April 5, Friday. Clear skies. Goldenrod City air quality: good.
Having decided to enter the Fighting-type tournament, Young Master Mao began preparing for it.
This week's show was prerecorded as well.
And as the tournament schedule stretched out later on, the film crew following Young Master Mao could also find time to finish recording the show in Olivine City and send it back to the radio station.
In short, the show would not miss a broadcast.
With a little over a week left before the tournament, Young Master Mao also planned to take his Pokémon to Olivine City to get used to the environment.
Before that, though, he still had to wait for the reporter assigned to follow him, Touko.
Once they reached Olivine City, exchanging pointers with Fighting-type masters from various places and cooperating with Touko as much as possible to give her more interview material were also part of Young Master Mao's plans.
After all, he had already taken the money, and the benefits at Goldenrod Radio Tower were very generous. Young Master Mao would feel bad if he did not put in the work.
But those arrangements were for later. Apart from the contestants' daily training, Young Master Mao's main task this morning was making curry!
This was no ordinary curry. Made according to recipes from the Galar Region and seasoned with various Berries, it was battle curry that could increase Pokémon's friendship and boost their energy.
Looking at the spicy cherries and Tamato Berries in his hands, Young Master Mao had a strange look in his eyes. As the rotten tomatoes of the Berry world, Tamato Berries actually tasted spicy?
(￣へ￣) Hmph! They definitely weren't proper tomatoes!
"Yep, it's decided. For today's curry, I'll challenge myself to make 'Charizard'-class spicy red curry!" Young Master Mao nodded,