Give Me a Chance

"Hey? Do you know why he conceded?"

"Why?"

"Because it was rigged. Didn't you notice? The match was rigged!"

"Rigged? How could it have been rigged? The match was pretty exciting, wasn't it?"

"Then why did he concede?"

"I heard he was an undercover agent for some underground organization?"

"What? He's a Spirit Hunter from the Poaching Gang?"

"No, no, your information is outdated. I heard he's with Team Rocket?"

"What? Team Rocket?"

"I also heard he's the murderer from that terrorist organization, Spider..."

"What? Spider?"

"No, he's an undercover agent for Ocean Team. You all heard wrong..."

"Why did I hear that he's a thug for the Black Ship?"

Yu Hai had left, but he did not know that all of Citrus Stadium was discussing how the Orange Tournament had been rigged. There were simply too many suspicious details, including Yu Hai's concession.

For conspiracy theorists, anything could be seen as a conspiracy. There was nothing to be done about that. They only wanted to believe what they wanted to believe...

After Yu Hai left, this discordant chatter spread through the spectator stands. Combined with Madman's prolonged disappearance, the rumors spread farther and farther, growing more absurd with every retelling, until they eventually reached Yu Hai's ears.

Standing outside Citrus Stadium, Yu Hai did not see Xiao Qian. There was no need to think about it—she had probably already left. Treating him to a meal was clearly out of the question.

He helplessly kicked a pebble by his feet. Dunmei had already disappeared from sight, so he decided to head to the Pokémon Center. He did not need to worry about Dunmei; he had already sent Gengar after her. No one would be able to harm Dunmei.

However, three suspiciously strange people in work uniforms and aprons approached him