Los Platos Gym Opens, with Acting Gym Leader Calyrex!

Putting aside how long Luo Mu spent that night, utterly devastated, pointing at a certain elderly Unova Champion and cursing him by name.

Just like the topic he had discussed with Geeta.

Even if there were suspicions that Bruno had not gone all out, his battle with Leon, after several days of fermenting, had indeed caused a stir throughout the Trainer world and beyond.

Especially among Bruno and Leon's supporters, who had all learned that there was now a competition called the "Pokémon World Championships."

—And, more or less, the same thought had appeared in all their minds.

If they signed up for this competition, would they be able to battle their idols?

Once that thought emerged, it kept circling through their minds. By the time they came to their senses, they had already opened the official Pokémon World Championships website.

At Naranja Academy, during Teacher Savaro's home economics class.

Yamato, a fifteen-year-old boy who had come all the way from the Galar Region and had already studied at Naranja Academy for four years, took advantage of the time he was supposed to be looking up recipes to quickly browse the computer assigned to each home economics group.

To be honest, as a boy raised in Circhester, Galar Region, his idol had always been the man regarded as a legend in Galar—the Champion, Leon.

Most boys and girls his age had practically grown up listening to stories of Leon's exploits.

Even Yamato's reason for coming to Naranja Academy had been to improve himself, become a formidable Trainer, and one day return to Galar, collect badges, earn the right to enter the elimination tournament, and battle Leon.

—That had been his original plan.

But the more he studied, the more he understood just how difficult it would be to achieve that.