Not enough competitive Pokémon?
Baimu frowned. What kind of reason was that?!
Drayton laughed heartily. "Another one of that guy's new club rules, huh? With the new president taking office, the League Club is really thriving~"
You brat.
Were you being sarcastic?
Baimu turned to look at him. Drayton smiled innocently and said:
"Sorry, Champion. Our school culture is pretty free, so we basically get to decide a lot of things ourselves."
"Including kicking people out of the League Club whenever you feel like it?"
Drayton smiled even more brightly, while Carmine's expression turned extremely unpleasant.
The League Club had existed for a long time, dating back to Shan Ren's school days. Back then, there were no so-called Champions or Elite Four, only simple rankings.
To put it bluntly, 95% of Blueberry Academy's students joined the League Club. After all, it was a school specifically meant to train Pokémon Trainers.
Given that environment, students who did not join stood out as different.
If they were strong, that was one thing. If they were not, they would inevitably face rejection and isolation from their classmates.
Being driven out of the League Club was even worse.
It practically marked someone as a target for bullying—something similar had once happened at Naranja Academy.
While the three spoke, some of the students caught sight of Baimu's face, along with the Mawile accompanying him...
"It's the Champion!"
"Orre Champion Baimu!"
With those two cries, the people who had been comforting the female student turned toward him in a mixture of shock and delight.
The next moment.
Everyone surrounded Baimu, squeezing Drayton and Carmine out of the crowd. One smiled indifferently, while the other clenched her fists through gritted teeth.
"That's so rude!"
Carmine tried to squeeze back in, but the excited students had already packed