"Uh...are you interested—" Tetsuya was stunned. No one responded to him. Embarrassed, he pulled over Torii, who was closest to him, and asked amiably.

  However, as soon as he opened his mouth, he hesitated. Torii looked about ten years old, and should be a rookie trainer.

  If they went deep into the mountains, something unexpected might happen. A rookie trainer might not even be able to take care of himself.

  "......" Tetsuya suddenly widened his eyes, afraid that Torii would agree. He didn't want to bring a burden either. He had just heard that the incident was very serious, and he thought that finding more people would be safer, but this did not include rookie trainers who had just debuted.

  Torii raised an eyebrow and hesitated. To be honest, he was tempted. This incident did arouse his curiosity, but considering that he came with Master Katsuragi, doing this would definitely cause trouble, so he dismissed the idea.

  As if seeing the light of curiosity in Torii's eyes, Tetsuya's face turned bitter, and he secretly thought he was in trouble.

  "I—" Torii was about to politely refuse, but his words were immediately interrupted by another person.

  "Tetsuya, right? Don't talk too much with little kids, four of us are enough. A rookie can't help much even if he goes." One of the three people who came out at the beginning, a trainer about fifteen or sixteen years old, said.

  Tetsuya didn't speak, just smiled awkwardly, which was considered tacit approval of these words.

  Torii was stunned.

  ...

  ...

  "Hey, how can you judge people by their appearance." Among the three, the girl trainer who came out said in dissatisfaction. It was this kind of annoying tone that she had been ridiculed a lot when she first debuted.

  "Is there a problem? At his age, he should still be pying house with Pokémon, hahaha..."

  Torii stood aside, with bck lines on his head and a twitching mouth, suspecting that he had walked into the wrong set.

  "I'm not a rookie trainer." He felt that he needed to expin.

  He is a breeder, and he doesn't care about his status as a trainer.

  "Not? Then how many Pokémon have you captured?" This trainer, wearing a dark blue jacket, seemed to like to oppose rookies like Torii.

  "Two." After Torii spoke, he suddenly felt that he was not convincing.

  Sure enough, this blue-clothed trainer immediately ughed: "Okay, don't brag, if you're not a rookie trainer at this age, I'm already a member of the Elite Four."

  "......" Torii was also very helpless.

  "Okay, don't pay attention to him. Who didn't come from a rookie trainer? Keep it up, you will become a full-fledged elite trainer sooner or ter." The girl trainer interrupted them. In her opinion, in order not to let the blue-clothed trainer hit Torii's "face-saving" confidence, it was better not to let the conversation continue.

  The attitude of the few people clearly identified Torii as a rookie trainer.

  Torii was too zy to expin, forget it, let's just say he is a rookie trainer. If he registered as a trainer in the Pokémon League, he would indeed be the age of a rookie.

  But breeders and trainers are indeed completely different systems.

  "Okay, don't quarrel." Tetsuya was also a little uncomfortable. He was not very old, although he had only debuted for a year, he considered himself to be quite strong. Seeing Torii being targeted, he directly took the bme on himself.

  "In that case, we've gathered five people. There's strength in numbers, don't start infighting." Tetsuya sighed secretly. He invited the people himself, and if he rejected him again, wouldn't he hurt Torii's self-esteem? He decided to agree to Torii's joining, and he would just have to take care of the other party more.

  On the other side, Torii looked confused. When did he agree?

  Tetsuya also forgot that Torii's words were not finished at all. He just saw curiosity and intention in Torii's eyes, and subconsciously judged that the other party was going to accept his invitation.

  "It's okay, just follow me. My Roselia will protect you." The girl trainer patted her chest and made an expression that she would take care of everything.

  ……

  ……

  Torii refused again.

  But he was immediately refuted.

  "You have to have confidence in your own strength. There are 5 of us, so there shouldn't be any danger." Tetsuya.

  "I..."

  "You're a rookie, so you can't take it after being talked about? Show some backbone, okay? Don't make me look down on you." The blue-clothed trainer.

  "This is a good opportunity to train, don't worry, my Pokémon can be lent to you at a critical moment." The girl trainer.

  "Just be careful..." The st person said.

  In this way, Torii's polite refusal was regarded as timidity. A group of people really couldn't stand it, and decided to pull this "rookie trainer" along.

  The leader, that is, the boy who had won four consecutive victories against roadside trainers, was called Tetsuya.

  The blue-clothed trainer was called Souzou, and had participated in regional conferences three times.

  The girl trainer was named Koki, and was training to become an excellent coordinator. The st person, Ayue, was an apprentice from the Rustboro Gym.

  Plus Torii, who was innocently pulled into the team, these five people began to pn to enter the mountains to find the mystery of Whismur's mischief.

  The Rusturf Tunnel project was interrupted. Whenever this group of trainers appeared, the Whismur would escape into the mountains, and then quietly wait for the opportunity to make a comeback.

  After listening to Master Katsuragi's narration, Torii knew no less than these few people, and he was also very curious about the reason behind it, and he also wanted to verify several guesses in his heart.

  The few people pnned to enter the mountains in the middle of the night, when the police's defense was the weakest. Torii, who was listening on the side, rolled his eyes. Even if he was curious, he had no intention of taking risks with these children.

  Nighttime is rest time. After nearly a month of training on Mt. Chimney, Torii, who had a precise routine, was physically and mentally exhausted, and would never seek suffering for himself again.

  The four of them talked happily. Finally, they agreed on a time and a meeting pce.

  In this way, the crowd separated and began to prepare separately. However, after Torii left, he didn't pn to see them again. He wanted to find a pce to rest well. Swablu and Beautifly also had their own training tasks, and not a moment could be deyed.

  Master Katsuragi didn't say anything, and Torii was also very helpless. He suspected that Master Katsuragi had forgotten that he didn't have a trainer's license and couldn't stay at the Pokémon Center.

  There are also people like Torii, and they all used their own tents to find suitable pces and set up temporary residences.

  Torii was no stranger to this kind of patchwork method, and even very skilled. He sighed and seemed to have returned to the situation when he had just come out of Petalburg City.

  ......

  ......

  The next morning, Torii was awakened by a vibration.

  The movement was very loud, and Torii walked outside bnkly, wanting to know what was going on.

  He turned around and saw nothing, and at this time, two figures attracted Torii's attention.

  "Officer Jenny, and...Master Katsuragi—"

  Torii hurried over, wanting to inquire about how the incident was going and how far it had developed by now.

  ......

  ......

  "Torii?"

  As soon as he approached, Master Katsuragi obviously noticed him.

  "I was attracted by the sound." Torii said.

  "You heard it too." Master Katsuragi frowned and said, "There is some progress in the matter, but it takes time to solve it."

  "The sound is from the Noise Pokémon, Exploud. It seems to be the leader of the Whismur. The Whismur...and some Loudred, seem to be in a violent state and are very unfriendly."

  "Is it serious?" Torii was shocked.

  "Their current attack consciousness is very strong, but they have retreated into the mountains."

  "That's not good." Torii rubbed his head, feeling a little headache. "It seems that a few trainers went into the mountains privately yesterday. I don't know if they were stopped."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Officer Jenny was shocked. "I didn't receive any news."

  "If they acted, they should probably be in the mountains now." Torii looked at Master Katsuragi.

  If the trainers were attacked by the violent Exploud at this time, there would inevitably be some accidents.

  "I know." The matter was indeed very serious. Master Katsuragi hesitated and threw a Poké Ball to Torii.

  "You know those few trainers, right? This is Pidgeot's Poké Ball. See if you can find them first, persuade them to wait for rescue, and don't act rashly. Officer Jenny and I will go to explore the situation of Exploud now."

  "Give it to him, is that okay?" Officer Jenny next to him was stunned and looked at Torii, who was only about ten years old.

  "Don't worry." Master Katsuragi said, "He is a breeder, and if there is any unexpected situation, it will be easier to deal with than ordinary trainers. And with Pidgeot with him, there won't be any accidents."