Pokémon: An Encounter with You

"Teacher, I have to go." Shi Qiu stood at the door of the classroom, purred loudly, then stood up and waved at Liu Ling.

This ordinary Mrs. Liu could not help being a little sarcastic, strict and unpleasant even when she was teaching on a daily basis, but Shi Qiu still respected her very much.

Liu Ling had a faint smile on her face as she watched this student, whom she had taught for less than three years, leave.

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Shi Qiu's auditions were luckily over on the first day. The finals were to be held two days later, so Shi Qiu simply took the Rotom train to go to school.

Since he had two enrollments, neither school assigned Shi Qiu a class, or rather, he was in a class of his own.

He had no choice but to find the counselors in charge of freshmen in Kyoto University's Combat Department and Iku University's Cultivation Department and ask them for a week's leave.

Both teachers knew about this student's reputation as a genius, and the school had also informed them in advance, so the leave procedures were quickly processed without any problems.

The teachers from the two schools felt indescribable when they saw Shi Qiu's reason for asking for leave.

Students from the Battle Department and the Training Department asked for leave on the pretext of participating in the Grand Competition...

"Ah~ It turns out that when you take a leave of absence from university, you can't do whatever you want like before." Shi Qiu wasted several hours before finally getting back to Youye City before dark.

In the evening, one man and five elves huddled together, pointing and talking at the Rotom screen.

Kirliam, who was not in a hurry to evolve, was of course also there. After a period of getting along and his body adapting, he didn't mind appearing in this appearance. Instead, he sat aside elegantly and gracefully like a wealthy young man who had received a good education.

The more outstanding performances from the auditions have been posted online, including many old faces as well as many new faces.

Chen Liu, who once went hunting swallowtail butterflies, won a high score of 90 with his beautiful silver whirlwind.

Ye Lin, a red-haired, enthusiastic and outspoken man, dressed up as a magician today. With the long-tailed fire fox that can perform "mind exchange", he displayed his mysterious charm with the magic flame in his hand and got a score of 95.

Shi Qiu had some visions of the previous Tel Lauren in this young man. Both of them were the type who were very outgoing and enthusiastic, like the sun.

But... in comparison, Ye Lin naturally gives people a much more comfortable feeling.

"(Tsk tsk, they all look pretty powerful.)" Vulpix took the initiative and shook his head to tease, "(Can you do it, little gray mouse?)"

The bubble squirrel has the same aura and is very confident. In fact, he smiles on the surface, but he is very angry inside.

"(If you can do it, so can I! Who are you looking down on? Do you want me to recall for you how it ended when you and I faced off against each other a few times?)"

Seeing that the situation was not right, the young man immediately tried to stop it, skillfully holding the water: "Stop!"

"You are all very good. Let's move on to the others."

Shi Qiu scrolled down the video and turned to a young man with a senior-level elf.

From the video, we can see that this young man is a relatively silent and cold person. The desert dragonfly next to him is very imposing and has sharp eyes.

The move [Dragon Dive] is simple and straightforward yet it shows the dragon's power to the fullest. The score of 87 is not high, but it can guarantee entry into the main competition.

“This ball of sand…?” Shi Qiu nudged the Ice Vulpix next to him with his elbow, “Why do I feel like he’s taking a similar path to you?”

Just like the Vulpix that is surrounded by fine snow all year round, if you look closely, you can see that this desert dragonfly is surrounded by light fine sand, moving around it in a regular pattern.

Oh no, I met Gaara himself.

"(The operating principles are relatively consistent.)" Ice Vulpix looked at it for a while and curled his lips in disdain, "(But his control is too poor.)"

"(It's so slow, either it's just a short time since I started practicing, or it's because I don't have any talent at all.)"

So, is he a fan of Ice Vulpix? Is he training to learn Ice Vulpix's techniques?

Shi Qiu pondered for a while, but couldn't see where the desert dragonfly's control of the fine sand was sluggish. He felt that the coordination was quite good.

Thinking so, he said it out loud.

Vulpix sighed, raised his little paw and pointed at the screen without complaint.

"(At 7 seconds, he just appeared and the sand collided.)"

"(At 18 seconds, when he used Dragon Dive, the sand was directly dispersed by the energy. He tried to gather it together again, but failed again.)"

"(27 seconds, blah blah...)"

"(49 seconds here, blah blah...)"

"(Look again, after the performance, there is a mess of scattered sand. Tsk, with this coordination ability, are you looking down on me?)"

Vulpix spoke with a dry mouth and a clear logic, and even his archenemy, Chinchilla, had a change of heart towards him.

Oh my god, this stinky thing actually has some abilities.

Ice Vulpix used its tail to slap away its friend's naughty hands, and continued to move in the air with fine snow.

The difference must be shown on the spot!

After a while, dots of white fluff were painted smoothly, and a handsome young man appeared vividly sitting in the air.

The smiling eyes, slightly messy hair and strong and agile body of the boy are all lifelike.

Ice Vulpix looked around proudly, and seeing Riolu and Kirlia with admiration on their faces, as well as Zoroark with eyes full of worship, the Snow Magic started to move again.

This time, there were a few more small figures beside the young man who was like the breeze and water.

Vulpix with a smirk, Riolu who is blushing with embarrassment, Zoroark who is crying loudly, and Kirlia who is as noble as a little prince.

He thought about it, sighed in his heart, and finally transformed into another figure.

It was the Foam Squirrel who was stamping his feet and looking very angry for some unknown reason.

It’s family members.

Shi Qiu admired it with a smile, but said nothing.

After letting Rotom take a picture of this scene, he secretly took another picture of Vulpix's appearance.

After all, it's a rare occasion for the little devil to blush, and it would be a shame not to record it.

The Bubble Squirrel was not so obedient. He also watched quietly for a long time at first.

But when she saw a certain stinky thing out of the corner of her eye... a certain bad boy blushing, she was not willing to miss the opportunity to tease him.

"(Wow!)" The little gray mouse said in an exaggerated tone: "(You are blushing.)"

"(So innocent?...)"

"(...Go to hell!)" Vulpix was so ashamed and angry that the family portrait drawn with fine snow in the air turned into a ball and threw it straight towards the Bubble Squirrel.

The little gray mouse dodged nimbly in three or two steps, laughing and continuing to tease him.

“(Ahhhhhhh! Stop right there!!!)”

Riolu and Kirlia teamed up to block the scattered snow that was flying towards Shi Qiu. The two Pokémon smiled helplessly as they watched Bubble Squirrel and Ice Vulpix chasing each other.

It was not until Zoroark, who was the most playful, started to clamor to join in that Shi Qiu spoke up to stop him.

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble. It's getting late. It's time to go to bed!"

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That night, Shi Qiu and the huge fan base of the Genesis music group discovered that the boy’s social profile picture had been changed to a very vivid painting of snow.

"Cun He V: Friends, have a sweet dream tonight!"