"Pinsir is uo battle, Camerupt wins."

  Camerupt panted heavily, gng at Pinsir, who y defeated on the ground. Pain coursed through its body, making its froremble precariously, threatening to colpse at any moment. Despite winning this round, Camerupt's stamina was nearly depleted, and the oppo still had one more Pokémoo send out.

  "Camerupt eat a Sitrus Berry" Will called out.

  At Will's and, a Sitrus Berry emerged from one of Camerupt's ey-like structures on its back. How it mao hide the berry there without burning itself was a mystery. But after ing the berry, Camerupt felt a surge of renewed energy.

  In Pokémon battles, Trainers equip their Pokémon with items that offer various advahese range from items that give specific boosts—like Charcoal or the Scope Lens—to oime-use items like berries. Berries, such as Sitrus Berry, restore a bit of stamina, while others like Pecha Berry or Aspear Berry cure certain Status ditions.

  However, only oem be carried into battle, and these items must be registered with the ference officials beforehand. Using an uered item could lead to an automatic victory for the oppo.

  "Why would Will let Camerupt carry a Sitrus Berry? Does he foresee a tough fight?" Han mused, puzzled.

  Berries are single-use, and in terms of practicality, it would have made more sense for Will to have brought Charcoal for a sistent boost rather than a oime item.

  But in critical situations, those berries prove invaluable. For instance, if a Pokémon is poisoned and carries a Pecha Berry, it quickly alleviate the problem.

  Will's Camerupt has always been carrying Charcoal, why suddenly ge it to Sitrus Berry today.

  "This guy sold Charcoal due to oney" Julian expined with a weird look on his face.

  Due to the packed schedule of the ference, Will had no time to go to the Trainer APP to pick up the quests, and to afford his three Pokémon who had beeing aing this time, his savings were almost exhausted.

  He didn't want to borrow money from Julian and so he had to sell Camerupt's Charcoal, exge it for a sum of money, but he bought a Sitrus Berry in order to pensate Camerupt.

  To his surprise, this thing actually came in handy.

  "This guy 't really be this lucky, right?" Julian thought, his faith in Will's luck wavering.

  After all, the successful use of Earth Power, which had lowered the oppo's special defense, seemed far from tal.

  "Beedrill!"

  The opposing Trainer sent out their third Pokémon, a familiar face from both team matches and the previous individual battle.

  This Beedrill had been purposely kept in reserve until now.

  "This time, I will burn this bug" Will muttered, determinatioched on his face, he really didn't believe this Beedrill had the strength like the two previous Pokémon.

  The face of Trainer on the opposite side was also quite ugly, as her of his two Trump Cards has solved Will, which was beyond his expectations.

  And Beedrill's strength was indeed worse than the previous two.

  "Beedrill, use Pin Missile!"

  Beedrill lifted its Twin needle, ung a rapid-fire barrage of needle-like projectiles at Camerupt.

  After ing the Sitrus Berry, Camerupt had regained some strength, and the bleeding from its wounds had subsided.

  "Fmethrower!" Will anded.

  The intense fmes engulfed the Pin Missile attack, obliterating it in a bzing sweep.

  "Attack with Twin needle!" the Trainer tered.

  Beedrill dashed forward, its sharp Twin needle aimed directly at Camerupt. The tter's bulk and low mobility left it vulnerable, and soon enough, Beedrill's stabs found their mark.

  "Use Poison Jab!" the Trainer shouted, a glimmer of fiden his voice.

  "Camerupt, use Protect!" Will replied swiftly.

  A green barrier shimmered ience, defleg the ining Poison Jab.

  "Fmethrower!" Will pressed on.

  "Venom Drench!" The Trainer tered.

  The two attacks collided, the purple venomous spray g with the red fmes, resulting in a hiss of vapor as the venom dissipated into a cloud of toxic smoke.

  Beedrill's Trainer initially appeared pleased with the unfolding se. But his expression quickly soured when he realized the Fmethrower had outmatched the Venom Drench, striking Beedrill directly.

  "Camerupt, go for the win! Keep using Fmethrower!"

  Will seized the moment, eager to capitalize on the momentum.

  "Bang"

  But in the sed, Camerupt suddenly fell to the ground with purple bubbles popping out of his body. Although the toxins were not as effective as the venom Drench, but the residual effects of the toxic cloud were too much for its already weakeate to handle.

  "Finish it, Pin Missile!"

  The oppo did not attack at cle, fearing that Camerupt will do a st desperate terattack, so he chose to distance himself and used Pin Missile.

  Under Camerupt's desperate gaze, tless Pin Missiles overwhelmed it.

  "Camerupt is uo battle; Beedrill wins," the referee decred, the sound eg in Will's ears.

  At the end of the match, Will still did not make a eback.

  With a disappointed face, he pulled the fallen Camerupt back to the Poké Ball and muttered, "It's okay, you've worked hard."

  Then he gave the opposite Trainer a unfriendly look, not because he was unvinced, but he felt that the other party deliberately hid two Pokémon, making his previous intelligence work wasted.

  "Sure enough, it's not suitable for me to engage in intelligehering and so on."

  The first time I try this and lose, and I met a Rival who deliberately hid Pokémon.

  "How could they make a fool of me like this?" he seethed internally.

  Losing was ohing, If you lose, you lose, but now Will's headache was how to deal with Han, Zosh and Shen.

  When he walked out of the pyer tunnel, he saw three people waiting for him at the exit of the tunnel. He didn't see Julian, but Will didn't want to care about it.

  Because he saw that these three people had e over with wicked smiles..

  "After a hard fight, I still lost," he remarked dryly.

  "If I had known I'd lose, I might as well have let the Rival take me out easily, like the three of you did," he added, a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

  (T/N: how to gaslight someone course 101)

  The faces of the three people who were walking towards Will suddenly froze, he was obviously mog them for losing too fast, even when he had also lost, he dared to take the lead in firing the shots first.

  Guess he was too impatient to die.

  "Yeah, well, even though I lost, I got early acceptao Imperial Uy,"

  "Jin Uy tacted me this m,"

  "The admission officer from the Third Military Academy said they're very optimistiy rainy day tactibsp;

  Both Jin Uy and the Third Military Academy are first-css uies. Zosh and Han were valued by the admission teachers of these two uies respectively.

  Not to mention Shen and Julian who were accepted early by Imperial College.

  In this way, among the five-member team of Lake Middle School, only Will has not been approched by any colleges and uies. Judging from his expression, it is estimated that he has no offers.

  Will: The turned out to be me.