The electricity from Thunderbolt traveled through the water covering the battlefield and reached Denjiro's feet.
He felt a powerful surge of energy rampaging through his body.
The next moment, he lost consciousness and collapsed.
Oh no!
The spectators cried out in alarm when they saw what had happened.
As Denjiro lay unconscious on the ground, staff members immediately rushed onto the battlefield and hurriedly carried him to the Pokémon Hospital.
The entire venue erupted into discussion.
No one had expected something like this to happen.
After all, Trainers were rarely injured during Pokémon battles.
At a major tournament like this one, such an incident had never occurred before.
What happened today had truly caught everyone by surprise.
As Denjiro was carried away on a stretcher, the spectators silently mourned his terrible luck.
He really had suffered a miserable fate.
Before today's match began, he had still been considered one of the leading contenders for the championship.
Who could have imagined that he would lose so badly?
His opponent had defeated him in a complete six–zero sweep.
Worse still, at the very end of the match, he had been caught in the aftermath of an attack and electrocuted until he lost consciousness.
There was no other way to describe it.
He had been unbelievably unlucky.
But had Denjiro truly been struck merely because of bad luck?
Shiko did not think so.
He could clearly sense that a Pokémon like Raikou could control the power and range of its moves with nearly centimeter-level precision.
Under those circumstances, accidentally striking a Trainer should have been impossible.
In other words, Raikou had electrocuted Denjiro because Belotti had deliberately ordered it to do so.
That explained it.
No wonder Belotti had intentionally allowed that smile to appear at the corner of his mouth.
His plan had succeeded.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
This man truly despised humans.
Even during an official tournament match, he had used such a method to teach his opponent a brutal lesson.
What a thoroughly unpleasant personality.
Before long, the confusion on the battlefield finally came to an end.
Belotti also walked down from the arena.
Only after he had left did the oppressive atmosphere hanging over the venue completely disappear.
The spectators in the stands immediately began talking excitedly.
"Damn! I never expected him to have six Legendary Pokémon!"
"Is he even human? Is something like that really possible for a human?"
"It's over! I should never have placed my bet so early!"
"Belotti is definitely going to win the championship this year!"
"Exactly! Who could possibly defeat Legendary Pokémon?"
"…"
Voices rose and fell throughout the stands.
Everyone kept recalling what they had just witnessed, and the more they thought about it, the more frightened they became.
The combat power of Legendary Pokémon was truly terrifying.
Even Elite Four-level Pokémon were completely incapable of resisting them.
After the day's matches ended, news about Belotti immediately dominated the trending rankings on every major website.
Well-known newspapers and media outlets such as the Pokémon Daily, the Sinnoh News, and the Pokémon Economic Journal published reports about the match on their front pages the following morning.
There was only one reason.
A competitor who possessed six Legendary Pokémon was simply too extraordinary.
Throughout the entire history of the League, there had never been another competitor like him.
It seemed that there was no longer any suspense regarding the tournament champion.
According to the latest championship odds released by the bookmakers, Belotti's probability of winning had reached ninety-nine percent.
The remaining one percent belonged to Shiko.
That was right.
Shiko, who had previously possessed the highest support rate and championship odds, had now fallen to a mere one percent.
Simply put, every spectator believed that Shiko had absolutely no possibility of winning unless a miracle occurred or Belotti chose not to send out his Legendary Pokémon.
During the following day's matches, Shiko's six Elite Four-level Dragon-type Pokémon appeared once again.
They easily secured another six–zero victory, demonstrating Shiko's overwhelming strength.
However, by that evening, his performance had only increased his championship odds by a meager half of a percentage point.
In the spectators' eyes, unless Shiko also possessed Legendary Pokémon, there was no chance that he could defeat Belotti.
(End of Chapter)
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