Poké Ball Reform Underway~

Kanto, Pallet Town.

After hanging up the phone, Professor Oak, dressed in a white lab coat, stared blankly at the half-eaten cup of instant noodles on the lab bench before him.

"Professor, is something wrong?"

A research assistant walked in from outside carrying a stack of documents and saw Professor Oak lost in thought.

Professor Oak took a deep, emotional breath and replied, "The younger generation is truly formidable!"

The assistant froze.

But Professor Oak stood up with a smile. "I never thought that, at my age, I'd still get to be involved in something like this... Xiao Hui, I'll leave the laboratory to you for a while. I need to go out."

As he spoke, Professor Oak took off his lab coat and walked out of the laboratory.

The assistant followed after him and called out, "Where are you going, Professor?"

Without looking back, Professor Oak replied, "Hoenn!"

Bill's Lighthouse.

As Bill stood atop the lighthouse with the sea breeze blowing around him, he thought about what had been said during that phone call, and an awed expression appeared on his face.

In ancient times, humans used Apricorns to create the first Poké Balls capable of catching Pokémon.

However, because wild Pokémon were full of untamed instincts, people installed switches on Poké Balls to restrict their power, preventing the captured Pokémon from suddenly emerging and attacking.

It was then that humans began interacting with Pokémon, living together in this world with the help of one another's strength.

The history of Poké Balls had continued to develop to this day, and their varieties had grown ever more diverse. Yet their function of capturing Pokémon and keeping them inside had never been removed.

"To free Pokémon?" Bill murmured.

If the kind of Poké Ball Hu Yang had described over the