Pokémon: Who told him to come out of Pallet Town!

Chapter 11: The Medicine King Takes Initial Shape

"Gas bomb, use ramming!"

Kojiro frowned slightly and gave the order again.

"gas!"

"Pikachu!"

Zhongfen cried out in pain as his health dropped below half again.

Then, to Kojiro's stunned gaze, a ball of light surged from Natsume's body again and entered Pikachu's body.

Trainer Natsume used a good healing potion, and his "middle-part hairstyle" has recovered!

The man with the middle parting stood up again, full of energy.

"Middle parting, a flash of lightning!"

The Medicine King Natsume used the same trick again, delivering a devastating blow to the gas bomb.

Hit the vital point!

"gas!"

Gas Bomb cried out in pain as its health bar dropped to below half.

If Natsume repeats his trick twice, he can win.

"call!"

Seeing this, Kojiro took a deep breath, seemingly experiencing great turmoil within himself.

He looked up, staring straight at Natsume, and said:

"You really are an amazing person."

There was no sarcasm intended; it was simply a sincere compliment.

By now, Kojiro has roughly figured out what kind of battle system this kid came up with.

The rules are very similar to those of many video games.

This means that people who have this battle system can do many things that ordinary people cannot.

As long as you carry enough medicine, you can defeat many seemingly invincible Pokémon even if they are much stronger than you.

It could even be a mythical beast.

In that instant, Kojiro thought of many things.

Coming from a top-tier wealthy family, he certainly has this much insight.

He was very curious about how Natsume, an ordinary researcher, could create something like this.

"Middle parting, use Lightning Flash!"

"Pikachu!"

With a powerful shout of "Pickup!", the man with the middle parting turned into a white light and struck the gas bomb once again.

"gas!"

After a cry of pain, the gas bomb's health dropped by another one-sixth.

This time, Kojiro showed no change in expression; instead, he looked at Natsume with an air of confidence:

"Hmph, brat, I've already figured out the rules here. I don't know how you did it, but..."

"Gas bombs, use sludge attack!"

The power of a sludge attack is almost twice that of an impact.

However, it remains to be seen whether we can defeat this Pikachu directly.

Two impacts would certainly work, but the power of a sludge attack is slightly less than that of two impacts.

"boom!"

A large glob of purple, murky liquid was spat out of the gas bomb's mouth and slammed into the man with the middle parting.

Amidst Kojiro's tense expression, the Sludge Attack successfully hit the Pikachu with the middle parting!

Unfortunately, the middle-parted hairstyle's health bar plummeted like a rollercoaster, eventually reaching zero.

But the middle-part hairstyle still didn't fall down.

"Pikachu!"

The man with the middle-parted hair stood up shakily.

Bloodskin, it's bloodskin!

Natsume used "Only a sliver of health left!"

"Um?"

Natsume pressed his advantage, giving Kojiro no chance to react.

Medicine—flash—understand?

"Skin!"

The man with the middle parting transformed into a white lightning bolt and charged toward the gas bomb once again.

"boom!"

However, the white lightning pierced through the gas bomb without any hindrance.

"gas!"

The gas bomb's health is almost depleted; it's in grave danger.

"Tsk!"

Seeing the opponent's Pikachu at full health, Kojiro felt frustrated.

He vowed that from now on, he would always carry wound medicine with him when he went out, as much as he could!

"Gas bomb, use... Huh?"

Kojiro suddenly noticed a purple light emanating from the opponent's Pikachu.

[The "middle-part hairstyle" is poisoned, and has suffered the consequences!]

Pikachu is no longer at full health; instead, its health has decreased by one-eighth.

Seeing this, Kojiro realized what was happening.

Sludge attack has a 30% chance of poisoning the Pokémon it hits!

The opponent's Pikachu is no longer at full health; it's his turn again.

One more sludge attack and Natsume will be defeated!

"Yay, Kojiro, the heavens are looking out for us, meow!"

From outside the arena, the excited meows of cats could be heard.

"Alright, gas bomb, let's use the sludge attack again!"

A miraculous turn of events leads to a brighter future.

Without further hesitation, Kojiro waved his hand, sending another stream of purple mud hurtling towards the man with the middle parting.

"boom!"

It hit the target 100% of the time, and a cloud of dust rose from the field.

"It worked, meow!"

Meow jumped up happily.

Strangely, the site did not dissipate.

As the dust settled, a small figure stood resolutely in place.

To avoid upsetting its trainer, Pikachu withstood the attack!

"Huh? What's going on here?!"

Kojiro stared blankly at Pikachu, who was now down to a sliver of health, and a chill ran down his spine.

"So, Kojiro is considered an NPC?"

Natsume also came to a conclusion.

In the game rules, this "bond" easter egg only appears when you are with the NPC team leader.

"Alright, in that case, middle-parted hair, get out of his way!"

As the last white light flashed, the health bar on the gas bomb's head was completely emptied.

"What is this?!"

Kojiro collapsed weakly to the ground.

"You're quite a worthy opponent!"

Just then, a bottle of good medicine was thrown at Kojiro.

Upon seeing this, Kojiro was taken aback.

After applying the good wound medicine to the gas canister, Kojiro stood up and looked at Natsume walking towards him.

Kojiro was deeply moved, and he slowly began to speak:

"Kid, you..."

"Five thousand dollars!"

Natsume stretched out his hand and made an outrageous demand.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

Kojiro was about to return the good medicine to Natsume when he realized that he had already used it all up.

"Don't worry, you can owe me money. I'll even give you the 100 million in pocket money you were owed after your defeat."

Natsume wrote it down in a small notebook with great seriousness and had his Rotom phone take a picture to record it.

Well, Natsume has now unilaterally announced that a top-tier wealthy family in the Kanto region now owes him a debt.

"What do you mean, a hundred million in pocket money? That's too much, meow!"

Meowth walked over, just about to stand up for Kojiro, when it heard Ash's voice coming from afar.

"Go, Pikachu, use Thunder!"

"boom!"

A thick bolt of yellow lightning struck Kojiro and Meowth precisely, blasting them both away instantly.

Even though Natsume was also within the attack range, only Kojiro and Nyanko-sensei flew up.

(Truly, the world of anime is amazing.)

Natsume wrote this in his notebook.

"Natsume-nii, are you alright?!"

Ash quickly moved closer and looked at Natsume.

It seems that Ash and Misty have already dealt with Jessie who was blocking their way.

"Of course I'm fine."

Natsume waved his hand to indicate that he was alright.

"Rotom, cut out the part where they got knocked away."

Natsume spoke to Rotom's phone, which was silently recording something.

This video will be his key to future visits to Kojiro's parents.

"Loto!"