Stay out of the way. She wondered what he meant by that. And idly worried why he seemed so eager to part ways with her. Perhaps she'd done or said something that displeased him. Or she'd done something to displease Marie and Marie had gone to him. She imagined Marie and Red had a very close relationship, just as Red did with all of his Pokémon.

But maybe that was all in her head. After all, not everyone could be as she and Delian were.

"You're not in the way," she protested to him gently. "Why in the world would you think that you are?" And the question left her mouth before she really had the opportunity to stop it. Evidently some form of newly-found confidence had been born within her with the contest hall at her very fingertips.