June 26, 2057, League Calendar. Bingzhou, First Middle School, Pokémon Class 1.
Graduation was approaching, and these big kids in their final year of high school were always restless inside. As the first batch of guinea pigs for the college entrance exam reforms-oh, no, the first batch of students-they were all guessing what form the exam would take.
Class 1's classroom was visibly emptier than before. They had not changed classrooms; quite a few students had left.
For various reasons, perhaps uncertainty about their futures, perhaps a lack of confidence in raising their Pokémon, more than a dozen students had left Class 1 one after another and transferred to regular classes.
Teacher Sun did not approve of this approach. Pokémon classes did not focus on teaching academic knowledge in the traditional sense, so these students would certainly struggle to keep up after transferring back to regular classes. Although the final year of high school was all about reheating old leftovers, how could they possibly keep pace with everyone else's revision when they had not even previewed the material?
Bai Yun and Lin Lin, that pair of jokers, were still making a racket in the classroom, while Su Han propped herself up on her hand nearby, watching the sleeping Cheng Tian with tenderness flowing like water.
This guy had stayed up late studying again last night.
These kids were putting every ounce of strength into their final sprint to get into a good university. Cheng Tian was not worried in the slightest about his battling component, so he needed to prepare his theoretical knowledge. Ever since returning from Training Island last year, he had been studying hard.
His Pokémon had barely grown noticeably stronger. After all, there were no populations of Pokémon here like those on Training Island for him to