Pokémon Beyond the Blue

Chapter 107 Opening of the Conference

Quartz Plateau is the place used by the Kanto region to host the Alliance Conference.

The scenery here is beautiful. Although it is in the west, the scenery is amazing.

The competition venues for the conference have all been set up. If you look at them from above, you will find that the venues are symmetrically distributed in the open area in the center of the plateau, not far from the residential area.

Standing on a cliff, Ikki looked down at the stage he was about to stand on.

The opening ceremony of the conference is tomorrow, and the official competition is scheduled for the day after tomorrow. It seems to be to allow the players to fully rest. After all, this is a grand event, not to mention that there are also players from other regions participating, and the reception work cannot be neglected. .

After riding the little fire horse that was still full of energy after running for a long time, Ikki arrived at the Elf Center next to the competition venue. After Ikki handed his illustrated book to Joey to complete the registration, he began to visit the venue based on his status as a player.

Naturally, Nazi doesn't have to go to such trouble. She can just go in and out of any place in the conference just by saying hello to the security guard - the reputation of the gym trainer recognized by the alliance is very resounding!However, she still chose to accompany Ikki to visit.

"The opening ceremony...will there be many people watching..."

As soon as Ikki entered the venue and saw the densely packed seats arranged on the high wall, he felt a little unable to walk.

"It looks like there will definitely be no shortage. The people in the alliance may want to take this opportunity to publicize it." Nazi nodded, but didn't care. She believed that Ikki could overcome these psychological pressures.

Due to Ikki's nervousness, they only visited the main arena of the conference, and did not even go to the other water, rock, and ice venues.There is nothing to regret about this, we will see it sooner or later anyway.

Riolu was flipping through the information in the illustrated book. From the corner of his eye, he accidentally caught sight of Ikki rolling on the bed, so he jumped on the bed, held down his rolling body and said, "You have to relax. If you are so nervous before the game starts, how will Xiaozhi and Xiaomao look at you then?"

"But... so many people want to see it... I still can't control my nervousness!"

Ikki hugged the pillow as if he was trying to squeeze out all the cotton inside. Riolu had no choice but to throw the illustrated book to him.

"Yukino and Hai said that the car broke down and they might not be able to get there until the day after tomorrow."

After stretching, Riolu took out the game schedule that Joey had given them when registering from the backpack that Ikki had dropped on the ground, and carefully spread it out on the bed to help Ikki think about countermeasures.

"Well... maybe I would be better off if they came..."

Ikki put down the crumpled pillow, adjusted his mentality, and began to study the game schedule with Riolu.

The preliminary round is a simple 2V2. The competition will reduce the number of players entering the preliminaries to 64. Judging from the total number of participants that I just saw at the Elf Center, it can be said to be quite cruel.

On the other side, Nazi and Kirulian looked at each other without saying a word for a long time, as if their language could communicate through their eyes.

"Huh~ Since you don't want to tell me, then I won't force you..." Nazi stood up, picked up her backpack and walked to the door. Then she turned to Chilulian and said, "I'm going to be friendly. Let’s take a look around the store, do you want to come with us?”

Although Nazi has been asking about Chirulian's experience, Chirulian has remained silent. It's not that she doesn't want to talk, but that it won't help at all and will only cause more trouble.

……

By the afternoon of the next day, which was the opening moment of the competition, the audience had already entered the venue early and could not wait for the upcoming event. The entire venue was noisy, and even the players' dedicated lounges could clearly see The ground heard this deafening sound.

"Ikki changed his clothes today, replacing the blue jacket he had been wearing with a red and white one, and he also got a hat from somewhere, and it looks like that.

"Finally...it started in the blink of an eye." Ikki and Riolu stayed on the stools in the corner of the lounge, looking at the various trainers and their elves.

Otherwise, I started to get nervous again.

[This is just the opening ceremony. You have to get used to the atmosphere and don’t let your hair slip during the competition! 】

There were too many people here, so Riolu could only secretly pass the illustrated book to Ikki. As for using the power of the stone... I'm afraid there is no chance.

"I know, I'll do my best!"

Ikki forced a smile and looked at Riolu, but instead he became even more nervous.

"Hey! Get out of my way!"

A young man's voice suddenly sounded in the corridor leading to the lounge. Not long after, Ikki saw the true face of the voice holder.

He is a young man about the same age as Yuuto, with his hair carefully styled back, a white shawl with dark purple lace on his shoulders, and a white uniform with black trousers, which further highlights the man's slender figure. , every move shows luxury, but the attitude is too arrogant.

The person he stopped was a burly man. It was impossible for the two people to be of the same level, but the man obediently listened to him and stepped aside to let him pass.

"This person... doesn't look friendly."

Ikki was attracted by this conspicuous man, and his eyes followed him unconsciously, and the latter seemed to have discovered this at the same time.

"Hey! You! What's your name?"

He walked forward with long strides and looked at Ikki condescendingly. An invisible sense of oppression suddenly appeared in the air.

"Me? My name is Ikki, Keita Ikki!"

Ikki suddenly stood up, and Riolu, who was so frightened that he didn't have time to hide, suddenly ducked under the stool.

"Hmph! It doesn't matter what your name is. It's best not to touch me anyway, otherwise you will definitely regret it!"

He raised his shawl with his hand and strode out again.

"What, what does this person want to do?"

Ikki felt a little baffled.

'Obviously he came to me first?Why does it seem like I wasted his time...'

After the man walked away and Ikki sat on the chair again, a girl with a ponytail walked over from the side and tentatively said to Ikki: "Don't you... don't you know Kalest?"

"Caluster? Is that that person's name?"

Ikki searched his head for information about this name, but found nothing.

"Caluster was originally a noble, but for some unknown reason, his family seemed to have declined all of a sudden. However, Calester didn't think that he had become an ordinary person, so he still maintained his aristocratic appearance. Style..." When she was explaining to Ikki, her eyes would look in the direction where Kallust had just left from time to time, and anyone could see the sympathy she showed.

"So that's the case, then he's really pitiful."

Although he knew the cause of the incident, Ikki had no real sense of it. Only those who have experienced such a gap in reality can understand the pain involved.

"Thank you, I have something else to do, so I'll leave for a while..."

After casually making up an excuse to say goodbye to the girl, Ikki quickly pulled out Riolu, who was sitting on a low stool, stuffed him into his clothes, and ran into the corridor as if he was running away.

"Eh...am I so unlovable? I don't even want to talk..."

The girl watched tangledly as Ikki disappeared around the corner, silently took out an elf ball with a heart sticker on it from her pocket, and said to the elf inside: "Let's... just use our full strength... don't force yourself too much." ”

The elf inside seemed to hear the girl's words. The entire miniature elf ball shook in her hand, and then became calm again.

"The conference... Can Kalest achieve his goal..."

Then, with the shouts of the broadcast and the audience, the Quartz Conference officially opened!