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Ayana gave him a light kick in the calf.
"Uh, good morning, everyone." Kashiwagi greeted the boys and girls who were looking at him with mixed eyes.
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of applause.
Ayana looked at the scene with satisfaction. "He is Kashiwagi, one of the people who will participate in the battle next week. He is your temporary teammate. Remember to get along with him in a friendly manner."
After saying that, the big sister left with the Swamp King, without planning to introduce these people to Kashiwagi, nor did she tell him what he should do.
The boys, girls and Pokémon stood in a neat line until the last second when Ayana disappeared, and the crowd relaxed the moment she disappeared.
"Oh, what trouble."
"I have already used my moves. You lose now, do you hear me?"
"You lost your shit! Who saw it? Where's the evidence? Show me the evidence!"
The group turned around and left, completely ignoring Kashiwagi's thoughts.
Kashiwagi took the initiative to talk to them, but no one responded and they all ignored him.
xenophobic?
Have I offended them?
He walked to the edge with Kokodora and suddenly heard a sneer. He became more aware of his situation and watched their fight silently, occasionally lowering his head to say something to Kokodora.
The latter would often nod as if it understood, its bright blue eyes looking around, making it unclear whether it understood or not.
More than ten minutes passed.
This self-entertainment behavior gradually attracted the attention of those people.
Regardless of whether the rejection just now was premeditated or spontaneous, at this moment, Kashiwagi once again received scrutiny from those around him.
"Hey! What are you doing?" A yellow-haired man with a shaved head came over and asked angrily.
Kashiwagi replied, "Let's watch you guys fight."
"Who allowed you to look? Who allowed you to come in? Get out!" the man scolded, and Dunjia beside him let out a threatening roar.
"Dah!"
"Goo!"
Kokodora retorted without showing any weakness. Although the two of them had a huge size difference, there was no fear on its face.
"Hey! You still know how to protect your master. Your Pokémon is pretty good. If you give it to me, I will forgive you!" The man laughed, his eyes always fixed on Kashiwagi.
It was obvious that this person had no interest in Kokodora and was just making up an excuse to find fault.
Extreme...
Although Kashiwagi never had high expectations for the internal order of the Quicksand Team, he was still a little tired of being troubled by all kinds of things again and again.
"If I don't give it to you, what are you going to do?"
He said indifferently.
The almost contemptuous tone immediately ignited the anger of the troublemaker. The man quickly stepped forward and grabbed Kashiwagi by the collar, "Huh!? You are so arrogant, who do you think you are? I don't know where you came from, a rookie!"
"Oh, then which stinking ditch did you come from?"
He grabbed the man's wrist with his backhand, and gradually exerted force with his palms like a pair of pliers. The man's face quickly turned red, and he clenched his teeth and refused to say a word.
Can't beat the strange force and can't beat you? Do you really think the title of the leader of Qingyi Street is just a boast?
"If you've got the guts, go and cause trouble for the Vicious Dog Team. Are you sure you'll win the game next week? Are you a big shot? You're nothing!" He pulled the man's hands apart as easily as breaking the joints of a plastic toy.
"Dah!"
Realizing that his trainer was hurt, Donja rushed over, but as soon as he got close, he was knocked back by a silver figure.
Bang!
The two Pokémon were more than twice as tall as each other, yet they were stuck in a stalemate.
"You fucking--" The man covered his painful wrist, his eyes bloodshot, and roared on the spot, about to raise his fist to swing at Kashiwagi's face.
The latter was planning to grab him and punch back, but he suddenly noticed something out of the corner of his eye and stopped moving.
The man's swung fist was caught by a hand.
"Otsuka, you seem to like turning a deaf ear to our words." The faint voice made the blood color fade away from the man's eyes, and cold sweat gradually flowed down his forehead.
"Big, big sister..."
Otsuka lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Ayana's cold face.
"Or do you have any objections to the boss's arrangement? Do you have your own ideas? Sure, speak up boldly. You can speak up."
"I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!"
Otsuka knelt down with his forehead pressed against the ground, screaming at the top of his lungs.
His Pokémon, Dungaree, was also pinned down by the giant Swamplord's innocent smile, and was completely unable to move.
The mountain-like momentum made Kokodora feel daunted.
Ayana ignored Otsuka who was kneeling on the ground and looked at Kashiwagi who was standing aside. "What about you?"
He was stunned for a moment, pointed at himself, and said, "I want to kneel too? Okay, then it's as you wish..."
"Tsk, alright, stop pretending." Ayana waved her hands impatiently, "As annoying as that guy with glasses!"
Kashiwagi, who had no intention of kneeling, straightened up immediately.
"Listen up, you little brats! I don't care who you like or hate, or who's behind you. If we lose the game against the Vicious Dogs and let others see the joke of our Sand Team, you will all be punished!"
Ayana pointed at everyone with her finger. "Everyone, go underground and dig! Dig until you die! No one will be spared! If you are dissatisfied, come to me! Or let the people behind you come to me! Do you understand!?"
His voice is as loud as a lion's roar, which makes people tremble.
"I understand!"
There was a unanimous response.
then.
Ayana left with the Swamp King again, but the atmosphere in the venue, which had been lively, had become extremely depressed.
Otsuka was still kneeling, but his whole body was trembling.
Kashiwagi noticed that many of the eyes around him changed from indifference to dissatisfaction. It seemed that Ayana's warning made these people who had nowhere to vent their anger choose to target him.
I'm afraid they will become united in their hatred of the enemy and the situation will escalate.
In this case……
Suddenly.
He had an idea.
Kashiwagi squatted in front of Otsuka and poked him on the arm. "How long are you going to kneel?"
Otsuka turned his head, revealing a pair of scarlet eyes filled with tears, "It's all your fault, it's all you——"
"Yeah, I did it all, so what?"
He spread his hands nonchalantly, "But what can you do to me? Beat me up now? Can you do it?"
Otsuka was furious, "You!"
"You can't beat me, you can't do anything to me, are you unwilling to accept this? If so, come and try to please me."
Kashiwagi smiled, "Otherwise I will sneak attack you during the competition and disrupt the game."
"……what?"
"Anyway, I have nothing to begin with. Some of you are hoping to make it big overnight, right? Some of you have wealthy family backgrounds and are hoping to make further progress this time."
He raised his voice and looked directly at the stunned Otsuka, but he knew that everyone in the venue was looking at him.
"So let's get along with each other and make each other happy. Otherwise, I don't know what I will do during the game when I am so angry and grief-stricken.
"Of course you can find a way to kill me in the next two days, and bet on the result of the fight, and bet on the reaction of the bosses when you slap them in the face. It's nothing more than death or digging mines for the rest of your life."
Kashiwagi's threat stunned many dissatisfied eyes. Everyone had thought of this kind of fight to the death, but no one dared to use it to threaten others.
Because nine times out of ten, they are just empty talk, and they are all made up to save face.
Yes.
Absolutely.
A strange atmosphere gradually developed in the venue.
"——It's just a joke. Don't be so nervous. It's like I'm threatening someone. We're all teammates! Good brothers! Isn't it natural for us to get along well with each other?"
Kashiwagi spoke again with a smile on his face, ignoring the silence around him, helped the dazed Otsuka up, and brushed the dust off his body.
"Look at you, you're such a mess. You're sixteen years old, right? You can't go on like this."
Reverse your gaze.
He finally looked at everyone, facing all kinds of gazes with a warm and sincere smile.
"Let me introduce myself again, everyone! I'm Kashiwagi! Kashiwagi from Qingyi Street! Please give me your guidance over the next week!"
Kashiwagi bowed slightly, and his loud voice echoed throughout the entire venue, surrounded by expressions of tension, astonishment, seriousness and vigilance.
Since being targeted by the group is inevitable, just detonate it.
The situation couldn't be worse.
far away.
Under a shadowed house, the reflection from the lens disappeared.
Chapter 16 First Battle
"clown!"
"Grandstanding!"
"Who do you really think you are?"