Homecoming

After the battle ended, the brothers Paul and Lei soon left together.

Ash and his companions stayed at the Pokémon Center near Lake Acuity so their badly injured Pokémon could recover.

Bai Shi had wanted to have a full six-on-six battle with Ash as well.

Now that he saw all of Ash's Pokémon were recovering from their injuries, he could only shelve that plan for the time being.

Ash's Pokémon are pretty badly hurt. They'll need quite a while to recover.

Rather than wait around here, I might as well go home.

Twinleaf Town will be holding a festival before long anyway.

According to the original storyline, Ash and the others will be there too.

I can head back to Twinleaf Town first and battle Ash during the Twinleaf Festival.

With that thought, Bai Shi stopped hesitating and said goodbye to Ash and the others.

Thanks to the reward he had received for taking down the J Organization, Bai Shi now had plenty of money to spare.

So after leaving Lake Acuity, he headed straight for Snowpoint City's airport.

He planned to take an airship back to his hometown—Twinleaf Town.

A few days later, Bai Shi made it back to Twinleaf Town without any trouble.

But the home he had been longing for had undergone quite a transformation.

For a moment, Bai Shi thought he had come to the wrong place.

White spiderwebs covered the entire area around the villa.

Every so often, an Ariados crawled across them.

The berry trees Bai Shi had transplanted earlier were flourishing too.

It seemed the Ariados had followed his instructions and taken good care of them.

There were just rather few berries on the trees. Most had probably ended up in the Ariados' bellies.

Whenever a wild Pokémon tried to approach the