The qualifiers finally came to an end and the top eight were ready to face each other inside the grand stadium.

The top eight are Julian, Dhrago, Yesh, Ash, Glen, Karl, Dino, and Virgil, these eight have proven themselves to be the best of the best in this year's Unova league. ??

Seeing the finalists of this year's Unova league people were not surprised but they are very excited, these are the big hitters, and when they battle everyone knows that it will be a blast.

The league also didn't waste any time announcing the battles that will take place in the quarter-finals of the final rounds.

Julian will be facing Glen.

Ash will be facing Virgil.

Yesh will be facing Karl.

Dhrago will be facing Dino

Seeing the match up people are hyped and people from all over the world are already speculating on who will be the winner of this year's league, majority of them still vote for Julian and the favorite to win the league because people have too much confidence in him and they should have. historical

He is the only trainer that has proved time and time again that no one can defeat him, he has gone through three regions, participated in three leagues, and won every one of them, and now this is his fourth one and people believe that he will do it again.

There are also others who think otherwise, they think that the reign of Julian will finally come to an end in the hands of one of these trainers who are still going strong like Yesh, Glen, and Karl.

These three are the only trainers who have not lost a single pokemon in a battle up till now just like Julian.

According to the stats on the internet, people believe that Dhrago and Yesh have the highest chance of defeating Julian than any other trainer in the top eight, followed by Glen and Karl, then Ash, then Dino, and Virgil.

But at the end of the day these are just speculations and people know that anything can happen, but people still like to speculate and bet because the money that comes with it is very attractive in amount.

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There are still two days left before the quarter-finals start and Julian has a lot of time for himself, with all this free time he decided to go and give someone a visit.

He headed out of the hotel and headed towards the pokemon center, when he got there he could see a lot of trainer going in and coming out. Since the pokemons battle so hard they need all the help they can get to be fully recovered.

He entered the pokemon center and started looking for the person he came to meet, he soon found her sitting at the corner with a very concerned look on her face.

Julian 'There she is'

He thought and walked towards her.

Julian "Kelly?"

He asked.

Kelly who was sitting there worried lifted her head and looked at the tall man standing in front of her, at first she was blank as her thoughts were occupied by her pokemons, then she realized that the person standing in front of her is none other than Julian.

She quickly got up and looked at him in surprise.

Kelly "Mr. Julian?"

She asked shocked, she couldn't believe Julian is standing right in front of her.

Kelly "How do you know my name? Oh silly me, you must have seen me battle"

She said and sat down again with sadness written all over her face.

Julian "I did see you battle, you were quite good...."

He said and paused for a second.

Julian "How are your pokemons?"

He asked.

Kelly "All of them are seriously hurt and have a severe concussion, Alakazam has recovered but he is still in pain, Noctowl and Donphan's conditions are a little worse, both of them have skull fractures and it will take more than a month for them to heal completely"

She said.

Julian "I see"

He didn't expect this at all, he knew that they would be hurt, but skull fracture was something he didn't expect, the severity of a skull fracture can be low or very high. But from what Kelly said her pokemons life are not in danger, they will just have to rest a lot and take medicine.

Kelly suddenly started to cry as she felt really bad,

Kelly "I should have stopped and shouldn't have continued, its all my fault that they are hurt"

She started to blame herself.

Julian "No need to blame yourself, I saw you battle, it's your opponent's fault, he could have held back"

He said and comforted her.

Julian stayed with her for a while and decided to leave but Kelly suddenly stopped him

Kelly "Mr. Julian"

Julian "What is it?"

Kelly "Kick his butt"

Julian "I sure will, don't worry"

Kelly "And please be careful"

Julian "You don't need to worry about me, you should pray for Dhrago's well being"

He said and left.

Luckily all of Kelly's pokemon are fine and the skull fractures are not severe, if they were severe, they would have very little chance of surviving.

Julian decided to take very good care of Dhrago, now he really didn't care about Dhrago and where he came from, he just wanted to beat the shit out of him.