“See? Isn’t this very simple?”
Yu Feng smiled slightly after finishing everything. Of course, you’d have to ignore Granny Jin’s shop, which exploded due to her actions.
Though Granny Jin wasn’t a good person to begin with.
“Is this Psychic? Miss, I am Gary.”
Gary bowed very Gentleman's Land to Yu Feng, took Yu Feng’s soft, cool hand, and was about to perform a hand kiss.
“Has no one told you not to casually touch a Psychic?”
Yu Feng subtly pulled her hand back, then wiped it on Ash’s clothes, not at all hiding her disgust for the action.
Ash looked at Yu Feng wiping her hand on him, utterly bewildered, seemingly not having reacted to what had happened.
Then Yu Feng snapped her fingers, and Gary’s body started moving on its own.
“Wait, what did you do?”
Gary’s body began to move uncontrollably towards Ash, hugging him and constantly rubbing against him.
“Gary, stay away from me! This is so weird!”
Ash had never seen Gary like this. He tried with all his might but couldn’t push away Gary, who was hugging him.
“You idiot, do you think this is what I want to do? Hurry up and get away!”
Gary’s thoughts were unknown, but his words were certainly harsh, urging Ash to leave immediately.
The two struggled for a long time, finally stopping when Brock had calmed the scene and resumed the beauty pageant.
“Alright, Team Rockets Girls have withdrawn for some reason. Now, only Xiao Xia, Gary’s Girlfriend Squad, Hua Die Mask, and finally, Ms. Fu Ningna, Queen of All Waters, remain!”
Brock briefly reintroduced the remaining contestants. After all, after Team Rockets’ disruption, not many people might still remember them.
“It’s the Queen of All Waters, All Realms, All Peoples, and All Laws! Get that right!”
Fu Ningna expressed her dissatisfaction with Brock’s omission of her full title, but Brock didn’t care, as the title was indeed a mouthful.
Faced with Brock’s refusal to change his wording, Fu Ningna was at a loss. As the host and a Gym Leader of equal standing, she couldn’t really threaten him.
Ah, yes, Fu Ningna knew that Brock and Xiao Xia were Gym Leaders. Their photos were even printed in the new edition of various Gym Leaders’ textbooks.
They were studied as potential exam questions, including but not limited to their Good at Pokémon and battle methods.
She remembered having to memorize all the Water-type Gym Leaders from various regions to inherit her Gym, and only succeeded with Oshawott’s Helping Hand.
“Alright, let’s begin the live voting! Everyone can use their flyers as voting tools and place them into the corresponding ballot box of the person they like. We will tally the votes. Voting time is five minutes, so please hurry!”
“We will announce the results in ten minutes.”
Brock looked at the crowd, who had now remembered the situation, and nodded, indicating that voting could now begin to choose everyone’s number one.
It was just too hastily organized, and some machines weren’t ready, otherwise, the votes could have been tallied much faster.
It wouldn’t have been necessary to count manually like this, but fortunately, Mr. Yu Huijun lent them his Indeedee and Gallade for the tallying; otherwise, it would have been a very troublesome matter.
With everyone conscientiously lining up to vote, the ballot boxes of the contestants smoothly arrived before Brock and the others.
Regardless of how Brock and the others felt,
Indeedee’s feelings were quite complex. She had previously spoken with her daughter and learned that besides Yu Feng, her good sister also had another daughter. Now, her good sister’s daughter and son were in one photo.
And participating in a human beauty pageant… this was a bit… unfair.
She had traveled north and south with her Trainer for so long. At least in her eyes, only two Pokémon could surpass Gardevoir’s beauty: Hatterene and Pheromosa. But Gardevoir was the most human-like.
And her little nephew, well, she supposed she could call him that, was a Gardevoir transformed into a human.
Naturally, his beauty was not something ordinary people could compare to. At least on stage, only Fu Ningna could compete. Xiao Xia couldn’t, at least for now, as her figure was already a dimension-shattering blow.
And what was that on his body? She didn’t remember males growing such things? Shouldn’t male Gardevoir be flat-chested?
How strange. Indeedee felt that today’s experiences were the most exaggerated in over a decade. Later, she would have to ask her daughter exactly what was going on.
She used Psychic to scan the boxes in front of her and immediately discerned how many flyers were in each.
After noting them down in the notebook Brock provided, Indeedee also helped the few who could only count by rote.
This specifically referred to Gallade, whose brain was all muscle; he had Psychic but insisted on counting manually.
After several verifications, the confirmed votes were tallied.
Brock then announced the winner of the beauty pageant.
“So, according to our tally, congratulations to Ms. Hua Die Mask for winning this competition’s Champion with a slight advantage!”
Brock announced everyone’s vote counts. Yu Feng narrowly defeated Gary’s Girlfriend Squad with a slim margin of ten votes.
“I… I lost!”
Fu Ningna sat on the stage, looking incredulous. She, an actress by profession, lost in a competition held in such a small place?
If other Gym Leaders found out, they’d laugh her to death.
“Oh dear, oh dear, thankfully my goal was just to annoy Ash.”
Gary ran a hand through his hair, not surprised by the result. The Psychic Girl attribute was simply a knockout, not to mention her looks and figure were better than his girlfriend squad’s.
But luckily, his goal was merely to annoy Ash. Winning this small competition was ideal, but not winning wasn’t a big deal.
As for Xiao Xia… her expression was similar to Fu Ningna’s. She, who prided herself as a beautiful girl, couldn’t believe she would lose.
“Alright, let’s invite Ms. Hua Die Mask to receive this year’s grand prize.”
Brock approached them with a gold-plated trophy. After handing her the trophy, he announced the official end of the makeup beauty pageant.
Yu Feng, having won the Champion title, only felt troubled. If the competition’s name wasn’t engraved on it, she could take it back, but with the name engraved, where could she hide it? Taking it back would make her aunt and the others laugh for a year.
Shinny Kirlia, however, was very happy, holding the trophy and unable to put it down. After all, this was the first trophy she and her brother had won together. She would definitely show it off to her aunt and the others, and also to her friends in the clan, telling them to stay away from her brother!
Poor Shinny Kirlia didn’t realize why her brother was eating so well.
