessly as the Prince of the Sea lost all its strength, its eyes turning into swirls as it collapsed to the ground, unable to battle.
Among the Pokémon she still had, aside from the badly poisoned Rotom, only one was left.
She stood there in a daze for quite a while.
So this was how Champions battled. And more important than that, this was the knowledge they possessed.
No one could master all battle knowledge. Even Professors who understood Pokémon better than almost anyone would still have things they didn't know, let alone an ordinary Trainer like her.
And the knowledge possessed by those who stood at the summit... that was the foundation supporting them at that height.
"So there was really still this much of a gap..."
"Even Pokémon you only just caught can be used so flexibly, drawing on different battle systems and pushing their ceiling even further. In other words, the battle systems of different regions..."
Hikaru said, "As far as the world currently knows, there are four battle systems - or perhaps even more systems that have yet to be discovered, or were lost, such as some of the special techniques once passed down in ancient Sinnoh."
"And those systems aren't always limited to existing separately. In some cases, they can coexist. That makes certain Pokémon extremely frightening."
"Lesson eight: battle systems!"
Dawn took a deep breath, then sent out her very first partner.
"Piplup, you're up!"
"Pipla!" Piplup struck a dashing pose on entry, then immediately braced itself.
That powerful companion who had once taught it battle techniques and mysterious moves was right there ahead of it.
This time, was it really going to face him?
Dawn really had chosen an opponent she couldn't defeat. But even if they lost, it would taste that defeat together with Dawn.
It would engrave that loss in its heart and come back stronger.
"To challenge defeat head-on... Piplup, show me the strength you gained after the extreme training I put you through! Dawn, this is the final battle! Once you clear this step, no one will be your match anymore!"
"Become the Champion of Sinnoh!"
Hikaru swapped Shedinja and Flutter Mane - and then, after that switch, switched again.
The instant Flutter Mane entered the field, she opened a terrain effect. A pink, glittering mist spread over the battlefield, making Dawn, Piplup, and even Gardenia stare around in shock.
Dawn looked at the gorgeous pink fog. "This is... a second terrain!"
Hikaru said, "Misty Terrain. For a certain amount of time, Pokémon on the ground can't be afflicted with status conditions or confusion, and Dragon-type moves deal 50% less damage to them."
"But Pokémon that are already suffering from a status condition or confusion won't be cured just because the battlefield changed into Misty Terrain."
"Lesson nine: prevention and removal of status!"
After setting the terrain, Flutter Mane waved a feather at Dawn.
Goodbye, impressive little girl.
This time I didn't embarrass myself. If I use you as a stepping stone, my standing in Trainer's heart will rise another level.
Though really, you're so favored that I'm kind of jealous.
Flutter Mane muttered all that to herself, then stepped down. In her place, the dazed, empty-headed Shedinja floated back onto the field.
".!"
Shedinja sensed the strange atmosphere around it and felt delighted.
Now it didn't even have to fear status moves that caused confusion.
Hikaru said, "Use Swords Dance!"
The Tera Shedinja's Attack rose sharply with one Swords Dance.
And with no worry about being hit super effectively, after that...
"Use Swords Dance again!"
"Attack rose by four stages!"
However, Shedinja's movepool didn't really have any high-powered same-type attacks to speak of, so its strongest move was actually -
"Giga Impact!"
When Shedinja happily launched Giga Impact, even Gardenia was dumbfounded.
How did this thing end up carrying such a pile of nonsense moves?
But, but! Gardenia counted on her fingers.
Shedinja's strongest move really didn't seem to be any stronger than this one. But it could actually learn that?!
So this was some blood-pumping combo of Mind Reader plus Giga Impact?
"Hey, hey! If someone gets beaten by a cicada shell tackle, by getting rammed away by an empty husk, that's just too ridiculous!"
Gardenia's exasperated complaint reached Dawn's ears, and the girl herself could only show a helpless, absurd expression.
But a four-stage-boosted hollow shell definitely wasn't something to take lightly.
Because Piplup didn't resist Normal-type attacks.
And as it faced the terrifying, absurdly imposing empty shell insect barreling straight at it, Piplup's expression turned grave.
Ground... a Ground-type move. If only it could learn a Ground-type move!
Even without evolving, could it really not learn one?
Was evolution really such an inconvenient thing?
Piplup gathered all the strength in its body and cried out twice to Dawn. Then instead of using a special attack, it did something else.
As long as it landed one hit. Just one would do.
"Pipipla!"
Piplup lunged at the ground, pecking and drilling into it with all its might. Its body spun like a drill.
Then huge chunks of rock were blasted up from the battlefield.
Piplup learned Rock Tomb!
But no matter how massive the rocks were, they still couldn't break through Wonder Guard. If Shedinja had still been Bug/Ghost, that hit would have ended it instantly. But after Tera Electric, it could do whatever it pleased.
Giga Impact smashed through the rocks. Shedinja even seemed to be in a good mood as it slammed hard into Piplup.
Under Mind Reader, the finishing move could not miss.
".~"
Even Shedinja itself hadn't expected to ever successfully ram into someone one day. That left the ever-cheerful Shedinja even more pleased.
Then it floated there in midair, unable to move for the moment because of Giga Impact's side effect.
As it watched Piplup stagger back to its feet...
Piplup hung on so Dawn wouldn't be sad.
"Pipla!"
Mud and dirty water suddenly flew across the field as Piplup kicked up a great cloud of dust, as if it had grasped something.
Dawn's knowledge was growing. She had seen this move in materials she had studied before, and the moment she saw Piplup digging a little hole in the ground, she understood.
A Ground-type move that many Pokémon could learn. A move that let the user burrow underground, avoid the opponent's attack, and strike back in an instant.
When Shedinja looked over, Piplup was gone.
[Piplup burrowed underground!]
"Piplup learned a new move! That's it... use Dig!"
Dawn's command was sharp and immediate. Piplup slipped out of Shedinja's sight and launched a fatal strike.
One hit was all it needed.
It landed.
Shedinja was struck squarely by a Ground-type move.
Dust and muddy water flew everywhere. Piplup looked at the fallen Shedinja, then excitedly raised its wings toward Dawn and flapped them.
At last. At last it had done it.
That wasn't an invincible Pokémon. It could bring Dawn... victory.
But then sand whipped down over Piplup from above. Still wearing its joyous expression, the little penguin could not endure that last blow. It collapsed with a smack and lost the ability to battle.
The fallen Shedinja said, ".!"
"With its final words before leaving, it activated Sandstorm."
Gardenia said, "...Piplup and Shedinja have both lost the ability to battle!"
"The Champion still has two Pokémon left. Dawn still has one. Will the battle continue?"
The girl in the white hat and pink winter outfit froze for a moment, then closed her eyes.
And honestly, it wasn't even certain that Shedinja would have gone down from that last hit.
Though it was only intuition, maybe it had still been hiding another move.
"Can Shedinja use Endure?"
That surprising thought flashed through Dawn's mind, but she quickly shook her head away.
Then she lifted her face with a firm expression.
"Even knowing I would fail, I still chose to challenge. Even knowing I might lose, I still won't give up!"
"Last one, Rotom, I'm counting on you! Together, we'll head for the summit!"
With Rotom's current condition, it had no way to break through the two Pokémon still remaining on Hikaru's side. It had also been worn down terribly by Toxic.
But in order to answer Dawn's heart, fierce lightning erupted from Rotom's body.
[So Dawn wouldn't worry, Rotom cured its bad poison and confusion! Now it's full of fighting spirit!]
[Rotom learned a new move!]
"Friendship - no, its affection shot way up?"
Hikaru was startled. When a Pokémon's affection rose in battle, all kinds of anime-like miracles could happen.
Like dodging moves - sometimes even attacks with 100% accuracy.
Or hanging on - surviving a lethal blow from the opponent, or even from hurting itself in confusion, at 1 HP. The higher the affection, the more likely it was to trigger.
And, of course, there was the classic:
"So you wouldn't worry, it cured its own status condition!"
That said, one thing absolutely needed to be mentioned.
If a Pokémon had Poison Heal, never max out its affection.
"When a Trainer has an unbreakable will, Pokémon respond to that will. That is the power of heart."
"A person with the power of emotion can cause their Pokémon's abilities to rise together with that emotional outburst."
"A person with the power of knowledge can handle any battle situation calmly."
"A person with the power of will can create miracles in a hopeless situation... you're not about to fire off some kind of Friendship Thunderbolt now, are you?"
On Hikaru's side, he sent Armarouge back out.
Dawn raised one hand toward the sky. She poured all her strength into it, and in that moment the severity on her face made her look exactly like Platinum.
"We'll decide this with these two moves! Put all our power into them! We've seen it now... the strongest ultimate move of the Electric type!"
"First, use Nasty Plot!"
"Then unleash the strongest possible..."
"Thunder!"
Rotom learned a new move!
In that moment, Dawn understood what it was thinking.
It was because the Prince of the Sea was on the team.
She felt closer to Rotom's heart, closer to all her Pokémon's hearts.
It brewed up a tremendous bolt of lightning.
This lightning symbolized radiant brilliance!
And in a sandstorm, while Thunder's accuracy would not become perfect, it also would not be lowered.
Empowered lightning wrapped in the sandstorm came crashing down in a blazing bombardment. Sparks crackled all over Armarouge's armor as if it might shatter in the next instant.
But Armarouge raised one hand.
There was respect in the eyes of that sun knight.
And precisely because there was respect, it would use this move to send them off the stage.
You put everything you had into that Thunder, and yet you still couldn't shatter my golden armor. That's a little disappointing.
"Light Screen."
Hikaru looked at the panting, serious-faced Dawn and explained softly, "A Pokémon protected by Light Screen takes half damage from special attacks."
"Psych Up."
Armarouge copied Fan Rotom's stat changes, gaining two stages of Special Attack.
The sandstorm still raged, and the sun knight closed its eyes.
In the raised palm of its hand, a tricolored stream of water, fire, and rock began to gather.
Ways of fighting that made use of weather...
Many Pokémon on the team had learned them. They had mastered that combat technique from Lilligant.
Hikaru said, "In sandstorm weather, Weather Ball becomes Rock-type, and its power rises from 50 to 100. Fan Rotom has only two weaknesses: Rock and Ice."
"And in Sinnoh, the power of Rock is greatest of all. Mt. Coronet is the mountain from the dawn of the world itself, and the enemy you are facing is most afraid of rock!"
"Weather Ball - Rock!"
The Rock-type Weather Ball struck Fan Rotom. That was effectively a 200-power attack!
"Kkh-ktah!"
Fan Rotom was hit by the rocky storm. Sand and grit jammed into its fan, stopping it from spinning, and its body itself began to wobble. At last, with a clack, it fell to the ground.
And with that, all of Dawn's Pokémon had lost the ability to battle.
But Dawn's face showed no frustration or sadness. She simply looked at the fallen Rotom, walked over, and picked it up in her arms.
She was deeply grateful for this battle with Hikaru. Then she bowed deeply.
"Thank you very much for your guidance. My world has broadened. Even though I lost, I don't feel pain or regret in my heart. All I feel is joy from having learned new knowledge."
"I'll remember these nine new lessons forever and turn them into my own strength. I won't let my partners... suffer a defeat like this again!"
"From now on, I'll work even harder!"
(End of Chapter)
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