She cleared Hulbury Gym.
On her way back, the student chose to head straight down Route 5 toward Turffield instead.
[You set out for Route 5]
To her surprise, the elevated bridge connecting east and west was full of Trainers who stopped Gym Challenge participants like her and refused to let them pass without a battle.
After all, very few people qualified to challenge a Pokémon Gym.
Those who didn't were like the Trainers who had blocked Ash in the competitors' passage at the Lumiose Conference. They could only satisfy themselves by battling people who did qualify.
The student happened to lack experience battling strangers, so she was more than happy to oblige.
After training at Stow-on-Side Gym, she no longer shut herself away over a win or loss. She had accepted that she still had room to grow.
[You ignored your opponents' taunts after losing]
However.
She put her journey to Turffield on hold for a while.
Some people were so arrogant that they infuriated her, and her temper had never been the best. She refused to move on to the second Pokémon Gym until she had beaten them.
She also hoped to catch her childhood friend on the bridge, if he came this way.
Unfortunately.
By the time she had beaten everyone who had defeated her, he still hadn't appeared.
But the battles had paid off.
[Your Drakloak evolved into Dragapult]
Unfortunately, no one gave the student another Dreepy. Unless she found a way to get one, her Dragon Darts could only fire a single shot.
Or would that one Dreepy attack twice?
Baimu had never fought with such limited resources, so he had no idea how Dragon Darts worked with only one Dreepy.
Then came her fifth Pokémon.
After one battle, the student sat down on a