"Ye Feng, I know you're strong, but I won't hand over the badge willingly."
In the afternoon, the battle arena was crowded with people.
They were Ye Feng and A Si, about to face off.
And A Si's disciples.
Ye Feng scanned the surroundings.
Everyone was present, except for A Si's wife and his eldest disciple.
They had gone to make dinner, or so it was said.
"Let's make this a doubles match,"
Gym Leader A Si said with confidence.
"It's decided, it's you two!"
"Machoke! Poliwrath!!!"
Two Pokémon appeared on the field.
Ye Feng looked at A Si.
The more he looked, the more he felt the guy was wearing a cuckold's hat.
"Pikachu, come out."
Ye Feng released his Red Striped Pikachu.
Seeing that Ye Feng had only released one Pokémon, A Si narrowed his eyes.
"You think one is enough to deal with me?"
"In that case!"
"Poliwrath! Use Water Gun!!!"
"Machoke! After Water Gun hits that Pikachu, use Karate Chop!!!"
"Wow! This is Master! So strong!!!"
Hearing such a tactical arrangement.
A Si's disciples couldn't help but shower him with praise from the side.
Unfortunately.
Your opponent is Ye Feng and Red Striped Pikachu.
Especially Red Striped Pikachu, who no longer wanted to play games when dealing with such weaklings.
It directly unleashed a Thunderbolt.
This Thunderbolt completely overpowered the Water Gun.
Following that, both Machoke and Poliwrath were electrocuted and lost their ability to battle.
A Si lost.
"As expected of the Champion. It's a shame you don't have a Fighting-type Pokémon. What a pity."
After losing, A Si accepted his defeat with composure.
He even used this opportunity to lecture his disciples.
He told them that training hard is a lifelong endeavor, and so is winning and losing.
Then, A Si handed the Fighting Badge to Ye Feng.
This was Ye Feng's sixth badge.
With two more, he would complete his journey in the Johto region.
"Alright, no more training today. I'm going to find my wife. I haven't been close to her in a while."
"After all, I told her that if I ever lost, I'd go see her once."
It turned out that A Si, obsessed with training, had neglected the Gym Leader's wife.
So, the Gym Leader's wife had made this rule with A Si.
It was just that, due to the geographical location of Cerulean City, not many outside trainers challenged the Cerulean Gym.
And A Si had never lost. Later, coupled with the comfort of his eldest disciple, perhaps the Gym Leader's wife had forgotten about it!
A Si dismissed his disciples, telling them to continue training.
After saying these words in front of Ye Feng, he headed towards the residential area.
"This is interesting."
Ye Feng felt that what would happen next would be very interesting.
But he didn't have the mischievous desire to be a witness to this event.
He left the Cerulean Gym.
Currently, he still needed the Ice Badge from Mahogany Town and the Rising Badge from Blackthorn City.
So, he wasn't in a hurry.
Because by calculation, he could get the next two badges within half a month.
And there were at least six months left until the Silver Conference began.
So, he had plenty of time.
And by chance at this moment.
Ye Feng's phone suddenly rang.
He opened it and saw it was Ji Ke.
Ye Feng answered the call.
Ji Ke: "Ye Feng, where are you?"
Ye Feng told her where he was.
Ji Ke: "Hey, what a coincidence, I'm coming to find you right now."
"Okay, I'll wait for you on the beach here in Cerulean City."
After hanging up the phone.
Ye Feng licked his lips.
He could imagine that tonight would be another happy night.
Ye Feng waited for half an hour on the golden beach.
He saw a blue Gyarados flying from the distant horizon where the sea met the sky.
As the Gyarados approached, a tall, slender girl could be seen riding on it.
It was none other than Ji Ke.
After Ji Ke landed on the beach and recalled her Gyarados.
Ye Feng's first question was: "Did you find your Charizards?"
When Ji Ke heard this, she felt Ye Feng was poking a sore spot.
But for some reason, she couldn't feel any ill will towards Ye Feng.
"No, I couldn't find them. After we parted, our Dragon Tamer family conducted quite an investigation into Team Rocket, but we haven't found the missing Charizards."
"We had informants within Team Rocket, but the informants said that Team Rocket didn't seem to have taken any action against Charizard Valley. However, they also said that since Boss Giovanni himself was present, it's possible that my informant's rank was too low to participate or even know about this secret operation."
"Alas, my little Lisa, and my other Charizards..."
Ji Ke looked distressed.
Ye Feng said, "Don't be sad, I'll take you to a great place."
"What great place? I have to leave soon."
Ji Ke: "I just happened to be passing by, I have to go to our family's Gyarados Strait later, really."
Ji Ke couldn't resist Ye Feng.
Furthermore, after Ye Feng took her to the so-called great place.
It turned out to be a hotel room.
And afterward, Ji Ke, who had been saying she had to leave immediately, stayed in the hotel room with Ye Feng for a whole night before reluctantly departing the next day.
Ye Feng felt the warmth of the large bed.
He got up, preparing to leave Cerulean City.
He had to admit, Ji Ke's impression on him was not as good as that of Hanako and the others.
The main reason was that Ji Ke was flat-chested.
No matter how tall and slender she was, it seemed it couldn't make up for this deficiency.
He left the hotel.
It was a mess.
Ye Feng saw many people rushing in the same direction.
Ye Feng also followed, and as he got closer, he became increasingly alarmed.
Because all these people were heading towards the Cerulean Gym.
He saw that the Cerulean Gym was currently surrounded by many Officer Jennys.
Preventing unauthorized personnel from entering.
Ye Feng squeezed through the crowd.
Just then.
From the gym, several Officer Jennys escorted a man out.
That man was none other than the Gym Leader of Cerulean City, A Si!
A Si was currently head bowed, silent.
Behind A Si, several men in white coats carried out two stretchers.
On the stretchers were two corpses, a man and a woman.
Ye Feng had roughly guessed what had happened.
After the Officer Jennys left, the crowd also dispersed.
The Cerulean Gym was sealed with tape.
Those who remained were A Si's disciples, all wearing training uniforms.
These disciples saw Ye Feng.
After conversing with the disciples, Ye Feng completely understood the whole story.
The reason was that yesterday.
A Si had lost and went to find his wife.
Unexpectedly, he stumbled upon his wife and his eldest disciple being intimate...
But that wasn't the most infuriating part.
What was most infuriating was that the Gym Leader's wife, A Si's wife, panicked at first when she was discovered, but then she laid it all out.
Saying she wanted a divorce from A Si.
And to be with the eldest disciple.
A Si was consumed by rage.
In the end, he used his Machoke to kill the couple.
After killing them, A Si, in a panic, tried to bury the bodies. But in the darkness of the night, he was discovered by his other disciples.
Upon discovering this, they immediately called Officer Jenny, and what happened this morning was the result...