"Teacher Yu was already here?"
About an hour later, when Lucian entered the hotel beside the Pokémon Dome to register for the tournament, he spotted an incredibly familiar name on the same sheet of paper.
Qingyu!
So he instinctively asked Officer Jenny, who was handling registration.
"Yes, Mr. Lucian. Your room is on the same floor as Teacher Yu's, so perhaps you could visit him before the tournament."
Officer Jenny nodded and offered the suggestion politely.
As everyone knew, thanks to some of Qingyu's videos, the Jenny and Joy families had both become diehard fans of Teacher Yu.
That was why his spectacular battle with Lucian during his last livestream appearance had become a favorite topic of conversation among them.
And greeting a Trainer you knew before a tournament seemed perfectly normal.
After a moment of silence, however, Lucian shook his head at Officer Jenny's suggestion.
"No, I'd better not."
"I hear Teacher Yu has been doing special training lately. If I visit him now, I'm bound to notice at least some of the Pokémon he's prepared specifically for this tournament."
"Teacher Yu probably wouldn't mind, but it's best to avoid outside factors that could affect our battles."
With that, Lucian picked up his luggage and walked into the elevator without looking back.
Once inside, he let out a sigh of relief.
Beyond the considerations he had just mentioned, there was actually a deeper reason, one even he was reluctant to admit, that had kept him from taking that first step and meeting Qingyu in person beforehand.
The reason was simple, if a little mystical:
Ever since confirming that Teacher Yu would enter the Psychic Power Masters Tournament, he had harbored a vague premonition-
Perhaps Teacher Yu would turn out to be this tournament's biggest dark horse?
He did not