Felton had even dressed it up as assigning him a few assistants to help. Xiao Ran did not refuse. Why turn down free labor?
Meanwhile, Qiu Yuxuan and the others took the four little ones sightseeing around Melemele Island.
The mysterious Verdant Cave, the beautiful sea and beaches... whether they caught any Pokémon was unclear, but they certainly had fun.
Dangerous though the Alola Great Secret Realm was, it was still a vacation-oriented Secret Realm. With proper development, life there could be quite comfortable.
And after years of development on Melemele Island, ordinary daily life was no longer a problem, as long as people stayed out of the more dangerous areas.
While Xiao Ran and his companions settled into a brief period of peaceful living, some people were growing anxious from waiting.
Franklin and the others, who had entered the Secret Realm a day later, were now sitting in a hotel, looking deeply troubled.
"What do we do? That brat keeps staying in the research institute without coming out. We can't exactly storm the place, can we?" Jefferson tugged irritably at his collar and drained the red wine in his glass.
"Forget the institute. Even if they come out, we can't act rashly. Plenty of people on Melemele Island have their eyes on him!" Franklin said, equally frustrated.
As the person chiefly responsible for this incident, he had received an absolute order from above: handing over the Legendary Pokémon fossil was out of the question. He had to find a way to resolve this himself, and absolutely no scandal could be allowed to break.
For Franklin, that made the Alola Great Secret Realm his last chance. If he could not get rid of Xiao Ran inside the Secret Realm, the school term would already be starting by the time Xiao