Have you seen the Legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon RotomWatch?!

In just 6 months, the RotomNav was released and it exploded in Popularity instantly! Ace had to make adjustments for the Professors' RotomDexes, but decided in the end that it was best to just have the Professors authorize an Update for the Trainers they chose.

Ace scrapped the Regional Dex and had the Authorized Update implement every minute detail of all Pokemon similar to the Legends Arceus Dex. It was also just a straight up National Dex while the normal Navs were Regional mostly.

This way, you didn't have to carry 18 different phones for one purpose. You could carry all in one and a Watch with over 18,000 styles. The Jubilife Company and Gamefreak Partnership also exploded in popularity.

Just a week after the release, Ace saw all kinds of dazzling watches.

There was even one kid who wore a Pure Gold Garchomp-shaped Watch. Even Ace was dazzled by the watch, turns out, this local tyrant paid 1 million Pokedollars for the custom watch…

Rich people, man!

Oh wait, Ace seemed to be Omega Rich?

Nevermind then, go on young man!

At any rate, this year introduced a lot of new products for Ace's company. He even righteously invited Elesa to Oreburgh under the pretense of 'I'm hiring you to be the Company's spokesperson!'

Elesa accepted and came to Oreburgh to… ahem.. 'Pound out the details' of her contract.

In short, sales skyrocketed and Elesa stayed in Oreburgh for an entire month on 'business', making the League inspector in Unova stomp his feet in anger. But he couldn't do anything! This was a legitimate excuse! 

The League couldn't stop you from making money… Otherwise, who would want to be a Gym Leader? Just become a Model honestly and refuse being a Gym Leader, right?

Roark took over the Gym for a month as Ace stayed home with Elesa.

She went home happily with a full… belly… and a happy smile. Ace kissed her as she left, sighing, "Why don't I just be your agent instead?" Elesa rolled her eyes, leaning in his arms, "I can't perform in Oreburgh only, Darling~"

Ace pouted and Elesa giggled, kissing him gently, "You're so cute. It won't be so long next time, right?" Ace rubbed her back and nodded, "It won't. I'll try and ditch Inspector Joy…" Elesa giggled happily and replied, "I'll wait for you in Nimbasa, okay?"

Ace nodded and let her go, "I love you." Elesa smiled sweetly, "I love you too! Bye Bye Baby~!" as she left on Zapdos, Ace waved and sighed.

Now he had to work again… What a tragedy!

Anyway, during these days with Elesa, basically he never left the house, snuggling every day. It was like Heaven! They even watched Ash's Ever Grande Conference Battles, thankfully he won in the end, otherwise how embarrassing would that be!

Ace watched the battle and nodded, through his interference, Ash had a fully evolved team for the conference…

[Swampert]

[Sceptile]

[Crawdaunt]

[Swellow]

[Pikachu]

[Torkoal]

[Glalie]

He swapped out Swellow for Galie a few times, but other than that, his core was Sceptile, Swampert, and Pikachu. Though, his Torkoal was pretty strong!

After that, Elesa wanted to watch the Contest Finals, seeing May performing. Elesa commented a few times, "This girl isn't bad. Clearly a rookie, though!" Ace rolled his eyes and hugged her in his lap as they watched.

Ace didn't understand anything at all, only saying "Oh wow…" and "That's pretty." Jessie also participated with Slowbro, Seviper, and Dustox, but lost in the finals to May.

It was a shame, but still did great!

Ace sent her a text, "Good Job, Jessie!" Jessie replied, "Thanks! I didn't beat that twerp in the end…" after a few more back and forth, Jessie said that James got top 16 in the Ever Grande Conference before getting kicked out for impersonating a Trainer…

Obviously, he didn't get any badges, how could he participate? So it was a bust.

Ace didn't know what to say, he only laughed. Jessie was secretly proud of him, but didn't say it. So Ace screenshotted her saying it and sent it to James before turning his phone on silent.

At any rate, Ace was back to sitting in the Gym, accepting Challengers. These Challengers were just training at the moment. The set-up for Gyms was not all year round because the Conference happened once a year at a specific time and all Gyms took a month or so as a break period.

But they were still operational. Basically, the simplest way to understand was an off-period in between seasons.

Most Trainers usually went on Vacation during these times. But in Alola, this was the time for the Hakuna Challenge.

Regarding this, Kukui was pretty smart.

A LOT of Trainers go to Alola for Vacation. While they didn't have a league exactly, they did a Hakuna Challenge for tourists on Vacation. So a Trainer could participate in the Conference, then travel to Alola and take part in the Hakuna Challenge without overlap.

All this to say, there were still Gym Challenges, but they weren't as frequent at all. Not even half of what they usually got.

Everything was going smoothly.

The Hisui Area was set to open for the Public when the League Conference Circuit started again. In this way, Ace was pretty busy preparing along with Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny.

They were going to get much more Tourists and Visitors than normal because of the Hisui Area.

Ace opened a new store attached to the old one that Sold Strictly TMs for the Visitors. The System was kind enough to give him another Synthetic Human…

Her name was Nami!

Robin and Nami looked at each other before sighing sadly.

Ace stocked up on TMs and put them in the store. You could even rent them! There were One-Time Use TMs and Infinite Use TMs as well as a Machine that was used with the Rented TMs.

The principle was simple, you put your Pokeball into the slot and then insert the TM disc. That was it!

It was much cheaper than buying the TM directly. But you could also collect One Time TMs, many collectors liked this, it was similar to Bottlecaps.

Speaking of Bottlecaps, James' Bottlecap collection was turned into a Statue of himself by Charmeleon. James was sad and happy at the same time… Charmeleon felt bad and Meowth called Ace to ask for a Bottlecap since Charmeleon wanted to make it up to James.

Ace looked at Charmeleon holding his tail sadly and his heart gushed, "Oh my god! That's so cute!!" Ace sent Charmeleon a Gold Bottlecap, asking Meowth to record the scene.

Watching James burst into tears and hug Charmeleon, who also cried… He almost cried himself! How wholesome!

Another 2 months passed and the League Circuit began!