Registration, Chance Encounter with Joy Yanan
The helicopter landed on a specially constructed helipad at the port of Ever Grande City.
As soon as the three of them stepped out of the port, they found that the entire Ever Grande City was packed with people. Many of them were young Pokémon Trainer who had come to participate in the competition, and many others had bought tickets to watch the main tournament.
Some people even recognized Steven, after all, Steven's fame as the eldest son of Devon Corporation was second to none in the Hoenn, which startled Steven so much that he put on another mask when he returned to the helicopter.
Roy was somewhat puzzled as to whether all the young Pokémon Trainer from the Hoenn League had come.
The main reason is that the rewards for this year's "Edge Cup" are incredibly generous. Anyone ranking within the top 200 receives a reward, including Pokéblock, various training materials, Technical Machine, Evolution Stone, and more...
If you are lucky enough to win the championship, you can go to the League Breeding Garden and choose any Pokémon and a complete set of Advanced Evolution Stone.
The League Breeding Garden are not like private Pokémon Day Care that can be easily replicated. The League Breeding Garden contain almost every kind of Pokémon, and even pseudo-legendary Pokémon are distributed in groups.
Furthermore, even if you don't choose Pokémon can still pick any item from the Pokémon League's Vault.
Normally, it takes 100,000 points to exchange for a Starter Pokémon at the Pokémon League Breeding Center. You can choose a whole set of Evolution Stone and Starter Pokémon, Pokémon. Who wouldn't be tempted by that?
Of course, all this effort was taken by the Hoenn League to encourage young Pokémon Trainer, and for the sake of fairness, the entire competition was jointly supervised by the League Prosecutors and the League Police Bureau —it's almost like they brought in the International Police.
Roy, Steven, and Wallace first arrived at the Pokémon Center in Ever Grande City, where the Pokémon Center was already packed with people registering.
Steven was able to use his privileges when entering and leaving Ever Grande City, but regarding the tournament rules, he still needs to register in person.
The Pokémon League did a very good job in this regard.
Just as the three of them were wondering where to queue, Roy suddenly heard a pleasant female voice.
"Roy?"
Roy turned around and saw a Nurse Joy and a Chansey. It was Joy Yanan. He ran to her side, and Steven and Wallace didn't understand what was going on, followed along.
"Sister Yanan! What are you doing here?"
When I went to find the other person at the Pokémon Center on the outskirts of Rustboro City, Nurse Joy, who had replaced them, told me that the other person had gone to training.
It turns out they came here for practical training.
"Auspicious!"
Chansey waved to Roy after seeing Roy; they had arrived in Ever Grande City two months prior.
Because of the sheer scale of the event, the staff at the Pokémon Center in Ever Grande City were definitely not enough, so she was transferred over under the guise of practical training.
When Joy Yanan learned that the three were also there to participate in the Edge Cup competition, she secretly led them to an abandoned window at the Pokémon Center. After receiving their Trainer Qualification Certificate, she quickly completed their registration.
Even after learning that the masked person among the three was Steven, Joy Yanan wasn't too surprised and quickly brought Roy and the others three number plates.
Roy's number is 99, Steven's is 125, Wallace's is 343.
The numbers are all randomized to prevent cheating and match-fixing.
Upon learning that all three were participating in the Edge Cup for the first time, Joy Yanan explained the tournament rules to them:
The Edge Cup is a large-scale tournament. It starts with 1v1 preliminary rounds, followed by the official preliminary rounds, which are Pokémon 3v3 matches. The semi-finals and finals are Pokémon 6v6 matches. The entire tournament may last for ten days to half a month.
"Roy, I wish you good luck in the game."
Roy said goodbye to Joy Yanan at the side entrance of the Pokémon Center in Ever Grande City.
"Roy, does your girlfriend know you know Nurse Joy?"
Wallace said with ill intent.
"Wallace! Your thoughts are filthy! My friendship with Yanan Nan is purely platonic. Shouldn't you be thanking me?"
"Why are you thanking me? Didn't Nurse Joy help us with the paperwork?" *2
"I can't get along with people like you who never know gratitude. Come on! Let's try the ramen in Ever Grande City, I heard it's pretty good."
Wallace: "Then let Steven treat! He's rich."
Roy: "Agreed!"
Roy and Wallace, who had just been arguing, were about to drag Steven towards the most famous ramen shop in the city. Roy's face showed a fierce determination to eat Steven out of house and home.
Steven couldn't understand when Wallace turned into Roy's appearance.
Wallace: "He's already embarrassed me in Sootopolis City once."
So, if you embarrass yourself once, you expect me to embarrass myself too?