Chapter 358 Useless Things
The last three rounds of the doubles match will take three days to complete, and in order to allow the players' Pokémon to be fully treated (some injuries cannot be cured in a short time), there will be a one-day buffer time between each game.
Zhou You does not need any treatment time, so he naturally uses this day for personal use.
He plans to play in the gym in Larus City for a whole day.
Eden, who was woken up in the early morning, complained sleepily: "Playing for a whole day again? Qiao Qiao, you are too energetic, right?"
"Isn't there a new rule recently? I plan to try it. If you are not interested, just stay at home or stay in the Poké Ball?"
Eden stuck out his tongue and fell asleep again. It was a waste to stay in the building of the Steel Forest for a whole day on such a sunny day.
Not long after, Zhou You appeared in Larus City...
Just when he got off the Charizard excitedly and planned to go to the gym, he happened to meet two trainers who also got up early and took some small Pokémon for morning exercises.
Lei Si and Michael from Sinnoh, Shinji's elder brother and Daye's younger brother, also used this rare day off to get up early to prepare for the battle.
"Hey, Qiao Qiao! Are you doing morning exercises too?"
The optimistic and cheerful red-haired boy came up to greet him in a familiar way: "We will face off tomorrow, so send out the strongest Articuno, and we must have a good and enjoyable battle!"
Zhou You looked at the "Sinnoh Dawn" team that would fight against him tomorrow. Michael, who was familiar with him, had an energetic Hu Hu lying on his body, and a Umbreon beside him, while Lei Si took back his Pokémon as soon as he saw him.
In the current battle, no idiot would show his Pokémon and training methods to the opponent!
Oh, teammates are like this...
"Hello Michael, I also watched your team's battle, and they all played very passionately." Zhou You smiled politely. He didn't think he needed to have any barriers with his opponent. "I will probably send Articuno tomorrow, but I haven't discussed the tactics with Lila yet, so I don't know how to play."
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Hearing this, Michael immediately covered his head with one hand and stopped the other with the other hand: "I feel dizzy when I hear the word tactics. Anyway, you'll just wait and see tomorrow! Lei Si and I are ready..."
"Michael!"
Hearing that his teammates were about to give the trump card to the opponent, Lei Si hurriedly shouted and had to come forward.
"After talking so much with others, are you still going to practice?"
"Practice, practice, if I don't practice, I'll get up in vain?" Michael scratched his head and walked aside with Yue Bu.
However, their so-called "exercise" seemed to be just standing there with their eyes closed in meditation, and it was unclear what they were preparing for.
Lei Si stared at Zhou You with a stern look, as if he was worried that he might notice something.
Perhaps because he felt that the atmosphere seemed a bit awkward, Lei Si hinted: "Zhou You, are you getting up so early too? Are you arranging training for the elves?"
The meaning was that if you have something important to do, leave quickly and don't interfere with our peeking.
Zhou You naturally saw it, and while lamenting that Lei Si, who had not been taught a lesson by the Gods at this time, seemed to have a similar personality to Shinji, he smiled and shook his head: "I only brought a Charizard as a mount, and the other elves were sleeping at home. Let them recuperate on this rare sunny day and wait for tomorrow to fight you well."
"Today I came to Larus City mainly because I heard about the gym here, so I planned to go over and see if I could play a few games for fun."
"There is a gym in Larus City!?" Michael immediately became energetic when he heard this, and looked at Lei Si with interest, "How about we go and challenge it too?"
"Is there a gym in Larus City? I haven't heard of it." Lei Si also looked like he was slightly interested.
They both want to challenge the Hoenn League next year, and they are collecting badges. They can take advantage of the opportunity to kick out the gym in Larus City.
Zhou You shook his head and explained, "Yes, but the gym I'm talking about is..."
However, before he could finish, Michael, who was in high spirits, interrupted without thinking, "What are we waiting for? Let's challenge together on the morning of the day off. Isn't it just a warm-up for tomorrow's battle? Qiao Qiao, where is the gym you are talking about!?"
"It's on the 6th floor of the battle tower. Didn't you see the structural diagram of the building?" Zhou You answered subconsciously, and then reacted and wanted to explain, "No, but this gym is..."
"Thank you, Qiao Qiao, Lei Si and I will challenge the gym in Larus City now!"
As if he wanted to compete with Zhou You in progress, Michael hurriedly pulled Lei Si towards the battle tower after listening, and said something like "It doesn't matter if we do special training in the afternoon."
Perhaps he felt that it was inappropriate to train the secret strategy for the battle frontier team here with Zhou You watching, so Lei Si did not resist and walked towards the battle tower with Michael.
Watching Michael and Lei Si leave like this, Zhou You, who was left at the scene, was a little stunned.
Ah Xun is a hot-tempered person, and Shinji seems to be the type who will leave after a few words. Are all the young trainers of Sinnoh so unwilling to listen to others?
But I clearly said that I only brought a Charizard, so why do they still think that I am here to challenge the gym?
In desperation, Zhou You had to ignore what just happened and went to the gym on the 6th floor of the Battle Tower as planned...
...
Ten minutes later, when Zhou You just walked out of the elevator on the 6th floor of the Battle Tower, he happened to run into the duo of Michael who was a little uninterested and Lei Si who had a sour face.
"Qiao Qiao, why didn't you explain it clearly just now? We were so happy for nothing." Michael's tone was a little disappointed, and he was obviously hit by the so-called gym here.
"Didn't you leave without giving me a chance to explain and before I finished talking?" Zhou You didn't want to take the blame, "Besides, I said I was here to relax, so it must be a PTCG gym."
Officially registered PTCG card stores and board game stores are also called "gyms" by players, but this gym is not the same as that gym. It doesn't play Pokémon battles, only PTCG.
Recently, game fanatics have introduced simplified rules for PTCG, which are almost the difference between Yu-Gi-Oh and Rush Duel compared to the original rules. Although many people say this is not PTCG, Zhou You still thinks it's necessary to play it.
"Waste of time!"
Lei Si's face at this moment is as ugly as it can be: "I thought you, a rookie trainer, must have some skills to make it to the semi-finals. I didn't expect you to waste time on such things.
"Now it seems that you were brought up by your teammates who used legendary Pokémon. Humph, I'm afraid even Articuno is not your Pokémon, but was cultivated in the Battle Frontier! "
"Michael, let's go. There's no need to waste time with this useless thing. Hurry up and take advantage of the opportunity to train so that we can defeat these trainers who are participating in the competition with Pokémon captured and trained by others tomorrow!"
Zhou You: "???"
Is my playing cards getting in your way???