Alola Pokémon School

"Genga?"

A black hole?

Gengar, biting down on a chicken drumstick, suddenly raised its head.

A black hole? This Old One knows all about those!

Jing He snatched the drumstick from Gengar's mouth and pressed it back into the basin.

"Not the kind of black hole you're thinking of."

The "black hole" Nurse Joy had mentioned referred to an Ultra Wormhole, a passage connecting the Pokémon World and Ultra Space.

This mainly had to do with the Pokémon Sun and Moon storyline, with its rather weak multiverse, alternate-dimension, and extraterrestrial anomaly settings.

Rather than a story set in the Pokémon World, it was more like it had borrowed settings from other anime and TV series.

"Teacher Jing He knows what that black hole is?" Nurse Joy could not help asking.

Even as a Nurse Joy, she knew almost nothing about Ultra Wormholes.

After all, even within the International Police, this was classified information known only to the upper ranks.

So Jing He smiled and did not dwell on what the black hole was. Instead, he asked:

"I heard that every island in the Alola Region has an Island Guardian? When the black hole appeared this time, did Melemele Island's guardian show up?"

"Of course not."

Nurse Joy spoke without thinking, then immediately realized that her tone seemed off and hurriedly added:

"I mean, although the black hole injured quite a few Trainers' and tourists' Pokémon, thankfully none of the injuries were serious. Officer Jenny and the others arrived quickly and 'brought it under control,' so there was no need for the Island Guardian to intervene."

"Melemele Island's guardian seems to be Tapu Koko?"

"Mm!" Nurse Joy nodded. "It seems Teacher Jing He knows quite a lot about Alola Region culture too."

"A little, a little. When in Rome, do as