After Paul joined as an assistant coach, Young Master Mao seemed to become even more of a slacker...
After all, jobs like getting up early to watch Wally run and supervising extra training at night were all left to Paul.
Thanks to Paul's tireless efforts, Young Master Mao got his wish and settled into a leisurely routine of sleeping until he woke naturally and playing on his phone in the middle of the night...
Paul had considerable tactical talent, and he also let Gary discover a special talent of his.
His command skills were so good that he could even imitate other people's command styles.
It was practically a bargain-basement version of turning someone's own methods against them!
Young Master Mao deliberately collected plenty of footage of well-known competitors in school tournaments and had Paul study it carefully.
Then he had Paul battle Brendan and the others using those competitors' styles.
With this training method, the three youngsters improved as though they were riding a rocket.
As their assistant coach, Paul absorbed the strengths of all sorts of trainers during this period. The day he fully integrated them would be the day his strength took another leap forward.
"Yaaawn~" Leaning against his bedroom windowsill, Young Master Mao nodded in satisfaction.
As long as these four youngsters kept loving and tormenting one another, the Inter-School Exchange Tournament should be in the bag.
After getting up and washing, Young Master Mao checked on the backyard.
The three youngsters and Paul should have been at school by now. Flygon, who had recently rotated into the main team, was having a staring contest with Salamence.
Sceptile and Blaziken were hammering away at two iron training dummies with a constant clanging.
Gengar, the mother hen who had taken over from Gardevoir, was carefully tucking in