"Sorry to trouble you, Tropius!"
"Wuu~"
Tropius affectionately rubbed its head against Ye Lan's chest, completely unaware that inside the pendant, Applin had been startled awake and was hiding within the Dragon Fang, too afraid to poke its head out.
Tropius looked back with every step, watching Ye Lan wave goodbye. Even after taking flight, it hovered in the air for quite a while, clearly reluctant to leave.
It had already delivered Ye Lan to his destination. Though they had spent little time together, Tropius felt that it might have been "love at first sight."
At first glance, it had known this was the Trainer it had been looking for!
That face, that presence—simply perfect. More importantly, he could produce such delicious Pokémon food.
Since Ye Lan had come to the rental center to rent a Pokémon, he presumably did not have a Flying-type Pokémon. Tropius had hinted at it for ages, but Ye Lan neither asked it to stay nor invited it to join him, so it could only leave helplessly.
It seemed it had arrived too late. There was already another Flying-type Pokémon in his heart!
"The rental center's Pokémon have such great service these days. It even gave us a hovering farewell!"
"Whims!" Whimsicott rolled its eyes at Ye Lan. It had no idea whether its Trainer was pretending or genuinely clueless. Tropius had been wasting its flirtatious looks on a blind man.
Taking out the map he had prepared in advance, Ye Lan compared it to his surroundings and headed toward Cerulean Gym.
It was not that Ye Lan had suddenly changed his plans to return to the Huaxia Region. Su Muqing had called to inform him that the Battle Department and Research Department assessments had all been postponed due to an upcoming exchange program with