With the frequent requests to battle their students, the Chinese students had to fight around ten matches a day on average, losing far more often than they won.
Aside from Wang Yunshu and Cheng Xuewen, who occasionally managed a win, the others almost always lost. Even Veranica had once needed to use her third Elite Class Pokémon to secure victory.
The Chinese students' string of defeats also set the Federation Empire's students talking, and hardly anyone attended the instructors' open lectures anymore.
Some students were openly provoked as they walked around campus, with people bluntly calling everyone from China useless. Fortunately, Principal Eve intervened in time and made those students bow their heads and apologize, preventing a confrontation.
But that was no lasting solution. If things continued like this, the exchange program would undoubtedly become a joke. All the instructors and students were at their wits' end.
Xiao Ran had no good solution either. After all, the Chinese students who had come for the academic exchange really were lacking in strength, and academic exchange had never been their primary purpose in coming.
Fortunately, although they were struggling in Pokémon battles, their performance on the Pokémon Breeder side was quite good with Xiao Ran backing them up, which salvaged some of their dignity.
"Xiao Ran, your students seem to have gotten into an argument with some Federation students. They're about to head to the Battlefield!" On the final day of the exchange tournament, Xiao Ran was feeding his Pokémon in his room when Veranica suddenly appeared using Teleport.
"An argument with Federation students? What happened?" Xiao Ran paused, put down what he was holding, and asked.
"Apparently, they went to the exchange tournament early this morning and got mocked on the way. Things escalated, and now they're heading to the Battlefield!"