Hearing that, Jenny Li had already put down her fishing rod and was watching the water anxiously.
If anything happened to Ye Lan in the water, her protection mission would be a failure.
After all, she was a distinguished Officer Jenny with a perfect mission completion rate ever since she had earned her Officer Jenny license. She had overcome plenty of difficult assignments in the wilderness. She couldn't let a simple protection mission ruin that record.
Besides, whenever she imagined having to write, "Reason for failure: failed to prevent Ye Lan from getting so upset over catching nothing that he entered the water to fight Water-type Pokémon hand to hand," in her report afterward, her cheek began to twitch.
"As long as there's still movement, Ye Lan is fine. Once it goes quiet, Arcanine, get in there and save him!"
"Woof!"
If she hadn't known that Ye Lan had a mysterious Pokémon protecting him, Jenny Li would have stopped him earlier.
"Huh? Why is it getting foggy?"
Gardenia, the only one who wasn't worried about Ye Lan, was taking advantage of everyone focusing on the commotion in the lake to sneak along the shore and check what bait the higher-ranking contestants were using.
To her surprise, thick fog gradually spread across the lake. Then, utterly bewildered, she saw an old man rowing a small boat toward the center of the lake.
"Why is everyone copying Ye Lan? Wasn't this supposed to be a Fishing Competition? This is outright cheating!"
"That old man looks like he's pushing ninety! Ye Lan has psychic powers, you know. What's that old man charging in for?!"
Worry about Ye Lan? She would be better off worrying about the Water-type Pokémon in the lake!
Gardenia had seen Ye Lan casually scoop up the Pokémon around him