Chapter Summaries

Eichi tried to explain Beedrill’s extraordinary power during a life-or-death fight, while Sakaki learned that another Sakaki had been killed in Hoenn and hurried to investigate new progress on Mew’s genes. Back in the Training Room, Eichi saw that Beedrill had reached the peak of Gym Leader level, just short of Elite Four level.

• Beedrill recounted its past crisis to Eichi, who guessed that extreme pressure or Beedrill’s Champion-tier potential had unleashed its power.
• Sakaki defeated a challenger’s Charmeleon with Machamp and returned to his office at Viridian Gym.
• Kaido told Sakaki that Sakaki had been killed outside Mauville City, and Sakaki ordered him to send someone else to Hoenn.
• Sakaki received news of progress in research on Mew’s genes and immediately boarded an aircraft bound for the base.
• Eichi watched Beedrill train and judged that it had reached the peak of Gym Leader level, one step short of Elite Four level.

Eichi reviewed his Pokémon’s progress and gave them free activity time after training. Golisopod challenged Beedrill, and Scizor joined their sparring match, leaving the three Pokémon battling across the arena.

• Eichi checked his Pokémon’s levels and saw that they had made substantial progress through their recent battles.
• Eichi ended the training session and gave his Pokémon half an hour of free activity time.
• Golisopod challenged Beedrill, and Beedrill accepted as Scizor watched eagerly.
• Golisopod and Beedrill exchanged fast attacks and powerful moves, including Water Cannon and Hidden Power.
• Scizor entered the fight with a Fire Pillar and pincer strikes, and the three Pokémon continued battling with clones and Double Team.

Eichi had Beedrill spar against Scizor and Golisopod, and the three Pokémon fought through an exhausting training battle. He stopped them after five minutes, saying Beedrill could not defeat them together but had proved its strength, while Scizor and Golisopod had also improved.

• Beedrill used a Substitute to battle Scizor and Golisopod, but Scizor destroyed the weakened clone.
• Beedrill used Agility and struck Golisopod repeatedly, while Scizor's Light Needles also hit Golisopod.
• Scizor used Agility to counterattack Beedrill, and Golisopod recovered and joined Scizor in pressing the attack.
• Beedrill, Scizor, and Golisopod fought for five more minutes until Eichi stopped the training and praised their strength and improvement.

Eichi trained with Golisopod, Scizor, and Beedrill, then went to the Fighting Club at Sinnoh Academy. The chapter ended as club president Tengu called students who had not reached Intermediate to gather outside.

• Eichi praised Golisopod and Scizor after they defeated Beedrill, while Scizor grew dejected about falling behind.
• Eichi visited Building Zero on Saturday and entered the Fighting Club, where senior student Raymond greeted him.
• Eichi warmed up and struck a training target with a powerful series of punches and kicks, drawing the attention of the club members.
• Vice president senior student Xiao Yu challenged Eichi to spar, but he declined modestly.
• President sixth-year senior student Tengu arrived, and at eight-thirty he ordered students who had not reached Intermediate to gather outside.

Tengu led Fighting Club training while Eichi recalled how he and Asen had earned Advanced Student status. The Taekwondo Club president, Calais, arrived to challenge the Fighting Club again, proposing a new format.

• Tengu divided the Fighting Club members into levels, led them through warm-ups, and began their training.
• Tengu asked Eichi whether Asen had returned, and Eichi recalled how Asen had defeated an Advanced Student and earned the privilege to skip club activities.
• Eichi remembered that he had stopped three Senior Students from ambushing Asen, revealed his strength, and been promoted to Advanced Student himself.
• Calais arrived with Taekwondo Club members, and Xiao Yu asked why he had come to challenge them again.
• Calais confirmed the challenge and said he wanted to change its format, as Tengu and the Fighting Club members gathered around him.

Calais and Tengu agreed to a three-match challenge between lower-grade members of the Taekwondo Club and Fighting Club. Xiao Jin lost the first match, and Eichi stepped forward for the second.

• Calais proposed that each club choose three students from 1st to 3rd Grade for one-on-one matches, with the winners facing off together, and Tengu accepted.
• Tengu selected Xiao Jin, Eichi, and Xiao Luo, while Calais chose three Taekwondo Club members, including a short, sturdy boy for the first match.
• Xiao Jin attacked quickly, but the short boy endured his punches, countered with a powerful strike, and knocked Xiao Jin down with a kick to the neck.
• Tengu announced that the Taekwondo Club had won the first round, and Eichi rose to fight in the second match.

Eichi defeated the Taekwondo Club’s blond fighter, impressing the crowd and surprising Calais with his strength. Xiao Luo then faced a much larger opponent, who threatened him before the match began.

• Eichi faced the blond fighter and deflected his opening roundhouse kick with a powerful strike to the leg.
• The blond man attacked with punches and kicks, but Eichi endured the kicks, grabbed his leg, and kicked him into the Taekwondo Club crowd.
• Tengu declared Eichi the winner, and the Fighting Club members cheered as Eichi returned to the sidelines.
• Xiao Luo entered the next match against a muscular man nearly 1.9 meters tall, who told him to surrender.
• Xiao Luo ignored the threat and took his fighting stance, and Tengu started the match.

Xiao Luo fought the Taekwondo Club’s burly student, but his extraordinary durability overwhelmed her and left her badly injured. After Tengu declared her defeat, Eichi watched the Taekwondo Club celebrate and the Fighting Club seethe.

• Xiao Luo attacked the burly man with rapid punches and kicks, but he blocked them without being hurt.
• The burly man caught both of Xiao Luo’s legs, threw her to the floor, and knocked her unconscious.
• Xiao Luo regained consciousness and launched another attack, but the burly man seized her arms and threw her down again.
• Tengu declared Xiao Luo unable to continue and awarded the match to the Taekwondo Club.
• Xiao Yu carried the injured Xiao Luo toward the infirmary as Eichi watched the burly man taunt the Fighting Club.

Eichi fought the Taekwondo Club’s burly and short students in the second round, dodging their attacks before overpowering them. After kicking the short man into Calais and his group, Eichi caught the burly man’s fist and drove forward with an elbow strike.

• Tengu announced a three-person round, and Eichi entered the ring against the burly man and the short man.
• The burly man charged Eichi, who swiftly dodged his punches and kicks until the short man joined the attack.
• Eichi caught both men’s fists, redirected their force, and sent them staggering backward.
• Eichi rushed the short man and kicked him into Calais and his group, leaving him clutching his stomach on the ground.
• Eichi caught the burly man’s punch, pulled him forward, and prepared to strike him with his right elbow.

Eichi defeated the Taekwondo Club’s burly fighter, helping the Fighting Club win their match. Calais admitted his club was inferior, and Eichi later agreed to teach Tengu his elbow strike as Xiao Luo returned from the medical room with minor fractures.

• Eichi knocked the burly Taekwondo Club fighter into a wall, and Tengu declared the Fighting Club the winner.
• Tengu confronted Calais over the club’s repeated challenges and Locke’s fight against a younger girl, then forced Calais to say the Taekwondo Club was inferior.
• After Calais and his group left, Tengu praised Eichi and asked him to teach the elbow strike, which Eichi agreed to do.
• Senior student Xiao Yu brought Xiao Luo back and reported that Nurse Joy had found minor fractures in Xiao Luo’s left hand and right leg.

After hearing about Ying Shi’s impressive battle, Xiao Luo asked a student for details and reacted with an unfamiliar look. Later, Director Bro invited Eichi to visit his research institute after learning about Eichi’s self-taught breeding background, and Eichi agreed to go with him and Teacher Ami.

• Xiao Luo asked a close female student to recount Ying Shi’s battle, and she praised Ying Shi’s elbow strike and flying kick.
• Teacher Ami called Eichi and asked him to come to her office, promising a surprise.
• Teacher Ami introduced Eichi to Director Bro, who asked about Eichi’s background in breeding.
• Eichi explained how he studied breeding before joining Silver Academy and learned under Professor Kanter, impressing Bro.
• Bro offered to show Eichi his office and research facility, and Eichi agreed to go with Bro and Teacher Ami.

Director Bro showed Eichi and Teacher Ami around the advanced Pokémon research institute, where staff studied Pokémon and developed Pokéblocks. He revealed that winning the tournament could earn Eichi access to study there, a hidden reward few students knew about.

• Director Bro took Eichi and Teacher Ami to the research institute and offered them free lunch in its cafeteria.
• Director Bro guided Eichi and Teacher Ami through the ecological garden and explained how the staff studied Pokémon and tested food and Pokéblocks.
• Eichi surveyed the Pokémon in the garden and recognized how much he could learn from the institute's facilities.
• Director Bro told Eichi he could come there to study, then revealed that access was the tournament's hidden reward.
• Director Bro explained that many competitors sought the reward, as Jela had been expected to win before Eichi emerged as a dark horse.

Eichi accepted a place at Hoenn’s research institute and spent four months studying its methods and equipment for Silver Academy. The chapter ended with Asen’s Armaldo bound by Lileep in a Battle Classroom match.

• Director Bro explained the value of the research institute, and Eichi agreed to study there.
• Teacher Ami asked Eichi to record the institute’s methods and equipment so Silver Academy could improve its own research facilities.
• Eichi studied at the institute after class, first observing freely and then returning to an independent schedule after finding the intern tasks too repetitive.
• Over four months, Eichi recorded the institute’s procedures and learned from staff discussions.
• In the Battle Classroom, Asen’s Armaldo charged Lileep, but Lileep confused it with Quiver Dance and bound it with Bind.
• Armaldo recovered, used Harden to strengthen its defense, and Asen recognized the move.

Eichi and Asen’s Armaldo and Lileep evolved into Armaldo and Cradily during a fierce battle. After continuing the fight, both Pokémon were knocked out in a draw, and Eichi and Asen took them to the Pokémon Center.

• Eichi ordered Lileep to attack Armaldo, and the two exhausted Pokémon continued their stalemated battle.
• Armaldo and Lileep evolved simultaneously into Armaldo and Cradily, both reaching Early Elite level 42.
• Eichi and Asen resumed the battle, and their Pokémon exchanged powerful attacks that devastated the arena.
• Armaldo and Cradily used Earthquake at the same time and fell, unable to continue fighting.
• Eichi and Asen called the battle a draw, recalled their Pokémon, and went together to the Pokémon Center.

As the exchange program at Sinnoh Academy neared its end, Eichi spent much of his time contributing ideas to the institute’s Bug-type Pokémon research group. He joined Professor Morey to collect data in the ecological park, beginning with a colony of Beautifly.

• Eichi reflected on leaving Sinnoh Academy soon and said he wanted to properly say goodbye to Fatty and his classmates.
• Fatty and Xiao Na wondered why Eichi had become so busy, and Xiao Na said she had heard he was studying the Breeding Major.
• At the research institute, Song Ping told Eichi that Professor Morey’s revised Dustox Pokéblocks, based on Eichi’s idea, had improved in effectiveness by nearly ten percent.
• Eichi joined Professor Morey and three interns to collect data on Bug-type Pokémon in the ecological park.
• Professor Morey blew a whistle to call a Beautifly colony, and the Beautifly gathered around the researchers with marked magnetic cards attached to them.

Eichi helped the Bug-type research group confirm that its new Pokémon food improved the Pokémon’s physical condition by ten percent. Meanwhile, Professor Jiang Ben left for Johto with the unrecovered Volcarona stone egg, believing Eichi might be able to save it.

• Eichi and two staff members recorded the Beautifly’s physical data, and the research group analyzed the measurements.
• Professor Morey announced that the new Bug-type Pokémon food worked ten percent better, and credited Eichi with the idea behind it.
• Professor Jiang Ben said goodbye to Professor Da Teng, Mei Lan, and the Pokémon at the research institute before departing by helicopter.
• Jiang Ben reflected on his failed attempts to restore the Volcarona stone egg and decided to take it back to Johto.
• Jiang Ben thought of Eichi and his Beedrill, believing Eichi might hold the stone egg’s chance of recovery.

Principal Xia Hong told Director Nakamura that the regions had arranged a Five School League and asked him to organize Sinnoh Academy’s selection. He agreed to oversee a school-wide competition and proposed including strong students from Meteor Falls, while Eichi remained unaware of the plans.

• Director Nakamura met with Principal Xia Hong, who hinted that he had secretly helped drive Takiji off Sinnoh Academy’s board.
• Xia Hong told Nakamura that five regions would hold a Five School League in three and a half months, with twenty-six participants per region, all aged sixteen or younger.
• Nakamura proposed a school-wide competition to select Sinnoh Academy’s twenty-six contestants, and Xia Hong assigned him to oversee it.
• Xia Hong worried that other regions had exceptionally strong students, but Nakamura pointed to Mina and students from Meteor Falls as potential Sinnoh representatives.
• Eichi continued his busy routine, unaware of the league plans.

Eichi’s Flygon overwhelmed Sato’s Baltoy and battled his ace Charizard, whose powerful attacks still failed to match Flygon’s strength. The chapter ended as Charizard used Blast Burn and Flygon met it with Dragon Rush.

• Flygon defeated Sato’s Baltoy with Dragon Breath, leaving Sato with only Charizard.
• Charizard’s Flamethrower and Fire Blast lost to Flygon’s stronger attacks, and Flygon struck it down with Dragon Claw and Hyper Beam.
• Charizard struggled out of the crater and launched its ultimate move, Blast Burn.
• Flygon descended through Charizard’s flames with Dragon Rush, and the two attacks collided.

Eichi defeated Sato’s last Pokémon, Charizard, with Flygon and reflected on his growing strength. As final exams approached, Eichi said goodbye to friends and colleagues at Sinnoh Academy’s Breeding Major Research Institute before preparing to leave for the Chengdu region.

• Flygon broke through Charizard’s Blast Burn and knocked Charizard out, giving Eichi victory over Sato.
• Sato congratulated Eichi on his improvement, and both trainers took their Pokémon to be treated.
• Eichi recalled defeating Kona in a recent battle, then said goodbye to Sato after their Pokémon were treated.
• Eichi visited the Breeding Major Research Institute, where Professor Morey, Song Ping, and the other colleagues gave him gifts and wished him well.
• Director Bro hinted that Eichi could transfer to Sinnoh Academy, but Eichi agreed only to be polite and had no intention of transferring.
• Eichi attended a farewell dinner and later examined the gifts in his dormitory as he prepared to leave after final exams.

After finishing their exams, Eichi and Class One went camping outside the city to celebrate and bid farewell to the exchange students. The group enjoyed a lively evening around a bonfire, with Eichi cooking grilled meat for everyone and their Pokémon.

• Eichi finished his exam and reflected on the major events of his two years in this world before handing in his paper with Xiao Na and Fatty.
• Xiao Na reminded the class about their planned farewell camping trip, and Xiao He arranged a bus to take everyone outside the city.
• Eichi brought the reluctant Asen along, and the class pitched tents and prepared food at their campsite by a river.
• The students and their Pokémon gathered around a bonfire, where Eichi served grilled meat to Fatty, Xiao Na, Asen, and the Pokémon.