November 10, Monday.
Qingyu had spent an unusually fulfilling weekend.
Perhaps because the Sunshine Gym was gradually making a name for itself at Naranja Academy, quite a few students in uniform had come to challenge it over those two days.
This should have been a win-win situation.
The students received guidance from the Gym Leader through their challenges, gaining a clearer idea of how to improve next.
The Sunshine Gym gained plenty of popularity and had now generated a little buzz locally in Paldea.
The gym's Pokémon had also seized the opportunity to gain a wealth of practical battle experience.
Even Nemona's Pawmi had evolved into Pawmo after one of the battles.
They were winning so hard it was almost ridiculous!
If this kept up, the Sunshine Gym might genuinely become an "internet-famous gym" with a little more growth.
Of course, that was impossible.
Because once Monday arrived, the students were locked inside the cage called school, with the right to come and go freely only returning on weekends.
Qingyu had actually looked utterly bewildered when he learned this.
After all, in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the protagonist he controlled had barely returned to school after enrolling...
"Why is studying still compulsory even after I've come to the Pokémon world?!"
But that soon reminded him of a student organization that had a major influence on the game's story-
Team Star!
This was an antagonistic organization made up of troublesome students, and one of the game's three main storylines.
Before the protagonist enrolled, Naranja Academy had just undergone a complete overhaul, with almost all its administrators and teachers replaced.
Only fragments of what exactly had happened could be gleaned from Team Star's storyline.
One thing was certain: bullying at Naranja Academy had already become extremely severe at the time, which was