Chapter Summaries

Shen Qi completed Dodo’s “The End of the Android” script, unlocking Soul Communication and a Link Cable that let them share game interfaces. He then used a Skill Card and drew O-Power, an unfamiliar skill with low proficiency, as the Winter Race approached.

• Dodo worried Shen Qi might reject him after learning that he had been formed from two Porygon, but Shen Qi reassured him that he accepted him.
• The “The End of the Android” script reached 100% completion and converted its progress into Compatibility, allowing Shen Qi and Dodo to communicate through Soul Communication.
• Shen Qi checked the Porygon siblings’ levels and move proficiencies, deciding Dodo needed more Agility training before the Winter Race.
• Shen Qi received a Link Cable that let him share game-item interfaces with Dodo, including the Skill Analytic Glasses and Global Eye.
• Shen Qi used a Skill Card and obtained O-Power at 10% proficiency.

Shen Qi met Florges with Lilligant and Lopunny before preparing to leave Saffron City, while a strange, unexplained touch left him puzzled. The chapter ended with the Pokémon chatting as Lopunny tried to improve her charm.

• Shen Qi introduced Lilligant and Lopunny to Florges beside a food truck near the high-speed train station.
• Lopunny compared herself unfavorably to Florges, and Chansey and Dodo encouraged her to keep training and learning.
• Shen Qi told Lopunny and Lilligant about Florges's past, and the two flower-themed Pokémon shared a warm conversation.
• A passerby seemed to bump Shen Qi, but Chansey saw no one pass between them and his health readings were normal.
• Lopunny watched Florges and Lilligant and tried to figure out how to become more charming.

Shen Qi tested O-Power by haggling for Shouzhua Bing and saw that the skill could assess a seller’s price bottom line as its proficiency improved. He then found a Pink Badge and an invitation from Janine to visit the Fuchsia Gym in three days, leaving him curious about her purpose but planning to go.

• Shen Qi used O-Power to begin a card-based haggling duel with a Shouzhua Bing stall owner and bought three pancakes with a small discount.
• Shen Qi noticed O-Power had flagged his offer as above the owner’s bottom line and raised the skill’s proficiency to 11%.
• Shen Qi found a Pink Badge and a fragrant letter in his pocket inviting him to a small gathering at the Fuchsia Gym to discuss racing matters.
• Shen Qi asked Florges and Lilligant to identify the fragrance, and they described it as fitting Janine’s cool, mysterious image.
• Shen Qi considered Janine’s earlier encounters with him, could not determine why she had delivered the invitation personally, and decided to visit the Fuchsia Gym in three days.

Shen Qi learned from Qiu Yan that she belonged to the Fuchsia Gym’s Ninja faction and confirmed that Janine had written his invitation to meet at the Gym. After sending Lilligant and Lopunny toward Island 6, he heard about a modest Regular Race planned for early next month, which could help him qualify for the Winter Race.

• Shen Qi contacted Qiu Yan about the Fuchsia Gym, and she revealed her Ninja faction background and lifelong goal of becoming a Trainer like Janine.
• Shen Qi showed Qiu Yan the invitation, and she confirmed Janine’s handwriting before asking him to tell Janine that she was training hard.
• Shen Qi said goodbye to Lilligant and Lopunny as they left for Island 6 to practice and have the car modified.
• Servine told Shen Qi about a wealthy visitor planning an ordinary Regular Race in Kanto for early next month, and Shen Qi asked when it would be held.

Shen Qi went to Fuchsia Gym expecting to meet Janine about racing, but a forged letter made her believe he had challenged her and insulted her family. The chapter ended with Janine confronting him over a realistic Pink Badge replica split in two, a traditional sign of a challenge.

• Shen Qi arrived at Fuchsia Gym with Janine’s invitation token and waited while staff checked with her.
• Two Female Ninjas escorted Shen Qi through the gym, then seized and bound him before bringing him to Janine.
• Janine showed Shen Qi a letter in his handwriting that challenged her and claimed he would teach her a lesson in Koga’s place.
• Shen Qi noticed the letter was the original sheet, but its changed contents and matching handwriting left him unable to explain what happened.
• Janine revealed a Pink Badge replica split in two and accused Shen Qi of using it to issue a formal challenge.

After a forged challenge letter made Janine believe Shen Qi had insulted and challenged her, she arranged a Regular Race for them to compete in. Shen Qi reported the suspicious incident to Officer Jenny and entered the race, but the entry list included Li Yizi, adding another uncertainty to the looming event.

• Janine told Shen Qi she would organize a Regular Race and compete fairly, and Shen Qi agreed to enter.
• The next morning, Shen Qi learned that the race would begin in two days and registered.
• Shen Qi told Officer Jenny how the challenge letter and replica Pink Badge had apparently changed, and asked for extra security at the course.
• Officer Jenny agreed to add officers near the course, while cautioning that she only believed part of Shen Qi's account.
• Shen Qi checked the entry list and saw Janine, Shan Sheng, and Li Yizi among the competitors.
• Janine selected a course through the Shallow Leaf Protected Area near the Safari Zone, the location referenced in the forged letter.

During the Fuchsia City race, Shen Qi used Dodo’s aerial vision to pass a pileup and moved into fifth place, with Janine close behind. He stopped when an unconscious ninja fell from a tree, took her for treatment, and followed a drone toward the finish as Janine contacted him.

• Little Reporter visited Shen Qi’s service bay with her Emolga before the race began.
• Shen Qi and Dodo used Levitate Tactics to fly over a crash and advance to fifth place.
• Janine’s Yuanbao 1st Generation caught up as Shen Qi tried to maintain his lead.
• Shen Qi stopped after Dodo spotted an unconscious, injured woman in a ninja outfit beneath the trees.
• Shen Qi carried the ninja into Little Sheep and told the organizers he was taking her for treatment.
• The organizers directed Shen Qi onto a shortcut toward the finish, and Janine called him over the communications channel.

Janine apologized to Shen Qi for the misunderstanding caused by the events surrounding Team Rocket’s capture. She explained how she learned of it, while the mystery of the undercover agent remained unresolved.

• Janine bowed deeply to apologize to Shen Qi outside the Security Bureau.
• Shen Qi asked Janine how she had learned there was a misunderstanding between them, since the Security Bureau had no leads on the undercover agent.
• Janine said she had questioned every Fuchsia Gym member who had interacted with Shen Qi three days earlier.
• Shen Qi wondered what the Gym members could have told her, since he had only been tied up and brought into the Gym by two disguised ninjas.

Shen Qi visited Li Yizi with Janine’s escort, then met Little Reporter for an interview and learned about Emolga’s aerial filming skills. He asked whether Emolga had filmed the race segment where he left his car to rescue someone, which might reveal the mysterious attacker.

• Janine and Shen Qi discussed how someone had rewritten the challenge letter inside Fuchsia Gym, but surveillance footage offered no clues.
• Janine arranged for a Gym member to escort Shen Qi to Li Yizi’s guesthouse, keeping reporters from misrepresenting his visit.
• Shen Qi spent two hours chatting with Li Yizi, then Little Reporter suggested interviewing him instead of Li Yizi.
• Little Reporter introduced Emolga, whose aerial photography skills and certificate had let it film the race without interfering with the drones.
• Shen Qi asked Little Reporter whether Emolga had filmed the stretch where he left his car to save someone, since the footage might show the mysterious figure.

Shen Qi used Emolga's race footage to investigate the attack on Janine's female ninja and suspected that the impossibly agile figure was Koga, Janine's missing father. He brought the footage to the Fuchsia Gym, where Janine and Officer Jenny accidentally opened an unrelated video from the USB drive.

• Emolga showed Shen Qi footage capturing a dark figure moving through the forest just before the female ninja fell from a tree.
• Dodo restored the blurry footage enough to reveal the figure's outline as a highly agile human man.
• Shen Qi suspected the man was Koga and copied the footage onto a USB flash drive with Little Reporter's help.
• Shen Qi met Janine and Officer Jenny at the Fuchsia Gym and gave them the USB flash drive.
• Janine opened an unrelated video file, embarrassing Shen Qi in front of Janine and Officer Jenny.

Shen Qi helped Janine and Officer Jenny identify Koga as the shadow who had foiled Team Rocket’s plot, then left Fuchsia City for a Vermilion Harbor race. He arrived with Little Reporter and received a candid photo from Emolga.

• Shen Qi showed Janine and Officer Jenny the race footage, and Janine recognized the figure as her father, Koga.
• Shen Qi confronted Little Reporter about the study videos left on her USB drive, then learned Emolga had edited the race photos.
• Shen Qi told Little Reporter he was heading to Vermilion City for a Regular Race whose finish required racers to cross a temporary bridge and drive into a cruise ship.
• Little Reporter hoped to attend the shipboard party, while Emolga showed no interest in racing because neither she nor Little Reporter could drive.
• Shen Qi visited Janine and Officer Jenny, then drove to Vermilion City with Little Reporter, who got out to pursue her own work.
• Emolga gave Shen Qi an instant photo showing him and his Pokémon at a roadside rest stop.

Shen Qi prepared for the Vermilion Harbor Regular Race, encouraged Lopunny and Lilligant after their poor finish, and met Sayaka’s Lurantis sisters, who showed an unexpected interest in him. He began the race from seventh place with Dodo using Leaf Guard, ready to pursue a top-five finish and qualify for the Winter Race.

• Shen Qi told Chansey and Dodo that Lilligant would miss the Vermilion Harbor Regular Race because she and Lopunny had entered a race the previous day.
• After Lopunny and Lilligant reported placing eighth, Shen Qi reassured them and encouraged their plans to improve and defeat the Lurantis sisters.
• Shen Qi arrived at the circuit, learned that the Lurantis sisters were competing, and visited them with Chansey and Dodo to Trace Leaf Guard for the race.
• The older Lurantis sister praised Shen Qi for supporting Lilligant, and the sisters told him they were more interested in him than in Lilligant.
• At the starting line, Shen Qi had Dodo use Leaf Guard under Sunny Day and began the race in seventh place as Maractus took the lead.

Shen Qi used Dodo’s abilities and Magnet Rise to advance Little Sheep through the race, while Lt. Surge’s Autumn Leaves began matching his levitation tactic. As Little Sheep and Autumn Leaves competed over the sharp turns, the Lurantis sisters pressured the leader ahead.

• Shen Qi used Download and Agility before guiding Little Sheep through the Small Waterfall with Protect.
• Shen Qi recognized Lt. Surge’s Electric Terrain as the source of the heightened Electric-type energy around the waterfall.
• After crossing the starting point, Shen Qi used Magnet Rise to skip a sharp turn and overtake Big Yuanbao, reaching fourth place.
• Lt. Surge used Magnet Rise to pass Maractus, and Shen Qi realized Autumn Leaves was using the same tactic.
• Shen Qi and Lt. Surge repeatedly used Magnet Rise through the sharp turns as Cacturne and the Lurantis sisters felt pressure from the cars behind them.

After Shen Qi and Lt. Surge were penalized for breaking the race rules, Shen Qi narrowly kept a place in the Winter Race. At the cruise-ship banquet, Professor Rowan and Professor Birch recognized Porygon, and Professor Nishinomori V joined them.

• Shen Qi and Lt. Surge learned that Shen Qi had received a twenty-meter penalty and Lt. Surge had been disqualified for excessive airtime, while Maractus moved up to fourth place.
• Shen Qi and Lt. Surge discussed the race at the banquet as Chansey and Raichu turned a dance lesson into a brief battle.
• Magneton and Porygon competed with Magnet Rise on the dance floor, prompting Linoone to bring them back to their Trainers.
• Shen Qi noticed Dodo staring at Professor Rowan and Professor Birch, then learned Rowan recognized Porygon as Professor Akihabara's Pokémon.
• Professor Nishinomori V arrived and recognized Porygon as Professor Akihabara's.

Shen Qi reunited Dodo with Professor Rowan, Professor Birch, and Nishinomori V, who recalled their efforts to save the Porygon and praised Shen Qi’s knowledge. Their discussion of meteorites and evolution led Shen Qi to consider whether a mysterious mineral might have enabled Flabébé’s unusual evolution, and he asked about Professor Sycamore’s research.

• Dodo recounted how Team Rocket had taken him, and Shen Qi explained how the Security Bureau had used an Upgrade to evolve one of Dodo’s two souls into Type 2.
• Professor Rowan, Professor Birch, and Nishinomori V welcomed Dodo and praised Shen Qi for caring for and researching him.
• The professors recalled how Professor Akihabara had joined Unit Zero and Unit One to save them after other rescue plans failed.
• Shen Qi correctly guessed that Professor Birch had investigated Meteor Falls while searching for unusual ways to evolve Porygon.
• Shen Qi reflected on the Pokémon world’s parallel timelines and wondered whether a meteorite-related mineral had helped Flabébé evolve unusually.
• Shen Qi asked about Professor Sycamore, and Professor Rowan confirmed that he studied Pokémon evolution.

After discussing Divine Blessing Mode and the evolution mystery surrounding Melemele Island’s Flabébé, Shen Qi was led away by the Lurantis sisters to meet their young lady. He entered her suite, still wondering what favor she wanted and whether she was connected to Lilligant’s former owner.

• Shen Qi learned that Divine Blessing Mode let exceptional Pokémon enter a temporary enhanced state and asked the professors about the unevolving Flabébé on Melemele Island.
• Professor Rowan explained that researchers had examined the ore used to repair a white Floette’s petals but had been unable to identify it.
• Shen Qi exchanged contact information with Professor Birch and decided to discuss the possible ore with Florges after the banquet.
• The Lurantis sisters approached Shen Qi and escorted him from the banquet hall while Dodo followed and translated their request for help.
• The Lurantis sisters brought Shen Qi to their young lady’s suite, where he waited to hear her request.

Shen Qi met Sayaka, Lilligant’s former Trainer, who had been believed dead after an accident and had lost both arms. Sayaka asked him to help Lilligant pursue her dream of becoming a T2 driver, and Shen Qi promised to support her despite her limited talent.

• Sayaka revealed that she had arranged the Vermilion Harbor race to bring Shen Qi to her.
• Sayaka identified herself as Lilligant’s former Trainer, a T3 driver presumed dead after an accident, and asked Shen Qi to help Lilligant become happy as a Pokémon driver.
• Shen Qi honestly told Sayaka that Lilligant’s talent was poor by T2 standards.
• Shen Qi said he felt no hopelessness and would stay beside Lilligant as she continued challenging T2.
• Sayaka praised Shen Qi as a better Pokémon Trainer than she had been, and her maid reminded them that Sayaka needed to rest.

After leaving Sayaka, Shen Qi returned from the Luxury Cruise Ship to meet Lilligant at Florges’s dessert truck. Lilligant smelled the Lurantis sisters on him and confronted him, while Shen Qi could not explain his secret meeting with them or Sayaka.

• Sayaka reluctantly said good night to Shen Qi, and the Lurantis sisters warned him to leave.
• Shen Qi left the banquet, said goodbye to Rowan, Professor Birch, and Nishinomori V, and headed to Florges’s dessert truck.
• Shen Qi reunited with Lilligant and greeted Lopunny and Florges after the truck’s evening sales ended.
• Lilligant smelled other Grass-type Pokémon on Shen Qi and accused him of being close to them.
• Lilligant recognized the Lurantis sisters’ scent on Shen Qi, while Dodo stayed silent and Lopunny feared someone had stolen a bite.

After Lilligant saw Shen Qi posing with the Lurantis sisters, she used Aromatherapy to cover their scent and took photos with him. Shen Qi then invited Florges to return to Island 6 with his group, and she agreed to rest with them for a while.

• Shen Qi showed Lilligant the banquet photos and reassured her that he viewed the Lurantis sisters only as Pokémon.
• Lilligant hugged Shen Qi and used Aromatherapy to drive away the Lurantis sisters’ scent, then asked to take photos together.
• Shen Qi borrowed Emolga from Little Reporter and took photos with Lilligant, Lopunny, Florges, and the other Pokémon.
• Shen Qi told Lilligant he planned to update his racing status in Vermilion City before returning to Island 6 to rest and consult his teacher about Energy Coordination.
• Shen Qi told Florges he would help her investigate meteorites after the Winter Race and invited her to stay with them on Island 6.
• Florges accepted Shen Qi’s invitation, agreeing to impose on their hospitality and rest for a while.

Shen Qi returned to Island 6 with Florges and the others, where Florges found comfort in the familiar island setting and the group began cleaning their long-empty home. The chapter left Lilligant and Lopunny tangled in a hose while Shen Qi reached for his phone to take a picture.

• Shen Qi replaced his Racing License, applied for the Winter Race, and learned that trainee drivers still had a good chance of entering the Pokémon Trainer format.
• Shen Qi declined an invitation to visit Sayaka during her treatment, visited the Construction Site Racetrack, and prepared to leave Vermilion City with his three vehicles and Pokémon.
• Lilligant told Shen Qi that the Lurantis sisters' wealthy family was connected to the Pokémon Mansion in Sinnoh, and Shen Qi realized Sayaka might be the mansion's young lady from the games.
• After reaching Island 2, Florges was moved by the familiar island climate, and Lilligant comforted her as the group traveled back to Island 6.
• Shen Qi and the Pokémon opened the dusty Farmhouse Courtyard and worked together to clean it, but Lilligant and Lopunny became tangled in a runaway hose.
• Shen Qi turned off the tap and started taking a photo of the trapped Lilligant and Lopunny, prompting Lilligant to call his name.