Secluded Place

To this day, Jumu still remembered what had happened that day.

When he was young, in order to fulfill his dream of becoming an "explorer," and with his mother's support, he had chosen to leave home. He had vowed to traverse mountains and rivers, exploring unknown realms that no one before him had seen.

That journey had taken decades of his life.

During that long journey, he had indeed seen many novel things. He had also trained himself from a skinny child who looked as if a gust of wind could blow him away into the man he was now.

Together with his partner, who had been by his side since it was a Tinkatink and had now evolved into a Tinkaton, he had conquered many places that no one had ever reached before.

However, youthful dreams would eventually come to an end.

His mother, who ran a seed shop at home, was getting old. On top of that, he had not saved much money from traveling. Pressured by reality, he decided to set out one last time. After that, he would return to the Paldea Region and settle down, helping his mother run the seed shop or finding a steady job of his own.

For his final expedition, Jumu chose the Mt. Coronet range, famous throughout the Sinnoh Region.

He wanted to challenge himself by attempting to climb to the summit of Mt. Coronet's main peak.

He believed he had made every possible preparation, and that his experience was in no way inferior to that of professional climbers.

But the truth was that, below Mt. Coronet's summit, a sudden blizzard had nearly killed both him and Tinkaton, leaving them there forever.

When he was about to lose consciousness from the cold, even Jumu had not expected that he would