I'm the Owner of the Pokémon Day Care In the World of Pokémon-Chapter 1404: The Return of Marshadow

The arrival of Glacia didn't elicit much reaction from the girl who had already been referred to as "Fiona." Her icy gaze swept toward Glacia as if she was no more significant than an ant.

"Espeon, Psychic!"

Fiona and her Espeon swiftly descended from the air and launched an attack on Glacia. At the same time, Fiona's mental power was linked with Espeon's, greatly enhancing Espeon's Psychic move.

Although Glacia found the girl before her rather strange, she didn't find the situation particularly troublesome. Throughout her career as a Trainer, she had faced psychic users on many occasions and was not unfamiliar with them.

Although this girl seemed significantly more powerful than a typical psychic user, she was still not enough to make Glacia hesitate.

Under Glacia's calm command, Glalie flew forward and blocked Espeon's enhanced Psychic with an Ice Beam.

Glacia's strength finally caused a ripple in Fiona's emotionless eyes. The purple light in her pupils began to flash again, and a Gallade suddenly teleported to her side.

Unlike Espeon, this Gallade wasn't kept in a Poké Ball. It had been hiding somewhere in the mansion all along, waiting at any moment for Fiona's call.

The moment Gallade appeared, it swiftly swung both arms, unleashing two transparent Psychic Blades aimed at Glacia and Glalie.

But Glacia was also quick to react. The moment Gallade appeared, she threw out a Poké Ball, summoning a Weavile to her side.

Weavile was lightning-fast in both movement and reaction. Its silhouette flickered as it smashed both Psychic Blades with a well-aimed Feint Attack.

Almost immediately after Weavile intercepted the two Psychic Blades, Gallade disappeared from its original position and reappeared behind Glacia.

Gallade raised its blades, ready to slash the back of Glacia's neck, but Weavile puffed out its cheeks and blew hard, freezing Gallade's arm instantly with a burst of icy air.

Taking advantage of the moment Gallade was frozen stiff, Weavile used Taunt, sealing off Gallade's Teleport, then landed an Ice Punch that sent it flying.

Gallade crashed to the ground and hadn't even had time to get up before Weavile used Icy Wind again. Gallade tried to dodge with Teleport, only to discover it could no longer use the move.

Having grown used to Teleport, losing access to it so suddenly left Gallade somewhat lost.

The reason this Gallade could use Teleport so freely wasn't due to any innate gift like Yuga's Gardevoir, nor because of godlike mental power like Cosmoem's. It was entirely thanks to Fiona's psychic link.

Fiona's immense psychic was inborn. Because it was too vast, as a form of self-protection, her psyche split into two personalities—one being the innocent and pure Adrielle, the other the cold and emotionless Fiona.

Most of the time, Fiona remained dormant, with the vast mental power contained within that persona. All emotional capacity was shifted to Adrielle, making her incredibly expressive and emotionally rich.

Conversely, Fiona became like a robot devoid of emotion.

The fact that Fiona had dual personalities and was a psychic was kept tightly under wraps by Genos. Very few people knew, only a few close caretakers had some understanding. That's also why this information was missing from the League's investigation files.

The Adrielle persona had no knowledge of Fiona's existence and didn't know that her family ran the dark organization, Team Radiance. But Fiona knew everything and was even a participant.

The piercing cold spread from Gallade's feet upward, freezing its lower half to the ground.

Weavile closed in and landed several successive Feint Attacks, causing Gallade to cry out in pain.

Since Gallade's mind was linked with Fiona, its injury directly affected her, and by extension, Espeon also suffered, quickly falling into disadvantage against Glalie.

Gallade used Leaf Blade to strike at the ice freezing it in place, and just as Weavile prepared another Feint Attack, Gallade barely managed to break free.

Weavile tried to chase again, but Gallade hurriedly used Fury Cutter, slashing out several cold gleams that forced Weavile to retreat.

Though Gallade managed to escape, it was badly injured, having taken multiple Feint Attacks from Weavile.

Feint Attack is named that way for a reason—it's designed to strike the target's weak spots. With so many direct hits, it was only natural that Gallade would be severely wounded.

It was also Gallade's misfortune—despite receiving a boost from Fiona's psychic power, it had encountered a Dark-type Pokémon like Weavile, leaving it with strength but nowhere to use it.

In contrast, although Espeon had also taken a hit in its battle with Glalie, the situation was much better than Gallade's.

Fiona's clansmen, seeing her falling into a disadvantage in the battle with Glacia, couldn't help but shout, "Miss Fiona, you should go first! Don't worry about us!"

As long as the green hills remain, there will be no shortage of firewood—they were just small fry. What did it matter if they got captured? As long as the young master and young lady were safe, they would have the chance to rise again.

Miss Fiona was still so young and so talented. In a few years, she would surely be no less than the Elite Four or the Champion of the League.

Unfortunately, Fiona turned a deaf ear to her clansmen's words, only focusing on commanding Espeon and clashing head-on with Glalie.

At this moment, the other League trainers had arrived as well. They carried the two injured League trainers and their Pokémon away for treatment and simultaneously captured Fiona's clansmen.

That clansman was still shouting at Fiona to leave quickly as he was taken away, but Fiona didn't even glance at him, solely focused on battling Bonnie.

Fiona was indeed a powerful psychic, but she had long lived in the shadows. How could her combat experience compare to that of Glacia?

Glacia was not native to Hoenn. In order to train her Pokémon, she had traveled many places and fought many powerful trainers and Pokémon. Only after that did she settle in Hoenn and become one of its Elite Four. Her strength was self-evident.

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Under Glacia's command, Glalie radiated cold air all over, and the sky instantly began to snow heavily. The hail pelted down on Espeon and Gallade, sending stinging pain across their skin.

The hailstorm made things unbearable for Espeon and Gallade, but Weavile and Glalie, both Ice-type Pokémon, felt right at home.

Especially Glalie—its ability was Ice Body, which allowed it to slowly recover the damage it had taken from Espeon during the hailstorm.

Seeing Gallade retreat back to Fiona's side, Glacia gave new instructions to Weavile and Glalie: "Double Blizzard!"

Whoosh—

Both Pokémon gathered their strength, and under their control, a blizzard mixed with ice blades swept toward Gallade and Espeon.

In hail weather, there was no dodging the Blizzard move—Espeon and Gallade could only take it head-on.

Espeon raised a psychic barrier using Psychic, and with Fiona's own psychic energy strengthening it, it barely managed to keep the frigid winds and blizzard at bay, also shielding Fiona in the process.

But Gallade wasn't so lucky. Already seriously wounded, it waved its arms and used Leaf Blade to try to shatter the incoming ice blades.

However, there were simply too many ice blades riding the frigid wind. Gallade missed one and was hit directly, collapsing into the snow and instantly buried in wind and snow, becoming an ice sculpture in no time.

When the wind and snow finally stopped, Fiona looked at the fallen Gallade, then at the exhausted Espeon. Her reason finally returned.

There was no way she could defeat this opponent.

Fiona touched the pendant hanging around her neck. Inside was a shrunken Poké Ball her brother had given her, containing a clone Pokémon he had bought at a high price from Team Rocket.

Her brother had told her that if she were ever in danger, she should use that Pokémon. After fighting, the clone Pokémon would quickly expend its life and die—it was an excellent decoy.

In the end, Fiona gave up on the idea of using the clone Pokémon.

It wasn't that she pitied its life—Fiona didn't really possess such feelings of compassion. She simply felt that if she couldn't win, then she couldn't win. Using the clone would make no difference.

As someone born with great psychic power, Fiona also had her pride.

She gave Glacia a deep look. In the next second, Espeon used Iron Tail to smash the ice that had frozen Gallade.

Before Glacia could react, Fiona had already used Teleport to vanish with both her Pokémon.

Weavile's Taunt had sealed Gallade's Teleport—but had forgotten about Fiona, the human.

Meanwhile, on Yuga's side, the League trainers' suppression of the village was also nearing its end.

Genos and Milolovide were no match for Yuga, even when working together. Yuga had only used Gengar and Mismagius to easily defeat the two of them, sending them fleeing in disarray.

At this moment, the area around Genos and Milolovide was littered with their Pokémon—no less than a dozen in total.

Genos was using his family's exclusive Pokémon, Crobat, while Milolovide used a combination of Pokémon he had trained himself along with cloned Pokémon.

However, cloned Pokémon were too costly to produce, and Milolovide had lost so many samples at Yuga's hands previously that now he didn't have many usable cloned Pokémon left, and their strength was slightly inferior to the ones before.

Now the two of them couldn't even pull out a single usable Pokémon.

Yuga looked at the two of them and said, "So, how about it? Didn't I tell you earlier to surrender? Why waste all that effort for nothing?"

Milolovide looked at Yuga's infuriating expression and gnashed his teeth in hatred. If not for this man, how could he have fallen to this point!

Finally unable to restrain himself, Milolovide threw a punch at Yuga.

There was nothing else he could do—with no Pokémon in hand, he had to attack personally.

Unfortunately, that punch was easily intercepted by Gengar.

Gengar swung forcefully and threw Milolovide to the ground.

Just then, a League Trainer walked over. Yuga said to him, "Take this guy away and cuff him. Don't let him escape!"

"Yes, sir!"

The League Trainer quickly took out a pair of handcuffs and secured Milolovide's hands.

And just like that, a key member of Team Rocket was on his way to imprisonment.

"All right, now it's your turn," Yuga said as he turned to Genos.

At this point, Genos didn't look the least bit afraid. Instead, he asked Yuga, "Do you think you've won?"

Yuga didn't understand what he meant, but in the next second, he saw Genos take out a Master Ball.

The Master Ball opened, and a Marshadow appeared in front of Yuga.

"Marshadow..." Yuga muttered in surprise as he looked at it, immediately recognizing it as the one that had shown up in the Guli Mountain Range.

However, the moment Marshadow appeared, its gaze locked onto Gengar and Mismagius, because it sensed the unique aura of the Soul Crystal from them.

The Soul Crystal originated from the first Marshadow—how could another Marshadow not sense it?

Thinking back to the painstaking efforts it had made—how it failed to obtain the Soul Crystal, was seriously injured because of it, and even came under someone else's control—Marshadow was overwhelmed with uncontrollable rage.

And the one responsible for all of this...

"Marshadow~"

Marshadow suddenly turned its gaze toward Yuga, startling him.

In the next moment, Marshadow vanished from where it stood and launched a Shadow Ball, punching directly at Yuga—the true culprit.

Gengar and Mismagius floated in front of Yuga to block the attack, but they were each knocked away by Marshadow in a single punch.

The injuries Marshadow had sustained in the Guli Mountains had long been healed by Max Revive purchased from the Joy family through Genos's connections.

Seeing how the two powerful Pokémon that had so easily defeated both him and Milolovide were now taken down just as easily, a thrilled grin spread across Genos's face.

"Well? Didn't see that coming, did you?"

Yuga calmly retrieved the now-incapacitated Gengar and Mismagius into their Poké Balls and replied, "I really didn't expect that."

Genos was about to say more when a third Pokémon appeared beside Yuga.

Marshadow was ready to continue its assault on Yuga, but this new Pokémon blocked its attack.

Clang—

A soft metallic ringing sounded as Aegislash used King's Shield to intercept Marshadow's Shadow Punch.

"No way!!!"

Seeing the unscathed Aegislash, Genos cried out in shock.

Yuga silently scoffed, So dramatic, then commanded Aegislash, "Use Sacred Sword!"

With a sharp metallic shing, Aegislash drew its blade, and the cold glint of the sword slashed straight toward Marshadow.

Marshadow could sense Aegislash's power. It felt a chilling cold travel from its head to its toes and instinctively dodged the strike.

Boom!!!

The spot where Marshadow had just been standing was now carved with a narrow sword scar from Aegislash's Sacred Sword.

Under Aegislash's menacing pressure, Marshadow's rage instantly dissipated, and panic rose in Genos's heart.

Marshadow didn't look like it had the upper hand at all!

Clang—

Aegislash slashed again, and Marshadow caught the blade with both hands—but even then, the sword light still left a wound on its body.

At last, Genos realized that even though Marshadow was a Legendary Pokémon, it might not be able to do anything against Yuga.

This freak! Genos cursed inwardly.