Kaelen hesitated. Then he typed the only thing that felt right: HIPOPO

Kaelen selected him.

Kaelen smirked. He cranked Rare Drop Rate to 500x, EXP to 10x, and clicked Connect.

The screen went black.

Kaelen tried to exit. The Trainer’s interface was gone. The Escape key did nothing. Hipopo S’s red eye blinked once.

Then a message appeared in the chat log. No sender name. Just text: