Chapter Summaries

Sato held a Battle Guidance Public Class at Rainbow University and demonstrated Drapion’s strength against a student’s Breloom. After the quick defeat, he asked Zuo Chao to reflect on the match and prepare to hear his advice.

• Sato opened the public battle class and had Erika randomly select Trainer Academy student Zuo Chao as the first challenger.
• Zuo Chao sent out his Elite Advanced Breloom, while Sato chose his Elite Beginner Drapion.
• Drapion blocked Breloom’s Mach Punch, boosted its stats with Acupressure, and knocked Breloom out with Poison Jab and Pin Missile.
• Sato asked Zuo Chao what he would change, and Zuo Chao said he should have avoided charging recklessly and played safe.

Sato taught Zuo Chao that entering a battle without caring about victory was unfair to Pokémon, then began a new guidance match against senior student Miyamoto Fu. Zweilous gained the upper hand against Miyamoto Fu’s Infernape, and Sato ordered Little Left to use Earth Power.

• Sato explained that Zuo Chao had chosen Breloom because its Fighting-type attacks could hurt Drapion, but his lack of commitment to winning had undermined the battle.
• Sato told the students that Pokémon fought and suffered for their trainers, so fighting without caring about the outcome was unfair to them.
• Teacher Erika drew Miyamoto Fu, a senior Fire-type specialist, as the next student, and Sato sent out Zweilous while Miyamoto Fu chose her Elite Peak Infernape.
• Little Left and Little Right coordinated Scary Face and Dragon Breath to interrupt Infernape’s Mach Punch and send it flying.
• Miyamoto Fu used Taunt and Fire Spin to counterattack, but Zweilous broke through the flames with colliding Dragon Pulse attacks and pressured Infernape with Hyper Voice.
• As Infernape struggled to approach through Zweilous’s roars, Sato ordered Little Left to use Earth Power.

Miyamoto Fu conceded defeat to Sato and received advice about improving Infernape’s willpower. Sato then began a battle against Tsubaki Chidori, whose Aggron crashed into Zoroark with Heavy Slam.

• Sato defeated Miyamoto Fu’s Infernape with Little Right’s Hyper Voice and Little Left’s attacks, and Miyamoto Fu accepted his advice about Infernape’s willpower.
• Erika drew Tsubaki Chidori as the next student, and the crowd reacted to his ties to the Tsubaki Family and his cousin Steven Stone.
• Chidori revealed that he had reached Pseudo-Elite Four strength and requested a higher-level battle, but Sato warned that the venue was unsuitable for such powerful Pokémon.
• Chidori sent out Aggron while Sato chose Zoroark, and the referee prohibited moves that could severely damage the floor.
• Chidori ordered Aggron to use Metal Sound, while Sato had Zoroark use Taunt to provoke it.
• Zoroark fired Flamethrower, but Aggron charged through the flames with Heavy Slam and struck it.

Sato defeated Chidori’s Aggron with Zoroark, then continued teaching at Rainbow University as his fame spread. After settling into campus life and choosing courses, he visited the library, where he and Absol spent a peaceful afternoon.

• Sato ordered Zoroark to use Nasty Plot and Focus Blast, knocking out Chidori’s Aggron and winning the battle.
• Chidori recalled Aggron and hurried to the School Infirmary, while Sato decided to ask Steven Stone to educate his younger brother.
• Sato continued his Public Class through the morning, training Drapion, Pikachu, and Zweilous while giving students advice after their battles.
• A report about Sato’s class went viral, drawing media attention and making his fame and potential endorsement fees rise.
• After two weeks of attending classes, Sato chose courses and went to Rainbow University’s library, where he fell asleep as Absol enjoyed the afternoon sun.

Sato resumed training Pikachu, Drapion, and Absol at Rainbow University while refining plans for Absol and considering each Pokémon’s development. Meanwhile, George returned to Lumiose City and met Butler Dai, and a Lucario carrying a human appeared in a Hoenn forest.

• Erika told Sato that Dean Mingxi had approved his library card and warned him not to sleep in the library.
• Sato trained Pikachu, Drapion, and Absol, while considering Absol’s abilities and future tactics and the challenges of training Drapion and Pikachu.
• George arrived in Lumiose City, where Butler Dai welcomed him on behalf of the Family Head.
• George told Butler Dai he was no longer accustomed to having someone take care of him and got into the luxury sedan.
• A Lucario burst from the bushes in a Hoenn forest with a human on its back, frightening the Zigzagoon into hiding.

Mark and Lucario survived being lost in a forest for over a month, while Sato searched for a way to help Zweilous evolve without losing either mind. After professors dismissed the possibility, Sato decided to return to the Unova Region with Little Left and Little Right.

• Mark clung to Lucario while they escaped a towering Tangrowth, then climbed down and complained about Lucario's hard back.
• Lucario organized the Pokemon to gather food and supplies, and the group cooked and shared a hearty meal.
• Sato researched multi-headed Pokemon and visited professors to seek ideas for Zweilous's evolution.
• The professors explained that Zweilous's two minds were an abnormal state and that its final evolution, Hydreigon, had only one mind.
• Sato comforted Little Left and Little Right and said they would return to the Unova Region.

Sato left Rainbow University and returned to Dragon Village to seek a way for Zweilous to evolve and confront the burden of its imprisonment. After reaching the village, he followed Grandma Long’s Exeggutor toward her home.

• Sato told Erika and Dean Mingxi that he would take a week or two off to find a way for Zweilous to evolve, and Dean Mingxi warned him to compromise if necessary.
• Sato flew from Celadon City to Nimbasa City, unaware that Master Mingguang and Xuanlu had also arrived at Celadon City Airport.
• Sato traveled by high-speed rail to Opelucid City and reached Dragon Village in one day.
• An uncle mistook Sato for Mark, then offered to take him to Grandma Long.
• Grandma Long’s Exeggutor arrived to guide Sato, while the uncle invited him to dinner at his nearby home.

Sato brought Zweilous to Grandma Long to learn why it had not evolved while retaining both consciousnesses. Grandma Long said Hydreigon could keep two minds only with a divine spark, leaving Sato to consider seeking one from a true Legendary Pokemon.

• Sato followed Exeggutor to Grandma Long’s house and worried about the strength of her Pokemon.
• Sato released Zweilous, and Grandma Long examined its two harmonious consciousnesses.
• Grandma Long said other Trainers had failed to evolve Zweilous while preserving both minds.
• Grandma Long explained that a two-consciousness Hydreigon would need a divine spark to surpass its natural limits.
• Sato realized Grandma Long was indirectly urging him to find a divine spark from a true Legendary Pokemon.

Sato saw through Grandma Long’s attempt to send him to his death in Giant’s Chasm and instead persuaded her to train him. As he stayed in Dragon Village, he and Ralts began planning how to turn the situation to their advantage and pursue the godhood there.

• Grandma Long claimed a frozen Legendary Dragon-type Pokemon in Giant’s Chasm might possess a godhood, but Sato recognized her story about Kyurem was a trap.
• Sato pretended to resolve to seek the Legendary Pokemon, then abruptly asked Grandma Long to train him so he could become stronger.
• Grandma Long agreed to guide Sato and Zweilous, while secretly planning to provoke him into going to Giant’s Chasm.
• Sato told Ralts through Telepathy that they could deal with Grandma Long later, and Ralts reminded him that Dragon Village itself had a godhood.

Sato stayed in Dragon Village and trained under Grandma Long while secretly assessing her strength and the village. After mastering Energy Deprivation, he persuaded Grandma Long to use her Elite Four-level Pokémon for training, leaving him to keep gathering information before deciding where to act.

• Sato refused to stay at Uncle Gage's home and settled at Uncle Mars's house in Dragon Village.
• After a week of training with Grandma Long, Sato mastered the Dark Power ability Energy Deprivation.
• Sato proposed that Grandma Long use stronger Pokémon for their battles and added Tyranitar and Sharpedo to his team.
• Grandma Long sent out her advanced Elite Four Haxorus to battle Sato's Pokémon.
• Sato continued the battle while reviewing what he had learned about Grandma Long's powerful Pokémon and delayed action until he found the divinity of Dragon Village.

Gengar discovered an underground palace beneath the plaza outside Grandma Long’s residence, where numerous Pokémon skeletons surrounded a large Hydreigon skeleton emitting black light. After an unknown energy frightened Gengar away, it reported its findings to Sato, who decided to search for the palace’s entrance before investigating further.

• Gengar evaded the Elite Four-level Exeggutor’s Psychic patrol and investigated unusual soil beneath the plaza.
• Gengar found an underground palace containing skeletons of several Pokémon species, mostly Hydreigon.
• Gengar noticed black light seeping from an unusually large Hydreigon skeleton and was struck by a terrifying energy while approaching it.
• Gengar escaped to Uncle Mars’s house and described the palace to Sato through Ralts’s Telepathy.
• Sato declined to rush to the palace and asked Gengar to search for its entrance.

Gengar discovered a black divinity hidden inside the Hydreigon skeleton in Dragon Village’s Underground Palace, but Sato and Ralts feared its inheritance could turn Pokémon into skeletons. The next morning, Sato challenged Grandma Long to a 4v6 battle, hoping to learn more about the palace while Grandma Long agreed because she wanted him to leave Dragon Village.

• Gengar descended through the dome under intense pressure and spotted a palm-sized black crown, which it recognized as a divinity, inside the Hydreigon skeleton.
• Gengar returned to Sato and Ralts without finding an entrance, and Sato gave it Advanced Energy Supplement Liquid before it rested in his shadow.
• Ralts guessed that the skeletons in the Underground Palace were failed candidates chosen to inherit the divinity, and Sato worried that Little Left and Little Right might suffer the same fate.
• Ralts proposed questioning Grandma Long and asking Darkrai for help, and Sato agreed that they needed to learn more about the Underground Palace.
• Sato asked Grandma Long for a 4v6 Half All-out Battle, claiming he needed to test himself against the frozen divine beast in Giant's Chasm, and Grandma Long accepted while hoping he would leave Dragon Village.

Sato and Grandma Long staged a battle in which Grandma Long deliberately held back while Sato tried to make his victories look genuine. After Sato’s Dark Power boosted Zoroark to defeat Exeggutor, Grandma Long prepared to continue the match.

• Sato’s Zweilous and Honchkrow defeated Grandma Long’s Druddigon and Altaria as she intentionally withheld their stronger moves.
• Honchkrow believed its victories showed that it had grown stronger, while Sato privately doubted its intelligence.
• Grandma Long sent out Exeggutor, and Sato used Dark Power Amplification to raise Zoroark’s strength to a half-step Elite Four level.
• Zoroark defeated Exeggutor in a closely matched exchange, though it recognized that the battle was staged and treated the fight as stamina training.

Sato battled Grandma Long’s Haxorus with Tyranitar, using a series of Rock- and Ground-type attacks while suspecting she knew about the Underground Palace beneath them. After Haxorus fell under Grandma Long’s deliberate misplays, Sato asked to continue battling because he still had not reached his limit.

• Grandma Long praised Sato and sent out Haxorus, while Sato recalled Zoroark and chose Tyranitar for the next match.
• Tyranitar used Dark Power Amplification, but Haxorus struck it with Iron Tail and dented its armored abdomen.
• Tyranitar raised a sandstorm and trapped Haxorus with Rock Tomb before using Earthquake, which made Grandma Long realize the Underground Palace lay beneath the battlefield.
• Grandma Long called for Protect against Tyranitar’s Stone Edge, and Sato suspected she was deliberately throwing the match so he would hurry to his own death.
• Fifteen minutes later, Haxorus fell after Grandma Long’s poor commands, and Sato asked to continue battling.

Sato overpowered Grandma Long and searched her nightmares with Gardevoir and the Nightmare Orb for information about the Dark Type divinity beneath the plaza. Gardevoir finished its search, but the chapter ended before Sato learned what it found.

• Sato dismissed Grandma Long's concerns about his strength, and she ordered him to leave Dragon Village for good.
• Gengar used Disable to seize Grandma Long's seven Poké Balls, while Gardevoir used Hypnosis and Grass Knot to subdue and bind her.
• Sato confronted Grandma Long about something beneath the plaza as Gengar sealed the area off from the village with Space Barriers.
• Gardevoir knocked Grandma Long unconscious and used the Nightmare Orb to search her dreams for clues about the Dark Type divinity in the Underground Palace.
• Gardevoir stopped searching after more than ten minutes, and Sato supported it and warned it not to overexert itself with the incompatible Nightmare Orb.

The chapter revealed why Meishali left the Unova Elite Four and returned to Dragon Village: her family guarded a Dark Type divine spark, and her great-grandmother died after failing to inherit it. Sato suspected the spark’s original owner had never died and was using the family’s trials to feed and restore itself.

• Forty years earlier, Meishali became an Elite Four Trainer, then resigned a month later and returned to Dragon Village after her great-grandmother summoned her.
• Meishali’s great-grandmother explained that she had guarded Dragon Village’s secret for eighty years and intended to claim the divine spark.
• The chapter described how the divine spark granted a trial to those with Dark Power, while Meishali’s ancestors’ attempts to inherit it had repeatedly ended in death.
• Meishali’s great-grandmother attempted the trial and the divine spark consumed her Hydreigon and Krookodile, leaving their skeletons in the Underground Palace.
• Meishali inherited her great-grandmother’s priestess role and later tried to drive Sato away before luring him to Giant’s Chasm.
• Sato suspected the divine spark’s original owner was still alive and had deceived Meishali’s ancestors into sacrificing Pokémon to restore its strength.

Sato entered the Underground Palace beneath Grandma Long’s home and found the Dark Type divinity inside Hydreigon’s skeleton. After learning that the inheritance ceremony had killed many powerful Pokémon and Trainers, he ordered Gardevoir to attack the divinity, shocking Grandma Long.

• Sato treated his Pokémon’s injuries and returned to Grandma Long’s home with Gardevoir to find the Secret Passage to the Underground Palace.
• Sato and Gardevoir descended the spiral staircase while Gengar guarded the entrance, and the Dark Power inside Sato stirred.
• Grandma Long awoke, but Gardevoir bound her mouth again as they reached the stone wall concealing the palace entrance.
• Sato used Grandma Long’s blood and a trace of Dark Power to open the stone wall, then entered the Underground Palace with Gardevoir and Grandma Long.
• Sato found the Dark Type divinity floating inside Hydreigon’s skeleton and learned that the inheritance ceremony had cost the lives of eighteen Elite Four level Pokémon and nine Trainers.
• Sato ordered Gardevoir to use Moonblast on the divinity, and Grandma Long screamed in alarm.

Sato and his Pokemon weakened the conscious Divinity Crown, which he suspected belonged to a Hydreigon, before Tyranitar shattered it. As the crown released Dark-type Origin Energy, Sato, Grandma Long, and the Dark-type Pokemon absorbed it, and Zweilous began glowing blue.

• Gardevoir's Moonblast struck the Divinity Crown, which roared and unleashed Dark-type Energy in response.
• Sato boosted Gardevoir's Special Attack with Zoroark's Nasty Plot and Gardevoir's Psych Up, then had Gardevoir attack the crown with Moonblast.
• The weakened Divinity Crown tried to escape but crashed into a White Jade Pillar, and Gardevoir's Fling attack showed that it was physically fragile.
• Sato had Tyranitar use Stone Edge from a distance, shattering the Divinity Crown and releasing a mournful cry.
• Gardevoir urged the Dark-type Pokemon and Sato to absorb the crown's Origin Energy, and Grandma Long joined them.
• Zweilous began shining with a dazzling blue light as it absorbed the Dark-type Origin Energy.

Sato watched Zweilous evolve into Hydreigon, relieved that Little Left and Little Right kept their consciousnesses and welcoming the new middle head as Little Three. Hydreigon reached Pseudo-Elite Four High-Level, then stood guard as Sato and the others continued absorbing the divinity’s Dark-type Origin Energy.

• Sato hesitated to interrupt Zweilous’s evolution until Gardevoir urged him to trust Little Left and Little Right’s choice.
• Zweilous absorbed much of the divinity’s Dark-type Origin Energy and evolved into a three-headed Hydreigon, preserving Little Left and Little Right and creating Little Three.
• Sato named the three heads Little Left, Little Right, and Little Three, then discovered Hydreigon had reached Pseudo-Elite Four High-Level.
• Hydreigon stopped absorbing energy and stood guard while Sato and the others resumed gathering the divinity’s remaining Origin Energy.
• Hydreigon and its companions let Grandma Long continue absorbing energy, while some energy seeped through the rock and enriched Dragon Village’s land.

After absorbing the shattered divinity’s Origin Energy, Sato and his Pokémon gained major power, and Zweilous evolved into Hydreigon while retaining Little Left and Little Right’s consciousnesses. Sato freed Grandma Long and confronted her about trying to kill him, leaving her to demand what he wanted.

• Sato and his Pokémon absorbed the divinity’s Origin Energy, strengthening Dark Power and raising Weavile’s Dark-type talent to Elite Four level.
• Zweilous evolved into Hydreigon and retained the consciousnesses of Little Left and Little Right.
• Sato waited for Grandma Long to awaken, then had Gardevoir free her and Gengar return her seven Poké Balls.
• Sato accused Grandma Long of wanting to kill him for the divinity’s inheritance and challenged her claims about imprisoning Zweilous and sending him toward Giant’s Chasm.
• Sato argued that he had shattered the divinity himself and that Grandma Long had benefited from the Origin Energy, until she calmed down and asked what he wanted.