Since they had met again after so long apart, Xia You treated everyone to a meal once more, as usual. They enjoyed a lavish feast at a nice restaurant, giving everyone's stomachs a reward.
Although the food Brock prepared was delicious too, gathering together to eat, drink, and chat made for an entirely different atmosphere.
It was also then that Ash's group of three saw May's Eevee. They all played with it curiously for a while and congratulated May.
They also learned that May actually planned to use Eevee for the first-round Performance Evaluation at the Liudaomu Pokémon Contest.
At this news, Ash's group of three exchanged looks.
"Wouldn't that be a bit risky?" Brock hesitated before asking, "After all, this Eevee only hatched recently. Wouldn't entering it in a Pokémon Contest like this be pushing it too hard?"
As Brock said, this choice really was somewhat ill-advised.
After all, it was only at the previous contest that May had advanced to the second-round Battle Evaluation in first place for the very first time. Although her string of victories made things look promising, she had achieved all of them without any powerful opponents competing.
Once she encountered an opponent like Drew, she would inevitably face another hard battle.
So in their eyes, she should have been consolidating those results now, rather than trying out a new lineup.
After all, when a Pokémon lacked experience and had never entered a similar competition, even more depended on its Trainer's personal ability. That undoubtedly put enormous pressure on May.
But May clearly had her own considerations.
"It'll be fine." She waved a hand and smiled at them. "During our breaks these past few days, I showed Eevee lots of recordings, and we practiced a lot too. We work pretty well together. As long