Chapter Summaries

Heath completed the paperwork for his food truck in Eterna City without using Cynthia’s introduction, then learned he had been assigned a spot in the city’s prime commercial district. He returned to his truck after joking and walking with Cynthia, and planned to buy a lottery ticket the next morning.

• Heath finished the required paperwork late in the evening while Cynthia offered to write him a letter of introduction.
• Cynthia lent Heath her gloves and a knitted hat, and the two teased each other as they walked through the cold streets.
• Heath checked his assigned vending spot and found it was at the intersection of Fuchun Street and Pokémon Central Road.
• Cynthia recognized the location as Eterna City’s prime commercial district and was surprised Heath had secured it without her help.
• Cynthia returned to her work, and Heath went back to his food truck, deciding to buy a lottery ticket the next morning.

Heath arrived at his new spot in Eterna City and discovered that Dialga, in human form, ran the restaurant opposite it. Dialga asked Heath to cook him breakfast with ordinary ingredients, and Heath began preparing steamed buns.

• Heath drove to his spot before dawn and noticed the nearby Leisure Restaurant was already open.
• Dialga came out of the restaurant and greeted Heath, who recognized him and feared he was angry about Heath's kitchen tools.
• Dialga teased Heath about taking his pressure cooker, knife, seasoning jars, and apron, then asked him to cook a dish to show how his skills had improved.
• Heath brought Dialga into his food truck, where Mew greeted Dialga and chatted with him.
• Heath planned to make crab roe soup dumplings, but Dialga requested ordinary ingredients such as pork, so Heath chose to make steamed buns instead.

Heath made miniature buns for Dialga, who enjoyed them and left on friendly terms after paying. With the weather turning colder, Heath set out to find a shop that could build the kitchen equipment for his hot pot ideas.

• Heath prepared miniature buns filled with shiitake mushrooms and pork, pickled vegetables and pork, and chives and eggs for Dialga.
• Dialga tasted the buns, praised Heath’s cooking, and said he looked forward to seeing Heath’s restaurant open.
• Dialga left a hundred-League-Coin banknote and returned to his Leisure Restaurant.
• Heath noticed the freezing weather and tiny snowflakes, then drove toward a custom furniture shop to ask about making kitchen equipment.

Heath arranged urgent custom equipment and bought supplies so he could open his food truck for hot pot by lunchtime. After shopping in Eterna City’s market, he headed to the supermarket with Farfetch'd and the others to buy seasonings.

• Heath persuaded a custom furniture maker to arrange a specially made conveyor-belt hot pot table for delivery before noon.
• Heath bought induction cookers, pots, and other kitchen equipment from a shop owner who opened early for him.
• Heath visited Eterna City’s market, which had been built in ruins that authorities had discovered were fabricated historical remains.
• Heath bought ingredients and heard conflicting claims about Eterna City’s specialties, including Eterna Sheep and a rare local rat.
• Heath drove to his usual food-truck spot, then took Farfetch'd and the others to the supermarket for seasonings and cookbooks.

Heath prepared his food truck to serve conveyor-belt individual hot pot, choosing soup bases and setting up the new dining equipment. As mealtime arrived, he nervously faced his first culinary competition against the famous Leisure Restaurant, determined that taste would decide the winner.

• Heath bought seasonings and supplies for several hot pot bases and planned to let customers mix their own dipping sauces.
• Farfetch'd brought back cookbooks that suggested Sinnoh diners favored sweet-and-sour flavors, leading Heath to expect the tomato broth to be popular.
• Zoroark bought board games to play with Mew instead of buying new game discs.
• Heath had the custom conveyor dining table installed and set up induction cookers and bowls in his food truck.
• Heath checked the time, realized mealtime had arrived, and reflected on the Leisure Restaurant's reputation as Eterna City's top-rated restaurant.

Heath opened his food truck opposite Leisure Restaurant in Eterna City and drew Cynthia as his first customer. He introduced her to conveyor-belt individual hot pot, and she discovered she enjoyed the novel way of dining.

• Heath put up a hot pot advertising sign outside his food truck across from Leisure Restaurant.
• Cynthia arrived to support Heath and became his first customer, while Leisure Restaurant attracted the other diners.
• Heath explained the conveyor-belt individual hot pot and recommended Cynthia try the numbing-spicy soup base.
• Cynthia prepared her own hot pot and, after adjusting to the process, found the individual dining experience interesting.

Cynthia enjoyed Heath’s conveyor-belt mini hot pot and ginger tea while they talked about the bitter cold. After a couple arrived looking for food, Heath introduced them to the mini hot pot, and the man asked whether the Food Truck served dessert.

• Cynthia ate several plates of fatty beef and praised Heath’s conveyor-belt mini hot pot.
• Heath poured Cynthia a cup of ginger tea, and she teased him for acting like an old person.
• A couple entered after finding Leisure Restaurant too crowded, and Cynthia put on her glasses to avoid being recognized.
• Heath explained how the mini hot pot worked, and the couple chose their broth bases and visited the dipping-sauce station.
• The man asked Heath whether he had any desserts.

Heath prepared Baumkuchen for a couple at his hot pot restaurant while Cynthia gave him a warm Flaaffy-wool scarf. As customers drawn by the restaurant’s aroma began arriving, Heath called Zoroark and Farfetch'd to help serve them.

• A man ordered Baumkuchen for himself and his embarrassed girlfriend, and Heath went to prepare it.
• While waiting for the oven, Heath spoke with Cynthia, who gave him a gray scarf made from Flaaffy wool.
• Heath thanked Cynthia, tried on the scarf, then put it away because it was too warm inside the restaurant.
• The aroma from Heath’s open windows drew curious people and former Leisure Restaurant patrons into his food truck.
• Heath called Zoroark away from its games, and Farfetch'd helped prepare and serve the hot pot ingredients.

Heath’s Shiny Ralts offered to help with the customers’ bills and proved far better at arithmetic than Zoroark. As Heath returned to serving customers, a skeletal man appeared and asked whether he had fried rice.

• Heath struggled to keep up with customers at his hot pot stall while Zoroark had trouble calculating bills.
• Ralts tried to explain that she wanted to help Heath, and he guessed she meant to assist Zoroark with the arithmetic.
• Heath watched Ralts calculate several customers’ bills correctly and assigned her to help Zoroark.
• A skeletal-looking man asked Heath for fried rice, and Heath saw a customer pass through the man’s flickering body.

Heath used his Reincarnation Eyes to see a skeletal ghost who asked him for fried rice, and Heath prepared a meal with Resurrection Lettuce to see whether it could help the ghost pass on. The ghost revealed that he had died of an illness and had remained in the area for half a year, and Heath asked whether he had any last wishes.

• Heath saw a skeletal ghost in his Food Truck, and the ghost excitedly asked him to make fried rice.
• Heath checked the ghost’s food preferences and chose to add Resurrection Lettuce to the meal.
• The ghost told Heath he had not spoken to anyone for half a year and wondered whether Heath was an exorcist.
• Heath learned the ghost had died of an illness and had awakened in the hospital already looking like skin and bones.
• Heath explained the afterlife to the ghost, noticed the needle marks on his body, and asked whether he had any last wishes.

Heath served fried rice to Ono, a ghost who had been unable to eat his fill before dying, and discovered that the meal fulfilled Ono’s lingering wish. After Ono returned to normal and moved on, Heath wondered what Ralts’s own lingering wish might be.

• Ono explained that he had few memories and wondered whether his lingering wish was simply to eat his fill.
• Heath served Ono fried rice, and Ono ate it despite the spoon passing through his hand.
• Heath received a Root-Stem Card after serving Ono, then watched Ono’s sunken belly begin to fill out.
• Ono’s body glowed and returned to normal as he realized his lingering wish had been to eat a proper meal before moving on.
• Ono revealed that he had died of digestive tract cancer, and Heath wondered whether Ralts’s lingering wish involved the four people who had tormented her.

Heath checked the fried rice Mr. Ono had left behind and discovered that a ghost’s meal had spoiled it from within. After declining a local influencer’s offer to promote his food truck, Heath told Zoroark not to allow filming or livestreaming, then served a young couple who asked about grilled shrimp skewers.

• Heath used his Ingredient Identifier on Mr. Ono’s leftover fried rice and learned that it had rotted and was no longer fit to eat.
• Heath threw away the spoiled fried rice and returned to the crowded food truck.
• Zoroark introduced Heath to a local Eterna City restaurant streamer who wanted to eat and promote the food truck.
• Heath politely declined the promotion, and the streamer left without arguing.
• Heath told Zoroark to allow streamers to eat but refuse filming and livestreaming at the truck.
• Heath offered a young couple grilled shrimp skewers for twelve each, and the girl asked her boyfriend whether they should order one.

Heath sold grilled jumbo shrimp skewers to customers, earning praise for their freshness and quality. When a group of girls asked for ice cream hot pot, Heath agreed to serve it, though the chapter ended before he prepared it.

• A customer asked Heath about the size of his grilled shrimp skewers, and the group ordered thirty-seven after seeing one.
• Heath grilled fresh jumbo shrimp, brushed them with barbecue sauce, and served them to the customers.
• A man praised the shrimp’s freshness and flavor, becoming a satisfied customer alongside his companion.
• Zoroark called Heath over when she could not understand a group of girls’ request for ice cream hot pot.
• Heath confirmed that he could make ice cream hot pot for the girls.

Heath prepared ice cream hot pot for the girls and served extra ice cream to customers despite warning them that eating cold food after hot food could cause diarrhea. Zoroark then hinted at a prank before claiming she only wanted to give a customer free ice cream.

• Heath sent Zoroark to buy desserts while he helped Ralts handle payments.
• Zoroark returned with pastries, and Heath had Snorlax make ice cream before serving the hot pot to the girls.
• Customers drawn by the chocolate sauce ordered ice cream, but Heath warned them that cold food after hot food could upset their stomachs.
• Zoroark asked Heath whether eating cold food after hot food caused diarrhea, and he reminded her what had happened to Ada.
• Heath confronted Zoroark about her suspicious expression, and she said she planned to give a stern-looking middle-aged customer free ice cream.

After Zoroark caught a customer trying to grope her while she was disguised as Betty, Heath used surveillance footage to report him to the Officer Jennys. The Sinnoh Region’s Pokémon sexual-harassment regulations meant the man could face up to fifteen days in detention, and Heath searched online to find out why the region had such a rule.

• Zoroark told Heath that a middle-aged customer had repeatedly tried to touch her, and Heath checked the food truck’s surveillance footage.
• Heath confirmed the man’s attempts on the recording and called the Officer Jennys as the customer tried to leave.
• The man claimed Zoroark’s clothing meant she wanted to be touched, and the Officer Jennys took him away while recording her information.
• Heath explained that Zoroark had no resident ID, and an Officer Jenny discovered that Sinnoh regulations allowed up to fifteen days’ detention for indecent acts against Pokémon.
• Heath sent the Officer Jennys off, apologized to the affected customers with juice, and searched online to learn why Sinnoh had the regulation.

Heath learned from Cynthia that Sinnoh’s Pokémon harassment regulations followed the League’s destruction of the perverted Sorrowful Wind Team. After adjusting to Sinnoh’s time zone and closing his food truck, Heath went out to explore Eterna City with his Pokémon.

• Heath asked Cynthia about Sinnoh’s regulations, and she explained how the Sorrowful Wind Team’s leader and members had become perverted, prompting the League to wipe them out.
• Heath discovered that his phone still showed Kanto time, corrected it to Sinnoh time, and realized it was only five thirty in the afternoon.
• Heath served customers until eight thirty, checked his ingredients, and closed his food truck for the night.
• Heath showered, changed clothes, and applied Skuntank-brand spray before heading out to explore Eterna City.
• Heath carried Ralts while Zoroark walked beside him, and he admired Eterna City’s ancient, ruin-like beauty.

Heath explored Eterna City with Zoroark and Charizard, who bought a suspiciously titled book and visited a gym. The chapter left Charizard trying the gym equipment while its employee showed him around.

• Zoroark persuaded Heath to buy a book titled "Exploring the methods and secrets of ancient human intimacy," and Heath had her change into an otaku form to avoid drawing suspicious looks.
• Charizard pointed out a gym, and Zoroark explained that he wanted to check it out.
• Heath took Charizard to the Did You Work Out Today gym, where an employee welcomed them and introduced the facilities.
• The employee focused on Charizard, who soon led the way and tried out the gym equipment.

Heath watched Charizard buy fitness supplies before finding a street vendor selling homemade corn liquor. After tasting and scanning the liquor, Heath decided to buy all of it, and the vendor offered a price of 130 League Coins per jin.

• Charizard bought protein powder, fitness magazines, and reinforced steel-plate weight bags after getting advice at a gym.
• Heath heard a vendor advertising homemade corn liquor and went over to inspect it.
• The vendor claimed the liquor had been stored for three years and let Heath taste a sample.
• Heath found the liquor flavorful, scanned it with his Ingredient Identifier, and learned it was properly stored but mildly toxic because it contained alcohol.
• Heath said he would buy all the liquor, and the vendor offered it for 130 League Coins per jin.

Heath explored Eterna City, bought a strange figure, and returned to sleep. The next morning, he found Mew and Zoroark sharing his bed and discovered Ralts had learned a new word.

• Heath bought distinctive liquor for 130 League Coins per jin and had Charizard carry the barrels as a workout.
• Heath browsed Eterna City's souvenirs and bought a poorly made Dialga figure for sixty after bargaining with its stall owner.
• The next morning, Heath found Zoroark sleeping under one blanket and Mew under another in his bed.
• Heath noticed the cold morning weather and saw Ralts sitting beside him; Ralts said, "Cold!"

Heath took Ralts to brush her teeth, then bought ingredients at Eterna City’s Vegetable Market and prepared for another busy day. He found pea shoots, his favorite vegetable, and decided to make pea-and-minced-pork noodles for breakfast and pea shoot soup.

• Heath helped Ralts brush her tiny teeth with a children’s toothbrush and praised her as she practiced speaking.
• Heath bought extra meat and other ingredients at the Vegetable Market, where he noticed vendors wetting their vegetables to increase their weight.
• Heath saw Dialga carrying a bag of fish into the market and wondered whether the Leisure Restaurant would serve fish that day.
• Heath returned to the food truck and began preparing ingredients and seasoning for the day’s hot pot business.
• Heath bought a large quantity of pea shoots and decided to make pea-and-minced-pork noodles for breakfast and pea shoot soup.