Silver Conference Concludes Successfully

People's memories could be especially unreliable sometimes. When they were focused on one thing, they often forgot other "unimportant" matters.

Hmm... Heiduo had only remembered the Scizor with the scar on its jaw in the National Park forest when he realized Scizor's fighting style was becoming closer to that of an ordinary Scizor. It was still waiting for his Scizor to return and test it.

Tsk, tsk. It sounded incredibly devoted.

Who knew whether it was still there.

Scizor fell silent. Its happy life by Heiduo's side had nearly made it forget the promise it had made.

—Scumbag!

"Hasai?"

"What else can we do? We'll have to make a trip. A promise made is like water spilled; you promised someone, after all."

Heiduo folded his arms helplessly. He had thought he had nothing to do, only to discover that it was not that there was nothing—it was that he had forgotten.

Come to think of it, did he have any promises he had made?

...It seemed he really did.

Heiduo suddenly remembered that he had promised a Haunter in Kanto that he would come pick it up when he had the chance.

He would have to make a trip to Kanto too.

And there was also Typhlosion on Mt. Silver.

Good grief, another one was about to join the group. The burden on him was getting heavier and heavier.

Heiduo realized that whenever he caught Pokémon, he either caught none at all or caught a whole bunch at once.

Fortunately, Garchomp and the others had basically entered a plateau in their strength for now, so they did not require him to invest too much energy into them. Adding two more teammates at a time like this would not be a problem.

And with them, Heiduo would have successfully assembled two