Chapter 217

Lance soon came to the Dragon Shrine in the center of the cave, sized up the few Pokémon eggs placed here, and soon chose the one he thought was the best.

This child's life energy was very vigorous, and it had a very strong competitive spirit before it even hatched; its future strength shouldn't be bad.

As a holder of the Viridian Force, favored by the Viridian Forest and appearing only once every ten years, Lance was very sensitive to Pokémon's emotions and life energy.

His choice would never be wrong.

In the next few days, nothing happened.

Time soon came to December 5th, Friday.

There were very few people challenging the Gym on normal weekdays, so Xiang Qingyu was actually very free these few days, and could only accompany Eevee, who was a little slacker, to watch Pokémon movies.

The day the Master Tournament started was the Monday after next, with 10 days of preparation time left.

And the time for Cynthia to come to Paldea was the 10th.

Five more days...

Recalling the last meeting with Cabbage Sister, it seemed it was the last time.

While Xiang Qingyu was distracted and letting his thoughts run wild, Eevee also noticed his unfocused eyes.

"Bui..."

Hopeless.

Eevee shook its head, having nothing to say about its trainer who was a bit embarrassing.

If it were the trainer, it would have—

Forget it, that Garchomp was a bit too fierce, and it and Riolu combined didn't seem to be able to beat it...

Better let the trainer have a headache himself!

Eevee flicked its tail and continued to watch the movie on the screen with relish.

Just as Xiang Qingyu's thoughts were flying, the Gym door was suddenly knocked.

At the same time, a childish voice came from outside.

"Is anyone there?"

Another challenger?

Although Xiang Qingyu was a bit puzzled, he still walked over quickly.

After the door opened, he didn't notice anyone at first, until he looked down and discovered the figure of this little challenger.

"Hello?"

While Xiang Qingyu was a bit puzzled, he also quickly recognized the identity of this little girl.

One of the future Elite Four of the Paldea region, a 9-year-old trainer who specialized in breeding Steel-type Pokémon, Poppy!

She was only about 7 years old in the current timeline, right? Could it be that she had already become a trainer at this time?

Can you humans in the Pokémon world not be so outrageous!

"Hello, big brother, this should be the Sunny Gym, right?"

Poppy raised her head and looked at Xiang Qingyu.

"Yes, are you here to... challenge the Gym?"

"Yeah! I heard that the Gym Leader of the Sunny Gym is a very powerful trainer, so I came to try and challenge him!"

Poppy smiled, looking full of energy.

Poppy (Middle), 9-year-old Steel-type Elite Four

5 updates!

The Pokémon world is indeed a bit outrageous; looking at Poppy's height, I don't know how to change her age, so I kept the original setting ()

Hot knowledge, Poppy's height at 9 years old is less than half of most students, while 10-year-old Ash is already close to an adult's body type...

Sure enough, humans in the Pokémon world evolve at 10 years old!