Jian Wu?
He seemed to be someone from the Johto Region who had won a major tournament championship a few years ago.
This was the information Lorelei had gathered.
As for their opponents being stronger, Xia Yan and the others showed no disappointment. Instead, they were excited.
For this Masters Tournament, everyone had positioned themselves very modestly, approaching those veteran top-tier Trainers as challengers.
The stronger the opponent, the better they could understand where they currently stood within the Pokémon League.
Xia Yan always ran into powerful opponents. To be honest, they had all been rather jealous of him.
But this time...
Lance nudged Xia Yan with his elbow.
"Xia Yan, didn't you always say we got 'easy mode' while you got 'hard mode'? Now it's switched around, isn't it?"
But Xia Yan muttered:
"Wrong. You're all wrong."
Lance raised an eyebrow.
"It's good that you know you were wrong, but why do you look like you've gone mad?"
Xia Yan shot him a sidelong glance, his cheek twitching slightly.
"The script I got wasn't for 'hard mode.'"
"Right."
"It was 'hell mode.'"
Lance: "Huh???"
Xia Yan stared speechlessly at the picture on the screen right beside his own profile.
This was fucking Jian Wu?
That was Giovanni, all right?!
Although Xia Yan did not know how Giovanni had disguised himself like this, nor why he had entered this Masters Tournament.
One thing was beyond doubt.
The person Xia Yan had met while training Infernape on Mt. Silver, the one who had given him reminders and advice, was undoubtedly Giovanni. He looked exactly like this man.
Neither of them had exposed it.
It was an unspoken understanding between Xia Yan and Giovanni.
But Xia Yan had never imagined that he would actually run into Giovanni at the Masters Tournament.
He