Chapter 273: Birds Of A Feather

Chapter 273: Chapter 273: Birds Of A Feather

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Hakamo-o flexed his claws a couple of times, then looked somewhat regretfully at the Rockruff on the surrounding hills.

The Rockruff immediately tucked their tails and whimpered as they backed away.

Even their leaders had been beaten so easily.

How could weak, helpless little Rockruff like them possibly withstand the fists of this ridiculously strong and absurdly tough Hakamo-o?

Especially that final tail strike.

It looked painful just watching it!

Seeing their reaction, Hakamo-o could not help shaking his head.

This mountain path was far too weak.

Not a single stone worth kicking.

Cynthia narrowed her eyes slightly.

"Twenty punches in an instant. Hakamo-o learned that Fighting technique from Machamp, didn’t he?"

Julian nodded.

"Because Hakamo-o has heavy dragon scales, this kind of rapid punching style actually doesn’t suit him that well."

"But he liked it. He kept pestering Machamp to teach him. Even I didn’t expect Hakamo-o to integrate it into Close Combat this quickly."

Cynthia was a little curious.

"Thousand Strikes? So the Pokédex description saying Machamp can throw a thousand punches at once is true?"

Julian said calmly, "Not that exaggerated. Although Machamp has four arms, it still requires each arm to throw two hundred and fifty punches in one second."

Cynthia nodded.

"That does sound a little too much."

Julian shook his head.

"It’s not that it can’t be done. It’s that Machamp’s muscles can’t withstand that level of strain."

"Just like metal glows red and heats up when pushed too hard, Machamp’s muscles are the same. But the technique itself does exist."

"There’s plenty of false information in the Pokédex, and a lot of the data comes from rare exceptionally strong Pokémon."

"If no moves are involved, Dad’s Machamp can just about do it. But if he tried using it with a move, even something as simple as Rock Smash..."

"His arms would be ruined."

Cynthia imagined the scene and felt that even her Garchomp might not be able to withstand such a Rock Smash.

After all, Rock Smash could lower the opponent’s Defense.

"It feels like even a mountain could be punched through."

Julian nodded in agreement.

"I heard there’s a tunnel in Johto that was supposedly carved out by an ancient martial artist’s Machamp while practising that Thousand Strikes technique."

Machamp trained their fists from hitting sandbags, to striking rocks, and finally punching steel pillars.

They continuously strengthened the resilience of their fists. Otherwise, there was no way they could punch through a mountain.

Veilstone Gym actually had a steel pillar half-buried in the ground.

At present, the only Pokémon using that thing to strengthen its fists was Machamp.

Punching steel really did hurt.

Julian stepped forward, took out medicine, and treated the two Lycanroc.

After Julian applied the medicine, the two Lycanroc soon woke up.

They looked at each other awkwardly. Neither had expected to lose so quickly.

Julian took out Hakamo-o’s Pokémon food and smiled.

"You’ve just finished a battle. Eat something."

Hakamo-o looked slightly resentful.

Why is it my rations again?

But he still chimed in.

"Roar~"

That’s right. That was a deeply satisfying battle.

The two Lycanroc did not speak. They simply lowered their heads and silently ate.

Their first bite was somewhat absent-minded, but by the second and third bite, they quickly realised this was good stuff!

They finished it in a few bites, licking both plates Julian had taken out until they were perfectly clean.

Julian smiled.

"Since you two are fine now, we’ll continue forward."

Lycanroc gave a call, then turned and led the Rockruff into the grass, disappearing along the mountain path.

Continuing along the mountain path, they saw a patch of tropical woodland.

A flock of small bird Pokémon were chirping together while eating fruit.

From a distance, when they saw Julian and Hakamo-o, they immediately gave warning cries.

Two large birds with especially big beaks and vivid colours flew out.

"Toucannon, a distinctive bird Pokémon from Alola. The most interesting part is that large, brightly coloured beak."

"And Toucannon are always seen in pairs, with very harmonious relationships. Because of that, they’re considered symbols of good fortune and appear at weddings."

Cynthia blinked.

Weddings?

Had Julian already started thinking about preparing a pair of Toucannon for their wedding?

Julian continued, "Cynthia, Toucannon has a signature move called Beak Blast. It’s extremely powerful!"

"It heats up its beak and fires the seeds inside."

Unfortunately, it was not very effective against the Bulletproof Ability.

And unfortunately for them, Julian’s Hakamo-o happened to have Bulletproof.

He also especially liked strengthening the defence of his dragon scales.

Even when it came to the burn effect, Julian was not sure whether Beak Blast could inflict it on him.

Because his dragon scales did not only defend physically. Hakamo-o had also developed his own ideas about his special defence and had started to train it.

As a result, the other day, he had nearly been frozen stiff by Goodra’s Ice Beam.

The two Toucannon were clearly male and female.

The male one attacked Hakamo-o first.

He opened his beak and fired a series of seeds. The dense Bullet Seed struck Hakamo-o’s dragon scales.

It triggered Bulletproof, and none of them went through.

The female Toucannon opened her beak and released a wave of Supersonic.

Having lived alongside Hakamo-o for so long, they had naturally learned quite a few ways to deal with Hakamo-o.

The male Toucannon seized the chance to heat his beak.

But it was not Beak Blast!

It was Drill Peck!

Since he already knew Beak Blast would not work, Toucannon naturally would not foolishly use it.

It was not as if he had never used Bullet Seed against a Bulletproof Hakamo-o before.

But this was the first time Toucannon had encountered Bulletproof being this effective.

Today, he had truly seen one that could not be damaged at all.

Bullet Seed was the move Toucannon used first to test an enemy.

But that did not mean his Bullet Seed was weak.

On the contrary, Bullet Seed was Toucannon’s most practised move.

Next was Drill Peck.

Beak Blast had great power, but it was slower to use.

Toucannon preferred using the heating ability built into his body.

A heated Drill Peck was even easier for him to use than Beak Blast.

In response, Hakamo-o, that reckless brute, directly used Iron Head.

He charged straight in from the front!

Even with the force of his dive, Toucannon still failed to overpower Hakamo-o.

Toucannon flapped his wings, his body wobbling as he fell to the ground.

That collision had sent a violent shock through him.

His head was buzzing.

Toucannon could not control his body at all and looked even more ridiculous than a chicken stumbling around on the ground.

The female Toucannon grew furious, and her beak instantly turned red.

Julian immediately spoke.

"Dragon Pulse!"

Hakamo-o spat out a blue dragon-shaped wave of light, and Toucannon also fired a golden-red beam of Beak Blast in time.

But the dragon-shaped light wave directly scattered Beak Blast.

The scorching seeds inside were reflected back and knocked Toucannon down.

She happened to fall onto her husband, and the two fainted together.

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