The applicant's name was: Lorelei.
"Huh?!"
Shen Qi stopped climbing the stairs and accepted the friend request.
ID Shen Qi: I'm at Pokémon High School... what's up?
ID Lorelei: It's about that Team Rocket incident. I'm coming over to talk to you in person. I'll wait outside the school.
It wasn't that Lorelei had been lingering in the Sevii Islands all this time. She was actually a resident of Island 4, and the first Pokémon she had obtained as a child had come from Icefall Cave.
The Sevii Islands' overall climate tended toward the subtropical and tropical. Icefall Cave on Island 4 could be called the only map associated with ice and snow, and it had also laid the foundation for Lorelei's specialty.
After sending Lorelei a reply, Shen Qi reached the top floor and heard a low, rambling mutter echoing down the hallway.
Was Principal Gui talking to someone?
In a situation like this, it was best to step away rather than eavesdrop.
Yet for roughly a minute, the intermittent voice belonged to Principal Gui alone.
Shen Qi couldn't make out the content, only confirm that the principal was continuously recounting something by himself.
If there were no visitors, Shen Qi was already here and had no reason to be timid. He strode toward the end of the hallway.
The principal's office door stood half-open. Inside, Principal Gui stood shakily before his desk, leaning on his cane and murmuring something before holding out a scroll-like paper document.
There was clearly no one in front of him...
Shen Qi soon realized this was the procedure for the graduation ceremony.
A graduate whose name was called would step onto the stage, and the principal would read out his comments about them, present their diploma in person, and offer his blessings.
Principal