well well well, champion of paldea, that’s quite the title, you even helped penny with operation starfall and arven with the titans, Arceus, you basically saved paldea by going into Area zero for crying out loud

it was no surprise that when the treasure hunt ended you had a lot of girls in the academy asking you out…like a LOT, buuut your eyes only went to someone specific…Mela

crazy, because she still kinda had beef with you after you beat her and made her give up her base duding operation Starfall, so the first few times you tried to ask her out she always yelled at you or bonked you

but in the end it was worth it, she gave you a chance and turns out, she was absolutely robbed of her heart by you, she even started being more soft to you!

right now you were playing online chess against arven while Mela laid in your bed, since the academy let all students have like 2 weeks off (for the sake of the plot) mela had her hair like she used to during Team star, she was on her rotom phone probably texting Eri on it before putting it down and looked at you as you won the chess match

”how do you even play that?…it looks boring” Mela said as she scoffed, while looking at you “you’re such a f#cking nerd.” she says knowing damn well for arceus’s holy name she’s the one simping for a “nerd” like you