Heath covered his face. He was an idiot. Truly.
He knew perfectly well that thieves ran rampant around New Year, and Vermilion City was a major metropolis, so naturally there would be even more thieves here. The market during the holiday was packed with people and Pokémon alike, but Heath really had not expected the wallet he kept close to his body to be stolen anyway. The inconspicuous slit in his clothes practically mocked his stupidity. He had just spotted a very nice half-cow and was about to pay for it, only to find that his phone was still there, but his wallet was gone.
Heath thought his phone had survived because he happened to have put it in the pocket on the other side, rather than in the same place as his wallet. Otherwise, he might have lost both his phone and his wallet. But even losing only his wallet was already a huge hassle for him. It held his identification, bank cards, and Trainer License, all important items. What made it even more of a headache was that it was New Year, and the Officer Jennys needed time off too.
So Heath really would not be able to get replacements for those lost items anytime soon. The thought made his scalp prickle. He truly had not expected anything like this to happen to him.
"At least I can be glad my PIN isn't my birthday..." Heath breathed a sigh of relief. Most people set passwords related to their birth dates, and most of their passwords stayed the same to make them easier to remember. After all, anyone who had been through it knew that if you made your passwords too complicated or troublesome, remembering the passwords for a whole bunch of accounts became a hair-raising problem.
But Heath