Temporary Gym Leader

The second match went according to his expectation. Flareon lost the fight. It was a complete shutdown as it had to fight against a Pokemon, who had an advantage in typing as well as the limited available space in the arena. Moreover, Seadra's speed in the water is quite fast, diving occasionally into the water to avoid the jet of Ember as the Flareon tries to hit its opponent but fails to do so.

Hisoka even shook his head when the trainer tried to attempt his Pokemon to boil the water in the pool with its fire. It's just a last-ditch effort before the inevitable defeat. Of course, if the Pokemon is strong enough, then this kind of approach might work. It just needs to boil the water in the pool to draw the Seadra out of his hiding and defeat it straight away.

Also, if the Pokemon Fire-type move is strong enough, then why would it need to bother doing that. A strong Fire-type move like Inferno is enough to vaporize the pool's water completely.

Unfortunately, the strength of Flareon is far from reaching that level. After releasing a few sprays of fire at the water, it only manages to evaporate some water from the pool, which is only a drop in a bucket compared to the size of the pool. Furthermore, it fails to do anything to the Seadra except for making itself exhausted.

Then, Choji ordered Seadra to create a water tornado to drag the Flareon into the water. Finally, it used a Water Gun to knock the opponent out of the pool. It fainted straight away after being hit by the super effective move.

…

"What! Why would you want to give up!" Daisy stared at Choji standing in front of her, disbelief written on her face.

"Are you sure? If you manage to win against Hisoka, you can be the temporary Gym Leader of Cerulean Gym for three days. Also, if you stay undefeated during that time, you will get a total of 9,000 dollars as reward money and a Surf TM worth around 65,000 dollars."

"I already know that!"

Choji nodded and said, "Hisoka is definitely stronger than me. I already know this just by watching his matches yesterday. Since I am going to lose, then why should I fight him? I might as well surrender now rather than be defeated later."

Daisy was dumbfounded by his reply.

When you reach the finals, you might as well try it, whether you win or lose, right? And what if you win?

Sakura shook her head helplessly and said, "Alright, you know what? Fine. Since Choji has given up the fight, the winner of this competition is Hisoka from Viridian City."

"As for you, you can leave this place now. And don't ever come back again. Understood?" She warned.

"Yes! I understand!" Choji nodded his head repeatedly.

"Anyway, I'm going to leave Cerulean City soon to continue my trip. As for the Cerulean Gym's Badge, I already got it a few days ago. Speaking of which, this is one of the easiest Gym Challenges I have ever taken. The weakest Gym in the Kanto region does live up to its reputation." he snickered.

"Why you fat-" Daisy was instantly enraged.

But before Daisy could rush to beat him up, Choji immediately ran towards the front door at a speed that belies his shape while shouting, "Hisoka! I'll leave first. I'm heading to Pewter City to challenge the Pewter Gym. I'll contact you when I have the time. Goodbye!"

Phew!

"..."

"Answer my question. Who lost the Gym badge to that fat boy?" With her hands on her hips, Daisy turned and glared fiercely at her two younger sisters.

"Tell me now. Is it Violet or Lily?"

"It's me!"

Lily raised her hand embarrassedly and said, "I was the one who lost the badge to him after our fight. You two happened to be shopping at the mall when the fat boy came to challenge the Gym. His Seadra was too fast. My Poliwag was no match for its speed."

"Daisy, it isn't the first time anyway," Violet quickly came up to her elder sister and soothed her anger.

"The Cascade Badge of Cerulean Gym is indeed the easiest one to obtain."

"You guys," Daisy's pretty face flushed.

"Can you be a little bit more confident? Our Cerulean Gym may not be the strongest one in Kanto, but we can't be the weakest either. We must stop them from laughing at us!"

"And we have found our solution!" Daisy shouted.

Daisy grabbed Hisoka's arm and said, "Now that we have found our temporary Gym Leader. Next, we'll need to spread word of mouth about our Gym's challenge difficulty. So, no trainers will dare to laugh at our Gym anymore!"

"Yes!"

Violet and Lily looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

Is the Alliance going to be okay with this? He thought they had some troubles outside and needed to find another trainer to watch over the Gym. Who would've thought that they only wanted to get rid of their Gym's bad name?

Hisoka shook his head in wonder. The three sisters are really something else. Instead of thinking about how to improve their strength, they instead invited an outsider like him to be the temporary Gym Leader.

Fortunately, they had a younger sister with an excellent talent who could support Cerulean Gym in the future.

...

As they walked on the aisle covered with clear glass tiles in Cerulean Gym, Daisy introduced Hisoka to his next work. Hisoka listened to Daisy's words carefully. After all, Cerulean Gym is his employer now. As a bounty hunter who considers himself a professional, he must pay attention to his reputation. Moreover, having a good word of mouth will introduce more customers to his business.

"The competition rule of our Cerulean Gym is 3vs3, and there must be a Water-type Pokemon in the lineup." Daisy stopped in front of a large pool and pointed to the many water-type Pokemon lazing around the pool.

"And since you don't have a Water-type Pokemon, you can choose one of them at will. If it is willing to follow you in the future, you can also take it with you after the end of the mission. But the condition is-"

"No challengers are allowed to get the Cascade Badge!"

Hisoka then smiled, "You can rest assured that no one will pass the Cerulean Gym Challenge during this time. I can promise you this."