In the days after leaving Trainer School,
Heiduo searched for a mountain suitable for Tyranitar to inhabit while keeping an eye on news related to Hoenn.
Ruby had said earlier that he was moving to Hoenn, but that had merely been advance notice. Moving house was never that fast, especially when it meant relocating across regions. There were arrangements to make in every respect.
As for when exactly that brat would move there, it seemed to be on his birthday. Then his father would give him a pair of "Running Wild" shoes—but how many days were left until his birthday?
It seemed there were still over twenty days.
In over twenty days, the Ruby and Sapphire arc would officially begin.
The entire story of the Ruby and Sapphire arc took place during the eighty-day wager between Ruby and Sapphire: to win a Pokémon Contest and challenge Gyms.
Eighty days before was Ruby's birthday, and eighty days later was Sapphire's birthday. The time they had agreed on was eighty days...
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
Too much, too much.
And you still say this isn't a romance manga?
Though a romance drama between two eleven-year-old kids was, honestly, a little...
Forget it. It had little to do with him anyway. He only needed to keep an eye on the news over there.
"Do you think this luck of yours is working sometimes and failing other times, or is there really something wrong with that mountain?"
It was hard to imagine that Heiduo, blessed by luck as he was, would actually have a day when things went wrong. He had searched for several days, even ridden on Garchomp's back to search from the air, yet he still could not find a mountain around his Gym suitable for Tyranitar to inhabit.
—Other than that mountain