Faced with this result, Danny gave a wry smile, but against such overwhelming strength, he accepted his defeat wholeheartedly.
"That's right, I lost. But the second match won't be another contest of strength. Instead, we'll use the blocks of ice we just made to craft something!"
As he spoke, he pointed at a wooden board. Xia You glanced over and saw a simple diagram of an ice boat!
"For this contest, you can only use three Pokémon. Whoever shapes their block of ice into a boat first wins the second match!"
So it really was this!
It looked like Danny's events were exactly as they had been in the anime-never changing at all!
"No problem. I accept your challenge."
Seeing Danny describe such an event with a completely straight face, Sabrina shook her head as she listened from the side.
Making boats out of ice?
Was this the standard of the Navel Gym!?
Freezing ice, making boats...
What would come next? Sliding down the mountain?
How absurd. Not only were these events astonishingly childish, they were even slightly worse than the Cinnabar Gym's Water Gun target shooting. Compared with the Indigo League, the gap was enormous. They had completely abandoned the Pokémon League's rules and dispensed with battling altogether!
In fact, ever since she had arrived in the Orange Islands, Sabrina had been drawn to the local customs and way of life. Her days with Xia You had given her many wonderful memories, too.
But deep down, she looked down on this Orange League, which was like nothing more than child's play!
Whether it was the Gym Leaders or their events, everything seemed amateurish and unprofessional!
Without any battles, what was the point of deciding a winner? Were they supposed to become all-around athletes?
But seeing that Xia You, the