Lin Bai, former Gym Leader of Ecruteak Gym and current head of the White Ghost Family, was a renowned Training Master who could use the power of Ghost-type Pokemon to observe things thousands of miles away.
Back then, in order to let his Gengar achieve Perfect Evolution, Sato had paid the price of a Duskull with Pseudo-Elite Four potential to enlist Lin Bai's help.
But to outsiders, Sato had trained at Ecruteak Gym for a time, so his relationship with Master Lin Bai should have been quite good.
Yet only the two of them knew that their relationship was purely one of mutual interest.
Now, years later, that child who had come to study had grown to stand on the same level as him. As Lin Bai looked at him, his eyes held a trace of complicated emotion.
Why couldn't he be my son?!
Soon, Sato and Lin Bai stood on their command platforms, facing each other across a battlefield several times larger than a standard arena.
After the referee announced the rules as usual, Sato and Lin Bai simultaneously sent out their first Pokemon.
"Gengar!"
"Gengar!"
A battle between the same species! In the first match of the Elite Four Ranking Match, both sides had actually sent out the same Pokemon.
Aside from their slight surprise, the remaining competitors and the few internal spectators in the stands could not help shaking their heads.
It was only natural for Lin Bai to send out a Ghost-type Pokemon; after all, that was the type he was good at.
But Sato had left his Dark-type Pokemon, which held the type advantage, unused and insisted on challenging his opponent at his strongest point.
Still young! But no matter what the others said, the battle on the field would not restart.
The instant the