Gateon Port.
The port city that served as Orre's gateway to the outside world.
Of the region's three major towns, it had been the first transport hub secretly liberated and brought under the Rescue Organization's control. Work to expand and renovate it had begun well before similar projects in Pyrite Town and Silicon Beryllium City.
When Baimu boarded the Love Milotic, he had seen several areas near the docks being demolished.
Now,
the port was more than three times the size it had been half a year ago.
Rows of ten-thousand-ton freighters unloaded trade goods and donations. Workers drove forklifts or operated gantry cranes and other heavy equipment, while Machop and Machoke in hard hats helped alongside them. The whole place bustled with activity.
At a glance, it rivaled even the port at Rustboro in Hoenn.
The Rescue Organization had clearly invested heavily in it.
People from other regions now made up a substantial share of the city's population. Some had been sent by their companies to help build Orre; others had come to start businesses of their own in a land finding its feet again.
Some had even traveled all this way to live in seclusion.
Unlike before, Pokémon were no longer a rare sight in Gateon Port. They could be seen everywhere.
For many people of Orre, this thriving, peaceful scene made the past hard to look back on. Without exception, they considered the Gateon Port once ruled by gangs and Ejin's men a living hell.
Back then, who had gone to work without a worried face, hoping only that their foreman would not dock their meager pay again and fearing that a passing gang member might shake them down?
Now children's laughter rang out everywhere. Families lived in new homes and had clean freshwater, and the hardworking