The matter of the Sevii Islands was completely settled. ♞♢ ☢🐊
After battling Lorelei, Heiduo returned to the Gym.
Millennium Town was warm and pleasant at the end of March, especially now that many wild Pokémon had returned to the area around the Gym.
Heiduo loved the spring here. After Yunsheng's construction crew left, they had not only laid down marble paths but also created a huge flower garden outside the Gym, complete with flowering trees and fruit trees. When spring arrived, all the flowers bloomed at once, dazzlingly bright and beautiful.
Even the air carried a faint fragrance.
And among the flowers, large numbers of Pokémon such as Ledyba, Ledian, Oddish, Gloom, Hoppip, and Skiploom rustled through the grass as they darted back and forth.
A nice place.
After deeply inhaling the scent of the flowers, Heiduo felt for the first time that building his Gym here had been absolutely the right decision.
"You're back?"
A canine head poked out from the top-floor balcony.
It was Umbreon.
After its battle with Giovanni ended, it had returned to the Gym, claiming it was too bored. Who would have thought Heiduo would dawdle for so long?
"Yeah."
In high spirits, Heiduo gave Umbreon a huge smile.
He and Umbreon could be said to know each other inside out, yet they had always maintained a tacit understanding.
Over the years, they had also given one another private space and never interfered with each other's lives.
Heiduo knew Umbreon had carved out its own world online. Even without him, it could live perfectly well.
But they both knew that the other was their only connection to that past world.
So perhaps they would never part for the rest of their lives. It was a strange bond, yet one that could endure firmly until