Shen Qi had no idea where Principal Gui had gotten it, but he always felt that vending machine was older than the eight-year-old Pokémon High School.
"Shen Qi..."
On the grass, Lilligant sat up and looked toward the Sports Field.
She felt that something was off.
Shen Qi thought something was off too. Dodo had been gone a little too long.
They could not see the front of the Sports Equipment Warehouse from here, but it was not actually far away, only about a three- or four-minute walk.
With Dodo's intelligence and capabilities, she could certainly operate a vending machine. Now that fifteen or sixteen minutes had passed without her returning, it was hard not to feel that something had gone wrong.
But what could possibly go wrong at Pokémon High School...
Shen Qi was just about to get up and take Lilligant over to check when he saw the pink-and-blue blocky Block Duck ambling around the corner ahead.
Two bottles of drinks floated beside her, along with the change.
That counted as completing her task and helping out, but Dodo looked terribly aggrieved, as though someone had bullied her.
"That doesn't make sense either."
Shen Qi hurried over to Dodo, still puzzled. The students at Pokémon High School did not recognize a Pokémon like Porygon and kept a certain distance because of how unusual she was, but they were unlikely to bully a Pokémon.
"What happened to you...?"
Looking thoroughly wronged, Dodo floated the things over to Shen Qi.
She said she had done something bad, leaving a few boys beside the Sports Field both angry and helpless.
"What kind of bad thing?"
Again, Shen Qi found it hard to believe Porygon could make any mistakes while operating an old vending machine.
In fact, it had not been a