[You have gathered all the Badges and earned the qualification to enter the Champion Cup.]
The Psychic officially became the first challenger to earn the right to challenge the Champion Cup, instantly rising to fame and being worshipped by many Galar Region citizens.
Before he could attend a few TV shows or interviews, however, the Psychic vanished completely.
Only Rose, who had talked with him at the gates of Hammerlocke, knew that this guy had gone to the Wild Area into secluded training to raise his Pokémon, intending to adjust his condition to the peak before the Champion Cup began.
Such things were actually very common.
Even without Rose mentioning it, Baimu had seen Bea get so depressed after being beaten by Leon that she ran off to the Wild Area to train, and even got herself stuck in a sinkhole and almost couldn't get out in Twilight Wings.
The Psychic also had self-awareness; through the Gym Challenge, he had already made a rough estimate of the strength possessed by the Gym Leaders—
Winning would be very difficult.
[You thought to yourself that you already felt a considerable amount of pressure just defeating a Gym Leader going all out, let alone challenging the one known as the world's strongest monarch, Leon, which inevitably made you train even harder.]
The Psychic's method of raising Pokémon wasn't much different from Baimu's, as he also got as involved as possible.
Yet he found that the former's physical strength was far too high for him; the mere stunt of the Psychic stopping a charging Galarian Rapidash in its tracks was something he could never imitate.
Earlier, Baimu had tried to stop Hydreigon's collision, only to be sent flying, and that scene was still fresh in his memory.
Was Psychic power really that overpowered?
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