Qinan City.
A city that existed in the games because of the three major matters of Friend Safari, Battle Maison, and checking individual values.
It never appeared in the anime or Pokémon Adventures, and in the games, it was only a very small place.
So when Heiduo saw the city's prosperity with his own eyes, he was a little surprised.
Even a city this out of the ordinary could have so many residents?
But on second thought, Heiduo understood. Wasn't Millennium Town much the same? It hadn't become prosperous only after he became a Gym Leader.
As Kalos's only large-scale artificial Pokémon breeding base, it was only natural for it to have more people.
However.
The real Qinan City.
Friend Safari was definitely gone, replaced by one breeding facility after another.
This place did not just breed the Kalos Starter Trio. There were other Pokémon as well, and once bred, they would eventually be sent through the newly built highway to Pokémon Day Cares in different cities.
They would ultimately enter countless households.
It was somewhat like Thunderclap Town in the anime, where Ash received Phanpy's Pokémon Egg, or the swamp in Advanced Generation that specifically bred Mudkip.
The Froakie and other Pokémon Heiduo wanted were all sold here.
There was no helping it. Though he really wanted to catch them himself, wild Froakie were genuinely scarce.
There were few reports of sightings in the wild, too. Umbreon had asked around on the forums for nearly a week and had even offered a reward, but had not received a single definite answer. There were plenty of vague ones, though.
Most were probably scams for money.
He arrived at the largest-looking breeding facility in Qinan City.
As a semi-commercial institution with a Pokémon League background, its main business might have been