January 19, Monday.
It was another weekday when Sunshine Gym opened for challenges. Qingyu washed up bright and early, then sat on the living room sofa and opened Poké TV to see how the video he had posted last night was doing.
He would never have known without looking, but what he saw left him utterly dumbfounded.
"What the heck? My video's become a check-in spot for Officer Jennys?"
He scrolled down through the popular comments beneath the video. Page after page was filled entirely with Officer Jennys.
Aside from slight differences in their names and uniforms, their faces in their profile pictures were practically identical...
I can't tell them apart! I can't tell them apart!
Qingyu scratched his head and closed the comments, then quickly realized what was going on.
"Oh, right. Arcanine is the mainstay of the Beat Up Team. Doesn't that make this video an Officer Jenny magnet?"
The Joy and Jenny families, the Pokémon world's two enormous families, had two defining features: their members looked so much like clones that they were almost impossible to tell apart, and each family had its own signature Pokémon.
For the Joy family, it was Chansey and Blissey; for the Jenny Family, it was Growlithe and Arcanine.
These Pokémon had extremely demanding habitat requirements in the wild. Outside Paldea, with its exceptionally rich ecological resources, they were rarely found, so the two families had to breed them to ensure their populations survived.
Over time, the Pokémon had become deeply associated with the Joy and Jenny families.
The Beat Up Team video he had posted today presented a useful strategy for the Officer Jennys to learn.
After all, Officer Jenny and the police dealt with poaching gangs and Villainous Teams that never played by the rules. There was no need to