"Oh? New arrivals? Come on over! We offer Fight the Gym Leader, Three-card Brag, Chinese poker, and, oh right, Pokémon King cards. We wager Academy points on all of them."
"And you don't need to worry about the Academy giving us trouble. See the guy next to me? Shangguan Hong, the Shangguan Family's young master!"
"You know the Shangguan Family, right? They're the main sponsor of this battle assessment. Even if Dean Zhang won't do it for us, he'll do it for them. He won't do anything to us."
Watching a large swarm of Bunashicao and Nashicao set the pale-faced students on the ground, Wang Xun was already used to the sight. He added:
"It's normal to feel dizzy right now. Everyone who rolls here ends up like that. We all went through it."
"See that sandpit over there? If you need to puke, do it there. Remember to bury it yourself, and don't interrupt our card game!"
Having just returned to the starting point, the students felt as though they had spun hundreds of times inside a washing machine. Looking at the "harmonious" scene before them, their already scrambled brains struggled even harder to make sense of what was happening.
"What are you staring at? Come play cards. We're just waiting on you. What, were you planning to fight those Pokémon to the death? What if I told you that winning would earn you a Junior Elite Four level opponent next? How would you deal with that?"
Having lost another five points, Shangguan Hong explained while casting suspicious looks at Wang Xun. He was beginning to suspect that this guy was in cahoots with the landlord.
Besides, he hadn't been the landlord in almost twenty rounds. There was something wrong with these cards!
"Eek, eek!"
Ambipom grinned smugly at