"Long time no see, Steven Stone."
"It hasn't been that long. Only a few days."
Seeing Lu Ze emerge from the forest, Steven Stone smiled as well. "Wallace told me about what happened in Flower Garden Town."
"You did well!"
Steven Stone gave him a thumbs-up, and Lu Ze smiled a little sheepishly. "Not really. I just didn't like the look of them."
"Same here."
After chatting with Lu Ze for a while, Steven Stone asked why he was here.
"We're heading to Couriway Town to take part in the Pokémon Showcase. After that, we'll go to Anistar City to challenge the Gym."
As Lu Ze spoke, he pointed toward the Poké Ball Factory. "We happened to be passing by, and Ash and the others wanted to see how Poké Balls were made, so we came over together."
"Then I sensed your Aura here, so I came to catch up."
"You? The Pokémon Showcase?"
Steven Stone looked at Lu Ze with a strange expression.
His friend Wallace was a Pokémon Coordinator, and now this new friend he got along with so well was aiming to become a Pokémon Performer?
"Of course not me."
Seeing Steven Stone's expression, Lu Ze immediately knew what he was thinking.
Although the Pokémon Showcase had no explicit rule saying only women could enter—
The name of the prize awarded to the Champion, the "Princess Key," made the intended participants obvious.
Most of the contestants were women.
But Lu Ze was overthinking it. Steven Stone had not considered that at all.
To him, the Showcase he knew of was something similar to a Pokémon Contest.
After all, his real focus was stones.
He generally knew very little about competitions like this.
Of course, with Wallace as an example, he did not care whether Lu Ze's goal