Recaps

Shen Qi raced his Little Sheep with Chansey’s support and used his driving skills and abilities to surge from the middle of the pack into the lead group. By the start of the next lap, he was aiming for third place and had begun planning how to handle the course’s obstacles.

• Shen Qi used Chansey’s Work Up and [Global Eye] to guide the Little Sheep through traffic and reach sixth place.
• Shen Qi modified the Little Sheep’s suspension and tires, then used Chansey’s Helping Hand and a burst of speed to pass the fifth-place car.
• Shen Qi navigated the downhill bend and Saffron Tunnel, leaving the second pack behind and closing in on the leaders.
• Shen Qi told Chansey and Dodo that fifth place was assured and set his sights on the 30,000 b prize for third.
• Shen Qi spotted an undulating stretch of road, told Dodo to use Magnet Rise there on the next lap, and caught sight of the leading pack.

Shen Qi used Chansey and Dodo’s moves to overcome Little Sheep’s poor performance and take 3rd Place in the Regular Race. Dodo’s improvised tunnel maneuver destroyed Shen Qi’s phone, but the race ended with Little Sheep on the podium and another driver approaching him.

• Shen Qi used slick tires and Chansey’s moves to keep Little Sheep near the leaders, but a rival’s blocking and Little Sheep’s drag made overtaking difficult.
• Shen Qi sent Dodo into his phone to watch the tunnel through its camera and use Magnet Rise, allowing Little Sheep to pass the 4th-place racer and gain on Maractus.
• Dodo’s maneuver knocked down a following drone, while Maractus’s Acupressure buffs helped Big Yuanbao hold its lead.
• Karate Uncle’s Wind Horse and Maractus’s Big Yuanbao crossed the finish nearly together, and Shen Qi finished 3rd Place.
• Dodo emerged from Shen Qi’s ruined phone, and a driver in a women’s racing suit approached Shen Qi.

Shen Qi placed second in the race after the organizers declared a tie for first, and he met Wujiang, a Channeler from Saffron Gym. After Wujiang performed a startling blessing dance and mentioned a reporter from Island 6, Cacturne suddenly appeared at the service bay door.

• Wujiang congratulated Shen Qi on his racing and revealed that she was a Channeler who used Psychic- and Ghost-type Pokémon.
• The organizers declared Wind Horse and Big Yuanbao tied for first, moving Shen Qi to second and Wujiang to third; Shen Qi also met Wude, master of Saffron City's Fighting Dojo.
• After collecting their prizes, Shen Qi returned to the service bays, where Wujiang performed a blessing dance with Haunter and Shuppet.
• Wujiang told Shen Qi that a reporter friend from Island 6 worked with Saffron Gym, exchanged contact details with him, and left for a meal with her friends.
• Cacturne suddenly poked its head through the service bay doorway and startled Shen Qi.

Shen Qi helped Cacturne approach Maractus and persuaded him to give her driving pointers, then agreed to stay in Saffron City for a high-tier Regular Race. Wude invited Shen Qi and Cacturne to eat and visit a public bathhouse.

• Cacturne admitted he was too nervous to speak to Maractus, so Shen Qi agreed to introduce them.
• Shen Qi invited Maractus to eat with Cacturne, but she declined because she had errands to handle at home.
• Shen Qi arranged for Cacturne to give Maractus driving pointers, and Maractus accepted the offer.
• Cacturne urged Shen Qi to stay for Saffron City's high-tier Regular Race in five days, and Shen Qi agreed after hearing about the experience and free dorm room.
• Wude recognized Shen Qi and Cacturne as fellow Miracle Club drivers and invited them to eat and visit a public bathhouse.

After his first Regular Race, Shen Qi received Cacturne's assessment that his driving was promising but unpracticed, then spent a lively evening with the Fighting Dojo before staying at the Wind Horse Club's trainee dormitory. Four days remained before the high-tier points race, and he began preparing his worn racing items while considering a modest fifth-place target.

• Shen Qi soaked in the bathhouse with the Fighting Dojo's disciples and asked Cacturne to assess his Regular Race performance; Cacturne judged him upper-middle T3 but said he had not mastered his many techniques.
• Cacturne warned Shen Qi that the higher-tier points race would expose the gap between his ability and that of stronger Drivers, but Shen Qi said he expected little pressure in the D-class Little Sheep.
• Wude took Shen Qi and the others for iced coffee, where Shen Qi enjoyed Saffron City's nightlife with his Pokémon and the Fighting Dojo's disciples.
• Cacturne arranged for Shen Qi to stay in an empty room at the Wind Horse Club's trainee dormitory ahead of the points race four days later.
• Shen Qi checked that the [Love Savings Bank] held about twenty percent charge and found that spending one percent could restore roughly ten percent of the [Adaptive Tire]'s durability.
• Shen Qi planned to repair the [Adaptive Tire] and [Racing Energy] with his own energy, then noted that the [Adaptive Spoiler] had also lost twenty percent durability.

Shen Qi prepared to add another Pokémon and devised a way for Dodo to stay safely inside an external hard drive during races. After buying the equipment in Saffron City, he took Chansey and Dodo out for ice cream and watched a Maglev Train pass.

• Shen Qi reviewed the durability of his racing items and checked that his scripts were nearly complete before activating the Script Detector to search for another Pokémon.
• Shen Qi bought a new phone, accepted friend requests, and learned that Dodo needed about 4 TB of storage to fit inside a device without damaging it.
• Shen Qi bought a 5 TB external hard drive and data cable, giving Dodo a way to remain inside the equipment and help with precise race maneuvers.
• Shen Qi took Chansey and Dodo out for ice cream in Saffron City and watched a Maglev Train speed through its transparent tube.

Shen Qi discovered a hard Emotional Script tied to a Florges he encountered at Saffron City’s Observation Deck. After using a telescope to learn what had excited her, he suspected she enjoyed watching a painful farewell, but Chansey insisted the Florges was noble and unlikely to take pleasure in others’ misery.

• Shen Qi found Florges behaving strangely while she watched the scenery from a telescope.
• The Game Interface detected Florges’s hard Emotional Script, “Madam, Please Behave Yourself,” and showed the keywords “Unfulfilled longing, excitement, satisfaction.”
• Shen Qi looked through Florges’s telescope and saw a young woman tearfully parting from her beloved, leading him to suspect Florges was excited by human tragedy.
• Shen Qi told Chansey what he had seen, but Chansey rejected the idea that Florges enjoyed others’ suffering and said she was exceptionally noble.
• Shen Qi recalled that Chansey had mentioned meeting a white-flowered Florges in Vermilion City, then renewed the telescope fee and saw that the young woman had stood up.

Shen Qi used a [Memory Image] to uncover Florges’s childhood memories and discovered that the Pokémon who shaped her values was Eternal Flower Floette, whose story was tied to AZ and the Ultimate Weapon. The first memory set ended with Eternal Flower Floette looking guiltily down at the young Flabébé.

• Shen Qi concluded that helping Florges make desserts and comfort people would raise her conquest progress, and he used his [Memory Image] on her script.
• Shen Qi identified the memory setting as Melemele Meadow in the Alola Region and spotted the only White Flower Flabébé among the gathered Pokémon.
• Shen Qi recognized the Floette flying above them as Eternal Flower Floette, a form created when AZ revived his beloved Pokémon with the Ultimate Weapon over three thousand years ago.
• Shen Qi recalled that Eternal Flower Floette left AZ after learning that the weapon had sacrificed countless lives, connecting her story to the script’s unfulfilled longing.
• The first set of memories ended with Eternal Flower Floette looking down at the Flabébé with guilt, and Shen Qi opened the second set.

After reviewing Florges’s memories, Shen Qi realized her search to help the Flabébé of Melemele Meadow mattered more than quickly forming a Bond. He tracked her dessert truck to Saffron Gym and waited for a chance to speak with her.

• Shen Qi learned from Florges’s memories that she had evolved from Flabébé and left Alola to seek a way to help the other Flabébé evolve.
• Shen Qi decided he needed to understand why Florges had evolved before he could properly approach her.
• Shen Qi asked around and learned from Wujiang that Florges had recently sold cupcakes at Saffron Gym.
• Shen Qi brought Chansey and Dodo to Saffron Gym, where he found Florges’s dessert truck busy with customers.
• Shen Qi waited for Florges to finish selling pastries while Chansey and Dodo went off to play.

Shen Qi watched Florges sell desserts near the Saffron Gym, reunited with his childhood friend Little Reporter, and learned about her plans for school. As Florges comforted a disappointed Minun and then recognized Chansey, Shen Qi prepared to speak with her.

• Shen Qi met Wujiang, who introduced him to Little Reporter, his childhood friend from Island 6.
• Little Reporter told Shen Qi she might have to return home for high school because she could not meet the Saffron Gym's trainee requirements and could not afford to study away.
• Shen Qi watched Florges give a pineapple egg tart and gentle encouragement to a dejected Minun after the Regular Race.
• Minun reunited with Plus Bunny and their Trainer, while Florges left without accepting payment for the tart.
• Shen Qi recalled Chansey from a Psychic-type performance and followed her to Florges's food truck.
• Florges recognized Chansey and remembered her expression of unfulfilled longing from the Cooking Challenge.

Shen Qi gained Florges’s trust by claiming he could sense her heart and revealing that he could communicate with her soul. Florges asked him to help with the constraints on her evolutionary potential, and after a long conversation she left the deeper mystery of Eternal Flower undisclosed as a test of his abilities.

• Shen Qi told Florges that she was pursuing something unattainable, and she was astonished that he seemed to understand her feelings.
• Shen Qi inferred that Florges’s evolutionary hurdle had begun before her evolution into Floette, raising the script’s progress to 4%.
• Shen Qi unexpectedly sent Florges a message through soul communication and promised to help her, raising the script’s progress to 10%.
• Florges explained that she had been the only Flabébé from Melemele Meadow to evolve in three or four hundred years, but withheld the matter of Eternal Flower to test Shen Qi.

Shen Qi learned that Florges’s unusual crystals came from a special petal that had repaired her childhood injury, but the only clue to the mysterious woman who helped her was vague. Dodo revealed his own difficult past to comfort Florges, and Shen Qi left her with a warning that helping the Flabébé evolve could be nearly impossible.

• Shen Qi asked Florges about the tiny transparent crystals on her ruff, and she explained that a black-haired adventurer had used a special crystal to replace her missing petal when she was a Flabébé.
• Shen Qi and Florges realized that her evolution was connected to the Crystal Petals, but Florges could recall little about the woman who had helped her.
• Dodo told Shen Qi, Florges, and Chansey that he had been formed by combining two damaged Porygon, and his story comforted Florges.
• Shen Qi concealed that he already knew Dodo’s history, then exchanged social app contact details with Florges.
• Shen Qi told Florges through their soul connection that finding a way to help the Flabébé evolve could be as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

Lilligant and Lopunny competed in Sunshine Town’s Regular Race, where Lopunny struggled with nerves during her racing debut. They recovered to take second place, and Lilligant left Lopunny eager to keep improving.

• Shen Qi arranged a racetrack outing with Cacturne and Mengge, while Lilligant prepared to race in Sunshine Town with Lopunny.
• Lopunny grew anxious about the race and the costs of their trip, and her nervousness weakened her opening Work Up.
• Lilligant used Growth to recover from their poor start, but the Flower Crown fell from first to fourth as Lopunny struggled on the course.
• Lopunny gradually settled into the race, and she and Lilligant reclaimed second place just before the finish.
• Lopunny celebrated their 20,000 b prize and promised to work harder after Lilligant reminded her that Shen Qi was training too.

Lilligant saw Shaling’s photo with Shen Qi and believed he had secretly gone on a date, so she rushed to confront him in Saffron City. The misunderstanding ended with Shen Qi taken to the Saffron City Detention Room.

• Lilligant saw Maractus’s social media photo of Shaling and Shen Qi together and assumed Shen Qi had deceived her.
• Lopunny rode with Lilligant toward Saffron City, where Shen Qi was practicing at the Miracle Club with Maractus and Shaling.
• Florges became excited by the apparent romantic drama as Lilligant confronted Shen Qi and accused him of dating Shaling.
• Lopunny told a patrolling Stoutland that Shen Qi had been fooling around with other Pokémon, prompting three Officer Jennys to arrest him.
• Shen Qi was taken to the Saffron City Detention Room and tried to work out how to clear up the misunderstanding.

Shen Qi was questioned after a misunderstanding involving Maractus and Shaling’s cropped photo, but his portable hard drive got him detained again. After Lilligant learned the photo had been cropped to hide Cacturne, she apologized and clung to Shen Qi, who recruited her as his assistant for the upcoming Regular Race.

• Shen Qi told Officer Jenny that his interactions with Maractus and Florges had been misunderstandings, and their accounts matched his.
• Officer Jenny found study materials on Shen Qi’s portable hard drive and had him detained for another half day.
• Maractus showed that Shaling had cropped Cacturne out of the group photo, leaving only herself and Shen Qi.
• Lilligant apologized to Shaling, then pounced on Shen Qi and blamed him for frightening her; she learned Petal Dance in the process.
• Shen Qi carried Lilligant back to the hotel and asked her to assist him in the upcoming Regular Race.

Shen Qi and Lilligant prepared the Little Sheep for a long Regular Race in the Yo Yo Yo Wow Area, where they faced several experienced drivers and the celebrated rookie Ayaka. As the starting lights came on, Lilligant expected them to finish outside the top five, while Shen Qi set a top-five goal.

• Shen Qi took Lilligant for practice laps before bringing the Little Sheep to the Yo Yo Yo Wow Area racecourse.
• Shen Qi and Lilligant started from sixth on the grid among twenty-one drivers, including T2 contenders and Erika's Servine.
• Shen Qi identified Ayaka, driving the Class A Rainbow Flying Sword, as a formidable favorite after her recent T3 titles and four consecutive Regular Race wins.
• Lilligant retreated into her Poké Ball when spectators focused on the Little Sheep, while Dodo operated the phone from the Mobile Hard Drive.
• Shen Qi asked Lilligant where they might place, and she estimated they would finish outside the top five before he set a top-five goal.
• The starting lights were about to begin the countdown as Shen Qi and Lilligant prepared to race.

Shen Qi used weather, Pokémon abilities, and adaptive car settings to keep the Little Sheep in fourth place through the race. He flew over a rubble-built U-turn and entered a rough stretch of road, where his modified suspension began making strange noises.

• The unfamiliar Class B car behind Shen Qi used Rain Dance, and Dodo copied its Rain Dish Ability after first copying Cacturne's Sand Veil.
• Shen Qi used Chansey's Helping Hand to widen the gap, while Lilligant activated Sunny Day and synchronized Chlorophyll with the Little Sheep.
• The Class B car used Snowscape, disrupting Ayaka's attempt to overtake and putting her hoped-for fifth consecutive Regular Race win out of reach.
• Shen Qi spotted a U-turn made from rubble and had Dodo fly the Little Sheep over it in under three seconds.
• Shen Qi adjusted the Little Sheep's adaptive suspension for the concrete-strewn road, but the added rods began knocking against the bodywork.

Shen Qi held 5th Place in Little Sheep as Rainbow Flying Sword raced up behind him, then installed a [Compatible Turbo] to defend his position. The chapter ended with the T2 Driver ahead noticing Little Sheep’s sudden boost in power.

• Shen Qi finished the first lap in 4th Place, then yielded to the T2 Driver who caught him so they could avoid slowing each other down.
• Shen Qi switched off his headset and focused on holding 5th Place while Rainbow Flying Sword chased through the Yoyoyowo Zone.
• After estimating the threat from Rainbow Flying Sword, Shen Qi activated [Compatible Turbo] on Little Sheep during the race.
• Little Sheep’s engine changed as the turbo took effect, and the T2 Driver ahead noticed its sudden increase in power.

Shen Qi and Little Sheep took fifth place in the Regular Race by using Sunny Day to make Ayaka slow down, while Cultivation Pod finished seventh. The race revealed that Cultivation Pod’s rarely seen driver, Meng Ai, was a very young girl whose driving impressed Shen Qi and the other competitors.

• Shen Qi used Little Sheep’s area move to make Ayaka slow down, then Little Sheep crossed the finish line in fifth place ahead of Rainbow Flying Sword.
• Ayaka left her car and told her supporters she would use the defeat to improve before the Winter Race.
• Shen Qi checked the driver list and learned that Cultivation Pod was driven by Meng Ai.
• Shen Qi and the other drivers discovered that Meng Ai looked like a young girl and that Cultivation Pod had appeared in races only rarely.
• Meng Ai bowed to the spectators and drivers, and Shen Qi, Cacturne, Servine, and others applauded her skill.

After placing fifth in a Saffron City race, Shen Qi scavenged discarded parts for Little Sheep and considered its damaged intake pipe and the complexity of using [Compatible Turbo]. He planned to qualify as a trainee driver in time for the Winter Race, while Lilligant went out to play with Maractus.

• Shen Qi collected discarded steel braided brake lines and coolant after Meng Ai left the race venue without speaking to reporters.
• An organizer's mechanic told Shen Qi that Little Sheep's intake pipe was cracked and leaking, and Shen Qi left it unrepaired while he considered how to configure [Compatible Turbo].
• Shen Qi decided to enter races over the next month and seek safe finishes that would qualify him as a trainee before Winter Race registration closed.
• Lilligant reminded Shen Qi not to put too much pressure on himself, and he teased her until she fled the room.
• Shen Qi washed up, updated Teacher Jixiang and Principal Gui about his race, and found Chansey and Lopunny playing with stickers on the bed.

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.