"All right, Xiao Mu. We still have work to do, so you'll stay with your eldest aunt for now. She'll help you prepare for the competition."
Xu Lan'er smiled and patted Xu Mu on the shoulder.
She had wanted to pat his head, but she was too short to reach it comfortably, so she settled for his shoulder.
Xu Lan'er was the shortest of his seven aunts. But what she lacked in height, she made up for elsewhere.
Her figure!
That sort of thing came down to natural talent. Some people went their whole lives without knowing what it felt like to hit eighty miles an hour.
Xu Lan'er, on the other hand, was a legendary one hundred and twenty!
(If you don't get it, check the comments. Someone well-endowed can probably explain.)
After seeing off his other six aunts, Xu Hong took Xu Mu for a walk around the courtyard.
"We'll go to the Secret Realm outside Qin City in a bit. Pack enough food. We'll spend the next month training there."
"After that, we'll use the training room to consolidate what you've learned."
Without his trial cards, Greninja was the strongest of Xu Mu's Pokémon. After transforming, he could reach the middle stage of the Master level.
He could even hold his own against someone at the Master Peak.
But that was nowhere near enough against an Invincible powerhouse like Xu Hong.
Every Pokémon on Xu Hong's team was Champion-level. Xu Mu had no chance of beating her.
That made her guidance all the more important to him.
"Okay. I'll follow your lead, Aunt Hong."
At the mention of a Secret Realm, Xu Mu felt a flicker of panic.
But he had just been through something huge. Even Unown had shown up.
Surely nothing dangerous would happen