Pokémon: The Climb

Tonight's formal banquet will officially start at 8 pm, but the entrance time is a little earlier, at 7 o'clock.

This hour is for everyone to relax, enjoy the food, listen to music, look at the scenery, and chat.

After Yang Yan arrived, he discovered that the overall decoration here was even more gorgeous than yesterday, and there were more types of food than yesterday.

Of course, there were a lot more people.

"Yang Yan, this way."

As soon as he came in, Yang Yan saw Kumi who was greeting him.

It's 7: now, which is the time he made an appointment with Jiumei.

There is no need to come too early, and it would be rude to come too late, so the same time as yesterday is just right.

"Sister Jiumei," Yang Yan said hello and at the same time looked at the two people beside Jiumei: "Gao Liu, Song Ming, you came very early."

"Of course, how can we be late when we have delicious food!"

After the discussion during the day, the relationship between the two became much more familiar.

"Yang Yan, you came too late, you are not active in eating, and you have problems with your thinking!" Gao Liu said as he ate, and introduced: "This, and this, are all delicious. These are all specially made by me. I brought it over, come here and have a taste."

Yang Yan picked up an empty dinner plate and asked while selecting food: "Gao Liu, you didn't come as soon as the door opened, did you?"

"Of course," Gao Liu said with a proud look, "otherwise how could I have grabbed so many delicious foods."

Yang Yan wanted to say that there was absolutely no way to finish the food here. If a dish was gone, the kitchen would definitely make it again.

But this is not what he thinks is the most wrong. What he thinks is the most wrong is that it has been half an hour, and Gao Liu hasn't eaten yet?

Isn't this too exaggerated?

"By the way, haven't the others come yet?"

The other people Yang Yan asked were of course people from the other two gyms.

"Not yet," Jiumei replied: "Shouzhu said that she doesn't like this kind of occasion very much. If she can't refuse, she really doesn't want to come, so I think she will arrive later. As for the other two..."

Kumi and Yang Yan looked at Song Ming together.

"What are you looking at me for?" Song Ming felt a little uncomfortable and quickly explained: "I wanted to call them together, but when I knocked on the door, neither of them were there. I thought they came first. I don’t know why they’re not here.”

Gao Liu interjected: "I can prove that it is indeed true."

"Then where can they go at this point in time?" Jiumei was really puzzled.

Song Ming spread his hands and said, "How could I know this?"

"Oh, no matter where they go, they will definitely show up in a while. Why are you so confused about this? Come on, eat. Don't waste such delicious food."

Gao Liu once again promoted the delicious food he served.

"You're right, filling your stomach is more important."

After all, this was not an important matter at all. Yang Yan and Kumi were really hungry, so they quickly focused on enjoying the food.

Here, many people are enjoying delicious food. Although I am not sure whether my guess is correct, many of them can be clearly seen as being from the military.

The others should be scholars who are going to Kalos for exchanges.

Yang Yan was eating, chatting with everyone, and paying attention to other people present.

As for those with higher status, none of them have appeared yet.

And just when everyone had almost finished eating and was enjoying dessert, Shouzhu finally arrived.

She attracted a lot of people's attention as soon as she came in.

The reason was simply because Shouzhu was wearing extremely simple clothes.

In other words, it was something similar to what I had during the day when I was sparring with Yang Yan and the others.

I don’t know if the store owner behind her was not prepared, or if she simply didn’t want to wear it.

Even though the time of contact is still short, at first glance, Gao Liu and Shou Mou's personalities are quite similar, but Yang Yan knows that there are fundamental differences between the two.

Gao Liu can be said to be informal. Except for training matters, he can carry out everything else as required, but don't expect him to really care about it.

Shouzhu is different. To put it bluntly, it means that you follow your heart. To put it nicely, it means that you will not follow the old rules and have your own ideas about everything.

"Shuzhu, you..."

Jiumei didn't know what to say or what not to say.

"If you want to talk about the clothes, yes, I did it on purpose, because those clothes are too uncomfortable to wear and I don't like them."

"It's good to say I don't like it, haha, I like it." Gao Liu laughed loudly: "I just said that I shouldn't wear clothes I don't like. In fact, I don't want to wear them either, but Song Ming disagreed no matter what. I'm anxious, tell me, is it necessary?"

Song Ming touched his forehead, feeling really miserable. He really wanted to say, do you think I do? The teacher asked me to take good care of you, otherwise I would be too lazy to take care of you.

"Shou Zhu, come here, there are a lot of delicious food here, which we specially left for you. It's a pity that you didn't come yesterday. Come and try it!"

Takayanagi greeted Kumi again just like he greeted Yang Yan and the others before.

At this time, Yang Yan saw many people around him pointing at them and communicating with his companions.

Obviously confirming their identity with others.

Shouzhu's move made her happy, but in fact it was Yang Yan and all of them who were affected.

Of course, people like them were not noticed originally, but now it is better, it is difficult for others not to notice even if they want to.

"Forget it, there's no point in worrying about this."

Yang Yan noticed this, but he didn't care much.

Song Ming, who was equally sensitive, was different. His whole person instantly became a little nervous.

"By the way, it's almost here now, why haven't I seen Yaki and Rina all this time?"

Jiumei was still curious about the reason why these two people didn't show up.

But soon everyone knew why.

Because Yaki and Rina were slowly walking in from the door with Dr. Asakawa.

"It turns out they went to Dr. Asakawa's place. In just one day, the friendship progressed too fast, didn't it?"

Jiumei looked at Yang Yan and whispered: "You must have guessed that the Qingyuan Hall Master and Dr. Asakawa really have a relationship, right?"

"So what if the guess is correct? I think even if Qingyuan Gym Leader has a relationship with Dr. Asakawa, he wouldn't be able to take the two gym apprentices so seriously, so..."

Although Yang Yan said it clearly, Jiu Mei would certainly not fail to hear it.

This is definitely not the only reason why these two people have a relationship with Dr. Asakawa.

Compared to Yaju and Rina, Haruhiko is actually a little curious about Matsue's condition now.

Although Song Ming only glanced over there and then looked away, Yang Yan could clearly see that Song Ming, who was a little nervous because Shou Zhu appeared and attracted other people's attention, now acted extremely calm.

There's nothing wrong with this.

And when everyone focused their attention on Dr. Asakawa and his party, no one noticed that a young man in a red dress was slowly walking into the hall...