Kanto Region, Slowking Legend Falls.
Lakes dotted the landscape, and a girl with twin ponytails in a brown guide's uniform was explaining the legend of Slowking:
"When the lakes dry up, a Slowpoke will don a King's Rock and evolve into Slowking."
"Slowking will open a passage to Slowpoke Paradise and lead the Slowpoke to begin a new life."
The onlookers held all kinds of Slowpoke plush toys.
The girl's gaze gradually settled on a silver-clad Trainer accompanied by a Slowpoke.
She vaguely felt that he looked familiar, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't place him.
After the crowd dispersed, she approached and crouched down to look at the Slowpoke. "Do you want to evolve into Slowking too?"
Nine out of ten Trainers who came here wanted to learn how to evolve a Slowpoke into Slowking.
"Slow..."
Slowpoke shook its head and ambled away.
"It seems it doesn't want to evolve anymore." The man in silver couldn't help chuckling, but he didn't mind.
At his current level, he no longer needed to force his Pokémon to do anything.
There was only one thing that mattered to him.
How to deepen the understanding between humans and Pokémon.
"My name is Alice." After introducing herself, Alice asked curiously, "Why?"
"Compared to Slowpoke Paradise, it seems to think being with its friends is the greatest happiness."
The man in silver... Dian glanced at Quagsire, who was floating in the lake and leisurely paddling about.
If Quagsire had chosen Slowpoke in the beginning, then now Slowpoke had chosen Quagsire.
At that moment, Dian suddenly understood why Slowpoke didn't want to evolve.
It wasn't that it didn't want to evolve. It simply didn't want its friendship with Quagsire to change.
Refusing to evolve was its seemingly foolish yet quiet way of holding