The abrupt voice rang out, startling Yu Hai so badly his soul nearly left his body. His hands instinctively clenched around his Poké Ball, ready to release Poliwrath without hesitation and strike the speaker dead.
Just as he was about to move, he saw the person before him clearly. It was a familiar face, smiling at him.
"Huh? Gym Leader, why are you here?" Yu Hai looked at the smiling Gym Leader—Dunmei's Father—and instantly felt unbearably awkward. Did I just get caught red-handed?
"Tsk, never thought you had so much money, kid." Dunmei's Father narrowed his eyes and fixed Yu Hai with a smiling yet not smiling look. To Yu Hai, that smile seemed downright chilling.
Yu Hai knew he could not hide it now. Since Dunmei's Father had appeared here, he must have been at the auction last night. Everything Yu Hai had bought and sold here had surely been discovered. He hurriedly explained, "Well, Gym Leader, I came to provide support..."
"Enough. Do you think I don't know what's going through that little head of yours? Hurry up and pack up. Have your friend disguise himself too, then come out with me." Dunmei's Father had seen everything last night. His Slowking had been beside him at the time, and as a quasi-Champion-level Pokémon, monitoring the entire venue had not been difficult for it.
If Slowking had not sensed a familiar aura nearby, locked onto private room twenty-two, and quietly informed him through Telepathy, he would never have known that this brat had come to the auction too—and was even in room twenty-two.
When he heard the commotion coming from room twenty-two, Dunmei's Father had been genuinely shocked. He had never expected this kid to be so lavish, spending hundreds of millions in liquid funds without even blinking.
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