Bang!
The bone staff fell. Dragonite, who was trying to withstand the attack, raised his arms to block, but in the instant after the impact, ice crystals also formed over his arms. The pain made him instinctively close one eye.
Kael's expression was solemn. The battle had already lasted dozens of exchanges, but in those few minutes, he discovered that he was already at a great disadvantage.
It was as if each of his attacks could be predicted by the opponent, and precisely at the moments most uncomfortable for him, the rival would always launch the fiercest attacks.
The feeling was as if he were facing someone extremely familiar with him, or rather, someone who had deeply researched a Pokémon like Dragonite. Every small muscular movement seemed to allow him to predict, to a certain extent, Dragonite's next move.
Kael attributed all of this to the psychic power used by the person before him.
For the first time, Kael felt that psychic power could be something so useful.
In reality, he had only guessed part of it correctly. Cain did have a certain advantage thanks to his psychic power, but that was not an absolute advantage.
The true main reason, in fact, had to be attributed to Kael's nephew, who had not yet been born, that is, the future Lance.
Who had told Cain to, to a certain extent, take Lance as his imaginary enemy? Researching Lance's strongest Dragonite was a compulsory subject for Cain.
They were all members of the Drako family. Although each person trained their Pokémon differently, Pokémon trained by the same family always had some similarities.
And this was also the main reason why Cain, when battling against the Kael of this moment, could occupy the initiative step by step.
The current Kael and the Lance Cain knew did not have such a great difference in strength, right?
After being specially countered by Cain, Kael's Dragonite retreated step by step.
Once the rhythm fell under Cain's control, it would be difficult for Kael's Dragonite to turn the situation around.
"Lucario, the final Ice Punch!"
Lucario placed both hands on the ground, opened his legs like a great windmill, and scattered Dragonite's final resistance. Finally, the ice crystals condensed over his fist shattered together with Dragonite's fall.
Bang!
Dragonite's enormous body fell heavily to the ground, losing the ability to fight, while Lucario had only received some light injuries.
Kael looked at Cain with a complicated expression. For a moment, he did not even know what to say.
"Take this. Its healing effect is quite good," Cain said with a smile as he threw him several doses of medicine.
Kael subconsciously caught those special restorative medicines from Cain, but he did not use them directly on Dragonite. Instead, he took several special sprays from his pocket, items exclusive to the Drako family.
Seeing Kael's movements, Cain smiled indifferently.
He knew that right now, Kael definitely still did not trust him.
Moreover, the young and proud Kael had not even lost to Giovanni, but now he had lost to someone who seemed to be almost the same age as him. His mood probably was not very good.
But Cain did not care. He simply watched in silence as Kael treated his Dragonite and then withdrew it into its Poké Ball.
Now Kael was in front of him, and there was no one else around. What kind of waves could the current Kael raise in his hands?
Kael, standing again, stared at Cain in silence, without saying a word.
Cain maintained a slight smile at the corners of his lips while holding Kael's gaze.
"Whew... Then tell me, why exactly do you want to enter the Dragon's Den? You know it well: it is not possible to casually take a person of unknown origin to the Dragon's Den. Even if I allowed it, you would not pass the test of the elders guarding the Dragon's Den," Kael said after a long time.
"Are you a little surprised by the advantage and initiative that the special abilities of a psychic can bring in battle? I can make you become a psychic." Cain did not answer Kael's question. Instead, he said something that seemed to have no relation at all.
Hearing this, Kael was stunned. Pointing at himself in disbelief, he said, "I... also have the aptitude to become a psychic?"
Cain smiled, showing his teeth, and shrugged, neither denying nor confirming it.
Kael fell silent again.
Giratina, the Dragon of the Underworld!
Psychic!
These two conditions, for Kael, more or less, were quite tempting.
But he could not allow a person whose identity he did not even know to enter the Dragon's Den, the most secret and important place of the Drako family, just because of those two conditions. As the young patriarch of the Drako family, at that moment, he still considered the Drako family more important than anything else.
"Forget it. To show a bit of my sincerity, I will let you feel it first."
As he spoke, a large amount of psychic power that Cain released invisibly around his body became like a long, thin, and extremely resistant ribbon, directly wrapping around Kael.
One loop, another loop, and yet another. It was as if he had turned Kael into a chrysalis inside a cocoon.
"What are you doing?" Kael opened his eyes wide and looked at Cain, not knowing what he intended to do.
He felt that an invisible force was immobilizing him. There was no need to think to know that it was psychic power.
But Kael had not expected that the person before him would dare to use psychic power to immobilize him. One had to know that he was the young patriarch of the Drako family. Even if some powerful underground forces had the opportunity to act against him, they would not dare do so. The anger of the Drako family was not something just anyone could withstand.
The depth accumulated by the Drako family over so many years was also not something anyone could see completely.
Moreover, although psychics in the Pokémon world were not many, compared with the other two types of special abilities, their number also could not be considered small. As the heir of the Drako family, how could Kael have absolutely no ability to resist?
(End of chapter)