Nemona Arrives, the Festival of Masks in Kitakami

Beginning with Ultra Class, World Championships match schedules, locations, and opponents were all arranged in advance, and the matches were always public.

Once contestants were successfully matched, the system would automatically select the most suitable official venue in one of the two contestants' regions as the battle site.

Lillie's first opponent after advancing to Ultra Class was Serena. The system ultimately scheduled their match at Lumiose Arena in Lumiose City, Kalos Region, and announced it publicly.

So she would next be heading to Lumiose City for the match. Xingye happened to be free lately, so naturally, he chose to accompany her and watch the battle.

Besides, ever since the Ultra Weapon Z incident two years ago, they had not returned to the Kalos Region. But judging from the news online, it seemed to have recovered quite well, with normal operations basically restored by the middle of last year.

So, after confirming the match location, they headed to Lumiose City together the next day...

At the Detective Pikachu Agency, things had now completely returned to normal. Ever since Mewtwo became Pikachu's assistant, all sorts of requests could be handled with ease, leaving Pikachu practically half-retired.

Recently, a director from Pokéstar Studios in Virbank City, Unova, had wanted to invite it to star in the third Detective Pikachu movie. But it had not agreed right away, intending to loaf around for a while longer. The director could only wait for its response...

Watching Pikachu do as usual today—using books to raise its chair before sitting there with its head on the desk, sleeping—Mewtwo, who was reading to learn human knowledge, glanced at it and asked, "Is it really okay to laze around like this every day? You've gained quite a bit of weight lately. One day, when you're chasing criminals, don't tell