"Acquaintances" at the Laboratory

"We're already in Lumiose City. Should we pay Professor Sycamore a visit?"

Walking through Lumiose City, Hilda looked at the familiar city before her and asked the others beside her.

"Since we're already in Lumiose City, it would feel a little wrong not to visit him." Rosa agreed with Hilda.

"What do you think, Serena?" Gary looked at Serena beside him and asked for her opinion.

"I think it would be better to pay him a visit too." Serena agreed with Hilda and Rosa.

"Then let's go see him!" Gary respected the three girls' opinions and nodded in agreement.

"Okay!"

After Hilda and the other two girls agreed, the four of them immediately changed direction and headed toward Professor Sycamore's laboratory.

"We've come to visit you, Professor Sycamore!"

When Gary and the others arrived at the entrance to Professor Sycamore's laboratory, they saw that the doors were already open. After exchanging glances with Hilda and the other two girls, they walked inside together.

After entering the laboratory, Gary and the others saw Professor Sycamore chatting with a young man with short dark-blue hair.

The moment they spotted Professor Sycamore, the four of them smiled and greeted him.

"Oh, it's you, Gary!" Professor Sycamore was pleasantly surprised to see the four of them enter, and he walked over with a smile.

"Professor, do you have a guest?" After greeting Professor Sycamore, Gary turned his gaze toward the cold-faced young man beside him.

The instant he saw the young man, Gary recognized him. He was one of the characters widely disliked by netizens in Gary's previous life—the former assistant of Professor Sycamore who had later become a subordinate of Lysandre, the leader of Kalos Region's evil organization.

That was right. He was Alain, who had left a very poor impression in the