Chapter 1382: The Illiteracy Test

The first day of school at Oulei Academy.

The students, who had lived carefree lives for over a month, were very unaccustomed to it.

Especially since the curriculum was packed—

Four periods in the morning and four in the afternoon, with each period lasting forty minutes; the academic load was arguably the first of its kind in the Pokémon anime world.

Many students wailed in protest because of this.

"This isn't right! Why are there eight periods a day?!"

"School ends at four in the afternoon? No way!!"

"Can someone talk to the principal and have him lighten our load?"

"... It seems the curriculum was proposed by the principal himself..."

Just as this person said, the curriculum was arranged by All Baimu personally, covering both cultural subjects and Pokémon knowledge.

These were all basics among basics, which he considered relatively important.

As for the knowledge he wanted to disseminate, there was no doubt he first had to help this group of children escape their state of illiteracy.

Although a large portion of them had received basic education before coming, he felt it wasn't safe enough.

What if someone hadn't been exposed to it?

Of course, a placement test was definitely indispensable.

All Baimu didn't intend to engage in exam-oriented education, but he also didn't intend to let this group of children off the hook.

To put it nicely, the first batch of students was the first batch, but in reality, what difference was there between them and those three "test subjects" he had entrusted with caring for Pokémon?

Not to mention that many faculty members were teachers for the first time, and they were overwhelmed just writing lesson plans every day.

For example, the three supporting characters from Kalos—

Dance teacher Tierno, photography teacher Trevor, and beauty teacher Shauna.

Several years had passed, and they had grown quite a bit; although they were not yet eighteen, that didn't hinder them from accepting the Oulei Alliance's invitation.

Just like Cheren from the neighboring Unova region, who was the same age as the supporting character Bianca, he not only became a Gym Leader but, like Alder, became a teacher, serving at the Trainer School in Aspertia City.

All Baimu had met them privately; Tierno was now a somewhat famous dancer and had a considerable number of fans on Poké-Sound.

Shauna, like Serena, had switched careers to become a Pokémon Coordinator and was working hard toward becoming a Top Coordinator.

Trevor had decent strength, but he wasn't well-known in the Pokémon photography world; the photos he took didn't have many likes or comments.

The reasons the few of them accepted the invitation were surprisingly uniform: they all said they didn't want to rely on their families' financial support anymore, though perhaps only they themselves knew what their actual thoughts were.

Additionally, among the adult teachers, besides Anabel, Looker had also invited Nando—

Dawn's rival in the Pokémon Contests during the Diamond & Pearl era, a long-haired, handsome man who resembled a wandering bard.

He was here to teach music.

Mina from the Alola region.

In the games, she was a Captain of Poni Island, but in the anime, she had no corresponding duties, so she was entrusted with the responsibilities of an art teacher.

Besides these two, there were several other acquaintances; All Baimu had met them all one by one and deeply felt that Oulei Academy had great potential.

Perhaps it was precisely because there were too many teachers that the students were under such immense academic pressure.

Alder had once found him and asked if he could lighten it a bit.

All Baimu's answer was—

"Wait for the results of the placement test; after you see them, you'll know whether it should be lightened or not."

Alder was noncommittal.

At night, All Baimu hosted Wallace and Nemona and the others at Mt. Silver; it was Nemona and the others' first time here, and their expressions were varied.

"Don't you feel lonely living in such a big place all by yourself?"

Arven was a bit worried.

All Baimu laughed: "How could I? I have my friends at the foot of the mountain, and even if I didn't have human friends, having Pokémon is the same."

He had long been accustomed to living with Pokémon, and not socializing with people in reality for long periods wasn't much of a problem.

Penny was very envious: "I like this kind of secluded place."

For a homebody like her, All Baimu's home was no different from heaven.

With internet and a computer, and people delivering supplies regularly, she could stay here for a lifetime, but unfortunately, reality didn't allow it.

Penny had a relatively soft personality and couldn't give up her bonds with Team Star, so even though she liked living alone, she had to go out and play with them often.

Occasionally, she would also be called away by Nemona and Arven.

Of course, the person who called her the most during this time was Director Geeta, after all, she worked for the Alliance, so she had to make some contributions when working.

Nemona was nowhere to be seen.

Like Professor Oak, she entered exploration mode as soon as she arrived at Mt. Silver.

It was just because her Champion genes were triggered, sensing the presence of very powerful Pokémon nearby.

—Nemona's feeling wasn't wrong.

She encountered Darkrai and forcibly had a battle with it.

It was said that it ended in a draw, because Darkrai didn't want to fight her anymore, feeling she was a bit crazy.

Being evaluated as crazy by a Pokémon that had once almost gone crazy itself, Nemona's mental state was evident.

However, she was still quite normal in front of others.

"I think your place is very suitable for the ancient Ho-Oh guards; why don't you bring them over?" Nemona gave her evaluation after wandering around everywhere.

All Baimu said: "In a while; I don't intend to deal with them right now."

Let's get the Hisuian Zorua sorted out first.

This little thing had started being lazy again recently; it was time to give it some stimulation.

Wallace felt envious of Nemona's boundless energy, but then said: "Your friends all seem to be younger than you?"

"How so? I'm also very good friends with Cynthia and Diantha." All Baimu denied it, "Those I associate with are all people of talent and virtue."

Wallace gazed at this unfilial apprentice who had tricked a young girl into coming to the Sootopolis Gym, shook his head, and didn't say anything more.

Turning to the next day.

All Baimu sent them all away and returned to school life once again.

Currently, there were five classes in the school, with thirty-three people in each class, and the personnel composition was mixed.

Naturally, he wouldn't make the mistake of putting people from the same region in one class.

Even more, he specifically separated the few students who had caused trouble.

It was said that after Benga learned about what happened last time, he had privately gone to challenge those few kids from Ryme City, but the result was that they all refused without exception.

No matter how he provoked them, they wouldn't take the bait.

After all, no one wanted to anger All Baimu a second time.

Benga, who had finally finished his punishment, felt itchy and wanted to stir up some trouble again.

With no plans for the time being, he stayed put.

All Baimu focused on observing this troublemaker, followed by the other few students, and seeing that the school was calm, he felt relieved.

One week after the academy opened, the second Oulei League Assembly officially began; All Baimu personally attended to cheer them on as Champion, and the Elite Four and Gym Leaders also arrived; the centripetal force of the Oulei Alliance in its early stages was still very strong.

Unlike other regions, where the Gym Leaders wouldn't even come when the Assembly was held, and it was considered giving face just to watch it on TV.

By the time he left the school, after a week of adjustment, the placement test had also begun.

The students were very sad that they couldn't watch the live broadcast of the Assembly on time, and could only watch it in the gaps between exams, or wait to watch the replay after the exams ended.

Benga was very dissatisfied with this and ran to his office that day to write a protest letter.

Porygon-Phone discovered it through surveillance and conveyed it to All Baimu; All Baimu also very simply finished writing it directly on the phone, had it printed out, and sent it to Benga's desk.

The response was very simple—

"Pass the cultural subjects first before making demands!"

Benga's brain cells were definitely all used for battling; anything that had little to do with battling he would fail, and the more it had to do with battling, the higher his score.

Benga, who received the reply, was very angry and ran to the office again to ask what was the use of doing so well in cultural subjects, as they weren't used in daily life!

All Baimu continued to reply—

"Illiterate!"

Then he corrected the typos in his letter and stuffed it back into his desk.

Benga instantly turned red with rage.

The boy's "shyness" surpassed a thousand words.

But he, whose anger had gone to his head, didn't dare to tear up the test paper; the proctor for the next subject was his grandfather, Alder.

Offending his grandfather wouldn't get him sent to clean the toilets, but their family had a custom.

A man had to be able to flip over a Bouffalant to be considered a real man!

However, in Benga's family, only Alder raised a Bouffalant, a behemoth over level seventy.

Let alone a mere Benga, it could easily smash a building to pieces.

Benga had been poked in the butt by the Bouffalant's horns every day since he was a child, chased around and teased, and had already developed psychological trauma, so he didn't dare to have any thoughts of disobeying Alder.

Soon, the first day of the Oulei Assembly ended.

The Battle Royale segment concluded.

Although it was indeed not as exciting as last year, under Looker's operation, the popularity was still very high.

The students of Oulei Academy finally had time to watch the competition.

However, a large portion of them were not in the mood.

For example, Hilda.

She looked from top to bottom on the bulletin board where the grade list was posted, but couldn't find herself; it wasn't until she looked from bottom to top on the second page that she spotted herself, who was ranked exactly one hundredth.

Hilda was somewhat embarrassed, "Woo..."

No one stipulated that a well-behaved, timid girl must have good academic grades; in this placement test set up by All Baimu, Hilda was clearly unqualified.

What was even more speechless was that although the Oulei region had only been liberated for two years, the grades of the students here were generally better than those of people from other regions.

Even the top ten were basically monopolized by the new generation from Ferroseed City.

All Baimu felt very satisfied with this.

He had suffered from being illiterate before, not understanding this or that, and it wasn't until he went to a literacy class later that he got a little better.

As for the grades of students from other regions, although he was surprised, he wasn't that surprised.

Too many teenagers wanted to become Trainers, to the point that they planned to go out on a journey early and didn't value basic education at all.

Only after they went out on a journey and encountered Waterloo, being beaten by reality, would they start learning again.

Fortunately, there was no pressure in the Pokémon anime world, and it didn't matter if they learned slowly.

What couldn't be denied was that there were particularly many geniuses in the anime world, and many black technologies were created by these geniuses.

All Baimu hoped that a few would appear in their Oulei region as well.

Thinking and thinking, he started missing the Team Rocket trio again; these three were actually quite suitable to be teachers, with flexible minds and high skills, but unfortunately, they weren't used in the right place.

How about trying to trick them?

He believed the Team Rocket trio would definitely be willing to come over.

It wasn't about betraying Team Rocket, it was purely about coming to Oulei Academy to work; they had been short of money from the original series all the way to the Journeys series, working part-time every day to pay off the debt for the various robots they built.

Don't say, the Team Rocket trio at this time happened to have nothing to do.

They had just messed up something not long ago—

Recruitment radio station.

Giovanni ordered them to make a radio program to recruit new people, but as they did it, it went off track again, and in the end, it was all for nothing.

Giovanni was not lightly angered by these guys who were more than enough to fail, and chose to put them on the shelf again.

This reminded All Baimu that after they finished the radio station in the Journeys series, they hadn't appeared for a long time; they weren't even in the Masters Eight Tournament, whereas on normal days, they would definitely be selling bento, merchandise, and drinks in the audience.

The Team Rocket trio, who were sitting on the bench, were very happy to receive All Baimu's call; they had almost been forgotten by themselves in the corner of the world, and expressed their acceptance of this part-time job at the first opportunity.

Then they drove the hot air balloon and rushed toward the Oulei region.

Heaven knows how long they would have to travel.

All Baimu originally wanted to let Hoopa pick them up, but after thinking carefully, he felt it shouldn't be necessary; the Team Rocket trio had great supernatural powers and had flown around between various regions more than once.

The Oulei Assembly was held as usual.

The intensity was obviously lower compared to last year; last year's intensity was comparable to the Champion League, but this year it instantly returned to the level of an ordinary Assembly.

Reality also gave the Oulei Assembly the ratings that an ordinary level should have, at most a little better than Assemblies in other regions.

Looker sighed, "The popularity has all been snatched away by the Masters Eight; if the Masters Eight had been held earlier, how good would it have been to be able to catch the lingering warmth of the Masters Eight."

"You really think beautifully; people deliberately considered the time." All Baimu expressed disdain for his friend's daydream.

How could the organizers of the tournament not know that various regions needed to hold League Assemblies and Champion Leagues? They deliberately dragged it to the end so that the Champions could be free.

The seventh day of the Assembly.

Amidst countless cheers, the new Assembly Champion of the Oulei region was born, a Trainer from the Battle Mountain.

All Baimu's underlings were basically all participating in Assemblies in other regions, forced to be absent from the local tournament.

Otsuka had just finished fighting a few days ago and achieved the excellent result of the top four; it could only be said that he was worthy of the soldiers he brought out!

Naruhito was still in progress, and there was no specific news for the time being.

The results of the other few were also quite good, although none of them won the final victory.

"The Champion League is in two days; you should prepare well, don't use too much force." Looker valued the Masters Eight very much.

This thing had sucked away too much popularity and had already become the number one tournament in the whole world.

What made Looker feel indignant was that the venue was actually in Wyndon City of Galar.

Isn't it just because they want Pokémon Dynamaxing to only be in Galar?

He said to All Baimu: "After you become the World Champion, snatch the venue for next year's final!"

"... I'll try my best."

All Baimu could only say so.

Actually, if those fragments of Eternatus in the basement could be resurrected, Oulei could completely replace Galar.

Speaking of which, Oulei seemed to be lacking nothing.

Mega Evolution had Mega Evolution waves, Z-Moves were not restricted by region, Dynamaxing could rely on resurrecting Eternatus, and Terastallization had the little turtle.

Some time ago, All Baimu went to Calyrex's garden to test and found that the Terastal energy in the air was very high, already reaching the standard that could allow wild Pokémon to achieve Terastallization, similar to Kitakami and Blueberry Academy.

He believed that in another year or two, the entire Mt. Silver and even the southern part of Oulei could become soil similar to Paldea.

All Baimu felt that Looker's proposal could indeed be considered.

As for the difficulty of resurrecting Eternatus, he hadn't forgotten that in his simulation rewards, there was a resurrection potion given by a witch.

The one whose main ingredient was Ho-Oh's feather.

Let alone whether it was true or false, just ask if it was possible. ===== CHAPTER 1383 =====