The Elite Four Journey arc had ended. Next came Volume Eight, the Sinnoh arc.
The Sinnoh Region storyline would not begin immediately. I needed to sort out the detailed outline and see how much time should pass.
This part would probably skip one to two years, possibly even three. I could not be sure until I finished organizing the Sinnoh arc's outline. If it skipped three years, the protagonist would be nineteen.
The Sinnoh arc was where the protagonist would truly rise to prominence. After the Sinnoh arc ended and he spent another two years honing himself, the final volume, Road to Champion, could begin.
I also knew that many people disliked the ending of the Elite Four arc, but there was nothing I could do. The protagonist really was lacking a little in terms of time.
According to the setting, the protagonist was meant to lose here. No matter how I wrote it, I would get criticized. Go ahead and curse me out if you want! I accepted it all.
If I forced the protagonist to become an Elite Four member at this point, then the Sinnoh arc would have to be cut, and Volume Nine, Road to Champion, would begin directly.
A protagonist who had become one of the Elite Four could not go compete in the Baby Cup. That would be far too unfair to everyone else.
Right now, the protagonist was better than those below him but not as good as those above him. He lacked nothing now except time.
Do not think that just because the protagonist was a transmigrator with a Golden Finger, he was invincible. Did other people not have cheats too?
You were a transmigrator; they were second-generation heirs. You had a Golden Finger; they had psychic powers, money powers, connections, and