The 731st day on the Orange Islands, night.
It was early evening. Having just finished dinner, Yu Hai's long-awaited Gym assessment finally arrived on this quiet night.
"Slowking, A Hai, that Psychic girl is here!" Blue light lit up in Slowking's eyes. With a flash, it used Teleport and appeared beside Yu Hai in the blink of an eye, warning him that an enemy was approaching.
In Slowking's eyes, that Psychic girl carried faint hostility every time she appeared. That made her Yu Hai's enemy—and their enemy as well.
"Sabrina? Why leave the Orange League headquarters and come here instead? Is this the Gym assessment Drake mentioned? An Elite Four assessing a Gym?" Yu Hai frowned slightly and stroked his chin in thought.
A moment later, he hurried toward the Gym's backyard. There were four members of the Elite Four, yet Sabrina had specifically taken this assignment. No matter how he looked at it, she had come with ill intent.
He had already laid everything out with Team Rocket and made it clear that neither side would interfere with the other. Yet Sabrina had suddenly come calling. Was this her own doing, or was there something more behind it?
If this was not Sabrina acting alone, but Sakaki's orders from behind the scenes, then Sabrina was likely not the only one who had come. If a Champion-class powerhouse showed up, he would be in real danger this time. He might very well fall on this island.
"Slowking, can you contact Mewtwo?" Yu Hai turned toward Slowking beside him, a trace of hope in his eyes.
Mewtwo's whereabouts were unpredictable, and there was no pattern to how long it stayed on the island. Sometimes it would leave for months at a time; sometimes it would remain quietly on the island for