Ash's Paldea Story

Chapter 69 Eri's Past

My father was a professional Lucha libre athlete, since I was little, I was under his training so that after his retirement, I would be able to take his spot to become the best athlete like him. The only value I had to him was in whether or not I could become an athlete, and I was sad because of it.

Time passed, and I grew strong, just like he wanted. So I paid him back for all the pain he'd shown me until that point. I made it so that he'd never be able to walk straight again, but...he was happy.

"Well done, now you will be able to go into the pro circuit..." He says, and he signs me up for a couple of Lucha libre contests, after winning a lot of them, my father finally shows his love towards me, saying that he's proud of me... apologizing to me for neglecting me when I was younger.

I like Pokemon, especially Fighting Types. During the circuits, I am able to go around the world and find any Fighting Type Pokemon that I want and raise them. Eventually, my father also noticed my dream and decides to apply me to Narauva University's Department of Battling.

My school life at Narauva University is quite fine, my appearance as a girl and how I kept my body fit brings attention to every male in the classroom. And that causes the girls in the same class as me to be jealous of me. There is one girl who has been glaring at me every time I walk into the classroom. Her name is Carmen, and she used to be the queen of the class. But when I get into the school, she loses her popularity. I don't hate her, but I think that she really needs to change her ways if she wants to be a popular student. All she does is bribe other students to do her dirty work.

I don't know when it starts, but one day, when I get into the classroom, a bucket of water is dropped from the top of the door to my head. When I get the bucket out, I notice that everyone is laughing at me.

"Alright! Who the hell did this?" I was furious, but I couldn't do anything because I don't have proof to know the culprit behind that. And since it is already class time, the last thing I want is to get detention from the teachers. I decide to brush it off as nothing, which turns out to be the wrong choice.

Ever since that day, a lot of pranks have been thrown at me. Such as putting pins on the chair, doodles on my desk, banana peels close at my desk so I will slip and fall to the ground, and also other things. The only reason why I didn't get sent to the hospital wing was the fact that I'd been training with my father, but every time I get bullied, my classmates have been mocking me and made fun of me.

"Are you sure you're going to let them continue to do this to you?" After I decide to push anyone away because of what happened to my bad school life, my classmate, Diantha, walks towards me and asks with concern.

"Oh, it's you...The Kalos Champion, right?" I sigh, she is as popular as me during the first months of school, and her popularity never stops as she is also good in Drama classes and Pokemon battling. "What do you want?"

"I was concerned about you." Diantha says to me. "You know... all of those things that happened to you... they are actually done by Carmen."

"So I am right... but why would she do such a thing to me?" Eri asks. "I don't think I have done anything wrong to her, it is not just her, why would everyone make fun of me when I was suffering?"

Diantha says, "She is jealous of you, it is not just you, she also tries to pick on me as well. Just not as many times as you are."

"Jealous of me? For what?" I ask with confusion.

"You have good looks, you have a nice body. You used to be the popular one in our class." Diantha says. "I heard that before we enroll in the university, she is supposed to be the popular one."