Sabrina immediately tried to unleash her psychic powers to investigate.
But the moment she attempted it, her expression changed.
Her abilities were being heavily suppressed and disrupted. She couldn't use them at all.
Even concentrating her mental energy became difficult, and her whole body felt weak, as if her strength was being drained away.
Anger flashed through her eyes, along with a hint of worry.
She turned toward Yunqing, wanting to communicate telepathically—
But even that was impossible.
In the end, she could only speak aloud, her voice clear but slightly hoarse.
"My… psychic power… is being suppressed by interference."
"How about you?"
"Are you alright?"
Yunqing frowned as he saw Sabrina's condition. He quickly supported her and asked with concern.
Then he replied calmly, "My psychic power is also being suppressed."
"But maybe because my psychic level is still low—or because my mental energy still carries traits from my original world—the interference doesn't affect me as much."
"It's just that I can't use psychic abilities for now."
"Wait. Let me use chakra sensing and see what's going on."
Sabrina nodded.
Yunqing immediately formed hand seals and activated a Chakra Sensing Technique.
In an instant, a strange chakra fluctuation spread out from his body in all directions, covering several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.
All life signals within that range were reflected back into his senses.
The first thing he discovered was that every staff member still inside the gym had already collapsed unconscious.
Clearly, they had been affected by the psychic disruption.
After all, they were all psychic-type trainers.
Then Yunqing extended his senses further outward—
And his expression turned cold.
"So someone really did something underhanded."
"And these four abnormal energy cores… they must be the sources interfering with psychic powers."
He could clearly sense several human presences in four directions around the gym, each accompanied by a strange energy core.
Farther away, he also sensed dozens of people lurking in the shadows, surrounding the gym like a net.
Then—
His eyes narrowed.
He sensed more than a dozen people approaching rapidly from the northern sky, riding powerful Flying-type Pokémon.
The Poké Balls on their belts contained extremely strong life energy fluctuations.
They were clearly elite trainers.
Yunqing quickly and concisely explained everything he had sensed to Sabrina.
Sabrina's brows furrowed tightly, her eyes burning with anger.
"Only Team Rocket could do something like this."
"It seems they're using force after I rejected their offer."
Over the past six months, Giovanni had repeatedly invited her to join Team Rocket.
Sabrina had refused every single time.
Two months had passed without any news.
She thought Giovanni had finally given up.
But now…
She realized she had been careless.
"I see."
Yunqing nodded, his expression serious.
"Since the rules changed, Team Rocket doesn't want to be eliminated."
"They want to capture you—a top-tier psychic—as their new source of power."
It was even possible that Giovanni wanted to study Sabrina to find a way to artificially create psychic abilities.
Or perhaps…
To create psychic clones.
Never underestimate Giovanni's madness or his genetic technology.
He was capable of anything to achieve his ambitions.
"It must be that."
Sabrina nodded, then looked at Yunqing and spoke without hesitation.
"What should we do?"
"Why don't you escape first? Their target is me. You should have a chance."
She didn't want anything to happen to Yunqing.
After all, she was the one who had caused this trouble.
Yunqing had only been dragged into it.
As she spoke, she pulled away slightly from Yunqing's support and forced herself to stand, even though her legs were still weak.
"What did you say?"
Yunqing frowned and lightly tapped her forehead, pretending to be annoyed.
"What kind of person do you think I am?"
"Do you really think I'm the kind of man who would abandon someone he likes and run away?"
"Don't say that again, or I'll really get angry."
"Someone… someone you like?"
"Me?"
Sabrina froze.
In an instant, she forgot everything else—even the current danger.
Her eyes locked onto Yunqing's face, and a blush rose all the way to her ears.
She was clearly shocked by Yunqing's sudden confession.
But she wasn't repulsed.
Not at all.
Instead, her heart was overflowing with joy and sweetness.
A feeling she had never experienced before.
"Otherwise what?"
Yunqing looked at her with an amused expression.
Then he added calmly, "But I'm not exactly a good person."
"I already have a fiancée in the Ninja World."
"If you can't accept that, then pretend you never heard what I just said."
"We can still be friends."
He might have a playboy's heart, but he didn't want to be a scumbag.
It was better to be honest from the start.
Whether Sabrina accepted it or not, Yunqing could understand.
However, Sabrina nodded without hesitation.
"I understand."
"I don't mind."
"It's common for powerful people to have multiple partners in our world."
Then she continued, her voice softer.
"Besides… I like you too."
"From the moment I first saw you."
Her expression and her gaze made it clear—she truly didn't mind at all.
That surprised Yunqing.
Then came a pleasant sense of shock.
So the Pokémon World was… this open-minded?
That was really…
Wonderful.
Boom!!
At that moment, a deafening explosion came from the gym's entrance, instantly shattering their tender atmosphere.
The ground shook violently, and the entire gym trembled.
Yunqing's senses immediately confirmed it.
The group that had arrived on Flying-type Pokémon—led by two of the strongest trainers—had launched an attack and blasted open the gym gate.
They were charging straight toward them.
"Forget this for now."
Yunqing's expression turned cold.
"I'll deal with them first."
He stepped forward, preparing to head toward the front of the gym.
"Are you confident?"
Sabrina grabbed Yunqing's hand, her eyes filled with worry.
"Maybe we should retreat first."
"If we leave the interference zone, I can easily handle them."
"Don't worry."
Yunqing turned around, smiled, and patted her hand gently.
"I never do anything I'm not confident about."
"Leave everything to me."
With that, Yunqing vanished from the meditation room in a flash, rushing toward the gym's front courtyard.
…
Meanwhile, the explosion caused by Apollo and his men blasting open the gym gate alarmed countless people nearby.
In an instant, residents rushed out of their homes, staring toward the gym.
Some even released Flying-type Pokémon and flew into the air to observe.
"Those are… Team Rocket?! They're attacking the Saffron Gym? Are they insane?"
"Why hasn't Gym Leader Sabrina appeared yet?"
"Did something happen to her?"
"No way! That's Sabrina!"
"She's the invincible Psychic Queen! Who could possibly hurt her?"
"Hurry, notify Officer Jenny!"
"Team Rocket still dares to be this arrogant? Don't they know they're about to be wiped out?"
"Maybe this is their final act of madness…"