After a night's rest, Xia You met up with Erika the next morning and arrived at the dining hall to find Kenta and Marina already waiting there. Plates sat in front of them, but they had eaten all the food, leaving only a few scraps behind.
The two sat there chatting on and off. There was no telling how long they had been there.
Glancing down at the time, Xia You walked over to them and asked in surprise, "It's not even seven, and you've already finished breakfast? Isn't that a little too early to get up?!"
It wasn't that Xia You liked sleeping in. Rather, Pokémon Trainers like them had no work or school to attend, so aside from occasionally getting up early to travel, they generally didn't make a point of going to bed early and rising early. Their daily routines mostly depended on their moods.
"It's all Kenta's fault!" At the sight of them, Marina first let out a huge yawn before complaining, "He said he was worried Raikou would sneak off, so he went to visit it in its room before dawn. I ended up getting up with him. I'm so sleepy."
"Huh?" Erika asked curiously. "Even so, shouldn't he have gone by himself? Why were you with him?"
At that, Marina flushed slightly. "His footsteps were too loud! He woke me up."
Xia You and Erika exchanged a glance.
That excuse was really a stretch...
After all, the boys and girls stayed in different dorm rooms some distance apart, and the dorms had decent soundproofing. Unless Kenta had deliberately gone to wake her, there was no way Marina could have heard his footsteps unless she had already been awake!
This girl wasn't telling the truth...
Thinking about it, that made sense. As his childhood friend,