"Puh-hahaha!", The young lady instantly laughed so hard she bent forward and backward, trembling wildly in Axel's arms.
"Axel, I said it, how could someone as amazing as you be a bodyguard, turns out you're here to save Sinnoh?"
In the brief encounter with Saturn just now, the clever young lady had already gotten plenty of information from both Saturn and Axel's mouths, seeing through quite a lot.
The only thing she hadn't expected was that Axel would play Team Galactic around like this.
"Not exactly," Axel grinned.
He took out a photo of Cynthia from Rotom, his eyes gentle.
"To save Sinnoh, having her is enough. I mainly came over to share her burden a little."
"So you know why I need to speedrun the gyms now, right?"
"When you're challenging gyms, you've gotta step it up. We must clear all these gyms in three days."
Actually, there was another layer Axel didn't say out loud, ["Sis, I'm Cynthia's man. Put away those worshipping eyes when you look at me, will you?"]
Seeing Cynthia's photo, and hearing Axel's words, the young lady froze for a moment.
She had originally thought Axel was just a boy shining with miracles, good at using unorthodox methods to break through things.
Sometimes, those methods were downright funny, or mesmerizing.
More like a beam of light, adding some color to her dull journey.
But she hadn't thought… Axel actually came to save Sinnoh for Cynthia.
That kind of plot that only appeared in storybooks and movies, was now truly being performed before her eyes.
Thinking of this, the young lady felt proud of Axel, but at the same time, an ache suddenly welled up in her heart.
It was as if… her heart turned bitter, as if someone was gripping it hard with their hand.
In short, it was a very painful feeling.
Scenes of spending the past few hours with Axel flashed one after another in her mind, but the smile that always hung on her lips was gone.
'Damn it, what is this?'
'Clearly I only just met this man a few hours ago, clearly I just witnessed a sweet sweet romance!'
"Young lady, why aren't you talking?", Axel poked at Platinum's shoulder again, eyes full of confusion.
"N-nothing," The young lady forced out a smile that wasn't very natural.
"You still have such big things to do, we've got to hurry up."
"Right, let's go fight the gyms!"
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"Fight the gyms?"
Hearing Axel and Platinum's last line, Maylene, who was blocked at the doorway by Eternatus's big foot, was dumbfounded.
She had just personally seen the other side Gigantamax Eternatus and Gyarados.
Also personally saw them beat down the ruthless and evil Saturn like a son.
Even personally saw them trade with Team Galactic, and make Team Galactic willingly hand over Sinnoh's legendary Pokémon, Dialga.
And now these two were coming to challenge her gym?
Maylene wasn't thinking about whether she'd win, but whether she'd survive.
As for Axel's words about saving Sinnoh, Maylene didn't take it to heart.
In her view, that was just Axel's trick to fool Platinum, this ignorant girl.
'Cynthia has never even been in a romance, okay!'
Thinking of this, Maylene felt she needed to call the cops.
Beep~ Beep~ Beep~
Maylene dialed a number she usually least wanted to dial.
"Officer Jenny, I might die, but before I do I need to give you some intel!"
In the next ten-odd seconds, Maylene used every bit of her lifelong language-organizing ability to pour out everything she had just seen to Jenny.
At the start, Jenny listened very seriously.
But halfway through, when she heard Axel's name, suddenly burst out laughing.
["Alright, I'll have people closely monitor Team Galactic's plans."]
["No need to go on, you just need to cooperate with Axel."]
["That boy carries with him the friendship of our Jenny family and the entire Galar region."]
["With him here, Sinnoh won't be in danger."]
The busy tone came through. Maylene bit hard on her lip.
'What is happening to this world?'
Team Galactic being afraid of Axel, fine, after all they were just a treacherous, misguided villain organization with twisted values.
But why was Jenny also telling her to cooperate with Axel?
Axel's behavior just now wasn't like someone to cooperate with. Then the only conclusion left was.
'Officer Jenny, and the Galar region, might have betrayed the League.'
Thinking of this, Maylene's heart sank in sorrow.
She picked up her communicator, gathered her courage, and tapped out a few big words.
[Brothers, Sinnoh is in danger. This time we gym leaders might be all alone.]
At this moment, a warm voice came from behind Maylene.
"What do you mean all alone?"
Maylene instinctively turned around, then let out a huge scream.
She jumped up without thinking, crouching on the steel frame just below the ceiling, holding a battle-ready stance with her Pokémon.
She had just seen Axel's Glastrier's head less than ten centimeters away from her own!
"Damn intruder, Team Galactic may bow to you, but I won't."
"Come at me all you want. Even if the Jenny family is your backing, I will still protect Sinnoh!"
The next second, Maylene's Lucario had already launched an attack at Axel.
Axel paused for a moment, then quickly reacted.
'So the rules of this gym were no rules at all?'
'Really quite the surprise…'
At the same time, Axel felt a little relieved.
Luckily he hadn't let the young lady go up directly, otherwise she probably would've lost this time.
But now…
He just needed to KO Maylene's high-level Pokémon, then let the young lady battle Maylene's lower-level ones.
Thinking this, Axel squinted and grinned at Maylene.
"Gym Leader Maylene, can I go all out?"
Seeing Axel's playful smile, Maylene let out a cold snort, "That's your problem!"
Axel blinked, secretly giving Maylene a thumbs-up.
Originally he had thought about letting Maylene pick her Pokémon freely, but he hadn't expected Maylene to be this confident.
Since that's the case…
Then let's try out how strong Rayquaza, which I just caught and has only fought once, really is in this kind of battle.
Axel took a deep breath, his right hand brushing across his waist, pulling out a Poké Ball of ancient design, etched with black dragon patterns and crystal.
"It's decided then, Rayquaza!"
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