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"Oh my goodness, it's really the Jessie, James, and Meowth trio! Amazing, I have to give you credit for that."
Eddie felt completely bewildered at this moment. Why had these three amusing characters appeared here? But when he thought about the anime storyline, their appearance made perfect sense.
He continued to applaud them enthusiastically, giving them credit for their dramatic entrance.
"Oh~~ Isn't this Mr. Morning Sun, the hero who defeated Team Rocket yesterday? Welcome to our gathering~~~"
A wealthy man spotted Eddie and immediately approached him with an extremely polite welcome.
"Do you know me?"
Eddie asked with confusion when faced with the rich man's greeting.
He had never had any contact with these unnamed wealthy individuals. Not to mention that he had only arrived in Celadon City yesterday - how could the rich people here possibly know him?
It had been less than a day since Team Rocket was defeated, and because Erika was still handling the aftermath, the television stations hadn't broadcast the news yet.
"Haha, ordinary people naturally wouldn't know of your existence, but in a few days, when the news is released, you, Mr. Morning Sun, will become famous."
"As for why I know you, that's simple. How could we not pay attention to such a significant event as the destruction of Team Rocket's branch yesterday?"
The wealthy man explained to Eddie very kindly.
On one hand, he naturally wanted to thank Eddie. After all, as he had said, Eddie was the hero who had eliminated Team Rocket's branch.
Although some businessmen and wealthy people had cooperated with Team Rocket, most of them were still opposed to the criminal organization.
After all, Team Rocket was an evil organization that committed terrible acts, and not everyone would associate themselves with such a group. What's more, a stable life was what wealthy people yearned to enjoy. They naturally despised the destructive Team Rocket.
But Team Rocket was very powerful. Let alone ordinary people - even rich people like themselves were no match for them. Therefore, they couldn't do anything about Team Rocket's activities.
For this reason, they were grateful to Eddie for destroying Team Rocket.
On the other hand, they also wanted to befriend Eddie.
Because Eddie was so young, yet he had accomplished so much in just two weeks of adventure. His strength had improved at such a shocking rate.
Who wouldn't want to make friends with such a promising individual - a future top-tier Trainer?
As for why they knew Eddie's background, as upper-class people, they naturally sent people to investigate Eddie's experience when they learned his name yesterday.
As a result of this investigation, Eddie's experiences directly amazed them, and then the information about the genius Trainer Morning Sun spread throughout the upper class of the Kanto Region.
And since upper-class people had wide social networks, Eddie's background information had more or less spread to other regions as well.
He became famous in one battle, and after his past was uncovered, it spread throughout the world... at least among the upper class.
However, in a few days, once Erika handled the matter and the news was reported, Eddie would become completely famous.
"Is that so? However, you seem to be having a very enjoyable party, but I need to interrupt you for a while."
Eddie heard this and realized that he was going to become famous after just a moment's thought.
He didn't know how the other Trainers would react after seeing him, 'Morning Sun', become famous in the news.
However, he was here on business and had no time to chat with the wealthy man.
So he was very direct about his purpose, though he believed that the wealthy man would be happy to cooperate with him.
After all, he could see that the wealthy man wanted to befriend him, which was also one of the benefits of being famous.
"Oh? Is there something you need to handle? Please tell us, we will do our best to cooperate with you."
The wealthy man was immediately pleased when he heard this, and he even used respectful language when addressing Eddie.
This wasn't him being servile or trying to flatter Eddie. After all, true friendship meant helping each other.
Today they helped Eddie, and if there was anything that needed Eddie's help tomorrow, they would have the confidence to ask.
"Yes, there are two things. The first thing is that I need to have a Pokémon battle with these interesting individuals. I'll handle this first, and you can also watch our battle."
Eddie pointed to the three Team Rocket members who were trying to slowly slip away, and showed a cheerful smile.
The wealthy man looked at the Team Rocket trio when he heard this, and seemed to understand something in his mind, then clapped his hands.
Next, everyone wanted to distance themselves from Eddie and the Team Rocket trio, creating space for them to battle.
While retreating, they recalled their Hypno and other Pokémon that had been in the middle of the hall.
"You have two choices now. The first choice is to turn your backs to me and run away. Then I will have Charizard send you on a flying journey."
Eddie first released Charizard, then said to Jessie, James, and Meowth with a cheerful expression.
The trio immediately turned around after hearing this, no longer showing their backs to Eddie and shaking their heads frantically, indicating that they did not want the first choice.
"It seems that you have chosen the second option. Let's have a Pokémon battle as I just mentioned."
Eddie gently stroked Umbreon and said to the trio.
"Boss, please don't do that. You might as well just send us flying."
"Yeah, yeah, how can we be your opponent? Don't toy with us anymore."
"Boss, spare us, meow! We won't dare to do that again, meow~~"
The trio immediately dropped to their knees and begged for mercy from Eddie as if they were praying to a deity.
Although kneeling on the ground was a very embarrassing thing, the Team Rocket trio's kneeling was so comical that it only made people find them entertaining.
"Hahaha, you three are really amusing. It was worth it that I didn't expose your identities just now."
Eddie was naturally entertained when he saw this. He thought that they were truly worthy of being the real protagonists of the anime - they always had to make such dramatic appearances.
"Don't worry, I won't use Charizard and the others. Your opponent will be this Umbreon I just captured."
Eddie would naturally not be so boring as to "pick on the weak." He had simply noticed that the Pokémon levels of the trio seemed to be similar to that of Umbreon, so he wanted to let Umbreon have a practice battle.
"Not Charizard?"
"But a newly caught..."
"Umbreon, meow~"
After hearing what Eddie said, the three spoke one after another as if they were performing a comedy routine.
"Haha~~ You three are really funny."
Eddie laughed again. He hadn't been amused like this in a long time.
So he decided to treat these three "comedians" well in the future.
In these days full of intense battles, it was refreshing to laugh heartily.