At home.
Li Wei and Cynthia were both standing on their balconies,
chatting on the phone across the sea.
"I suggest you take a good look at the competition rules first."
There was a hint of laughter in Cynthia's suggestion.
Cynthia had guessed that Li Wei hadn't read the competition rules again.
She wasn't wrong.
Li Wei still hadn't learned his lesson from the Master League.
He hadn't read the rules carefully at all.
Cynthia teased him. "Everyone says to read the question carefully. You need to read the rules, too."
"All right, go take a look and you'll understand."
Since Cynthia had put it that way, Li Wei had to check the rules, even if he couldn't be bothered.
There were indeed rules beneath the poster.
They mainly covered the three stages of the race.
The first stage was for the Trainers, who had to run across a balance beam. That was no big deal.
Li Wei had pretty good balance.
But the second stage posed a problem...
"What?!"
The second stage had to be completed by the Trainer and their Pokémon together, with the Trainer doing most of the work.
The Pokémon had to sit in a food cart holding Poffins,
while the Trainer pulled it along the second leg of the course...
The crucial detail Li Wei had also noticed was that
the racecourse had slopes!
Li Wei: "..."
I have to pull Arcanine through the race?!
Seriously, man?!
Is this race even humanly possible?
The average Arcanine weighed 155 kilograms, but Li Wei's Arcanine weighed over 350!
For a moment, Li Wei felt like dropping out...
No wonder Steven had said he wouldn't bring Metagross.
He wasn't even bringing Lairon.
He was bringing Aron!
Li Wei had thought Steven had turned over a new leaf.
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