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No. 8 High School had four dormitory buildings, each shaped like a "U." Three of them were painted white and black. Though they looked like ordinary school buildings, they were overall more attractive than those from his previous life.

Each building had eight floors, with forty rooms on every floor. Most of the rooms were packed full of residents.

There was also one building completely different from the ordinary dormitories, specifically for students in the Pokémon Department.

Building A stood at the far left side of No. 8 High School. Beyond the four dormitory buildings lay no other structures. Leaving the dorms, they would pass Buildings B and C on their way to the cafeteria.

Rows of willow trees by the dormitory entrance swayed in the breeze, while the flowerbeds beside them gave off a faint fragrance.

The moment they stepped outside, they could feel the fresh, open air. Students passing by all wore No. 8 High School uniforms, bringing a rush of youthful energy.

School uniforms in this world were somewhat similar to those from his previous life: loose and baggy, mainly blue and white. They could be summed up in one word—ugly.

However, the uniforms had now been modified. They were no longer quite so loose and fit the body better. There were also more color options: black and white, blue and white, and red and white. They looked much better.

Of course, that was not the important part. As the six of them walked down the road, Pachirisu stood on Chen Ze's shoulder, looking around curiously.

Then it suddenly jumped down, dashed forward, pounced on a Nidoran♀ ahead of them, and began rolling around with it. The Nidoran♀ had not noticed at first.

After reacting, it began playing with Pachirisu as well.

Nidoran♀'s owner was a skinny boy wearing Glasses and carrying a backpack.

Jiang Jing greeted him first. "Yang Fu, you're out for breakfast so early?"

Yang Fu pushed up his Glasses and picked up Nidoran♀. "Final Exam is coming up. I need to hurry to the classroom and review."

Pachirisu helplessly jumped back onto Chen Ze's shoulder and watched the other students and Pokémon passing by.

The campus in the morning brimmed with vitality and energy, and many of the students passing through had Pokémon with them.

There were Pikachu, Pichu, Vulpix, Caterpie in the grass, Butterfree, Oddish, and Bellsprout.

Pidgey, Pidgeotto, Starly, Pidove, and Taillow flew through the sky. Poliwag and Surskit swam in the central pool.

The school had no explicit rule forbidding Pokémon from living in the dormitories, so many students chose to bring their Pokémon to school with them.

Liu Bin said enviously, "It's a shame I want to become a Trainer. I need to choose my Pokémon carefully. Otherwise, I'd want to get a cute Pokémon to raise too, so I could pet it whenever I had time."

Jiang Jing nodded in agreement. Ever since transmigrating here, he had wanted a Pokémon of his own, but the Pokémon League stipulated that students could only choose a Pokémon and become Trainers after turning sixteen and entering their second year of high school, when they chose their academic tracks.

That was why he had endured until now. But he would not need to wait much longer, because tomorrow was Saturday, and he could go home that afternoon.

Jiang's Father had already told him that his Starter Pokémon was ready, so he did not need to worry.

After breakfast, the six people from Room 404 headed to Class 3, Grade One, on the third floor of Building A, the teaching building opposite the cafeteria.

It was a classroom exactly as one would imagine: a worn reddish-brown podium, a blackboard marked with faint traces of chalk, and square desks, with two crooked rows joined together to form four columns.

Each column had around seven rows. The entire class had nearly sixty desks, and upon entering, they could clearly see the beautiful blackboard newspaper on the back wall.

The blackboard newspaper featured a Charizard and an Incineroar. It was the joint work of Chen Ze and Liu Bin.

Charizard and Incineroar were Liu Bin's favorite Pokémon.

The moment they entered, they could smell that familiar scent—a distinctive mixture of books, chalk, dust, and body odor.

Jiang Jing sat in the middle of the fourth row beside the window. He occupied the inner seat, and during every class, he could clearly see the scenery outside.

Unlike senior-year classes, where desks were piled high with textbooks and exam papers, only a handful of first-year students kept textbooks on their desks. Everyone else's desks were spotless.

There were only twenty days left until the Final Exam. By the time they entered, more than a dozen people were already studying.

Jiang Jing could also feel the tense atmosphere of the approaching Final Exam. He picked up his book and began memorizing the key points.

Time passed quickly. Before he knew it, everyone had arrived, including his deskmate.

His deskmate was a cute, petite girl with big eyes and slightly chubby cheeks. Her voice was soft and girlish when she spoke.

But in front of people she knew well, she would wildly show her true self. And when someone tried to bully her, she would not hesitate to step up and angrily tear into them.

Jiang Jing's deskmate was Cheng Cheng. They had already been deskmates for an entire semester.

In his previous life, they had been classmates but had never shared a desk, so they had merely been ordinary classmates.

But after three months together now, they had become friends.

Cheng Cheng hurried over to her desk with a bag of milk and a piece of bread in hand. "Good thing I ran fast, or I would've been late."

Jiang Jing said beside her, "If you'd been any later, morning reading would have been over."

Cheng Cheng widened her eyes and snapped, "It's not like I want to be late, but I can never get up every time."

She hurriedly took a huge bite of bread, puffing out her cheeks as she chewed.

Jiang Jing opened his Chinese textbook. Three hundred and seventy-four years ago, the sky had split apart like the end of the world. Countless Pokémon descended from the heavens, and the entire world underwent earth-shaking changes.

Over the course of ten years, the world had expanded to nearly ten times its original size. Countless Pokémon had fallen from the sky during the great change, rapidly hatching after landing on the ground.

During that time, the Wang Dynasty had originally stood on the verge of collapse. According to the course of its history, it should have perished, yet it too underwent earth-shaking changes.

At the same time, the great change threw every nation into chaos. Yet they slowly returned to normal, and an organization called the Pokémon League emerged.

They possessed incredibly powerful Pokémon and technology. Whether coveting their Pokémon or their technology, countless nations that considered themselves strong launched wars against the Pokémon League.

In the end, everyone's expectations were shattered. They lost—lost utterly and completely, without even the slightest ability to fight back.

But after defeating those nations, the Pokémon League did not occupy any land. Instead, it selected a huge island as its territory and demanded that every nation join the Pokémon League and become a member of the organization.

From then on, all major events in the world had to be decided through votes at conferences.

Put plainly, the Pokémon League was really just an alternative United Nations.

To be honest, this period of history had completely changed the entire world, yet the textbook devoted very little space to it. It seemed that many things had been hidden away, and the same was true online.