Chapter Summaries

Heath learned about an absurd part-time job seeking information about Celebi and Mew, then served Nurse Joy Light and received a Hyper Potion. Ash visited with his mother, bought breakfast, and asked Heath to demonstrate a Pokémon release; Heath theatrically sent out Farfetch'd.

• Heath read about Blaine's job offering rewards for information about Celebi and Mew and recalled that he had never seen Celebi.
• Nurse Joy Light told Heath about a Trainer who had tried to fool Professor Oak with a pink Wobbuffet, then left to read medical papers.
• Heath received a Hyper Potion for serving Nurse Joy Light.
• Ash arrived with his mother, bought a steamed bun, and praised Farfetch'd for helping Heath run his business.
• Ash asked Heath to repeat a Pokémon release, and Heath recalled Farfetch'd and dramatically sent him out before Ash's mother.

Heath encountered Ash and his mother, then served Mr. Luodan a new dish at his food stall. Mr. Luodan’s strange gaze left Heath uneasy.

• Heath asked Ash’s mother whether she wanted Ash to be unable to become a Trainer after learning that Ash planned to study at Viridian City’s Gym under Giovanni.
• Ash said he liked Ground-types, then left with his mother after chatting with Heath.
• Mr. Luodan brought Heath washed pig intestines and asked him to make pig intestine noodles.
• Heath prepared the dish for twelve League Coins and grew uncomfortable when Mr. Luodan watched him strangely.

Heath received the Dreamlike Illusion token after serving Luodan pork intestine noodles that reminded him of his late mother. Luodan saw his mother in an illusion and collapsed into her arms, grieving the everyday moments he had lost.

• Heath served Luodan noodles made to match his remembered preferences and realized Luodan was mourning someone who had made the familiar dishes.
• Heath received the Dreamlike Illusion token, which could show a target the scene they most wished to see.
• Luodan's deceased mother appeared in the food truck and gently scolded him as she used to.
• Luodan remembered how his mother's death had left him numb until the familiar flavors brought his grief back.
• Luodan fell to his knees and sobbed in his mother's arms, recognizing how much he missed her ordinary complaints and care.

Heath used the Dream Token on Mr. Luodan, who woke from a dream of someone he loved and left disappointed. After more locals tried Heath’s food, a farm girl asked about Mr. Luodan’s pork intestine noodles, but she could not provide the pork intestines needed to make them.

• Heath watched Mr. Luodan sleep after using the Dream Token and saw him wake with tears and disappointment.
• Heath told Mr. Luodan he had fallen asleep and advised him to rest, while keeping the Dream Token secret.
• Mr. Luodan brought his dishes to Heath and left, and Heath resolved to use the Dream Token more carefully.
• Several Pallet Town locals tried Heath’s food, helping him gain a foothold in town.
• A farm girl asked what Mr. Luodan had ordered and learned it was pork intestine noodles.
• The girl said her family raised cattle and sheep but had no pigs, so Heath could not make the dish for her.

Heath prepared scallion intestine for Ember, who eagerly ate six skewers. Serving her earned him Miltank’s premium milk, which could strengthen young Pokémon but cause severe allergic reactions.

• Ember explained that her family and Luodan’s family liked pork intestines, then rode off on a Tauros to obtain some for Heath.
• After asking customers about the town’s pork intestine eaters, Heath learned Ember likely belonged to the family at Flame Farm.
• Ember returned with fresh pork intestines and asked Heath to cook them using the method he had mentioned.
• Heath simmered the intestines, stuffed them into scallions, and grilled them with Charmeleon’s help.
• Ember bought six skewers and ate them delightedly, and Heath received Miltank’s premium milk as a reward.

Heath learned that a famous restaurant chain had opened a branch in Pallet Town and drawn a crowd, giving his food truck a rival. As he went to see the new restaurant, Mimikyu remained frightened by something it had encountered the previous night.

• Ember ate all thirty-six of Heath's scallion-stuffed intestines and praised his cooking before leaving.
• Farfetch'd found Mimikyu trembling inside a small pot, and Zorua interpreted that something had dragged Mimikyu down the previous night and frightened it.
• Heath saw two children hurry toward a restaurant, and Nurse Joy told him he had met his match.
• Heath learned that Miracle Mew Restaurant had opened its Pallet Town branch that day, drawing many curious visitors.
• Heath drove his food truck to the crowded restaurant and got out with Farfetch'd and his other Pokémon, leaving the sleeping Mimikyu behind.

Heath inspected the newly opened Miracle Mew Restaurant and found its membership rules and prices so demanding that he left without trying its food. A temporary quest then challenged him to sell a dish for more than three thousand League Coins and earn sincere praise, leaving him considering a Pallet Town specialty.

• Heath read Miracle Mew Restaurant’s extensive dining requirements, including its membership deposit, minimum spend, and limit on dishes per visit.
• Heath noticed two little boys put away a hundred-League-Coin note and watched a satisfied customer leave in a luxury car.
• Heath concluded that Miracle Mew Restaurant’s high prices were unlikely to threaten his business in Pallet Town and left.
• Heath triggered a temporary quest requiring him to sell a dish priced above three thousand League Coins and earn a customer’s sincere praise in exchange for a restaurant upgrade opportunity.
• Heath considered the quest’s difficulty and thought a local specialty of Pallet Town might be a suitable dish.

Heath considered saving his satisfaction points, planned to grow tomatoes in his Portable Farm, and cooked dinner for the Officer Jennys. When Mimikyu reported that the frightening Pokémon had returned, Heath went into the woods and found an unfamiliar Pokémon illuminated by his lantern.

• Heath decided not to redeem a Purple Crab and saved his satisfaction points for future ingredients.
• Heath inspected his Portable Farm, found it had no seeds, and considered growing tomatoes.
• Heath prepared dinner for the Officer Jennys, then returned to his food truck to study the Recipe and plan his farm.
• Mimikyu told Heath that the scary Pokémon had returned, and Heath brought Zorua, Farfetch'd, and Charmeleon to investigate the woods.
• Heath lit the woods with his Handheld Lantern and found an unfamiliar gray Pokémon with fiery-looking eyes and three curls on its head.

Heath encountered an aggressive Marshadow and unexpectedly knocked it unconscious with a punch. He took the Pokémon to the Pokémon Center, where Nurse Joy Xiao began examining it after it woke and tried to attack her.

• Heath scanned the Pokémon with his Ingredient Identifier and learned it was a Marshadow that was normally impossible to prepare as food.
• Marshadow attacked Heath, but Charmeleon dodged its strikes and hit it with Flamethrower.
• Marshadow entered Heath’s shadow and struck him, but Heath’s instinctive punch sent it crashing through trees and knocked it unconscious.
• Zorua checked Marshadow and confirmed it had fainted, and Heath carried it to the Pokémon Center for care.
• Heath told Nurse Joy Xiao that Charmeleon had knocked Marshadow out, and Marshadow woke and tried to attack her before she calmed it with a poke to its forehead.

Heath asked Professor Oak to identify the Marshadow he had encountered, and Oak arrived at the Pokémon Center with great excitement. After Marshadow tried to attack Heath and Oak restrained it with Dragonite, Heath left to buy wild mushrooms for his food truck quest and received an unexpected reward from Oak.

• Heath asked Nurse Joy whether Marshadow belonged to a Trainer, and she suggested that it might have escaped from Professor Oak’s laboratory.
• Heath called Professor Oak, who hurried to the Pokémon Center after hearing that Heath had found Marshadow.
• Professor Oak’s Pokédex identified Marshadow as a Mythical Pokémon from Alola, and Marshadow vanished before appearing behind Heath.
• Heath threw a punch at Marshadow but stopped short, and Professor Oak ordered Dragonite to restrain it.
• Heath said he needed to buy groceries for his food truck quest, and Professor Oak handed him a reward for finding the rare Pokémon.

Professor Oak gave Heath an experimental Poké Ball with a roughly fifty-percent catch rate and lectured him about its development. After Oak left with Marshadow, Heath shopped at Pallet Town’s night market and returned to Officer Jenny Farm for the night.

• Professor Oak explained that he and Silph Co. had developed an experimental Poké Ball with a much higher catch rate than ordinary Poké Balls.
• Heath decided he had no desire to catch Marshadow and remained committed to helping the Mimikyu beneath his truck find its Trainer.
• Professor Oak lectured Heath about Poké Balls and spatial power until the Ghost Market opened, then left with Marshadow, who was restrained by Dragonite.
• Heath discovered that Nurse Joy had avoided Oak’s rambling by wearing an earplug and put the sleeping Zorua back in its Poké Ball.
• Heath bought local specialties and other supplies at Pallet Town’s night market, then returned to Officer Jenny Farm to go to bed.

Heath planned a promotion to sell See-the-Light-Die dishes at his food truck, deciding he needed a special spokesperson to attract customers. He looked to Mew as the ideal choice, leaving the plan about to take shape.

• Heath woke from a nightmare and found Zorua asleep on his chest, while Farfetch'd tended to its leek.
• Heath saw Charmeleon teaching Mew to jump rope, then washed up with his Pokémon.
• Heath set up the cab's Autopilot and prepared to cook See-the-Light-Die for his task.
• Heath concluded that Pallet Town's roadside customers might not pay for the mushrooms and considered using a promotion to draw them in.
• Heath decided a special spokesperson could help and looked at Mew as a possible choice.

Heath persuaded Mew to appear for a photo opportunity, which he planned to sell as part of a luxury meal. He chose Professor Oak as the customer, and Oak rushed over and paid ten thousand League Coins.

• Heath considered Mew's popularity and realized a photo opportunity with it could attract customers to his luxury set meal.
• Heath asked Mew to help by appearing in a photo with a person he chose, and Mew agreed to do it once.
• Heath worried about the risks of publicizing Mew's appearance and contacted Professor Oak as a suitable customer.
• Professor Oak flew to Heath's food truck in his pajamas and eagerly asked where Mew was.
• Professor Oak paid Heath ten thousand League Coins and rushed over to Mew.

Heath served Professor Oak See-the-Light-Die while Oak admired his photo with Mew, and Heath received rewards for completing two missions. He obtained a food-truck upgrade blueprint and Bulk Up proficiency, then waited to see what the dining-area upgrade would bring.

• Heath served Professor Oak See-the-Light-Die as Oak put away his photo with Mew and asked how Heath had met the Pokémon.
• Heath told Oak that he had simply run into Mew, and Oak praised his luck while enjoying the meal.
• Heath completed the restaurant-style mission and received a restaurant upgrade opportunity, then completed Pallet Town's specialty achievement and gained proficiency in Bulk Up.
• Heath noticed an upgrade blueprint on the food truck's kitchen counter and put it away, eager to discover what the dining-area upgrade would unlock.

After upgrading his food truck’s dining area, Heath received a deployable room from Nami, Silph Co.’s research chief. The new space was bare, and Heath learned that he still had to pay for its renovation, leaving him tempted by a Pokémon-themed design he could not afford.

• After Professor Oak left, Heath used the upgrade blueprint and pressed the newly appeared “Reasonable” button.
• Nami arrived with a Meowth-shaped Lucky Cat add-on and instructed Heath to register his palm and fingerprints.
• Heath patted the Lucky Cat twice, causing a roofed dining area of just over sixty square meters to deploy beside his food truck’s kitchen.
• Heath found the new dining area unfinished and asked Nami how he could renovate it.
• Nami showed Heath several renovation packages, and he learned that the Pokémon Restaurant design cost 570,000 League Coins.

Heath negotiated with Nami and agreed to travel to the Hoenn Region Technology Expo in exchange for free upgrades and Pokémon Restaurant renovations for his food truck. The expo was in Mossdeep City, where Heath realized he might also be able to investigate the matter involving Mimikyu’s Trainer.

• Heath asked Nami whether he could pay for the Pokémon Restaurant renovations in installments, but she refused.
• Nami offered to provide the food truck’s upgrades and renovations for free if Heath attended a technology expo in the Hoenn Region.
• Heath suspected Silph Co. wanted him to showcase its technology against the Devon Corporation, and Nami confirmed that the company had chosen his food truck as its demonstration.
• Heath carefully reviewed and signed the contract with Nami.
• Nami told Heath the expo would be held in Mossdeep City, and Heath realized he could also look into Mimikyu’s Trainer while there.

Heath closed his food truck for renovations as Silph Co. installed a compressed-space restaurant, leaving him with an unexpectedly free morning in Pallet Town. Nurse Joy Light shared a nutrition bar with him and warned him about a despised local gambling addict.

• Heath left the food truck to Nami and watched a Machamp-led Pallet Renovations crew arrive to begin the work.
• Heath admired the hidden entrance to the compressed-space restaurant and considered how spatial technology could change city living.
• With business paused, Heath sat idle until Nurse Joy Light approached, then explained the renovation and accepted one of her nutrition bars.
• Heath found the bar unpleasantly sweet, and Nurse Joy Light explained that the taste kept staff from relying on them as meals.
• Nurse Joy Light recognized an approaching man as a notorious Pallet Town gambling addict and turned away with Heath; Heath noticed his bruised legs and dismissed him.

Heath watched A-Yu beg Nurse Joy Light for food and money, then learned that A-Yu had gambled away his money and burdened his mother with debt. Officer Jenny arrived and arrested him, warning Heath not to lend him money.

• A-Yu approached Nurse Joy Light and begged her for an energy bar, promising to pay her back.
• Nurse Joy Light refused and accused A-Yu of borrowing from everyone in town and taking out online loans.
• A-Yu knelt and asked Nurse Joy Light for five thousand League Coins, claiming he could win back his losses, but she reminded him he had repeated that promise many times.
• Nurse Joy Light revealed that A-Yu had sold his house and taken the money his mother earned, leaving Heath angry at his treatment of her.
• Officer Jenny arrived, handcuffed A-Yu, and warned Heath never to lend him money.

Heath learned how A-Yu’s gambling had ruined his mother Luo Yun’s life while Officer Jenny confronted him with proof of her sacrifices. The chapter left A-Yu demanding money for food and spending, showing that his mother’s injury had done nothing to change him.

• Nurse Joy told Heath that A-Yu had gambled away his savings, tricked Luo Yun into selling their home, and continued taking the money she earned to repay his debts.
• Officer Jenny Yin brought A-Yu to the Public Security Bureau and showed him messages revealing how Luo Yun had supported him despite her hardship.
• Officer Jenny Yin explained that Luo Yun had injured her back and ankle in a fall and could not work for a while.
• A-Yu erupted in anger, demanding to know where he would get spending money and complaining that he had not eaten.

Heath researched the Hoenn technology exhibition and planned to look for Mimikyu’s Trainer in Mossdeep City. When Ash arrived hungry and found the food truck closed for renovations, Heath brought out his old portable stove and began cooking for him and Nami.

• Heath learned that Cynthia would attend the Hoenn technology exhibition and recalled that Mimikyu’s Trainer was in Mossdeep City.
• Ash visited Heath’s food truck to buy breakfast but found it closed for renovations.
• Heath remembered his old street-cooking setup and brought a portable stove and ingredients outside.
• Nami accepted Heath’s offer to eat and paid him for a meal.
• Heath began making dry-fried beef chow fun for Ash and Nami, using his Chef’s Eye to tailor the food to Ash’s tastes.