Early the next morning.
Axel felt a cold, slimy big tongue licking back and forth across his chest.
"Gardevoir, stop fooling around, Pheromosa, you too~"
Axel had been exhausted the whole night yesterday.
First it was a battle, then he went to bring Dynamax curry to his parents.
After that, Axel felt that since he hadn't gone into the Dream World for so long, his hands were itching, so he ended up grinding entries for several more hours.
You could say he barely slept at all...
Unconsciously stretching out his right hand to grope a few times in the air, Axel suddenly sobered up.
'Wait, what?'
Axel snapped his eyes open.
'Dammit, really?'
Glastrier was standing right in front of his bed, with an urgent look all over its face.
That big tongue from just now, obviously this guy's doing.
Axel instinctively wanted to throw out Duraludon's Pokéball and beat him up, but immediately realized, this thing isn't Gyarados, Duraludon probably can't deal with it.
"Damn it, what are you doing?"
["Saving the world, of course!"], Glastrier's big round eyes gleamed, like two giant light bulbs.
["Gyarados, Duraludon, and Dragonair just finished morning practice."]
["I also bought breakfast for Lord Rayquaza."]
["And Little Ho-Oh is feeding Eternatus milk, Lord Mewtwo's cartoons are playing already..."]
Axel leaned against the bedframe, glanced at the alarm clock, and let out a long sigh.
'I just slept at three, and you're waking me up at ten past three?'
'I brought this on myself...'
'Shouldn't have said anything about saving the world to this guy!'
Axel rubbed his face, made food for the Pokémon, collected all the Z-Rings, then knocked on the young lady's door.
"Coming! Coming!"
The door opened, and the young lady, clearly just woken up, appeared before Axel.
By morning she had already changed outfits.
Her red coat was gone, replaced by a white dress.
Under the dress was a pair of white Balenciaga haute couture shoes that perfectly showed off her legs.
On her feet, she wore canvas sneakers, looking vibrant and youthful.
Somehow, with some makeup technique, even her long water-blue hair from yesterday had turned into a glowing white color.
To sum it up in one sentence: a white-haired girl glowing white.
Seeing Axel staring blankly at her, Platinum's lips curved ever so slightly.
Last night she had tossed and turned unable to sleep, so she simply got up early to do her makeup.
She had thought it through. If she couldn't have Axel, then at least let him remember the most beautiful version of herself.
"Uh...", Thinking of having to ride Glastrier together with the young lady, Axel sighed.
He wanted to tell her to change her clothes, but wouldn't that make him look even more guilty?
'I, Axel, will never show weakness before any rich lady.'
"How are your Piplup and Ponyta doing?"
Hearing this, the little rich lady's attention was immediately diverted.
"Not Piplup anymore!"
"After eating the food you gave yesterday, Piplup fell asleep."
"Now he's evolved into Prinplup!"
Axel's eyes lit up, "Nice!"
"Bring him out, let me see how we should tackle the gym today."
A flash of white light, and the freshly evolved Prinplup, without hesitation, rushed straight at Axel.
He remembered clearly, it was this person who let him evolve.
And after evolving, he felt his power shoot up like crazy.
If he could cling to this thigh, wouldn't he take off?
Thud!
With a muffled sound, Prinplup crashed into Axel's arms, but Axel didn't budge an inch.
Prinplup: "???"
'Didn't manage to knock master into a hug, looks like next time I'll have to hit harder.'
"Looks good, level's up to 25."
Axel nodded to himself. Having a rich lady's blessing made him absurdly strong.
"Let's go, time for the next gym."
"But Prinplup's level still probably won't hold much of an advantage. On the way let's think of some other method, see how we can clear this gym fast."
Axel let out a long sigh, feeling this mission was a bit tough.
Prinplup and Ponyta's raw strength was decent, but next up was a Water-type gym.
Maybe let Little Ho-Oh buff Ponyta, and just send Ponyta straight in to fight?
As he was overthinking, Glastrier impatiently spread its wings, carrying both Axel and the young lady onto its back.
Axel suddenly felt a strange sensation.
He glanced at the white dress covering his legs, and fell into thought.
'Wait, are Balenciaga haute couture this thin?'
———
[Pastoria City]
A shirtless burly man crossed his arms, scribbling on the sign in front of the gym.
"According to Maylene, that bodyguard is basically useless..."
"If that's the case, then I'll start by defeating the bodyguard."
"Crush the real challenger's will, see if her determination can truly carry her through all eight gyms!"
Thinking this, Crasher scribbled a few big words on the blackboard.
[Gym Challenge Rules:]
[If more than one person comes to challenge, the gym leader sets the challenge order.]
After finishing, Crasher tossed the chalk aside and nodded in satisfaction.
'This wave, steady!'
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