Vermilion City.
The sea breeze blew gently, and Wingull flew alongside the cruise ships.
A long blast of a ship's horn sounded in the distance. Several cruise ships lay moored in the harbor.
This was the Kanto Region's famous port city-Vermilion City, a southern city bathed in the orange glow of sunset.
Anyone visiting Vermilion City who wasn't there for its water activities was naturally there for the Vermilion Gym standing before Li Wei.
It was a rectangular building with a yellow roof.
[Vermilion Gym]
An officially recognized Gym.
Although its Gym Leader, Lt. Surge, had once been an executive of Team Rocket,
the Pokémon League had put aside their past differences and allowed him to remain a Gym Leader.
Of course, Lt. Surge knew perfectly well why the Pokémon League had done so.
"Obviously, they wanted to save face!"
Li Wei clearly remembered the utterly untroubled look on Lt. Surge's face when he said that, after the two had gotten to know each other.
Team Rocket had once riddled the Pokémon League in Kanto and the Johto Region with infiltrators.
There had simply been too many people involved for the Pokémon League to hold them all accountable.
Both the Gym Leaders and the Pokémon League understood this without saying it.
Besides, Lance, the Champion and Chief Investigator, was primarily responsible for overseeing the Gym Leaders, so things had carried on peacefully.
The matter of Lt. Surge, Koga, Sabrina, and the others having joined Team Rocket was thus put behind them.
And it really was behind them. No one had made life difficult for them afterward.
After all, if they could join Team Rocket once, they could certainly do it again. There was no reason to back them into a corner.
The last time Li Wei passed through Vermilion City,