Chapter 55 The Girl Who Understands the Dragon's Heart

The Trainer's Tower in the north of the Seventh Island.

The towering tower stands tall in the vacant area at the northernmost end of the island. It is the deadline for registration and team changes for the Winter Embrace Doubles Tournament. Nearly a hundred trainers are gathering in front of the tower to make final adjustments before the competition.

Although it is midsummer now, the Seven Islands, where the Four Heavenly Kings Kona rose, are very popular with ice-type trainers, which makes this place close to the South completely different from the image in the minds of the public.

The Winter Embrace is a small competition held on the Seventh Island every summer. At that time, the spacious and solid eight-story tower will turn into a cold cave, becoming a summer resort for ice and water trainers and ordinary spectators.

"There are quite a lot of people. I wonder if we can win the championship without sending Eden to play."

Eden's strength has reached a bottleneck period. It is better to train Arthur and leftovers at this time. However, the frost environment in the Trainer's Tower makes it not only ice trainers who appear most frequently, but also water trainers.

Fire → Ice → Water → Fire, the restraint relationship is quite obvious.

Just as Zhou You was about to go to the registration office for the final confirmation of arrival, he heard a trainer arguing with a staff member not far away.

"So, I clearly signed up a long time ago, why don't you let us in?"

A petite girl with brown skin, bangs like a dragon's jaw, and long hair as wide and fluffy as a dragon's tail, who is no less beautiful than Musashi, was complaining to the staff in front of her:

"Isn't this a doubles match? I have three Pokémons, Fang, Red-faced Dragon and Dragon-headed Diglett, why can't I participate?"

"I'm really sorry, little sister." The staff member explained with a smile, "The most basic rule of the doubles match is to choose 4 out of 6 Pokémons to participate, so if you have less than 4 Pokémons, you can't participate."

"Really, really, really, can't you make some concessions? I use a dragon Pokémon, 1 can be 2 of others!" The little girl was still arguing.

Zhou You, who was watching from the side, couldn't help but frown when he saw this.

Yaya is not much stronger than other elves in its initial form. Red-faced Dragon is definitely the shame of the dragon clan. In your team, only Rat-headed Earth Dragon has the strength to fight. Although it is called Rat-headed Earth Dragon, it is not a dragon type.

Facing the little girl's attack, the staff still smiled like a robot: "I'm really sorry, there are less than 4 elves and we can't participate in the Winter Embrace Cup doubles competition."

Seeing this, the shocked little girl showed a lonely look.

She is Alice, who came from the Dragon Village of Yanmo City and grew up with wild elves.

She was discovered by an old man named Shaka and taken to study in the distant United States, but was temporarily suspended from school because of getting into trouble. She returned to her hometown of Kanto to start practicing dragon power again.

In order to specifically enhance her resistance to ice type, Alice came to the Seven Islands where the legend of the ice king Kona spreads, and originally planned to participate in the doubles competition of the Winter Embrace Cup for training.

But she was stopped at the beginning because she didn't have enough elves...

Grandpa Shaka had said that she would become reckless once she got excited, but she didn't expect that she would suffer the consequences of her carelessness.

Alice sighed dejectedly, thinking that she really had to continue practicing before she could inherit Grandpa Shaka's gym in Shuanglong City.

"Well, let's go, Yaya, let's go to the ruins on the south side of the island for adventure."

"Yaya!" The elf's voice came from the girl's fluffy hair.

Just as Alice was about to leave, Zhou You, who had been watching the show for half a day, came to her.

"Since you must have 4 Pokémon to sign up for the doubles competition, wouldn't it be fine if only 2 people can form a team to participate?"

He said to Alice, who was neither a gym leader nor a champion at the moment, "Hello, I'm Zhou You, a rookie trainer from Pallet Town. You can also call me Qiao Qiao. I'm currently training to participate in the Quartz Conference. Do you want to team up with me to sign up for the doubles competition?"

Faced with the sudden invitation to form a team, Alice was stunned.

Is this the legendary wish come true! ?

Although she was a little shy with strangers by nature, the handsome boy in front of her was very friendly, and in order to overcome her weakness of fear of cold, she endured it this time!

"Well! I'm Alice from Dragon Village, and I'm currently training to gain the power of dragons!" The little girl smiled happily, "This is my partner Yaya, let's win the Winter Embrace Cup together!"

"Yaya!" The young dragon jumped out of the girl's hair and landed gracefully.

"Ya Ya, this is a dragon-type Pokémon from the Unova region, right?"

Zhou You pretended to be surprised and took out his own illustrated book:

"Ding Ding~Ya Ya, a tooth Pokémon. Its biggest feature is the teeth that grow horizontally on both sides. Even if they are broken, they can grow again immediately. As the teeth are constantly replaced, they will become hard and sharp."

"Ding Ding~ It's time to fight,

"Ya Ya is working hard,

"Polish the teeth."

"Wow, is this the legendary illustrated book?"

Alice heard that the current Pokémon has only been produced on a small scale, with tens of thousands of units being given to some trainers around the world for testing. She felt that she might have picked up a treasure this time.

After listening to the introduction of the Pokémon, Zhou You took a look at Yaya, who was born not long ago and was still relatively round, and stared at Alice's fluffy waist-length dark blue hair with complicated eyes.

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Yaya: The average weight is 18.0kg.

Can this thing be hidden in the hair! ?

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Alice smoothed her messy long hair and said, "What are you waiting for? Let's go and sign up for the competition!"

After that, she pulled Zhou You back to the staff who had repeatedly rejected her participation, intending to get back at her!

The Winter Embrace Doubles Competition is a doubles + unofficial competition, and the rules of the competition are different from those of the Quartz Conference.

1. Trainers can sign up alone or in teams of two.

2. The registration prerequisite is to have 4 Pokémons, and the upper limit is 6 Pokémons regardless of whether you are a single player or a team.

3. The competition mode is 6 out of 4. From the 6 registered Pokémons, a maximum of 4 Pokémons will be sent to doubles. If all Pokémons lose their combat ability, they will be defeated.

4. During the cup competition, trainers cannot refuse challenges, and can use recovery items on Pokémons outside of battles.

5. You can only climb up after completing the task requirements of each floor within the time limit. After the time limit is over, you can no longer initiate or accept battles.

6. There are 8 floors in the trainer tower, and the 2 pairs that finally reach the top will compete for the championship.

7. Since it is an unofficial competition, the Winter Embrace Doubles Competition does not limit the types of skills used by Pokémons, and can exceed the official requirement of 4.

After confirming the rules of the doubles competition, Zhou You and Alice walked into the trainer tower together with confidence.