shiningboxofjustice | PSL Post - Athrun Zala and Yukari Takeba

[Athrun nods.]

I think I saw some brochures in the lobby when we first arrived. I'll go take a look.

[After saying that, Athrun stands up from where he was seated and heads out. A few minutes later, he returns.]

Well, a lot of it seemed pretty irrelevant, but these two looked useful.

[He tosses them onto his bed. One is for the Pokémon League challenge, and the other is for a Pokémon trainers' school.]

[ Pokémon League challenge? What the heck was that? It didn't really seem like something that was, well...

Okay. Screw it. Trainer school brochure it was. After looking it over for a few moments though, she frowned. ]

... Well, I don't think the trainer school thing is going to be a good idea. Looks like most of the students there are kids. If they even let us in for classes, we're going to look and feel like idiots.

Maybe...but I'm not sure that we necessarily need to sit for a class. All we need is some more basic information, right? We could probably glean that much just from talking to teachers or students.

And if we need more, we could pay one of the students to lend us a notebook or something along those lines.

[ She frowns, because she's really not sure how well that's going to actually, you know, work, but what could they really do right now? ]

Well, it's worth a shot, anyway. Maybe the teachers there will actually listen when we mention that we have no idea what's going on here.

They'd be pretty lousy teachers if they didn't. I'm sure the press would eat it up if they refused to help.

[Cue the wry smile. He's kidding.]

Yeah. I'm sure that's not going to be good for their reputation.

[ She's smiling a bit herself, though after a few moments she shakes her head. ]

So... what was that other brochure that you picked up for?

[Ah, so she can smile. Good.]

Ah, that. It's for the Pokémon League Challenge. It sounded relevant, so I grabbed it.

Looks like there's some kind of hierarchy among trainers here. Maybe if we can work our way to the top, we'll be able to get some answers.

... Huh. That makes some sense. But I wonder how it works...

[ Part of her wants to go take a look at the brochure, but she's not sure if there's going to be enough information there to make a lot of sense. ]

... Speaking of how that works, does everything here revolve around pokémon? I didn't really see any cars or anything.

[Athrun shrugs.]

It kind of seems that way, doesn't it? So far all the roads I've seen have been dirt. For now, we should either get used to walking a lot or find Pokémon large enough to ride.

[He seems to be pretty confident that such Pokémon exist. After all, if they didn't, then there'd be a pretty big need for cars.]

And on that note, perhaps getting some portable camping gear.

[ Yeah. All of that was definitely something they needed to work out. Now the best question on how to do that was... how?

Yukari sighs, leaning up against the wall. ]

Well, hopefully any place that's hiring here isn't going to think about trying to do a background check. Somehow I don't think one of those would go well for us.

Considering that, as far as this world goes, we have no background? Naturally. Honestly, if there's a better way to get money, I'd rather pursue that.

... What better way could there possibly be? It's not like there's a lot of legal options.

[ At least, back home. Unless they just managed to get lucky and find some sort of job that paid without asking too many questions... but that was probably not on the side of legal that she wanted. ]

I don't know. But if this League Challenge is a legitimate way of going about things here, then there has to be some way to earn money in spite of constant travel. They wouldn't offer something like this if there wasn't one.

... Yeah, I guess. It'd probably be difficult to use a bank account with someone who's going everywhere all over the place. [ For all she knew, this place didn't even have anything like the internet. ]

Does it say where we need to go to look into it? Or are we just going to have to ask everyone until we get an answer?

I skimmed it already. Part of the requirement is challenging the gyms across the region. There's a gym here in Viridian City. We could start looking around there.

... Well, they did call it a challenge.

[ But that really was super vague. It could be anything really. ]

But yeah, that's as good of a plan as any. It's not like we have any other idea of what to do right now? We should go talk to whoever's there tomorrow.

I agree. In the meantime, we should eat and rest up. Today's been a long day.

Yeah. And somehow I get the feeling tomorrow's going to be even longer.

[ She basically just flops down on her back after that. Sure, they needed to eat, but actually getting food might be a problem unless Athrun noticed something she hadn't. ]

Anyway, we do seem to have a little bit of money that's accepted here. We could see if there's somewhere cheap we can go for food. It's a city; I'm sure there's something nearby.

Yeah. That's... good. A bit surprising, but it's definitely better than nothing.

[ Though actually knowing just how much they had would be nice too. But... figuring that out would take time. ]

Want to go look around and try to find something now?

[Athrun opens his mouth to speak, but he's preempted by his stomach letting out a loud growling noise. His cheeks turn red.]

...Er. Well.

[ That got a small laugh out of Yukari, and she soon shifted herself so that she was sitting back up. ]

Okay, I guess that answers that question. Let's go. And after we eat, we should go find something for the pokémon too. I'm sure they have to be getting hungry too.

I agree. They've gone at least as long without food as we have.

... Actually, maybe we should try to see if we can get them something to eat first. I mean, they were fighting against all those pokémon for us.

Yeah, that's also a good point. We did all the walking, but they did all the battling.

[He takes his Charmander's Poké Ball off his belt and fiddles with it a little bit.]

I'm also curious to see for myself the results of that treatment they got. Are they really back to full health after just a few seconds of being in that machine?

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