The Quartz Alliance's promotional video has been on rotation in Shirouf Building for the seventh year. Lin Yuan pulled down half of the rolling shutter door in the back alley.
He didn't play in the gym, didn't collect badges, and took over a dilapidated breeding house whose license was about to be revoked. His daily job was to dim the lights for Wrist, who was frightened by the arena's strobe lights, persuade the Arbo monster who was approached by black market thugs to take anti-swelling medicine, and prevent the abandoned Eevee on the counter from eating orange pie.
Nurse Joy reminded him that there were only three months left for the annual qualification review, and the neighbors laughed at him for wasting his breeding license.
Lin Yuan rolled his eyes while putting the burnt scraps into his bowl:
"This city has never been short of trainers who want to be champions. What it is short of is those who are willing to catch those who are frightened by the trophy."
