Chapter Summaries

Heath used the Pokémon language communication pill and gained the ability to communicate with Grass-type Pokémon. As his stall grew busier, he served mustard-loving Meiling and then asked Dagang whether he had heard of a depth charge.

• Heath took the Pokémon language communication pill and learned he could communicate with Grass-type Pokémon.
• Meiling returned and ordered grilled eggplant, fried noodles, and chicken wing flats covered in mustard.
• Heath prepared Meiling’s food while Zoroark reacted with disgust to the mustard-covered dishes.
• Dagang arrived for his usual beer, and Heath asked whether he had heard of a depth charge.
• Dagang said he knew of the cocktail but only drank beer.

Heath served Dagang and Mr. Xiaotian food and drinks while talking with Xiaotian about his job at a busy Lavender Town funeral home. Xiaotian said funeral-home wages were not as high as online rumors claimed and sighed that his work made it difficult to find a partner.

• Dagang ordered Scallion Intestine and beer, recalling how much he had enjoyed the dish before.
• Heath brought out several cases of beer for Dagang and prepared grilled chicken feet and cold beer for Xiaotian.
• Heath asked Xiaotian about his work at a funeral home in Lavender Town, where Pokémon and human funerals kept staff busy.
• Xiaotian explained that online claims of exceptionally high funeral-home wages were nonsense.
• Xiaotian sighed that he was twenty-eight and still unmarried because finding a partner in his line of work was difficult.

Heath comforted Xiaotian, a mortuary beautician who struggled with prejudice and pressure to marry, and received another mortuary cosmetics book for serving him. As Lavender Town prepared for the Day of the Departed, old Ma Zhide noticed that Charmeleon was close to evolving.

• Heath reassured Xiaotian that his good qualities would help him find someone, and Xiaotian said his mother had long urged him to marry.
• After Heath served Xiaotian chicken feet, he received The Complete Guide to Mortuary Cosmetics, adding to the mortuary makeup books he had been receiving.
• Heath wondered whether the Officer Jennys had found evidence against the girl he had met at the Indigo League, then returned his attention to the busy stall.
• Heath reflected that Lavender Town's Day of the Departed would bring visitors to tend graves and that the town's prices were higher than Pallet Town's.
• Old Ma Zhide arrived and told Heath that Charmeleon seemed close to evolving.

Ma Zhide realized Heath’s Charmeleon was suppressing his evolution by training with weights, and warned him that holding back too long could harm his body. After Heath encouraged him to remove the weights, Charmeleon began to evolve.

• Ma Zhide examined Heath’s unusually well-built Charmeleon and noticed that he was resisting evolution.
• Charmeleon admitted he had been suppressing his evolution, and Heath realized his training weights might be part of it.
• Ma Zhide warned Charmeleon that delaying evolution too long could damage his body, comparing the strain to an overcompressed spring.
• Heath nodded to encourage Charmeleon, who removed his weights and was immediately surrounded by evolutionary light.

Heath watched Charmeleon evolve into a powerful Charizard, leaving the diners in awe. Old Ma Zhide praised Heath’s Pokémon and grew nostalgic before accepting Heath’s offer of food.

• Heath and the diners watched as Charmeleon was surrounded by Evolutionary Light and evolved into Charizard.
• Heath admired Charizard’s muscular build and considered it a possible flying mount, though he disliked flying and doubted it could carry Snorlax.
• Old Ma Zhide praised Heath’s Charizard and remembered his own A-Pen.
• The diners took out their phones to film or photograph Charizard.
• Heath offered Ma Zhide something to eat, and Ma Zhide wiped his eyes and accepted.

Heath prepared extra food for Old Mr. Ma Zhide and hoped the old man would help him complete his Reincarnation Eyes Mission. While cooking, Heath noticed a suspicious man near his stall and realized he was looking for leftover food rather than trying to steal.

• Heath gave Old Mr. Ma Zhide extra portions and waived his bill while the old man advised Charizard and Heath about Pokémon health checks.
• Heath hoped Old Mr. Ma Zhide would serve more Ghost Pokémon and complete the final requirement for his Reincarnation Eyes Mission before Dialga's Apron expired.
• Zoroark alerted Heath to a black-clad man watching the barbecue stalls, and Heath initially suspected he might be a thief.
• Heath watched the man pretend to clear away customers' bags and leave with them, then concluded he was hungry and seeking food.

Heath watched a healthy-looking man collect and eat customers’ leftovers at his barbecue stall, then served a large advance order from Officer Jenny Yin. After paying for the food, Officer Jenny Yin left on Arcanine.

• Heath saw a man gather leftovers from several tables, pack them up, and leave happily.
• Officer Jenny Yin arrived in casual clothes and ordered fried rice for fifty-seven people and barbecue for a hundred and thirty-two.
• Heath prepared the order while serving other customers, with help from Farfetch'd and Charmeleon.
• Heath delivered the food, and Officer Jenny Yin paid 7,455 League Coins before riding away on Arcanine.

After Officer Jenny Yin recovered her legs, Heath finished a busy night at his barbecue stall and went home, still unable to complete the Reincarnation Eyes task. The next day, he planned to investigate Ralts's lingering wish and continue searching for answers to his other Lavender Town tasks.

• Heath reflected that Officer Jenny Yin seemed younger now that Ho-Oh had restored her legs, and recalled how her disability had shaped her feelings toward his family.
• Heath served customers until three in the morning, then packed up his stall without any troublemakers causing a fight.
• Heath noticed that the Reincarnation Eyes task remained incomplete despite serving old Mr. Ma Zhide, and went to sleep without finding a solution.
• Heath woke after one in the afternoon, greeted Mew, and planned to examine Ralts's memories and uncover its lingering wish.
• Heath thought about his unresolved Resurrection Lettuce and Reincarnation Eyes tasks, then set out to buy groceries and make lunch.

Heath’s newly evolved Charizard learned Fly, making travel easier, while Heath considered the League’s public story that Ho-Oh had restored Officer Jenny Yin’s legs. He believed the League’s publicity would create unrealistic expectations of Legendary Pokémon, then took Farfetch'd and Zoroark shopping for ingredients.

• Charizard’s mastery of Fly gave Heath a new way to travel, though he still used his food truck to bring home groceries.
• Heath decided to buy larger exercise equipment for Charizard while Mew played with Zoroark and Farfetch'd and Snorlax continued their secret discussions.
• At the market, Heath saw the Lavender Daily report that Ho-Oh had blessed Officer Jenny Yin and restored her legs after she lost them in an operation.
• Heath believed he had actually enabled Yin’s recovery and thought the League’s publicity would make people expect Legendary Pokémon to help them.
• Heath took Farfetch'd and Zoroark shopping for ingredients and planned to cook ordinary food and Steam Pot Chicken.

Heath revisited Ralts’s memories and uncovered clues suggesting that the strange figures who tormented her were humans, while the bizarre shapes may have been school supplies. The memories disappeared before he could learn more, leaving him to consider how to help Ralts next.

• Heath prepared braised chicken and lunch for Mew, then flew with Charizard to the place where he had found Ralts.
• He found Ralts sitting beside the grave mound and asked Mew to show him her remains so he could read her memories.
• Heath saw Gardevoir’s remains hanging in a rainy forest but was ejected from the memory before he could identify what was attached to them.
• In another memory, Heath witnessed Ralts hanging from a rope while four dark figures mocked her, and he spotted a pencil case on the ground.
• Heath wondered whether the figures were humans and the strange shapes were compasses and a set square, but Ralts’s memories vanished before he could investigate further.

Heath found Gardevoir’s remains and brought them to Ralts, fulfilling her wish to lie beside her mother. He received a Ghost World Trainer License and a new task to identify and punish Ralts’s abusers, while Ralts remained in the world and reached for him.

• Heath asked Mew to search for Gardevoir’s remains, and Mew found them in a grove near Lavender Town.
• Heath brought Gardevoir’s remains to Ralts, who woke and curled up beside her mother.
• Heath received the Late-Arriving Light achievement and a Ghost World Trainer License that allowed him to catch one Ghost World Pokémon.
• Heath received the next achievement prompt, which urged him to uncover the abusers’ identities and make them pay.
• Ralts remained beside her mother, reached out to Heath, and said that she hurt, prompting Heath to take out his Poké Ball.

Heath discovered that his newly caught Ralts could not be detected by the Pokédex and suspected that it was a Ghost type from the Distortion World. After Ralts used psychic powers and exhausted herself, Heath decided to ask Giratina about her, but Giratina arrived to order pork intestines.

• Heath’s Pokédex failed to detect Ralts and instead identified a nearby swarm of Beedrill, forcing Heath to flee back to his food truck.
• Heath concluded that Ralts could not be detected and suspected she was part Ghost because she floated.
• Ralts lifted Heath with psychic powers, then grew exhausted and left him shivering.
• Heath decided to ask Giratina about Ralts and reached through Hoopa’s Golden Ring, but Giratina appeared in person.
• Giratina ordered pork intestines, and Heath went to prepare the meal.

Heath learned from Giratina that Pokémon retained their original types after death and that resurrection lettuce was meant for helping Pokémon like Ralts pass on. Giratina departed after eating Heath’s dry pot pork intestines, leaving Heath with the answer that his task had failed because he had served the wrong customers.

• Heath prepared dry pot pork intestines while Ralts stayed close to him and watched Giratina warily.
• Giratina explained that dead Pokémon kept their original types and gained ghostly power that strengthened Ghost-type Pokémon.
• Heath asked Giratina about resurrection lettuce, and Giratina said it could help Pokémon like Ralts pass on but that Heath had served the wrong customers.
• Heath served Giratina dry pot pork intestines and rice, and Giratina made both the food and its pot disappear.
• Giratina promised to return, then vanished and kicked Heath onto the floor.

Heath received an unlabeled bottle of red wine from Giratina and prepared for the evening before a Bewear visited to promote a gym. Charizard joined Bewear in a bodybuilding pose-off, leaving Heath watching their unexpected display.

• Giratina left Heath a sealed, unlabeled bottle of red wine, which Heath decided to check with the Ingredient Identifier.
• Heath canceled the barbecue discount promotion and called Farfetch'd to help prepare the evening's ingredients.
• Bewear arrived at Heath's home to hand out a flyer for Muscle-Packed Gym and asked whether he was interested in swimming and fitness.
• Heath declined the offer, but Charizard took the flyer and showed interest.
• Bewear displayed its muscles in a bodybuilding pose, and Charizard removed his weights and posed back at it.

Heath watched Charizard and Bewear compete over bodybuilding poses and reflected on gym culture in Lavender Town and Pewter City. When Ralts pointed out the ketchup, Heath realized that feeding the Ghost-type Pokémon might help him complete two tasks at once.

• Heath waited as Charizard and Bewear continued competing over their poses, and Charizard eventually returned smug while Bewear left dejectedly.
• Heath threw away a gym advertisement because he did not plan to stay in Lavender Town long enough to use a membership.
• Ralts woke up and pointed at the ketchup on Heath's cutting board, and Heath offered to let her try some.
• Heath wondered whether Ralts could eat despite being a Ghost Pokémon and decided that feeding her might complete both his Reincarnation Eyes task and a task involving Lavender Town's specialty ingredient.

Heath cooked Resurrection Lettuce for Ralts and told Mew and Zoroark a true story about being frightened by a cushion that looked like someone under a blanket. He suggested that everyday-life surprises could be used to scare someone, then served Ralts the dish.

• Heath wondered why Resurrection Lettuce had not sent Ralts on to its next life.
• Mew asked Heath whether he had ever experienced anything paranormal because it wanted to frighten a human who had annoyed it.
• Heath told Mew and Zoroark how a cushion and blanket once looked like a person lying beneath the covers, frightening him so badly that he spent the night at an internet café.
• Heath suggested that ordinary, unexpected sights could make scarier stories than obvious horror, and Mew nodded before returning to the room.
• Heath served the Resurrection Lettuce to Ralts and asked how it tasted.

After completing Lavender Town's achievement, Heath used his Item Upgrade Ticket on the Broken Anywhere Door. The door became usable but could only be used once a week, and Heath considered traveling to the Sinnoh Region to see Cynthia.

• Ralts ate Resurrection Lettuce, completing Heath's Special Mission: Reincarnation Eyes and another task, and he received a Special Attack Candy and a Special Reward.
• Heath learned that Reincarnation Eyes let him see lingering human or Pokémon souls by chance, and he planned to ask Officer Jenny about the follow-up achievement and the remains of Gardevoir and Ralts.
• Heath received one Item Upgrade Ticket for completing the Lavender Town achievement and found that it could only be used on granted items, not Dialga's Pressure Cooker.
• Heath chose to upgrade the Broken Anywhere Door rather than the Ingredient Identifier or the Magic Conch.
• The upgrade turned the Broken Anywhere Door into a Flawed Anywhere Door that could take him to a chosen destination once per week.
• Heath wondered whether he could use the door to visit Cynthia in the Sinnoh Region.

Heath used the Anywhere Door to travel from Lavender Town to Eterna City in Sinnoh, where he met up with Cynthia. He discovered that unfinished Kanto travel achievements prevented him from earning Sinnoh achievements and left the story with Cynthia arriving in disguise.

• Heath reported the remains and clues from Ralts's death to the Officer Jenny Unit, then messaged Cynthia to confirm she was in Eterna City.
• After Cynthia confirmed her location, Heath drove his food truck through the Anywhere Door and arrived on the outskirts of Eterna City with Mew and Zoroark.
• Heath learned that he could not obtain Sinnoh travel achievements until he completed the unfinished Kanto travel achievements.
• Heath reached Eterna City, parked near statues of Dialga and Palkia, and sent Cynthia his location.
• Cynthia arrived on Togekiss in disguise, and Heath recognized her by her voice before asking if she wanted something to eat.

Heath made Cynthia a spicy-and-clear-broth hot pot during Eterna City’s cold snap and considered adding conveyor-belt mini hot pots to his restaurant. He decided the new menu would require restaurant renovations and equipment before he could open for business.

• Cynthia asked Heath to make her dinner, and he chose hot pot to suit Eterna City’s cold weather.
• Heath considered offering conveyor-belt mini hot pots so customers could cook and eat individually instead of sharing a pot.
• Heath served Cynthia a yuanyang hot pot and explained how long different ingredients needed to cook.
• As Cynthia ate, Heath planned to buy hot pot equipment, modify the dining area, and improve its air conditioning and ventilation.

Heath met Cynthia in Eterna City, explained why he had come to Sinnoh, and completed the paperwork for his food truck. The chapter ended with the owner and head chef of the Leisure Restaurant staring toward Heath with an angry expression.

• Heath recalled unpleasant encounters with unhygienic people and decided to keep his food truck clean and well ventilated.
• Cynthia asked Heath why he had come to Sinnoh, and he said he wanted to see the region and visit her.
• Heath asked Cynthia where to find the Officer Jenny Unit, but declined her offer of a letter of introduction.
• Cynthia told Heath that researchers had discovered an ancient Zoroark in Sinnoh, and Heath guessed it might be a Ghost-type.
• Cynthia left after receiving a call, and Heath completed the paperwork for his food truck at the Officer Jenny Unit and the industry and commerce bureau.
• The owner and head chef of the Leisure Restaurant stared toward Heath with an expression that seemed angry.