The scene gradually sped up.
Narration kept offering one explanation after another.
All kinds of information flashed before Baimu's eyes.
Among them, the transfer student's defeat of the rampaging Alolan Raticate and Rattata, her decision to take the Island Challenge, and her success in Hala's Grand Trial made the newspaper that afternoon.
No one knew who had spread the news.
But within a single day, word had reached nearly all of Melemele Island.
So when the girl went to school the next day, her classmates welcomed her warmly. In an instant, she went from the strange transfer student to someone everyone wanted to know.
She also made some genuine friends.
As for the two pixel figures who had looked rather like Team Skull members, they vanished entirely. Perhaps the girl simply wasn't paying attention to them anymore.
The reaction was so strong because trainers needed an Island King's approval to undertake the Island Challenge, and very few passed a Grand Trial and earned a Z-Ring and Z-Crystal.
In other words, whatever the relative difficulty, the achievement carried far more weight than a Gym Challenge in other regions.
"The parts they're fast-forwarding through are all everyday stuff..."
Baimu blinked. Although the girl had begun the Island Challenge, she still had schoolwork. She couldn't just drop out for it.
Besides, she wasn't the only student at her school taking the Island Challenge.
By this point, he had more or less guessed that her final result might depend on how far she progressed through the Island Challenge within a year. What he didn't know was whether passing the Grand Trials on all four islands would qualify her for the tournament, or whether some other measure applied.
Suddenly,
a line of narration caught his attention.
[After learning that your school would soon hold outdoor