Pokemon: Spiritual Master
Chapter 652: Paralysis? Is It More Powerful Than Our Ghost’s Tongue? (Two-in-One - )

Chapter 652: Paralysis? Is It More Powerful Than Our Ghost’s Tongue? (Two-in-One Chapter)

"What is this smoke? Why is it purple?"

"Actually... it looks pretty cool."

Tourists and trainers at the Wind Festival venue looked at the purple mist spreading from Fula City with curiosity.

But the next moment.

Those bold enough to first contact the purple mist suddenly trembled, freezing in place with facial twitches and terrified eyes.

Sharp-eyed people finally noticed something was wrong and hurriedly shouted:

"No good! This smoke has a ’paralysis’ effect! Quick, pull them back!"

Whoosh whoosh—

A nearby Torterra immediately shot out vines and pulled back two paralyzed people and Pokémon.

While others helped, some fell into panic, shouting "run away."

The Wind Festival venue fell into great chaos.

At the same time, someone shouted:

"Since it’s ’paralysis,’ using Pecha Berries, Paralyze Heal, or moves like ’Safeguard’ should work!"

Right!

This was how everyone usually dealt with ’paralysis’ effects, wasn’t it?

"No good!"

But soon, the first trainer who reacted and commanded Torterra to rescue the two people shouted loudly.

"Absolutely not! My Torterra felt numb just from its vines touching the mist. This purple smoke is too thick, the paralysis effect too strong—normal methods can’t withstand it!"

Just a small part of the body touching it would cause paralysis?

Those who had suggested it earlier, along with some who remained calm, turned pale.

The main issue was being too close to the explosion site—the mist here was too dense. Even if they could hold out briefly with Pecha Berries and similar methods, how long could they last?

Could they last until getting out of the mist?

Obviously not.

"Then—then what do we do..."

Even those confident in their own strength couldn’t help feeling panicked.

This naturally included the Torterra’s trainer, even though he was the calmest among them.

He immediately took out his phone and made a call.

"This is International Police, codename ’Turtle.’ A major accident has occurred in Fula City with unknown smoke..."

An International Police officer!

However, the International Police and League Police of the Kalos region were busy raiding Pokémon Hunters. This "Turtle" was actually from Sinnoh, currently on vacation.

But.

Before he could finish his report, his phone suddenly lost signal!

"What’s going on..."

Turtle’s expression was extremely grim.

"Everyone, find somewhere to hide quickly! Close doors and windows, don’t come out no matter what, and wait for rescue!" Turtle took a deep breath and shouted loudly.

But in such a chaotic situation, very few could actually listen.

Fortunately, Fula City’s leadership wasn’t useless. They quickly formed a special task force after the explosion, confirmed the purple smoke’s dangers, and had Mayor Oliver make a broadcast.

"...Therefore, please hide indoors, seal yourselves as much as possible, and wait for rescue. Safe locations at the Wind Festival venue include the research institute and Pokémon Center..."

The broadcast finally gave the panicked crowd some direction, and they quickly ran toward the research institute and Pokémon Center.

Although the crowd was temporarily calmed, the dense mist was still the biggest problem.

Fula City was a city that developed through wind, but during the Wind Festival was when winds were weakest. Such sea breezes could at most help disperse the smoke but couldn’t completely blow it away.

The purple smoke was about to cover all of Fula City and risked spreading to the mountains...

Mayor Oliver remained relatively calm but really had no solutions now.

"Has the signal been restored? Have we found the cause?" Oliver and his secretary, along with special task force members, were all busy in the room.

"Found—found it! Someone deliberately destroyed the signal towers!"

Someone!

Oliver’s worst fears had come true.

The appearance of this purple smoke wasn’t an accident—it was man-made!

What to do...

Boom!!!

Suddenly, a huge explosion and roar erupted in the city.

"Zeraaa!"

Zeraora, having recovered somewhat, immediately transformed into blue lightning and rushed toward the city at extreme speed upon seeing flames shooting skyward.

"Yo—Yoji?"

Larvitar rubbed its eyes, waved its little hands up and down, pointed at Zeraora’s retreating direction with a shocked expression.

This guy doesn’t even have wings but can "fly" so fast?

Unreasonable! Dragonite’s small wings being that fast was already unreasonable enough, but this guy could "fly" without wings—that was really unreasonable!

"Magnetic levitation." Johan explained.

Using electromagnetic and magnetic field reactions, like Metagross.

"Yoji..."

Larvitar looked down at its own feet.

Magnetic levitation?

If leveraging magnetic field reactions could enable flight, then could it... leverage the earth’s gravity?

"Let’s go." Johan called to Cynthia.

Having figured out what happened, it was time to solve this trouble.

"Yes." Cynthia nodded, lifting Risa and her Teddiursa and Ditto onto Garchomp’s neck.

This violent shark lady was quite calm now.

"Is big brother really Teacher Johan?" Risa couldn’t help asking curiously.

Teacher Johan!

Even she had heard this name many times.

"Yes." Cynthia rubbed Risa’s head, smiling in response.

Garchomp below curled its lip.

Why was it "Teacher Johan this, Teacher Johan that" everywhere? Just wait until our cabbage showed her reputation—that would scare you!

"Draaa—!!"

"Garrr—!!"

Dragonite and Garchomp soared into the sky again, heading toward where flames shot skyward in the city.

"Don’t! Don’t use water!"

At the flame-shooting location, Mayor Oliver arrived first with his people. Seeing someone preparing to have Water-type Pokémon extinguish the fire, he hurriedly stopped them.

"This is a power substation!"

Power substation!

Fula City was famous for wind power generation, providing electricity to the city and many surrounding cities.

The power substation was key to integrating and redistributing wind-generated electricity...

Hearing this, everyone finally realized.

Water couldn’t be used to extinguish fires at power substations!

"Mayor!"

Officer Jenny, who had also arrived, approached with a serious expression. "The suspicious group we were tracking—they ran into the power substation!"

When the purple smoke explosion occurred, Officer Jenny and the League Police had also sprung into action.

So the power substation accident was very likely caused by this group.

Even the earlier signal tower destruction might have been them!

"This group... what exactly are they?" Mayor Oliver’s expression was grim.

Causing such chaos in Fula City—Oliver’s expression couldn’t be good.

"Very likely Pokémon Hunters!" Officer Jenny said gravely.

Pokémon Hunters?

Oliver was stunned.

Weren’t these... guys who operated in mountain forests?

How did they come to the city and cause such a major incident?

Before Oliver could figure it out, Officer Jenny quickly added: "A group of... very powerful Pokémon Hunters!"

To gather in Fula City during the Kalos region’s crackdown on Pokémon poaching and cause such trouble—these Pokémon Hunters were definitely not simple.

Moreover, during the earlier pursuit, Officer Jenny had briefly engaged them, and the result... naturally wasn’t in her favor.

If this group hadn’t been busy leaving, Officer Jenny and her team might have been in danger.

As for what these Pokémon Hunters wanted to do... that was currently unknown.

In any case.

What they needed to do now was save the power substation, restore city-wide electricity, capture or drive away these Pokémon Hunters, and solve Fula City’s purple mist problem...

Counting them up, there were quite a few issues...

And none were simple.

"Mayor, what should we do now..." Officer Jenny asked.

Mayor Oliver rubbed his temples. "No matter what, evacuate the Pokémon from the power substation first!"

Many wild Pokémon lived in the power substation, mostly Electric-types but also others.

They wouldn’t damage the substation and even protected it since they considered it home, so Oliver and other Fula City officials were happy to have them there.

But no one expected the power substation would have problems.

"Sni—Sni..."

No one noticed a Snivy in the corner of the power substation struggling to climb the fence with vines.

"Phew—"

Snivy wiped its forehead, looking at the Pokémon in the field.

"Sni!"

Snivy nodded firmly, seeming to encourage itself.

Crackle—

Suddenly.

A blue lightning bolt flashed across the sky and landed in the central plaza of the power substation.

"That’s..." Oliver saw the golden Pokémon emerging from the lightning and was stunned.

"Zeraaa!!"

Amidst roaring flames, Zeraora flashed again, smashing falling debris and saving a Sentret that couldn’t dodge in time.

It glared fiercely at Oliver and the others, blue arcs dancing around its body.

Under the blue and red reflection, Zeraora’s eyes seemed blood-red.

In Zeraora’s view, with the power substation suddenly catching fire and the Pokémon inside in danger, while Oliver, Jenny and others were right outside the substation, they very likely caused this destruction!

Plus Zeraora’s inherent dislike of humans, it naturally showed extremely strong hostility.

At the same time.

The Pokémon Hunters preparing to evacuate inside the power substation also discovered the suddenly appearing Zeraora.

"It’s that rare Pokémon!"

"Catching it before leaving isn’t too late!"

"Maybe it’s a rare mythical or even legendary Pokémon..."

Each Pokémon Hunter’s eyes filled with burning intensity.

"Woo woo woo!!"

Beside them, a green-haired researcher was bound and restrained, struggling desperately but to no avail.

Also restrained was a Chansey.

"Quick battle, move out!"

The lead Pokémon Hunter with hideous scars on his face waved his hand.

"Houndoom, Flamethrower!"

As he acted, other Pokémon Hunters summoned their respective Pokémon.

Vicious Pokémon appeared one after another, surrounding Zeraora.

"Zeraaa!!"

Zeraora, dragging its weary body, split Houndoom’s Flamethrower with one punch, its fur standing on end.

"Recovered well." The scarred Pokémon Hunter raised an eyebrow, somewhat surprised.

"Boss, this guy is strong."

"Hard to deal with."

The scarred Pokémon Hunter sneered. "We injured it before—same method works again!"

His gaze swept over the Pokémon Zeraora protected behind it, grinning wickedly:

"Houndoom, Flamethrower—attack those little ones!"

He was one who had captured Zeraora previously.

With Zeraora’s strength, forced capture was nearly impossible due to its terrifying power, but Zeraora’s weakness was too easy to target.

Sure enough.

As his words fell and Houndoom spat flames, Zeraora had to actively leap into the fire, using thunder to destroy the attack on innocent Pokémon.

Bang!!

Seeing this, the other Pokémon Hunters showed evil smiles.

"Weavile, Icicle Spear!"

"Drapion, Crunch!"

"Crobat, Toxic!"

"..."

Officer Jenny and others finally reacted, also summoning Pokémon.

"Arcanine, Extreme Speed!"

Other League Police threw Poké Balls too.

But...

As Officer Jenny said, this group of Pokémon Hunters was very strong!

More importantly, their methods were extremely despicable—attacking weak Pokémon, making Zeraora and Officer Jenny’s group exhausted from defense with no chance to counterattack.

This way...

At the same time.

Seizing the opportunity, Snivy also acted. Its vines whipped rapidly, not choosing to help but striking at two Pokémon Hunters.

Snivy was smart, knowing that charging out now would at most help defend, but defeating some Pokémon Hunters would greatly reduce pressure on Zeraora and the others.

"Sni!"

I, Snivy, am very smart!

Snap! Snap!

The vines lashed out but failed to hit their targets, blocked by a Crobat.

The scarred man snorted lightly.

Directly attacking trainers?

"Hmph! In the wild, self-preservation is always a Pokémon Hunter’s first priority!"

"Sni!" Snivy was furious and immediately stopped hiding, whipping vines for a full assault.

But the alerted Pokémon Hunters wouldn’t let it act freely, especially the two who had almost been attacked.

"Little thing!" One gritted his teeth.

"This Snivy has potential—the price would be very good. Catch it!"

"Need you to say that?"

Several Pokémon Hunters threw more Poké Balls, summoning Pokémon to attack Snivy.

Suddenly.

Snivy also fell into an extremely dangerous situation.

"Zeraaa!"

Zeraora slapped out the flames on its body, painfully kneeling on one knee and breathing heavily.

Behind it, an Oddish and Sentret looked guilty.

If not for them, Zeraora wouldn’t be stuck here.

But Zeraora was fierce to humans yet extraordinarily gentle with these Pokémon.

It tried controlling its claws, gently rubbing Sentret’s head without speaking, just looking at the Pokémon Hunters with sharp eyes.

For some reason.

A figure suddenly appeared in Zeraora’s mind.

This figure had descended from the sky to save it and Risa earlier.

If that person were here...

"Hmph! Futile resistance. Houndoom, Fire Fang!"

Suddenly.

"Sni!"

A tender but determined voice rang out.

Then two vines quickly lashed out with breaking sounds, heavily striking Houndoom’s head.

Slam!

Bang!!!

Houndoom’s attack trajectory was deflected, but the flames wreathing its teeth also burned the vines.

"Sni!"

Snivy groaned but landed squarely in front of Zeraora, breathing heavily with wounds all over.

The scarred Pokémon Hunter really hadn’t expected this small Snivy to run out and interfere at this moment.

He looked fiercely at the two Pokémon Hunters who had tried to capture Snivy, finding their Pokémon already collapsed and unable to battle!

This guy...

The scarred Pokémon Hunter was filled with shock.

He thought encountering Zeraora was rare enough, but nearly missed this one too.

"Zeraaa..."

Zeraora looked at Snivy’s small back, somehow slightly overlapping with the figure in its mind.

"Houndoom, Flamethrower!"

The scarred Pokémon Hunter waved his hand.

No matter how impressive, Snivy was still a Grass-type Pokémon, and a heavily injured one at that. Could it really turn things around?

"Sni!"

Snivy gritted its teeth, using one vine to brace against the ground and launch itself while the other wrapped around Zeraora and the power substation Pokémon behind it.

Boom—

The scorching fire column swept past Snivy’s vine and struck the empty ground behind.

"Heh!" The scarred Pokémon Hunter grinned wickedly.

Snivy dodged Houndoom’s Flamethrower but had two Sneasel charging from both sides, their sharp claws gleaming coldly in the moonlight.

"Vine Whip, up here!"

"Sni?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Snivy was momentarily stunned. Still wondering whether to act, its body moved quite honestly.

One vine shot upward, wrapping around an arm, then the vine contracted, and Snivy "flew" up.

It couldn’t help looking up at the sky, confirming it was that familiar face, its nose slightly sour as it forcibly held back.

"Counter with Magical Leaf!"

Johan gripped the protective gear with one hand while holding Snivy’s vine with the other, calling out softly.

"Sni! Ni!!"

Leaves wrapped in strange power appeared around Snivy, precisely and quickly hitting both Sneasel.

"Dragonite, Dragon Rush!"

Johan suddenly released his grip, letting his body fall freely. As he caught the wounded Snivy, Gengar emerged behind him, letting him land gently.

"It’s okay now." Johan said gently to Snivy.

"Sni!" Snivy’s body stiffened as it turned its head away, half-squinting.

You not coming wouldn’t have mattered!

But its hands unconsciously gripped Johan’s clothes.

"Garchomp—we’ll Dragon Rush too!"

"Draaa—"

"Garrr—"

Long cries came from the sky.

Two dragons in blue-purple coats came crashing down from above.

Boom!!

With tremendous roaring sounds, Houndoom was directly sent flying and crashed to the ground.

Unable to battle!

Johan walked to Zeraora’s side, extending his hand to help it up while slowly infusing aura and saying:

"Told you not to rush ahead like that. Look what happened..."

"Zeraaa!"

Zeraora snorted lightly and turned to look away.

Johan glanced at Snivy in his arms, then at Zeraora beside him.

Good, good, good—you two are really "perfectly" coordinated.

"Cough cough cough—"

From the rising dust, the scarred Pokémon Hunter coughed as he emerged, glaring fiercely at the suddenly appearing two women and one man with vicious eyes.

"Who are you! Cough cough cough—"

Johan surveyed the power substation situation, taking everything in, then looked at the scarred man with an extremely calm tone:

"I’ll give you two choices."

"One, lie down now yourself."

"Two..."

Before finishing, the scarred man roared:

"I’ll lie down your—"

"Ka-kaah!"

A Gengar appeared before him at ghostly speed, holding a black "iron fist" the size of a sandbag and punching the man’s face.

Bang!!!

The scarred man seemed crushed by overwhelming gravity, his head slamming solidly into the ground and creating a crater.

"Ptui!"

Gengar spat at the man on the ground.

Had to say.

Sometimes Tinkaton’s "hammer sleep" method was pretty good~

Johan shrugged. "Looks like you chose the second option."

He held Snivy and stepped forward, shouting loudly:

"Now, you’re all under arrest. Anyone who doesn’t want to end up like him should recall your Pokémon and squat on the ground obediently, otherwise..."

"You—you, who are you..."

"Teacher Johan!" Officer Jenny was first to recognize Johan in his Alolan floral shirt and sun hat.

Just without sunglasses, he was recognized immediately?

Teacher Johan?!

Hearing this title, the Pokémon Hunter side became agitated.

As Pokémon Hunters, how could they not know the name "Teacher Johan"?

The famous Pokémon Hunter J, Phantom Thief Ghost, and others were all reportedly arrested by him.

Even if not arrested by him, Teacher Johan was hailed as Champion-level...

More exaggerated was that Teacher Johan was famously the "Legendary Pokémon Man"—if he called some legendaries over...

"Run!"

Someone shouted, and the Pokémon Hunters used various methods to scatter and flee.

"Why bother..."

"Ka-kaah~"

Gengar grinned wickedly, spreading its hands as Dark Voids instantly formed.

Small Dark Voids flew out, precisely hypnotizing all the Pokémon Hunters and their Pokémon.

If they had resisted, it might not have been so easy, but running without resistance made them perfect targets.

Snap snap snap—

Gengar clapped its hands and put on sunglasses.

Easy work.

Piece of cake.

Snivy and Zeraora stared blankly at this scene.

They had exhausted themselves, enduring massive damage and barely holding on until now.

Yet that Gengar solved it so easily?

All of them?

Unknown to them, the "Old Johan Family’s" hypnosis was a method Johan prohibited using, except when facing Pokémon Hunters and evil organization groups.

Plus, with reputation preceding him and them not even resisting, it was naturally easy work.

Snivy and Zeraora almost instinctively exchanged glances, both seeing deep shock in each other’s eyes.

"So—so amazing..." Risa said dazedly.

"Of course! This is Teacher Johan!" Officer Jenny said proudly.

Cynthia glanced at Jenny, then at Johan, pursing her lips.

"Teacher Johan, Miss Cynthia, please help our Fula City!" Mayor Oliver hurried over.

He recognized Cynthia.

Previously not knowing what to do, now finally having two pillars of support—such strong ones—Oliver felt relieved.

In terms of position, as "Police Superintendent," Johan’s commanding authority during special times was even higher than Elite Four!

And now was clearly a special time.

Johan didn’t refuse, accepting this responsibility.

"Need to put out the fire first..."

The power substation fire was growing fiercer.

He looked at Cynthia, who nodded and walked toward Garchomp.

"Larvitar."

The Poké Ball opened and Larvitar ran out.

Seeing the already-ended "battlefield," it immediately looked disappointed.

"Put out the fire—Sandstorm!"

"Yoji!"

Larvitar immediately raised sand and dust.

"Garchomp."

"Garrr—!!"

Combining Larvitar and Garchomp’s power, a fierce sandstorm immediately rose. The flames gradually extinguished under the sand’s impact and burial.

Obviously water couldn’t be used on power substation fires—Larvitar and Garchomp working together was perfect.

"Yoji!"

Seeing the flames extinguish, Larvitar grinned widely and extended its fist toward Garchomp.

Garchomp glanced at it, then finally lightly bumped fists.

The Pokémon Hunters that Officer Jenny and others couldn’t handle were easily solved by Johan’s Pokémon.

The power substation fire that Mayor Oliver couldn’t deal with was easily extinguished by Johan and Cynthia.

Had to say.

This was probably the power of top trainers in the Pokémon world.

And the influence this power brought was inevitable.

So seeing this scene, Oliver and Officer Jenny both relaxed.

They felt that with Teacher Johan and Miss Cynthia here, everything would definitely be fine...

Next was the purple mist about to spread throughout Fula City.

Johan looked up.

The mist was almost spreading here.

"Woo woo woo!!!"

At this moment, sobbing came from the Pokémon Hunter side.

Everyone looked toward the sound and found the bound researcher...

Toren?

Johan recognized him.

The spreading spore medicine this time was his creation—a usually solitary but genuinely capable researcher who loved Pokémon.

He was brought here by these Pokémon Hunters?

"Yoji!"

Larvitar swiped with its claw, cutting the special ropes binding Toren and Chansey.

"Lucky~" Chansey quickly thanked Larvitar and helped Toren up.

"I—I—I know—know how to..."

Toren felt everyone’s gazes and became constrained, stuttering.

"No rush, take your time." Johan gave a reassuring look.

Toren’s cheeks reddened.

Hm?

Why are you blushing like a teapot?

A guy.

"Lucky~"

But fortunately, while Toren wasn’t articulate, his Chansey expressed things clearly. Johan used his aura power to understand Chansey’s explanation.

So, those Pokémon Hunters had infiltrated the research institute, trying to capture the "Pokémon Catch Race" Pokémon after the competition ended, but were caught by Toren.

During their confrontation, they learned about Toren’s medicine and its effects.

The Pokémon Hunters immediately changed plans, trying to use the unfinished "Spore Medicine" to paralyze as many Pokémon as possible for mass capture.

But because the medicine was unfinished and too strong—even contact without inhalation would cause paralysis—they changed plans again, preparing to kidnap Toren.

With Toren, they could have unlimited "Spore Medicine," "Sweet Scent Medicine," whatever they wanted.

Antidotes would be easy too.

But while taking Toren away, his resistance caused the "Spore Medicine" to break, releasing toxic mist.

So these Pokémon Hunters fled hastily, destroyed signal towers to reduce interference, and prepared to destroy the power substation to keep Fula City too busy to pay attention to them while they successfully retreated.

The result...

As for why Toren was blushing.

"Lucky~" Chansey smiled while supporting Toren, explaining the reason.

Because he was a fan of Teacher Johan.

Toren became even shyer.

"So you can make an antidote?" Cynthia asked.

Toren buried his head, nodding then shaking it. "I—I’m not sure. But—but I want to try!"

"You can do it." Johan gave an affirming and encouraging look.

Actually, Johan had another backup plan. He looked at Gengar, who had been muttering and pondering.

"Ka-kaah~"

Gengar opened its hands, showing the phone screen.

"Electronic pet" wasn’t home.

Johan: "..."

Great.

Even Giratina had "run away from home."

"Need—need to restore power first!" Toren’s speech gradually became smoother.

"The power substation’s condition is probably..." Mayor Oliver looked troubled.

With the substation burned like this, immediate restoration was difficult.

"The mist! It’s spreading!" Officer Jenny exclaimed.

"Zeraaa!"

Zeraora cried lowly, trying to step forward.

But Johan firmly gripped its arm, making it immobile.

"Zeraaa?"

It looked at Johan puzzledly.

Restoring electricity—didn’t that depend on it?

And your grip is so strong?

Johan smiled slightly, patting its shoulder.

"When injured, rest properly."

Saying this, he took out a Poké Ball and threw it.

Red light became golden lightning.

"Regi?"

"Regieleki?" As a mythology scholar, Cynthia recognized this Pokémon.

Regieleki’s appearance made Zeraora’s body instinctively tense, then slowly relax.

This Pokémon...

"Eleki?"

Regieleki scratched its head.

Not fully awake yet—time for cards again?

"The mist is coming!" Officer Jenny shouted again.

Purple mist had spread into the power substation, even approaching Johan.

"Careful!"

But Johan just shrugged nonchalantly.

"Mere paralysis."

He put down Snivy and walked into the purple mist with the confused Regieleki.

Paralysis?

Is it more powerful than our ghost’s tongue?

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