Chapter Summaries

Alcremie, Luo Mu, and Calyrex made Cream Chocolate Lava Cakes for the dessert competition, earning an exceptional score that put them among the leading contenders. While Luo Mu toured the area during the livestream, a furious voice ordered him away from Gaudí's Courtyard as the shadows began to churn.

• Luo Mu, Alcremie, and Calyrex prepared Cream Chocolate Lava Cakes, with Alcremie directing the recipe and Calyrex using Psychic powers to control ten mixing bowls at once.
• Alcremie presented the cakes, whose warm chocolate and Milk Salt-flavored cream impressed the audience, judges, and Host Bai An.
• The cakes received an average audience score of 9.46, while the Guest Judges all scored them above nine and Ms. Z and Ms. K gave perfect tens.
• Luo Mu left the competition area and headed to Gaudí's Courtyard while watching the livestream, where he noticed several other strong desserts and contestants.
• As Luo Mu approached the courtyard, a furious voice told him to get out, the sky darkened, the Cherrim closed their petals, and the shadows began to churn.

Luo Mu encountered Darkrai in the garden but chose to leave rather than risk generating more Victory Wave for an already overfull Victini. After Alcremie advanced in the Dessert Competition, Luo Mu returned to Cynthia’s villa, where the assembled Champions and Elite Four challenged him to spar; he then learned that Pokémon from several regions had been brought to the garden as judges, possibly explaining the strange Starmie.

• Luo Mu tried and failed to calm Darkrai through mental communication, then retreated because Victini had not digested the Victory Wave from his previous battle.
• Darkrai watched Luo Mu leave and worried about protecting the sanctuary and Alicia.
• Alcremie advanced to the next round of the Dessert Competition in first place and chose to keep competing for an advanced certification.
• Luo Mu returned to Cynthia’s villa and found several Champions and Elite Four members gathered there, with Zhen Si and Chimchar receiving their training advice.
• Wallace, Zhi Mi, Caitlin, Shauntal, Cynthia, and the others arranged to spar with Luo Mu, who agreed to keep it friendly.
• Cynthia, Wallace, and Zhi Mi explained that Pokémon from the regional Sweets Associations had been brought to White Poplar Town to judge the next round, prompting Luo Mu to suspect they had brought the strange Starmie.

Luo Mu held sparring matches with Zhi Mi, Wallace, and Cynthia before accepting Caitlin’s challenge to battle Calyrex. Calyrex overwhelmed Caitlin and Gothitelle’s psychic attacks, leaving Caitlin stunned by its mastery of Future Sight.

• Luo Mu’s Ceruledge, Serperior, and Swampert sparred with Zhi Mi’s Mega Blastoise, Wallace’s Milotic, and Cynthia’s Lucario, winning the first and third matches while Serperior narrowly lost to Milotic.
• Caitlin asked Luo Mu to battle Calyrex, and Luo Mu accepted after deciding the mismatch would not generate enough Victory Wave to endanger Victini.
• Caitlin sent out Gothitelle and opened with Psychic, but Calyrex stopped and erased the attack without moving.
• Calyrex canceled Gothitelle’s Dazzling Gleam by drawing on Spectrier’s spiritual power.
• Caitlin and Gothitelle combined their psychic power to use Double Future Sight, but Calyrex blocked and dismantled both attacks.
• Calyrex used Future Sight to surround Gothitelle with three psychic energy balls, then dismissed them and explained that seeing further into the future had let it anticipate their attack.

Calyrex sensed Darkrai’s shadowy activity spreading through White Poplar Town, while Zhen Si’s morning walk with Ash led him into a confrontation with Darkrai at Gaudí's Courtyard. Darkrai singled Zhen Si out and ordered him to leave.

• Caitlin accepted her defeat to Calyrex and resolved to develop her Future Sight further.
• Calyrex and Spectrier sensed shadows stirring in White Poplar Town, and Calyrex suspected Darkrai was acting with urgent goodwill toward another target.
• Darkrai spread nightmares through White Poplar Town as its residents and Pokémon slept.
• Zhen Si noticed the town’s residents and Pokémon were exhausted, then encountered Ash battling a Torterra with Pikachu.
• Ash introduced Zhen Si to Iris and the others, and Zhen Si joined their visit to Gaudí's Courtyard to learn about its Wild Pokémon for Luo Mu’s dessert preparations.
• Darkrai appeared at Gaudí's Courtyard, fixed its hostility on Zhen Si, and shouted for him to get out.

After Darkrai attacked Zhen Si, Chimchar awakened its Special Blaze while protecting him, leaving Zhen Si shaken by its success alongside Ash. Luo Mu left Zhen Si to recover and entered Gaudí's Courtyard to investigate Darkrai while helping Alcremie compete, but Darkrai did not appear.

• Calyrex woke Zhen Si from a nightmare, and Luo Mu explained that Darkrai had fought off the group before Chimchar's Special Blaze forced it to retreat.
• Zhen Si struggled to process that Chimchar had triggered Special Blaze without Victini's help, while Luo Mu promised to investigate Darkrai and left Mimikyu to guard him.
• Ash rushed out to find Darkrai, and Iris decided to join the search after learning that Darkrai had saved her as a child.
• Luo Mu and Calyrex entered Gaudí's Courtyard during the Dessert Competition, hoping Darkrai would appear, but it did not show.
• Alcremie prepared Floral Poffin for the courtyard Pokémon with Shaymin's fragrant leaves, while Luo Mu noticed the rampaging Starmie among the waiting Pokémon.

Alcremie won the dessert competition while Luo Mu learned that Darkrai had attacked Zhen Si and was driving White Poplar Town’s residents away. As Palkia and Dialga arrived to confront Luo Mu, Darkrai turned its attention toward the approaching crisis.

• Alcremie drew a crowd of Wild Pokémon with Shaymin’s fragrance and won first place in the dessert competition.
• Darkrai attacked Zhen Si with Dark Void, but Mimikyu blocked the move; Darkrai warned that Zhen Si was close to the source of an approaching crisis.
• Darkrai fought Ash, Baron Albert, and the other Trainers, putting many of their Pokémon and Trainers into nightmares.
• Luo Mu arrived with Luxray and stopped Darkrai’s Dark Void from hitting Pikachu.
• Luo Mu warned that a greater danger had arrived, and fleeing residents revealed that dense fog trapped anyone trying to leave White Poplar Town.
• Darkrai sensed Palkia and Dialga approaching Space-Time Tower, and the two Pokémon appeared above it and focused on Luo Mu.

Palkia and Dialga descended on White Poplar Town, and their battle with Darkrai threatened to tear the town into a time-space rift. Luo Mu realized his illicit time-space crossings had drawn them there, confronted the dragons, and revealed the belt that made them recognize him as the human who had defeated them in the distant past.

• Dialga launched Draco Meteor at White Poplar Town, but Darkrai intercepted the meteors and protected the town.
• Palkia attacked Dialga with Spacial Rend, and Darkrai redirected the slash away from the crowded plaza before joining the fight.
• Luo Mu explained that the battle could make White Poplar Town vanish into the gaps of space-time and realized his and his Pokémon's unauthorized crossings had attracted the Time-Space Duo.
• Luo Mu used Victini's enhancement to leap onto the Space-Time Tower, where Palkia and Dialga attacked him with Spacial Rend and Roar of Time.
• Darkrai shielded Luo Mu, but his glowing chain-like belt neutralized both attacks, and Palkia and Dialga recognized him as the human who had defeated them at Sinnoh Temple.

Luo Mu used the Golden Chain to overpower and whip Palkia and Dialga above White Poplar Town, stopping their fight and forcing them to compensate for the damage. The dragons offered fragments of their bodies’ pearls and diamonds, then revealed that their Orbs and the Azure Flute had disappeared.

• Palkia and Dialga recognized Luo Mu and tried to flee, but the Golden Chain blocked their escape through space and time.
• Darkrai carried Luo Mu into the sky, where he used the Golden Chain to chase down and whip both dragons, nullifying their powers and attacks.
• The people of White Poplar Town watched in disbelief as Luo Mu subdued the legendary dragons, while Zhen Si felt reassured by the spectacle.
• Luo Mu stopped whipping Palkia and Dialga and demanded compensation for the destruction in town.
• Palkia and Dialga gave Luo Mu small fragments, then explained that the Griseous Orb, Azure Flute, Adamant Orb, and Lustrous Orb had all disappeared.

Luo Mu ended the space-time crisis in White Poplar Town, and Palkia and Dialga restored the town before departing. As Cynthia took Luo Mu and the others home to rest, Wanderer discovered that Luo Mu was still alive and suffered a breakdown over his years of trying to outlast him.

• Luo Mu ordered Palkia and Dialga to restore White Poplar Town, and they returned the buildings and streets to normal before leaving through a space rift.
• Darkrai offered to teach Dark Void to a Pokémon Luo Mu chose, then vanished into the shadows.
• Zhen Si kept Ash and the others and the reporters from overwhelming Luo Mu while he checked on Victini and Calyrex.
• Cynthia arrived on Garchomp, heard how Luo Mu had driven back Palkia and Dialga, and invited the group to her home to rest and explain what happened.
• Wanderer watched Cynthia leave, recognized Luo Mu among the people in town, and lamented that his efforts to outlast his old enemy had been pointless.
• Wanderer resolved to accept his life as a good person and decided to donate his clothes to a museum.

Luo Mu considered the spoils from Dialga and Palkia, learned Cynthia was leaving for newly discovered ruins near Canalave City, and left Mimikyu with Darkrai to learn Dark Void. When he returned to Cynthia’s villa, Ash had come back from the Space-Time Tower with a Gible beside him.

• Luo Mu reviewed the Dragon Scales and fragments taken from Dialga and Palkia, while Calyrex said the space around White Poplar Town remained slightly unstable but would recover on its own.
• Cynthia told Luo Mu she planned to leave that night to investigate ancient ruins outside Canalave City, and Luo Mu avoided discussing the Hisui-era people and places he had lost.
• Luo Mu went to Gaudí's Courtyard, where he left Mimikyu with Darkrai for two days of training in Dark Void.
• Luo Mu wandered around White Poplar Town, bought likely counterfeit Crescent Feathers, and returned to Cynthia's villa around five in the afternoon.
• Luo Mu found Cynthia, Zhen Si, Ash, and the others back at the villa, and noticed that Ash had a Gible with him.

Ash and his friends discovered that a Gible had emerged from a space-time distortion in White Poplar Town, and Gible challenged Ash to a battle before joining him. During the battle, Gible used an unstable Draco Meteor that flew toward Piplup, leaving it in immediate danger.

• Gible gnawed through a leg of Takeshi's table, rejected Cynthia's old chew stick, and clamped onto Ash's head instead.
• Takeshi explained that Gible had emerged from a strange force field in an alley, which vanished soon afterward; Cynthia suspected it was connected to Palkia and Dialga.
• Gible showed affection for Ash but challenged him to a battle before agreeing to become his partner, and Ash accepted with Pikachu.
• Gible hit Pikachu with Dragon Breath and caught it in a Bite, but Pikachu escaped by striking Gible's jaw with Iron Tail.
• Gible unleashed an unstable Draco Meteor that missed Pikachu and flew toward the startled Piplup.

After Ash caught Gible, its wildly misdirected Draco Meteor repeatedly struck Piplup. Zhen Si resolved to keep training Chimchar himself, and Luo Mu sent him to meet Shizuka at Stark Mountain, where he could ask Heatran to help with their training.

• Ash caught Gible after Pikachu struck it with Iron Tail, but Gible immediately bit Ash and continued firing Draco Meteor at Piplup.
• Luo Mu sensed that Gible was discouraged by its failed Draco Meteor, and Ash and Pikachu encouraged it before its next attacks hit Piplup again.
• Zhen Si told Luo Mu he would not give Chimchar to another Trainer and would pursue a calm, systematic way to help it control its power.
• Luo Mu gave Zhen Si a crimson rock and instructed him to meet Shizuka and take it to Stark Mountain to summon Heatran.
• Luo Mu told Zhen Si to ask Heatran to give him and Chimchar special training.

Luo Mu arranged for Zhen Si and Chimchar to seek Heatran’s training and discussed Cynthia’s Pokémon-raising booklet and his growing public attention. When he discovered Delibird was fighting a Team Galactic investigation unit near White Poplar Town, the Hint System implied the battle was already over.

• Luo Mu gave Zhen Si a Volcano Stone and advised him to find Heatran at Stark Mountain with Shizuka; Zhen Si promised to defeat Ash at the Sinnoh League.
• Cynthia showed Luo Mu her Gible-raising booklet, which she planned to give Ash, and Luo Mu suggested giving it to Takeshi instead.
• Cynthia warned that news of Luo Mu’s actions in White Poplar Town would spread; Luo Mu declined interviews but was willing to accept a League reward.
• Luo Mu wondered why Delibird had not appeared, then asked the Hint System where it was.
• The Hint System revealed that Delibird had encountered and was fighting a fifteen-member Team Galactic investigation unit near White Poplar Town, and suggested Luo Mu would arrive too late to do more than hit the already-defeated members.

Delibird defeated three Team Galactic grunts, then discovered White Poplar Town had vanished and later reappeared. While it secretly tracked a heavily armed Team Galactic squad near the town, Mimikyu and Darkrai arrived beside it.

• Delibird swiftly defeated the three Team Galactic grunts and froze them before contacting Officer Jenny to collect them.
• After White Poplar Town disappeared and returned, Delibird recognized Cynthia and Garchomp approaching the town.
• Delibird spotted fifteen armed Team Galactic members moving toward White Poplar Town in a tightly guarded formation.
• Mimikyu sneaked up behind Delibird and revealed Darkrai, who had also gone unnoticed by the Team Galactic squad.

Mimikyu joined Darkrai and Delibird to confront a Team Galactic unit, then used its ability to vanish from perception and silently put the entire force to sleep. The chapter ended with all fifteen members and dozens of Pokémon defeated without Mimikyu taking damage, leaving even Darkrai astonished by its capabilities.

• Mimikyu told Delibird that it had spent the afternoon learning Darkrai's move, Dark Void, and explained that Darkrai had chosen Team Galactic as a test for its new skill.
• Darkrai silently emerged from a member's shadow and put him to sleep with Dark Void, alerting the rest of Team Galactic after they discovered him unconscious.
• Team Galactic increased its defenses and searched the area, while Mimikyu encouraged itself and disappeared so completely that Delibird could no longer sense it.
• Mimikyu attacked Team Galactic members and Pokémon from unseen positions with Dark Void, while their detectors and Pokémon failed to locate the attacker.
• Mimikyu incapacitated all fifteen Team Galactic members and dozens of Pokémon without taking damage, leaving Delibird impressed and Darkrai seemingly stunned.

Mimikyu used its newly learned Dark Void and its ability to vanish from sight to defeat the Team Galactic force, stunning Darkrai. Luo Mu arrived and learned that Mimikyu had won the fight, while Cynthia discovered that Team Galactic had been monitoring Space-Time Ripples and began arranging the investigation.

• Darkrai watched Mimikyu defeat the Team Galactic elites with Dark Void and admitted that its combined abilities were extraordinarily effective.
• Luo Mu found the fifteen Team Galactic members and their Pokémon unconscious in nightmares, then greeted Delibird, Mimikyu, and Darkrai.
• Delibird insisted that Mimikyu had defeated the force alone, and Luo Mu understood its gestures and praised Mimikyu.
• Luo Mu imagined a battle strategy combining Mimikyu's Phantom Force, Dark Void, and Hex, and called Cynthia over.
• Cynthia identified the beeping equipment as a detector for Space-Time Ripples and connected Team Galactic's interest to the gods of time and space.
• Cynthia called Looker to investigate the captured Team Galactic members and their equipment.

Luo Mu tested Zhen Si’s team against Mimikyu and Hisuian Zoroark, teaching him how to prepare for sleep and illusion attacks before saying goodbye to Darkrai and returning to his farm. There, Oranguru told him that Zygarde Core had been missing since Luo Mu’s previous departure.

• Luo Mu took Zhen Si outside White Poplar Town and defeated his teams with Mimikyu’s Dark Void and Zoroark’s illusions, then advised him to train against sleep and mental attacks.
• Luo Mu told Zhen Si he planned to leave White Poplar Town after investigating the Space-Time Distortion and saying goodbye to those he knew.
• Luo Mu visited Darkrai in Gaudí's Courtyard to say goodbye, and Darkrai admitted it wanted to find Iris, Alicia’s granddaughter.
• Luo Mu returned to his farm in Los Platos on May 6th and relaxed with Espeon and Umbreon.
• Oranguru told Luo Mu that Zygarde Core had not appeared at the farm since Luo Mu had last left.

Luo Mu learned that a possible locust outbreak was affecting farms near Los Platos and suspected it was connected to his students’ assignment about the Treasures of Ruin. After receiving perfume from Erika, he prepared to go fishing at Thunderclap Lake with a secret bait and a very large bucket.

• Luo Mu sensed Zygarde Cells spread across the farm and Los Platos, but accepted that Zygarde Core was missing and let it do as it pleased.
• Oranguru reported that farms across Los Platos had suffered crop losses and that Arven, Kieran, and a teacher had been investigating the area.
• Luo Mu suspected the damage might be caused by a Lokix swarm and thought Lei He’s investigation could relate to the Treasures of Ruin.
• Oranguru delivered the perfume Erika had promised, and Luo Mu decided to test it as fishing bait.
• Luo Mu asked Oranguru to prepare fishing gear and the biggest bucket for his trip to Thunderclap Lake.

Luo Mu traveled to Casseroya Lake to add new aquatic Pokémon to Thunderclap Lake and used Magikarp and specially prepared bait to draw Pokémon to his fishing spot. He caught several new Pokémon and celebrated his unexpectedly large haul.

• Luo Mu flew to Casseroya Lake with Dragonite and chose a plant-filled wetland beside deep water as his fishing spot.
• Luo Mu released Milotic, Popplio, and Shiny Magikarp, then used a fragrant custom bait to attract nearby Pokémon.
• Shiny Magikarp lured an Iron Fist Shrimp to Luo Mu’s hook, and Luo Mu caught it after a long struggle.
• Luo Mu caught a second Iron Fist Shrimp, then used Dragonite’s Twister and Thunder Punch to subdue a Veluza.
• Luo Mu caught two more Iron Fist Shrimp, three Veluza, several Magikarp, and several Spinda that wandered over for the bait’s aroma.

Luo Mu continued stocking Thunderclap Lake while Goomy stunned Oranguru by defeating a Gym challenger’s three Pokémon. Meanwhile, Lei He and the students searched north of Los Platos for a Seal Stake, following a mysterious Pokémon that surveillance cameras could not capture.

• Luo Mu caught aquatic Pokémon for Thunderclap Lake, releasing aggressive individuals back into the water.
• Oranguru sent Goomy to face a challenger, and Goomy defeated Hawlucha, Palossand, and Quaquaval in succession.
• Oranguru left Los Platos Gym after the final challenger departed, while Goomy’s companions gathered around it in admiration.
• Lei He brought Arven, Botan, Pippa, Kieran, Carmine, and Joy Jostar north of Los Platos to search for a Seal Stake before Luo Mu returned to inspect their progress.
• Botan said the surveillance cameras had failed to capture the mysterious Pokémon that had been leading the group toward the stake.