"Woof! Woof!!"
A clearly angry bark suddenly rang out.
Everyone looked up and saw Rover had already jumped up from the ruined gymnasium in the distance.
"Not many monsters can still stand after taking a punch from Sensei."
Genos remarked with feeling.
"Everyone! Let's move further back!"
Saeko called out, pulling Chika and the other girls along.
Immediately after, the massive head, which took up nearly two-fifths of its body, opened its bloody maw.
A dense, crimson light continuously gathered within the large mouth, emitting a sizzling sound.
Lance's face changed dramatically, "Primary Legendary!"
As a top-tier Trainer, he could instantly recognize the terror of this move.
And this wasn't a non-combat oriented Primary Legendary like Ho-Oh or Xerneas, this was a combat-focused one!
The moment Lance spoke-
Rover violently swung its head, and the crimson energy ball, now swollen to the point its mouth could barely contain it, shot out fiercely with lethal heat.
Heat Wave Bomb!
Watching the high-temperature energy sphere rushing towards him at high speed, Lott flipped and raised his leg, performing a bicycle kick, sending the Heat Wave Bomb soaring into the clouds.
The Heat Wave Bomb disappeared into the clouds, and about two seconds later, detonated violently near the upper atmosphere.
Ring after ring of red shockwaves rippled out, dyeing the originally blue sky red!
[Steven: This destructive power... even among Primary Legendaries, it's in a very powerful tier, right...]
[Diantha: Lott is even more exaggerated, isn't he? He kicked it away like a soccer ball...]
Having its first attack blocked, Rover charged forward at a sprint.
It opened its mouth again, but this time without charging up like before, and its mouth wasn't as wide.
It fired off over a dozen dense, blue beams in a upward arc.
Rapid-Fire Laser Beams!
"I thought it was Fire + Dark type, but it's actually Fire + Psychic type?"
Lott joked half-seriously.
Because on the Planet Pokémon, light beams typically represented Psychic-type moves.
Lott pulled the paralyzed Erina up from the ground, having her cross her arms and hook them around his neck from behind.
"Hold on tight."
Lott reminded her.
"Huh?"
Erina didn't understand what he meant.
In the next instant, she felt her head was nearly thrown off.
From a third-party perspective, they saw Lott turn into a blur, weaving through the rapid-fire laser beams Rover was shooting, continuously closing in on it.
The dozen or so laser beams barely grazed the edges of Lott's clothes.
They also skimmed past Erina's striking orange-gold hair.
This powerless young lady could even feel the slight burning sensation as the lasers passed by.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The lasers struck behind them, causing terrifying explosions, making Erina's ears ache.
But her hands were tightly hooked around Lott's neck, so she couldn't free them to cover her ears.
She could only press her face hard into the back of Lott's collar, using this method to reduce the damage from the sound waves and shockwaves.
In the eyes of Cynthia and the others on the other end of the video call-
They saw Lott, carrying a young girl on his back, had already passed through all the laser beams and charged right up to the black giant dog whose power rivaled a high-level Primary Legendary.
A single uppercut then struck the dog's belly.
With a loud bang, Rover's body was sent flying high into the air.
But before it could reach its highest point-
Lott had already used Flight Technique to accelerate to a higher position.
One second later, just as Rover was about to fly beneath Lott, Lott delivered a downward punch.
Like hitting a tennis ball, it struck Rover's spine.
"Woof whine-"
Hearing Rover's low cry of pain, even the muscular Bruno in the meeting room shrank his neck.
'Fe-Feels like it hurts...'
Rover fell towards the cafeteria, making the hole that Tobe Kakeru had crashed through even larger.
Just as it was about to hit the ground, Rover abruptly froze in mid-air, about three meters from the floor.
It's because Lott had somehow already appeared on the ground.
His right hand reached behind his back, supporting Erina, while his left fist was raised high, pressed against Rover's neck.
Feeling the movement stabilize, Erina finally gathered the courage to open her eyes.
Immediately, she saw a scene she would never forget for the rest of her life.
She saw Lott swing his left arm forward and flung the giant dog onto the ground.
"Can you stand?"
Lott set Erina down, half-turning his head to ask.
"Uh... Yeah!"
Erina was dazed for several seconds before snapping back to reality.
But when her feet touched the ground, she staggered a couple of steps and nearly fell.
Fortunately, Alice rushed up in time to support her cousin.
"Will this make you behave, Rover?"
Lott took two steps forward, looking down as he asked.
However, Rover, lying on its back with its legs in the air, stuck out its tongue, unable to speak for a long while.
Lott thought for a moment, then messaged Cynthia again:
[What should I do next?]
Cynthia was exasperated.
'You've almost beaten it to death, and you're still asking me what to do?'
'Besides, if you're this powerful, why do you even need to catch Pokémon? Just fight yourself!'
Cynthia took several deep breaths to calm herself before replying:
[Uh... If you don't have a Poké Ball, you can give it some benefits now. A slap followed by a sweet date... By the way, can a Poké Ball even contain a monster?]
Lott looked around and spotted the black truffle cake that Alice had brought over earlier.
'Even though it had fallen on the ground, a dog probably wouldn't be that picky, right...'
Lott bent down, scooped the fallen cake back onto the plate.
He walked over to Rover's mouth.
"Here, eat."
Rover, still lying on the ground, slightly raised its eyes.
To be honest, it didn't understand the meaning of Lott's words.
But its six large white eyes still showed a look of desire.
Because it had originally come here after smelling the delicious aromas.
Rover opened its mouth slightly.
Seeing this, Lott blinked, 'Was it asking to be fed?'
Lott didn't overthink it.
He dumped the cake into Rover's mouth.
But honestly, this amount was barely enough to fill the gaps between its teeth.
"Yip yip yip~~"
Not just Lott, but even the Champion-level Trainers on the other end of the video call, and the Nakano Sisters, Chika, and the others who had gradually returned, all showed expressions of discovery.
Hearing a dog larger than an elephant make such a sound was just... unique.
Lott picked up a basin and started scooping leftover food from the ground... for the dog.
It was all food spilled by the fleeing students.
And Rover, with its super-strong recovery ability, had mostly recovered.
It just sat there obediently, waiting for Lott to feed it.
After all, the dog couldn't tell it was being fed leftovers.
Basin after basin... Was he raising a Snorlax?
Another basin was finished.
Lott thought he might as well have the Nakiri Sisters make new food for it.
Just then, a large steel basin was handed over from the side.
It was filled with rice and dishes.
Lott looked up slightly, and the face that met his eyes was one he had seen just this morning.
"Kasumigaoka Utaha?"
Lott called out her name.
Utaha lightly bit her pink lips, somewhat afraid to meet Lott's eyes, and said softly:
"Here, let it eat this..."
Lott didn't say much, taking the iron basin filled with a mixture of various foods, which looked like slop, and placed it in front of Rover.
The Nakano Sisters and Chika, who didn't know Utaha yet, exchanged glances.
'Who the hell is she?'
Burp~
No one knew how much it had eaten, but Rover finally let out a satisfied belch.
"Sit."
Lott suddenly spoke.
Rover, with rice grains still stuck to the fur around its mouth, hurriedly sat back on its haunches.
"Lie down."
Rover placed its front legs on the ground.
"Get up."
Rover stood up on all fours.
"Shake."
Lott raised his hand.
Rover raised its front paw.
Under the astonished gazes of everyone around, Lott showed a satisfied smile.
He raised his hand as if holding a Poké Ball and made a throwing motion in celebration.
"Rover, I got it!"
Rover also cooperatively responded with an 'Awoo~'.
At that moment, Ash Ketchum, preparing for the Indigo League Conference, sneezed.
'Who's talking about me?'