Chapter Summaries

Qingyu’s training pushed Naranja Academy’s students into a more competitive era, while Blue and Red investigated Team Rocket in Celadon City. Erika revealed that she was an honorary Team Rocket member, then directed them toward Viridian City for answers.

• Qingyu’s unconventional battle tactics exposed the rookies’ formulaic commands, prompting the Naranja Academy students to train harder.
• Blue arrived in Celadon City and found Red staking out the Game Corner after spotting Team Rocket members enter it.
• Red told Blue that Giovanni had sent him on the wrong route, causing him to swim to Pallet Town and challenge the Kanto Gyms in reverse order.
• Blue realized the Gym Leaders he had faced were influenced by Teacher Yu’s tactics, while Red had found Blaine’s Gym manageable.
• Erika introduced herself as a Celadon Gym Leader and honorary Team Rocket member, then told Red and Blue to collect seven Badges and seek answers in Viridian City.
• Blue warned Red that the next Gyms might not fight as their official rankings suggested, and the two prepared to continue separately.

Giovanni used Viridian Gym challengers to make Mewtwo stronger, while researchers warned that its growing psychic power could break through its Suppressor. After Mew confronted Giovanni and fled when Mewtwo was ordered to attack, it found Qingyu and urgently headbutted him.

• Giovanni had Mewtwo battle a Gym challenger, then learned that its psychic power was growing rapidly and might overcome the Suppressor.
• Giovanni dismissed the researchers’ fears, confident that his Beedrill could defeat Mewtwo if it escaped control.
• Mew discovered Mewtwo was missing from the underground laboratory and realized Giovanni had created and restrained it as a weapon.
• Giovanni ordered Mewtwo to use Hyper Beam on Mew, but Mew fled rather than risk hurting Mewtwo by tampering with its armor.
• Mew appeared in Qingyu’s kitchen as he prepared breakfast and urgently headbutted him.

After learning from Mew that Giovanni had taken control of Mewtwo, Qingyu recruited Lance to help prepare a strike against Team Rocket. Qingyu and Mew planned to head to Kanto in two days to rescue Mewtwo.

• Mew shared its memories of Mewtwo with Qingyu, who realized that Mewtwo had instinctively resisted hurting Mew despite Giovanni's control.
• Lance defeated a Team Rocket squad near Viridian Forest after countering its Muk's Minimize strategy with Dragonite's Dragon Rush.
• Qingyu called Lance and suggested that Giovanni was deeply connected to Team Rocket, citing the gang's recent activity and Giovanni's disappearance from public view.
• Qingyu proposed waiting until Team Rocket gathered in Viridian City and nearby towns, then coordinating with the Elite Four and trusted Gym Leaders to capture them in one sweep.
• Qingyu told Mew they would travel to Kanto in two days to rescue Mewtwo, while Mew privately worried about how easily Qingyu summoned human allies.

Qingyu received a Key Stone and Lucario Mega Stone from Steven, then successfully Mega Evolved Lucario at Sunshine Gym. He tested Lucario’s new Aura by blasting Houndoom from nearly two kilometers away, leaving the Gym’s Pokémon stunned by its power.

• Mew woke Qingyu and played with Sylveon while he got ready for the day.
• Steven’s butler delivered a gift box containing a Key Stone and Lucario Mega Stone to Qingyu.
• Qingyu and Lucario used the stones to trigger Mega Evolution, transforming Lucario and revealing its Adaptability and retained Unseen Fist.
• Qingyu asked Mega Lucario to practice on Houndoom, and Lucario struck it from a distance with a powerful Aura Sphere.
• Ogerpon hid behind Miraidon after the blast, while Kingdra worried that Lucario would make an impossibly harsh Gym examiner.

Qingyu traveled to Kanto to join Lance and the International Police in an operation to expose Team Rocket and arrest Giovanni. At Viridian City, Team Rocket ambushed them with an Explosion tactic, but Mew stopped the Koffing with Imprison.

• Students arrived at Cabo Poco and learned that Qingyu had canceled the Gym assessment because he had gone to save the world.
• Qingyu flew to Saffron City, where Lance, Sabrina, and International Police officers welcomed him and prepared to move against Team Rocket.
• Lance explained that the operation had already brought Team Rocket under control in other cities and that they needed to take Viridian City and investigate the Viridian Gym.
• Giovanni learned that Lance was approaching and ordered Team Rocket grunts to delay the group with an A Tactic.
• Team Rocket grunts sent a swarm of Koffing and Weezing to use Explosion, but Qingyu ordered Mew to use Imprison, stopping the Koffing from exploding.

Qingyu, Mew, Lance, and Sabrina broke through Team Rocket’s forces and confronted Giovanni at the Viridian Gym. Giovanni revealed that he was Team Rocket’s Boss, then attacked Qingyu and the others, leaving Qingyu ready to fight with his Pokémon.

• Mew sealed the Koffing’s moves, allowing Lance and the others to rout the Team Rocket grunts.
• Qingyu, Mew, Sabrina, and Lance fought their way into the Viridian Gym, where they found Giovanni waiting.
• Giovanni recognized Qingyu as Teacher Yu and admitted that he was Team Rocket’s Boss.
• Giovanni claimed no one in Kanto could match him except perhaps Professor Oak, then offered to show Qingyu how Kanto battles before attacking from underground.
• Qingyu summoned Sylveon, Lucario, and Ogerpon, while Mew joined them for the coming battle.

Qingyu and Giovanni fought amid Team Rocket’s attempt to capture him, but Ogerpon’s overwhelming strike turned Giovanni’s confidence into caution. Qingyu’s attack on Giovanni was stopped by Mewtwo, revealing the powerful Pokémon under Giovanni’s control.

• Giovanni’s executives Lance and Lambda intercepted Lance and Sabrina while Giovanni sent Rhyperior against Qingyu.
• Ogerpon struck Rhyperior with a Water-infused Ivy Cudgel, badly injuring it in one blow.
• Giovanni’s Pokémon unleashed a coordinated Earthquake, but Mew lifted Qingyu out of danger and his Pokémon regrouped.
• Qingyu’s Pokémon kept Giovanni’s team occupied while Lucario fired an Aura Sphere at Giovanni.
• Mewtwo deflected the Aura Sphere and appeared in front of Giovanni, drawing the attention of Qingyu, Lance, and Sabrina.

Qingyu used Sylveon, Mega Lucario, and Terastallized Ogerpon to challenge Giovanni, but Giovanni’s Mega Beedrill caught him off guard. Qingyu turned the ambush around with Mew and Sableye, then had Mew strike Mewtwo in an attempt to restore its sense of self.

• Lance suspected that the armor on Mewtwo was a Team Rocket creation, while Sabrina drove Lambda back and sensed Mewtwo’s hatred of humans.
• Qingyu told Sylveon to use Blood Moon, then Mega Evolved Lucario and Terastallized Ogerpon as Giovanni’s Pokémon fought back.
• Giovanni’s Mega Beedrill appeared behind Qingyu and held its stinger to his neck, but Qingyu revealed that Mew had been missing from the fight.
• Mew used Ally Switch to trade places with Qingyu and blasted Beedrill away, while Qingyu sent out Sableye to stun Giovanni.
• Qingyu ordered Sylveon, Lucario, and Ogerpon to attack Giovanni’s Pokémon, then told Mew to use Zen Headbutt on Mewtwo to restore its sense of self.
• Mew struck Mewtwo in the head, while Giovanni watched without making a move.

Mewtwo recalled its lonely life in Giovanni’s laboratory and questioned whether humans could be trusted, until Mew rescued it and restored its connection to its body. As Qingyu’s Pokémon held off Giovanni’s team and Giovanni conceded defeat, he entrusted Mewtwo to Qingyu, leaving Mewtwo uncertain whether he was the good person Mew had promised.

• Mewtwo remembered how Giovanni treated the clones as tools and wondered whether it could trust humans after Giovanni’s Beedrill ambushed it.
• Mew struck Mewtwo with Zen Headbutt, reconnected their minds, and freed Mewtwo from the restraint system’s mental suppression.
• Qingyu’s Pokémon stalled Giovanni’s battlers while Lance and Sabrina defeated the other Team Rocket members’ Pokémon.
• Giovanni recognized that he had lost and told Qingyu he could draw out Mewtwo’s true power, entrusting Mewtwo to him.
• Mewtwo heard Giovanni’s words, looked at Qingyu, and wondered whether he was the good person Mew had described.

Qingyu challenged Giovanni’s decision to hand Mewtwo over to him and insisted that Mewtwo choose its own future. After Giovanni surrendered and Mewtwo befriended Qingyu, Mewtwo asked him to take in the cloned Pokémon from the Underground Laboratory, leaving Qingyu planning to raise Mewtwo as a Gym apprentice.

• Qingyu told Giovanni that Mewtwo was an independent Pokémon and criticized Giovanni’s treatment of it as a child.
• Giovanni accepted that Mewtwo should decide for itself, while Lance arrived, arrested him, and heard Giovanni warn Qingyu not to trust every Legendary Pokémon.
• Mewtwo woke, heard Qingyu defend its independence, and greeted him as Mew’s human friend.
• Mewtwo thanked Qingyu for rescuing it and offered its strength in return, then asked him to take in the cloned Pokémon from the Underground Laboratory.
• Qingyu agreed and considered training Mewtwo as a Sunshine Gym apprentice who could help care for the other Pokémon and keep the Gym running.

Qingyu brought Team Rocket’s genetic experiments to light, rescued the surviving cloned Pokémon, and met Red and Blue while they sought help for Red’s injured Eevee. At Professor Oak’s Laboratory, Oak learned about Mewtwo and Giovanni’s experiments, then invited Qingyu to become a Pokédex Holder.

• Mewtwo led Qingyu and Lance through Team Rocket’s underground laboratory, where they saw failed cloned Pokémon and met the surviving Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Vulpix, Abra, and Tangela.
• Qingyu declined to take the cloned Pokémon for himself and gave them Poké Balls so Mewtwo could guide them; Lance took responsibility for Giovanni and Team Rocket.
• At a Viridian City Pokémon Center, Qingyu encountered Red, Blue, and Red’s badly injured Eevee, which Mewtwo recognized as a survivor of Giovanni’s experiments.
• Nurse Joy treated the Pokémon and recommended that Red take Eevee to Professor Oak in Pallet Town because its genes were unstable; Qingyu agreed to go with Red and Blue.
• Professor Oak welcomed Qingyu at his laboratory, learned how Giovanni had created Mewtwo, and asked Qingyu whether he would become a Pokédex Holder.

Qingyu accepted Professor Oak’s assessment to become a Pokédex holder, which consisted of answering three questions rather than battling. He impressed Oak with his views on Eevee and Pokémon bonds, then faced a second question about Celebi.

• Professor Oak offered Qingyu a Pokédex holder assessment, and Qingyu accepted despite his initial surprise.
• The assessment drew a crowd of researchers, while Red, Mew, and Mewtwo watched from nearby.
• Professor Oak asked Qingyu what he thought of Eevee, and Qingyu said Eevee had great potential and responded deeply to its Trainer’s feelings.
• Qingyu explained that Trainers should build bonds with their Pokémon and adapt to each one’s individual qualities, earning Professor Oak’s approval.
• Professor Oak began his second question by asking Qingyu whether he knew about Celebi.

Qingyu passed Professor Oak’s final assessment by arguing that bonds and battle tactics were both essential, and received a special Pokédex with the title “living legend.” The chapter ended with Red and Blue resolving to work harder, while Blue vowed to defeat Qingyu someday.

• Qingyu explained Celebi’s powers and rarity, impressing Professor Oak and passing the second question.
• Professor Oak asked whether a trainer’s bond with a Pokémon or tactical knowledge mattered more, and Qingyu said both were important.
• Professor Oak praised Qingyu’s answer and handed him a special Pokédex, calling him a “living legend.”
• The researchers applauded Qingyu as Mew and Mewtwo joined in, while Red and Blue felt inspired to improve.
• Blue privately decided to defeat Qingyu on the Battle Court someday.

Qingyu returned to Paldea with Mewtwo and the cloned Pokémon, showing Mewtwo the unusual Legendary Pokémon in his life along the way. After Black Rayquaza visited their plane and Qingyu’s Pokédex identified it, the group landed in Mesagoza, where Qingyu summoned Miraidon to take everyone home.

• Qingyu flew from Kanto to Paldea with Mewtwo and the cloned Pokémon, while Mew reassured Mewtwo that Qingyu would care for them.
• Qingyu used Professor Oak’s special Pokédex on Mewtwo and Mew; it could not identify Mewtwo, but it displayed Mew’s entry.
• Black Rayquaza appeared beside the plane, and Qingyu recognized it, photographed it with the Pokédex, and watched it fly away.
• Sylveon emerged from its Poké Ball and became engrossed in Rayquaza’s elegant flight, hoping to paint it later.
• Qingyu arrived in Mesagoza, summoned Miraidon, and invited Mew and Mewtwo to ride with him home.

Qingyu brought Mewtwo to the Sunshine Gym, where Mewtwo saw how happily the Pokémon lived and began to reconsider its distrust of humans. After Mewtwo introduced its clone Pokémon to the group, everyone shared a delivered seafood feast, ending with Mewtwo using Confusion to stop the clones’ food fight.

• Qingyu returned to the Sunshine Gym with Mewtwo and let his Pokémon out to relax.
• Mewtwo watched Qingyu’s Pokémon live comfortably together and decided to release its clone Pokémon from their Poké Balls.
• Qingyu ordered seafood delivery, thanked the Indeedee courier, and gave her Pokéblocks.
• The Pokémon gathered for a meal, and the clone Pokémon began squabbling over food.
• Mewtwo lifted the clone Pokémon into the air with Confusion, quieting them as Squirtle looked on helplessly.

Qingyu began training Mewtwo to become a Trainer through battle lessons, games, and observing challengers at the Sunshine Gym. After several days of rapid progress, Mewtwo prepared to watch Qingyu’s stream about Rain Team tactics and the newly released Mega Evolution update.

• Qingyu persuaded Mewtwo to learn to become a Trainer so it could grow stronger alongside the clone Pokémon and protect them.
• Qingyu had Mewtwo study his videos and play Pokémon Champions, where repeated defeats taught it to recognize team strategies and battle tactics.
• Mewtwo watched Qingyu coach challengers at the Sunshine Gym and took notes on their moves, abilities, and strategies.
• Over four days, Mewtwo improved through real battles and game simulations, learned to use human technology, and reached Great Ball rank on Qingyu’s alternate account.
• On Sunday evening, Qingyu invited Mewtwo to watch his stream and chose to explain Rain Team tactics after Pokémon Champions added Mega Evolution.

Qingyu introduced a rain team built around Pelipper, Mega Swampert, and Kingdra, explaining its strengths and additional defensive options. He finished the team and entered ranked matchmaking, where he was paired with Wallace, who had come seeking revenge.

• Qingyu started his stream and announced that he would teach viewers how to build a rain team, including a Mega Evolution user.
• Mewtwo considered whether its own power could let it Mega Evolve without a trainer, Key Stone, or Mega Stone.
• Qingyu explained rain teams’ advantages and recommended Pelipper as the weather setter, Mega Swampert as the main attacker, and Kingdra as a special attacker.
• Qingyu added Scizor, Gliscor, and Ferrothorn to round out the team’s pivoting, support, and rain mirror-match options.
• Qingyu completed the team and began ranked battles, where he matched with Wallace, whose Trainer ID declared that he wanted revenge on Teacher Yu.

Steven told Wallace that he thought highly of Qingyu, and Wallace challenged Qingyu during his stream to avenge his previous loss. Their rain-team battle began with Qingyu using Mega Swampert, and the chapter ended as Swampert blocked Wallace’s Will-O-Wisp with Protect.

• Wallace complained that Steven was playing games instead of working, then asked about Steven’s meeting with Qingyu in Paldea.
• Steven praised Qingyu as an outstanding, justice-minded young Trainer, while Wallace remained skeptical of Steven’s impression of him.
• Wallace watched Qingyu’s stream and, after Steven teased him about his previous defeat, matched against Qingyu using a refined rain team.
• Qingyu recognized Wallace’s improved lineup, led with Pelipper, and switched to Swampert to make Wallace’s Rotom’s Volt Switch ineffective.
• Qingyu Mega Evolved Swampert, but Wallace ordered Rotom to use Will-O-Wisp; Qingyu countered with Protect.

Qingyu outmaneuvered Wallace in a rain mirror match by using switches and Ferrothorn to exploit Wallace’s defensive rotations. Wallace revealed his Mega Swampert to break through, but Qingyu sent out Scizor instead, leaving the battle poised for their next exchange.

• Qingyu used Protect and Substitute to guard Mega Swampert from Rotom’s Will-O-Wisp, but switched it out when Wallace sent in Ludicolo and used Encore.
• Qingyu predicted Wallace would switch Ludicolo to Rotom, then brought in Ferrothorn, which used Leech Seed to drain Rotom and recover from its burn.
• Wallace withdrew Rotom and brought Ludicolo back, while Qingyu refreshed the rain with Pelipper and pressured Wallace into another switch.
• Wallace sent Swampert in and Mega Evolved it, but Qingyu used Pelipper’s U-turn to bring out Scizor instead of Ferrothorn.
• Qingyu ordered Scizor to use Trailblaze against Mega Swampert.

Qingyu used Scizor’s setup and Baton Pass to outmaneuver Wallace’s rain team, then brought in Ferrothorn to shut down Wallace’s remaining options. Wallace lost 6-0 without defeating Ferrothorn.

• Wallace switched Swampert out to Toxapex, which absorbed Scizor’s Trailblaze while Scizor took Life Orb damage.
• Qingyu ordered Scizor to use Swords Dance, and Wallace switched to Milotic, whose Flame Orb activated Marvel Scale.
• Scizor’s boosted Trailblaze badly injured Milotic, which used Haze to erase Scizor’s stat boosts before Bullet Punch knocked it out.
• Wallace sent out Ludicolo and targeted the expected Baton Pass recipient with Energy Ball, but Qingyu passed Scizor’s boost to Ferrothorn instead.
• Ferrothorn resisted Ludicolo’s Energy Ball and defeated Wallace’s team with Leech Seed, giving Qingyu a 6-0 victory.