Binhai City is a port city built on a cape with intricate terrain.

Just as its name suggests, this place is adjacent to the sea, located at the easternmost part of the entire Sinnoh mainland. The scenery looks very beautiful. It is not only a famous port city in Sinnoh, but also an important port leading to the Pokémon League. It is far away from the island where the Pokémon League is located on the other side of the strait across the sea.

Because of the distance, every year when the conference is held, countless trainers set out from here and take a boat to the Pokémon League to strive to realize their dreams. It can be said that this is also the place where dreams set sail.

Its navigation lighthouse located on the seashore has been illuminating the sea with its bright light, pointing the direction for countless passing ships. Basically, as long as people see it, they know that they have arrived in Sinnoh.

From a topographical perspective, the entire city is built on a narrow cape and is surrounded by mountains. In order to make up for the lack of space, the city has laid solar panels into elevated sidewalks to provide energy for the entire city. Therefore, it is jokingly called a city that will never lack electricity.

After more than a day's journey, Xia You, Xiao Yao and Ya Mi arrived here smoothly.

This was even several hours faster than they expected, leaving them with more time.

However, they did not waste time. Instead, they took advantage of the fact that it was only noon. After entering the city, they did not go to the Pokémon Center to rest, and did not even bother to eat lunch. They went straight to the Marina Gym.

It must be said that when they walked onto the streets here, they discovered that the city was full of solar panels, escalators and moving devices, giving it a futuristic feel.

This also reminded Xia You of the city of Larus, the technological capital of Hoenn that he had visited before.

But obviously, the sense of technology here is still too low and cannot be compared with the city of Larus.

"No matter how many times I take this, I have to say it's really convenient." Taking the escalator on the street, they don't have to walk by themselves. Such a long elevator can take them to where they want to go. This also makes Xiaoyao sigh, "They don't have to rush to go out. People who live here must be very happy!"

Xia You shook his head: "It seems that technology has changed our lives, but compared to this way of traveling, I still prefer to walk around by myself, just as a way to exercise my body, rather than being controlled by these machines in such a modern city."

I can only say that this is a difference in concepts.

The world is so big, naturally there are people who like this kind of technology. After all, technology represents progress, and people should not always live in the present. But naturally there are people who are indifferent, and Xia You is obviously the latter.

Just like he said, he prefers nature to technological cities!

After hearing Xia You's answer, Xiao Yao didn't dwell on this issue, but just focused on the upcoming gym battle.

"Who is the owner of this place?"

"It's Denci." Yami answered her, then glanced at Xia You and said hesitantly, "But the next gym battle shouldn't be easy to win."

"Eh?" Xiaoyao was stunned and asked puzzledly, "Why do you say that?"

Yami shook her head: "I heard that Denci is a very powerful person. Since he became the gym leader, he has never lost!"

"Never lost!?" Xiaoyao was very surprised. "Is that true? In other words, no one has ever been able to take the badge from him?"

"I heard that's the case."

"That... that's really amazing." Xiaoyao was shocked, but smiled indifferently, "It doesn't matter, no matter who it is, they will never be able to beat Brother Xia You!"

If the people of Sinnoh who don't know the situation heard this, they would definitely think that this little girl was too arrogant. After all, for such a long time, those who challenged Denji, no matter who they were, believed that they would definitely defeat him and take the badge from him, but obviously these people all failed in the end.

Who doesn't know how to brag?

But obviously these people don’t know that today’s challenger is not an ordinary person.

Listening to the discussions of the two women beside him, Xia You couldn't help but think about the situation of this seaside gym.

As the official gym of Binhai City, the owner of the Binhai Gym is Denji. As the name suggests, he is an expert in electric attributes.

Even as Mei said, this man who looks like the Fourth Hokage can be regarded as the strongest among all the gym masters in Sinnoh!

He is even called the Thunder of the Seaside because of his great strength, which shows that he is indeed extraordinary!

He is a man who deserves to be taken seriously...

It seems that this time, I don't have to let my Pokémon fight on their own.

Because there was an elevator, they arrived at the Marina Bay Gymnasium quickly.

Speaking of which, this seaside gym is located on a wide lawn in the city, a little away from the bustling high-rise buildings in the city. Except for the circle of photovoltaic solar panels above the building, it is no different from other common venues, just like a circular arena.

When they walked along the avenue on the lawn to the door of the gym, before they pushed the door open, a neutral electronic voice came from inside the gym through the microphone.

"Welcome, what can I do for you?"

Xia You didn't need to answer. Xiaoyao stepped forward and said to the electronic screen beside him: "We are here to participate in the gym challenge. Is the gym owner here?"

"Please look at the lower right."

As the electronic sound rang again, a box suddenly opened in front of Xia You and the others, revealing a box full of badges.

At a rough glance, there are at least several hundred!

Looking at these badges, Xiaoyao was very surprised: "What does this mean?"

"Please take one of them." The electronic voice continued, "For those who come to challenge the gym, you can now take a badge directly without fighting."

"What!?"

Upon hearing that such a thing actually happened, Xiaoyao and Yami widened their eyes in surprise.

They had thought it would go smoothly, but they didn’t expect it to go this smoothly!!

Can I get a badge without even fighting a battle?!

Is this still an official gym?

Yami picked up two of them curiously and played with them in her hands.

Xia You and Xiao Yao looked over at the same time and saw that the shape of the badge was like a lighthouse. In fact, it was indeed called the Lighthouse Badge, just like the representative navigation lighthouse in Binhai City!

"Is this the Lighthouse Badge? Can we really take it now?"

The electronic voice gave a positive answer: "Yes, please accept it!"

Holding the two badges, Yami turned to look at Xia You: "What should we do now?"

Shaking his head at her, Xia You looked at the screen and asked, "Excuse me, is Denci here? I want to fight him directly."

"Sorry." The electronic voice said without any fluctuation in tone. "Mr. Denji is not in the gym right now. He has made it clear before that challengers who come here can take the Lighthouse Badge directly without fighting. If you have anything else, please leave a message here. I will notify him later and ask him to contact you as soon as possible."

As expected, he is not here...

I knew this gym battle wouldn't go so smoothly...

If an ordinary person encountered this situation, especially when time was tight, he would probably just take a badge and leave.

But he couldn't do that.

After all, his pride as a trainer prevented him from accepting victory without fighting. Most importantly, he was no longer an ordinary trainer.

If word got out that a man who had won three regional tournaments had his badge taken away by a gym owner who had never experienced defeat without a fight and without the owner's knowledge, it would undoubtedly be a joke.

People might even think that he, the champion, was afraid of electric shock!

So, others can take these badges directly, but he must defeat Denci fairly!

But Denci is not in the gym now, how can we find him?

As they were thinking, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind them.

"Eh? Aren't you... Mr. Xia You?"

When Xia You heard this voice, he felt somewhat familiar at first, as if he had heard it somewhere before. In surprise, he turned around and saw a thin girl standing not far away, looking at him!

Looking again, isn't it Ami, the owner of the Asagi Gym in the Johto region? !

"Ami?" Xia You was a little surprised, "Why are you here?"

On the side, neither Xiaoyao nor Yami knew A-mi, and seeing that Xia You seemed to know her, they couldn't help but look at this seemingly weak woman with suspicion.

"It's you!" Ami smiled. "I just saw that you looked familiar, so I followed you to take a look. I didn't expect you to come here to challenge this gym. What's the matter? Didn't you know that the owner of this gym was no longer in the gym?"

Xia You spread his hands: "I just arrived here today, so I am not familiar with everything here."

At this point, he noticed from Ami's tone that she seemed to know Denci, so he couldn't help asking, "Do you know Denci?"

Ami nodded and chuckled, "I have been in Binhai City these past two days learning about the fighting techniques of coordinated trainers, and I met him by chance. What? Are you looking for him?"

She learns about coordinating trainers' battle techniques?

What does it mean?

Ready to change careers?

But after all, he was not familiar with Ami, so he did not ask the reason, and just said: "As you can see, I came here to challenge this Binhai Gym. I heard that Denci was very strong, so I wanted to fight him to see if I could."

"As expected." Ah Mi suddenly realized, "I knew you couldn't take the badge as easily as the others. Okay, come with me. I just saw him."

This is a real surprise.

I was originally racking my brains to find Dianci, but unexpectedly I met a helper in the blink of an eye.

Led by Ami, the three of them left the gym and headed towards the beach.

It was at this time that Xia You also introduced Ami, Xiaoyao and Yami, but as I said before, he was not very familiar with Ami after all, so after a simple greeting, he ran out of topics to talk about.

However, Xiaoyao, as an excellent coordination trainer, talked to Ami about things related to coordination trainers on the way.

And Ami obviously didn't expect that there would be a coordination trainer traveling with Xia You, so she was naturally very surprised and started chatting with Xiaoyao.

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Xia You and Ya Mi listened quietly and didn't say anything.

After all, this is Xiaoyao's area of ​​expertise, and it's not something they can interfere with since she has changed her profession.

The two followed behind Ami and Xiaoyao, and Yami handed one of the badges she had just received to Xia You.

"Take this first." Yami said, "You are going to fight Denji anyway, so it won't make any difference if you take it in advance."

Looking at the badge, Xia You shook his head.