Eight in the morning, outside the Pokémon Center.
After breakfast, Xia You and Misty stood opposite Ash and his friends, saying their goodbyes.
But compared with Xia You, Ash, and Brock, who were calmly used to this, Misty and May found this farewell much more upsetting.
Reluctant to part, the two held hands and hugged as though they were saying goodbye forever.
In the end, Ash could no longer stand watching and blurted out, "You'll see each other again soon. It might only be a few days. Do you really need to act like this?"
"What do you know!?"
Misty wiped the corner of her eye with a finger and rolled her eyes at him. "How could an emotional idiot like you understand the feelings between us women?"
"Women?"
Hearing that word, Brock looked Misty and May up and down and shook his head. "It's too early for you two to call yourselves women. Give it another ten years or so..."
Before he could finish, Misty casually threw her backpack into his face, knocking him straight down.
Withdrawing his entirely unsympathetic gaze from Brock, Max pushed up his glasses and said helplessly to May, "If you're so reluctant to part, why don't you just travel together?"
Travel together?
The thought stirred both Misty and May. They exchanged a glance, only to sigh together.
How could they not want to travel together?
But although Xia You and Ash were friends, they were also rivals. Meeting occasionally like this was fine, but traveling together was simply impossible.
But if one of them were to leave her group and join the other...
Misty naturally could not leave Xia You, while May could not abandon her little brother Max. Both had their own reasons, so how could they change groups as they pleased?
*Ah,