This made Roy feel incredibly angry.
As Pokémon Trainers, they respected Pokémon greatly in their daily lives. Although battles might result in opponents being seriously injured or near defeat, they would never hurt them to the point of death.
The scene unfolding before him made his nerves throb without exception. As a Pokémon Trainer, Roy felt his bottom line had been crossed—someone had hurt a Pokémon this severely right in front of him.
As for this Guzzlord, although it was somewhat troublesome, that kind of alien hostility only made Roy prefer the Pokémon not appear near him. He had never imagined that this rather unpleasant Pokémon would actually be killed right before his eyes.
They were clearly just Pokémon—why could they speak human language? Roy knew that if Pokémon truly wanted to learn human speech, they would need to expend tremendous power. This massive expenditure would cause their intelligence to rise while their corresponding combat power became very weak.
However, if they were Pokémon at the level of Legendary or Mythical beings, then they naturally possessed such means of communication with humans. But Weavile was a very common, ordinary Pokémon—even lower-tier than Lucario. Why could they speak human words?
None of the conditions for speaking human language were met.
But the two figures who appeared behind Guzzlord seemed to take a few steps back after obtaining what they wanted. They displayed very human-like expressions on their faces, though current Pokémon had also evolved to this level of expressiveness.
Right in front of Roy, they communicated with each other.
"Haha, this time our true identities seem to have been seen by some irrelevant human boy. After all, the boss made us understand that anyone who knows our faces must die. At least we cannot expose the organization too much right now. Otherwise, if this person doesn't die, we'll be the ones who perish."
"That's right. After all, this person and that Pokémon don't look very experienced. When they saw Pokémon like us speaking human words, they were probably frightened into staying where they are. They didn't expect ordinary Pokémon like us to also speak human language. So are we Pokémon or humans? Or are we neither—some new existence entirely?"
"Hahahaha, don't say so much. Get rid of this kid as soon as possible. At least we don't want any living being to know our information."
These two Weavile seemed to have never regarded themselves as anything special, and they also appeared to have never properly assessed what kind of fighting ability this trainer before them possessed. Could it be they hadn't noticed?
Hadn't they seen Lucario, without its master's command, burst forth with fighting ability capable of shattering Guzzlord's powerful defense? If they had noticed this detail, they might not have spoken such careless words.
They might only see the weakened Guzzlord, but not how this powerful Pokémon had become this way. If it weren't for the intense battle draining its defensive and fighting abilities, did they really think such supposedly low-level and weak Pokémon could accomplish anything?
Moreover, it was very strange. If they were just ordinary Pokémon, how could they possess human speech? Besides, these two Pokémon seemed to have somewhat unusual body sizes.
Looking at Weavile from normal regions, their general body shape was about half the size of an adult human. But the ones appearing here seemed to have bodies about twice as large as ordinary Pokémon—closer to human size.
Roy never thought this kind of thing would happen so quickly. He had just been talking about dark forces not having touched his people yet, so there was no need to worry for now. And already his words were being thrown back at him.
Almost no normal person would think of harming Pokémon, but such moral rules only bound kind and decent people. Those who were immoral and didn't like being bound by any rules—those bad people—such laws would have no restraining effect on them whatsoever.
The two Weavile slowly approached Roy, as if they thought he was just a human. Even if he had one or two Pokémon to protect himself, against the two of them—existences different from ordinary Pokémon—he would definitely fail and die at their hands.
Suddenly, when these two Weavile had not yet closed in on Roy, several Pokémon emanating a strange light sprang out from the nearby cave and surrounding forest.
The Pokémon closest to Roy was Lucario. As for the other Pokémon, although they had not been directly present here, they were all very close to this location. When Roy encountered such danger and threats, they appeared before their trainer for the first time. They would never allow their master to encounter any danger, especially danger from Pokémon—they would never stand idly by.
If these two Weavile really dared to do something to Roy, their fate would be very easy to predict.
Six or seven Pokémon appeared in unison, which made the two Weavile speaking in human language falter and feel unusually high pressure. They had originally thought that such a young and inexperienced human would have only one or two weak Pokémon as protectors—that would have been remarkable enough. But now they discovered that the number of Pokémon around this human was definitely quite substantial.
"I didn't expect a human child like you to still have talent for Pokémon training. But I have to say, being recognized by Pokémon like this makes us a little jealous."
The Weavile next to it spoke jealous words, while the other Weavile showed a fierce expression.
For everything Roy possessed at this moment, they felt it was very unfair—even making them jealous. So jealous that they felt somewhat angry.