Although quite a few islands lay between Lilycove City and Mossdeep City-including the famous Judge School Island-the distance between the two was not far. After a journey of more than half a day by boat, Mossdeep City's characteristic tea-red residential roofs came into view in the distance, looking much like an open field of red camellias and appearing quite beautiful under the sunlight. The first stop after coming ashore was naturally the Pokémon Center, and after inquiring about the Pokémon Contest registration location, Liu Yuan immediately ran over to sign up while Liu Qing packed up their bags, booked another room, and waited for Liu Yuan to return so they could head toward the Mossdeep Gym together.
"Older brother, I heard that the Pokémon Trainer at the Mossdeep Gym has changed and that a pair of twins has taken over. The challenge rule is a double battle where each of them uses one Pokémon, and the challenger uses two," Liu Yuan recounted the latest information he had gathered during registration. "This challenge is really a bit tricky."
"A Gym is inherently a place to test a trainer's training results; if there were no difficulty, Gym Badges would be everywhere! Besides, this is pretty much the same as the Gym rules in Kanto's Dark City, and the actual combat in the Grand Festival also involves pairs. You haven't had any experience using two Pokémon yet, so this time you can see how older brother does it." Liu Qing had already learned about this Gym's information beforehand. The original Gym Leader should have been these twins' father, who excelled at using Psychic-type Pokémon. Although a new Gym Leader had taken over now, the type was impossible to change.
The Mossdeep Gym was a representative building in Mossdeep City, easily recognized by the