Pokemon: This Trainer is Too Cautious!

"Side Mission (Brock's Guidance) completed. Mission rating: B. Mission rewards: 2000 gold coins, three mission points."

As Aerodactyl continuously bombarded with Ancient Power, rapidly boosting its stats, Onix ultimately couldn't withstand the increasingly powerful attacks and fell.

Ace had successfully completed the side mission as desired.

"A B-rating? I thought it would only be D or C."

Ace was inwardly delighted. He chose to battle Brock with Aerodactyl, hoping to use Aerodactyl as a breakthrough.

First, because Aerodactyl is naturally Rock-type, which is Brock's area of expertise.

Second, as Brock said, Aerodactyl was too savage. No matter what, Brock would say something to guide Ace to properly train Aerodactyl.

Everything was going according to Ace's plan, but he hadn't expected the system to rate it a B, which was a pleasant surprise.

However, what Brock said wasn't without reason. Ace's three Pokémon indeed felt a bit over-aggressive.

But this wasn't their problem; it was Ace's.

There was no helping it. If he were an ordinary person, he might follow Brock's theory and meticulously train his Pokémon to master their power, ideally to achieve the ability to "deflect a thousand pounds with four ounces."

But was Ace an ordinary person?

Clearly not!

And as someone familiar with the upcoming plot, Ace was well aware of how many events would unfold in this world in the coming days.

For ordinary people, experiencing just one such event would leave them deeply scarred, let alone having them occur every few years.

That was entirely a disaster-level destructive force.

Was Ace's current strength strong?

For an ordinary person, it was very strong!

But for a Gym Leader-level trainer, it was only average. Facing such events, merely surviving would be considered lucky.

More importantly, the system also made Ace participate.

Therefore, the inherent danger was far greater than imagined!

Ace knew very well that only dead enemies were good enemies, and the safest enemies.

Ace took Brock's guidance to heart, but he wouldn't make any changes.

He would simply say that future training directions would indeed lean towards technique.

However, when it came to power and lethality, Ace wouldn't concede an inch!

Rather than suffering irreversible losses due to mistakes later, Ace preferred to offer silent condolences to his deceased enemies, even if it meant carrying a sense of apology.

Leaving the Pewter Gym, Ace looked at the Gray Badge in his hand.

This was proof of defeating Brock, and one of the tickets to participate in the Indigo League.

"I'll keep it as a souvenir."

Ace smiled and put the Gray Badge away. As for participating in the Indigo League?

Ace wasn't interested.

Before leaving Pewter City, Ace glanced at the Pewter City Museum of Science, silently wishing it would be thoroughly burned down by those two Magmar, then left Pewter City and headed towards Cerulean City.

In Viridian Forest, the girl commanded Gible to defeat a Tauros. Wiping the sweat from her brow, she exhaled, "It truly lives up to its reputation as Viridian Forest; the Pokémon here are quite high-leveled. If I weren't in a hurry, I'd want to train here for a while."

"Roselia, which way?"

The girl asked her other Pokémon, a Roselia, which sensed the temperature changes around them, then chirped at the girl a few times and quickly walked forward.

Seeing this, the girl followed with Gible.

Her parents had already found out about her disappearance.

They were furious and called the girl, scolding her severely, but the girl didn't care; it was already commonplace.

Moreover, the girl didn't want to be like her parents, becoming an elegant young lady according to their demands.

She was more influenced by her grandmother, more interested in Pokémon, and full of a spirit of exploration and curiosity.

Her father, however, didn't inherit this trait from her grandmother. Instead, he chose to become a nobleman.

It wasn't that this was necessarily bad, but if you choose this path, and you only succeeded with your mother's help, then don't interfere with her life as if you're an experienced elder.

After all, Grandma didn't treat you this way back then, did she?!

Seeing that the girl completely ignored them, her parents could only bring up the girl's grandmother.

And the girl's grandmother was indeed reasonable. She asked the girl what was happening and why she did such a thing.

After the girl explained the situation to her grandmother, her grandmother was silent for a moment, then told the girl, "No one can criticize the path you want to take, including me and your parents. If you can persevere, then achieve something significant to silence everyone. The search for you will likely continue. If you are found, then come back obediently. Understood?"

Upon hearing her grandmother's words, the girl instantly smiled.

Her grandmother's words implied support for her, but she just couldn't cause too much trouble. If she was found, she had to go back.

So, if she wasn't found, she could travel slowly through the Kanto region!

As soon as the call with her grandmother ended, the girl hung up and turned off her phone.

Of course, once a month, she would call home to report that she was safe, but otherwise, she wouldn't turn her phone on.

She wanted to fully enjoy this free and unhindered life!

On the other end of the phone, in the Sinnoh region, a lavishly dressed couple looked at an elderly woman in a white coat and said helplessly, "Mom, you spoil her too much!"

"This is her choice, so this matter ends here, understood?!"

The elderly woman looked ordinary, but standing there, she exuded an aura of authority without needing to express anger.

Facing her, the couple didn't dare to contradict her for a moment. However, the man took out a document and handed it to the elderly woman.

The elderly woman took it, glanced at it, then frowned slightly. "Ace Smith, what a truly pitiable child. Sigh, I don't really want to concern myself with these connections of yours, but let me remind you: The League now holds absolute power. What needs to be severed, what needs to be abandoned, must all be given up, understood?"

"Alright, Mom, we know."

Facing his mother's lecturing, the man agreed verbally, but inwardly he was somewhat dismissive.

In his opinion, their intertwined family influences were not so easily dealt with.

"However, the only thing I didn't expect was that the Bellitz family would actually align themselves with the League. What a pity. Otherwise, with their family's capabilities, they should have achieved something significant, instead of being suppressed by all the other families now."

A peculiar thought crossed the man's mind about a specific family. It was a shame they had joined the League; otherwise, he had originally planned to try to arrange a marriage alliance between their two families if their family had given birth to a boy.

But he hadn't expected them to choose the League, and they had also given birth to a girl, crushing his dream of a marriage alliance.