Chapter 27: Lost and Found
After this round, it was almost certain that Arthur would advance to the main competition.
The only question was whether he would be drawn into an extra match due to an uneven number of players.
And after this match, Sarah found Eren.
"Do you have that Son of Suicune's WeChat account? Give it to me."
Eren was completely stunned.
"Didn't you used to..."
Before he could finish speaking, Sarah interrupted him with a delicate voice, "Stop talking nonsense, just give it to me!"
Eren had no choice but to obey.
He had a vague premonition that his position as the number one fan might soon be usurped...
After the match ended, Arthur waited for a while and soon received notification from the organizers that he didn't need to play an extra match and had officially advanced.
After completing the relevant procedures, he immediately called Eleanor Vance to tell her the news of his advancement.
Unexpectedly, the other side shouted in surprise.
"What?! You advanced?!"
Arthur was startled by the volume and held the phone away from his ear before bringing it back to continue, "Yes, I advanced."
He could soon hear a series of clattering noises, as if someone was moving furniture around.
Is it really necessary to go through so much trouble... Arthur silently complained in his heart.
But soon Eleanor Vance told him that it was very necessary.
"Crap! Crap! How did you advance? This is too sudden?! I... I haven't done any promotion, and there's no heat at all right now, and the main competition is starting in two days. This should have been a big deal.
Ahhh! Damn it! Time is so tight now!"
"..."
Arthur listened silently, not knowing how to respond for a while.
Although he could now be considered an average internet celebrity with decent traffic, he never had the heart of an internet celebrity from the beginning. He never paid attention to things like hype and promotion.
So it's a pity that he and Eleanor Vance were never on the same wavelength.
But speaking of which, this was the first time he had seen Eleanor so flustered.
"Or maybe we should just forget it?" he casually tried to comfort her, going along with the mood.
Unexpectedly, he was immediately retorted by Eleanor Vance!
"No way! What are you talking about?! We've already advanced, how can we not take on commercial deals? Are you looking down on your Sister Eleanor's professional skills as a manager?"
As the two became more familiar, Eleanor Vance no longer used polite and official language when talking to him, increasingly revealing her true nature.
"Okay, you don't need to worry about this, just focus on your matches, you brat."
She concluded and hung up the phone decisively, presumably already starting to contact advertisers.
Putting down his phone, Arthur shrugged with a smile.
Although he couldn't say he liked the job of an internet celebrity, he didn't dislike Eleanor Vance's energetic and professional woman persona.
It would be even better if she could get rid of the habit of calling him "brat" when she got excited...
The main competition was two days away.
He couldn't help but turn to Froakie.
At this moment, Froakie didn't avoid his gaze and didn't shrink back.
When Arthur chose him in the sanctuary, one of the things he liked about Froakie was his strong desire to survive.
Pokémon that are too passive are suitable as companions and pets, but not suitable as battle partners. Froakie was the opposite.
His troublemaking personality in the sanctuary would probably have made him a house-wrecking, backyard-destroying Husky in a normal household, but once he stepped into the battlefield, he quickly became obsessed.
Victory and cheers are addictive, and Pokémon are no different.
Froakie's personality was naturally suited for the arena. He wasn't afraid of battle and was born knowing how to enjoy victory.
These past few days, Arthur had happened to give him a good taste of all this, and now, he already felt like he couldn't go back.
...
At the same time, as soon as Eleanor Vance hung up the phone with Arthur, she immediately started a group chat in the company group.
With the main competition just two days away, starting from scratch and finalizing a commercial deal was too tight. The only way was to hook up with one of the company's existing partners.
As soon as she made this request, the company group immediately exploded.
"What?! That kid from the mountains you signed last month advanced? No way? Eleanor, are you a hidden gold-medal Pokémon coach in the company?"
Eleanor Vance could only smile wryly at this question.
"It has nothing to do with me. I also don't know how that brat trains his Pokémon. Besides, if I were really a gold-medal coach, would I be begging for a commercial deal here?"
But everyone was still skeptical.
"But this is too exaggerated, right? Only a month."
"All three of my local internet celebrities who participated this year were wiped out!"
"Sigh, I'm envious! The fresh meat I signed up didn't even go, no matter how much I persuaded him, he didn't dare to register."
The group chat was chaotic, and the topic quickly went astray.
Although Eleanor Vance had a slight smile on her lips, secretly amused, she still quickly pulled the topic back.
"Seriously, does anyone have any partners who need promotion during the Golden Autumn Cup? Please introduce them."
Fortunately, there was finally a response after a while.
"Eleanor, there's one here, a Pokémon energy drink brand called 'Red Taurus.' They want to do online brand promotion during the Golden Autumn Cup, but it's just an initial interest, and we need to negotiate the details."
"Okay, give me the contact information of the person in charge."
With the time crunch, Eleanor Vance felt like she had entered full crunch mode and was fired up.
But besides work, she also felt it was a pity.
"If I had predicted this earlier and prepared earlier, the promotional effect would have been better, and I could have seized the heat and hyped it up right away."
She was a professional internet celebrity manager, very sensitive and attentive to heat and traffic, unlike Arthur who was so Buddhist.
That night, she returned to the hotel and continued to organize files and plan the next day's itinerary.
Occasionally logging into Star Blog, she suddenly found that Arthur was trending again!
"What's going on?!"
She was very puzzled.
She clearly hadn't had time to do any promotion. In the last two days of the preliminary selection, she even specifically told that kid not to do live streams because she was afraid he would lose.
As for Arthur himself? Well, never mind...
If that kid understood promotion, even a Golem could bloom...
So where did this trend come from?
With a confused mind, she opened it and only then did she realize that on the last day, a viewer had filmed Arthur's match and edited it together with his live stream recordings from the previous few days, uploading it to metube.
The video title directly pointed out Arthur's identity as the Son of Suicune. Now this video had exceeded one million views in just a few hours!
"This is?!"
Eleanor Vance was overwhelmed by this sudden surprise.
The popularity she thought she had missed had come back so incredibly!
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