Prologue
Sarah sighed as she looked over the crowd from the balcony. She was at one of Chairman Rose's dinner parties for international guests coming for the start of the Galar Gym Challenge. She felt weird being in such a formal dress, feeling more comfortable in slacks and a dress shirt which was her usual outfit when she worked at a newspaper company.
Someone tapped her shoulder and she turned around to find Leon, the current undefeated champion of Galar, who was giving her a drink.
"Thank you." she said.
"Don't mention it." said Leon flatly, took a sip of his drink and turned away from her to face the crowd.
Sarah looked at the crowd again and found amongst the sea of people Oleana, Chairman Rose's right hand woman, who glared at them.
That's right they are supposed to be pretending to be Galar's most popular couple.
Sarah leaned in and gave Leon a kiss on the check, and Leon turned to her with a smile that Sarah knew didn't reflect how he actual felt about her.
"Oh, look at that, young love." commented someone behind them while their companion agreed with them wholeheartedly.
More like a contract that we were forced into, thought Sarah.
But as long as she and Leon acted well enough to garner comments like that everything would be fine.