Following a familiar road, Goh arrived beside a stall selling Poké Ball sticker cases. Seeing that quite a crowd had already gathered there, he immediately grew anxious.
Oh no, I'm too late!
"Make way... make way!"
He tried to squeeze inside, but how could his frail body compare to everyone else's?
By the time the gathered crowd had mostly dispersed, Goh hurried up to the stall owner and asked urgently, "Are there any left?"
The stall owner, skinny as a monkey, glanced at him. He first scratched his head, then reached into his pants to scratch himself before picking up a product beside him and handing it to Goh. "Here, there's only one left. It's got a slight defect, but I don't do discounts. One Poké Ball sticker case costs three hundred thousand Alliance Coins."
"Huh?"
Goh froze. Hadn't it been only two hundred thousand last time?
The stall owner shot him an impatient look. "This is a novel little thing brought over from the Hoenn region. Are you buying it or not? If not, I'm packing up!"
"I'll buy it, I'll buy it!"
The moment he heard that the stall owner was going to pack up, Goh panicked.
Gritting his teeth, he took out half of the six hundred thousand he had originally gotten from his grandmother and handed it to the stall owner. From the impatient man, he received a sticker case covered in hearts, one that would create heart effects when a Pokémon emerged from the Poké Ball fitted with it.
Taking the sticker case, Goh turned and left with his heart bleeding, viciously making a mental note of that stall owner at the same time.
Once I catch Suicune and Mew, you'll pay for this someday!
As he turned away, Goh held up the sticker case