There were only two minutes left until nine. Was he kidding, asking for a battle now?
Ash had no intention of giving the instructor a bad first impression.
Besides, he knew Long-Tailed Excavator's Trainer well. Chances were he was just here to stir up trouble. If Ash actually accepted his challenge, he would probably spout some nonsense to stall until the instructor arrived, then say something like, "Oh, the teacher's here! We'll battle next time. You'd better remember that!"
"Dong dong." Beldum protested.
It wanted to battle! When had it ever said it didn't?
"Class is about to start. We can't battle now," Ash said helplessly.
Before the instructor arrived, he explained to Beldum what "first impressions," "respect, kindness, and tolerance," and "being sweet, cute, and polite" meant, along with how to put them into practice. He was trying to mold it into a friendly player who would say please, thank you, and sorry in League of Legends.
"Hey, look! What's that?" Long-Tailed Excavator's Trainer shouted, pointing at the sky.
"Is that a Crobat?"
Crobat?
Ash caught that rather telling keyword.
He thought of someone.
Someone who would "pass by" a godforsaken place like this.
Ash couldn't help looking up.
"Hi, sorry for the wait." Fang Yexian slowly descended, standing on Crobat.
"Not at all. It's exactly nine now, isn't it?" The Counselor greeted him with a smile. He seemed to know Fang Yexian fairly well. "I was just worrying that you might get lost, and then you came down from the sky! Hahaha, what an entrance."
Ash quietly hid behind a female classmate.
Damn it.
I wanted to make a first impression on the instructor, but this wasn't a first impression anymore. It was a second one, wasn't it?
*And a terrible one at that. My sister had just