At Least with Me, Good People Are Rewarded

Seeing this, Mairin slipped out of Heiduo's embrace and stood on the ground.

"Don't be afraid. Heiduo is a good person."

She smiled at her companions and told them about what had happened today.

Snubbull also helped Mairin explain things to the other Pokémon.

Meanwhile, Heiduo folded his arms and counted the people present.

He had originally thought this was a large group of orphaned children numbering in the dozens, perhaps even hundreds.

But there were only eight people standing before him.

Yes.

The Lumiose Gang had eight people.

It was almost laughable.

"Mairin, are these all your companions?" Heiduo asked quietly.

Mairin nodded. "Yes, everyone is here."

In the original story, only four people had gone with Mairin to Kurokail's house.

That meant someone among these eight had not gone with them, or someone had died young.

But their eldest...

"How old are you? Are you the oldest?" Heiduo asked the biggest, chubbiest boy.

The boy startled, his gaze darting away. After a long while, he said, "Eight... Yes."

The oldest was eight.

Heiduo could not help wanting to applaud Lumiose City's residents. Such a huge city, yet it could not accommodate eight children aged eight or younger.

The fact that Clemont could maintain his belief in justice under such circumstances was probably related to his shut-in personality.

What a cold metropolis.

After sighing to himself, Heiduo seriously asked them, "Do you want to go to school?"

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you feed him for life.

Most people in the Pokémon world overlooked the importance of knowledge and thought school was unnecessary.

But if you did not go to school, you could not even read or write. You would be completely illiterate.

If Mairin had been