Chapter 96: Hash Making Use of the Loophole in the Rules for Giles’ Sake

“You won’t accept it?!”

When Hash and Annie heard that Giles would not accept this ability evaluation, they exclaimed in confusion almost simultaneously.

Hash had thought that she had everything under control regarding Starlux Gym and Giles, but Giles had now made the choice to turn down the ability evaluation. This had completely disrupted her meticulously thought-out plan.

This was because even if Giles really lost to Annie in this ability evaluation, as long as he could unleash the strength of his Metal-feathered Eagle as usual during the evaluation, Hash would be able to produce proof that Giles was worthy of being nurtured as the Gym Leader when she sent the recording of this ability evaluation to the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters.

If not for the fact that the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters needed to save a recording of the battle in the records of Starlux Gym, Hash could even use her identity as an Elite Beast Tamer to vouch for Giles and issue a certification for him.

Hash thought that Giles was worth it because after interacting with Giles, she had learned that Giles was a qualified Beast Tamer .

Furthermore, two weeks ago, after Hash returned to the Beast Tamer Association’s Branch from Starlux Gym, she specially went to watch the recording of Giles participating in the Beast-taming Gym Tournament.

While watching the recording, Hash realized that although the instructions Giles gave when commanding his spirit beasts in battle were short and direct, and almost all the battles relied on the barbaric strength of his spirit beasts to defeat their opponents, Giles’ understanding of the various spirit beasts and his ability to perform and handle the situation during battle were all fine.

Therefore, in Hash’s opinion, whether it was Giles’ personality, character, his love for spirit beasts, or his ability to command in battle, they were all completely in line with the basic requirements of becoming a Gym Leader.

Unfortunately, Giles’ own strength and the spirit beasts he possessed had yet to reach the Gold rank, which was the minimum requirement for becoming a Gym Leader.

Even if Hash had written to the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters to recommend Giles, he would not have been able to directly become the Acting Gym Leader of Starlux Gym.

However, it was during this week that Hash had seized an opportunity!

Due to Alice, the Gym Leader of Starlux Gym, not returning for a long time, the evaluation section of Starlux Gym had not been opened to other Beast Tamers.

As a result, Beast Tamers who lived in the nearby streets could only go to other Beast-taming gyms to evaluate their strength and challenge the Gym Leader there.

As such, they had already reported this situation to the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters a few times this week. They had even sent out a joint petition the day before yesterday.

As Hash was also the one who had met Giles with the mission from the Beast Tamer Association’s headquarters previously, thus, after the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters received the joint petition, they immediately contacted the Elite Beast Tamer, Hash, who was working in this base city.

When she heard the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters begin to ask her if there was a suitable candidate for the Gym Leader of Starlux Gym, Hash, who had been waiting for many days, knew that Giles’ opportunity had arrived.

However, as Giles had previously violated the rules, the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters did not intend to give Giles this opportunity.

Hash sent the list of names that she had specially collected over this period of time to the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters.

The name list was filled with people who had worked at Starlux Gym before, including the current staff of Starlux Gym.

After verifying that the people on this list were real, the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters contacted them and asked about Giles.

When it came to their opinion of Giles as the Acting Gym Leader, none of these staff objected, and they were very optimistic about him.

The reason being that in order to be the Gym Leader of Starlux Gym, one would have to shoulder the responsibility of nurturing the spirit beasts in the spirit beast section.

Other than Gym Leader Alice, Giles, the professional breeder, was the only one who took care of the spirit beasts in the spirit-beast section.

Furthermore, not only did Giles usually do his job as a breeder, but whenever he had the time, he would take the initiative to go to the other areas of Starlux Gym to learn and help. Therefore, these staff members had a very good impression of Giles.

As Gym Leader Alice had to train her own spirit beasts daily, and still help Beast Tamers evaluate their spirit beasts’ strength as well as accept challenges from Beast Tamers, Giles, who helped and learned in the various section every day, actually knew more about the specific work situation in Starlux Gym than Alice, who was the Gym Leader.

Seeing that Giles was so highly recommended by the staff of Starlux Gym, and that the Elite Beast Tamer, Hash, who had recommended Giles, had even offered to vouch for him, the Beast Tamer Association’s headquarters considered that they also could not find another suitable candidate within a short period of time. Thus, they could only give this opportunity to Giles, who was previously no longer within their consideration.

However, the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters also requested the Elite Beast Tamer, Hash, who was the guarantor, to conduct an ability evaluation for Giles.

The details of the evaluation would be decided by Hash, but it had to be “fair, just, and open”.

Furthermore, there had to be a recording of the battle that could prove Giles’ potential, because this would have to be kept in the records of Starlux Gym.

Thus, in order to make up for Giles’ previous violation, Hash, who had taken advantage of this opportunity, proposed her evaluation to the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters.

That was to let Miss Annie, who was supposed to have her Starlux Badge taken back, bring her Gold-rank spirit beast to challenge Starlux Gym again.

This was because Giles also had a Silver-rank spirit beast now. If Giles could use that Silver-rank spirit beast to defeat Annie’s Gold-rank spirit beast, it would mean that his commanding ability was at least at the level of a Gold-rank Beast Tamer. This could also be considered as the threshold to become the Beast-taming Gym’s Gym Leader.

Furthermore, whether it was Giles winning against Annie and having her Starlux Gym Badge taken back, or Giles losing to Annie, thereby allowing Annie to obtain the Starlux Badge in a justifiable manner, it would all be able to offset the previous violations under the witness of an Elite Beast Tamer like Hash.

Furthermore, when the headquarters of the Beast Tamer Association proposed for Hash to decide on a test for Giles’ abilities, it was purely to leave a recording of the battle in the records of Starlux Gym.

However, it allowed Hash to use this opportunity to successfully make use of the official process to offset the violation that Giles had previously committed.

Regarding the matter of “letting Hash make use of the loophole”, the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters could not do anything about it. They could only agree to the evaluation proposed by Hash.

This was because the evaluation seemed extremely fair and even seemed to be on Annie’s side.

After Hash’s evaluation two weeks ago, the headquarters of the Beast Tamer Association also learned that Giles’ Silver-rank Metal-feathered Eagle had undergone an evolution but was incomplete.

Compared to Annie Green-tailed Cat, who had already reached the Gold-rank last month, there was a clear disparity in their strength.

Therefore, not only was the Beast Tamer Association’s Headquarters not optimistic about Giles’ chances, but even Hash, who had proposed the evaluation, did not expect Giles to defeat Annie.

Could it be because of the Metal-feathered Eagle that Giles is afraid of losing to Annie in the ability evaluation?

When this thought arose in Hash’s mind, she immediately rejected it.

That’s probably not possible.

Based on what I know about Giles, he is clearly not the type to cower in the face of a reason like that.

Could the problem lie with Miss Annie?

At the thought of this, Hash shifted her gaze to Annie, who was equally stunned.

She suddenly noticed that Annie’s eyes seemed to glow with happiness after she snapped out of her daze from hearing Giles’ sentence. She also began to blush slightly.

Oh! I get it! So that’s how it is!