The Colorful Grace Tournament is divided into the following stages.
Opening Ceremony + Preliminaries + Preliminary Championship + Final Championship + Closing Ceremony.
The opening and closing ceremonies are irrelevant, they are for performance. They celebrate the beginning and end of the tournament.
As for the preliminaries, the preliminary championship, and the final championship, those are where the real battles take place.
The next day.
After the opening ceremony.
Came the preliminaries.
In the Colorful Grace Stadium, the fierce competition had already begun.
Preliminaries: Eliminated over six hundred participants down to 256.
Ye Feng sat in the contestant's seating area, looking at the lively surroundings, feeling quite bored.
This tournament still had no notable contestants.
The matches neared noon.
It was finally Ye Feng's turn to compete.
Ye Feng stood on the battle stage.
Wherever he stood, he became the focal point.
Cameras focused on him as much as possible.
Since the Hoenn region is quite far from Kanto City, not many of his fans from there could attend.
They cheered for their male god husband on television.
Therefore, there were fewer of Ye Feng's fans in the stadium than in the previous two tournaments.
Only a small portion were in the stadium stands, waving flags and cheering.
Ye Feng's opponent today was a very cute girl.
As soon as the girl saw Ye Feng, she sweetly sent out her Pokémon.
It was a Zigzagoon.
The girl then looked shyly at Ye Feng and said softly and gently:
"Brother Ye, please go easy on me."
Ye Feng smiled slightly, "Okay, I will."
Then he sent out his Red-Striped Pikachu and used Thunderbolt, defeating the girl's Zigzagoon and making it unable to battle.
It was unclear if the girl was genuinely upset or faking it.
She burst into tears, holding her Zigzagoon.
Ye Feng ignored her.
He got off the stage.
He couldn't comfort the girl in front of so many spectators and cameras.
After all, the "fish" in his pond were watching.
He couldn't lose sight of the bigger picture.
Ye Feng's swift arrival and departure caused quite a stir.
However, it was soon overshadowed by the matches of other contestants.
Xiao Zhi also successfully advanced in today's matches.
At 6 PM, the day's matches concluded.
256 contestants remained, and the competition would continue tomorrow.
After his match today, Ye Feng returned to his contestant dormitory.
As soon as he opened the door.
He saw a graceful figure in the room.
It was Naki.
Naki was dressed very scantily, her bright eyes constantly sparkling at Ye Feng.
Ye Feng walked over and held her in his arms.
He smiled, "Today I saw many people discussing us."
"Will you defend your championship title, or will I take it?"
"Who do you hope wins the final championship battle?"
Naki: "Of course, it's you, husband."
"Everything I have is because of you."
"Besides, it's just a championship. You'll definitely kick that championship trophy anyway, and then get disqualified, so the championship will still come to me."
Ye Feng laughed heartily.
He kissed Naki several times on the cheek.
Naki: "But speaking of which, husband, where have Mikuri's main Pokémon gone?"
This was something that baffled everyone, except for a few insiders.
After all, the Pokémon Mikuri used against Genji were incredibly weak.
"They are all dead."
Ye Feng said calmly.
Naki was startled.
The hands she had placed on Ye Feng's body tightened slightly.
"Mikuri brought it upon himself. Those who oppose me, I will torment them slowly."
After speaking, Ye Feng tossed Naki onto the soft bed and began his training.
He trained until the early morning of the next day.
Colorful Grace Stadium.
Today was the Preliminary Championship.
Out of 256 participants, only 32 would remain.
It was a tag-team battle, and each person would face three different opponents.
The tag-team battles were intense.
Especially since all 256 participants were skilled.
The intensity of the battles had the audience cheering.
Ye Feng had three matches: one in the morning, one at noon, and one in the afternoon.
In the first match, his opponent was a胖子 (fat guy) whose two Pokémon were Tropius and Swallot.
Ye Feng used his Red-Striped Pikachu and Squirtle.
Again, he ended the battle in one move, easily.
Second match.
His opponent was a middle-aged woman who used Tentacruel and Jellicent.
Tentacruel was not a problem, but Jellicent was indeed a very good Pokémon.
Jellicent normally consumed things similar to Gengar,
namely, the life energy of humans or Pokémon.
If this woman had not faced Ye Feng, she might have advanced to the finals.
Third match.
Her opponent was a very beautiful girl.
She was dressed exceptionally well.
Her opening words made Ye Feng feel as if he had returned to the Kanto Indigo Plateau Conference.
She asked Ye Feng how much money it would cost to lose to her.
Would fifty million be enough?
Facing such a cute girl,
Ye Feng still used one move and sent her packing, making her lose the match.
The second day's matches also concluded quickly.
Tomorrow was the third day, the final championship. Xiao Zhi, having finally reached the finals, was naturally eager and cheering himself on.
Ye Feng was indifferent.
He went back to sleep.
This time, Naki was not there.
As the League Champion, she had many duties to attend to.
Since Ye Feng was extremely bored,
he went to the computer.
This was not Ye Feng's personal computer.
It was standard issue in the dormitory.
Ye Feng turned on the computer, not choosing to play games to pass the time,
but to surf the internet.
To see what was the hottest topic recently.
Hmm...
The hottest topic recently was actually: Ten-Year Team?!
"Ten-Year Team?!"
Ye Feng clicked on the number one trending topic.
He saw an official introduction:
The Ten-Year Team was developing rapidly. Currently, their members' shadows could be seen in Kanto, Johto, and even Hoenn.
Their known objectives, besides capturing legendary Pokémon,
included obtaining ancient Pokémon and other rare Pokémon.
Furthermore, it was discovered that the Ten-Year Team was purchasing and researching military weapons.
The Pokémon League had already begun a thorough investigation.
After reading this,
Ye Feng found this Ten-Year Team rather interesting.
If they were like other evil organizations, only capturing Pokémon, that wouldn't be much.
But the large-scale purchasing and research of military weapons.
That was very thought-provoking.
It should be known that although Pokémon were the primary fighting force in this world, the existence of firearms was also considerable.
And why was the Ten-Year Team attracting such high attention from the Pokémon League?
Heh heh.
The Pokémon League was currently the highest governing power in this world.
The Pokémon League had also risen in a similar fashion to the Ten-Year Team.
Eventually developing into a colossal entity, ruling the entire world with the help of Pokémon, and establishing new rules.
Now, they feared that the Ten-Year Team would follow their old path and threaten their rule.
Therefore, they had to act.