There are only ten days left before the New Year, and the entire Sinnoh region is enveloped in a strong New Year atmosphere.
Because the wedding is scheduled to take place on New Year's Day, it is now necessary to arrange both the New Year party and the venue for the wedding, so the entire island is now a busy scene.
In the past, champions were required to attend the annual meetings of each region in the New Year, but this year because Luther was getting married, no one wanted to be absent on that day, so canceling the annual meeting became the unified answer heard by the alliances in each region.
Therefore, for annual meetings in each region where the champions were required to appear, they would record and broadcast them if they could, and if they couldn't, they would appear online, reluctantly making concessions for Luther's wedding.
There is no room for discussion on this matter. The news that our champion has a house on Qidao and has been staying there for a long time is unknown to ordinary people. For the alliance, it is no longer difficult to find out the information.
Each alliance has tacitly blocked the news that their champions live on the island.
First, because it is easy to cause trouble. After all, the island is in the mainland of Sinnoh, and there are many people who cannot accept their champion living in other areas for a long time. This matter is difficult to explain now.
The second reason is related to the desire of several alliances to advise their champions not to go to the island too much.
This idea was once resorted to inviting one's own champion to come back for a talk and express his attitude.
However, something A'Du did completely overturned everyone's preparations.
Competing in the Qidao Arena, whether he lost or won, the long-term accumulated experience and the fighting spirit inspired by his opponents gave Adu a super improvement.
A'Du, who was originally suspected of being kicked out of the Quartz League Champions League, after staying on Qidao for a while, swept the Four Heavenly Kings and completed the defense of his title.
There are many capable people in each regional alliance, and they quickly speculated that there are other champions on the island, and there is the possibility of private communication.
This exchange gave A'Du very good feedback, which directly led to his improvement in strength.
"In public, if the champions want to compete, they can only do it in the form of an exhibition match."
This unwritten rule between various regional leagues is actually a kind of protection for their own champions.
When champions compete against each other, the loser will always be questioned by the trainers in their own region.
With the current rapid development of elf sports, championships have been highly linked to business. After all, only by letting money flow can we rapidly promote the development of an industry and achieve a virtuous cycle.
After leaving the era of generating electricity with love, it is inevitable for champions to be labeled with commodity attributes. This is especially done by Hezhong, Carlos, and Galar.
Quartz and Hoenn are slightly conservative and are unwilling to follow the plans of Kalos and other regions. They are still thinking about how to promote further development of commercialization.
In fact, Sinnoh had already started to label the champions with a lot of commercial attributes in the Kikuno era before Sirona. Sirona's youth and popularity allowed them to accumulate a lot of resources, and they were just waiting for Sirona to gain a foothold.
It's just that Sinnoh was a bit wrong this time.
Sirona is young and very popular, but like Quartz's Adu and Hoenn's Daigo, he doesn't like to be labeled with commercial attributes and just wants to be a trainer.
As Daigo took the initiative to retire, his successor Mikri's physique that was close to business development also allowed the Hoenn Alliance to advance its own plans.
In recent years, concerns about the future of the championship position have continued to appear as hot topics of discussion in various regions, and this is also due to the reform of these business factors.
It is no longer time for each regional alliance to go on separate expeditions when it first took shape. Now everyone regards maintaining peace and cooperative development in various regions as their goals.
Each region needs a large number of excellent trainers, which is actually a demonstration of the strength of the region, and it also shows other regions the "possibility" of their region's future.
In this peaceful era, the competition of the younger generation replaced the battle of champions and entered the public eye in a more intuitive way.
In order to continuously create new possibilities for their own family, the champion, who is their spiritual pillar, must take into account commercial aspects while staying away from risks.
But doing so also makes champions often feel confused after reaching the peak.
There are only a few people in this world who can touch the ceiling, and only these people can be their opponents and encourage each other to move forward.
In order to go further, they can only meet with each other in private and use the limited time to discuss and improve.
Sirona and A'Du were fighting in the villa of Carunai's family. When she saw Luther watching, she subconsciously said that this was a helpless reaction from ordinary sparring, which was the epitome of such restrictions.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. This rule has made champions suffer, but it has made trainers go from a career that only children aspired to in the past, and once they became parents and advised children not to dream, into an attempt to pursue dreams supported by the alliance.
To become a champion, everyone knows the advantages of this rule.
In order for trainers with dreams to have the opportunity to take the first step to appreciate the world when they reach adulthood, they sealed themselves, accepted this rule, and abided by it unswervingly.
A'Du once said to Luther with a smile: "If the champion suffers a little loss, so many children can continue to have dreams. I think it is worth it."
Luther also felt that he was worthy because his friends were all so worthy of admiration.
I have to say that the timing of the appearance of Luther's island and his conception are very good.
It not only gives the champions a piece of pure land to hide from the outside world, but also provides a stage to shield themselves from the noise of the outside world and enjoy the competition.
He reasonably avoided the restrictions of the league, blocked the hands of the league and capital, and became a paradise for champions who pursue a stronger self.
Although Luther's original intention was just to allow his friends to fish freely and happily here.
The attitude of the major alliances towards Qidao is not uniform.
To be precise, in each league, the voices raised against Qidao's act of providing a paradise for the champion king ranged from loud to small, from sharp to gentle.
Those with an excessive desire for power will scold Qidao for easily separating the connection between the alliance and the champion.
Reasonable people will remind these people that trainers should constantly challenge themselves. Champions have made sacrifices. At least in this regard, they should respond with tolerance and understanding.
Various voices were thrown into confusion, but in the end the voice of reason prevailed.
This is also a characteristic of regional alliances in this era. There may be a lot of internal voices and quarrels over some things.
But in the end, most of them will choose an option that is better for the entire region and the future.
Even though Luther was restrained by the senior officials of the Sinnoh Alliance on the issue of Qidao, in the end, more senior officials came forward to support Luther and Qidao.
This is a better era, and living in such an environment is a kind of happiness.
Of course... until the dust settles on the Galar issue, this regional alliance list needs to be played without them for the time being.
When it comes to treating Qidao, no one will mention the specific name of Okushima with a special regional flavor.
Each major league has only one name.
Habitat Island.
The island is the island of the islanders, not the island of Sinnoh.
The Sinnoh Alliance naturally knows that this is other alliances stripping off the last Sinnoh regional color of the island to prevent the Sinnoh Alliance from having wild ideas.
But the Sinnoh Alliance doesn't care.
After all, Qidao is within their area, so they naturally have some small advantages.
Sirona, who came back from recording the annual meeting, saw Luther standing behind Mai in the open-air kitchen in Luther's courtyard, literally teaching Mai what to cook step by step.
Sirona had a good eye, and Mai was obviously able to knead the dough smoothly, but she secretly squeezed the dough with her hands during the kneading process, making the dough irregular.
Sure enough, seeing that the dough was not smooth enough, Luther extended the hand-to-hand teaching time.
Let the person you like show off your skills with satisfaction, and you can take the opportunity to enjoy his tenderness, the best of both worlds.
Seeing through this detail, Sirona seemed to have eaten a large piece of extremely sweet frosting.
As the first people to get married on the island, Luther and Mai are gradually increasing their lethality to everyone.
Can't see it, can't see it!
Sirona walked quickly back to her house, deciding to go out less often recently and try not to get close to Luther's house.
In the backyard of Luther's house, there were more than a dozen small food bowls in front of Aplysia and Togekis, containing various elf foods with different flavors.
Fat Keding took an oil pen and marked the food bowl, not knowing what he was recording.
Bingyibu thought for a long time, jumped over, and pointed at a certain food bowl, as if to indicate that he liked this one better.
When Mariluli saw that there was something to eat, she ran over to try it, but was pushed out by Kuailong on the side.
Mariluli would only come here to eat all the food she tried, and could not provide any valid data at all.
Fat Keding and the others are taking their time to investigate the tastes of the entire island elves and select two or three of the most popular and accepted foods to prepare for the wedding day.
There are so many people and elves visiting, and there are absolutely not enough manpower to make food that suits every elf's taste, so we can only use this method.
Cream Fairy and Tibulim were squatting in the kitchen, thinking about what kind of pattern should be painted on the big cake used for the wedding.
"Draw Luther and Mai holding hands?"
The elves around were in favor of this proposal, but Mana Fei was curious and asked a very practical question.
"Can we...can we draw likenesses?"
Frosty Milk Fairy's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly realized that every time she made a cake, she always focused on the deliciousness and forgot about the decoration.
After all, the cakes made in the past did not need to be ornamental, but wedding cakes need to take this into consideration.
Seeing Frost Milk Fairy, Tibulim, and Geely Egg looked embarrassed, and Manafei also broke out in a cold sweat.
Remembering that this was Luther's wedding, Fairy Frost's eyes became firm.
"There are still more than ten days, I can study now!"
"I'm going to find the Night Demon tonight to see how other people decorate. I don't believe I can't do it with my ability and everyone's help!"
Frost Milk Fairy's momentum inspired everyone, and amid cheers, Tibrim rationally told Frost Milk Fairy that it would be best to have a second plan.
After all, if you end up with a bad result, at least you can fix it.
"Then, what about the pattern of Qidao on the cake?"
It seemed like a good suggestion, but Gardevoir, who was silently watching, suddenly reminded him.
"I heard Luther tell this story. The implication is not very good. This is called dividing the island."
The elves watching were silent and looked at each other.
Darkrai in the shadow had no choice but to find Luther and led him to the elves who were discussing the cake pattern and meaning.
Luther knelt down and poked the Cream Fairy and Tibrim.
The two little guys looked sad, and they were still immersed in the guilt of not being able to properly express their blessings to Mai and Luther.
Luther hugged the two elves and kissed each one.
"Thank you for thinking so carefully about Mai and me."
"It doesn't matter if Mai and I look alike, it'll be fine as long as you guys come to your own. And... no matter what the final result is, as long as it tastes good, that's enough."
Luther's decision made Frosty and Tibrim rush into the library, apparently intending to perfect their painting skills on cakes in the shortest possible time.
Luther told Mai about this, and Mai smiled happily.
"Speaking of which, Ibrahimovic and Pachlitz run into the forest every day. I asked Cresselia, but Cresselia told me..."
"Ibrahimovic said that he can't tell Mai, they are preparing a surprise."
After saying that, Luther and Mai laughed.
Didn’t Cresselia sell Ibrahimovic in half?
Both Luther and Mai suppressed their curiosity and did not take the initiative to see what surprises Ibrahimovic and Pachilis were secretly preparing.
The best thing is that both the party who receives the gift and the party who gives the gift will be happy on the wedding day.
Luther hugged Mai and sat down facing the courtyard.
Looking at the falling snowflakes and the elves chasing and playing in the courtyard, Luther said sincerely.
"Thank you, Mai."
"Before, I couldn't imagine that one day I would have such a life."
"If it weren't for your hard work on Qidao, Qidao wouldn't have changed as it has now."
Mai squeezed Luther's hand and said softly: "I'm the one who wants to thank you."
"I used to think that when it's freezing cold, sitting in a warm room and watching the snow falling outside the window with you would be the most beautiful thing."
"You have sacrificed a lot for this wish, and I can only silently help you maintain everything you have worked hard to get back on the island."
"You have worked hard these years."
…
It wasn't anything special at first, but the emotions quickly heated up as they went back and forth.
Both of their eyes were filled with endless love for each other, as gentle as the spring breeze blowing on the earth.
In silence, the distance between the two became closer and closer.
Words could no longer carry the fiery emotions between the two of them at this moment. When their lips pressed together closely and their heartbeats played a beautiful movement, the elves in the room silently exited, leaving all the space to the people they loved most.