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Chesnaught Protects

ブリガロン、守る

Brigarron, Protect

Info

Shogakukan mini-volume	Ch. 33 in Vol. 5
VIZ Media mini-volume	Adventure 33 in Vol. 10
Shogakukan full volume	Ch. 588 in Vol. 61
VIZ Media full volume	Adventure 40 in Vol. 6
Series	Pokémon Adventures

Other

Location

Route 18/Lumiose City

Chesnaught Protects (Japanese: ブリガロン、守る Brigarron, Protect) is the 588th chapter of the Pokémon Adventures manga.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Major events

• X continues to interrogate Xerosic, who refuses to give a straight answer.
• Xerosic reveals how he met Lysandre.
• Croaky is defeated by Malamar, leaving X with only Salamè, who still refuses to leave his Poké Ball.
• Xerosic attempts to attack Salamè's Poké Ball, but is stopped by Marisso, who evolves into a Chesnaught to protect Salamè.
• Seeing his friend protect him gives Salamè the courage to come out and fight.
• X reveals the reason Salamè refused to come out was because he was scared that he couldn't handle Mega Evolution.
• Despite Xerosic's confidence that Charizard doesn't have a Mega Evolution, Salamè blows on his tail to reveal a Charizardite X.

For a list of all major events in the Pokémon Adventures manga, please see the history page.

	Spoilers end here.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

• Chesnaught

Characters

Humans

• X
• Y
• Trevor
• Tierno
• Shauna
• Lysandre (flashback)
• Xerosic
• Mable
• Aliana
• Celosia
• Bryony
• Emma (flashback)
• Lumiose Gang (flashback)

Pokémon

• Charizard (Blue's; flashback)
• Kangaskhan (Kanga; X's)
• Kangaskhan (Li'l Kanga; X's)
• Chespin (Marisso; X's; flashback)
• Quilladin (Marisso; X's; evolves)
• Chesnaught (Marisso; X's; newly evolved)
• Charmander (Salamè; X's; flashback)
• Charmeleon (Salamè; X's)
• Charizard (Salamè; X's; fantasy)
• Manectric (Élec; X's)
• Gengar (Garma; X's; flashback)
• Greninja (Croaky; Y's)
• Inkay (Xerosic's; flashback; evolves)
• Malamar (Xerosic's)
• Noctowl (multiple)
• Jigglypuff
• Foongus (multiple)
• Snorlax
• Zoroark
• Poliwag (multiple)
• Banette
• Fletchling
• Garbodor
• Ditto
• Espurr
• Lombre
• Poliwhirl
• Gothorita
• Snubbull (flashback)

Trivia

• In the VIZ Media mini-volumes of the X & Y arc, this chapter was collected in Volume 10.

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