Integrate into the fairy world

Zhu Ziqi originally thought that his approach was foolproof, but he did not expect that the school team's training facilities would not impress Lei Ze.

After wandering around the place, Razer lost interest in the facilities. He was much more interested in sparring with the school team members.

One or two of these friendly matches were fine, but at first, no one took it seriously.

However, as time went on, Razer challenged them more and more frequently. The team members gradually found it increasingly difficult, making it impossible for them to concentrate on training.

Seeing that if things continued like this, the other members of the school team would not be able to train properly, Zhu Ziqi had no choice but to give up recruiting Lei Ze into the school team.

Furthermore, to prevent Lei Ze from coming after him, he even led the entire school team into the deep mountains for arduous training.

"Oh well, a year later is fine. It's just a pity that Lei Ze couldn't achieve the record of joining the school team in his sophomore year!"

Time stands still in the mountains (mainly because there's no cell phone signal in the mountains).

In the mountains, Zhu Ziqi provided targeted training to each member of the school team. This continued for more than a month until the next national competition was about to begin, at which point they finally came down from the mountain.

Originally, Zhu Ziqi and his group planned to go back to school to rest first, but after thinking about it, they decided that going directly to Xunshou Village to rest would be just as good.

So the group, weary from their journey, immediately set off for the venue of previous national competitions, hoping to rest there.

However, when they arrived at the venue, they learned that this year's national competition could not be held there.

"why?"

"I'm very sorry, but the main reason is that the World Championship is just around the corner. In order to accommodate trainers from all over the country and other countries, the stadium for this year's National Championship will be temporarily requisitioned! This news was sent to all universities half a month ago. Didn't you receive it?"

Seeing the staff's reply, what could Zhu Ziqi say? He could only lead the school team back again.

On his way back, he kept thinking about why the organizers of the national competition were in such a hurry to issue this notice now, even though the World Pokémon Championship was still more than a dozen months away.

Zhu Ziqi was unaware of the intricacies of the situation; at that time, he was already exhausted from traveling back and forth.

After returning home and resting for a few more days, he became increasingly uneasy, so he went to his friend for advice.

As for Zhu Ziqi's friend, coincidentally, he was Lei Ze's instructor.

However, their conversation yielded no results. Apart from learning that this year's national competition had been postponed to a month later, they knew nothing else.

As the two chatted, they unconsciously steered the conversation toward Raize.

It's clear that Zhu Ziqi still can't forget Lei Ze, and now that he has some free time, he's immediately set his sights on Lei Ze again.

They just didn't expect that the topic would come to them on its own halfway through their conversation!

Despite yet another invitation to join the school team, Lei Ze himself showed little interest.

But seeing the eager looks in the eyes of the two division commanders, he couldn't very well refuse directly.

"Well... although I'll be very free for a while, it's too late for me to join the school team now! After all, I don't know anything about the national competition. I can't expect to cram at the last minute and rely on this month to get along with the other team members!"

"Don't worry about that. The national competition is divided into individual and team competitions! Since you don't have time to practice with the team, you don't need to participate in the team competition. You can just participate in the individual competition this afternoon!"

It's clear that Lao Zhu is almost obsessed with not being able to bring Lei Ze into the team.

"That won't work either. You know, I could receive a notification for the third round of professional assessment at any time during this period, and the timing might be... well, who knows!"

"You don't need to worry about that. There are precedents for postponing professional assessments due to special circumstances. Once the school receives your training notice, they will help you resolve this issue."

Now Lei Ze really couldn't refuse!

To be honest, if it were the old Razer, he might have been very interested in the National Tournament.

But right now, Razor just wants to become a professional trainer as soon as possible so he can have more control over his time. At the same time, he also wants to make it into the elite training program that starts in the second half of this year.

At the time, Razor wasn't even a professional trainer while traveling in the Kanto region, so he hadn't even considered that plan.

But things are different now. With only one final hurdle left to become a professional trainer, Razor's ambitions are growing.

Rather than competing in national tournaments, Razer would prefer to use this time to obtain a professional license, and then use that license to train and quickly improve the strength of his Pokémon. That's what he wants most right now.

With the country's support, Razer believed that as long as he could participate, Pikachu and the others' strength could increase rapidly in a short period of time!

Given the choice between temporary fame and permanent power enhancement, Razer chose the latter without hesitation.

But now, Razer has no choice!

For the next month, Lei Ze was almost always by Zhu Ziqi's side, for fear that he would run away.

Although at first Lei Ze was very resistant to having someone constantly following him, he gradually realized that having a near-master-level teacher by his side and being able to ask for leave at any time was not an unbearable thing.

Since he insisted on keeping an eye on him, Razer didn't hesitate to ask him to help him train.

This is a one-on-one coaching experience that even members of the school team can't provide, so Lei Ze is determined to take advantage of this time.

A whole month passed, and Lei Ze still couldn't escape Teacher Zhu's strict surveillance and went to the new venue to participate in the competition with the school bus.

The national competition differs from smaller regional competitions in that it spans a longer period of time. Therefore, the organizing committee has arranged accommodation for each school in the athletes' village.

Upon entering, Razer immediately and quite unceremoniously sprawled out on the soft bed, rolling around in and out of bed.

Heaven knows what kind of life he'd been living lately? With a sudden burst of energy, Lei Ze walked to the window and opened the curtains. Through the window, he could see that many contestants from other places had already arrived at the athletes' village!

"I really want to get out!"

Razer cried out his longing for freedom!

But his shout only elicited a disgruntled cry from Pikachu; nothing else happened.

"Old Zhu won't let me go out. Being stuck in the room all by myself and unable to do anything is really making me feel so stifled!"