Recaps

Heath sold Giovanni an Ore Rock Bug dish and completed his Pewter City achievement, receiving a clue about a tiny sky-blue figure in Lavender Town. Meanwhile, researchers on an unnamed island created a living embryo from Mew genes and named it Experiment A.

• Heath worried that his Ore Rock Bug advertisement was failing to attract customers.
• Giovanni arrived, bought a serving of Ore Rock Bug for eighty thousand League Coins, and praised its taste.
• Heath completed his Pewter City special achievement quest and received a clue about a tiny sky-blue figure watching Lavender Town's burial ground at night.
• Giovanni received a phone call and left Heath's food truck.
• Researchers on an unnamed island reported cultivating a living embryo using genes extracted from Mew and named it Experiment A.

Heath encountered Yukino and her father, Mr. Masaki, when they came to his food truck seeking work, and discovered that Masaki intended to sell his daughter. Officer Jenny Jing arrested Masaki and explained that the League had been trying to protect Yukino, but he repeatedly sought her out.

• After the lunch rush, Heath closed his food truck, but Mr. Masaki and his daughter Yukino arrived asking for a server job.
• Masaki told Heath he would sell Yukino and tore open her clothes to display her, so Heath called Officer Jenny Jing and restrained him.
• Officer Jenny Jing arrived, recognized Masaki and Yukino, and took them to the police station after confronting Masaki about breaking the law.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that Yukino was deaf and mute, had lost the use of her legs in a car accident, and that Masaki had become abusive after she could not be cured and he lost his job.
• Officer Jenny Jing explained that the League had been following the case and that Masaki repeatedly sneaked out to find Yukino; she vowed to lock him up for several months.

Heath visited Pewter Gym to see how Brock ran it, but was surprised when a Slowbro challenged the Gym and battled competently. The Slowbro defeated a Gym student’s Geodude and Onix before losing, leaving Heath puzzled by its vacant demeanor.

• Heath decided to take a break and drove his food truck to Pewter City’s Gym.
• Heath observed the Gym’s challenge fee and entrance assessment while looking around the lobby.
• Zoroark and Charmeleon showed interest in challenging the Gym, but Heath declined.
• A Slowbro arrived at the counter with two Poké Balls and requested a Gym challenge, which a staff member accepted.
• The Slowbro used Poliwag and Diglett to defeat the Gym student’s Geodude and Onix, then lost the battle.

Heath passed Pewter City's Gym exam and won his first Gym battle, earning the Boulder Badge with Charmeleon's Brick Break. The next morning, he found Farfetch'd, Zoroark, Charmeleon, and Snorlax bruised and swollen on the floor, with no explanation for what had happened.

• Heath watched battles at the Gym, then agreed to let Charmeleon try a battle when Zoroark told him Charmeleon wanted one.
• Heath passed the mineral identification exam and received a challenge number.
• Charmeleon defeated the Gym's Rock-type Pokémon with Brick Break, and Heath received the Boulder Badge.
• Heath made dinner for the Officer Jennys, went to bed, and vaguely heard an argument in the living room.
• Heath woke the next morning and found Farfetch'd, Zoroark, Charmeleon, and Snorlax bruised and swollen on the floor.

Zoroark tried to make her companions compete to become the team’s boss, but the resulting brawl turned into an all-night game session. Heath punished Zoroark and went to work, where he noticed Mew had not visited and planned to buy ingredients for beef balls.

• Zoroark declared that the group needed a boss to lead them and conquer Kanto, but Farfetch'd, Charmeleon, and Snorlax showed little interest.
• Zoroark taunted Charmeleon into fighting, and Farfetch'd and Snorlax joined the brawl before the Pokémon switched to Pokémon Tekken and played through the night.
• Heath docked Zoroark’s pay for a month and told the tired Pokémon to sleep while he handled the customers.
• Heath drove to the vegetable market, noticed Mew had not come by that morning, and decided to buy pork and beef for cooking beef balls.

Heath made handmade Chaoshan beef tendon balls and served them to Sister Feng before she left to take up her post in Vermilion City. After watching her depart, he planned to visit Vermilion City after Lavender Town.

• Heath found his Pokémon exhausted after they stayed up all night, so he pounded the beef round himself.
• Heath made beef tendon balls without fish sauce and tasted them, satisfied with their flavor.
• Heath set up his food truck and planned to leave Pewter City for Lavender Town after the day’s business.
• Heath met Sister Feng, Sister Ling, and Officer Jenny Aya as Sister Feng hurried to catch her flight to Vermilion City.
• Heath persuaded Sister Feng to take three portions of beef tendon balls, then watched her leave and decided to visit Vermilion City after Lavender Town.

Heath and Miss Lennai discussed how partings and death affected people, then she revealed she was leaving for Sinnoh and prompted Heath to choose a gift for Cynthia. Heath thought of the Toon Hammer and hurried into his Lounge to retrieve it.

• Miss Lennai told Heath about an ancient mural showing a Pokémon noble parting from its child and reflected on spending time with family before death.
• Heath shared his fear of death, and Miss Lennai reassured him that the sadness of parting would heal with time.
• Miss Lennai told Heath she would leave by plane for Sinnoh after eating.
• Miss Lennai asked whether Heath had a gift to send Cynthia, and he realized she was hinting that he should give Cynthia something.
• Heath considered what to send, remembered the unused Toon Hammer, and ran into his Lounge.

Heath tested the Toon Hammer by hitting himself and discovered that its colorful stars tasted like intensely sweet fruit, so he baked them into a cake for Cynthia. After serving a successful breakfast rush, he turned down Ailuo’s offer to run the cafeteria at Pewter City First Middle School.

• Heath struck himself with the Toon Hammer and collected thirteen stars in several colors.
• Heath tasted the stars, found that each color had a distinct fruit flavor, and decided they would suit a cake.
• Heath baked a star-filled cake for Cynthia and asked Miss Lennai to deliver it.
• Heath served Beef Tendon Balls to the children, and his food truck did brisk business.
• Ailuo offered Heath the cafeteria job at Pewter City First Middle School, but Heath declined.

Heath turned down Ailuo’s offer to run a school cafeteria because he planned to leave Pewter City. He then heard firsthand from Officer Jenny Yin and Officer Jenny Qiao how repeated noise complaints at the Fate Hotel ended in a fatal stabbing.

• Ailuo offered Heath a lucrative school cafeteria position, but Heath said he was traveling around Kanto and would leave Pewter City.
• Heath watched a news report that a noise dispute at the Fate Hotel had left one person dead and three injured.
• Officer Jenny Yin and Officer Jenny Qiao came to Heath’s food truck for breakfast after working all night.
• The two Officer Jennys explained that they had answered at least ten noise complaints at the hotel and repeatedly warned the noisy guests.
• After their tenth visit, the caller went to the guests’ room, stabbed one person to death, and injured three others when they defended themselves with Pokémon.

Heath served Hemi Beef Tendon Balls, but she fainted before eating them and was taken to the Pokémon Center. He later served customers at lunch and received a Rare Candy after serving Dawn.

• Heath worried about Sister Feng after she took up her post in Vermilion City and wondered who would become Viridian City's next Officer Jenny captain.
• Hemi visited Heath’s food truck and ordered Beef Tendon Balls, then slumped over the table and stopped responding.
• Heath checked that Hemi had a pulse and called the Pokémon Center, where Nurse Joy arrived by ambulance and carried her away for treatment.
• Heath resumed preparing food and served a lunch crowd that included adults interested in his Three Kingdoms Card Packs.
• Heath served Dawn a Three Kingdoms Set Meal and received a Rare Candy.

Heath served Ho-Oh beef meatballs and curry chicken cutlet rice while she sat angrily in his food truck. He received an Aura Searcher as a reward and watched Ho-Oh accidentally eat a spoon before she tried to explain it away.

• Heath finished the lunchtime rush alone and prepared to check whether Zoroark and the others had woken up.
• Ho-Oh visited Heath's food truck and ordered beef meatballs and curry chicken cutlet rice while appearing angry.
• Heath used his Emotion Detector and confirmed that Ho-Oh was in a bad mood, then prepared her meal.
• Heath received an Aura Searcher, an item that could locate a specific Pokémon.
• Ho-Oh ate her food in a huff, swallowed a spoon by accident, and claimed her teeth were strong because she was still growing.

Heath discovered that Ho-Oh was troubled by the appearance of Shadow Lugia after she left behind a black Lugia feather. A Lottery Ticket reward then gave Heath the baffling prize of Yujiro Hanma's purity.

• Heath served an irritable Ho-Oh Burmese milk tea, but she left without explaining what was bothering her.
• Heath found a black feather Ho-Oh had dropped and used the Ingredient Identifier to learn it was Lugia's feather and could turn a Pokémon into a Shadow Pokémon.
• Heath realized the feather suggested Shadow Lugia had appeared and suspected that was why Ho-Oh was distressed.
• Heath completed a special achievement and received a Lottery Ticket.
• Heath used the Lottery Ticket and obtained Yujiro Hanma's purity, leaving him confused about what the reward was.

Heath served elementary school customers while worrying that disgruntled parents might cause trouble, then fed his Pokémon after they woke from an all-nighter. He planned to leave Pewter City for Lavender Town the next day and checked possible routes.

• Heath sold meals with free card packs to elementary school students while their displeased parents waited for them.
• Heath decided that leaving the next day was probably best because troublesome parents might report his restaurant.
• Zoroark and Farfetch'd woke up hungry, and Heath prepared Red-Braised Pork with Fried Tofu over rice for his Pokémon.
• Heath watched Snorlax, Charmeleon, Farfetch'd, and Zoroark eat, noticing Zoroark reading a light novel at the table.
• Heath checked his phone to compare routes from Pewter City to Lavender Town.

Heath set off from Pewter City for Lavender Town, reflecting on its Pokémon Tower and the people who lived near their departed Pokémon. During the drive, he learned that Hemi had been poisoned with a toxin associated with Team Rocket, then entertained his awake Pokémon with a card game.

• Heath left for Lavender Town after wondering how Grandpa Ma Zhide was doing following Charizard's death.
• Officer Jenny Jing told Heath that Hemi had been poisoned with a dangerous toxin commonly used by Team Rocket.
• Heath drove toward Lavender Town while his Pokémon discussed how to pass the time.
• Heath gathered the three Pokémon who were still awake and introduced them to Fight the Landlord.

Heath woke in his food truck and continued his journey to Lavender Town, where he encountered the town’s quiet atmosphere and saw Pokémon Tower. He planned to introduce himself to the local Officer Jenny and found her on duty by the roadside.

• Heath woke, checked the food truck’s route, and saw that Lavender Town was about a ten-minute drive away.
• Heath found his Pokémon playing Dou Dizhu after waking, while Charmeleon exercised, and then washed up.
• Heath drove into Lavender Town and reflected on its role as a resting place for the dead.
• Heath saw Pokémon Tower, a vast complex where the departed Pokémon were buried.
• Heath decided to greet the local Officer Jenny and found her on duty by the roadside.

Heath arrived in Lavender Town, where Officer Jenny Yin turned him away from the Officer Jenny Unit and he had to arrange his own stall permit and parking. After settling in, he went to the vegetable market and bought the town’s purported specialty, Resurrection Lettuce.

• Heath recalled Officer Jenny Aya’s drunken story about capturing the motorized bandits and how Sister Feng had stopped her from revealing more.
• Officer Jenny Yin coldly welcomed Heath to Lavender Town, refused to arrange a place for him to stay, and told him to contact the commerce department about setting up a stall.
• Heath obtained a mobile-stall permit for three hundred League Coins a day and paid extra management fees to park his food truck nearby.
• Heath drove to Lavender Town’s vegetable market, where vendors repeatedly recommended Resurrection Lettuce as the town’s specialty, and he bought a bag.

Heath remembered the inheritance his parents had left in Lavender Town and discovered that it was a house near Pokémon Tower. Inside, he found a photograph showing the previous Heath as a child, and he decided to spend the day cleaning rather than opening his food truck.

• Heath remembered the inheritance Sister Feng had given him and used its address to find the house near Pokémon Tower.
• Heath parked his food truck inside the property’s gate and found overdue utility bills showing that the electricity and water had been cut off three years earlier.
• Heath entered the dusty, abandoned house and found a photograph in which the child looked exactly like him.
• Heath wondered whether the house’s history as the home of getaway-driving thieves explained Junsha Yin’s hostility toward him.
• Heath called Farfetch'd, Charmeleon, Zoroark, and Snorlax to help him clean the house.

Heath finished cleaning his parents’ neglected house in Lavender Town and discovered documents about their encounter with Celebi, along with photo albums showing a child who looked like him. The house was habitable but still needed pest treatment and new furniture, so Heath put off deciding whether to settle there and went to his Food Truck for lunch.

• Heath found documents suggesting his parents had researched Celebi and once encountered it in a forest.
• Heath looked through family photo albums and saw that the child in them looked almost exactly like him, but he soon set aside his questions.
• Zoroark asked whether the house belonged to Heath, and he explained that his parents had given it to him and he had never visited it before.
• Heath told Zoroark and Charmeleon that he might leave Lavender Town after handling business there, while postponing a decision about the house.
• Heath found the kitchen full of foul-smelling, spoiled food and insects, and decided to hire cleaners and replace much of the furniture.
• Heath abandoned the idea of cooking in the kitchen and took his Pokémon to eat lunch in the Food Truck.

Heath finished lunch and decided to visit Lavender Town's furniture mall, bringing Zoroark along while Farfetch'd and Charmeleon stayed home. At the hospital, Ash apologized to his mother after his encounter with Musharna, and Professor Oak remembered Ash's missing father and the Pikachu he had taken on his journey.

• Heath finished his Red-Braised Pork with Fried Tofu rice bowl, washed the dishes, and gave up on opening for business so he could shop for furniture.
• Zoroark asked to go with Heath to buy novels, and Heath invited her while Farfetch'd and Charmeleon chose to stay home.
• Ash's mother scolded him in the hospital for approaching Pokémon before receiving his starter and for waking a Musharna.
• Ash's mother and Professor Oak reflected on Ash's father, who had disappeared with Ash's grandfather.
• Professor Oak remembered that Ash's father had taken a Pikachu when he began his journey and wondered what Pokémon to assign Ash.

Heath finished shopping with Zoroark and explained to her what poverty meant after she wondered why an elderly woman collected empty bottles. The chapter left Heath remembering his Lavender Town quest and looking toward the area north of Pokémon Tower, where a clue suggested a special Pokémon was waiting.

• Heath bought furniture and other supplies while Zoroark spent Farfetch'd's loan on books, manga, and a game.
• Heath gave Zoroark's empty drink bottle to an elderly woman collecting trash.
• Zoroark misunderstood poverty, so Heath described how hardship could leave people unable to afford treatment for serious illness.
• Heath told Zoroark not to dwell on despairing subjects and patted her head.
• Heath remembered his Ingredient Identifier and quest clue, then looked north of Pokémon Tower for the special Pokémon.

Heath planned to haul his unusable furniture to Lavender Town’s waste treatment plant, but a woman asked to take it instead. He let her have it, and she went to fetch her husband and son to carry it away.

• Heath checked his phone for the location of Lavender Town’s waste treatment plant while carrying the novels Zoroark had bought.
• Heath found a furtive woman outside his home and learned she was asking about the furniture in his yard.
• Heath explained the furniture’s problems, but the woman happily inspected it and accepted his permission to take it.
• The woman went to fetch her husband and son to haul away the furniture, while Heath remarked to Zoroark that poverty made unwanted furniture seem valuable.

After watching a poor family haul away his discarded furniture, Zoroark briefly reflected on poverty before returning to games with Farfetch'd. Heath then prepared to open a nighttime barbecue stall in Lavender Town, and the chapter ended as he called Charmeleon and Snorlax out to help.

• A family arrived by tricycle, loaded Heath's discarded furniture, and thanked him for giving it to them.
• Zoroark sat quietly after watching the family, but Heath later found her playing video games with Farfetch'd.
• Heath decided to serve barbecue at night and planned to use fermented tofu and his own spicy seasoning as distinctive flavors.
• Farfetch'd prepared ingredients while Zoroark skewered them, and Heath made seasoning powder and dipping sauce.
• Heath drove the food truck to the stall location and called Charmeleon and Snorlax out to work.

Heath opened his barbecue stall and drew customers with Zoroark and Charmeleon, then was stunned when old Mr. Ma Zhide arrived looking much older and frailer than before. Ma Zhide reunited with Heath and spoke cheerfully about his age and longing to see A-Pen.

• Heath set up his stall beside several competing barbecue stalls and used Charmeleon to grill skewers while Zoroark served customers.
• A young man ordered lamb and beef skewers, enjoyed Charmeleon's grilling and Heath's seasoning, and asked for cold beer.
• Heath received Agility Candy XX for serving Xiao Lan.
• Old Mr. Ma Zhide arrived with white hair, a stooped back, and a cane, and Heath helped him sit down.
• Ma Zhide told Heath that growing old was natural and joked that dying sooner would let him see A-Pen.

Heath served Ma Zhide and learned that Fire Stone energy could help Charmeleon become a stronger Charizard. After Ma Zhide left, Heath received the Afterlife Eyes special quest, which required him to serve three customers in soul form.

• Ma Zhide told Heath that absorbing energy from a Fire Stone could improve Charmeleon's abilities after evolution.
• Ma Zhide asked Heath to make food for himself and A-Pen, and Heath prepared congee for them.
• Heath served Ma Zhide and received Charizard Candy, then learned he had also served Charizard (soul).
• Heath unlocked the Afterlife Eyes quest, which required him to serve three customers in soul form in the real world.
• A new customer ordered skewers, tofu, beer, and fried rice, and Heath greeted him.

Charmeleon discovered a hungry Skuntank hiding in an alley near Heath’s busy barbecue stall. He cooked and left lamb skewers for it, while Heath suspected it was an abandoned stray Pokémon.

• Charmeleon noticed a faint stink coming from a nearby dark alley while grilling for Heath’s customers.
• Charmeleon spotted a wary Pokémon in the alley and realized it was watching the meat in his hands.
• Charmeleon asked Heath for skewers, and Heath gave him an order of lamb skewers.
• Charmeleon cooked the lamb skewers, set them at the alley’s entrance, and returned to work.
• Heath recognized the Pokémon as a Skuntank and suspected it had been abandoned.