Tonight, it was probably not suitable for fishing.
After using up almost half a bucket of fish bait, the farm owner ultimately ended up with nothing but over a hundred Magikarp staring with dull, dead fish eyes, failing to catch a single normal fish suitable for stewing soup.
At this moment, approaching ten o'clock, it happened to be the time for the Slowpoke along the coast to return to their nests. The reeds by the lake were rustling in the wind, and a few withered yellow leaves spun against the water surface, looking like gold leaf lit by the moonlight.
"Saa~"
Gardevoir looked up at the sky slightly, as if sensing in advance what was about to happen.
While humming softly, a faint purple energy shield condensed directly above everyone following her pointing slender hand, accurately blocking the drizzles falling instantly like a giant umbrella.
"Eh, it's raining?"
Lisia reached out her small hand, her fingertips gently touching the cool rain, and exclaimed in surprise.
Feeling the raindrops above his head being blocked entirely, Hakuya, snapping back to reality, looked up and saw that cluster of faint purple energy fluctuations, instantly realizing that this was done by Miss Nymphomaniac.
"Thanks, Gardevoir." "Saa~"
Hakuya reached out to rub her head and thanked her softly.
A rainy night bordering on late autumn was not only suitable for sleeping indoors but also the favorite weather of many Water-type Pokémon.
The rain fell pattering lightly, rendering a quiet and distant atmosphere to the murmuring lake and stream before their eyes.
Having water droplets fall on their bodies, the Magikarp group, which had just quieted down for a while, jumped and flopped plop plop in the basket and on the ground again. And the Popplio who followed along also had little stars in her eyes. She looked up at the bright moon half-hidden by thin clouds and sang a melodious and distant song.
So, unsurprisingly in the end, the audience present was hypnotized by the singing and fell asleep again.
"Popplio, this little girl, started singing regardless of the occasion again..."
At this time, supporting the drowsy girls in time, a look of helplessness couldn't help but appear on Hakuya's face.
Apart from her personality of being pink on the outside but black on the inside, this little guy's occasional urge to sing loudly when in high spirits also gave him a headache. After all, her singing could either make all surrounding listeners fall asleep or act as a large-range AOE deterrent.
Fortunately, Miss Gardevoir had anticipated this and closed off her hearing in advance, so she could now use teleportation to transport this group of sleeping girls back to the beds in the farm villa one by one with her psychic power. Otherwise, relying on himself alone, it would really take a lot of effort.
"Counting the trouble you caused at the Pokémon Center yesterday, tonight, you will honestly come to my room to accept punishment."
Specifically waiting for the little guy to finish singing, Hakuya crossed his arms and pronounced the sentence expressionlessly.
Speaking of which, he seemed to haven't seen Popplio's anthropomorphized form yet... Like Sneasel who just joined the farm back then, this pink-and-black songstress loli also had to properly accept her Trainer's "rod education"—
"Pop pop?!"
After intimidating Popplio, who tried to use tears to awaken his conscience, Hakuya turned his head with satisfaction and looked at the lake and stream in front of him.
Due to the influence of Popplio's singing, not only did the hundreds of Magikarp in the basket and on the ground fall into a sleeping state, but even the water surface rippling with rain was floating with a large number of sleeping Magikarp.
And apart from this group of Pokémon, the ordinary fish living in the lake seemed unaffected, and black shadows could often be seen passing underwater.
"Hiss... It seems to be still early, how about fishing a bit longer?"
Looking at this scene, Hakuya's hands packing up things paused, and his heart suddenly moved.
Because his incubus constitution was always exerting force just now, causing him to fail to catch even a normal fish from beginning to end. But now, with the interference factor of Magikarp removed, wouldn't that mean...
Thinking of this, Hakuya wiped his palms excitedly, ignored the wind and rain, grabbed the fishing rod again, and started a new round of fishing.
Although he still borrowed the power of Pokémon in the end, he still wanted to prove that a fisherman never returns empty-handed!
"It's here?!"
In a moment, the float trembled violently as Hakuya expected.
Even in terms of strength, the commotion of this rod was much greater than the "Magikarp skewer" formed by more than a dozen fish before.
Moonlight soaked the water surface, the fishing line straightened like a silver string with the violent trembling sound, and the fish shadow underwater was surging with a violent momentum, churning the water waves into a spiral vortex.
If it were an ordinary person holding the fishing rod, they would probably have been dragged into the water by this big fish long ago, but Hakuya, who had the system's multiple traits, was not affected at all; instead, he fought more bravely in this wrestling match.
Feeling that its resistance suddenly weakened a bit, Hakuya's waist tightened and straightened, and his wrist flipped to tighten the fishing line abruptly.
—The fishing rod bent into a full moon arc instantly, carrying a loud noise breaking through the air. A red figure's tail fin slammed the lake water, actually leaping up lifting a water curtain three zhang high!
The next second, the system's identification panel lit up abruptly.
[Name: Magikarp (Shiny)]
[Type: Water]
[Level: Lv 40]
[Gender: Female]
[Ability: Swift Swim (Speed increases in rain)]
[Moves: Splash, Tackle, Flail, Bounce]
[Equipped Traits: None]
Not feeling dissatisfied because he caught another Magikarp, the moment Hakuya saw the information panel, his eyes widened abruptly.
Wait, level fully 40?
And it turned out to be...
Watching her fiercely flick her tail to break free from the hook, the moment her figure was completely revealed under the moonlight, Hakuya's calmed mind set off a turbulent wave again.
Golden Legend? ? ? !
...
In the Pokémon world, Magikarp is regarded as the weakest Pokémon.
—Although their vitality is very tenacious and they can live by waters all over the world, both their strength and speed are almost nonexistent. They can't even swim upstream in rivers with very slow currents and can only be washed away by the water.
However, the current situation was a bit beyond Hakuya's expectations.
Not only was this Shiny Magikarp with a level as high as 40 actually immune to Popplio's hypnotic singing, but compared to the hundreds of Magikarp caught earlier, she gave a completely different feeling. She didn't have the decadent and dull temperament of dead fish eyes; instead, her whole body exuded a powerful oppression like an empress.
Through the power of Aura, Hakuya could also keenly capture her reaction at this time.
Clearly just caught by a fishing rod, she behaved unusually irritable and angry, as if she wasn't the Magikarp described in the Pokédex as having no emotional fluctuations at all, but more like the Gyarados with a violent and cruel personality after evolution.
"Karp—!!!"
Just as the farm owner was still surprised, the Magikarp leaping on the water surface was wrapped in a ball of white light.
[Bounce: Bounce high into the air, then drop to attack the opponent, sometimes paralyzing the opponent.]
"Darkrai, block it with Psychic!"
Keenly sensing the crisis, Hakuya snapped back to reality and immediately entered the battle command state.
Although this Magikarp didn't master many moves, her high level and displayed combat awareness made him choose not to send out Popplio but directly choose to let the Darkrai intercept.
In an instant, synchronized with the Trainer's command, Darkrai, revealing her figure from the shadows, had purple glows in her eyes.
While interrupting the [Bounce] she had accumulated, the Darkrai didn't need the Trainer's command at all. She pursued the victory by condensing a [Dark Void] move on her chest and blasting it towards the opponent in front of her.
"Karp~"
The Magikarp hit head-on fell into the water asleep as expected, but before Hakuya was ready to throw the Poké Ball, it suddenly opened its eyes, a painful face as if forced to struggle awake from sleep.
Ineffective?!
At this moment, not only Hakuya but even the always aloof and cold Darkrai had a stunned expression on her face.
So far, it seemed that no one could resist her [Dark Void] move.
That blonde woman and her Dragon Pokémon who could never learn Dragon Dance only managed to escape by luck thanks to the protection of the power of transcendence and the fact that she had just broken the seal and her strength hadn't returned to its peak at that time.
As a result, now a mere Magikarp hailed as the weakest Pokémon in the world actually withstood it too?!