Hooooonk!
With a blast of its horn, a small passenger ship slowly docked at the pier in Cherrygrove City in the Johto Region.
This was Cherrygrove City, a city filled with the fragrance of flowers.
Though this coastal city enjoyed an advantageous location, its small size had kept its economy from developing, so it had only a small pier, with just a few scheduled boats making trips each day.
Fortunately, it had a direct route from the metropolis in the Orange Islands, sparing Xia You the trouble of transferring and allowing him to reach it by boat directly.
The moment Xia You stepped off the passenger ship with Sabrina and set foot on land, he could not help stretching luxuriously.
"Man, over thirty hours at sea! That was exhausting!"
Sabrina glanced at him and exposed him without mercy. "Exhausting? Apart from having a few battles with those Pokémon Trainers on board, didn't you spend most of your time sleeping in bed? How could you still be tired?"
Stretching his slightly sore lower back, Xia You laughed. "Sleeping all the time was exactly what made me tired. A small passenger ship like that keeps rocking with the waves. You can't get any proper rest, and it only makes you more exhausted."
At that moment, Gengar poked his head out of Xia You's shadow. He looked around and sniffed hard, then said in surprise, "So this is the Johto Region? This is my first time here, but the air and the buildings around us don't seem any different from Kanto!"
"They really don't look very different," Xia You explained. "They're on the same continent, after all. They're only divided into two regions because the Indigo Plateau lies between them. Even the Johto League is based on the Indigo Plateau, just like Kanto's!"