When the Gyarados finally landed on the beach with Riku laughing on their backs, the number of Uzumaki on the beach was nearly 4,000.
Everyone in the village saw the great dragon flying, and from a distance, a child's laughter could be heard along with the dragon's roar, making people curious to follow it.
If it were a normal moment, these ordinary people wouldn't have the courage to chase the dragon because it could be very dangerous.
But at some point, someone came back from the beach and told them what had just happened, and people's curiosity skyrocketed when they heard that the dragon was the Pokemon Riku had captured.
Thinking about the difference between the silly-looking Magikarp they saw and the big red dragon flying in the sky, the Uzumaki were shocked.
But not only shocked, the two ninjas from Konoha were completely frightened.
They had sensed the strength of this dragon when it appeared and they had thought that this dragon would be a powerful summoning beast when they were near rivers or the sea, which would be a great advantage if they managed to capture it.
But when they saw the dragon shoot up to fly in the sky, the perception of these two ninjas was completely reversed from a beast that could be useful near rivers and the sea to something that could be almost as valuable as a beast with a tail!
Imagine finding out that one of the country's borders was being attacked, summoning this dragon, flying there with other ninjas, and attacking the invaders from the sky with various long-range jutsus... with a dragon like that, any ninja could become extremely dangerous.
Not to mention that they hadn't even seen the dragon attack...
When the dragon finally landed in the sea, despite the powerful waves it made in the water, the people around didn't care and looked at it and Riku behind it in awe and admiration.
Some people were even smarter and used their cell phone cameras to record the scene, and when it was posted on the Oasis Forum, the people of Kazumachi Town were shocked at how surreal it was.
[Can you catch a creature like that in Pokemon?!]
[Even a normal person can catch a creature like that?!]
[My God, I have to catch a Magikarp!]
With the arrival of the first Gyarados, Magikarp fever skyrocketed.
Unfortunately, only a small percentage of Magikarp were able to evolve into Gyarados.
In order to evolve, Magikarp needed a lot of hidden factors and training. These people, on the other hand, thought that all they had to do was catch the Pokémon, and in time, it would become the powerful dragon they saw.
Fortunately, people probably wouldn't even be able to develop their relationship with Magikarp enough to buy those Pokemon for the real world.
The only ones who really thought about investing in it were the governments of both Kazumachi and the Uzumaki Village, such as Konoha, after Hiruzen saw this publication.
But aside from Hiruzen, who couldn't afford a cell phone right now, let alone Pokemon, the Kazumachi government was considering whether it was worth investing in Magikarp, since those Pokemon were very weak.
Although they were many times cheaper, they realized that this also meant that it was many times more difficult to evolve them.
Since they wanted Pokemon to protect the city, they needed something that would be useful even if it didn't evolve.
After much deliberation, they decided to take only a few Magikarp, while using the rest of the budget to focus on Pokemon with slightly better potential, such as Caterpillars, Weedles, and Venonat, Pokemon that seemed to evolve quickly and were inexpensive to maintain, as well as having decent potential.
The Uzumaki, on the other hand, thought differently.
"Mr. Kaito, do you really want to form a Magikarp team?" A ninja asked.
"No, the idea is a squadron of Gyarados! We need to invest in Magikarp for that, but with Riku's Gyarados, won't it be easier to encourage our Magikarp to evolve as well?" Kaito explained. "Imagine if the other villages came to attack us. We live on an island, and the Gyarados can attack us both from the water they use to get here and from the sky. An attack from above and below... how great would that be?"
Hearing Kaito's idea, the ninjas around them were amazed as well.
"My original idea was to invest in only 4 Pokemon to become a Jonin in a short period of time, but since we've discovered the Magikarp, I want to increase the total number to 15." Kaito explained his idea. "We will have a total of 10 Magikarp, where we will select those with the greatest potential in the Pokemon world and develop friendships with them to bring them to the real world where they can learn from Riku's Gyarados, while the other 5 Pokemon will be 4 Pokemon that we will train as the village elite with enough resources for rapid growth, and the last Pokemon? Unfortunately, I apologize to everyone that Kushina took the money and bought a Pokemon for herself, so I will also put her Pokemon on the list of Pokemons for development.
Kaito was ashamed of this, because it was a clear act of nepotism that he was doing for Kushina, letting her keep the Pokemon with public money for her own benefit.
Fortunately for him, his actions were always so fair and honest that no one thought he was doing it on purpose or was angry with him or Kushina for it.
The Uzumaki's gratitude for their patriarch was too great to let something like this affect them.
Even more so when they saw Kaito's sincerity in apologizing, even the people who might have felt a little bad about seeing this happen with their tax money felt better after the patriarch's apology.
With these plans in place, the Uzumaki Pokemon team began to develop.
For the next few days, they focused on finding Magikarp with great potential and making friends with them as quickly as possible.
Since Magikarp were simple-minded Pokemon, it wasn't difficult to develop a relationship with them as long as they showed sincerity.
While the Magikarp team was developing, the so-called Elite 4, which consisted of Kaito the Patriarch, Kazuki the Anbu Captain, and 2 other Elite Anbu Ninjas, were training their Pokemon in the Pokemon world to bring them into the real world in the next few days with almost Chunin-level strength!
In the time it took for the Senju entourage to reach the Uzumaki, great changes took place in their village, causing the Senju to become completely lost.
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