You are not allowed to date a trainer.

Chapter 18: Going backwards to meet each other
"I've already texted the headmaster. He said he'll be here soon and asked us to wait at the door."

Senior Brother Mengjiang rushed to the plaque of "Millennium Academy" in a few steps, made several faces at the big tadpoles that were taking a rest under the eaves, and scared them so much that they ran away. Then he turned around, sat down on the steps, and waved to Qin Zhen from a distance.

"Come! Junior brother! Come and sit down!"

Qin Zhen nodded and walked forward to sit down next to Senior Brother Mengjiang. Teng Teng Snake jumped onto his knees, while Milton carefully walked around Senior Brother Mengjiang and squatted next to Qin Zhen.

"Junior Brother, can you trust me now?" After sitting down, Senior Brother Mengjiang began to bring up the past. "I'm not a black agent or a liar. I sincerely invite you to join Yuelu Dojo."

"Well, I'm sorry, brother, I'm just too suspicious."

"It's okay, it's okay. It's a good thing for young people to think more about things." Senior Brother Mengjiang said with a gentle and persuasive look. "What about joining our Yuelu Dojo..."

Qin Zhen smiled and didn't respond.

"Junior brother, you... well, forget it, let's get down to business." Senior Brother Mengjiang rubbed his head in annoyance. "Junior brother, did you notice those tadpoles just now? Now look back. Do you see that big pond behind the main gate? That's their home. Every student who joins the academy can go there and adopt a tadpole as a partner."

"But those tadpoles ran away when they saw you, brother. They don't seem like brave spirits."

Hearing Qin Zhen's comments, Milton, who was squatting next to Qin Zhen, felt his neck stiffen. He lowered his head and carefully turned his head to steal a peek at Qin Zhen's expression. Just when his head turned halfway, Milton felt his chin being supported by a pair of warm hands. The hands gently exerted force, lifted his head up, and he met a gentle smiling face.

"Courage can be cultivated, Junior Brother. Let me tell you a secret. The father of those tadpoles is our headmaster's main spirit, a super-powerful Swimmer."

Speaking of powerful elves, Qin Zhen became interested. While rubbing Milton's chin, he asked, "Brother, how powerful is super powerful?"

"Let me put it this way. Deep inside our academy hangs a large bell, but it has no hammer. Every time we need to call the students to assemble, that Mosquito-Repellent Swimmer goes to the bell and punches it... Boom! Tsk tsk, the sound is so loud that the entire Yuelu Mountain can hear it."

"So fierce?" Qin Zhen was even more curious. "Then, Senior Brother, can you let your mosquito coil tadpoles out and let me see?"

"Me? I didn't receive any."

"why?"

"Because my dream is to become the referee of a top-level elf duel."

referee?

Qin Zhen took a look at the majestic chest muscles of his senior brother Mengjiang, and thought to himself, senior brother, you don’t look like a referee, but rather like a contestant who is ready to go out and fight with the electric beast, the strange force and other brother elves at any time.

"Brother, what does being a referee have to do with whether or not you receive a spirit?"

"My mom is the referee for the Yuelu Gym Challenge. She always says the most important quality for a referee is fairness," Senior Brother Mengjiang smiled. "And I know I'm not a very determined person. Once I have a Pokémon partner, I'm bound to be partial to its own kind, so I simply don't have a partner Pokémon."

"My mother is the head referee at the gym? And her dream is to become a tournament referee? And her last name is Bai?"

Qin Zhen scratched his head. He felt that this character setting was inexplicably familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

"So, Junior Brother, you joined Yuelu Dao..."

"That's right! Senior brother, who is the headmaster you mentioned before?" Qin Zhen interrupted hurriedly.

"Oh, he's the head of our Yuelu Dao Gym, the man in charge of this academy behind us." "Then why not just call him head of the gym or dean? And what does Shanzhang mean?"

"I don't know about that. My brothers all call me that anyway, so I just followed suit." Senior Brother Mengjiang scratched his cheek. "As for the meaning of 'Shanzhang'... I think it's a nickname like 'Tudigong', right?"

Just as he finished speaking, Brother Mengjiang was slapped on the back of his head. The sound was crisp, like slapping a fine watermelon.

"The mountain of a mountain chief is the mountain where one returns to run a school; the mountain chief's length is the length of a teacher. Why would I accept an unlearned and incompetent apprentice like you?"

Qin Zhen turned around in surprise and found that the gate of the academy behind them had opened at some point. A woman was standing in front of the gate. She looked to be about thirty years old. She was wearing a moon-white skirt and a green robe draped over her shoulders. Her long black hair was scattered behind her head, and her eyebrows were curved under her bangs, making her look quite gentle.

"Student Qin Zhen, right?" The woman reached out from under her robe and shook Qin Zhen's hand. "I'm Chi Songya, the president of Yuelu Academy and the head of Yuelu Dojo."

"It's me, um...hello...Teacher Chi."

Qin Zhen was a little surprised. After meeting his senior brother Mengjiang, he had been secretly sketching the image of the master of Yuelu Pavilion in his mind.

In Qin Zhen's fantasy, the owner of Yuelu Pavilion should be a hero who is more domineering than his senior brother Mengjiang, with people able to stand on his shoulders and horses able to run on his arms. He also has a pair of chest muscles that are more surging than his senior brother Mengjiang. Behind him is a group of mosquito-repellent swimmers wearing big black sunglasses. If he doesn't like someone, he will raise his hand and point at him, and then the mosquito-repellent swimmers will rush up, tie up that person and sink him into the Xiangjiang River at the foot of the mountain.

Who would have thought that the person who finally walked out of the academy was a frail young aunt.

Qin Zhen looked at the young aunt, and he suddenly found that his fantasy was not entirely wrong. At least in terms of chest muscles, the master of Yuelu Hall was indeed not inferior to his senior brother Mengjiang.

"Teacher Chi? I like this name very much." The young aunt smiled and turned to open the door. "Come in and talk."

Qin Zhen took out the Poké Ball and retrieved Vine Snake and Milton, and followed the woman's back with his senior brother Mengjiang. The three of them passed through the main gate with the words "Only in Chu are there talents, and here they flourish", then crossed the second gate with the words "Nestled in the great mountains, hidden in the famous mountains", and finally came to the main lecture hall with a plaque hanging on it that read "Seek Truth from Facts". In the lecture hall, three wooden chairs facing each other had been placed in advance.

At this moment, Qin Zhen suddenly felt a strong presence of gaze.

He was stunned for a moment, and when he looked around, he found a strange figure at the door of the lecture hall. It was a short and fat creature with a strange appearance. If he had to describe it, it was a big blue steamed bun with eyes, hands and feet growing out of it, and a mosquito coil stuck on its belly.

"This is the Mosquito-Repellent Swimmer I told you about." Senior Brother Mengjiang came close to Qin Zhen and whispered, "We all call him the Big Stone Opener behind his back."

"Thank you for helping me move the chair over, Mr. Mosquito Repellent." The young aunt walked over and gently patted Mantou's shoulder, her tone soft. "I'm going to talk to the students. Could you please make three cups of tea?"

"Nino."

The Mosquito-Repellent Swimmer withdrew his gaze from Qin Zhen, gave his trainer a thumbs-up, and turned to walk out.

"Please sit down." The young aunt sat down gracefully and waved to the two of them. "Student Qin Zhen, I heard from Bai Song that if you have any questions, please come to me for answers."

"It's like this, Teacher Chi." Qin Zhen hesitated for a moment, sat down opposite the female hall master, and asked puzzledly: "I want to know why you and Senior Brother Bai attach so much importance to me?"

"Oh?" Chi Songya raised her eyebrows slightly. "Classmate Qin Zhen, forget about Bai Song, why do you think I value you so much?"

"Because you put your shoes on the wrong way around, and you haven't noticed yet."

The young aunt was stunned. She lowered her eyes and her fair face suddenly turned red.

(End of this chapter)