"Ah, finally home!"
Back at his place, Lu Ze flung his backpack onto the sofa and collapsed onto it.
"The World Youth Championships are finally over."
Sui Yan struck the same pose beside him, flopping directly onto the sofa in Lu Ze's apartment.
"Yeah. It was only a month, but it somehow felt like forever."
Tang Yunqin was sprawled across a separate sofa nearby in the same slouching pose, rather than beside Lu Ze and the others.
The World Youth Championships had ended. Not just the individual event—the team event was over as well.
Two days after Mewtwo's match against Rayquaza, the national team competition had begun.
Lu Ze had chosen not to compete.
And because Legendary Pokémon had appeared in this tournament, many countries had also chosen not to participate.
They simply did not have enough Legendary Pokémon to match the United States or Dragon Nation.
Take Egypt, for example, which only had one Legendary Pokémon. Or Island Nation, which had none.
Don't ask why Island Nation no longer had any Legendary Pokémon. The answer was Mewtwo.
After losing to Rayquaza that day, Mewtwo went to settle things with Takenaka Hanbei and his people.
Once the Kyogre incident was over, Mewtwo had learned from Lu Ze that the Church had been behind the entire affair from start to finish.
Takenaka Hanbei, his older brother, and the people who had intercepted Mewtwo and Lu Ze's family had all belonged to the Church.
The red-robed bishops.
So, after losing to Rayquaza and feeling thoroughly annoyed, Mewtwo directly went after Takenaka Hanbei and the others, who were still trying to enter the team competition.
And just like that, Raikou and Cresselia became Legendary Pokémon without Trainers.
Legendary Pokémon without Trainers naturally could not participate in the team competition. Not to mention that