After making dinner for the Officer Jennys, Heath took Farfetch'd, Zorua, and the others out into the Indigo League at night. He had to admit that the Indigo League was bustling even after dark. The place felt like a city that never slept, with plenty of people out at night, forming a stark contrast to Viridian City.
Apart from bars and other late-night establishments, the rest of Viridian City was relatively quiet at night, and scenes this lively were rare. Living here really gave Heath the feeling of being back in his previous life. After all, there had been a large population in his previous life, and he could run into plenty of people on streets lined with food stalls.
"Trainer, Trainer! What's that?" Zorua pointed excitedly in one direction. Heath turned to look and saw a late-night food stall, but what drew his attention more was its owner: an Exeggutor.
More precisely, it was an Alolan Exeggutor, and what it sold was particularly interesting. Heath really had never imagined he would find an Alolan Exeggutor selling egg fried rice here. He couldn't help giving its long neck a dubious look.
"I really don't get it. Why would a Pokémon like this be a Dragon-type?" Heath sighed. He truly couldn't quite understand the Pokémon world's criteria for determining types. Although Alolan Exeggutor had a long neck and stood an astonishing eleven meters or so tall, it looked like a Grass-type Pokémon no matter how he looked at it. Yet it was a Dragon-type.
Meanwhile, Pokémon like Charizard and Gyarados, which looked very much like dragons, weren't Dragon-types. Charizard in particular had clearly been designed after Western dragons, yet it had ended up as a Fire- and Flying-type Pokémon. Heath found that rather baffling.
That was why Lance, Kanto's Dragon-type Elite