The competition time in the blink of an eye came to an end, and Yuga immediately took the microphone, went on stage, and announced the end of the competition, asking all the participating contestants to bring the Pokémon they had fished up to the designated place for evaluation.
As soon as Yuga had finished the announcement, those student security guards invited by Yuga immediately began entering the competition field, orderly arranging the contestants to withdraw from the competition area.
The ones responsible for evaluating the Pokémon were Joyka and her Blissey, Anya, and her Miltank.
Because the competition had already ended, the spectators outside were finally allowed to enter the venue. They were very concerned about the results of the competition, so they all swarmed together around the place where the Pokémon evaluation was being carried out.
Fortunately, Yuga had beforehand instructed people to erect fences there, and also arranged people to maintain order, otherwise with the spectators' enthusiasm, Joyka land the others would have had no way to carry out their work.
The contestants lined up in order, one by one handing over the Pokémon they had fished up to Joyka and the others for evaluation. The one operating the Pokémon qualification detection device was Joyka's Blissey.
Blissey was extremely experienced, and its detection speed was very fast. Every time a result came out, it would be loudly announced by Anya.
When the detection revealed a Pokémon with relatively good potential, or a relatively rare species, the spectators would cheer; when the detection revealed poor potential, or else an extremely common Pokémon, they would then look with sympathy at the contestant who had fished up the Pokémon.
Very soon it was the turn of that uncle who loved fishing. He clattered down a whole string of Poké Balls onto the table in front of Joyka and the others. The spectators outside, upon seeing that he had caught so many Pokémon, could not help but cry out in surprise.
The uncle was very satisfied with the reaction of the spectators, proudly raised his head, and thought to himself: still I am the strong one, who can fish more than me, who else is there!
Indeed, at present there was not a single person whose number of Pokémon fished up could surpass that uncle. So the spectators all clamored, urging Joyka and the others to hurry up and detect, for they already could not wait to see what kind of Pokémon the uncle had fished up.
Joyka and the others were very cooperative, responding to the demands of the spectators, speedily carrying out the detection, while at the same time quickly reporting the species, quality, skills, and so on of the Pokémon the uncle had fished up.
Caterpie, Wurmple, Taillow, Pidgey… red potential, red potential, orange potential, red potential…
As Anya reported one piece of information after another, the spectators outside all sighed with emotion.
"Eh~ they're all ordinary Pokémon!"
"Uncle, this won't do! At the very least you should fish up one with yellow potential!"
"With these Pokémon you won't be able to place at all!"
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The spectators chattered and teased the uncle, but the uncle did not care in the slightest. Instead, he pointed at the spectators and said: "What do you know! What importance is there in potential? To be able to fish up the most Pokémon, that is the true way! Who among them can surpass me in quantity?"
This was indeed true. Although everyone still teased the uncle, they also to some degree agreed with the uncle's words. The uncle's fishing technique was truly first-class.
Just then, Anya suddenly shouted: "Ralts, yellow potential…"
When the uncle heard, he immediately pointed at the spectators and burst out laughing loudly: "See that? It's not that I couldn't fish up a good potential Pokémon, I was just waiting to hold it back for the finale!"
The uncle's luck had not yet reached the level of being so bad as to deceive people. Having fished up so many Pokémon, of course there would be one or two with excellent potential, and this Ralts was precisely the best Pokémon detected so far.
The spectators earlier had only teased the uncle, not mocked him. Now, seeing that he finally had a Pokémon worthy of a higher grade, they all congratulated him one after another, and the uncle cheerfully accepted it.
At the uncle's turn, it counted as a small climax. The Pokémon detection continued, but not a single one could surpass the uncle's Ralts in grade. The uncle thoroughly stole the limelight, and even the wrinkles on his face were stretched out by his laughter.
When it was about halfway through the evaluations, it finally came to the turn of that very lucky student from Verdanturf University. He pulled out the Poké Balls he had with him. The number was not many, but as soon as Anya announced the information of the very first Pokémon, the spectators began to exclaim in surprise.
"Budew, yellow potential…"
But that was not all.
"Eevee, yellow potential… Flabébé, orange potential… Totodile, yellow potential…"
The spectators listened to the information Anya announced, one after another their jaws nearly dropped to the floor.
"This… this is just… just too amazing, isn't it?"
"Could this young fellow be some kind of fishing master?"
"Don't know him, never seen him before!"
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That student listened to the voices of the spectators' discussions, and with pride split his mouth into a wide grin, his expression extremely pretentious.
Some of the students maintaining order knew him, including some of his classmates. Seeing him put on such an annoying expression, they almost could not help but want to ignore the bonds of classmates and rush up to give him a good beating.
If it weren't that I didn't join, what business would there be for you!
Off to the side, the uncle also curled his lip: brat, nothing more than good luck!
In the end, the student's yellow potential Charmander surpassed the uncle's Ralts.
The reason Charmander was ranked above that of Ralts was because at its young age it had already learned not a few skills, and on top of that it was well-built and robust.
Not long after, it was Duplica's turn. The Pokémon she had fished were neither too many nor too few. The grades were mostly average, but the Trapinch she had first fished was of very good grade, just a little bit lower than the uncle's Ralts.
The little girl, Sakurako, was at the very end of the line. She tightly clutched in her hand the single Poké Ball she had, feeling somewhat nervous in her heart.
In front of Sakurako in the line was a gentle big sister. Seeing that Sakurako was so young, and looking rather nervous, she asked: "Little sister, do you want to switch places and go in front of me?"
Sakurako shook her head and said: "No need, thank you big sister, it's fine for me to be at the back."
The big sister did not press further, but smiled and said: "Alright then, but you don't need to be nervous, even if you don't get a good placement it's no big deal."
She thought for a moment, then took out the Pokémon she had fished up and showed them to Sakurako: "Look, I only fished up these three. In the whole field, I'm afraid no one is worse off than me. Even I'm not nervous, so you can relax a bit."
Looking at the three Poké Balls in the big sister's hand, Sakurako thought to herself: Unfortunately, I am exactly the one who is even worse off than you…
Actually, the two of their thoughts were almost the same. Both felt their results were too poor, and so were embarrassed to stand at the front, thinking it too shameful.
However, after being comforted by the big sister like this, Sakurako indeed was not quite so nervous anymore.
So the two of them began to chat quietly.
From their conversation Sakurako learned that this big sister was named Asuka, a student of Verdanturf University. She was participating in this fishing competition not for placement or prizes, but for the owner of YoYo Day Care—Shimizu Yuga.
That's right, this big sister named Asuka was a fan of Yuga.
Normally, Asuka seldom went out at school, so she thought to take advantage of this opportunity to meet her idol.
Speaking of Mr. Shimizu, Sakurako involuntarily thought of that tall and handsome big brother she had met that day.
Sakurako listened to many deeds related to Yuga from Asuka's mouth, and thought to herself: So that big brother is actually that amazing?
Very quickly the evaluations were nearing the end, and before long it was the turn of the big sister Asuka.
Her results were indeed very poor. The three Pokémon she had fished were all extremely ordinary in grade. Winning an award was definitely hopeless, but counting from the back she perhaps could enter the bottom three.
Asuka was not discouraged. After her evaluation was finished, she pulled Sakurako over to the evaluation point and said: "Sakurako, only you are left, quickly take out your Pokémon."
Sakurako bashfully and hesitantly placed her one Poké Ball in front of Joyka. Joyka saw that she placed only one and then stopped, so she smiled and said:
"Little sister, are there more? You can take them all out at once."
Asuka also said: "Yes, just take them all out, what are you dazing for?"
Sakurako blushed red, and said hesitantly: "No… no more, just this one."
"No more?"
Asuka and Joyka were both extremely surprised. Asuka even directly cried out in astonishment. Joyka, what kind of scenes had she not seen before? Right then and there she restrained the surprise on her face, and said with a full smile:
"Alright then, little sister, please wait a moment, we will very soon have the result."
The spectators outside the field, upon hearing that Sakurako had only one Poké Ball, immediately burst into loud laughter. Sakurako's father and mother were among them, and they were very worried that their daughter would be ridiculed.
However, the quality of the spectators was actually quite good. Seeing that Sakurako was so young, after laughing, one after another they began to comfort Sakurako, saying that she was still young, and it was very normal that she could not compare to the adults.
Actually, after having been comforted earlier by Asuka's "suicidal" style of consolation, Sakurako already did not care that much anymore. Now after being comforted again by everyone, she was even more calm.
Asuka pulled Sakurako over and said in a low voice: "Why didn't you tell me your results were even worse than mine?" Then wouldn't my earlier comfort have been like stabbing you in the back?
Sakurako said: "Big sister Asuka already comforted me like that, if I said it out loud wouldn't you have felt very awkward? It's alright, I don't mind."
Asuka let out a helpless laugh and rubbed Sakurako's head: "You child…"
Just as Asuka's words fell, over there Anya announced the evaluation result of Sakurako's Pokémon.
"Cutiefly, green potential, skills…"
As soon as the result came out, exclamations rang out from outside the field.
"Heavens, it's a green potential Pokémon!"
"This is the only green potential Pokémon, right? This little girl's luck is just too good!"
"Wow, I'm so envious, I also want a Cutiefly, so cute!"
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Sakurako and Asuka were also dumbfounded.
Sakurako: The Pokémon I caught is green potential?
"Green potential Cutiefly? Could it be I misheard?" Asuka muttered to herself.
But very quickly she knew she had not misheard, because everyone was talking about this matter.
Asuka hugged Sakurako and shouted: "Sakurako, did you hear? Your Pokémon is green potential!"
"Seems… seems like it is…" Sakurako said word by word as she came back to her senses.
Sakurako's father and mother also happily embraced each other, feeling delighted for their daughter.
Evidently, a green potential Pokémon was without question the champion of this competition.
Although this competition's evaluation standards involved many aspects, there was no doubt that potential accounted for the greatest proportion.
Moreover, although Cutiefly in the Alola region was a common Pokémon, once in the Hoenn region, it was an out-and-out rare Pokémon.
After all the evaluation results came out, Yuga went on stage to announce the rankings of this competition.
Because the entire evaluation process had been fully open, everyone was very convinced by the result.
Seeing Yuga step on stage, Asuka, who was standing together with Sakurako, immediately pulled Sakurako in excitement and said: "Quickly look, Mr. Shimizu is on stage. Truly worthy of being my idol, he is just too handsome!"
The reason Asuka worshipped Yuga so much was because she was a person from White Cloud Town.
Back in the Meteor Falls incident, it was thanks to Yuga being there that White Cloud Town, which was near Meteor Falls, was able to escape disaster.
This matter was originally a secret, but Asuka had studied previously at the League's military academy, and her parents were both people of the League, so she knew many of the inside stories.
Sakurako was shaken by Asuka so much that her head was dizzy, truly unable to understand this elder sister's fanaticism.
As expected, the champion of this competition was Sakurako, the second place was that student, the third place was the uncle, while Imiti was in fourth place.
The top three could take away one Pokémon that they had fished up. Sakurako had only fished up one, so of course what she took away was Cutiefly.
Yuga handed the Poké Ball containing Cutiefly into Sakurako's hands, and said to her: "Congratulations, from now on you must treat Cutiefly well."
Sakurako was made flushed in her little face by Yuga's handsome yet gentle smile, and said softly: "Thank you, I will." She suddenly somewhat understood elder sister Asuka's fanaticism, and thought in her heart: Elder sister Asuka was not wrong, Mr. Shimizu really is handsome!
The second place did not choose the most outstanding Charmander from the evaluation, but instead chose Totodile, because he was a Water-type Trainer. No matter how excellent the Fire-type Charmander was, he did not like it.
The third place uncle also did not choose the most outstanding Ralts, but instead chose another yellow potential Azurill.
The uncle was not a Trainer. Although Ralts was excellent, it was useless to him. He still preferred the Azurill that was more suitable to accompany him while fishing.
Moreover, in his eyes, Azurill was much cuter than Ralts.
From the fourth place to the tenth place there were no Pokémon rewards, the prizes received were items ranging from held items to Pokéblocks, varying in value.
In addition to this, all the contestants received a commemorative ball given by YoYo Day Care, which to them was also an unexpected joy.
Asuka was even more especially delighted, since rounding it up, this commemorative ball was basically a gift given to her by her idol. It was a pity that there was no signature on it…
After the prizes were distributed, this competition was officially concluded, and the spectators and contestants all left one after another.
What remained was Yuga and the others staying behind to clean up the venue. Those students who had acted as security also took the initiative to stay behind and help. Yuga was very grateful for this, and said that after the cleanup he would treat everyone to a meal.
The students, upon hearing this, immediately cheered loudly.
Just as everyone was busy to the point of being overwhelmed, Yuga saw Gible and Pichu walking out of the bushes carrying a heap of food. He widened his eyes and said:
"Were you two out there working, or were you out there foraging for food?"
As soon as Yuga finished speaking, Gothita came walking out together with Cubchoo and Pancham, and in Cubchoo's hand it was even dragging the tail of a Slowpoke, and Slowpoke's face was full of lifeless despair.
Gible didn't even bother to answer Yuga's words, instead it fiercely glared at Gothita and the others, then turned around and ran away. Pichu, seeing this, hurriedly carried its own pile of food and wobbled after it.
Yuga, completely at a loss, looked at Gothita and the others and asked: "What in the world is going on here?"