"Dragapult, stop for a moment."
After Dragapult flew to the northern outskirts of Saffron City, Roy made Dragapult stop where it was, as he could no longer see Reiji.
About ten minutes later, Roy finally saw the figure of the Staraptor, and the Reiji on its back.
While still flapping its wings in the air, the Staraptor sped up and charged forward as soon as it spotted Roy and Dragapult waiting for them.
Reiji knew he had lost the race again, and lost decisively.
"It's a deal, you're treating us to dinner tomorrow."
"Yes, Roy, you're a good person."
Roy didn't know if Reiji was praising him or what. Why would anyone randomly give out friend cards?
By the time Roy brought Reiji back to the dojo, it was completely dark. Roy noticed many unfamiliar figures at the dojo entrance.
Although they were also wearing white training uniforms, the insignia on their chests did not belong to Bruno's dojo.
Roy found the emblem somewhat familiar; it looked like the Badge of a Gym in the Sinnoh Region, but he couldn't remember which one it was.
"What... what is this?"
Reiji's eyes lit up when he looked at the training uniforms inside the dojo.
Isn't this the uniform from the Fighting Dojo in his hometown, Veilstone City?
But why would the costumes from the Veilstone Gym appear in the Kanto Region?
Roy led Reiji into the dojo, and as soon as they entered the gate, they saw a burly man wearing a hood who looked like a bull warrior.
Beside him was a little girl with short pink hair, and at her feet was a Lucario.
Roy System Scan and found it was just a level 48 Lucario, Gym Leader level Lucario.
"Maylene?"
Hearing the familiar voice, the girl turned around and looked at Reiji.
"Brother Reiji?"
"It's Reiji."
The hooded man who resembled a bull warrior looked at Reiji upon hearing the familiar voice, clearly indicating that the two knew each other.
"Maylene? What are you and your uncle doing here?"
The hooded man is Lee's father, named Wu Chen, who is also the current Gym Leader of the Veilstone City Gym. He came to the Kanto region to learn from Shiba and visit her dojo.
"Of course we're here to learn from Elite Four Bruno."
"I wouldn't call it learning, but it's more like sharing what we have and what we lack. Roy, come and say hello to Master Wuchen."
Upon seeing Roy return, Bruno called Roy forward and introduced Roy to the hooded man, who was also Maylene's father.
That pink-haired little girl is Lee, the future Gym Leader of Veilstone City.
Roy still remembered Shinji, Reiji's younger brother, completely annihilated the opponent's Gym in the anime, leaving him with considerable psychological trauma.
It turned out that the father and daughter wanted to learn Bruno's Extreme Fighting Technique, which is why they brought their students from the Gym to visit.
Roy almost thought a challenger had arrived, but then he thought that no one would bother challenging a dojo with humanoid Machamp.
"Master Wuchen, this is the disciple I told you about before; he's the same age as your daughter."
Bruno introduced his beloved disciple to Wuchen, and it was no exaggeration to call him his beloved disciple.
Bruno now wants to dissect Roy to see his body structure.
Before leaving, Agatha specifically told him not to worry about Roy's training intensity; just train him to the point of exhaustion as long as he doesn't die.
At first, Bruno would take it easy and arrange training for Roy according to a quarter of his usual training volume. Every time, Roy would push himself to the limit and collapse on the ground after finishing the training, looking like he was about to die.
But as time went on, Bruno realized that Roy seemed to be faking it, so he secretly increased the weight on Roy. When the weight was increased by 30kg, Roy always looked like he was about to die after training.
So Bruno simply waved his hand and added half of his own training load to Roy's. Now, after every training session, Roy just lies down in the dojo and falls asleep.
More importantly, with Roy around, he no longer needs to buy energy from the Joy family. Roy can make Pokéblock specifically for humans to eat, enough for a week at a time.
Roy even improved the recipe for the Pokéblock, reducing manufacturing costs while providing more energy.
The apprentices in the dojo had mixed feelings of love and hate for Roy. They ate the Pokéblock Roy made with tears in their eyes while being chased by Arbok without daring to stop for a moment.
The two of them are the same age?
Maylene looked at Roy, who was two heads taller than him, and Bruno, who was more than half a head taller than him, beside him.
The two men alone exuded a Pressure at the entrance of the dojo, making Ali wonder what they ate to grow so large.
Reiji was also completely bewildered. He only just realized that Maylene and Roy were actually the same age. He had originally thought that Roy was his peer.
Recalling how he had just Taunt a boy even younger than himself, Reiji's face instantly turned red.
However, looking at Maylene, who was barely muscular, and Roy, who was half a head taller than him, they didn't seem to be the same age at all.
"Roy, the person next to you..."
When Reiji was standing next to Roy, saw that Elite Four Bruno was looking at him, he quickly introduced himself and took the initiative to introduce his identity.
Bruno was surprised to learn that the purple-haired boy was actually Pokémon Trainer from Veilstone City and knew Wuchen and the others; it was quite a coincidence.
Seeing that it was getting late, Bruno first arranged accommodations for everyone, allowing them to rest peacefully, and said that the matter of Extreme Fighting Technique could be discussed tomorrow.
(There was a mistake in yesterday's chapter, which was that Annihilape used Rage Fist to hit a Normal/ Flying type Staraptor.)
I didn't pay much attention to the Staraptor, the resident bird, in my main work from the beginning, because it didn't appear very often.
I only discovered that Staraptor was Fighting type / Flying type after it Mega Staraptor, so I assumed Staraptor had always been Fighting type /Flying type. Thanks to the reader for reminding me!