Cain's office was right next to Juan's office.
After all, whether from the perspective of status or authority, the two of them were equal. Therefore, the position of both within the Hoenn League was at the same level.
A week's time finally made Cain understand that the position of Champion did not merely appear glorious; the responsibilities he had to bear were also extremely troublesome.
The Champion represented the peak of the armed force of the Hoenn region. He was not only the spiritual pillar in the hearts of the region's inhabitants, but also the highest point of authority within the force structure of the Hoenn region.
As Champion, the most basic duty was to lead the Elite Four and guarantee the safety of all the cities and towns of the Hoenn region.
Whenever some relatively difficult matter arose, or some complicated problem that was hard to handle, it would be necessary for him, together with the Elite Four, to take charge of resolving it.
The Champion had the Research Department under his command, and at the same time also possessed the right to mobilize the League's legions.
However, regarding the League's legions, the Champion only had the right to recruit and summon them, but did not have the right of appointment or dismissal. That right was in the hands of the League president.
Not only the League's legions; even the appointments and dismissals of the League's officials, large and small, needed to pass through the signature and approval of the League president in order to be officially valid.
The Champion controlled the armed force, and the president controlled personnel affairs. In essence, this was a division of responsibilities that mutually restricted each other. Only, whether it was the Champion or the president, both thought wholeheartedly for the region for which they were responsible, so this mutual restriction seemed more like a simple formality.
The Champion could appoint personnel, but needed the president's signature. Even so, that signature was only a procedure.
In the Hoenn region, originally both the position of Champion and the position of president were held by Juan. Therefore, to handle any matter, it was enough for Juan to agree. But now it was different. Even if Juan agreed, it also had to pass through the approval of Cain, the Champion.
Cain also carried out a division and redistribution of the matters the Champion had to attend to.
Juan's previous unified management, although it made all matters, large or small, pass through his hands, was far too troublesome. It caused him, as Champion, to be constantly occupied by trivial matters.
Cain could dedicate a period of time each day to handling official affairs because of the position of Champion, but he was not willing to spend the entire day sitting at a desk, processing those matters large and small.
After all, he had fought desperately to become Champion, but it was not to find a place where he could take care of those annoying affairs.
He still had strength that had to be increased. Moreover, he was still in the stage of his life in which his power was growing the fastest. He could not waste it here.
At most, two hours. From Cain's point of view, at most he would dedicate two hours a day to handling these troublesome affairs. The rest of the time, he would still need to concentrate his energy on the training of his Pokémon.
Although that day he had defeated Alder, only Cain knew how much advantage he had taken.
If he and Alder were to fight a complete battle with all their Pokémon, he estimated that his probability of victory would be forty percent at most. And that was still under the condition that Cain knew in advance the data of Alder's Pokémon.
Because what Cain had used the most was Mega Evolution. But in a complete battle, he could not make all of his Pokémon Mega Evolve.
The only good point was that the base strength of Cain's Pokémon, compared with Alder's Pokémon, still had considerable room for improvement.
If the strength of his own Pokémon could also reach the level of Alder's Pokémon, then after Mega Evolution, crushing him would not be a problem.
Therefore, after spending a week finally clarifying the affairs he had to be responsible for, Cain spent another week classifying all those affairs, from minor to major, according to their degree of difficulty.
The smallest and most trivial matters were classified as "E"-level incidents. If these matters dared to appear on Cain's desk, then the person who had submitted that document could directly return to their hometown to farm.
After "E"-level incidents came "D"-level and "C"-level incidents. The matters of these two levels were the most numerous and also the most troublesome part.
Matters that required combat and investigation would be handed over to the three Chief-level female researchers of the Research Department. They would be responsible for handling them. If it was only a matter of processing documents, then they would be handed over to the Ice-type Elite Four, Glacia, and the Dark-type Elite Four, Sidney. They were the most suitable for taking care of these things.
In truth, Cain simply treated two of the Elite Four and the three beautiful chief researchers as his secretaries.
He completely handed over to them those matters that would not have any problem even if he did not personally review them, calling it nicely: delegation of authority.
As for the "B"-level and "A"-level incidents above them, they were relatively more important. Most were some important personnel movements, matters related to the future development of the entire Hoenn League, or extremely urgent matters that required a very high armed force to be handled.
The matters of these two levels were relatively serious, but there definitely would not be many each day. These were what Cain had to personally review.
If combat was required, depending on the situation, he could send anything from a small investigation team to a large unit led by one or even two of the Elite Four to take care of it.
And above the "A"-level incidents, there still existed a sudden incident of the highest level: "S"-level incidents.
Once an incident of this level appeared, it represented that it was related to the safety of the entire Hoenn League. Cain, as Champion and representative of the maximum force of the Hoenn region, had to personally intervene. Moreover, it would be an extremely urgent situation.
Generally speaking, "S"-level incidents were not something just anyone had the right to classify as such. But if one truly appeared, then no matter when it was or where he was, Cain would have to immediately put down whatever he was doing in order to deal with it.
(End of chapter)