"All right, time is up. Everyone, put down your pens. Do not continue answering. Wait for the teachers to collect your papers!"
In the lecture hall, quite a few students who had still been writing furiously could only stop regretfully and wait obediently for their papers to be collected.
There was no way around it. The Gastly floating above the classroom were all watching. Anyone who refused to stop answering would truly be disqualified from the exam.
This was the Final Assessment for this term's Apprentice Investigator Theoretical Course, and Sato had taken it alongside Little Ming and the others.
As for the material he had missed earlier, Sato had studied it on his own after returning, then had Teacher Aono highlight the key points for him. He had only just managed to finish it all.
Fortunately, Sato had a good memory and was fairly adept at this sort of rote memorization, so he believed passing would not be difficult.
As for the other courses for Independent Investigators, Sato had completed them all in just twenty days, once again breaking the Pokémon League's internal training record.
There was no way around it. In his previous life, Sato had made his living as an assassin, so courses on infiltration, reconnaissance, disguise, escape, and the like had come naturally to him.
Moreover, because he often operated in the wilderness and had gone through Head-on Confrontations with many Underground Forces, he placed great importance on his own safety. His Pokémon's functional lineup was already optimized to the point where there was nothing left to improve.
Taken together, it was as though Sato had been born to become an Alliance Investigator.
Drake had also been closely observing Sato's performance, becoming even more convinced that his decision had been entirely correct.
How could a tiny