A Champion Arrives

Liu Ge and the others had acted just in time.

The people planted near Ejin soon discovered that a report about the Rescue Organization had been submitted from below.

But it was quickly buried beneath news of the Rainbow Team's formation.

Ejin never even looked at the report. After decades without organized resistance, he thought such a thing impossible. He had only one comment about the Rainbow Team's new leader, Baimu.

"A brat who doesn't know how the world works."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, the Ejin Force made its move after two days of rest and observation of the situation in Pyrite Town.

What happened to Chester, who had surrendered, surprised many. Ejin named him one of the chief instigators of the Quicksand Team's invasion of the Hound Team and handed him over to the International Police, whom a Pokémon League prosecutor had summoned.

A large number of captured Quicksand Team members were handed over as well.

Ejin's message was clear: the ringleaders had been dealt with, so everyone should look the other way and let the matter rest.

The move caught them completely off guard. Ejin was trying to bury what had happened in Pyrite Town while acting as though everyone else was an idiot.

He thought handing over a few random people would make it all go away?

He had it coming!

Startled as they were, the Rescue Organization now felt even more certain they could defeat Ejin.

Pyrite Town.

Before the Ejin Force arrived, the Rainbow Team received reinforcements from Agate Village.

Baimu had the good fortune to meet Logan, the grandfather of Mire, the game's heroine. In the game, Logan was the only person with the title of Legendary Trainer.

He looked like Gandalf: an old man in his