"So that's how it ended? No wonder you got back so quickly."
"Leafe!"
Perched on Ye Lan's shoulder, Leafeon nodded, rather disappointed that it hadn't gotten a chance to direct Serperior.
The battle had ended too quickly. It hadn't had any chance to show what it could do!
And after how that first battle had gone, the other side probably wouldn't have dared send out another Pokémon even if they'd been given the chance. Serperior had lost interest too, so they had headed back together.
When they left, quite a few teachers had gathered at the school gate to see them off with tears in their eyes. Anyone who didn't know better might have thought they'd done something wonderful. Even Liu Jiaqing, the Gym Trainer, had been there.
That was right: Liu Jiaqing had stayed. Although he'd lost to Serperior, he had somehow won over every senior-year teacher at Jindu No. 1 High School. Apparently, they'd heard what had happened at the other two high schools and felt much better about their own situation by comparison. Everyone was happy, and Liu Jiaqing had even landed a position as a teaching assistant.
Leafeon was very pleased with that outcome. Leaving everyone on good terms was best.
After leaving Jindu No. 1 High School, Leafeon and Serperior headed in the same direction as Amoonguss and Bulbasaur, who had just left Jindu No. 3 High School, and ran into them.
Unlike Serperior and Leafeon, who had left at their leisure, Amoonguss and Bulbasaur looked distinctly flustered, as though they had done something they shouldn't have.
A little questioning revealed that, since there were two of them, they had planned to hold a friendly 2v2 battle. Compared with the rest of the team, Amoonguss and Bulbasaur were fairly normal: one was an "honest mushroom,"