Saffron City and the Ultimate Weapon

The final answer pointed clearly to that town—Saffron City.

A town proud of its jewel-like stones, arranged as though encircling ancient ruins.

It was a small place, not large in scale. If there was anything truly famous about it, it was probably only those clusters of ruins that had stood silently for thousands of years.

Along with the Ocean Snow Hotel, there seemed to be nothing else worth making outsiders stop for.

Oh, right. In that world, Korrina, the Gym Leader here, might have counted as a highly popular character—a spirited fighting expert.

But the world he was in was another parallel world.

There was no Korrina here. Even whether Saffron City's Gym was a Fighting-type Gym remained unknown.

Sometimes, Yan Yang found himself wondering for no reason whether it would be nice to visit Ash's world.

That was the most orthodox, most magnificent Pokémon world. Still, the thought only flashed through his mind.

There was no need to force things when no opportunity existed. He had no dissatisfaction with his current journey; if anything, he cherished it deeply.

Master Hu's clue had led him here. Could it be...

His gaze involuntarily shifted to the Eternal Flower floating quietly beside him.

Saffron City... this name had an extraordinary connection with the mysterious Fairy Pokémon before him.

That was right. If there was anything special about that place besides its ruins, it could only be the Forbidden Creation said to have been built more than three thousand years ago and ultimately buried deep underground: the Ultimate Weapon.

The very existence of that thing was absurd.

It was precisely because of it that the Eternal Flower and that king... whose name in this world might or might not be AZ, had been burdened with endless, prolonged lives.

It was the root of