Upon entering the room, the two elderly people were watching television. The television was replaying footage from a year ago of Roy commanding the Annihilape to battle against the Legendary Pokémon Beast Tobias at the Edge Cup.
"Old man, old woman, I'm back!"
"It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
The two elderly people were also very happy to see Roy return. They watched with Phoebe the scene of Roy winning the Youth Cup a year ago.
Roy's actions in the battle gave Ghost type Pokémon a powerful boost, bringing Mt. Pyre, a place filled with Ghost-type energy, back into the public eye.
The number of people Mt. Pyre to worship has increased significantly over the past year, and some even want to come to Mt. Pyre Sagami to catch Ghost type Pokémon.
After a simple but cozy lunch, the old woman, as usual, checked Roy's Pokémon.
Roy also released all his Pokémon for the old woman to inspect.
After the old woman left to check the Pokémon, the old man came to Roy's side and quietly asked him if he had forgotten what he asked Phoebe to ask Roy to bring.
Don't worry, I won't forget your things.
Roy took out a bag of tobacco, a specialty of the Kanto Region's Saffron City, from his Spatial Bracelet and quietly slipped it to the old man.
"Smoke less, I don't want to come back carrying your coffin."
"You brat, what unlucky things are you saying? But since you brought me so much tobacco this time, I'll let it slide."
Upon seeing what he wanted, the old man beamed with joy, praising Roy for finally showing some filial piety.
While Roy was chatting secretly with his grandfather, Phoebe followed the old woman outside the cabin to observe Roy's Pokémon.
The old woman stared blankly at the large, Ancient Gengar; she seemed to recall her family having some records of such Gengar.
At the time, she thought it was made up, but she never expected to actually see it today.
Phoebe didn't seem like an old woman; she just thought that the Ancient Gengar was so fat because it ate too much.
Of Roy's Pokémon, she had already seen Dragapult and the Ancient Gengar when she was down the mountain, and she had also seen Palossand, Snorunt Phoebe, and Misdreavus before.
However, this was the first time she had seen Dhelmise and Annihilape. The former was the first time she had ever seen such a strange Ghost type Pokémon.
The last time the latter saw the other was when he was just a Primeape, always following Roy around.
"Abandoned!"
Phoebe looked at the disheveled, Annihilape.
She never expected that Primeape would be able to defeat Tobias's three Legendary Pokémon in a one-against-three battle at the Edge Cup.
She had initially thought Roy was going to lose, and even sent him Holographic Communication to comfort Roy. But that very afternoon, she became the clown.
The organizers of the Edge Cup even thoughtfully provided a high-energy background music, which made her want to tame an Annihilape. In addition, the combination of Fighting type and Ghost type attributes is also very popular.
But how did the Primeape evolve into the Annihilape? Neither of the two elderly people knew, so she had no choice but to ask Roy through the Communicator.
Roy stated that he was powerless to help, and that the only known example capable of evolution was his Annihilape.
Moreover, Roy still doesn't want to recall the cost of evolution; Roy doesn't want to experience that life-or-death evolutionary process again.
She only said that Phoebe should first find a less irritable Primeape and feed Primeape with her Ghost Power.
At the same time, let Phoebe trigger Primeape's emotions so that Primeape can learn to use Rage Fist.
However, problems arose right from the very first step in Chengdu.
During that time, she frequently visited the Primeape population outside Mt. Pyre, but there wasn't a single Primeape that wouldn't get angry; it was harder than climbing to heaven.
Therefore, Phoebe no longer has any thoughts about the Annihilape.
Upon seeing Roy newly tamed Dhelmise, Phoebe curiously touched the seaweed on Dhelmise's body, and Dhelmise responded by sticking out seaweed.
"Here, I'll treat you to the Ghost Power."
The Dhelmise sensed the Phoebe's Ghost Power, but instead of absorbing it, it merely probed with its tentacles and retracted the seaweed.
He might have been happy to accept it in the past, but now he no longer cares about Phoebe's Ghost Power; he only eats the Pokéblock Roy makes for him.
Phoebe blushed at being rejected. Ever since Mismagius and Gengar ate the Pokéblock Roy sent them, they had become much pickier eaters.
On the other side, Roy walked out of the cabin and explained to the old woman his idea of evolving Lampent into Chandelure, and he also wanted his Snorunt to evolve at Mt. Pyre.
The old woman knew at a glance that it was time to evolve the Lampent Roy's shoulder.
The energy accumulated within the Lampent has now reached its peak, making it the perfect time for it to evolve.
"You didn't use the Dusk Stone I gave you before, did you?"
"No."
Roy took out two perfect-quality Dusk Stone from his Spatial Bracelet.
Looking at the two identical, top-quality Dusk Stone, the old woman was surprised that Roy actually possessed two perfect-quality Dusk Stone.
Roy explained that the other one was a gift from his master Agatha, when he became her apprentice.
Upon hearing the name Agatha, the old woman felt relieved; then there was no problem.
The old woman said that Lampent would evolve in a little while, but Snorunt definitely couldn't evolve at the same time as Lampent.
Because Snorunt is currently only of the Ice type, its body cannot absorb large amounts of Ghost-type energy.
However, Snorunt can evolve after Lampent has evolved.
After settling some details, Roy called over Snorunt, who was hopping around and chasing after Phoebe.
Following the two elderly people, we arrived at the top of Mt. Pyre, which is also the place where the Ghost-type energy is most concentrated in the entire Mt. Pyre.
Strangely, there aren't any Ghost type Pokémon here.
At the top of the mountain is a circular altar with a pentagram shape, and five transparent beads are placed at the tips of each pentagram.
Roy had come here with Phoebe before and had seen this altar, so he wasn't surprised; he was just curious about its purpose.
"Roy, place your Lampent in the very center of the pentagram."
Roy nodded, looking at the Lampent on his shoulder.
"Lampent, today is the day to see the results of our hard work over the past few months. Keep it up!!!"
"Lamp!"
"Snorunt, you too. Once Lampent has evolved, it'll be your turn."
"Snow!"
Snorunt jumped directly into Roy's arms. After learning that he could no longer stay in Roy's arms after evolving, Snorunt suddenly didn't want to evolve anymore.
Roy gently scratched the Snorunt's little hat with his finger, silently comforting the Snorunt he had watched grow Pokémon.