Pokémon: Rise of the Orange League

Everything that happened on the Citrus Island was completely inaccessible to most people.

But Dunmei, who was located on Xiagan Island, could not have been unaware of it. As the current owner of the Xiagan Gym, she should have been one of the powerful forces of the Orange Alliance.

Unfortunately, the gym has declined over the years, and she herself knows that she and the Xiagan Gym have lost the qualification to sit at the card table of the four major gyms due to their lack of strength.

In the training ground of the Xiagan Gym, Dunmei leaned against the water turtle and looked at her brother Ada who was learning gym management in a trance.

The past year has been the first year for the Xiagan Gym to show the fatal impact of the Golden Orange Island.

More and more people on the island choose to leave and live in the more prosperous Golden Orange Island. This phenomenon has always existed before. But now several apprentices in the gym have decided to give up their apprenticeship, leave the Xiagan Gym, and move to Golden Orange Island with their families.

Xiagan Gym apprentice, a position that the locals once fought for, now seems to have lost its appeal.

Becoming a gym apprentice is no longer the best way to become a trainer, at least not in Xiagan Gym.

This is also due to the types of Pokémon provided by the gym to apprentices. There are too few Squirtles and Starfish needs evolution stones.

In short, the strength of Xiagan Gym has further declined. With the development of nearby Jingan Island and Penggan Island, this trend is difficult to stop.

In fact, Dunmei secretly found time to go to Jingan Island later. The changes and development there gave her a great shock. Later, she went to Penggan Island again. After returning, she has been worried.

She has always followed her father's teachings and run the gym conscientiously. But there has never been a long-term plan. Those methods seem to have been unable to keep up with the ever-changing world.

The situation on Xiagan Island is different from that on Cat Island. Although Cat Island is backward, it is closed! The rulers firmly control the contact with the outside world.

There are many things in her mind, and Dunmei sighed as she looked at her Blastoise.

Blastoise has already reached the gym leader level, but in the subsequent training and cultivation, she no longer has her father's guidance, so Blastoise's progress has become very slow.

Want to rely on simple training to quickly improve to the gym leader level? That's basically impossible. For Pokémon at this stage, hard training is the most basic thing. Most of the time, it is used to maintain one's competitive state.

Blastoise seems to understand what Dunmei is worried about, but doesn't know how to comfort her.

"Blostew, tell me, why is Luwu so powerful?" Dunmei murmured.

For her, there used to be a peer named Yongci in the Orange League who firmly suppressed everyone, and now there is a younger Luwu.

"Sister! The switching machine of the battle field is broken again. Should we ask someone to repair it?" Ada ran over to ask.

Dunmei was brought back to reality by Ada's shouting, and she still seemed a little dazed.

"Is it broken again?"

"Sister, why don't we replace this old machine!" Ada asked.

Dunmei was stunned for a moment, then shook her head.

Don’t think that the Rockets can build mechas by hand by doing odd jobs. In fact, these large machines are not cheap.

“Oh!” Ada seemed to understand, and then said bitterly: “Those guys are really! Don’t know what’s good about Jingan Island? There are so many gyms…”

“Ada! Shut up!” Dunmei scolded.

There are other apprentices in the gym who are training silently.

“I’ll go to the training house.” Dunmei glanced at the gym that was becoming more and more deserted, said to his brother, took back the Blastoise and left.

Ada shrank his neck after being scolded by his sister, but then felt that he was right.

The gym’s training of these apprentices is real. Although there is no Xiagan gym faction in the Orange League now, the trainers trained by his sister every year are definitely qualified.

However, in the past, these trainers who left the Xiagan Gym quickly switched to the Liugan Gym faction for better development.

Now it is just a change in advance.

Ada also couldn't understand why the Xiagan Gym became like this after his father passed away.

Is it because his sister is a female trainer and is not majestic enough in the gym?

Then he must grow up quickly!

Or... find a brother-in-law?

Ada looked at his sister's back as she went to the breeding house alone, thinking.

Dunmei walked quickly to the breeding house of the gym, where there were many Pokémon eggs and some young Pokémon, which had always been taken care of by the two siblings."The Starfish bred by Leah on Penggan Island are stronger than those in our gym..." Dunmei sighed as she watched the young Starfish playing in the pool.

If I guessed correctly, the Starfish of Leah were the ones Luwu bought from her.

In just one year, the two groups of Starfish from the same origin have already become different.

Dunmei bred them according to the method her father taught her when she was a child. The breeding cycle of Starfish is long, and the probability of producing better offspring is also low.

However, Leah on Penggan Island has bred Starfish twice in a year, and it doesn't seem to be a breeding model that causes great damage.

While feeding the Starfish, Dunmei wondered if there were any flaws in her father's teaching method.

"They have all left Xiagan Island, so what should be done with these children?" Dunmei looked at these Pokémon that should have been distributed to apprentices and had a headache.

She has already cultivated and trained enough Pokémon, so there is no need to cultivate more of them. If she hands them over to the apprentices, she will naturally transfer the cost of cultivation.

"Why not..." Dunmei thought of the high-spirited young man.

When trading Pokémon eggs before, Dunmei remembered their mailing address.

But it is not a good time to choose to trade Pokémon eggs with Luwu of Penggan Island.

Many times, your behavior itself has no other meaning, but it is stuck at a special time point, and others can't help but suspect it.

Dunmei unconsciously rubbed the Pokémon food in her hand with her fingers.

This kind of Pokémon food produced by the Alliance Friendly Store is made into small solid balls, with almost no other taste, and is very cheap.

"But they didn't regard our Xiagan Gym as one of the four major gyms! Why should I consider the problem from their perspective now?" Dunmei thought about it, as if the door to a new world was opening to her.

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I have really become a chef these days, cooking for a group of people every day. Everyone should spend time with their families! Meet friends who haven't seen each other for a year!

I won't stop writing, don't worry, if I don't update, it's because I have too many things to do and don't have time to write.

There are still many stories about Lu Wu! The Orange Alliance hasn't risen yet!

To be honest, I was quite touched when I saw some book friends asking me if I was going to stop writing! At least there are people looking forward to Lu Wu's story!

Let's work hard together in the new year!