Hearthome City, Hearthome TV Station.
Time flew by.
Before long, it was contestant number 24, Li Wei's turn. As luck would have it, he was in the same group as Suzie, who was number 21.
When Li Wei stepped onto the stage, everyone in the audience turned their attention to him.
Even Li Wei had been used as one of the draws when promoting the competition.
After all, this was the man who had groomed the Sinnoh Champion's ace Garchomp.
"He's here. Isn't this basically smurfing?"
"To be fair, he's only nineteen. You can't really call it smurfing."
The young Pokémon Breeder competition was open to anyone under thirty, and Li Wei and Akin were the youngest contestants.
"Which Pokémon will he use? Lucario? Arcanine? Or his Shiny Metagross?"
The audience murmured among themselves.
"He'll probably pick a small Pokémon like everyone else, right? That would be easier."
Since the time allotted for Fur Care was fixed, choosing a smaller Pokémon made things simpler.
Akin's Typhlosion was already the largest Pokémon anyone had used.
"Come out, Milotic!"
Yet Li Wei's choice left the entire audience stunned.
He had actually chosen a Milotic over seven meters long!
"Huh? He's going to groom a Milotic in that little time?"
"Isn't he being a bit too cocky?"
Akin sent a voice message to the group chat.
"Holy crap, he picked Milotic."
Akin had just been showing off his impressive result, which had put him in first place for the moment.
Yellow asked worriedly, "Huh? Won't he run out of time?"
Blue chuckled. "No, that's more than enough time for him."
Even Dailan, Tetsugoro, and Morikawa on the judging panel weren't optimistic about Li Wei's chances.
"Though his Milotic certainly is beautiful."
"Milotic has a very close bond with him."
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