Zeraora in Their Sights

However, Su Hao emerged from the tavern in less than ten minutes, further convincing the guards that he was no ordinary traveler.

Su Hao left the tavern with a grim expression, paying no attention to the guards watching him as he headed straight for the only passage from Orchester Town to Electric Grand Canyon.

The tavern's bartender regularly received all kinds of people and could easily learn about events in the outside world from their conversations.

Getting information from him might have seemed difficult, but once Su Hao produced the large bundle of White Eagle Alliance currency he had specifically exchanged, let alone asking for information—even asking the bartender to serve him alone at an inn tonight would have been no problem.

That was the power of money!

Su Hao had no interest whatsoever in the bearded, broad-shouldered bartender. He flatly rejected the man's eager self-recommendation and learned from him that an Electric-type Pokémon as swift as Thunder Rush had suddenly appeared in Electric Grand Canyon, and that Tran Carlisle of the Carlisle Family had led his men into the canyon to capture it.

The bartender had heard this information from drunken Carlisle Family guards who often came to the tavern to drink. After all, people tended to become loose-lipped when drunk.

The bartender even threw in one more piece of information: two days had already passed since Tran Carlisle departed Orchester Town. Perhaps he had already captured that unknown Pokémon by now, considering he had brought along an Electric-type Pokémon from the Carlisle Family with Elite Four Level Combat Power.

In other words, Zeraora might be in danger now.

Near the passage, Su Hao was stopped by fully armed guards. They bluntly stated that Electric Grand Canyon had been sealed off by the Carlisle Family and that no one