Chen Shi

Biodata

Power Progression

Personal Qualifications

Pokémon Advancements

Chen Shi’s battle strength develops through his partners’ levels, evolutions, and potential increases.

Psychic Power Advancements

Background / History

In his previous life, Chen Shi was an orphan and an ordinary office worker. After working overtime, he was struck by a dump truck while rushing to work and arrived in the Pokémon world. Despite losing his parents again, he grew up feeling loved and secure under his grandparents’ care 1 11.

His parents died while suppressing a Pokémon riot when he was just over a year old, leaving him the Chen family’s only remaining descendant. His grandfather recognized his exceptional Breeder talent early but deliberately postponed his certification to protect him from unwanted attention 3.

At fifteen—the minimum age for beginning a journey in this world—his system awakened and supplied an Egg that hatched into a Shiny Dreepy seven days later. The system then disappeared, leaving only its information panel. Chen Shi initially set out with Dreepy alone, but returned for his grandfather’s Mudkip after losing to a Caterpie 1.

He spent the following year traveling in Sinnoh. During that journey, he rescued Florges from poachers who had brought her from Kalos, and found Leafeon and Togepi unconscious from hunger in an underground cavern. After discussing their future with his partners, he returned to Verdanturf Town, preferring farm life to another exhausting life on the road 1 4.

His concealment of his talent extended beyond delayed certification. He later explains that the Chen family’s valuable resources attracted envy, and that he avoided challenging Gyms during his first journey because people who coveted the farm did not want him to become powerful. Professor Oak’s support and his decision to compete seriously in the World Championships mark his departure from this prolonged caution 66 135.

His grandmother originally came from Celestic Town and was Professor Carolina’s childhood friend. She remained in Hoenn to care for Chen Shi after his parents’ deaths, foregoing visits to her old home. Chen Shi later explains this history to Carolina when she reproaches Grandma Chen for her long absence 314.

By the finale, Chen Shi and Cynthia have been married for four years, and their daughter Xiao Xi is three. Their wedding took place four years earlier, following his separation from the World Tree; Cynthia became pregnant in the second month of their marriage 561.

Appearance

• Travel-worn on his return: Arrives at the farm visibly weathered by a year away 1.
• Tanned and more mature: His grandmother remarks on his tan and notices that he has shed his childish air 3.
• Taller than before: Officer Jenny Muko comments on his increased height 10.
• Concealed appearance in the past: Uses a mask to hide his identity and wears robes while traveling through Hisui 326 372.
• Rainbow-lit inner counterpart: Encounters an identical-looking figure surrounded by rainbow light within his consciousness; this figure is later identified as the embodiment of his own power 403 515.

Personality

Chen Shi values comfort, family, and a quiet daily routine. He wants to remain on the farm and care for his grandparents, but recognizes that protecting its rare resources requires strength. His research ambitions are similarly practical: status, funding, and access to otherwise unavailable resources matter more to him than titles alone 3 8 31.

He treats catching a Pokémon as a lifelong responsibility. On learning that Florges and Leafeon might eventually be limited by their potential, he resolves to find a way forward rather than let either partner fall behind. He also encourages Charmander’s incomplete progress instead of blaming it, helping a Pokémon frightened of being considered useless regain confidence 11 34.

His playful side frequently becomes teasing or deliberate mischief. He embarrasses Pheobe during their first meeting and chooses a research username that mocks Cynthia’s indecisiveness. His attempts to teach Pheobe caution can be harsh: he arranges a scam, then feels guilty when he discovers she has gone without food for two days 19 31 36 47.

He is cautious about exposing valuable discoveries and reluctant to accept heroic obligations. When the Draconids identify him as a possible prophesied hero, he tries to redirect the responsibility to Steven rather than involve himself in Hoenn’s looming disaster 27 45 48.

This reluctance does not prevent him from eventually accepting responsibility. He agrees to become both the Rainbow Hero and the World Tree Guardian, participates in rescues and legendary crises, and travels into a parallel world to seek an answer to dark matter. Nevertheless, he continues to dislike being drawn into new errands and repeatedly expresses a desire to return to the countryside 235 309 467 479 527.

He values fairness within friendship. When Steven offers him a share of collected stones, Chen Shi insists on a definite boundary rather than indefinitely profiting from his friend’s generosity. He also advises his companions to live for themselves instead of allowing public expectations or family ambitions to determine their entire lives 82 260.

His patience has limits when others manipulate him. He bargains with Mew for compensation, deliberately inflates Suzuki Yu’s auction bids, and becomes furious when he realizes Arceus already knew more about his power than it had disclosed 75 179 485.

Although he urges the Hisuian Goodra to pursue strength and resist mediocrity, he does not want them to follow him blindly. He leaves Big Goo to decide freely whether to join him after demonstrating the benefits of their cooperation 387 395.

The dream arc exposes the emotional depth beneath his preference for an ordinary life. He resists leaving a peaceful household with Cynthia and their daughter, even when confronted with its unreality, and breaks down when his dream wife destroys that world so he can return to reality 549 550 551.

Abilities & Skills

System Panel

The panel remaining from his departed system lets Chen Shi inspect Pokémon information 1.

• Displays species, level, potential, gender, Ability, and moves 1 8.
• Can inspect an unhatched Egg’s potential and inherited moves 13.
• Helps him recognize training progress, new Fairy-type moves, and Charmander’s deteriorating potential 12 23 28.
• Cannot initially display Mew’s level, instead presenting question marks that reveal the limits of its early inspection capability 74.
• Announces that its upgrade requirements have been met after Cogita arrives and gives him part of a reward in advance 467.

Psychic Powers

Chen Shi is a born psychic and has understood Pokémon speech since childhood. Initially, he considers himself inferior to specialists such as Sabrina and Caitlin, unaware of the nature and magnitude of his latent power 4 74.

• Uses Telepathy and moves small objects with Confusion 4.
• Coats his Key Stone in blue psychic power during Swampert’s first Mega Evolution 6.
• Uses psychic examination when an ordinary physical inspection fails to explain Charmander’s condition 29.
• Mew identifies his unusual ability as the power of the heart, rather than merely conventional psychic strength, and says it has seen a human with the same ability over a thousand years earlier 74.
• Uxie and the other Lake Guardians find the power inside him unfathomably strong, but initially beyond his conscious control 401 403.
• Mewtwo’s analysis leads him to recognize that his power derives from sincere, pure emotions and invisible bonds; his inner embodiment later confirms this explanation 485 516.
• His apparent later “growth” is largely an increase in control over power already present within him 523.
• Eventually uses Teleport to transport himself and several companions together 542.

The counterpart he meets within his consciousness is not established as a separate person. It explicitly identifies itself as the embodiment of the power inside Chen Shi and as Chen Shi himself. Its advanced demonstrations show what that power can accomplish, but do not mean Chen Shi immediately possesses the same degree of control 403 515 516 517.

Dark Matter Purification

Chen Shi’s power of the heart counters the dark aura and dark matter that corrupt Pokémon. At first, the power responds involuntarily to corrupted Pokémon, and deliberate purification requires physical contact and the direct transfer of Psychic power 307 401 517.

• Purifies Eternatus, Dark Eternatus, and the Legendary Pokémon affected during the Hoopa incident 454.
• Works with Mewtwo and Mew to investigate why his power can counter dark matter 483 493.
• Learns that dark matter gradually strengthens corrupted Pokémon, a fact he had previously overlooked 498.
• His inner embodiment demonstrates remote purification by sending power along the thread corresponding to a Shadow Pokémon 517.
• Develops the ability to use the same thread-based method himself; early trials require more power before sufficient energy reaches the target 518.
• Repeated purification work helps him gain control of his power while assisting the effort to reclaim Kanto in the parallel world 523.

Breeding and Pokémon Care

His Breeder knowledge combines early talent, practical experience, and instruction from his grandparents 3 9.

• Prepares Pokémon food and individually suited Pokéblocks 2.
• Begins studying medicinal properties and the family’s potion-making techniques under Grandpa Chen 9 13.
• Learns from Grandma Chen’s specialization in customized food and Pokéblocks 9.
• Develops a Fairy-type Pokéblock formula that awakens and replenishes Fairy energy in Florges and Togepi 12 26 30.
• Uses suitable evolutionary resources to improve his partners’ potential, including Grandpa Chen’s Potential Potion for Metang 32.
• Delays Charmeleon’s next evolution with an Everstone so it can adapt after recovering from its earlier condition 57.
• Successfully makes a top-grade potion at sixteen. Grandpa Chen entrusts him with the family’s longstanding ambition to improve the Potential Potion to master grade, though Chen Shi does not claim that this improvement has already been accomplished 80 260.
• Gives his partners massages after intensive training to help their muscles relax 302.
• Supports Hisuian Pokémon with food, training plans, move instruction, and healing through Florges 395 408.

Pokémon Research

Chen Shi draws on memories from his previous life to investigate evolution methods and phenomena unknown to this world. He initially publishes under an alias rather than his real name, but later openly identifies himself as Severe Indecisiveness and publicly reveals major discoveries 8 31 62 135 151.

• Plans to use Fairy-type and Mega Evolution findings to pursue a Doctor title and negotiate for legendary-grade League resources 27 31.
• The League later offers one item from Vault No. 1 and three from Vault No. 2 in exchange for a Mega Evolution paper due within two weeks after the World Championships; Professor Oak says the Doctor title remains out of reach at that point 125.
• Suspects that newly appearing Fairy energy may indicate Xerneas is approaching awakening; this remains his hypothesis 12.
• After learning that Xerneas had fought Yveltal more than three thousand years earlier, questions whether Xerneas’s slumber caused Fairy energy to disappear 75.
• Receives help from Stone Mu Jin, who offers accommodation and staff for the professors working at his research institute 467.

Battle Strategy and Training

Chen Shi adapts training to each partner rather than building exclusively around a single team archetype 31.

• Delegates specialist instruction: Garchomp and Salamence train Drakloak, while Sceptile trains Leafeon 6 9.
• Uses weighted training to address Florges’s relatively weak stamina 12.
• Teaches Charmander to conserve energy between repeated Embers and instructs Metang in Meteor Mash 34.
• Uses Phantom Force for escape and repositioning, not only attacks, during his spar with Pheobe 32.
• Recognizes that his varied roster is harder to coordinate in group combat than in official matches 31.
• Avoids directly challenging Firetree without a plan because of the gap between Gym-level and Senior Elite King strength 41.
• Gives Metang greater independence after recognizing its exceptional intelligence and battle talent, allowing it to use Steven’s raising manual for its own development 57.
• Trains his team against the Pokémon in Professor Oak’s backyard and uses Mystery Realm Core Shards to accelerate their progress 69 80.
• Keeps Swampert’s unusually fast Waterfall technique confidential when Pheobe asks about it 94.
• Uses the dense energy, Type Plate projections, and Arceus’s instruction in the strange space to develop his partners far beyond his contemporaries 442.
• Asks Flash Rayquaza to train Little Rayquaza 454.
• Accepts Giratina’s advice that high-level partners must gain battle experience and understanding of laws rather than relying on rank alone 496.

Mega Evolution

Chen Shi achieves Mega Evolution by connecting with Swampert while holding a Key Stone, with Swampert holding its species-specific Mega Stone 6 7.

• Temporarily enhances the Pokémon’s attributes and can change its Ability 7.
• Initially drains Chen Shi’s stamina rapidly; he expects practice to improve his endurance 7.
• Treats Mega Stones as future strategic assets and urges discreet collection 6 48.
• Explains the transformation’s general value to Steven but delays fully teaching it until they are stronger 48.
• Later demonstrates Mega Charizard X at the World Championships 117.
• Explains that a Key Stone, the corresponding Mega Stone, and a strong bond should ordinarily allow Mega Evolution after practice 198.
• Achieves Mega Evolution with Rayquaza during the Groudon and Kyogre crisis. His special Psychic power allows the transformation to consume his stamina rather than Rayquaza’s stored meteorite energy 250 483.

Bond Phenomenon

Chen Shi distinguishes the Bond Phenomenon from Mega Evolution: it does not require a Key Stone, Mega Stone, or other external item. It depends on an exceptional emotional bond and unity of mind and spirit between a Trainer and Pokémon 143 270.

• First triggers it with Dragapult during his match against Lance, aided by his special Psychic power 143 181 401.
• Initially cannot reliably repeat the transformation despite Dragapult retaining the associated Ability 181.
• Later learns that every Pokémon species can potentially undergo it, but the emotional requirement for the first awakening is extraordinarily difficult to meet 516.
• Once a bond becomes tangible as the Bond Phenomenon Ability, subsequent activation becomes easier 516.
• Learns to seek the Pokémon’s most precious memories and strengthen its treasured person, relationship, or attachment rather than merely injecting power into a thread 528.

His inner embodiment induces the phenomenon in more than fifty thousand Pokémon by amplifying their treasured emotions. The resulting enhancement is normally between one and two major tiers, limited by what each body can withstand and unable to raise them beyond Second-Class Deity. Continued Psychic reinforcement also protects that army against dark matter. This mass application is demonstrated by the embodiment, not by Chen Shi acting independently at the same level of mastery 516 517.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Spatial backpack — Carries travel supplies, food, and equipment, including his Pokéblock maker. Later modifications allow him to carry a barbecue grill 1 12 30 542.
• Luxury Balls — Uses them for Swampert, Florges, Togepi, and Leafeon when returning home 1.
• Key Stone and Swampert Mega Stone — Enable his demonstrated Mega Evolution 6 7.
• Other Mega Stones — Receives stones for Charizard X, Mawile, and Aggron; purchases a Lucario stone for 100,000 League Coins; recovers Garchomp, Venusaur, and Glalie stones from Team Magma’s digging site 27 42.
• Two top-grade Shiny Stones — Received through the Stone family transaction for the two Togepi’s future evolutions 13.
• Metagross-raising manual and ores — Supplied by Steven and Devon Corporation to support Beldum’s development 13 18.
• Metal Coats, camera, and family transfer machine — Used to document Onix’s evolution into Steelix 28 30.
• Giratina’s reverse scale — Keeps it secured in a black box that suppresses its detectable aura 23.
• Additional Outrage scale — One of his selections from the Draconids’ treasury; his other selection is another unusual stone 48.
• Everstone — Used to delay Charmeleon’s evolution while it adjusts to its recovered body 57.
• Mystery Realm Core Shards — Supply energy that accelerates his partners’ training 69 80.
• Xerneas horn/antler fragments — Receives one from Mew as compensation and reserves it for Florges. Mew later provides another fragment to help the Carbink princess complete her mutation into Diancie 75 283.
• World Tree access crystal — Mew gives him a crystal that turns red if trouble arises and allows entry to the World Tree Mystery Realm when crushed 75.
• Victini’s Egg — Requires victory energy to hatch; Chen Shi carries it with him to obtain that energy 158 181.
• Rhombus Crystal / Mystery Realm core — Obtained from the League and brought home to establish a Grass-type mystery realm suited to the farm’s Berries and medicinal herbs 160.
• Rainbow Wing — Given by Ho-Oh upon his acceptance of the Rainbow Hero role; can be used to summon Ho-Oh 309.
• Silver Wing — Received from the Lugia patriarch at Mew’s insistence 309.
• Energy Meteorite — Seizes it from Meteor Falls with Jirachi’s help before Groudon and Kyogre awaken 353.
• Psychic Orb — Agrees to leave it behind for the Mt. Silver Shelter if its people and Pokémon become shadow creatures, with Celebi replenishing it 493.
• Three sets of Z-Crystals and associated rings — Receives them from the parallel-world Cynthia in exchange for Mew and Mewtwo assisting the shelter’s research; the sets include Z-Rings and Powerful Z-Rings 493.
• Tier 1 Legendary resources — Collects feathers, scales, and other resources from Legendary Pokémon, intending to distribute them among his partners to support further advancement 482.

Relationships

• Grandpa Chen — Guardian and Breeder mentor. Prepared Mudkip for him, protected his early talent from excessive publicity, and begins teaching him family potion-making skills. Later entrusts him with improving the Potential Potion to master grade 1 3 9 80.
• Grandma Chen — Guardian and food-making mentor. Provides customized nutrition and evolution resources, then studies his Fairy-type Pokéblock formula. Welcomes Cynthia warmly and increasingly favors her and Pheobe in the household’s affectionate teasing 9 30 159 205 206.
• Gengar — Grandma Chen’s Pokémon and Chen Shi’s childhood companion. Cheers him up, wakes him with Lick, and guides him to Mt. Pyre’s hidden realm 1 9 18.
• Shiny Dragapult — His first Pokémon, hatched as Dreepy from the system’s gift Egg. Chen Shi supports its evolutions and places it under experienced Dragon-type mentors. It becomes his frequent flying mount and first Bond Phenomenon partner; their affectionate teasing sometimes escalates into pranks 1 5 6 79 143 205.
• Swampert — His grandfather’s prepared starter and first demonstrated Mega Evolution partner. Their bond centers on a promise to grow stronger and never abandon one another 1 6.
• Florges — Rescued partner. Chen Shi gives her a flower garden and develops the food that enables her Fairy-type abilities. He reserves Mew’s Xerneas horn fragment for her and later relies on her healing abilities while assisting Hisuian Pokémon 2 4 12 13 75 408.
• Leafeon and Togekiss — Partners rescued from starvation during his Sinnoh journey. He reassures them about their growth and refuses to let limited potential end their progress. Togepi evolves first into Togetic and later Togekiss 4 8 11 23 158.
• Shiny Metagross — Received as Beldum through the Stone family deal. Chen Shi supports its nutrition, evolutions, and battle training, eventually allowing it greater independence because of its intelligence and talent 13 29 32 34 57 69.
• Charizard — Becomes Chen Shi’s partner after being found as an underdeveloped Charmander in the black market. Chen Shi investigates its condition and patiently supports its recovery, then congratulates and comforts it after its final evolution 28 29 32 34 69.
• Steven Stone — Friend, sparring partner, research collaborator, and traveling companion. Chen Shi trusts his character but initially withholds Mega Evolution’s full details. He values the friendship enough to establish fair limits on sharing stones; Steven later calls him a Devon Corporation consultant 15 17 35 48 82 179.
• Pheobe — Entrusted to his care so she can learn about the outside world. He mentors and teases her, commissions research specimens, and arranges both covert protection and a staged scam. Eventually regards her as a younger sister 20 25 33 36 206.
• Cynthia — Friend from Sinnoh whose indecisiveness inspired his research alias. He gives her a Togepi Egg; her grandmother initially teases her about him while she describes them as ordinary friends. Their relationship becomes romantic during the World Championships, and she later visits and stays at his family’s farm. They marry four years before the finale and have a daughter, Xiao Xi 31 34 49 108 125 157 175 561.
• Xiao Xi — His daughter with Cynthia, aged three in the finale. He is an affectionate, playful father and brings her to Pallet Town to see Ash and Gary begin their journeys. An illusory Xiao Xi also appears in his earlier dream of family life, but is distinct from the real child in the finale 549 551 561.
• Professor Oak — Research mentor and teacher. Recognizes Chen Shi as Severe Indecisiveness, helps investigate Friendship evolution, and promises protection when Chen Shi explains why he has concealed his talent. Later develops the Pokédex using his suggestions 62 66 311 370.
• Gary Oak and Ash — Younger acquaintances whom he befriends at Oak’s laboratory. Gary comes to address him as Junior Martial Uncle and thanks him for his teaching; Ash asks him to accept a future challenge once he becomes an excellent Trainer 69 71 561.
• Yuko — Neighbor and childhood friend. Chen Shi is fond of her gentle everyday manner and strong battle abilities; her familiarity with him prompts jealousy from Cynthia. He knows that her parents died in League service and that corrupt officials coveted her compensation 94 530.
• Mew — Mythical companion, frequent instigator, and guide to the World Tree. Commonly disguises itself as an Eevee on his shoulder. Recognizes his power of the heart, gives him valuable resources, and pressures him to honor the World Tree Guardian commitment 74 75 158 263 309 525.
• Jirachi — Mythical companion whose Psychic power and teleportation assist Chen Shi in travel, rescue plans, and the Energy Meteorite operation. Also joins his playful harassment of Dragapult 205 235 353.
• Victini / Little V — Partner hatched from an Egg requiring victory energy. Accompanies him to Hisui and later helps seek the Victini trapped in Eindoak Town 158 181 369 434.
• Rayquaza — Legendary ally with whom Chen Shi achieves Mega Evolution during the Hoenn crisis. Chen Shi later asks Flash Rayquaza to train Little Rayquaza 250 454 483.
• Draconid Grandmother-in-Chief — Identifies him as a possible prophesied hero because she senses power resembling the Dragon God’s. He responds by offering to teach Steven instead 45 46.
• Professor Carolina — Cynthia’s grandmother and Grandma Chen’s childhood friend. Has been kind to him, receives him during his Sinnoh visit, and questions him extensively about historical ruins 310 314 430.
• Cogita / Arceus’s human avatar — Appears identical to Cynthia and knows Chen Shi’s public achievements. Chen Shi later confirms that she is Arceus’s human avatar; she also triggers his panel’s upgrade prompt by giving an advance reward 369 370 467 527.
• Arceus — Values his unusual power, provides a special training environment for his partners, and directs his search for a miracle against dark matter. Chen Shi speaks to it bluntly and objects to its withheld explanations and demands 372 442 485 502 527 558.
• Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf — Initially refuse to meet him in the present. In Hisui, attempt to help him control his power at Arceus’s request, but are grievously injured when he cannot control the portion he absorbs 316 403 484.
• Big Goo and the Hisuian clans — Pokémon whom he assists with food, training, territorial defense, healing, and efforts to escape the Five Kings War. Encourages Big Goo to decide independently whether to join him 395 408 411 442.
• Mewtwo — Collaborator in studying dark matter and the properties of Chen Shi’s power. Its theory helps him understand the emotional source of that power 483 484 485 493.
• Parallel-world Cynthia and shelter companions — Separate counterparts of people he knows in his own world. He initially prioritizes his mission over saving their world, but rescues companions in danger and negotiates research support and resources with the shelter 477 478 479 493 499.
• Five guardian beasts — Regirock, Urshifu, Melmetal, Zeraora, and Wellspring Mask Ogerpon bow to him after Mew places them under his command 534.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Return to the Farm

• Returns after a year in Sinnoh and commits to living with his grandparents 1 3.
• Trades Big Root Valley’s location to the Stone family rather than making his grandparents pay for a Shiny Beldum; the deal supplies Beldum and its raising resources 4 9 13.
• Establishes a routine of farm work, Pokémon training, and medicinal study while privately investigating Mega Evolution and the Fairy type 6 9 12 13.

Verdanturf Town Incident

• Helps Steven watch over an Aggron herd while authorities recover stolen Aron 15.
• Stops Garchomp from attacking the awakened leader and reassures it that its children will return 15.
• Hosts a friendly Drakloak-versus-Metagross battle at the farm afterward 17.

Mt. Pyre and Pheobe’s Training

• Enters the Ghost Mystery Realm to collect Pheobe at his grandfather’s request 18 19.
• Accepts responsibility for helping her distinguish trustworthy people from dangerous ones 20.
• Defeats her Dusknoir in a spar, then helps prepare her first journey and arranges for Gengar to protect her secretly 32 33.

Research and Championship Preparation

• Demonstrates Onix’s evolution into Steelix and gains attention from leading researchers 30 31.
• Looks forward to the Pokémon World Championships, a competition for talented trainers under twenty from the major regions 23.
• Discusses strong prospective opponents with Steven and prepares to gain experience through travel and an Elite Four exhibition match 36.
• After returning from his trip, becomes more urgent about research and strength, asking his grandparents for specimens and the resources needed for a serious championship bid 58 59.

Meteor Falls and the Draconids

• Travels with Steven to train and search for valuable stones 37 40.
• Captures Team Magma intruders and threatens violence to obtain information about Firetree’s operation 40.
• Recovers Mega Stones and helps Ada locate five stolen Bagon, leading to an invitation to the Draconid village 42 44.
• Resists the Grandmother-in-Chief’s attempt to identify him as the hero who will awaken the Dragon God 45.
• Encourages Steven to collect Mega Stones discreetly, taking advantage of his established reputation as a stone enthusiast 48.

Professor Oak’s Laboratory and Mew

• Travels to Pallet Town to discuss Friendship evolution with Professor Oak, taking Garchomp as a precaution at Grandma Chen’s insistence 59 62.
• Reveals the reasons he has hidden his abilities, and receives Oak’s promise of protection 66.
• Trains against the laboratory’s Pokémon, helps feed them, and befriends Gary and Ash 69.
• Assists with security at Oak’s summer camp 71 72.
• Meets Mew, learns that his psychic ability is the power of the heart, and bargains for compensation before agreeing to help 74 75.
• Returns home as a Senior Researcher and achieves his first successful top-grade potion 79 80.

Pokémon World Championships

• Competes against elite young Trainers, including Yuko, Siebold, Lorelei, and Lance 96 110 117 135 181.
• Publicly demonstrates Mega Charizard X and later explains Dragapult’s Bond Phenomenon 117 143.
• Rejects his longstanding concealment of his abilities and reveals his early Breeder achievements to the tournament audience 135.
• Wins the championship, selects a reward Egg, and advises Lance, Steven, and Cynthia on their own selections 151.
• Promises a paper on Charizard’s transformation and publicly introduces Fairy as a new type 151.
• Develops a romantic relationship with Cynthia, who accompanies him back to Hoenn after the tournament 108 125 157.

Farm Expansion and Hoenn’s Legendary Crisis

• Returns to farm life, distributes rewards to his partners, and learns that Victini’s Egg requires victory energy 158.
• Plans a Grass-type mystery realm for growing the family’s Berries and medicinal herbs 160.
• Attends Devon’s auction and deliberately drives up Suzuki Yu’s bids for a Charizard Mega Stone 175 179.
• Joins Cynthia, Steven, Diantha, and their companions in investigating Team Magma’s captives 235.
• Achieves Mega Evolution with Rayquaza during the Groudon and Kyogre confrontation 250.
• Later returns to Meteor Falls with Jirachi and Salamence to seize the Energy Meteorite before another awakening; Jirachi’s teleportation leaves Salamence among the furious Pokémon competing for it 353.

Kalos, the Rainbow Hero, and Sinnoh

• Accepts Diantha’s invitation to Kalos because of his interest in Fairy-types, Mega Stones, and ancient ruins 263.
• Helps the Carbink and presents a fragment of Xerneas’s antler as the energy needed for their princess’s mutation into Diancie 283.
• Encounters Shadow Lugia, prompting a strong reaction from his power of the heart 307.
• Accepts the Rainbow Hero and World Tree Guardian roles, receiving Ho-Oh’s Rainbow Wing and a Silver Wing 309.
• Visits Professor Carolina in Celestic Town and explains why Grandma Chen has remained away from Sinnoh 310 314.
• Investigates the Lake Guardians’ identical refusals to meet him, then heads with Cynthia toward the Space-Time Tower 316.

Hisui and the Five Kings War

• Is transported with Victini to Hisui by Gardevoir and meets Cogita, whose resemblance to Cynthia shocks him 369.
• Learns that Arceus intends the journey to help him improve his strength 372.
• Supports the Goodra clan through training, food, defense, and territorial gains, then leaves Big Goo to consider joining him voluntarily 387 395.
• Finds a dying Hisuian Zorua injured by Uxie’s Psychic power, gaining a lead on the Lake Guardian 395.
• Meets all three Lake Guardians and enters his inner world during their attempt to help him control his power 403.
• Helps wounded clans seek refuge from the Five Kings War; Arcanine asks him to protect its pack’s offspring 408 411.
• His prolonged absence alarms his family and friends in the original timeline, who learn that he has traveled a thousand years into the past 420.
• Returns with strength far beyond his peers, with his partners having benefited from training in Arceus’s special space 430 442.

Eindoak Town, Hoopa, and Dark Matter Research

• Visits Eindoak Town with Little V to find the Victini trapped by the Sword of the Vale’s barrier, meeting Carlita along the way 434.
• Discusses becoming a Hero of Ideals or Truth with Reshiram, which remarks that his aspirations lack the necessary grand ideals 439.
• Purifies dark matter from Eternatus, Dark Eternatus, and the Legendary Pokémon caught in the conflict, learning that Dark Eternatus came from a parallel world 454.
• Arranges training for Little Rayquaza with Flash Rayquaza 454.
• Establishes research on dark matter and Dark Cacturne using Devon’s support and precautions against direct contact 460 467.
• Receives an urgent visit from Cogita that triggers his panel’s upgrade prompt 467.

Parallel World and the Awakening of His Power

• Uses the alias Miracle at the Mt. Silver Shelter and meets older counterparts of his friends 477 478.
• Explains that his own world’s interests and his assigned search take priority over immediately solving the shelter’s crisis 479.
• Obtains valuable Legendary resources and studies the nature of his power with Mewtwo and other Legendary Pokémon 482 483 484 485.
• Trades research assistance from Mew and Mewtwo for three sets of Z-Crystals 493.
• Rescues people he knows from danger despite his professed position as a spectator 499.
• Learns that Arceus is looking for a miracle arising from extraordinary love and bonds between Trainers and Pokémon 502.
• His inner embodiment demonstrates mass Bond Phenomenon enhancement, spatial manipulation, and remote purification 515 516 517.
• Gains conscious control over his awakening power and develops purification through bond threads 518.
• Works with the Legendary Pokémon to reclaim Kanto, reaching Psychic power comparable to a mid-stage Second-Class Deity after five days 523.

World Tree Guardianship and Galar

• Reaffirms his commitment to Mew after being challenged over whether he will honor the World Tree Guardian role 525.
• His family and friends come to regard his achievements and Arceus’s treatment of him as evidence that he is extraordinarily special; Cynthia increasingly associates him with the idea of a Savior 527.
• Continues learning how to trigger the Bond Phenomenon by experiencing and strengthening a Pokémon’s treasured memories 528.
• Receives command of the mystery realm’s five guardian beasts before traveling to Galar with Steven and Cynthia 534.
• Travels with Leon in search of Max Mushrooms and uses Teleport to take the group to a waterfall picnic site 542.

Dream of an Ordinary Family

• Experiences a dream in which he lives on the farm with a mature Cynthia and their three-year-old daughter Xiao Xi 549.
• The dream portrays an accomplished Trainer and Breeder who has improved the Potential Potion to master grade, but has no Psychic Power; these are facts of the dream rather than confirmation of equivalent real-world developments 549.
• The real Cynthia enters the dream and sees how deeply he treasures this ordinary domestic happiness 549 550.
• Chen Shi resists accepting that his wife, daughter, and peaceful household are illusory 551.
• Dream Cynthia deliberately lets the world collapse so he can return to reality, and he tearfully embraces her and Xiao Xi as his appearance returns toward that of his seventeen-year-old self 551.

Finale and Family Life

• Separates from the World Tree and marries Cynthia four years before the final chapter 561.
• Has a real daughter, Xiao Xi, who is three when the family visits Pallet Town 561.
• Encourages Gary as he begins his journey and pursues his ambition to become a Pokémon Professor 561.
• Promises Ash that he will accept his challenge once Ash becomes an excellent Trainer 561.
• Recognizes that Oak has a plan for Ash’s unusual Pikachu and reassures Cynthia that Ash is not being shortchanged 561.
• Watches Celebi take Xiao Xi and her protective Greninja into a space-time tunnel, then takes Cynthia’s hand and remarks that they can enjoy some time alone 561.

Notable Quotes

“Grandpa, I'm not planning to travel anymore. I'll stay on the farm and look after you in your old age.” 3

“No matter what dangers we face, we won't abandon each other or give up.” 6

“I'm just an ordinary person, not some hero.” 45

“So now, I'm done hiding.” 135

“Life only lasts a few decades. You should live for yourselves, do what you love, see magnificent scenery, and eat delicious food.” 260

“It's both what I am and what I'm searching for.” 477

“I look forward to the day you stand before me!” 561