New Year

Oak Research Center was filled with festive colors.

Although they didn't have this custom originally, under Rope's influence, every time when New Year's Day came around, they would always use all kinds of festive things to dress up the entire research center with a little bit of festive colors.

At first, it was to help Rope alleviate her homesickness, but later on, it did become a habit.

"It's early in the morning. They're still busy."

Whitley, Sennogi and Daisy were sitting in the living room eating breakfast, Whitley looked at Rope and the three of them through the window and asked in a strange way.

"The work is basically done. These three guys are just playing now..."

Daisy also spoke rather helplessly. After all, according to her understanding, the only time these three guys could really throw away all their baggage and play at ease was today.

"A few of them are playing, what are we doing today? Prepare food?"

Sennogi asked, opening his mouth in some confusion.

Speaking of which, Whitley also asked with some confusion. After all, there really didn't seem to be much work to do today either.

Daisy shook her head and said, "We don't need to prepare the food, we will get a specialized person to prepare the food today, and then get someone to make some ordinary dishes. We'll do those specialty dishes ourselves."

It would be fine if there were fewer people.Rope and Daisy could do the dishes. But this year, odds are it won't be that easy...

"The three of us are tasked with entertaining the guests today."

Daisy said seriously. She had a feeling that today would be a big job.

Whitley also reacted to this as if out of the blue... something wasn't right...

If Sabrina was willing to come here for the New Year's festivities...

Putting her heart in the right place...

So Whitley shivered. Suddenly it felt like this evening was probably going to be a tough one.

She looked at Rope through the window. silently lit a wax for Rope in her own heart.

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Sinnoh

Professor Carolina looked at the little girl in front of her with a grimace, not knowing what to say for a moment.

She could only blacken her face while helping Cynthia pack her bags.

While packing her bags, Cynthia opened her mouth and said: ''Aiya, Grandma, you can come with me. It's not like there's a shortage of rooms. Besides, it's also fun to celebrate the New Year together, and you don't have any work during this period of time anyway. Didn't you say long ago that you wanted to have a face-to-face exchange with Professor Oak about academic issues?"

Professor Carolina rolled her eyes without any good reason and said, "Are you sure that you didn't call me over to hurry up and finalize the matter between the two of you? "

Cynthia helplessly cocked her head and said, "Grandma, it's not like I'm in a hurry..."

"If you're not in a hurry now, I'll see when you are. If you're still this calm after tonight, you're really something."

Professor Carolina had a look of amusement on her face.

Cynthia's lips pursed lightly, obviously reminded by Professor Carolina's reminder of what she might encounter tonight.

"I don't think it's going to be that much of a stretch, it's New Year's, shouldn't everyone be at home with their families?"

Professor Carolina couldn't wait to roll her eyes to the sky when she heard this.

"With family, you're with family!"

Although there was quite a bit of complaining in her tone, there wasn't much exasperation. Speaking of which, I remembered when I was young. At that time, his own mom was not also complaining about himself while helping himself gesture luggage.

By the way, she also told herself how to deal with that guy's family...

Hey...it's true that the wind and water have changed, and it's finally time for me to face this kind of thing. Back then, Cynthia's father was the one who brought the girl home, so she didn't have any feelings. If you really mean it, wasn't Cynthia's grandma the same way back then?

Without realizing it, Professor Carolina's focus had begun to drift.

Just at this time, Professor Carolina suddenly felt her arm being firmly grabbed by someone. When she inclined her head, Cynthia was looking at herself with big watery eyes.

"Grandma, just come with me. What if I get bullied tonight?"

Professor Carolina didn't have the heart to say, "You're still afraid of being bullied, grandma is still afraid of you bullying others na. After all, that Rope kid must be helping you pull the strings."

"That's right, he dares not help me!"

Looking at Cynthia's rare little girl posture as she grew up.Professor Carolina's mouth hooked into a smile.

"Don't worry, Grandma was like that back then too."

"Was Grandpa as grabby as Rope back in the day?"

Cynthia asked with a smile on her lips.

Professor Carolina rewarded Cynthia with a pop on the spot.

"Hold on to your boyfriend if you know he's a steal... or you won't even be able to worry about it until someone else snatches him up."

There wasn't a hint of worry on Cynthia's face, it was all confidence.

"How could it be! I'm an absolute winner."

She wasn't worried at all that Rope would leave her, and Rope wasn't worried that he would leave him. Their lives, and even their souls, were already closely connected.

Rope's tangled feelings for the other girls were well known to her as well.Rope's compassion for Sennogi, his guilt for Daisy, his admiration for Sabrina, and his affection for Whitley.

All can be described as the beginnings of love, yet none of them are really love.

He is loving and dependent on himself. All of these emotions are clearly sensed for Cynthia.

Rope could have excluded these from Cynthia's perception. But he didn't. He knew very well that the most important thing between them was not to hide any dark forces. Rather, it was honesty. Don't think about some well-intentioned lie for the good of the other.

Kindness was just the qualifier. A lie is always a lie.

"Okay, Grandma, come with me!"

Cynthia shook Professor Carolina's arm and pleaded earnestly.

Professor Carolina looked at the eldest granddaughter helplessly, and in the end nodded helplessly.

So Cynthia cheered as she quickly packed her own luggage, and then prepared to help Professor Carolina gesture her luggage as well.

"Slow down, take it easy!"

Professor Carolina was helpless as she looked at this granddaughter who was losing her mind at the thought of Rope.

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Kalos

Diantha lay in the tub after her morning workout, cupping a rose plant in her hand.

Roses really couldn't be a more common flower for her. Every time there was a fan meeting something like this was something you had to take a car for. Not to mention the crazy, but not very cultured or creative suitors.

It's like if they send roses, Diantha has to respond to them...

Roses are just expressions. Taking them may not be acceptance. It's just being polite and maintaining your face.

Diantha, on the other hand, is full of hesitation and torn at this point.

"It's New Year's in Kanto region, isn't it... Rope should be preparing for New Year's at Oak Research Center."

"Then should I go?"

Diantha was a bit overwhelmed.

"Sinnoh is supposed to be celebrating New Year's too, so Cynthia is supposed to be staying home with Professor Carolina..."

Diantha's eyes flashed with a glint of surprise at the thought.

Yes, Cynthia was supposed to be spending New Year's at home, in which case there would be no one around Rope to watch over her. There's bound to be some asshole with bad intentions towards Rope thinking about taking advantage of the situation!

No, it couldn't be!

Diantha jerked up from the tub, water beading and sliding down her gel-like skin.

"I have to go help Cynthia keep an eye on her boyfriend! Um, I'm not doing this for myself! It's a responsibility to my bestie!"

With that thought in mind, Diantha briefly wiped herself down before pulling out her cell phone and buying a ticket to fly to the Kanto area.

Diantha then began to manhandle her luggage. Getting ready to head to Kanto to spend time with Rope...ah no, to help Cynthia keep an eye on Rope!

So with that in mind, she couldn't help but hum a light song as she packed her bags.

I forgot that I should send a message to Cynthia to ask her if she was going to Kanto or not.

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Unova

Elesa was also torn right now. She looked at the dark-skinned hottie on the screen and spoke without any good humor, "Nessa! Are you going or not???"

Nessa also had an annoyed look on her face. Scratching her hair, she responded in a bad mood, "Aiya you let me think about it again!"

"This photo album is what Professor Rope promised us. It's not too much for us to ask for it!"

Elesa said it with a straight face, but the word 'goat' was almost written all over her face.

Well, after all, Rope was already Cynthia's Champion's man, and really couldn't be messed with.

But after all, Rope was still Cynthia wasn't really married. So there are still a lot of people who would have any different thoughts.

But I think to Rope's excellent degree, even if it is married, there will still be some women who refuse to give up it.

But she, Elesa, just wanted Professor Rope to do another set of portraits.

There was nothing else on her mind...

Absolutely nothing!

"That's true. But what kind of reason do we use to find Professor Rope? If you're going to look for it, there has to be a decent reason too!"

Nessa spread her hands out with a longing and scared look on her face.

To say she didn't want to go to Rope for a photo shoot would be a lie. It was a powerful piece of modeling. But there was the fact that since this Rope guy wasn't a specialized photographer...and had a scary girlfriend, Nessa wasn't really very brave to get too close to Rope either.

After all, Nessa wasn't sure she could hold her own.

"There are reasons! I'm telling you, Professor Rope is from Kanto, and it's Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh's annual night. If we go today, we might even be able to mix up a meal."

Elesa had a plan-through look on her face.

Nessa nodded as well when she heard that reasoning, but then realized that something was wrong.

"You said the Sinnoh region celebrates New Year's Eve as well... that doesn't mean the Cynthia Champion shouldn't show up!"

Nessa's expression first brightened for a moment. But it quickly showed a suspicious look.

"You guy, you're not thinking of anything bad, are you?"

The expression on Elesa's face steeply froze, then a somewhat stiff smile hung on her face, "Don't think too much, I didn't mean that."

Nessa, with Elesa's demeanor, of course knew that this guy couldn't be thinking about nothing like she herself said...

To say that she didn't think anything, Nessa stewed her own Storm Eater Turtle for soup.

Elesa doesn't say anything. But Nessa didn't say anything either... seriously, it wasn't much of a surprise that Elesa had such thoughts... after all, it was just Professor Rope... capable of writing and fighting, powerful, and more crucially, handsome, considerate, and willing to fall in love! ...

Not many of these powerful male trainers in League don't have a master...

Red already had Yellow. misty ended up losing.

Dragon Lance is, unsurprisingly, going to be with his sister. Even though it's said to be a sister, it's just a clan sister. Raised together since childhood just to be Lance's daughter-in-law. And with a big family, it's not unusual to have such a thing...

Wallace has a girlfriend too. It's no secret. And Wallace...has a lot of fan girls, but there aren't too many of them among the Dojo Masters, the Elite Four, and the Champions who like his style.

And then there's Leon. Leon and Sonia are childhood friends. So it's normal.

And Leon...not handsome...not attractive.

The other ones...either have their minds set on putting in the workout.

But if you want to say why Rope attracts so many people even though he clearly has a girlfriend...there's a lot of reasons. Whether it's a previous friendship that these women can't give up, or Rope's own face and accomplishments...

Some people are like that, even when it's hard, it's still hard to let go.

"Are you or are you not going?"

"Yes, I'll go. But Elesa, you should know that if you don't succeed in this kind of thing, it's better to pull out even if you do."

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Galar

Macro Cosmos, Chairman's Office

"Er, Oleana, you're taking a vacation?"

Rose asked as she looked at the person in front of her and opened her mouth rather helplessly.

Oleana nodded seriously and frowned as she opened her mouth to ask, "No? Chairman, I remember saving up for a long vacation."

"Er, of course there's no problem."

Rose certainly wouldn't stop Oleana from taking a vacation, after all, although it was said that we were all clearly superior and subordinate, in reality, we were even more friends.

In the face of such a reasonable request, it was unlikely that Rose would refuse.

"Just can't think of a reason for you to take a vacation for a while is all."

Rose spoke while passing Oleana's leave request on the computer.

Oleana received Rose's recovery and was relieved, but also had some regrets is all.

If the chairman had just disagreed, could she have just taken the opportunity to resign. Then she could have applied for a job at the Asama Institute as a free agent and become a researcher under Professor Rope!

"It's New Year's Eve in the Kanto region. I want to go see Professor Rope."

After saying that, she got up and left.

She was going to miss her flight.

And Rope, who was playing around with Red and Blue at that moment, didn't yet know what kind of a fix he was going to face.