The food truck fell quiet for a moment, then immediately came alive. Many of the students who had finished eating and stayed to look at its interior excitedly rushed outside. Before long, only a dozen or so people remained in Heath's Food Truck. There were still some customers, but it was a far cry from the bustling crowd earlier. Heath had no particular feelings about it, though. It was Elite Four member Lance, after all, so this was understandable. Lance was incredibly popular in the Kanto Region. When the League was first established, there had been no such thing as a Champion. Once the title existed, people considered Lance the Kanto Region's Champion, but he had never acknowledged that. He said he was waiting for a Trainer who could defeat all four of them according to League regulations. Only then would that person be a true Champion Trainer.
Even so, Lance, an Elite Four member, could not stop people from calling him the uncrowned king.
Lance's fame in Kanto was probably comparable to Jay Chou's in Heath's previous life. Both were superstars, though Lance was even more famous. After all, this was the world of Pokémon, and almost everyone had been a Trainer at some point. People who had never been Trainers at all were extremely rare, and Heath really had hardly met anyone like that so far. He had heard a few things from Professor Oak, however. For instance, there was an illness in this world called Pokémon phobia. Its symptoms were peculiar. Looking at Pokémon was fine, but if sufferers approached one or were touched by one, they would tremble all over and break out in large patches of red rash. In severe cases, they could even breathe so rapidly that they developed respiratory alkalosis and lost their