The Road Ahead

After bringing Haunter back.

Heiduo no longer had anything to worry about and planned to take a ferry from Vermilion City back to Olivine City in Johto.

Garchomp and Charizard had become somewhat listless from their frantic journey earlier. Now, they could finally relax.

Of course, before leaving, he did not forget to visit Old Man Fuji at Pokémon House and ask whether he had any Mega Stones or Key Stones.

—As expected, he did not.

Old Man Fuji was even seeing Mega Stones and Key Stones for the first time. He eagerly studied and handled them for a while, then told Heiduo that during his travels across various regions in his youth, he had heard of things called Mega Stones and Key Stones.

But since he had never seen them in person, he had treated them as unreliable legends.

Who would have thought that after returning to his hometown of Kanto, he would encounter these two things he had never managed to see before?

Yet compared to Mega Stones and Key Stones, Heiduo was more envious of Old Man Fuji's experience researching Mew—and the fact that he had very likely come into contact with it.

After all, Mew was so adorable.

He bought a ticket in Vermilion City.

The following day, he successfully boarded the ferry back to Olivine City.

Watching the rolling waves, Heiduo thought that Red being frozen on Mt. Moon should happen around the beginning or middle of next year. Then, the Gold and Silver arc's battle against Pryce would take place the year after that.

It was now late September, and October was just around the corner...

Time really waited for no one. So much time had passed in the blink of an eye.

On the morning of the third day aboard the ferry,