I'll never let you go..

2 years of becoming the champion,Hop started seeing her less,causing him to fall into deep depression,the reason is because he never expressed his feelings to her....Later,Hop goes to see Rikamaru to confess,she accepted. They started dating. Bede disgusted by them,tries to break them up. Hop loses it, causing him to break. Rika, not knowing about anything,Hop tries to reason with her to try and move to a different region to go to. He's fine with it. But people who try to march in his path..they have another thing coming...