Chapter Summaries

Heath struggled to make rotten egg sauce, then served the lunchtime crowd before Cynthia told him a friend would visit his food truck. The friend arrived and requested rice in chicken broth, and Heath prepared to make her a special version with rice crust using Dialga's Pressure Cooker.

• Heath failed to make distinctive rotten egg sauce and decided to use his Ingredient Identifier the next day to check whether his attempts were safe to eat.
• Heath served customers through the lunchtime rush, which ended around two in the afternoon.
• Cynthia messaged Heath that her friend was having trouble adjusting to Pewter City and recommended his food truck.
• Cynthia's friend arrived at Heath's Little Kitchen and said she wanted to eat there on Cynthia's recommendation.
• Heath checked the girl's food preferences and learned she wanted rice crust added to clear-simmered chicken broth, so he planned to make it with Dialga's Pressure Cooker.

Heath served Lennai chicken soup with crispy rice and learned she was interested in archaeology. When an accident at a Pewter City mine prompted Officer Jenny Feng to request fifty-eight boxed meals, Heath and Lennai rushed them to the site, where Heath saw that someone had died.

• Heath prepared chicken soup with crispy rice for Lennai, who appreciated the meal.
• Heath received an archaeology book from Lennai and realized she likely worked in archaeology.
• Officer Jenny Feng asked Heath to prepare fifty-eight boxed meals after an accident occurred at a Pewter City mining site.
• Heath made curry rice with pork chops, and Lennai offered her Skarmory to help deliver the meals.
• Heath and Lennai reached the mine, where Officer Jenny Ling took the meals and barred Heath from entering.
• Heath saw two Blissey mourn a dead man on a stretcher and realized the mine accident was severe.

After the deadly accident, Heath received a quest requiring him to keep his food truck open all night for guests from the other side. He slept until eleven, woke to find his Pokémon playing together, and prepared to meet the expected visitors.

• Heath left the accident site after learning Miss Lennai would help plan the rescue of those trapped below.
• Heath received the temporary quest Guests from the Other Side, which required him to stay open all night and serve nighttime guests.
• Heath suspected the guests might come from the Distortion World and returned to his food truck to prepare for the all-nighter.
• Heath drove to the Officer Jennys' Dormitory Area and used an item to sleep before his shift.
• Heath woke at eleven, read Sister Feng's messages, and found Farfetch'd, Zoroark, Charmeleon, Snorlax, and Little Red keeping busy.
• Heath prepared himself to meet the guests from the other side.

Heath explained to Zoroark and Charmeleon that sleeping on the left side would not make someone’s heart explode, then prepared to serve the night’s guests. A miner who had died in the day’s accident arrived at Heath’s food truck, suggesting the mission was connected to the incident.

• Zoroark asked Heath whether sleeping on the left side could damage the heart after reading about it in a novel.
• Heath reassured Zoroark and Charmeleon that sleeping positions did not cause the heart to explode and gave them basic advice about sleeping comfortably.
• Heath drove to Pewter City’s only late-night supermarket, bought ingredients for his guests, and replenished Snorlax’s special food.
• At midnight, a claw touched the wind chimes at Heath’s food truck, and gray haze enveloped it.
• A miner wearing a helmet entered the truck and confirmed to Heath that he had arrived that day.
• Heath connected the miner’s arrival to the accident that had happened earlier that day.

Heath served A-Zhe beer and barbecue in the Distortion World and earned a Distortion World Point, which he could exchange with Giratina for items. Three miners arrived, including Scarface, whom Heath had served while alive, and Scarface asked for an expensive meal.

• Heath prepared draft beer, lamb and pork skewers, and grilled vegetables for A-Zhe.
• A-Zhe ate normally, and Heath received one Distortion World Point for serving him.
• Heath considered exchanging his points with Giratina for unusual items.
• Three miners entered, and the man in front recognized A-Zhe.
• Scarface vaguely recognized Heath, then laughed and asked for the most expensive food Heath could make.

Heath served Lava Eel Rice to three dead miners, then listened as they worried about the families they had left behind. After eleven miners gathered at his food truck, Nurse Joy arrived to make them complete their resident registration and grew suspicious when she felt Heath’s body heat.

• Heath prepared and served three portions of Lava Eel Rice to A-Zhe and two other dead miners, earning thirty Distortion World points.
• The young miner worried about his parents, while the scar-faced man and another companion discussed their families and wills.
• Four men laughed and ate together, and seven more miners arrived at Heath’s food truck, bringing the gathering to eleven.
• Nurse Joy arrived and scolded the miners for skipping their resident registration details before seeing them off.
• Nurse Joy questioned where Heath came from, then noticed his body heat and pinched his cheek.

Heath served Feng Joy tomato and egg rice, but a resident ID from Giratina concealed his living identity from her. Giratina then asked Heath to prepare an ore rock bug, whose tough legs and powerful bite made it difficult to handle.

• Heath cooked tomato and egg rice for Feng Joy, who suspected he was alive.
• A Dusknoir returned Heath’s missing resident ID, and its effect made him appear to be an ordinary dead person to Distortion World residents.
• Giratina explained that the living must not learn of the Distortion World because its residents longed to contact them.
• Giratina gave Heath an ore rock bug and asked him to cook it.
• Heath learned that removing the bug’s legs would soften its flesh, but found its rock-hard legs difficult to cut and saw it bite a chunk from the counter.

Heath prepared a difficult Ore Rock Bug for Giratina, who ate its soul before Heath finished cooking the creature. Giratina enjoyed Heath’s breadcrumb-coated fried Ore Rock Bug, while Heath returned to the kitchen to figure out how to cook its legs.

• Heath struggled to remove the Ore Rock Bug’s legs until Giratina told him they were edible.
• The Ore Rock Bug stopped moving after Heath removed its last leg, and Giratina ate its emerging soul.
• Heath marinated the Ore Rock Bug and fried it in breadcrumbs using Dialga’s Seasoning Jar.
• Giratina ate the finished Ore Rock Bug and praised its taste.

Heath turned Ore Rock Bug legs into lemon-style boneless chicken feet and served them to Giratina, then completed the special quest and spent his points on two potions. After returning to the real world, he headed to Pewter City's vegetable market and planned to work only until noon so he could reset his body clock.

• Heath boiled and seasoned Ore Rock Bug legs into a sour, mildly spicy snack, then served them to Giratina.
• Heath checked the Gourmet Pokédex and learned that one Ore Rock Bug cost 3,200 Customer Satisfaction points to redeem.
• Giratina finished the food, paid Heath, and disappeared; a kick sent Heath back to the real world, where he found his Pokémon asleep in their Poké Balls.
• Heath completed the special quest and redeemed an Agility Potion and an Inspiration Potion, using all his saved points.
• Heath drank both potions, drove to Pewter City's vegetable market for ingredients, and planned to close at noon to adjust his body clock.

Heath prepared vermicelli soup for breakfast and took his food truck to Pewter City to serve customers and complete his achievement task. As his Pokémon ate, he considered Charmeleon’s training and remembered his promise to take Snorlax to an amusement park.

• Mew asked Heath where he had gone, and Heath avoided explaining the Distortion World.
• Heath woke his Pokémon, bought ingredients at Pewter City’s vegetable market, and made vermicelli soup for the day.
• Zoroark mistook the vermicelli soup for porridge, while Mew chatted with it during breakfast.
• Heath watched Charmeleon eat with iron weights on its arms and recalled Mr. Fujiyama’s advice to keep the weights light.
• Heath asked Snorlax whether it wanted to visit an amusement park, and Snorlax looked back at him in confusion while holding a pot of soup.

Heath planned to visit Lavender Town after finishing business in Pewter City, then take Snorlax to a heavyweight Pokémon amusement park in Vermilion City. Sister Feng told Heath that she had applied to transfer from peaceful Viridian City, leaving him worried about whether the move would be approved.

• Heath found an amusement park in Vermilion City where Snorlax could ride the attractions and promised to take him there.
• Heath decided to visit Lavender Town to investigate the house he was supposed to inherit and his parents’ research, then go to Vermilion City.
• Sister Feng asked Heath why his food truck had been away overnight, and he said he had tried serving late-night customers.
• Sister Feng told Heath that the mining disaster had made her reflect on Viridian City’s safety and peace.
• Sister Feng said she had applied to transfer so she could help more people, and Heath asked whether her application had been approved.

Officer Jenny Feng told Heath she was transferring to Vermilion City, and Heath wished her well as she left Viridian City. Heath then prepared to introduce rice flour-steamed pork as a new limited-edition dish at his food truck.

• Officer Jenny Feng told Heath her family had arranged for her to take over as captain in Vermilion City.
• Heath served Sister Feng beef noodles, and she invited him to cook at the Officer Jenny headquarters after he visited Vermilion City.
• Sister Feng finished breakfast and left, while Heath waved goodbye and promised to visit her.
• Heath decided to make rice flour-steamed pork as a Three Kingdoms limited-edition meal.
• Heath took out pork and potatoes and prepared to make portions with both fatty and lean meat and lean meat alone.

Heath accepted Mr. Sanji’s milk delivery and arranged to have it tested before serving it. Miss Lennai returned for Heath’s chicken soup rice, while the breakfast rush brought schoolchildren to his food truck.

• Mr. Sanji delivered Miltank milk to Heath, who planned to get it tested and post the report for customers.
• Heath considered promoting chicken soup rice to avoid leftover soup and chicken after making it for Miss Lennai.
• Miss Lennai returned and ordered the chicken soup rice she had enjoyed the day before.
• Zoroark served Miss Lennai lemonade and brought her chicken soup rice as the morning crowd arrived.
• Schoolchildren came to Heath’s food truck for breakfast, drawn in part by the popular Three Kingdoms Limited Edition card packs.

Miss Lennai gave Heath an archaeological fossil from the ancient Hisui era, which she and Cynthia had prepared as a gift. Zoroark recognized the fossil’s claw mark as resembling one from her kind, leaving Heath wondering whether Zorua had lived in Hisui.

• Miss Lennai praised Heath’s busy restaurant and wondered whether he would leave Pewter City after earning so much.
• Miss Lennai gave Heath a fossil discovered in the Sinnoh Region and explained that it came from the Hisui era, over a thousand years ago.
• After Miss Lennai left, Heath caught Zoroark reaching toward the fossil and told her to wash the dishes.
• Zoroark told Heath that the fossil’s claw print looked like one from her kind.
• Heath recalled Hisuian Zorua and Zoroark and suggested that Zorua might have lived in Hisui.

Ash remembered Heath’s unusual advice about catching Pokémon as Xiaowu secretly brought him into the woods to catch a wild Pokémon. After Xiaowu’s Poké Ball failed to hold the Pokémon, Ash copied Heath’s method and hit it on the head with another ball.

• Xiaowu asked Ash how to catch Pokémon, and Ash recalled Heath saying a Heavy Ball could knock one unconscious.
• Xiaowu secretly gave Ash a Poké Ball and invited him to find a cute Pokémon in the woods near school.
• Xiaowu threw his Poké Ball at a sleeping Musharna, but it shattered, and the angered Pokémon used Hypnosis on him.
• Ash crept behind Musharna and hurled his Poké Ball at its head, leaving Musharna staring at him in confusion.

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.