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Half a month later, Takuya obtained the badge from the final Gym. With that, he had collected all eight Gym Badges in the Kanto Region.

After taking photos of the eight badges and uploading them, he received an invitation to the Indigo Plateau Conference not long after submitting his application.

Naturally, Takuya accepted.

The Indigo Plateau Conference would be held at the end of the month. More precisely, there were still three days left.

Takuya had obtained all eight badges at just the right time.

All that remained was to head to the venue of the Indigo Plateau Conference.

No matter what, three days was definitely enough time for Takuya to reach his destination.

By the second evening, Takuya had already arrived successfully.

After taking Pikachu out for a lavish meal, he spent half the next day sightseeing before returning to the hotel to rest and wait for tomorrow's Indigo Plateau Conference.

The Indigo Plateau Conference was considered a local grand event, with some people even traveling from thousands of miles away to watch it.

The venue was packed that day, with not a single seat left empty.

Takuya's match was the second one in the afternoon session, and his opponent was a child no older than ten.

To be fair, the kid's Pokémon was quite strong. His Pikachu was no match for it and could not even defeat the kid's first Pokémon.

Still, that was normal. His Pikachu was just an adult Pikachu he had casually caught in the wild. It had never received any proper training, so there was nothing surprising about it losing.

Takuya had only sent Pikachu out to give it a try. After casually comforting it a few times, he recalled it into its Poké Ball and took out Salamence's Poké Ball.

Seeing how weak