Pokémon: Shadow of the Dawn

After a while.

In a streetside restaurant in Shuizhou Town, the TV was chattering:

"Everyone is watching! It's exciting! Welcome to today's gym tour challenge... Today, Chibana and Dante have completed the gym challenge in Jiqing City, and the acting gym leader Xiaobo has completed his task competently..."

"Tomorrow, Shuizhou Town will welcome six challengers! This will be the most important match before the championship. It will be a great test not only for the contestants but also for the gym owner..."

The restaurant is directly open to the outside, with tables extending from the deepest part inside to more than five meters outside. Residents of Shuizhou Town who have some wealth will come here to eat.

Thanks to some of the actions of the Mizushu Gym and the progress of the Gym Tour, the place was very full.

"This Shuizhou Town is boring. There are too few people." Malu stood outside the restaurant in a nonchalant manner and complained aloud.

After walking around Shuizhou Town twice, I found that although the streets were clean and the people were polite, there were only three or four restaurants in total, and this one was the largest.

Shuizhou Town looks big, but there don't seem to be many people.

"I also want to watch people fishing..." Maru muttered.

Wang Jin waved his hand, found an empty table outside and sat down, looking at the menu.

Steamed crab, sweet bamboo drink, fish fillet...

They all look good and are very appetizing.

Especially the Tench, this small silvery-white fish can be said to be the most common edible fish Pokémon. Whether it is other fish in the ocean, seabirds, or humans, they all like to eat Tench.

The meat is tender and boneless.

It is also very easy to breed weak tench artificially.

The only problem is to control the number of tench schools to a level that can be aggregated, so that they do not use their characteristics to integrate into a whole... Just divide the breeding and catch them on time.

Given something to eat, the squid will survive.

"The trout is so cute..." Maru looked at the trout in the picture and picked up a piece of fish that had just been served and put it in his mouth. "Mmm~ It's so delicious..."

He picked up his chopsticks faster.

"Eat slowly." Granny Sha beside her advised calmly, but she just sat on the chair with her cane and didn't look like she wanted to eat.

Old man Ruby and Onio on the other side did the same, sitting quietly.

Wang Jin ignored them and ordered almost all the dishes he had never tried before.

"Eight dishes, unlimited rice, a total of 1,200 Alliance Coins... Thank you for your patronage." The waiter at the back took the cash that Wang Jin handed over, gave the change, and turned away.

Wang Jin took a quick bite of the crab and then spat out what was in his mouth.

It was basically full of shells and bones, with too little meat to chew.

"You're eating it the wrong way." Old man Ruby said suddenly, "You have to suck the crab out of the shell by sucking it..."

Wang Jin nodded, but did not continue to eat. Instead, he asked:

"Roz asked you to come?"

Granny Sha and Old Man Ruby looked at each other, and Old Man Ruby replied, "It's Olivia."

Normally, why would Maru and Onio need two masters to accompany them on a gym tour? For the group, it would definitely be better for two champion-level fighters to complete various tasks.

When Onio challenged in places like Jiqing City before, old man Ruby never went to see him.

Now the two of them arrived here at the same time, and they met Wang Jin by coincidence.

This was undoubtedly an order from the group for close supervision and surveillance.

Prevent him from escaping by boat in Shuizhou Town.

However, these two old guys can't stay by our side... They are not trainers who are proficient in psychic attributes, so they can't stop or even detect the instant movement of the unknown totem.

"You're being watched by Olivia." Ruby said to Wang Jin with a little worry, "It's not like there are only two of us in the group... To ensure everything is safe, Olivia also sent the guy in the south of Galar..."

"rupee!"

Granny Sha tapped her cane twice and signaled the old man with a sharp look to say less.

"Hmm..." Maru asked vaguely with a mouth full of squid and drink, "What are you talking about?"

Granny Sha glared at him:

"It's adult business... kids, go eat!"

"..."

Maru, who was demoted, ate the fish silently.

Ounio looked at his master, pulled his clothes and whispered, "Has the matter in the ruins been discovered?"

Ruby's two thick white eyebrows drooped, and he didn't know how to explain to his apprentice, so he comforted him:

"It's nothing, it's just that the group wants to recruit him and keep him here..."

Ounio didn't quite understand, but he sensed a strange atmosphere and didn't ask any further questions.

Wang Jin chuckled and turned his head, glancing around the unusually clean streets of Shuizhou Town, his thoughts wandering.

Southern Galar...Southern Galar...

Isn't it the Crown Snowfield?

Is it Pioni?

The champion who resigned previously?

After so many years, his strength has reached at least champion level... no, it's very likely that he has reached master level.

Now, the gap between the gym leader level and the Elite level is mainly reflected in resources. The middle and low-level trainers have too few resources, and it is difficult to maximize all aspects of a Pokémon with high talent while struggling to survive.

But according to Hunter G, it seems that there are some specific conditions required to go from Champion to Master...

However, the master level is still too far away, so I should escape from Galar first. No, I should survive the challenge of the Shuizhou Town gym first.

Wang Jin thought about it and picked up a piece of fish fillet at random and chewed it in his mouth.

There will be six people in the gym challenge tomorrow, and there will be a road blocking challenge. The whole day's gym tour program is in Shuizhou Town. I don't know if it is intentional by the group.

"Excuse me..." A drawn-out young female voice suddenly came from beside me.

Wang Jin came back to his senses and found that a little girl with short brown hair was standing next to the dining table. Her face seemed familiar... She was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and shorts and looked very energetic.

There were three trainers from the Shuizhou Town gym wearing blue uniforms behind them, they should be following this little girl.

Is it the daughter of the Shuizhou Gym... Puna?

What are you looking for them for?

As she guessed, Puna smiled and waved to the people at the table, saying:

"Hello, I'm Puna, from Shuizhou Town. I'm also the challenger of this gym tour."

After she finished speaking, no one responded.

The two old ladies, Granny Sha and Old Man Ruby, were indifferent; Maru was concentrating on the food on the table; and Onio was like a puppet, with no joy visible under his pale mask.

Wang Jin glanced at her and just smiled politely.