At Anti-Entropy Headquarters, in a special experimental site the size of a warehouse, Yǔ stood proudly on one side of the room with his arms crossed, wearing a silver metal visor on his head.
On his other side, Bronya, with a serious expression, slowly walked in from outside. Looking at the opposite side, her gloved hand made a gripping motion, then she threw it forward with force.
She also wore a similar visor. After making the throwing motion, she mimicked him, crossing her arms, making her already ample peaks even more prominent and erect.
If an ordinary person were present, they might feel that the two people staring at each other from across the room had something wrong with their heads, but if they switched to their perspective, the world before their eyes would become vastly different.
He watched a golden bipedal cat, surrounded by electric light, burst out of a pokemon ball with a flash of electricity. It stood on two feet, covered in electric current, its eyes full of fighting spirit, looking incredibly handsome.
Bronya's lips unconsciously curved into a slight smile, and her voice carried strong confidence: "My Zeraora is the strongest!!"
"Strongest? Roar~"
A disdainful sound rang out, and Yǔ also pulled out a pokeball, casually tossing it out.
"Let me show you what the real gap is. Come out, my partner!!"
"Woo oh~~!!"
Light flashed, and under Bronya's wary gaze, a green pokemon appeared opposite Zeraora.
However, when she saw the true form of this pokemon, her highly tense thoughts suddenly stalled, and her expression froze for a moment. Then, she looked at Yǔ, who was still posing, with an incredulous look: "You're using a Caterpie to fight me?"
Bronya pointed a finger at the slowly crawling Caterpie, her tone astonished.
"What's wrong with Caterpie? Even a small Swinub can take down Phoenix King and Lugia. Is it unreasonable for my Caterpie to defeat your mythical beast?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Tsk, that's why, Bronya, it's because of this that you..."
"Zeraora, Thunder Punch!"
Too lazy to listen to Yǔ's rambling, Bronya directly ordered an attack.
The moment it heard the command, Zeraora immediately charged out. As if sensing its master's angry emotions, dazzling electric light wrapped around its fist, and it mercilessly slammed a punch onto Caterpie's body.
A deafening explosion rang in their ears, smoke filled the air, and Caterpie immediately fell to the ground, its eyes swirling.
"Caterpie!!!"
A mournful roar rang out.
Watching Yǔ run over and then kneel sadly beside Caterpie, Bronya's forehead was instantly covered in black lines. Her lover was good in every way, but whenever it came to these duels, he was a bit chuunibyou and overly dramatic.
"Don't waste time, quickly bring out your real main force."
She shouted again, but Yǔ ignored her. He picked up Caterpie with his gloved hands, his voice low and mournful: "I'm sorry, Caterpie, it's all my fault for being too weak."
"What, you still want to fight? You still want to surpass yourself?"
"..."
Bronya was too lazy to say anything else, only reminding Seele and Kaguya, who were observing outside, to record this scene to see who would be embarrassed in the end.
"Is husband always like this?"
Outside the laboratory, Seele and Kaguya were monitoring the situation inside. It was Kaguya's first time there, and seeing this scene, she almost couldn't hold back.
"Hmm? Doesn't Sister Kaguya think Brother looks very handsome like this?"
Seele's face was slightly flushed. She had already opened her phone's camera early on and recorded this entire scene.
"Handsome?"
Kaguya suddenly felt that Yǔ might not be the only one who needed to be admitted to the hospital.
Inside, Yǔ was still awkwardly acting.
His expression suddenly became resolute, just like a protagonist in a hot-blooded manga who, after falling, suddenly sees a memento given by his childhood sweetheart, and props himself up to stand.
"In that case, let the opponent clearly see the bond between us!!!"
"Caterpie, Mega Evolve!!!"
"Huh?"
Bronya froze, and Seele and Kaguya, who were watching, also froze. If they had watched Digimon, they would definitely be loudly complaining.
"No, why is it evolving??? This is cheating!!"
"Hmph, what do you know?!"
Yǔ snapped: "This is proof of the bond between me and Caterpie! How could it be negated by a single word from you!!!"
"...Whatever makes you happy."
Bronya fell silent. She felt that if she kept arguing, her IQ would also be dragged down to the same level.
Watching the white light of evolution appear on Caterpie's body, Bronya rubbed her temples, feeling a headache coming on.
Fine, let it evolve then. Even if it goes straight to its final form, Butterfree, it'll still be countered by her Electric-type Zeraora. It'll be quite easy to fight.
The dazzling light seemed to illuminate the entire world. Yǔ suddenly spread his arms, raised his hand to the sky with a grand demeanor, and shouted loudly: "Come out, Rayquaza!!!"
Bronya first froze, then her closed mouth slowly widened.
"...Huh??!!!"
"Your Caterpie evolves like that?!"
"What do you know? This is the power of our bond!!!"
"@￥%＃%＃＃%＃!!"
Bronya wanted to curse as she looked at the colossal green dragon in the sky, which almost blotted out the sun.
Especially with those long golden whiskers protruding from its prominent jaw—this Rayquaza was even Mega Evolved!
"Go, Rayquaza, use Dragon Ascent!!"
Upon receiving the command, the divine dragon roared furiously towards the sky, its Flying-type energy rapidly converging on its body, and then it directly plunged towards Zeraora.
"Dodge it, Zeraora!"
Dodge it? Where could it possibly dodge?
Zeraora, whose mind was an intelligent AI, also wanted to curse; the divine dragon opposite him was charging straight down with its body, leaving him nowhere to hide.
With just one strike, a thunderous roar, Zeraora collapsed, exhausted.
Seeing this, Yǔ let out a long sigh of relief and lamented, "What a difficult yet exhilarating battle."
Then he looked at Bronya, his eyes filled with relief: "It's okay, you've already..."
Thump!!
Bronya, who had flung off her ar glasses the moment Zeraora fell, rushed over and grabbed Yǔ by the collar, pinning him to the ground.
"Hey, hey, hey, friendship first, competition second! Let's not hurt each other... Ow, ow, not the face!!"
Bronya was beyond listening to him; she furiously swung her small fists at him, angrily shouting, "I'll teach you about bonds, I'll teach you about bonds."
"I'll teach you to cheat!"
"I'll teach you to cheat!"
"...Let go of me quickly, let me punch you a couple more times!"
"I won't!"
Watching the two of them hugging and rolling on the ground, Seele and Kaguya, who had been monitoring the situation from outside, exchanged glances.
Kaguya asked first, "Should we stop them?"
Seele was silent for a moment, then shook her head: "Let's not, Brother and Sister Bronya are just playing."
...
Bronya was about to bite her husband, and you call that playing?