"Wild fighting... Coach, you've finally found the right person."
"How so?"
"Wild fighting is actually my specialty. It even took a while to get my Meownei to rein in those habits."
Back then, whenever a battle started, Meownei wanted to strike the opposing Trainer first. It had taken several days to adjust to the arena format.
"Meowscarada... can it hold back properly? You don't want to send a newcomer to Nurse Joy on his first day of tryouts, do you?"
"It won't come to that. Meownei is very familiar with this sort of thing. He definitely won't need to be hospitalized."
For some reason, Jia Qiong felt there was something wrong with Xin Mu's answer. Not needing to be hospitalized and not needing to go to the hospital seemed like two entirely different things.
"But I've honestly never met anyone at school who likes wild fighting. Where did you recruit this guy?"
"He lived in the Unova Region as a kid and only moved back after he grew up. As you know, different regions have different approaches to education."
Children in Donghuang started traveling later, but that wasn't the case in other regions. As a result, some families took their children abroad once they reached the required age, letting them travel with their Pokémon for a while.
Depending on their circumstances, they would choose between settling there and returning home. But a change in living environment could change some people's outlook.
In a sense, wild fighting really was practical. In an arena, Pokémon fought one another, but that wasn't how things worked in the wild.
Against certain evil organizations, for example, attacking both the people and their Pokémon was the most efficient approach.
It was just that most people would probably never need that sort of experience in their entire