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Masked Man.

Several years ago, he repeatedly abducted and kidnapped countless children in the Guandong area of ​​Chengdu, causing countless families to fall into despair and break apart. The Alliance was powerless to do anything about it, and could not even trace his true identity as an evil person!

Xiao Lan and Ze Shu were two of those children.

The countless ordinary masked soldiers within the Masked Legion were also kidnapped children, but none of them were as talented as the six chosen as the "Children of the Masks".

There was no time to ponder why the masked man, who should have been unable to move, was still able to act.

"No! Get up here quickly!" Xiao Lan shouted anxiously again.

Suppressing her fear of meeting the masked man, her slender, trembling, and pale hands reached for Ze Shu again.

But the fact that her swollen, chubby penis hadn't been blown away by the cold wind was already a testament to her strength.

She can't reach it.

Without looking back, Ze Shu gently shook his head with his back to Xiao Lan.

Jigglypuff can float for long distances, but its flight speed isn't fast. If it just tries to escape like this, wouldn't it just become a sitting duck?

"You value me?"

Facing the masked man, Ze Shu forced a smile, the golden fire in his eyes intensifying. "I'm not worth your attention. My abilities are actually a side effect of your plans..."

He knew that Lyubo wanted to capture Celebi and gain the ability to reverse time, and had paid a heavy price for it. He had also allowed Zeshu's Mad Fire to attempt to do so.

But the rabbi seemed extremely afraid of the Zeki tree.

It would appear playing every time the moon waxed and waned. Whenever Ze Shu was nearby, it would show up and run away without hesitation. That's why the Masked Man didn't take Ze Shu with him on his subsequent missions.

Faced with Ze Shu's words.

The masked man offered no explanation, still radiating a terrifying chill, his hoarse voice, like the friction of an emotionless block of ice, uttering: "I'm here, you can't escape..."

"Ze Shu stays, Xiao Lan can leave. This is the best choice for you."

"..."

"No!" Xiao Lan shouted resolutely.

"Alright. Since that's the case..." Ze Shu said instead, the fire in his eyes seeming to have died down a bit, "Then let's go, Xiao Lan."

"don't want!"

"Don't worry about anything, this is a great opportunity." Ze Shu said, turning his head and smiling. "He's right. Since things have come to this, none of us can escape. So, Xiao Lan, you might as well go first."

"I just want to leave this place with you, Zeshu..."

Before Xiao Lan could utter her refusal, Ze Shu interrupted her, saying, "Do you want all my hard work to go to waste?"

"What if you become some amazing trainer out there, Little Blue? You can just come back and take me with you, right?"

"..."

Xiao Lan pursed her lips tightly; before the tears could slide down her fair cheek, they were blown away by the cold wind.

"Let's go!"

Ze Shu casually waved to Xiao Lan, then gestured to the masked man.

The cold wind suddenly intensified.

The chubby boy beneath Little Blue could no longer withstand the force of the wind, making a whirring sound as it was suddenly pushed backward through the air. Little Blue instinctively reached out again, but could only see him getting further and further away from the ground.

……

……

As the chubby hot air balloon disappeared from sight, Ze Shu seemed to sigh with relief.

Little Blue has been safely delivered.

So next...

"Go back..." The masked man's voice softened slightly, but it was still cold, like admonishing a child returning home, "The Masked Base is your home."

"...That's something I rarely hear."

He was met with the masked man suddenly reaching out and grabbing his icy claws.

Ze Shu did not surrender.

He smiled with a smirk, the fire in his eyes not extinguished but bursting forth as if about to leap out of their sockets, a string of flames suddenly shooting out through the air!

bang——

A loud bang rang out, the collision of fire and ice, mixed with the hissing sound of water vapor, gradually enveloping the air in a thin layer of white mist.

"Buyi—!"

Unexpectedly, Eevee reacted quickly, shielding Zeki in front of him, puffing out its cheeks and glaring angrily at the masked man.

"Not bad. But I don't need you to show it." The masked man commented indifferently, his demonic body motionless, and advised, "Come back with me, you can't fight me."

"……Really?"

Ze Shu gave a slightly manic smile. "Is it really true that I can't resist you?"

He continued.

"Given your personality, if you see us, you won't give us a chance to negotiate. You'll just grab us and take us back."

"So, you've arrived here exhausted, haven't you?"

"..."

The masked man remained motionless, seemingly unaffected by Ze Shu's words. However, the icy claw that Ze Shu had just neutralized struck him again with even greater force!

not only that.

A red and white penguin emerged from the sky, dragging a cloth bundle. When the bundle was opened, a raging blizzard swept in.

In an instant.

The surrounding forest was tinged with an icy hue, and ladybugs, silk spiders, and the green caterpillar that hadn't found its share struggled and cried out in panic as they fled from the area.

"Buyi!"

In the snowstorm, Glaceon's body appears and disappears, and with its Snow Cloak ability, it can choose to dodge these moves, so it's not too difficult.

But it chose to stand directly in front of Ze Shu, and the protective light shield bloomed, colliding head-on with the blizzard and frozen claws.

boom! !

The crisp sound of collisions, the tiny ice particles mixed in with the wind and snow, and the terrifying claws descended one after another on Glaceon's Protect.

"Cloth, cloth... ee..."

Glaceon let out a desperate cry of resistance.

The protective light barrier became increasingly indistinct, as if it were about to shatter. Moreover, the ice-attribute energy, like a maggot clinging to a bone, relentlessly eroded and gnawed at it, trying to invade it.

Ze Shu frowned.

Also.

No matter how badly injured or weakened the masked man was, he was no match for him in his current state...

What's even more outrageous is that this masked man shamelessly used two Pokémon to fight one of them!

Seeing that Ibrahimovic couldn't hold on any longer, Ze Shu sighed softly.

"Ibrahimovic, you've done a fantastic job..."

Judging from his posture, Ze Shu seemed to have given in and was ready to surrender. The cold wind subsided slightly, and the masked man still said in a hoarse voice, "I will only accept your actions this once."

but.

Ze Shu didn't answer, but instead used a move that surprised the masked man: "Sunny Day".

Glaceon understood what Zeki meant, let out a pitiful cry, and nimbly jumped away, barely dodging the attack. Then, its diamond-shaped ears gradually echoed the gentle sunlight shining on the earth.

soon.

The sunlight grew increasingly intense, and even though the ice on the ground remained stubbornly frozen, Ze Shu could feel the heat emanating from it. Under this influence, the mad fire within his body intensified, and Ze Shu's body and mind became increasingly agitated and restless.

A maniacal smile gradually spread across his face.

"You kidnapped us, imprisoning us in this prison-like masquerade base at an age when we should be carefree, subjecting us to endless pain and torment, all to achieve your own ends, and you still have the nerve to say that?"

"Now that I'm out, there's no way I'm going back."

Reason was burning fiercely.

"I'll blow you up!"

Ignoring the masked man's reaction, Ze Shu's eyes were already consumed by madness, which gradually spread to his entire body. With his last shred of sanity, he managed to pull out a Poké Ball and put his Glaceon inside.

He immediately stopped suppressing it, and the raging fire within him suddenly burst forth.

There was a bang.

The flames expanded and spread outwards, bursting into a giant, fiery flower in the southern part of the Chengdu Shuoshu forest.