By the time noon had passed, most of the ingredients in Heath's food truck had been used up. He closed for the day once supplies were nearly exhausted. He still had to visit that place called Rotom Electronics Store from earlier. Zorua had been going on about it for so long that Heath felt his ears were about to develop calluses.
"Electronics store! Game console! Electronics store! Game console!!" Zorua lay excitedly on Heath's head, crying out in delight. Heath shook his head helplessly. Wasn't this little fellow getting a bit too excited?
Just as Heath was about to put away the sign outside, he saw Jessie approaching. She glanced mysteriously from side to side before taking off her sunglasses and standing in front of him.
"Miss Jessie? Would you like something to eat?" Heath paused in surprise, but stopped packing things away and looked at Jessie as he asked.
"Do you have that red-braised pork with rice? I'm starving. Hurry and get me a serving." Jessie looked nervously around before asking quickly in a low voice. Heath shook his head. He hadn't been making red-braised pork with rice lately.
"Oh, then what about yellow-braised chicken with rice?" Jessie asked, unwilling to give up. Heath found her rather amusing. Mr. Giovanni was probably still sitting in the League headquarters building right now, wasn't he? He wondered what Mr. Giovanni was doing. Given his usual personality, though, he was probably still chatting with people to gather information, right?
"Oh, Mr. Giovanni, I'm sorry. I went a little too hard." Cynthia clapped her hands with a smile, then walked over with an apologetic expression. Looking at his sixth fallen Pokémon, Giovanni barely managed to force a strained smile onto his face.
Cynthia had said yesterday that she wanted to battle Giovanni, but