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Wanna Duel? I've Got the Pharaoh's Deck! [11]

“Come on in, come on in! Sorry if the place is a bit messy.”

“Sorry for the intrusion.”

The key turned smoothly in the lock, and the door at the entryway swung open.

Outsi...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [10]

Miss Mimosa wasn’t a Nurse Joy.

She was a certified Pokémon doctor from a small town in the Paldea region. Through an international exchange program between major league regions, she’d c...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [9]

Complaining about how “underwhelming” his golden finger was?

Yeah, that was just Kaiba joking to himself for fun.

Truthfully, having a golden finger and transmigrating in t...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [8]

To be honest, raising a Pokémon—
Especially raising one well
Wasn’t an easy task.

Of course, if you just let it roam free, raised it passively with no real care or atte...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [7]

“Gible, use [Dragon Dance]!”

“Gible, use [Dragon Claw]!”

“Gible, use [Sand Tomb]!”

“Kapu!” “Kapu!” “Kapu!...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [6]

Inside the private training room at the university gym—

“Gible! Use Doragon Dansu[Dragon Dance]!”

Kaiba shouted the command at full volume, his voice ...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [5]

It was as if some cruel curse had been cast.

Ordinary Gible, Gabite, and Garchomp couldn’t learn [Dragon Dance]—no matter what.

Level-up?
Egg moves?
TMs?
M...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [4]

Kaiba had made up his mind: it was time to shift gears and start living like a proper Pokémon Trainer.

“Uh… I’ll place an emergency grocery order, but for now, this will have to do. He...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [3]

This Gible...

Could it actually be the baby form of that heavily modded Garchomp he edited right before crossing over?

Kaiba’s thoughts turned pensive.

Not only had the Pokémon...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [2]

Gible looked like a baby shark—but one adapted for land. A terrestrial shark, if you will.

Pokémon are... strange like that.

Not only was there a land-based shark like Garch...

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Pokémon: Starting with a Dragon Dance Gible [1] & Synopsis

Kaiba, 24 years old, was a student.

His job? Selling custom 6 IV Pokémon on Taobao.

He was that guy—the one known in certain underground circles as the “wizard friend” w...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [45]

Kitahara Takeru: “……”

Komi Shouko: “……”

Their gazes locked. Both held their poses—frozen in place—neither speaking, as if the first to break the silence would lo...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [44]

Whether it was a weekend or a weekday, Tokyo trains were always packed to the brim.

Figuring out how to close the train doors without slicing someone in half was a daily nightmare fo...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [43]

The Akihabara branch of Animate had a total of seven floors.

Seven entire stories, all dedicated to anime. Every IP imaginable—mainstream or obscure, new or old—was covered.

At the ...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [42]

It wasn’t until he walked up to the register that Kitahara Takeru noticed Katsura Kotonoha and her family of four.

He didn’t go over to say anything.

After paying, he simply followe...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [41]

“Uh… what else was I supposed to do?”

Kitahara Takeru looked confused.

He couldn’t see what he’d done wrong.

What, was he just supposed to use them as-is?

“You t...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [40]

The whole slab of A5 wagyu hit the grill, and as the fat sizzled and dripped onto the charcoal, the resulting sssss sounded almost like the devil whispering temptations.

Kitahara Tak...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [39]

The Tokyo sun dipped lower in the sky. Crows perched on the power lines, gazing down at the busy city below.

“Welcome.”

At six in the evening, Kitahara Takeru and Eriri arrived at t...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [38]

“Don’t touch me!”

Inside the train, a fair-skinned, blue-eyed blonde girl smacked away the hand reaching for her—belonging to the bespectacled boy beside her.

“If you didn’t...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [37]

Kitahara Takeru had known Eriri for a while now.

He’d learned that with Eriri, you had to interpret everything in reverse.

When she said no, she meant yes.

When she denied somet...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [36]

Shirogane Kei tilted her head slightly. “Investment?”

I’m not running a business... what’s there to invest in?

“You’re broke right now, right? Really need money?”...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [35]

Shirogane Kei lightly swayed her silver hair. “No need, my house is just ahead.”

“Look carefully,” Kitahara Takeru said, pointing forward.

Following his gaze, Kei looked up — ...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [34]

Inside the Volkswagen Golf, Kitahara Takeru and the old fisherman were huddled over a toy fishing rod, studying it with solemn intensity.

Their laser focus was so absurd that it made...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [33]

2:00 PM.

By the time Kitahara Takeru arrived at his usual fishing spot with Tiny, his border collie, a small elderly man was already seated and casting.

“Any...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [32]

After lunch, Kitahara Takeru played a round of chess with Kokoro.

Granted, it was only today that he finally figured out the rules of Western chess — but since Kokoro wasn’t exactly a pro...

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Weren’t You Only Using Me As A Stand-in? [31]

Kotonoha's house was unlike any ordinary residence. For starters, there were two parking spots out front.

A secure delivery locker and a doorbell were installed at the entrance, link...

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Urban Pokémon: All My Students Are Exceptionally Gifted [30]

Once Lin Ke had left, Ying Tou thought for a moment.

Then he picked up his phone and dialed a number.

Beep... beep... beep...

Soon, a raspy male voice answered on the oth...

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Urban Pokémon: All My Students Are Exceptionally Gifted [29]

For someone in power, a mere villa wouldn’t do — space was a given.

Even in Magic City, where every square inch of land came at a premium, this villa boasted a fully equipped, generously ...

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Urban Pokémon: All My Students Are Exceptionally Gifted [28]

“It doesn’t matter if Nidoran♂ was only just captured yesterday — that’s no excuse for spacing out.”

“You need to understand, a single moment of distraction in a Pokémon battle...

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Urban Pokémon: All My Students Are Exceptionally Gifted [27]

In the clearing outside the thatched cottage, Guo Yi and Su Qingxue stood facing each other.

“Teacher, my Nidoran♀ has already mastered [Hone Claws]. You’re going down ...

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