Chapter Summaries

Yu Hai’s Poliwhirl defeated Darkrai by dodging Dark Void and landing a freezing Ice Punch, prompting Yu Hai to plan more sparring for his Pokémon. Scyther and the others then lost to Darkrai, and the chapter ended with Yu Hai nearing Mikan Island and wondering whether he could join its Gym.

• Poliwhirl dodged Darkrai’s Dark Void, slowed it with Mud Shot, and froze it with Ice Punch before knocking it into the forest with Drain Punch.
• Darkrai conceded, and Yu Hai advised it to improve its accuracy and evasion before returning to sleep.
• Scyther challenged Darkrai but lost after being hit by Dark Void and Dream Eater; the other Pokémon also lost their matches.
• Yu Hai concluded that Poliwhirl remained the strongest and decided to schedule more sparring against Darkrai.
• On the forty-third day of the journey, Yu Hai fought three battles aboard the ship, made a small profit, and spent the rest of the day with his Pokémon.
• The ship continued toward Mikan Island, where Yu Hai wondered whether he could join the Gym or would need to return to Citrus Island to find Drake.

Yu Hai went to MikanGym seeking an apprenticeship but followed a mistaken recruitment notice to a citrus orchard, where he helped the workers and protected them from wild Heracross. After catching several Heracross, he gave one to a fruit farmer for her son and released the others, leaving his plans to ask the Gym Leader about an apprenticeship unresolved.

• Yu Hai reached Mikan Island and followed an apparent MikanGym job advertisement, only to learn the orchard workers were hiring fruit pickers rather than Gym apprentices.
• Yu Hai tasted the citrus and helped harvest it with Farfetch'd and Poliwhirl.
• Wild Heracross attacked the orchard workers, and Yu Hai's Pokémon defeated them; Yu Hai caught three and then caught a gentler Heracross from a nearby tree.
• Yu Hai gave the gentle Heracross to a fruit farmer for her son, then released the three Heracross he had caught during the attack.

Yu Hai accepted a temporary Gym Leader job at MikanGym, only to discover that Ada had arranged it to make him take over after losing three Badges. Yu Hai was stuck with the challenge and a one-million payment penalty if he quit, as Trainers waited outside.

• A boy named Ada confronted Yu Hai at the Orchard, challenged him, and sent Squirtle to attack, but Poliwhirl stopped the Water Gun and Yu Hai ignored them.
• The Orchard manager asked Yu Hai to serve as Acting Gym Leader while Gym Leader Guomei was away, and Yu Hai accepted before leaving Farfetch'd to guard the workers.
• Ada revealed to the manager that he had arranged the job because he had already lost three Badges and wanted Yu Hai to take the blame; the manager sent Yu Hai to MikanGym without explaining the risks.
• At MikanGym, Yu Hai recognized Ada as the boy from the Orchard and realized he had been set up, but Ada claimed Yu Hai could not quit without paying a breach penalty.
• Ada told Yu Hai that quitting would cost one million, while a crowd of Trainers outside waited for him to resume the Gym challenges.

Yu Hai continued serving as MikanGym’s Acting Gym Leader, defeating challengers with increasingly difficult Water Gun target tests, including blindfolded moving-target shooting. After Dunmei discovered the trouble Ada had caused and punished him, Yu Hai recognized her as the red-haired woman from the cruise ship and tried to hide his identity, but the next challenger demanded to battle Dunmei instead.

• Yu Hai’s Poliwhirl outshot a challenger’s Poliwhirl on moving discs, and Yu Hai mocked Ada after the challenger failed to earn the Sakura Badge.
• Yu Hai used Kingler, Pelipper, and Poliwhirl to defeat dozens of Trainers as MikanGym’s challenges grew harder, eventually introducing blindfolded moving-target shooting to avoid the surfing contest.
• Ada watched Poliwhirl hit a disc while blindfolded, admitted to Dunmei that he had tried to get back at Yu Hai, and received a punishment to copy Blastoise’s training notes ten times.
• Yu Hai recognized Dunmei as the red-haired woman he had encountered on a luxury cruise ship and tried to act as though he had never met her.
• A new challenger ignored Yu Hai and asked to challenge Gym Leader Dunmei.

Yu Hai tried to leave after collecting his task payment, but Dunmei recognized him as the man who had humiliated her aboard a cruise ship and plotted to keep him at MikanGym for revenge. She tempted him with a Top-tier Water Stone for his Poliwhirl, and the chapter ended as Yu Hai examined the stone she obtained from her grandfather.

• Yu Hai refused Dunmei’s offer to stay as Acting Gym Leader for two more days and asked for payment for his Orchard and Gym tasks.
• Dunmei recognized Yu Hai from the bite marks on his hand and decided to take revenge, but concealed that she knew who he was.
• Dunmei tried to recruit Yu Hai by offering an Advanced Water Stone, then a Top-tier Water Stone, which tempted him because Poliwhirl was nearing evolution.
• Dunmei brought Yu Hai to her grandfather at the back mountain and persuaded him to provide a Top-tier Water Stone.
• Yu Hai touched the Water Stone Dunmei showed him so he could inspect its purity.

Yu Hai learned that a Top-tier Water Stone was available through MikanGym, but the Gym Leader restrained him after sensing Darkrai in his shadow. The old man released him and hinted at tying Yu Hai to the Gym through Dunmei, leaving Yu Hai to weigh the benefits before giving an answer the next day.

• Dunmei showed Yu Hai a Top-tier Water Stone, and he asked what he would need to do to obtain it.
• The old man used Psychic power to restrain Yu Hai and warned him that the presence in his shadow was dangerous.
• Slowking persuaded the old man not to attack Yu Hai because it sensed Lugia's Silver Feather and considered Yu Hai blessed by the Sea God.
• The old man released Yu Hai without discussing the Water Stone, while privately deciding that recruiting him could benefit MikanGym.
• Dunmei offered Yu Hai a Top-tier Water Stone if he became a MikanGym Trainer and contributed to the Gym.
• Yu Hai asked for a day to consider the offer and left MikanGym, reflecting on the advantages of marrying into the family.

Yu Hai weighed whether to join MikanGym after his identity and Darkrai had been exposed, while considering the benefits of its support and care for his Pokémon. Remembering his promise to Poliwhirl, he decided that Little Tadpole mattered most, though his choice about staying at MikanGym remained unresolved.

• Yu Hai asked Darkrai whether it could have escaped Slowking, and Darkrai admitted it could only have held Slowking off for a few seconds.
• Yu Hai collected Farfetch'd from the Orchard manager, who apologized by giving him a box of citrus fruits.
• Yu Hai registered and checked twelve Pokémon at the Pokémon Center, updated Spinarak's record, registered Silly Bird as a Spearow, and paid for treatment and a room.
• Yu Hai considered joining MikanGym partly so its Breeders could care for his many Pokémon, while worrying about the Top-tier Water Stone Poliwhirl needed.
• Yu Hai remembered his promise to Little Tadpole and resolved to give Poliwhirl the best future he could, even if the road ahead was difficult.

Yu Hai joined MikanGym for a salary, meals, and help obtaining League Rookie Trainer certification, while Dunmei endured his teasing because she wanted revenge. The chapter ended with Dunmei challenging him to a battle before deciding whether to vouch for his application, and Yu Hai preparing to lose without appearing weak.

• Yu Hai accepted MikanGym's offer, including a monthly salary, meals and lodging, and the temporary role of Acting Gym Leader assessing Trainer challenges.
• Yu Hai told Dunmei that he needed her help applying for League Rookie Trainer certification because he was an orphan, and admitted his claimed disciplinary record had been fake.
• Yu Hai introduced his twelve Pokémon to Dunmei and Ada, then met Kitchen Sister and agreed to help her son find a Water-type Pokémon.
• Dunmei became irritated by Yu Hai's easy rapport with Kitchen Sister, but he threatened to leave and she suppressed her anger to keep him at the Gym.
• After breakfast, Dunmei proposed battling Yu Hai before deciding whether to act as his guarantor, and Yu Hai resolved to let her win.

Yu Hai used Poliwhirl to stage a weak performance, pressuring Dunmei into promising to secure his Rookie Trainer certification and appointing him Acting Gym Leader at MikanGym. After Dunmei left, Yu Hai defeated Ada’s Squirtle and resumed training his Pokémon, then took on challengers who struggled against his target-shooting contests.

• Dunmei battled Yu Hai’s Poliwhirl with Blastoise, and Poliwhirl pretended to lose so Yu Hai could claim he was too weak to join MikanGym.
• Dunmei stopped Yu Hai from leaving, promised to obtain his Rookie Trainer certification, and made him Acting Gym Leader while she went to the Pokémon Center.
• Yu Hai defeated Ada’s Squirtle with one punch from Poliwhirl, then organized his Pokémon’s morning training and prompted Ada to train alongside them.
• A challenger refused to battle Yu Hai because Dunmei was absent, while another challenged him and failed the double moving-target contest.
• More Trainers challenged Yu Hai, and he defeated them in the Gym’s target-shooting contests.

Yu Hai let a visiting Trainer change the Gym challenge into a battle, where Poliwhirl swiftly defeated the Trainer’s Golduck. Afterward, Yu Hai reviewed Poliwhirl’s progress and decided it needed to keep training before it could evolve.

• Yu Hai accepted the Golduck Trainer’s request to replace the target-shooting contest with a Pokémon battle.
• Poliwhirl dodged Golduck’s Confusion and Psybeam, then defeated it with powerful Drain Punches and Waterfall bursts.
• Yu Hai advised the Trainer to improve Golduck’s Confusion and perception before challenging the Gym again.
• Yu Hai checked Poliwhirl’s proficiency panel and noted its improving abilities and moves as well as its slow Potential growth.
• Yu Hai decided Poliwhirl should train its remaining moves and reach Elite Four level before he considered its evolution.

Yu Hai received his Rookie Trainer Badge and Pokédex, then left MikanGym to find a secluded home for his Pokémon. After rejecting bounty hunter A Xiang’s invitation and learning that a private job had targeted him, Yu Hai rented the Lakeside Cabin and settled in for the night with his Pokémon.

• Ada failed to find any Gym challengers, while Dunmei returned and gave Yu Hai his Rookie Trainer Badge and Pokédex.
• Yu Hai left MikanGym, met A Xiang in town, and refused an invitation to join his bounty team.
• After Yu Hai departed, A Xiang warned his two underlings not to take a private job targeting Yu Hai, even for a mid-grade Evolution Stone.
• Yu Hai visited Fruit Farmer Sister and rented the secluded Lakeside Cabin, asking her to handle its cleaning and maintenance.
• Yu Hai reached the cabin, had Gengar and Darkrai check the surroundings, and settled in with his Pokémon while Darkrai watched the excited Gengar.

Yu Hai cleared the rented lake of its wild Water-type Pokémon, kept a promising Tentacool, and left his Pokémon at the cabin while he went to work at MikanGym. There, he learned that Dunmei’s distant relative was hostile toward him because he saw Yu Hai as a rival for her affection, leaving Yu Hai worried he had wandered into a romance drama.

• Yu Hai sent Poliwhirl and Kingler to investigate the lake, where they uncovered a group of Tentacruel and Tentacool.
• Yu Hai and his Pokémon lured the jellyfish ashore, put them to sleep, and caught them; he kept a Tentacool with promising Potential and planned to release the rest.
• Yu Hai used Darkrai and his Pokémon to find and catch the lake’s other wild Water-type Pokémon, then left nine Pokémon at the cabin under Butterfree’s care.
• Yu Hai flew to MikanGym and found Dunmei, Ada, and a young man who looked down on him and left with Dunmei.
• Yu Hai asked Ada about the young man and learned he was Dunmei’s distant relative and childhood acquaintance, prompting Yu Hai to worry that he had become a romantic rival.

Yu Hai released the wild Water-type Pokémon he had caught, then showed Ada how well his Wishiwashi and Magikarp could hit moving targets with Water Gun. Inspired by the demonstration, Ada decided to train seriously and asked Yu Hai to teach him, while Yu Hai had Kingler coach Ada’s Squirtle.

• Yu Hai gave Kitchen Sister a Kingler and a Staryu from the Pokémon he had caught, then released the remaining wild Water-types by the sea.
• Yu Hai’s Pokémon began their morning training, and he demonstrated that Wishiwashi and Magikarp could hit moving frisbees with Water Gun while Ada’s Squirtle struggled.
• Ada reflected on how little he had trained Squirtle and decided to become stronger instead of continuing to play around.
• Ada asked Yu Hai to teach him, and Yu Hai assigned Kingler to show Squirtle how to hit frisbees.
• Ada jogged beside Yu Hai and considered catching more Water-type Pokémon, along with Bug-types he liked.

Yu Hai returned to the Lakeside Cabin, where he and his Pokémon captured the returning Tentacruel and blocked the underground river entrance before releasing the Water-type Pokémon out at sea. Back at Mikan Gym, Kingler defeated a challenger’s Meganium and faced his next Pokémon, Electabuzz, as Yu Hai reviewed Kingler’s growth and planned new moves for him.

• Butterfree alerted Yu Hai to Tentacruel in the lake, and Darkrai confirmed that the group had returned through an underground river.
• Yu Hai sent Poliwhirl, Kingler, and Darkrai into the lake, where they captured the Tentacruel, searched for other intruding Pokémon, and sealed the underground river entrance.
• Yu Hai released the captured Wild Water-type Pokémon out over the sea, then returned to Mikan Gym and resumed training with his Pokémon.
• A challenger demanded a battle, and Yu Hai sent out Kingler against the challenger’s Meganium.
• Kingler used Iron Defense to withstand Razor Leaf, escaped Leech Seed, dodged Solar Beam, and knocked Meganium unconscious with Hammer Arm.
• The challenger sent out Electabuzz, while Yu Hai checked Kingler’s status and considered new moves to improve his coverage.

Yu Hai’s Kingler defeated the youngster’s three Pokémon in a row, ending the Gym Battle with a decisive win. Back at the Lakeside Cabin, Yu Hai welcomed a hungry Tentacool into his group and reviewed Toxicroak’s progress, leaving Toxicroak focused on controlling his toxins before evolving.

• Kingler defeated Electabuzz and Exeggutor, winning three consecutive battles for Yu Hai and ending the youngster’s challenge.
• Yu Hai left the Gym after a quiet afternoon and returned to the Lakeside Cabin, where Butterfree and the other Pokémon greeted him.
• Poliwhirl confirmed that no Wild Water-type Pokémon remained in the Lake, and Yu Hai persuaded Tentacool to join the group with an Energy Cube.
• Yu Hai checked Toxicroak’s updated stats and noted its improved potential, Elite Class level, new moves, and continuing need to suppress its toxins before evolution.

Yu Hai learned that an Elite-level Trainer tied to Team Rocket had marked him for death after rumors cast him as Dunmei’s new suitor. He returned to MikanGym weighing how to avoid the dangerous conflict rather than expose the families’ connections himself.

• Yu Hai sealed off the underground river entrances, assigned Butterfree and Kingler to protect the Pokémon at Lakeside Cabin, and took eight Pokémon with him to MikanGym.
• At the Gym, Yu Hai cared for Zapdos and encouraged Ada’s training before a young bounty hunter asked to trade information for a psychic perception manual.
• Yu Hai gave the young man half of a Calm Mind manual, and the man revealed that an Elite-level Kanto Trainer had hired bounty hunters to kill Yu Hai.
• The young man explained that rumors had made the Trainer believe Yu Hai was pursuing Dunmei and threatening his chances with her.
• The young man hinted that the rival was connected to Team Rocket through MikanGym’s family ties and warned that a bounty hunter had accepted the job.
• Yu Hai returned to the Gym, concluded that exposing the infiltration would be futile, and decided to seek a way out instead of involving himself in the conflict.

Yu Hai confronted Dunmei’s suitor about the assassination assignment and convinced him that their rivalry stemmed from a misunderstanding, not romantic competition. The suitor promised to cancel the assignment and gave Yu Hai a mid-grade Water Stone, while Yu Hai privately remained suspicious of his motives.

• Yu Hai asked Ada to summon the young man who had arranged to have him assassinated.
• Yu Hai told the young man that Dunmei wanted revenge over a private misunderstanding and that he had joined MikanGym because of a deal with Grandpa Dunmei.
• The young man accepted Yu Hai’s explanation, apologized for the assassination assignment, and offered him an expensive cigarette.
• The young man gave Yu Hai a mid-grade Water Stone and warned him to stay inside the Gym until the hired attacker’s assignment was canceled.
• After the young man left to meet Dunmei, Yu Hai decided the gift had a hidden motive but kept the Water Stone and returned to the Gym.

Yu Hai used Rhyhorn and Scyther to battle Trainers challenging MikanGym while reviewing their growth and planning their future training. Rhyhorn dominated the challengers, and Scyther took the field as Yu Hai considered how to prepare him to evolve.

• Yu Hai sent Rhyhorn, whom he called Hana Hana, to battle the afternoon Gym challengers and reviewed his rising Potential, moves, and weather-changing abilities.
• Rhyhorn’s charges overwhelmed the challengers’ Pokémon, and Yu Hai rewarded him with a Gem.
• Yu Hai dismissed Rhyhorn to rest and sent Scyther into battle, reminding him not to injure the young Trainers’ Pokémon.
• Scyther began fighting the challengers on his own while Yu Hai reviewed his status and noted that he would need a Metal Coat to prepare Scyther for evolution.

Yu Hai planned a critical-hit and Fury Cutter build for Scyther, then arranged paid tutors to teach his Pokémon new moves. After posting more than a dozen tutoring tasks at the Pokémon Center, he left unaware that someone was secretly following him.

• Yu Hai reviewed Scyther's growing move proficiency and planned to develop its speed, evasion, critical hits, and Fury Cutter into a powerful battle setup.
• At the Gym, Scyther grew bored of weak challengers, so Yu Hai let Hana Hana handle battles and finished his shift.
• Yu Hai returned to the Lakeside Cabin, reunited with his Pokémon, checked the lake for wild Pokémon, and fed everyone dinner.
• Yu Hai decided to hire Pokémon trainers as private tutors because TMs were ineffective and his Pokémon needed teachers to learn new moves.
• Yu Hai posted more than a dozen tutoring tasks at the Pokémon Center, offering fifty thousand League Coins for each completed move lesson.
• Trainers rushed to accept the qualified tutoring tasks, while someone with ulterior motives quietly followed Yu Hai after he left.

Yu Hai foiled a night raid at the Lakeside Cabin, killed the two attackers, and kept their Pokémon. Afterward, he examined Gengar’s rapid growth and new moves, while resolving to confront the person at the Gym about the suspected assassination job.

• Two men sent Venomoth and Paras to put Yu Hai and his Pokémon to sleep, but Darkrai and Gengar protected them and Darkrai put the attackers to sleep.
• Yu Hai woke, had Gengar and Spinarak subdue the attackers’ Pokémon, and went into the forest with his fighters to find the men.
• Yu Hai searched the attackers, then had Toxicroak poison them and Kingler bury them while Gengar burned their belongings.
• Yu Hai returned to the cabin with thirteen captured Poké Balls and decided to question the person at the Gym about the raid the next day.
• Yu Hai checked Gengar’s status and found that Gengar had surpassed level twenty in ten days and had gained many moves.