Old friends had reunited. Apart from Miss Siebold, who had already left, everyone who had once helped make their Gym the number one Gym in the Kalos Region was here.
"So Miss Siebold was called back by the Battle Chateau?"
Yong asked in surprise.
"But the Battle Chateau shouldn't have the prestige and standing it used to have in Kalos anymore, right? Why did Miss Siebold go back?"
In the Kalos Region as it stood now...
The Pokémon League was still the one in charge!
Although Champion Miss Diantha was a native Kalos Trainer and the strongest Duchess from the Battle Chateau, she was nothing like the delicate woman her appearance suggested.
After all, she had personally crushed the Battle Chateau's active forces!
That had drastically weakened the Battle Chateau, stripping it of its former symbolic significance and status. It had also dealt a devastating blow to the Pokémon Association, formed by Kalos's entrenched local factions, and opened the door for the Pokémon League to enter!
Over the past year and more, under Miss Diantha's leadership, the old conservative factions and hardliners had been battered into disarray. The League had taken control of large areas, and resources from various regions, along with extensive improvements at the grassroots level, had transformed Kalos. The reputations of both the Pokémon League and Miss Diantha had risen as a result.
The people had finally accepted the Pokémon League, and the Kalos Region had at last come under its jurisdiction.
The League's Professor was naturally Professor Sycamore, whom Yong knew well. He was also responsible for distributing Pokémon to each year's new Traveling Trainers in Kalos.
Below him were the Kalos Elite Four!
Among them was Mr. Siebold, a native Trainer who had long since sided with the League. He specialized in Water-type Pokémon and