Time flew by. Five days had passed since Hisoka arrived at this beach for special training. With only two days left, his week-long vacation was coming to an end.
The weather today remained clear, with the sea breeze whistling and the tides rolling in and out. Looking out from the shore, two dark figures could be seen bobbing on the waves just off the beach. They surged to the crests of the waves and then raced back down, a sight that stirred the heart of anyone watching.
After five days of high-intensity training, Sneasel had completely mastered the essentials of surfing. She was now every bit as skilled as Hisoka, a veteran surfer. Sneasel possessed dynamic vision far beyond that of a human and a more agile body; learning to surf came with a natural talent bonus for her.
He had added two more gravity beads to each of her mechanical rings. By now, the total weight Sneasel was carrying had reached a staggering amount. Relative to Sneasel's own weightkeep in mind she only weighed about 30 kilogramsthis burden was four times her body weight. Moreover, she had to complete various high-difficulty training exercises under this load. It was truly no easy feat.
Click... Hisoka unlocked the mechanical rings on Sneasel's arms and legs.
He knelt down and looked at Sneasel, who seemed to let out a sigh of relaxation. Smiling, he said, "Move around a bit. See how it feels."
"Snea Snea"
Sneasel rotated her wrists and hopped in place. A look of joy spread across her face as she chirped continuously at Hisoka.
"Sneasel says she feels much lighter, and her arms seem to have grown even more powerful," Lulu translated as she floated in mid-air.
"Snea~"
Sneasel's expression grew more excited. She bent her knees deeply and then leaped with all her might... Boom! Two shallow craters were blasted into the sand as Sneasel shot toward the sky like a rocket.
Hisoka shielded his eyes with his hand and looked up. He watched as Sneasel reached a height of about fifteen meters before beginning to fall. While plummeting at high speed, she quickly adjusted her posture, using a backflip and a side twist to mitigate the pull of gravity. Finally, the moment she hit the sand, she performed a perfect side roll to bleed off all the momentum.
Fifteen meters was the height of a five-story building. Falling vertically from such a height without any mitigation would result in serious injury for any Pokémon unless they had incredible defensive capabilities.
...
"Focus. Carefully channel that restless power within your body. One more time! Use Night Slash!" Hisoka shouted encouragement from behind Sneasel.
Facing a rock that had been weathered by wind and sun, Sneasel exhaled softly. She opened her eyes, which had been tightly shut. Blood-red streaks filled her whites, and her vertical pupils radiated an indescribable malicea sign of highly concentrated Dark-type energy.
"Sneasel!"
With a hiss that erupted from deep in her throat, Sneasel performed a backflip to retreat rapidly. Once she was about six meters from the rock, her leg muscles exploded with power. She charged forward like a bolt of black lightning, her left claw raised high. The dark, malicious energy that had started as a mist instantly solidified into something as hard and dark as obsidian.
A black crescent moon appeared from Sneasel's claws. As her body charged forward at high speed, the black crescent sliced through the man-sized rock. It was silent, moving like the sharpest blade through tofu.
Thud!
The upper half of the rock, severed by the black moon, slid slowly down and fell onto the beach. The remaining half was left with a surface as smooth and flat as a mirror.
"Is this the power of Night Slash?" Stroking the smooth cut, Hisoka found it hard to believe. He had known Night Slash would be strong, but he hadn't expected such cutting precision.
Unlike moves like Fire Blast or Hyper Beam, which relied on destructive explosions, this move possessed the spirit to cut through anything. This was the aggression and cutting force of the Dark type.
"Nice!" Hisoka couldn't help but give a thumbs-up to the slightly panting Sneasel.
"Sneas~"
Happily mimicking her master's tone, Sneasel held up a digit toward Hisoka. However, since she only had two claws, it looked a bit like she was giving him the middle finger.
...
A strange Pidgeotto wearing a small mailman's hat and carrying a satchel flew away from the vacation villa!
"Sigh, I'm out of money again!"
Hisoka let out a long sigh as he unwrapped the package on the table. That Pidgeotto had been a courier; using the advantages of Flying-type Pokémon to deliver newspapers and small parcels was the norm for the logistics industry in this world.
Three days ago, Hisoka had unexpectedly won an item on an auction site that was vital for Sneasel.
He opened the parcel to find a sharp claw lying quietly in a small box filled with cotton.
A Razor Claw! That was the name of this item. It was an offensive tool that, when held by a Pokémon, made it easier to land critical hits on an opponent's vital spots. These naturally formed special items often carried a sort of metaphysical power. Much like the type-effectiveness between Pokémon, the hidden effects of certain items seemed to be one of the rules of this world.
But what many people didn't know was that the Razor Claw did more than just that. It was actually the key item required for Sneasel's evolutiona secret currently known only to a small research institute in the Sinnoh Region.
Researchers in the Kanto and Johto regions still believed that Sneasel was a Pokémon that didn't have an evolution.
If Sneasel held a Razor Claw at midnight, when Dark-type energy was at its peak, she could evolve into Weavile...
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