Pokemon: Master of tactics

Chapter 319

Alex was watching TV, while he was having breakfast and talking to his Pokemon.

Although the program was still going on, Alex was only half listening.

He had no hope of winning his bracket and getting to the semi-finals because he knew he couldn't beat any of the top 4 Participants.

Even the weakest of the top 4 Participants is many times stronger than Alex and that is not something he can compensate for with his good tactics.

Alex just hopes for a top 16 finish so that he can get the valuable prizes from this tournament.

Although he has to defeat a participant with a participant-number 16 or below to do this.

The top 16 Participants have all been distributed in such a way that they cannot meet each other before the Round of 16.

All other participants are randomly distributed so that Alex, with bad luck, can fight a top 16 participant in the first round.

But Alex knew that this "random distribution" that was specified by the tournament is not necessarily random.

Of course, the Kanto Champion Tournament wants to show interesting matches at the beginning, so that Alex does not believe that the tournament organizer did not have a hand in this "random distribution".

Because of Alex's popularity and his rivalry with Misty, He doesn't think he will have much "bad luck" in this tournament.

Alex believes that he will surely not get an impossible opponent to defeat before he has fought Misty.

The TRH device vibrated and Alex saw that he had received a new message from Maria.

He called Maria and talked to her a bit. He even said with a playful tone that she should watch "how he'll win this tournament."

When he was talking to Maria he also got a message from Steven.

He wished Alex the best of luck as he made also fun of Alex, at the same time.

Although Alex answered differently, he felt that Steven was really a good friend and he was glad that he had such a good friend.

Steven and Maria are the only humans in this world where Alex had no cold and calculated thoughts when he talked to them. He treats the two like real people and not tools to achieve his goal.

Although Professor Wälhder is a person he found likable, he wouldn't have any bad feelings about exploiting or manipulating him if it would help him.

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Alex showed his ID card and he become his new participant-number before he went into the waiting room of the participants.

When Alex entered the room, he felt a lot of stares at himself. Some of the participants recognized Alex but they didn't show much interest in talking to him.

He recognized many participants. Especially the Gym leaders, who show that they were not interested in talking to Alex.

Except for Misty, who looked the whole time coldly at Alex since he walked into The Room.

Alex, showed an indifferent expression as he sat down on a seat.

He didn't feel like talking to Misty. apart from the fact that he didn't understand why Misty was even looking at him.

Alex felt that even the arrogant Misty is not so stupid to understand that she barely had a chance against him with such a big disadvantage in levels.

Although in a 3 v/s 3 fight, the level disadvantage not that big is as in a 6 v/s 6 fight and Misty's team will only have a total of 3 or 4 level differences against Alex's team in the fight, it is still not enough to have a good chance to win. (according to Alex's assessment)

Alex didn't think it was a very tough fight unless he underestimated Misty.

Misty saw that Alex was ignoring her and she started to look angry at him.

She walked towards Alex and sat next to him. At the same time, she gave him a freezing look.

Alex's eyes show a slightly ironic expression as he said, "Ohh, is that not my powerful rival?"

Misty just looked coldly at Alex and said nothing for a few seconds.

Alex was a bit surprised that Misty didn't freak out like a kid from his provocation. Although he didn't care where Misty is now a bit more of an Adult.

Misty said after a few seconds in a low voice, "How?"

Alex just looked at Misty with a questioning look "Hmm?"

Misty's expression got slightly angry as she said, "How did you manage to level your Pokemon so fast? I trained like a lunatic, spent several million, and still..."

Alex looked at her emotionless.

"Do you think that only because you give everything for it, that you deserve to level faster than me?"

Misty's expression showed eyes full of anger as she tried to suppress her emotion.

"Do you have to provoke me all the time? After our second fight, I used all my time to train my Pokemon to become stronger. I was even in the Firewood Forest for 1 month to get stronger faster. Do you know how dangerous this place is? you can lose your life if you are not careful. "

Alex showed a sarcastic expression when he heard what Misty said. "Hehe, you are really spoiled."

"You even think that it's special when you train in a relatively dangerous place like the FireWood forest."

Alex's expression went cold and he started to look at Misty with his indifferent eyes.

"Many rookie trainers have to train in the wild to get Money or to get stronger. Many of them die every day and don't have the luxury of waiting before they are strong enough to train more safely."

"Did you know how expensive good Pokemon, TM's, Pokemon Food, or even Pokemon items are? Especially good Pokemon items that you can give your Pokemon before its evolution so that they can improve their potential, are impossible for most rookie trainers to buy."

Alex's mood got worse than he remembered how he as a rookie trainer didn't even have enough money to buy a good item for Crobat.

"You have no idea what is really dangerous when you enter the real wilderness for the first time as an Elite-level Trainer."

"Look at Rookie Trainer death numbers and shut up. Your foolishness annoys me."

Alex didn't have a good opinion of Misty just because she now started training her Pokémon seriously.

She got her first Pokemon very young so it is understandable that she did not train her Pokemon at a young age seriously. but it is no reason for Alex that she now can think, that she is special because she train in a relatively dangerous area.

Misty looked shocked and didn't say anything for a few seconds.

After a few seconds, she looked at Alex and said, "Do you train a lot in such dangerous areas?"

Alex just looked at Misty speechless for a few seconds and then he said, "What's wrong with you?"

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