On the screen.
The train's transition animation perfectly recreated the game.
Resting his chin on his hand, Baimu reflected on how hard it was to challenge the Pokémon League in the Galar Region. Even with a lucky break, you had to start as a Gym Trainer before you could earn the right to compete.
The bar was too high!
Though Dynamax battles had made it unavoidable, it also made chasing their dreams harder for young boys and girls.
There was little barrier if all they wanted was to become Trainers.
[You arrived in Stow-on-Side.]
The schoolgirl left the station with her dreams in her heart and headed straight for Stow-on-Side Stadium.
At the sight of the familiar pixelated outline of the purple stadium, Baimu knew the timeline must be after Rose had made his name.
Pokémon Gyms in other regions came in all shapes and sizes. In the Galar Region, they were important facilities built to roughly the same design, distinguished mainly by the stadiums' colors and emblems.
Wyndon Stadium was the exception. It looked rather extravagant.
Inside the lobby.
The schoolgirl found the Gym Leader.
As expected, he was not Allister, the shy boy whose appearance made it hard to tell whether he was a boy or a girl.
The current Gym Leader was a middle-aged man dressed like an adventurer. His Runerigus floated beside him, the pattern on its face framing a single purple eye.
It looked comical and unsettling at once.
[You handed the Gym Leader your letter of introduction. He accepted it, but his expression turned conflicted.]
An ellipsis appeared above the Stow-on-Side Gym Leader's head. Under the schoolgirl's expectant gaze, he admitted that he had not wanted to take her in.
The reason was his other job.
The Stow-on-Side Gym Leader