The Vertress Conference.
Held in Vertress City, north of Opelucid City, where the legendary Cameron had made his name.
[You had waited a long time for this day.]
Perhaps because of Team Plasma's influence,
there weren't many entrants this year.
But the nurse underestimated no opponent. Every one of her Pokémon had seen real battles and earned a professional nursing license.
After going all the way around,
she was still the only fake nurse among them.
Of course,
the nurse no longer cared about that. All she wanted was to dive into the mess surrounding Team Plasma.
To do that, she needed to become Champion or join the Elite Four.
Just as she'd once failed to outdo Joy and promptly run away to Castelia City to find work.
[Your resolve was unshakable.]
The Vertress Conference began.
The preliminaries.
One victory was all it took to advance to the first round.
The nurse's distinctive outfit drew plenty of attention. If not for her black hair, some might have thought Joy herself had arrived.
Everyone was curious about her and the Audino wearing a nurse's cap.
Who was this girl?
Soon,
the spectators forgot all that and focused entirely on the match.
Audino showed its "patient" the tenderest care, striking again and again until it easily cured the poor thing of its "desire to win."
Her opponent's face twisted.
How could an angelic nurse hit so hard?
Clearly, they hadn't learned that the pinker they looked, the harder they hit.
[You advanced to the first round.]
[Your confidence in your abilities grew. You were determined to win the whole tournament.]
Her preliminary opponent had given the nurse a tremendous boost in confidence.
If every trainer was like that, she figured winning the tournament would be easy.
In the first two rounds,
Audino