Chapter Summaries

Yu Hai introduced Staryu, Ditto, and Toxicroak to his Pokémon, then discovered that Toxicroak was suffering from his own powerful toxins and planned ways to treat him. He also advised Xiao Ying on helping Mankey regain confidence and warned him to stay away from the Black Market as the Pseudo-Legendary auction approached.

• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying introduced their new Pokémon to their companions, and Ditto delighted the group by transforming into them.
• Yu Hai found Toxicroak in pain from his own toxins, gave him Antidote and Moomoo Milk, and planned a three-part treatment and training regimen.
• Yu Hai encouraged Slowpoke to help Staryu settle in and practice Confusion with him.
• Xiao Ying told Yu Hai that Mankey was insecure about his lame leg, and Yu Hai advised him to help Mankey rebuild confidence by defeating a healthy Mankey.
• Yu Hai warned Xiao Ying to avoid the Black Market and harbor, where they could be recognized and drawn into Team Rocket's plans for the Pseudo-Legendary auction.
• Yu Hai urged Xiao Ying to cultivate Mankey's unyielding fighting spirit, and Xiao Ying resolved to raise him well.

Yu Hai reviewed his recent spending, cared for his Pokémon, and went to the Water-type Club after treating Toxicroak’s poisoning. The chapter left him arriving after the league’s opening ceremony, looking for Xiao Ying and the other contestants.

• Yu Hai calculated that he had 7,227,000 League Coins left after recent purchases and loot, and worked out how long his Pokémon’s Energy Cubes would last.
• Xiao Ying and Little Fatty left to watch the club league’s opening ceremony, while Yu Hai learned his number 3333 meant he would battle the next day.
• Yu Hai took Kingler to Muta to learn Swords Dance, then brought Toxicroak to Nurse Joy for treatment and learned its abnormal Poison Sacs made its own poison dangerous to it.
• Yu Hai bought emergency Antidotes and a Toxicroak-raising guide before heading to the Water-type Club after the opening ceremony had ended.
• Yu Hai entered the club and followed signs toward the contestants’ lounge to find Xiao Ying.

Yu Hai watched Xiao Ying and Little Fatty compete at the Water-type Club, where Xiao Ying won his first match using Electabuzz. After Yu Hai and Xiao Ying left, Keiko's boyfriend reported Electabuzz to the general manager of the Electric-type Club.

• Yu Hai found Xiao Ying and Little Fatty waiting outside Lounge Eight and learned that their matches were approaching.
• Little Fatty's Kingler lost to an opponent's Pikachu, while Xiao Ying entered the arena to face Magnemite with Electabuzz.
• Xiao Ying's Electabuzz absorbed Magnemite's electricity and defeated it, earning Xiao Ying his first competition victory.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying left the club, with Yu Hai praising Xiao Ying and advising him on his battle strategy.
• Keiko's boyfriend went to the Electric-type Club's general manager and reported Xiao Ying's Electabuzz.

The General Manager investigated Xiao Ying’s Electabuzz and wrongly concluded that Captain had moved his bar to avoid Team Rocket’s coming takeover. At Sailor Bar, Yu Hai and Xiao Ying collected their shares of the betting-pool winnings, then learned the identity and Pokémon lineup of the thug who had tried to target Yu Hai, prompting Yu Hai to plan a sneak attack.

• The General Manager traced Xiao Ying’s Electabuzz to Captain and, despite missing the real explanation, decided Captain had fled because of Team Rocket; he rewarded A Ren for reporting it.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying met the Old Man at Sailor Bar, where Xiao Ying told his grandfather he had passed the first round of the competition.
• The Old Man showed Yu Hai a bag of betting-pool earnings, and Yu Hai, Xiao Ying, and the Old Man each received nine million four hundred thousand.
• The Old Man gave Yu Hai photographs and information about the betting-pool thug who had delivered the money and his subordinate, explaining that they had tried to use the Drunkard to kill Yu Hai.
• Yu Hai learned that the thug had four Pokémon, including a powerful Pignite and an Exeggutor, and formed a plan to attack him with Yu Hai and Xiao Ying’s Pokémon.

Yu Hai sold Primeape and a Leaf Stone to the old man, then learned from Xiao Ying that the money-deliverer’s subordinate was staying in a nearby villa. They planned to investigate and strike that night, while Yu Hai began caring for the newly acquired, emotionally numb Toxicroak.

• Yu Hai learned the money-deliverer’s casino routine, sold Primeape and a Leaf Stone for 5.5 million, and left the bar while Xiao Ying stayed to collect his share.
• Xiao Ying spotted the money-deliverer’s subordinate entering a nearby seaside villa and told Yu Hai after joining him at the villa.
• Yu Hai suspected the money-deliverer and his subordinate were using the nearby villa as a safehouse and decided to consider a nighttime attack after lunch and training.
• Yu Hai studied Toxicroak’s training needs, learned that its venom could be used in medicine, and prepared food for it.
• Yu Hai released Toxicroak and fed it, while Toxicroak remained wary and emotionally numb after being abandoned and sold repeatedly.

Yu Hai cared for Toxicroak and prepared it for a planned raid on a villa occupied by casino thugs. After scouting the target, he trained Ditto to maintain a human disguise and waited with Xiao Ying until the party quieted down, leaving them ready to attack.

• Yu Hai fed Toxicroak, had it release excess venom into a jar, and let it rest in the courtyard, prompting Toxicroak to reconsider its new Trainer.
• Yu Hai warned Xiao Ying not to approach the target villa alone, then retrieved Kingler and scouted the villa from the air with Pelipper.
• Yu Hai planned a dawn raid, assigned his Pokémon their roles, and returned to rest while Xiao Ying and the others waited for him.
• At two in the morning, Yu Hai forced Ditto to maintain a human disguise and synchronize with his expressions, then told Xiao Ying to train his own Ditto to do the same.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying flew to a hill near the target villa, watched the all-night party, and waited until the noise died down before preparing to move.

Lance recovered the stolen Dratini and discovered that Kinnow City's mayor had manipulated the Black Market conflict to drive Team Rocket out and secure League support. The mayor prepared to use Lance's attendance at the Youth Trainer Competition to strengthen his position, while the wider schemes in Kinnow City continued to draw people into the mayor's plans.

• Team Rocket's Lance defeated the Black Market manager, but the manager used Dratini's Poké Ball as a distraction while the League's Lance arrived and drove Lance away.
• The Black Market manager handed Elite Four Lance a phone, and the mayor invited him to his office and asked him to attend the Youth Trainer Competition.
• After seeing the mayor's generous compensation offer, Elite Four Lance agreed to attend the competition's opening ceremony the next day.
• The mayor learned that Team Rocket had withdrawn and ordered the Black Market repaired and its security strengthened, while arranging compensation for the injured guards.
• The mayor allowed Officer Jenny to continue investigating corruption at City Hall and reflected on how the Black Market, Team Rocket, and other Kinnow City affairs had become part of his broader scheme.
• Yu Hai remained unaware that Kinnow City's mayor had orchestrated the events and that the anti-corruption investigation had drawn him into the mayor's plans.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying raided a villa, captured its occupants, and uncovered a prison holding gambling addicts. After a hidden Starmie nearly killed Yu Hai, the pair dealt with the attackers and called the police, while Officer Jenny later identified the Spider Bandit as the culprit and raised his wanted rank to C.

• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying used Spinarak and Butterfree’s sleep and paralysis moves to ambush the villa, tie up four men, and collect their Pokémon and valuables.
• Yu Hai discovered a basement where gambling addicts were imprisoned, then confronted the masked money-delivery man and the other captives.
• A dining knife flew at Yu Hai, but his Stab-proof Vest stopped it; Yu Hai killed the psychic attacker after realizing the man had secretly controlled the knife.
• A Starmie hidden in the swimming pool attacked Yu Hai, but Poliwhirl and Kingler blocked its Psychic before Poliwhirl knocked it unconscious, and Xiao Ying captured it.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying disposed of the four men’s bodies in the pool, cleaned up, and called the police using one of the criminals’ phones before returning home.
• Officer Jenny found the imprisoned gamblers and dead criminals, identified the Spider Bandit as the culprit, and raised his warrant from D-rank to C-rank.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying divided the Pokémon and goods taken from the group they ambushed, and Yu Hai discovered that psychic suppression wristbands could train psychic Pokémon. Finding a Team Rocket uniform among the discarded belongings revealed that the psychic youth they had killed was likely an undercover agent, leaving them unsure how deeply Team Rocket had infiltrated the city.

• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying sorted eleven Pokémon and four Space Backpacks, set aside Poliwag for the Orphanage, and divided the valuable items between them.
• Yu Hai tested the unknown wristbands on Butterfree and discovered that they suppressed psychic powers, then gave Xiao Ying a Meditation Method to copy.
• While clearing out the backpacks, Xiao Ying found a Team Rocket uniform and showed it to Yu Hai.
• Yu Hai concluded that the psychic youth was probably a Team Rocket undercover agent and reasoned that the casino was likely not a Team Rocket base.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying worried that Team Rocket agents might be embedded throughout the city and considered asking Xiao Ying's grandfather to report the matter.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying brought evidence that a Psychic Team Rocket undercover agent had been killed to the Old Man, while selling the captured Pokémon and urging him to report the casino. The Old Man hesitated as Yu Hai warned that Team Rocket might already control the Underground Black Market, leaving their next move unresolved.

• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying searched the villa’s belongings, found only one Team Rocket uniform, and decided to take it to the Old Man.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying reached the Sailor Bar, where the Old Man appraised their Pokémon and paid them 24 million for the ten most valuable ones.
• Xiao Ying showed the Old Man the black uniform and confirmed that the Psychic youth they killed had been a Team Rocket undercover agent.
• Yu Hai urged the Old Man to report the casino to Officer Jenny, warning that Team Rocket would discover their role in the youth’s death.
• The Old Man rejected the idea at first, then looked at Xiao Ying and considered the danger as Yu Hai warned that the Underground Black Market might already be in Team Rocket’s hands.

Yu Hai learned that Lance had arrived in Kinnow City, easing his fears about Team Rocket while Xiao Ying registered for Lance’s Youth Trainer Competition. After returning to his villa, Yu Hai began training Toxicroak to improve its condition and control its Toxic.

• Xiao Ying spotted Lance on television announcing the Youth Trainer Competition, and Yu Hai concluded that Lance’s presence would deter Team Rocket.
• The old man left to arrange a report against Team Rocket and the casino, while Xiao Ying decided to enter the competition and meet Lance.
• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying left the Sailor Bar; Xiao Ying went to register beside the Pokémon Center, and Yu Hai returned to his villa after handing Kingler to Muta for Swords Dance training.
• Yu Hai fed his Pokémon lunch, checked the still-unhatched Pokémon Egg, and had Toxicroak expel poison into a glass jar.
• Yu Hai took Toxicroak to the beach to begin jogging exercises and found Farfetch'd throwing stones into the sea.

Yu Hai trained Toxicroak and Farfetch'd before entering a Water-type Club match, where Rhyhorn defeated a Lotad despite being laughed at for sleeping on the field. After the match, a Water-type Club senior coach pursued Yu Hai to invite him, hoping to learn from Poliwhirl's explosive battle techniques.

• Yu Hai jogged with Toxicroak, gave it Moomoo Milk and Fighting-type Energy Cubes, and tossed a Normal-type Energy Cube to the watching Farfetch'd.
• Yu Hai flew to the Water-type Club and entered a match as Contestant 3333, sending out a sleeping Rhyhorn against his opponent's Lotad.
• Yu Hai woke Rhyhorn, which used Rock Polish while charging through the rain and defeated Lotad with repeated attacks.
• A senior coach of the Water-type Club followed Yu Hai out of the venue and asked him to talk, but Yu Hai refused and kept walking.
• The coach continued pursuing Yu Hai because the club wanted to recruit him for Poliwhirl's powerful techniques, which its own Pokémon could imitate only at the cost of serious injury.

Yu Hai heard the Water-type Club’s offer and learned from the Old Man that its League certification benefit was only a recommendation to become a Gym Leader’s apprentice. He rejected the idea of being bound to the club and left planning to seek a Gym apprenticeship, while Xiao Ying continued on a path toward competing for an Elite Four seat.

• Long Hair offered Yu Hai a lucrative Water-type Club contract in exchange for access to Poliwhirl’s explosive technique, but Yu Hai said he would consider it for two days.
• Yu Hai privately weighed the club’s benefits against the likely contract restrictions and decided he did not want to work for another boss.
• Yu Hai asked the Old Man how to bypass the League’s trainer requirements, and the Old Man explained that the club’s recommendation would make him a Gym Leader’s apprentice, with a five-year contract and penalties attached.
• The Old Man explained that becoming a Gym apprentice was Yu Hai’s only practical route to League certification and that becoming a Gym Leader’s disciple could lead to greater status.
• Yu Hai learned that the Old Man was training Xiao Ying to pursue an Elite Four seat, and the Old Man thanked Yu Hai for helping Xiao Ying become ambitious and disciplined.
• Yu Hai dismissed the club route and decided that his next goal was to seek an apprenticeship at a Gym in the Orange Islands.

Yu Hai planned to seek an apprenticeship at Navel Gym or Kumquat Gym, while Taro assigned A Ren to test him in the upcoming competition round. At Kinnow City's preliminary battles, Yu Hai advised Xiao Ying to sell his points rather than chase a Knockout Stage place, and they sold their points for pocket money.

• Yu Hai decided to try Navel Gym and Kumquat Gym first, then consider other regions if those Gyms did not accept him.
• Taro revealed that clubs had assigned trainers to intercept strong independent competitors, and ordered A Ren to test Yu Hai before Taro faced him himself.
• Yu Hai registered for the competition, learned that points were selling for sixty thousand each, and found Xiao Ying battling at the Pokémon Center's fields.
• Yu Hai explained that Xiao Ying would need to spend millions to reach one hundred points in time, so Xiao Ying left the queue and gave up on qualifying.
• Yu Hai sent Pelipper to invite the Orphanage children to earn pocket money, and he and Xiao Ying sold their points for sixty thousand each before returning to the villa.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying prepared to part after the competitions, with Yu Hai urging Xiao Ying to become independent while he planned to leave Kinnow City and seek a Gym apprenticeship. They trained their Pokémon through the following days, and the chapter ended as the club league preliminaries and Youth Trainer Competition knockout stage began.

• Xiao Ying realized that earning enough competition points through battles would have been impossible without buying them, and he and Yu Hai discussed the Youth Trainer Competition's Water-type Starter prize.
• Yu Hai told Xiao Ying he planned to leave Kinnow City after the competitions and seek a Gym apprenticeship, then urged Xiao Ying to grow into a powerful Trainer on his own.
• Yu Hai outfitted Poliwhirl and Kingler with weights and had his Pokémon practice Protect, while he encouraged the withdrawn Farfetch'd to join the group.
• Xiao Ying comforted Mankey and pushed it to become stronger, but Mankey immediately clashed with Electabuzz and was shocked.
• Yu Hai supervised Toxicroak's beach jogs and continued training his team as the days passed without incident.
• On the twenty-second day after arriving on Hasa Island, the club league preliminaries continued and the Youth Trainer Competition began its Round of 64 knockout stage.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying watched the Kinnow City Youth Trainer Competition, where a contestant revealed Electivire as his final Pokémon and stunned the arena with its power. The Electric-type Club reacted by preparing to promote Electivire and attract Electabuzz buyers.

• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying watched the Knockout Stage preliminaries on television as the first match began between Jolteon and Exeggutor.
• The trainers repeatedly switched Pokémon, and Exeggutor defeated Jolteon before Grovyle beat the exhausted Exeggutor.
• Pidgeotto knocked out Grovyle, leaving Jolteon's trainer with one Pokémon still unseen and Exeggutor's trainer apparently ahead.
• Jolteon's trainer released Electivire, shocking Yu Hai, Xiao Ying, the spectators, and the commentators with its imposing presence.
• Electivire demonstrated its power with Thunder, and the Electric-type Club's general manager ordered staff to feature Electivire and prepare the Breeding House to meet expected demand for Electabuzz.

After seeing Electivire dominate at the competitions, A Ren and the Old Man from the Tavern considered what its power could mean for their own Electabuzz. Yu Hai reflected on his limits and priorities, then rested in the villa with Xiao Ying and his Pokémon, knowing he would soon leave Hasa Island.

• A Ren watched Electivire win at the main venue and resolved to obtain an Electabuzz despite lacking money.
• Taro left the club after a call and later sent his Electivire into a fierce match against the Electric-type Club's dark horse contestant.
• The Old Man from the Tavern imagined Xiao Ying's gifted Electabuzz becoming as powerful as the Electivire he had seen.
• Xiao Ying asked Yu Hai whether Electivire was strong, and Yu Hai admitted he wanted one but would not exploit his student's trust to get it.
• Yu Hai reflected that he would pursue attainable goals, value his Pokémon partners, and accept what he could not obtain.
• After breakfast, Yu Hai told Xiao Ying to wash the dishes and lay in the yard, thinking about his last two days at the villa and the journey ahead.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying competed in the Water-type Club league preliminaries, where Xiao Ying lost to Jiro after a suspected rigged matchup. Yu Hai won his own match against A Ren, then decided to leave Kinnow City rather than continue competing in manipulated matches.

• Yu Hai checked the still-unhatched Pokémon Egg on its twentieth day of incubation before heading to the Water-type Club with Xiao Ying.
• Xiao Ying faced Jiro's Jolteon, which used its speed to defeat Electabuzz, and Xiao Ying lost the preliminary match.
• Yu Hai comforted Xiao Ying, who accepted the loss but felt sad about Yu Hai's impending departure.
• After lunch, Yu Hai entered his own preliminary match against A Ren and defeated his Magnezone with Rhyhorn.
• Yu Hai decided he would leave Kinnow City the next day and stop participating in the manipulated competition.

Yu Hai left the Water-type Club after defeating Yu Hai's opponent, rejected another invitation, and reunited with Xiao Nai and the Orphanage children. He told Xiao Ying he planned to leave Hasa Island soon and warned him to stay out of the city hall's conflict.

• Yu Hai's Rhyhorn defeated Magnezone, and A Ren left the battlefield after deliberately losing to Yu Hai to avoid revealing his strength and preserve his chances of promotion.
• Yu Hai refused the long-haired young man's invitation to join the club and explained that Poliwhirl's explosive power came from persistent Waterfall training.
• Xiao Nai and the Orphanage children caught up with Yu Hai and Xiao Ying; Yu Hai praised Xiao Nai's Metapod, confirmed he had given her the Butterfree doll, and checked her Long-winged Gull.
• Yu Hai said goodbye to Xiao Nai and left with Xiao Ying, while Xiao Nai stayed behind to care for the younger children at the Orphanage.
• Yu Hai told Xiao Ying he planned to leave Hasa Island tomorrow or the day after rather than continue competing, and warned him not to get involved after hearing Officer Jenny had visited the Orphanage.

Yu Hai and Xiao Ying visited Keiko’s massage parlor, where A Ren apologized for the arranged match and warned Yu Hai about his likely next opponent. Back at the villa, they prepared for their journey from the island, and Xiao Ying’s Long-winged Gull evolved into a powerful Pelipper.

• Yu Hai and Xiao Ying arrived at Keiko’s massage parlor and met Keiko and A Ren returning together.
• A Ren apologized for the match arrangements and told Yu Hai that Taro’s Electabuzz had evolved into an Electivire; Yu Hai hid his plan to leave the competition.
• Keiko massaged Yu Hai’s Poliwhirl, and A Ren saw the pair off when they left for the villa.
• Yu Hai planned to depart the next day, travel to Little Orange Island, search for a Crystal Onix, and later seek a high-potential Magikarp and a Gym apprenticeship.
• Xiao Ying’s Long-winged Gull evolved into Pelipper, whose Potential reached sixty-seven points, and Xiao Ying flew on its back.