The next day.
At the Silver State Gym.
"Welcome to the Silver State Gym! How can I help you?"
The receptionist was a young-looking girl with a sweet smile.
Maybe she had only just started the job. Her smile had yet to turn numb and mechanical.
"Hello. I'd like to apply for a Gym Challenge, please." Mu Yun took out his credentials with practiced ease.
"Of course, sir!"
The girl accepted them with a sweet smile.
But when she saw that Mu Yun had already completed two Gym Challenges, one of them at a City Gym, her expression changed at once.
"That's amazing!"
The receptionist stared in awe at his age—eighteen—and the Level-Three Badge registered on his record.
At eighteen, she could only work a summer job at her second uncle's gym. At eighteen, he could beat Gym Leaders.
The gap between people really was something else!
"Xin Xin, could you take this gentleman straight to my second... to Gym Leader He?"
"Sure, Yue Yue!"
A girl answered from the lounge and came out.
Mu Yun glanced at her. She looked familiar.
She was the girl who had stood beside Yu Bo yesterday.
"Mu Yun!"
Yu Xin cried out when she saw who the challenger was.
She had squeezed some money out of her brother last night, but it still wasn't enough, so He Lun had suggested she get a summer job.
That was how she had ended up helping out at her second uncle's Silver State Gym.
She hadn't expected to run into someone she knew on her very first day!
And it was the guy who had thrashed both her and her brother!
"Hello."
Mu Yun wasn't surprised that Yu Xin knew his name.
She seemed close to Yu Bo, after all, and Mu Yun had beaten her