Promises and the Future

The thirty-sixth day after returning to the Orange Islands, cloudy.

Early in the morning, the sky was blanketed by heavy clouds like a gray curtain. Yu Hai and the other competitors were about to bid farewell to Citrus Island, while he prepared to return to MikanGym.

At the Competitor Village, Trainers were reluctantly saying goodbye to their friends, and the air was filled with faint sorrow.

Yu Hai was no exception. He stood amid the crowd, his gaze sweeping across one familiar face after another.

"Brother Hai, we should get going." Hao Er and Xiao Shun stepped forward to say goodbye, their eyes full of reluctance—Xiao Shun especially.

Hao Er said that he would work twice as hard after returning, hoping to achieve a better ranking in the next tournament.

Xiao Shun merely nodded silently, anticipation for the future glimmering in his eyes.

Yet as Hao Er said goodbye, his gaze kept drifting unconsciously toward Sabrina in the distance, his eyes concealing a young man's shyness and admiration.

Hao Er's mother stood beside Sabrina's father, and the two were chatting happily, faint smiles on their faces.

After hurriedly saying a few more words, Hao Er ran off to bid farewell to the goddess Sabrina.

In order to carry out her undercover agent mission, Sabrina did not act coldly toward Hao Er. Instead, she revealed the bashful charm of a girl who was poor with words. Hao Er had already become her prey, while she maintained an indifferent distance from everyone else.

Only Yu Hai and Xiao Shun remained. Yu Hai smiled as he spoke with Xiao Shun and handed him a notebook and a pen.

The notebook and pen themselves were unimportant. What mattered was the message written inside the notebook; their method of passing intelligence was bold and direct.