"Wait? A temporary Gym?"
Heiduo found himself in Teng Jun's office once again.
However, it had already been nearly a month since the Gym Leader assessment ended.
Yet this time, what Teng Jun brought Heiduo was not good news.
"That's right. Because of what happened on Indigo Plateau, and because of the Silver Conference over the past two years, more and more Trainers have been challenging Gyms. There are also more and more Trainers from outside..." Teng Jun gave a bitter laugh. "A lot of Trainers haven't been able to get all their Badges, and they've started filing complaints."
Last year, Pryce had slacked off for nearly an entire year in order to carry out his plan.
As a result, there hadn't been many traditional Trainers at last year's Silver Conference. Strictly speaking, Zheng Qi had gotten lucky.
The traditional Trainers hadn't even collected all their Badges yet. Most of them had been stuck on the eighth Badge.
Now, with half of this year nearly gone, Mahogany Gym was still closed. Some traditional Trainers had finally reached their limit and gone to the Pokémon Association to complain nonstop.
They said they had waited and waited.
An entire Silver Conference had passed, yet Pryce still hadn't returned. The Gym was still closed and unattended. After waiting for over a year, not only had the Gym Leader failed to return, the bastard had outright retired!
Who could put up with that?
Could you put up with that?
Anyway, those hot-blooded traditional Trainers certainly couldn't. A whole group of them gathered outside the Pokémon Association every day, frightening the staff half to death.
Heiduo twitched the corner of his mouth. "...So I'm taking over Pryce's mess?"
"How is it a mess? It's your duty to begin with... Try to understand them. Those Trainers