Journey in Search of a Mountain (49/55)

Not long after.

The villagers of Agate Village headed home one after another.

They truly were not suited to rebuilding a town, so they simply said their goodbyes rather than staying behind to waste food.

Besides, they hoped to actively prepare for the future League Conference and Champion League. Though neither was anywhere close to happening yet, those who had come from Battle Mountain were already filled with longing.

Baimu took the opportunity to spar with them and discovered that they truly deserved to be called some of Orre's finest Trainers. Even with two level-sixty Pokémon, he only won a handful of times.

While being thoroughly beaten senseless, he could not help feeling that the world was indeed vast. Even remote Orre was crowded with powerful people. There were surely even more formidable Trainers out in the wider world.

Not just Gym Leaders, Elite Four members, and Champions.

Former Conference Champions, Gym Leaders who did not exist in the games but did in the anime, and even the many Elite Four candidates—all of them were people he needed to surpass.

After the villagers of Agate Village left, Leo and Mire also returned to the International Police to report in.

Baimu had met the latter a few times. Her personality differed quite a bit from the game version, though he did not know whether that was because she was married or because she was an alternate-world counterpart.

Meanwhile.

Flobo received the International Police's plan for dealing with the members of the former major factions, including those who had committed numerous crimes—

They would atone through labor.

Based on the crimes they confessed to and that were verified, they would be assigned work rebuilding Pyrite Town and even all of Orre.

Aside from those whose sins were truly unforgivable, a large portion