Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

"With you? To do something big?"

Wang Jin couldn't imagine what big things a novice trainer like him could accomplish. He would probably be ridiculed by the league after he finished doing it.

Now he just wants to live a relatively stable life in Quanguan City.

"Haha, come to think of it, I don't even know your name, brother..." Malu was not surprised by Wang Jin's suspicion, and said, "You should already know my identity, right?"

Maru's identity?

Wang Jin only knew that he was from Zhanjing Town. Even if he was labeled as wealthy, Wang Jin couldn't guess his identity. The current gym owner of Zhanjing Town was Meirong, a female trainer with ice attributes.

This Malu is so confident about his name, could he have some relationship with Meirong?

"Wang Jin..." Wang Jin briefly introduced his name without saying any extra words.

"Hahaha, Brother Jin, your name sounds like you're from Kanto." Maru leaned forward and spoke with a smile.

Wang Jin just shook his head and didn't reply.

The dead father of this body named him Xiao Jin, which does look like the one in Kanto. But the dead father named him after Xiao Jin's mother, who fled from Kanto and married the dead father.

Xiao Jin's parents were not of good status, nor were they very strong trainers. His father joined the Shout Team through hard work, but was killed by someone.

"You should know that thing is about to start, and we can try to destroy it..." Maru said to himself, looking very excited.

"What's the matter?" Wang Jin really didn't understand what the riddle man was talking about.

"Oh my! Galar's triennial event! Gym trip!" Maru could have stood up and shouted if his legs hadn't recovered yet. "It's the big event that gilds the second generation! It's also broadcast live!"

"Oh..." Wang Jin nodded to show that he understood, but remained unmoved.

He wasn't interested in any gym trips; it was none of his business anyway, and he was going to leave Galar and go to other areas.

"This gym trip has quite a few gimmicks, including Dan Di who was personally recommended by President Luo Zi, Chibana from the Dragon Family, Nie Zi, the eldest son of Spike Town, Cai Dou, the karate genius of Suchuan Town..." Maru listed the participants of the gym trip, and snorted disdainfully: "There is also a good kid from Zhanjing Town - Magua."

Hearing this, Wang Jin was stunned and tried to ask:

"That Magua..."

"He's my eldest brother." Maru grinned with a look of disgust.

"So what did you do wrong?" Wang Jin became interested and asked him.

"Me?" Malu couldn't help but pause. He now knew that Wang Jin didn't know him at all.

But Malu didn't care. Wang Jin would know those things sooner or later anyway, so he explained:

"I stole my dad's Pokémon and some money. But that bitch killed my dad..."

Wang Jin nodded repeatedly and roughly understood the situation.

Meirong is the wife of the current owner of Zhanjing Town, and she gave birth to two sons and a daughter. But the owner of Zhanjing Town got a child from somewhere, and it is unclear whether it is an illegitimate child or something else, so he named him Maru.

Maru is one year younger than Magua, so the gym leader of Zhanjing Town gave the recommendation letter for participating in the gym trip to Magua first, and promised to give it to Maru next year. But the last time Magua participated, he didn't even get two gym badges.

For some unknown reason this year, the owner of Zhanjing Town was seriously ill, so Meirong gave Maru's letter of recommendation to Magua again.

Meirong's remaining son and daughter are still young and far from the age to participate in the gym trip. She plans to wait until Magua obtains eight badges to participate in the competition before considering other people.

"Who knows what will happen if that idiot gets eight badges? After eight badges, he will be in the quarterfinals, and after the quarterfinals, he will be the champion..." Maru gritted his teeth, and then quickly let it go. "Anyway, I'm not her son."

Maru had been enduring it silently, but not long ago, Meirong suddenly made things difficult for him in various ways, and the health condition of the owner of Zhanjing Town also took a turn for the worse.

"I had no choice but to steal some things and one of my father's elves. After I left, my father was killed by that bitch. The most important thing is..." Maru clenched his fists and wanted to bite a piece of meat off Meirong.

"She wrongly accused you of killing the museum owner and stealing things and running away?" Wang Jin guessed.

"Hmm..." Maru nodded, and then said, "My bounty is one million Alliance coins, regardless of life or death. If you complete the bounty, you will also receive Meirong's 'special thanks'... hehe."

He sneered twice. Who doesn't know that Maru has more than one million Alliance coins? They are all here for the Pokémon resources on him.

Wang Jin roughly understood the situation and nodded slightly, but did not respond to the previous suggestion to ruin the gym trip.

Wang Jin knew his own strengths and weaknesses, and also knew how strong the Dan Emperors were. If he were a trainer above the champion level, maybe... he wouldn't even consider it and would just run away.

Dandi, the undefeated champion, has never lost a match since his debut. Even with Roz's deliberate marketing and publicity, Dandi's strength is indeed very strong to support this kind of marketing.

Not to mention the other contestants, Dan Di alone can easily take down these two minions.

Now Dan Emperor’s strength is at least at the King level, how can two novices defeat him?

Wang Jin continued to remain silent.

"We are not going to fight Dan Di and his gang directly." Maru winked and pointed to the north: "Brother Jin, there are only five of us in the gym trip, and we are not together. And I know Magua's strength better than anyone..."

"You want to target Magua specifically? What's his current strength?" Wang Jinshun asked.

"There are six Pokémon, and the strongest one is only at the elite level now. Maybe in two months, Meirong will give him a gym leader-level Pokémon." Maru introduced truthfully.

"How do we fight this?" Wang Jin shook his head decisively.

Two months later, everyone had an obedient gym leader. He was lucky enough to be able to evolve a young mountain sparrow into a blue jay, which was at most elite level. Unless he had some adventure in the past two months, the young mountain sparrow would directly become a steel armored jay, which would be gym leader level.

Wang Jin never believed that good luck would fall from the sky.

"Haha, of course we can't win now, but that may not be the case in two months." Maru laughed mysteriously, and said, "I have a way to make both of us at least elite level. And that rubbish Magua can't command at all, so it will be easy to win if he listens to me."

"What method?" Wang Jin didn't quite believe it.

"Haha, Brother Jin, tell me first whether you want to participate or not." Across the flickering bonfire, Malu looked directly into Wang Jin's flickering eyes.

"No." Wang Jin still refused.