After all the extra coaching Xiao Ran had given her lately, Wang Yunshu ranked among the strongest of the visiting teachers and students. Yet even she was no match for the students from the other universities.
Their record naturally drew plenty of criticism, wiping out the prestige earned by Xiao Ran's victory that night and the first win Cheng Xuewen had secured.
By the third day, after another five rounds of defeats, all the teachers and students from China felt as though people were pointing and whispering about them whenever they walked outside. It was deeply uncomfortable.
Even Principal Eve's attempts to offer an indirect explanation had done nothing to help. The teachers and students from the other universities naturally refused to pass up a chance to mock the visitors from China. After all, their reasons for coming here had never been innocent.
"Franklin, these people from China don't look like much to me. How much longer do we have to keep this up?" Several students had gathered in a dorm room, and one of them addressed Franklin, who was feeding his Pokémon.
"Our targets are those two Legendary Pokémon. Pokémon like those should obviously stay in our Federation Empire. Leaving them in the hands of those people from China is a waste of resources. So now we need to think about how to get those two Legendary Pokémon back," Franklin said, as though it were only natural.
"Exactly. How can we let Legendary Pokémon stay in China? They clearly belong to our Federation Empire," another student chimed in.
Anyone familiar with the Federation's universities would have realized that almost everyone present was a leading student at their respective school.
Although none of them was an Awakened, each could be considered the strongest student below the Awakened at their university.