Hearthome City, Contest Hall.
"Okay, the exciting finals have finally arrived!"
"So what kind of gorgeous duel will the two contestants present to us? Please welcome both sides to enter!"
As host Miss Marian's voice fell, two figures appeared slowly in everyone's sight.
Silky beautiful emerald long hair, a pure and pretty face, wearing a conservative shawl white dress, Lisia stood seriously on the left side.
Unlike the eliminated contestants, although this girl had only debuted for two years, she had already swept all Contests in the Hoenn region, only losing regrettably in the final Grand Festival and winning the runner-up... This was enough to fully explain the strong strength of this girl titled "Lisia the Idol Star."
Unfortunately, she met Hakuya.
"Hakuya! Hakuya! Hakuya!"
The sound wave was like a tide, deafening.
Just at the moment that black-haired, black-eyed youth entered and stood firm, the whole venue was already boiling.
Eternal instant kill and crushing battle. Fighting until the finals, no opponent had been able to make his Suicune use a second move yet...
Rather than saying this was the Wallace Cup full of experts, it was better to say this was a large-scale smurfing scene for this top Trainer mastering legends.
"Phew—"
Looking at the figure standing before her, Lisia took a deep breath unconsciously.
Whether that outstanding appearance or that dazzling powerful strength made her feel like burning, unable to stop the throbbing thoughts in her heart.
"Icy Wind."
When the five-minute timer sounded, Hakuya commanded preemptively.
Accompanied by Suicune's light humming while pacing elegantly, a brilliant ice crystal curtain suddenly surged in the venue.
The whistling North Wind wrapped crystal clear ice particles, like a surging turbulent tide, about to drown the opponent directly in front completely.
Judging from the battles in previous rounds, all contestants were mercilessly insta-killed by this tyrannical [Icy Wind] move. Not to mention Altaria's typing was Dragon + Flying; Ice-type moves had a quadruple effectiveness effect...
Thus, seeing the déjà vu scene about to repeat again, the audience present held their breath subconsciously, staring intently at Altaria facing this powerful cold wave head-on.
"Ali, Cotton Guard!"
At this moment, Lisia, obviously prepared, didn't panic at all, responding immediately.
Just before the Icy Wind was about to swallow it, Altaria, flapping wings and hovering in mid-air, had stern eyes. The emerald blue tail feathers suddenly fluffed up like clouds. Every carefully groomed shiny feather burst out silver-white cotton wadding accordingly.
[Cotton Guard: The user protects its body with soft cotton wadding. This drastically boosts the user's Defense stat.]
"Can drastically boost its Defense? But it shouldn't be effective against Icy Wind..."
A senior Coordinator couldn't help wondering.
But immediately after, Marian closest to the competition stage suddenly widened her eyes. She held the microphone and shouted out loud: "This is... Altaria's Cotton Guard is actually not wrapping around the body, but blocking the Icy Wind attack right in front!"
As the shocked host lady saw, the cotton wadding bursting from the feathers wasn't loose and fluttering, nor wrapping around the whole body normally, but suddenly condensed into three soft white cotton wadding shields.
Even soft, the stacked cotton cloud wadding just managed to withstand this terrifying ice crystal storm.
In the next instant, the originally soft cotton wadding was completely covered by fluorescent ice surfaces, turning into a dazzling giant ice shield!
"Indeed... still have some tricks~"
Looking at his gorgeousness points dropping rapidly on the screen, Hakuya couldn't help sighing emotionally for a moment.
Gorgeousness wasn't just showy moves.
As an excellent Coordinator, so-called gorgeous skills couldn't be used solely for performance but had to be perfectly integrated into the battle.
Lisia creatively turned [Cotton Guard] into shields, not only resisting the quadruple effective [Icy Wind] but also using his move to create a more gorgeous ice shield. Worthy of being a future Top Coordinator—
"Then this blocked, how should you deal with the next one?"
Hakuya looked at the emerald-green long-haired girl opposite who finally breathed a sigh of relief, raising the corners of his mouth lightly.
Legends naturally had the power of legends.
In front of absolute strength gap, even more creative move applications were useless.
"Suicune, use Hydro Pump."
"Ali, use Brave Bird to dodge quickly!"
Facing that spiral giant water cannon like a trailing meteor, Lisia froze subconsciously, then shouted hurriedly.
At this moment, the [Hydro Pump] blasted by this Legendary Pokémon raising her head just condensed into shape. That powerful kinetic energy like a thousand jun (ancient weight unit) force caused the ground of the entire venue to vibrate violently. If hit head-on, Altaria would definitely lose combat capability on the spot!
"Alta~"
Altaria, also deterred by this tyrannical Water-type energy, cried high. Spreading wings and spinning rapidly, cyan flames suddenly swept the whole body.
The whole body drew a Z-shaped trajectory like a red meteor, diving rapidly attempting to dodge that surging spiral water cannon.
"Mmm... did it on purpose?"
Fantina sitting on the judge's seat frowned, watching the duel before her with burning eyes.
Rather than saying Altaria used [Brave Bird] to dodge the high-speed incoming [Hydro Pump], it was better to say that spiral high-pressure water column causing the whole venue to vibrate was driving it towards the field below.
The originally bare ordinary field, after being swept by the previous [Icy Wind], was completely covered with a layer of extremely thick ice surface.
At this moment, in the instant the opponent dived and glided, the ice field trembled. The relentless water dragon like a trailing meteor swept across the ice surface with thunderous momentum!
Where it passed, the ice layer was torn apart instantly by extremely strong water pressure. Countless prism-shaped ice crystals like sharp blades shattered and bounced, bursting with dazzling silver awns under the light, but were frozen again instantly by the cold air wrapped at the tail of the water dragon.
The surging high-pressure water column roared, actually completing freezing in an instant, drawing a spiral ice track near the ground!
Ice Hydro Pump, complete!
Doomed...
Seeing that ice cone torrent like cannonballs attacking Altaria at high speed, Lisia knew she was going to lose.
The power of [Hydro Pump] move with Suicune's Same Type Attack Bonus (STAB) was already shocking enough to the world. Not to mention now wrapped with a large number of ice crystal silver blades. Even giving her Ali ten lives, it couldn't block this attack!
Is this the power of a Legendary Pokémon? Is this Mr. Hakuya's superb coordination command?
Looking at that black-haired youth opposite who remained calm and composed all along, Lisia was lost in thought for a while.
"Alta~"
And accompanied by the wailing sound of Altaria being hit head-on, the originally surging Ice Hydro Pump also exploded with a boom, turning into bursts of dazzling ice crystal rain curtains, falling together with Altaria who lost combat capability.
"Winner decided; the winner of this Hearthome City Wallace Cup has appeared!!!"
Just then, with the host Miss Marian's shout, the atmosphere of the whole venue was ignited instantly.
Although only a short one-minute engagement, although only two moves decided the winner, the audience and contestants were still shocked by the gorgeous duel just now, excited for a time.
And looking at Lisia lowering her head and walking off the competition stage as if soul-lost, Hakuya touched his chin, feeling if he was a bit too excessive.
Although this girl's strength wasn't weak, losing instantly in front of the [Hydro Pump] move blasted by Suicune with full power, presumably still brought her a big blow...
Thinking of this, Hakuya followed slowly.
"Is your name Lisia? The Cotton Guard you commanded Altaria to use just now was very creative. Must have been practiced specially for a long time..."
"Eh..."
Probably never expecting Hakuya to initiate a conversation with her, the originally disappointed girl trembled all over, then two touches of red clouds flew onto her fair, pure, pretty face subconsciously.
"Not called Altaria, called Ali... she has a special name~"
She blinked, correcting.
Generally speaking, only people she considered close, Lisia would allow to call her favorite Altaria's name.
Although up to now, Hakuya was the first, and would be the last.
"Also..."
Lisia finally mustered up courage, leaning forward with eyes full of hope and shouting loudly.
"I like the feeling of gorgeous battle with you very much, Mr. Hakuya. Can I still act as your opponent in the future?"
"Uh..."
The girl's declaration gave Hakuya a headache.
He originally thought Lisia lowering her face after getting off stage was beaten by him until her Dao heart broke. Running over kindly to comfort, result was getting a rival declaration backhand.
Inexplicably, Hakuya suddenly had a feeling of facing Nemona in the Scarlet/Violet period.
Mmm... you are also secretly in love?
"No problem. Whenever you want, you can come to the farm to challenge me anytime."
However, Hakuya still agreed to Lisia.
Pure and beautiful girls always had privileges.
Moreover, regarding gorgeous battles or something, he used Suicune this time, use Articuno next time, then use Zapdos next time... guaranteed to let this girl fully experience the taste of being a rival—
"Alright!!!"
And Lisia, completely unaware of the dangers of society, received the response, full of joy.