After figuring that out, Leon stopped mentioning going out to train and joined them in waiting there.
Leon had already made up his mind to stick with Chen Shi from then on. He wasn't going anywhere else.
Ever since their first meeting, Leon had felt that Chen Shi was no ordinary person. He couldn't figure him out.
Besides, Chen Shi seemed to know a lot. Following him from now on surely couldn't go wrong.
Meanwhile, Lance studied Chen Shi discreetly, lost in thought.
Team Magma and Team Aqua had their own objectives, and Chen Shi surely had his own reasons for refusing to leave.
Could... their objectives be the same?
Were they after some treasure... or perhaps a rare Pokémon?
Or was Chen Shi's objective different from those two criminal organizations'?
What exactly was it?
If Chen Shi had known what Lance was thinking, he would have jumped up in anger and given him a huge slap.
After all the work he'd put in over the past few days, this was what the man thought of him.
Still, Lance couldn't really be blamed for thinking that way. He had seen too much darkness during his time as an Investigator, and sometimes he instinctively assumed the worst.
Time ticked by, yet in all the time since Leon had arrived, not a single other person had come over.
Pheobe couldn't help complaining. "Brother Chen Shi, why haven't Cynthia and the others come yet?"
"We've been waiting for so long."
Chen Shi shook his head without speaking.
Leon said, "It's not just Miss Cynthia. No one else has come either. Could they all have run into danger?"
"Surely not! I counted before I came in. There were seventy or eighty people! How could all of them have run into danger?" Pheobe exclaimed.