Pokémon: System Start.

"…So I plan to start my journey to become the Eighth Master alone! After all, if I always stay with you, Xiaozhi, then our bet may not be fair due to various reasons, and we won't be able to show our strength."

"That's it!"

After listening to the explanations of the three women in front of him, Xiaozhi nodded with a somewhat gloomy expression. After all, no one likes separation. However, Xiaozhi soon recovered and said to the three women with a smile.

"Then you must work hard! Follow your ideas and dreams! Just keep moving forward. Of course, if you have any difficulties, you can always come to me! I will definitely rush to your side as soon as possible!"

"Yeah!" X3

The three girls nodded when they heard this, and quickly finished their breakfast and washed the dishes. Then they returned to their room, picked up their luggage which they had packed early last night, and went downstairs to prepare to leave.

"Then let's go, Xiaozhi, Pikachu, Ladias, Diancie, and you Mew!" X3

"Well, take care on your journey, Serena, Xiaoguang, and Alice!"

"Pika Pika~"

"Take care! I'll miss you guys!"

“Come back often when you have time!”

"Wonderful~"

After hugging Xiaozhi and saying their final goodbyes to Xiaozhi, Pikachu, Latias, Diancie and Mew, the three girls each stepped into the light gate in front of them and were teleported to the place where they decided to start their journey!

For a moment, the entire huge villa became much quieter, with only Xiaozhi and Pikachu and the other three Pokémon left.

Xiaozhi looked around, then looked at Pikachu and the others, and said with a smile.

"Let's go, Pikachu, Latias, Diancie, Mew, let's go find Taichi! After all, we made a bet with Elise, so we have to give it our all!"

"Pickup!"

"Yeah!" X2

"Wonderful~"

Then Xiaozhi, Pikachu and the others left the villa and went to find Taichi.

Soon Xiaozhi found Taiyi in the chairman's office at the headquarters of Zhitai Group in Vermilion City, and explained his purpose.

"Ah?! You're asking me who is the ninth place in the current World Championship? Where is he now?"

Although Xiaozhi has a World Championship locator that can find the locations of all those participating in the World Championship, some people may be too famous and are often challenged, so they will be set in the locator that only when they reach a certain level and both parties are within a certain range can they be qualified to challenge them.

And the guy who is now ranked 9th in the World Championship obviously did this. Xiaozhi had no way of finding out the information about the opponent and could only look for Taichi.

"That's right! You know what? Taichi!"

Xiaozhi nodded and looked at Taichi with expectation. In his opinion, his partner knew everything, but this time Taichi might disappoint him.

Taiyi just shook his head, but his eyes were still on the computer in front of him. His fingers kept moving on the keyboard, and at the same time, he uttered three words lightly.

"do not know!"

"Ah, why? Don't you know everything about astronomy and geography?"

Xiaozhi was confused at this time. After all, Taichi had always been the know-it-all in Xiaozhi's mind for such a long time, so he was really surprised that Taichi suddenly said this.

"Why?! Xiaozhi, I'm so busy all day long that I don't have time to pay attention to the World Championship. Plus, the World Championship ranking is getting closer and closer. The changes in other levels may not be frequent, but the current 8th and 9th place can be said to be quite frequent. That's it, right? A few days ago it was Kona, and these days I don't know who it is?! It could be Kona, or someone else? So if you're not in a hurry, I'll investigate for you after I'm done with my work!"

Taiyi's hands moved quickly as he spoke. It was obvious that after the opening ceremony of the fighting technique was over, the entire Zhitai Group became busy.

Even when Taiyi came in, he could clearly feel the atmosphere of the entire company. Everyone was much busier than before.

"Oh, then don't bother you, Taiyi! I'll check this matter myself!"

Xiaozhi looked at the busy Taichi and finally decided to do the investigation himself.

After all, Taichi has been helping him for a long time, and now Taichi is too busy to help him investigate, so he can choose to investigate it himself and just think of it as finding something to do. After all, he is a little bored now that Serena and the others have left.

"Go slowly, don't send me away!"

Taichi said this, but he didn't even bother to look at Xiaozhi.

Seeing this, Xiaozhi no longer bothered Taichi. He turned around and took Pikachu and the others with him, left the Zhitai Group, and went to the Sakuragi Research Institute.

Taichi is busy now, so if Satoshi wants to find information about the 9th place in the World Championship, Professor Sakuragi and Professor Oak should be able to find out.

So Xiaozhi went directly to the Sakuragi Research Institute, which was the closest to him, and planned to ask Professor Sakuragi for help.

"...Is that so, Xiaozhi! Then wait a moment, I will help you check it out. After all, it is quite troublesome to investigate the information of a top trainer in the league."

After hearing the purpose of Xiaozhi's visit, Dr. Sakuragi nodded immediately and prepared to help Xiaozhi check it out.

However, it is not easy to investigate the information of a top trainer. After all, a trainer who can get the 9th place in the World Championship is definitely a champion level trainer.

Don’t think that just because Ash has been fighting for so long and met so many top and champion Pokémon, he means there will be a lot of champion trainers.

In fact, in the entire world, there are only a dozen or so people who are qualified to be evaluated as champion-level trainers. Of course, this excludes those trainers who have retired or switched to other careers and are currently only active in the public eye.

In short, each of them can be said to be the pillar of the entire alliance. Their personal information and intelligence, generally speaking, unless it is announced to the public, other private information such as their information or location will be strictly kept by the alliance. Unless you are a high-ranking member of the alliance or have connections, it is difficult to investigate their location.

And even if there is a relationship, if you want to investigate, you must have a formal reason and reporting records. After all, if something happens to that champion-level trainer, you can still use the reporting records to find him.

But this matter is nothing to Dr. Sakuragi. They have a legitimate reason, which is the World Championship challenge. The most they have to do is report it, which takes some time. Apart from that, there is nothing else.