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Over the weekend, the number of Trainers who came to challenge the Sunshine Gym doubled.
Most of them were familiar faces Qingyu remembered.
The pass rate among these returning challengers had also quietly risen to nearly 20%.
Some of the students who had fallen just short might pass next time.
Though challenging the Gym was genuinely a bit torturous, many Trainers quietly realized something during those three weeks of studying strategies so obsessively that they forgot to eat and sleep-
I actually seem to have gotten pretty good!
Compared with their Pokémon growing stronger, changes in a Trainer's thinking might not be as obvious, but they could definitely feel their own improvement in battle.
And that, naturally, was thanks to the Sunshine Gym's assessment.
"If you can't win a battle, try looking at your own problems! How come other people can pass, but you get absolutely thrashed? Because you aren't working hard enough!"
"If you put in two hundred times the effort, next year on the One Piece set... no, next year on Victory Road, you'll be the main characters!"
Though Qingyu's words were a little grating, many students realized once they thought it over-
Teacher Yu wasn't lying. Hard work really does pay off!
If hard work pays off, and learning how to think is all it takes to get stronger...
Then I'll fucking study, study, study!
The teachers at Naranja Academy had tried everything and still failed to make these students so eager and diligent, yet Qingyu had inadvertently accomplished that very feat...
Because of this, the Sunshine Gym's reviews on the League App abruptly shifted from a flood of negative feedback to "mixed."
It was still just a teensy-tiny bit behind the other Gyms, which routinely had positive review rates above 80%.
But for the Sunshine