AN: This is chapter 164.
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Dark City.
The next day, Hisoka returned to Saffron City, and with the help of Ryoichi, he was able to open a new investment account. Then, he deposited all the money he gained during his travel into the account and let the bank look after it. And because of that, he was now the proud owner of a black card.
With this card, it would be more convenient to access some off-limits areas like Mount Silver and Mount Chimney in Hoenn. In addition, he would also be able to receive high-end services.
"Should I renovate the gym?"
Back at the gym, looking at the old and out-of-fashion decorations around him, a random thought suddenly popped into his head.
"Forget it. I should wait for the Komoda City gym competition first."
He shook his head, clearing the thought out of his mind. He was going to move out sooner or later anyway. He didn't want to waste his money on some useless stuff.
It was at this time he suddenly recalled a particular rule about the gym leader position. If a gym leader wanted to retire or wanted to give up his position due to some special reasons, he was allowed to recommend a candidate to take over the gym, but only after the candidate passed the Inspection Agency's test.
If no candidate was put forward, the League would then send someone else to serve as the gym leader. Most gyms around the world work in this way.
Of course, there were also some special cases like the Blackthorn Gym, which was passed down in the Dragon Tamer clan, or Sootopolis Gym, a gym where the gym leader must have a Milotic.
Even though he only stayed here for a short time, he was reluctant to hand the gym to someone else. Better to leave it to Ran, a person he trusted. Not to mention, she was born in Dark City. The locals would prefer her to become the gym leader rather than someone else.
"Well, it's decided then."
He made up his mind that he was going to train Ran as well as prepare himself for the gym tournament that was going to start in a few months.
Ran's talent as a trainer was from a genius, just average. But she also had some advantages. She was more diligent and hardworking. She was very willing to study hard to become an excellent trainer.
With his training, he was confident that Ran would be able to become a strong trainer in less than a year. He also had to catch some Dark-type Pokemon for her. Dark Gym's specialty was Dark-type Pokemon. Although her Ursaring was strong, he was not a Dark-type Pokemon.
Three days passed by in the blink of an eye. Apart from taking a break on the first day after his return, he was busy working again for the next two days.
Right now, he was in the basement that he asked Rhyperior to build for him yesterday. Computer parts were scattered on the floor as he attached a device to the wall.
A while ago, he had stolen two things inside the airship that belonged to Lawrence III. The first one was the artificial intelligence program, while the other was a 3D hologram device.
Beep!
A series of transistor lights lit up one after another, brightening up the whole room.
"The system debugging is completed, and the host connection is now starting."
A robotic voice came from the loudspeakers he installed earlier on the wall.
After about five minutes, the cooling fans that were spinning like crazy suddenly slowed down, and following that, a little girl with red hair appeared on the screen.
"Hello, master. Friday is ready to serve you."
The little girl said with a smile.
"Hello, Friday. Are you able to connect to a satellite?"
He asked.
"Yes, master."
Friday nodded.
He nodded, "Good, just stand by for now."
After that, he began to install the 3D hologram device on the computer. Although he didn't know what to do with this state-of-the-art supercomputer for the time being. But hey, who didn't love Iron Men.
Sometime later, when he was playing around with the hologram technology, Ran called him out, saying that there was a package waiting for him outside.
He quickly ran out and saw a Pidgeot waiting at the gate with a package tied to his feet. After giving it some beef jerky, he took the package to the basement to unwrap it.
Inside the package was the Upgrade that he had bought a few days ago. Yeah, he was going to use this to evolve his Porygon, and he couldn't wait any longer.
Excitedly, he called Porygon to come out of the computer. It had been sitting inside the computer to help Friday sort some information that he had obtained from Lawrence's airship.
Soon, Porygon came out of the computer and looked at him with a questioning mark on its face. He told it that the Upgrade disc he promised had arrived and it was going to evolve soon.
Porygon looked thrilled at that as it began to fly around the room. After it calmed down, he took it back to its Pokeball and connected the Pokeball to the computer.
He then carefully took out the disc from the case and put it into the disc slot on the computer. After that, he uploaded the date inside the disc to the Pokeball and waited.
A minute passed by.
'Is it done?'
Just as he was about to touch the Pokeball, Friday at this time informed that Porygon was still undergoing change inside the Pokeball.
Since Porygon's evolution was different from the usual, he could only stay patient and wait.
About fifteen minutes later, Friday finally told him that Porygon had successfully evolved. He breathed out a sigh of relief at that. He then reached out to the Pokeball and tossed it down to the floor.
The Pokeball opened wide, and Porygon flew out, revealing its new appearance to him. It looked much more rounded than before. In his opinion, it was at least much better than the previous block-shaped body.
"Porygon?"
He said softly.
"Porygon!"
As Porygon slowly opened its eyes, he noticed that they were no longer as dull-looking as before. Instead, they were much clear now. He also saw a trace of wisdom in the depth of its eyes.
"Congratulations! You're Porygon 2 now."
He congratulated it as Porygon 2 flew around him with excited cries. Then, he walked out of the basement with Porygon 2 and called out to everyone to celebrate its successful evolution.