"I still hope you'll give it some more thought."
The middle-aged man drained the hot tea in his hand in one gulp. The two people before Heiduo did not make a move either, as though their sole duty was to stop him.
"Even if you win, the prize money is only 5,000. If you buy an Espurr from the Pokémon Day Care, it'll cost no more than a little over 20,000 at most. If you're dissatisfied with the amount, I can raise it to 100,000. That's my limit."
Trainers had many ways of obtaining Pokémon: trading, receiving them as gifts, catching them, or abducting them. Most academy-trained trainers chose to buy Pokémon not on protected lists from Pokémon Day Cares.
For one thing, the Pokémon at Pokémon Day Cares were top-notch in both quality and temperament. For another, they were very affectionate toward people and adapted to humans far more quickly.
Just like specially bred cats and dogs.
Heiduo sighed. "Are you going to fight or not? If you don't want to fight, then stop making trouble for no reason. Whoever you want to win should earn it with their own skill. If they buy it, that stain will hang over their career as a trainer for the rest of their life."
The middle-aged man's ideas and methods were a little bizarre, but at least he had not threatened him. He was merely trying to tempt him with benefits.
That counted as retaining a sliver of principle.
But even now, they still had not made a move. Heiduo had no idea what they were afraid of.
They were being rather timid about it.
"Are you truly unwilling?" The middle-aged man did not care in the slightest about what Heiduo had said. Heiduo thought he was doing this for some contestant,