Heath blinked. He even wondered whether he had misread it. What lay before him was simply too unexpected: it could be used once per calendar month, which meant he could use it right now. After he made a wish, a random probability would be drawn to determine whether it came true. Seen that way, the Jirachi Wish Card was something of a luck test. If he drew a hundred percent success rate, Heath figured even a wish to have a Ho-Oh as his mount could probably come true.
Still, Heath felt that if he actually made that wish, Ho-Oh would probably scatter his ashes with Sacred Fire the moment he climbed aboard.
"This thing is pretty powerful, but I hate games that test your luck the most. Back then, I had to grind through over eight hundred Gastly just to get a shiny one." Heath's mouth twitched as some less-than-pleasant memories resurfaced. He had been playing Pokémon Go at the time. That version had an awesome mechanic: repeatedly catching the same species of Pokémon a certain number of times would trigger a chain, increasing the chances of encountering a shiny when catching that Pokémon.
Fortunately, Pokémon Go already featured visible overworld encounters, so repeatedly catching the same Pokémon was very easy. Heath had simply been unlucky. He had caught over eight hundred Gastly before finally catching a shiny one, only to discover after evolving it into Gengar that the difference in color was not nearly as obvious as he had imagined.
"Ah, the joys of youth. Before I crossed over, I heard the latest Pokémon games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, were about to come out. Too bad now I... Huh? Wait a minute. I'm in the Pokémon world right now. Can't I visit that Paldea region whenever I want?" Heath