Chapter 177: You Are Not Allowed to Play Pokémon! Chapter 81

"Gaa-ao!"

Miraidon immediately jumped up in nervousness, trotting over to hide behind Qingyu, seemingly on guard against this rude woman who wanted to touch it the moment she arrived.

"Uh..."

Qingyu scratched his head. How did he suddenly get caught in the middle?

As a Gym Leader specializing in the Electric type, Iono seemed to have no resistance to these cool Electric-type Pokémon.

However, it also seemed that because she was too enthusiastic, she ended up scaring this particularly timid Miraidon...

"Speaking of which, why does Senior Iono suddenly have time to come to the Sunshine Gym?"

Qingyu decided to change the subject first, reaching out from behind to pat Miraidon, signaling for it to slip into the gym first.

"Oh right, I almost forgot!"

Asked by him, Iono instantly remembered that she still had business to attend to.

Iono's expression suddenly became serious. After coughing lightly twice, she spoke in a low voice:

"Gym Leader Qingyu, I am here to challenge your gym today!"

"Hm?"

Qingyu immediately looked confused, gazing at Iono with bewilderment.

What is going on?

Is she really here to cause me trouble? But I haven't done anything yet!

"Eh? You don't know yet?"

Noticing Qingyu's expression, Iono broke character in a second, her eyes widening.

"You didn't read the messages in the work group, did you!"

Reminded by her, Qingyu immediately took out his phone.

Oh no, it seemed that out of habit from his past life, he had subconsciously set the group chat to "Do Not Disturb" after joining.

He also basically couldn't be bothered to check it usually...

So he had no idea what had been discussed in the group over the past few days.

The content wasn't much. Qingyu scanned it roughly and quickly extracted the key information.

It started with a message from Geeta.

【Geeta: Based on the League assessment results and internal review, the person replacing Gym Leader Brassius of Artazon to serve as the Champion Road examiner next year will be Gym Leader Qingyu of the Sunshine Gym in Los Platos.】

【Brassius: I have no objections.】

【Ryme: Is that the young man who was added to the group a while ago? Truly a promising youth!】

【Geeta: That's right, but precisely because he is a newcomer, his experience as a Gym Leader might still be quite green. I ask everyone to please look after him in the future.】

【Katy: Los Platos... that's very close. Recently, I've also heard children who came to challenge mention the Sunshine Gym. It seems the evaluation among students is very high!】

【Jacq: Eh! How about this: if you Gym Leaders have time, you could go and spar with this new Gym Leader to help him quickly become a reliable Gym Leader, how about that?】

【Iono: Then I'll take the lead!】

"Hiss—"

Seeing this, Qingyu couldn't help but gasp.

At this point, he also roughly understood why Iono would appear here.

And it was very likely that in the future, the Sunshine Gym would also be refreshed with a few colleagues from time to time, coming to challenge him...

Jacq is definitely doing this for revenge, it must be!

"Junior is very famous throughout Paldea recently, your popularity is so high that even I am a little jealous!"

Iono said while adding fuel to the fire, patting Qingyu on the shoulder in a straightforward manner.

"So, today's live broadcast preview on the Iono Zone channel is to challenge the Sunshine Gym."

"You'd better be mentally prepared, Junior~"

"..."

Qingyu couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

So that's it. Compared to a gym challenge, is this more like a way for streamers to piggyback on each other's popularity?

Truly worthy of being a future super-popular streamer; her brain is indeed sharp.

Two updates today first, there will be more at 6 PM;

Also, I should be updating centrally at 6 PM from now on. I forgot to mention it yesterday -. - ===== CHAPTER 179 =====