Half an hour later.
Contest Hall.
"Encounters between people and Pokémon are joyful. Welcome to Hearthome City, the place where hearts communicate!"
"I am the host of this event, Marian."
Under the colorful stage lights, Miss Marian, hosting the Sinnoh region Contest, was full of energy. She held up a ribbon badge carved mainly from sapphire, shouting the opening speech loudly.
"The Coordinator who wins beautifully will be given this Aqua Ribbon. With it, it can serve as one of the admission tickets to participate in the Grand Festival held in various League regions. Good luck to everyone here..."
"Alright, then please welcome the three judges of this Wallace Cup Contest—"
"Sure enough... didn't recognize wrong just now."
Sitting in the contestant waiting room, Hakuya looked at the green-haired youth focused on by the spotlight first, nodding secretly.
Wallace, the Sootopolis Gym Leader, future Hoenn Champion, like Lance met in Hiyori Forest before, belonged to the ceiling of Trainer combat power in the Pokémon world.
As an important initiator of this Contest, he undoubtedly sat in the C position (center) of the judge's seat.
And sitting a little further to the left was the Nurse of the Hearthome City Pokémon Center—Nurse Joy.
Face gentle and soft, a conservative pink and white nurse uniform wrapped gently around her graceful and curvaceous figure.
Those full, round, warm, moist milk breasts like ripe juicy big fragrant peaches, fair, delicate, tender pink buttocks, and slender jade legs unique to a mature sister were completely covered by thick fabric.
And a white square nurse cap pressed on her cherry pink long hair. Coupled with this gentle nurse lady's action of lowering her eyebrows and smiling lightly, it added a few points of pure, flawless, snow-clean, elegant, untainted temperament to her.
As for the right side...
"Eh? It's Gym Leader Fantina?"
May, who sneaked from the audience seat to the contestant waiting room and sat beside Hakuya, was surprised.
For this pure and lovely chestnut-haired girl, the figure who stood up last to signal to the audience undoubtedly reminded her of some bad memories—her Gym debut battle was beaten by this purple long dress mature woman until her Dao heart was broken.
But shouldn't Miss Fantina be guarding the Hearthome Gym? Why did she run to the Wallace Cup to act as a judge?
"Mmm..." Dawn felt the warm touch of Hakuya rubbing her palm. She turned her flushed face away shyly, explaining to May as if to divert attention. "If I remember correctly, besides the identity of a Gym Leader, Miss Fantina is also a Top Coordinator..."
"Focusing on the gorgeousness of battle, how to defeat opponents in a more elegant way is her motto~"
"So that's it." "Torchic~"
May and Torchic nodded their heads ignorantly.
Because of the fast defeat in the Gym Challenge earlier, their first impression of this beautiful mature woman with purple silky long hair pinned up dignifiedly, wearing a luxurious long dress, had absolutely no elegance, only violent crushing during battle...
And hearing the swallowing sound of the girl beside him as if afraid, Hakuya, who originally looked up and scrutinized the purple long dress mature woman on the screen, couldn't help shaking his head with a smile.
Fortunately, May didn't choose to sign up this time—
Contests were divided into two stages in total: Performance Stage and Battle Stage.
In the first round of the Performance Stage, Coordinators needed to show Pokémon's charm with gorgeous move combinations, and finally be scored by three contest judges on a ten-point scale respectively.
And in the subsequent rounds of Battle Stage, Coordinators needed to draw lots for five-minute one-on-one duels, reducing the opponent's points by judging the completeness and gorgeousness of moves used, thereby selecting the final winner.
It is worth noting that participating contestants can only use one Pokémon to perform throughout the process; otherwise, it will be a violation and judged as a loss.
"Okay, then start the competition now."
After some opening remarks and polite words, Miss Marian waved her arm, shouting enthusiastically.
"First review, Single Performance Stage!"
"Please welcome the first Trainer to perform on stage—"
At this moment, Hakuya looked at the beautiful figure appearing on the screen in the contestant waiting room, surprised.
Another extremely familiar person...
Amidst thunderous applause like waves, a beautiful girl in a pure white long dress walked slowly onto the brightly lit stage.
Emerald long hair crystal clear like emeralds fell on her shoulders. Coupled with that fair, snowy, delicate face, even though there was a trace of childishness between her brows, that exquisite, magnificent beauty like an art piece reminded people of a natural elegant idol.
"Sister Dawn, why do I feel everyone's cheers suddenly become a lot more?"
"Mmm... she is Master Wallace's niece, Miss Lisia, known as Lisia the Idol Star~"
At this moment, Dawn undoubtedly became May's Contest enlightenment teacher plus ruthless answering machine.
She pursed her lips and thought for a moment, then introduced to this doubtful chestnut-haired girl beside her.
"Heard Miss Lisia's ace Pokémon is Altaria. Only two years after debut, she won the runner-up in the Hoenn Grand Festival. She is a very powerful Coordinator..."
"Oh oh~"
While they were talking in low voices, that emerald-green long-haired girl also posed neatly for performance.
"Here it comes, Lisia's Wallace Cup debut—"
"Ali, shiny debut!"
"Alta~"
At this moment, in the center of the brightly lit venue, thin mist lingering like clouds filled the entire field.
And accompanied by a loud high chant resounding, a sky-blue figure waving wings appeared slowly. Just flapping wings, the gentle broken mist rustled down like fine silver awns under the bright white light, weaving a flowing star curtain in mid-air.
"Used Mist directly the moment released from the Poké Ball?"
Hakuya's eyes lit up involuntarily.
In Pokémon battles, the effect of the [Mist] move was to prevent stat reduction by opponents for a certain period.
And this Miss Lisia, cooperating with stage lights, turned an ordinary move into a gorgeous performance when the Pokémon first appeared...
Very experienced Coordinator technique—
"Ali, use Sing!"
Amidst the falling silver broken thin mist, Altaria, who folded wings and landed, spread its cotton-like wings wide under the Trainer's command. Clear singing like spring sounds rippled out from the raised and lightly opened beak, rippling out circle by circle like transparent water waves.
Low notes thick like dragon roars, high notes clear like bird calls.
The beautiful humming unique to the Altaria family, plus the pre-designed [Mist] appearance, firmly grabbed the attention of all audience present in an instant.
Lisia bowed slightly, giving the final command elegantly.
"Moonblast."
"Alta!!!"
Just when the singing climbed to the climax, Altaria raised its head to look at the dome.
Cherry pink brilliance gradually appeared in the silver broken thin mist, expanding from a new moon to a full moon gradually like a reverse lunar eclipse.
And the sky-filling moonlight silver dust moved with the loud singing, winding and falling like several gurgling star rivers, dyeing a layer of more elegant and beautiful halo for the emerald-green long-haired girl and Altaria in the center of the stage.