He didn't disturb Luo Geng, who was playing with his two Pokémon.
To be honest, after an entire month, Heiduo still hadn't found the right way to get along with Luo Geng. Faced with a student who was always respectful and afraid to even breathe too loudly in front of him, he had no idea what to say.
Make small talk?
That wasn't Heiduo's style.
Battle?
Weren't they doing that every day?
Heiduo deeply felt that there was an unfathomable generation gap between himself and Luo Geng.
That gap left Heiduo and Luo Geng with nothing to talk about except Pokémon training.
Let alone any bond between master and apprentice.
In the end, Heiduo simply hadn't been prepared to be a teacher, nor had he regarded Luo Geng as one of his own.
After all, Moro, Luo Geng's father, had used withdrawing from the competition as leverage to force Luo Geng onto Heiduo. Although Yujian and Teng Jun had spoken up for him, Heiduo had instinctively viewed Moro as someone who took shortcuts. His first impression had been terrible.
After that reverse association, Heiduo naturally had no particularly good impression of Luo Geng either. On top of that, Luo Geng had initially been timid and submissive, and Heiduo knew nothing about his character. There had been no foundation between them at all.
Frankly, if Heiduo hadn't felt that half-assing things violated his principles, this little brat with zero trainer experience would have only received two months of perfunctory instruction before leaving with four moves he neither understood nor knew how to use.
If that didn't seem like enough, Heiduo could have added two more. In any case, one move only cost one Attribute Point, which was nothing to him.
Of course, that was only an option if Heiduo had been