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The Gym opened for business on its first day.
According to the registration order, those with four Badges went first, followed by two with seven Badges. They were all men.
Everyone who had registered yesterday had shown up, presumably wanting to gauge Heiduo's abilities.
But aside from those who had come to probe him, even more people had arrived as well.
Yet they did not seem to be from the same group.
"Are these all students from the Trainer Academy?"
Heiduo frowned as he swept his gaze over the students standing around the edge of the battle field. They ranged in age, male and female alike, and wore standard uniforms.
They whispered among themselves, their eyes mostly wandering between Heiduo's face and the construction site beside him. Laughter and chatter rose one after another.
Most of them had a Pokémon at their side, and their Energy Levels varied.
They clearly had not been brought here by the challengers.
Heiduo's gaze shifted to the challengers, who also seemed baffled by the number of people present and kept glancing around.
The answer ultimately came from Umbreon.
It was simple. News that Heiduo had come here had leaked out, though the source was unknown.
But it had already spread across Millennium Town's major forums.
More importantly, Heiduo's name had appeared on the Trainer Forum long ago. Naturally, that was because three academy-trained Trainers from other regions, the strongest of their class, had secretly gone out to enter a battle tournament. Yet they had not only failed to win the Championship—they had not even taken second or third place.
That had made the students especially curious about who exactly had won the Championship.
In short.
Heiduo had always counted as something of a celebrity in Millennium Town, so