After Heath left his Pocket Farm, he put away the sign outside. He had been worried that using just one preparation method would not complete the achievement, but now that it was complete, he planned to taste the Golden Chicken himself and share it with his Pokémon. While frying the chicken earlier, Heath had noticed Zoroark glancing over several times. Clearly, Zoroark was full of anticipation for his fried chicken. Heath himself was actually very curious about how it tasted, too. After all, while he was frying it, he had been the one most susceptible to its aroma, since he was closest to it.
As the chicken fried, its tempting aroma had kept wafting into Heath's nose. He had only managed to resist thanks to the conviction he had built up over all his time as a chef. Otherwise, Heath felt he probably could not have held out that long. Fortunately, he had endured and had not done anything embarrassing like drooling.
For now, though, he still needed to serve his customers. Heath had also decided that once he finished business for the day, it would be time to set off again. He planned to go to Cerulean City, somewhere he had not visited yet. Although he had been to quite a few places before, he had skipped Cerulean City, and now he felt it was time to pay it a visit.
Cerulean City was a fine place, but what Heath looked forward to most was actually the people there. After all, anyone who had watched the Pokémon anime probably remembered Misty, the girl who had traveled with Ash for a while and whom Heath had once thought was the female lead. He just did not know whether Misty had inherited the position of Water-type Gym Leader yet. Before that,