Chapter Summaries

Heath prepared lemongrass-grilled fish for Nami, using Herba Mystica sauce and a special method to debone and support the fish. Nami eagerly ate the dish, and after serving all his customers, Heath received a jar of Calming Chewing Gum.

• Heath chose lemongrass to give Nami's grilled fish a subtle plant fragrance.
• Heath deboned a saltwater fish and used lemongrass as supports before marinating it with Herba Mystica sauce in Dialga's Seasoning Jar for three hours.
• Heath grilled the fish, and its aroma drew Nami's full attention.
• Nami eagerly ate the grilled fish and showed Heath that she was satisfied.
• Heath claimed his quality reward and received a jar of Calming Chewing Gum, which could keep its chewer calm until spat out.

Heath wondered why the storage room from his upgrade had not appeared, until Palkia arrived to install it and Dialga added a constant-time effect. After exploring and organizing the vast space, Heath considered whether it could preserve a person's life, then dismissed the idea and went to bed.

• Heath searched his kitchen for the missing storage room and wondered whether he had misunderstood the upgrade.
• Palkia appeared in pajamas and installed the storage room by creating a door in the kitchen wall.
• Dialga arrived, gave the storage room a constant-time effect that kept its contents unchanged, and left a note explaining it.
• Heath explored the vast storage room, arranged labeled sections for different foods, and closed the door.
• Heath wondered whether the storage room could preserve a person's life, decided the possibility was unlikely, and returned to his lounge to prepare for bed.

Heath remembered that he had promised a wealthy gentleman pufferfish and went to the Pokémon League’s Professional Qualification Assessment Center to obtain a Pufferfish Preparation License. The chapter ended as an examiner confirmed his name before the test.

• Heath woke his Pokémon and decided to open the food truck despite the cold.
• Zoroark reminded Heath that a gentleman had asked about pufferfish, and Heath realized he had forgotten his promise to serve it.
• Heath decided to visit the Pokémon League’s Professional Qualification Assessment Center to take the licensing test.
• Heath bought ingredients, organized them in his storage room, and drove to the assessment center.
• Heath submitted his Trainer Card and entered a kitchen, where an examiner asked him to confirm his name.

Heath passed the pufferfish handling exam and received his certificate, allowing him to serve pufferfish to customers. After returning to his usual business spot, he made soup dumplings with Herba Mystica, which left Zoroark feeling unusually strong.

• Heath prepared pufferfish under the close observation of three League specialists, and the toxicity test confirmed his work was safe.
• Heath received his pufferfish handling certificate after the examiners praised his skills.
• Heath noticed a blind middle-aged man carrying a Pokémon massage certificate as the man entered the occupational certification center for his annual review.
• Heath drove his food truck to his usual business location and made soup dumplings with Herba Mystica for his Pokémon.
• Zoroark said the soup dumplings made her feel filled with strength, and Heath decided not to use Herba Mystica in hot pot because of its high cost.

Heath tested Herba Mystica as an ingredient for hot pot broth and considered how to price it, but a busy day delayed further experiments. When two young men made an unusual request, Zoroark called Heath over for help.

• Heath prepared and tasted a spicy hot pot broth made with Herba Mystica, finding it flavorful but expensive.
• Heath waited for the customer who had arranged to eat pufferfish, but the customer did not arrive by lunchtime.
• Zoroark called Heath over after two young men made a request she could not handle.
• Heath learned that the two young men wanted rice bowls topped with soft-centered eggs, a dish he had never made.

Heath prepared soft-yolk egg rice bowls for two customers, using bacteria-free eggs from the League. He welcomed back the customer who had asked for pufferfish and showed him the menu listing pufferfish dishes and Heath’s new certification.

• Heath confirmed that two young men wanted only soft-yolk eggs over rice and prepared the bowls for them.
• Heath used bacteria-free eggs from the League, which could safely be eaten raw or soft-cooked.
• Zoroark served the rice bowls, and the two customers ate them happily.
• The customer who had asked about pufferfish returned, and Heath handed him a menu showing his pufferfish certification and available dishes.
• Heath told the customer he had learned to prepare pufferfish from a teacher.

Heath prepared pufferfish for a customer to make up for breaking their arrangement, then noticed a resentful ghost clinging to the customer’s feet. A business card revealed the customer was Jin Cancan of Jin Cancan Small-Sum Financing Co., Ltd., giving Heath a clue about the ghost’s grievance.

• Heath agreed to serve the man sour broth and pufferfish, offering the dish for free to apologize for missing their arrangement.
• Heath carefully prepared the pufferfish while Farfetch'd watched, and Zoroark delivered it to the customer.
• After serving other customers, Heath noticed what looked like something by the pufferfish eater’s feet and discovered it was a ghostly man.
• Heath realized the customer’s business card identified him as Jin Cancan of Jin Cancan Small-Sum Financing Co., Ltd., and began to suspect why the ghost was there.

Heath investigated the Golden Company and found that its debt collectors had driven a gambler to suicide, but he chose not to interfere. He then received a request from the Officer Jenny Unit for more leads on Ralts's remains and struggled with whether to ask Ralts to revisit painful memories.

• Heath searched for information about the Golden Company and found complaints about its debt collectors and a recent report of a debtor's suicide.
• Heath recognized the dead man as the one who had clung to Jin Cancan and learned that he had been a compulsive gambler who owed money for over a year.
• Heath let the man's lingering spirit remain and watched the wealthy man leave, then joked that Zoroark would quickly spend her wages if she had access to loans.
• Heath received a message from the Officer Jenny Unit in Kanto asking whether he had more leads in the investigation into Ralts's and Gardevoir's remains.
• Heath watched Ralts happily working with Zoroark and worried that finding more clues might require forcing Ralts to relive painful memories.

Heath decided not to examine Ralts's memories further and returned to serving customers. When several girls asked for a hot pot with one cold side and one hot side, he agreed and began preparing it with his upgraded kitchen equipment.

• Heath told Ralts that he had no more clues and trusted the Officer Jennys to continue investigating.
• Heath wondered whether the Officer Jennys were still investigating the girl who had used him as a witness on the Indigo Plateau.
• Heath kept serving a busy crowd with Farfetch'd's help.
• Zoroark called Heath over when several girls requested a hot pot that was both icy cold and hot.
• Heath agreed to make the girls' hot pot and returned to the kitchen to prepare it.

After closing his food truck in Eterna City, Heath wondered about Dialga’s restaurant and planned to return to Lavender Town to continue investigating Ralts’s past. His daily reward appeared as garbled text, and Zoroark took Onion and the others out to buy private belongings while Heath waited for them.

• Heath saw Dialga take out a bag of trash and wondered whether Dialga had driven scalpers away from his restaurant.
• Heath planned to return to Lavender Town once the Anywhere Door’s cooldown ended and check on the investigation into Ralts’s past.
• Heath watched Ralts help Zoroark clean and worried that solving Ralts’s past might mean saying goodbye to it.
• Heath received a garbled-text reward after choosing Quality and could not find any sign of what he had received.
• Zoroark asked to take Onion and the others shopping without Heath, and Snorlax went with them.

Heath was woken at midnight by his Pokémon, who surprised him with a birthday party. After learning Zoroark had discovered his birthday from a marked calendar, Heath celebrated with them and received birthday messages from friends in Kanto.

• Heath went to bed early after returning with Zoroark and the others from shopping.
• Heath woke to the Pokémon shouting birthday wishes and covering his face with cake and streamers.
• Heath saw the decorated party and joined Zoroark, Farfetch'd, Charizard, Snorlax, and the others in celebrating.
• Zoroark explained that she had learned Heath's birthday from a calendar in his dorm room.
• Heath read birthday messages from friends, including Sister Feng, then celebrated with his Pokémon.

Heath celebrated his birthday by receiving gifts from Mr. Cord and a Restaurant Upgrade Blueprint, which he used to expand the dining area. After the upgrade was completed, another visitor knocked on his food truck door.

• Mr. Cord arrived early to wish Heath a happy birthday and delivered presents from himself, Giovanni, and Officer Jenny Feng, along with news that Feng was doing well.
• Ralts emerged from the Lounge and cuddled Heath, while Mr. Cord noticed that the Pokémon seemed unusual.
• Heath received a Restaurant Upgrade Blueprint and an Item Upgrade Ticket as birthday rewards, then chose to upgrade the dining area.
• Miss Nami arrived with a birthday present from Head Office, and the restaurant expansion was completed after she chatted with Heath for an hour.
• Heath planned to buy more tables, chairs, and a Little Rotating Hot Pot setup, but another knock interrupted him.

Cynthia visited Heath to give him a birthday present and learned he planned to return to Kanto the next day. Heath opened her gift but could not identify the small ornament inside.

• Cynthia arrived at Heath’s Food Truck with a birthday gift and explained she knew his birthday from his friend profile.
• Cynthia questioned Heath about working on his birthday, and he said he treated it like an ordinary day.
• Heath told Cynthia he planned to return to Kanto the next day and travel around the region before visiting Sinnoh again.
• Cynthia urged Heath to open her present, and he found a small ornament he thought looked like a button but could not identify.

Heath received a collar stud from Cynthia and explained that he valued the affection behind the gift, even though he found the idea of aristocratic refinement frivolous. When Cynthia asked about birthday foods, Heath described longevity noodles, and she eagerly asked to try them.

• Cynthia gave Heath a jeweled collar stud and explained that it was a mark of refinement.
• Heath thanked Cynthia and offered to make her breakfast, privately dismissing aristocratic etiquette as a way to flaunt status.
• Cynthia asked what people ate on birthdays where Heath came from, and he told her about longevity noodles.
• Cynthia excitedly asked Heath to make longevity noodles, and he wondered why she wanted them when it was not her birthday.

Heath made Cynthia a serving of longevity noodles and explained the custom of eating them without letting the noodle fall back into the bowl. He then prepared yangchun noodles for his Pokémon and brought them to his Lounge, where he had kept them inside because Mew was there.

• Cynthia asked Heath whether she could eat longevity noodles even when it was not her birthday, and he agreed to make her a serving.
• Heath struggled to roll one long noodle by hand, then prepared the longevity noodles and told Cynthia not to let the noodle fall back into the bowl as she ate.
• Cynthia understood the custom and ate her longevity noodles while Heath returned to the kitchen.
• Heath made yangchun noodles, reflecting on how learning to cook them in high school had started his long pursuit of cooking.
• Heath carried the yangchun noodles into his Lounge, keeping his Pokémon inside because Mew was there.

Heath and Cynthia read a news story about a woman seeking help to pay for her mother’s treatment, prompting them to reflect on how poverty could limit medical care. Both decided to donate what they could, though the story left them saddened by how little they could do.

• Cynthia showed Heath a local news story about a woman offering to marry anyone who paid for her mother’s treatment.
• Heath recalled a former classmate explaining how families’ finances could determine whether patients received treatment, and how deeply that reality had affected him.
• Heath said he had come to wish for good health rather than wealth, since money could be earned but health could not be guaranteed.
• Cynthia decided to donate money to the woman, and Heath took out his phone to donate as well.

Heath opened his expanded food truck restaurant in Eterna City, added two Little Rotating Hot Pot tables, and served his returning customers. He planned to leave for Lavender Town after closing, while Jin Cancan asked whether Heath had any top-quality beef.

• Heath decided to resume exercising with Charizard after returning to Lavender Town and planned to leave Eterna City that evening.
• Heath opened for business and told customers they would have to wait to use the new dining area until its tables were installed.
• Heath’s installers added two Little Rotating Hot Pot tables, and he posted a notice announcing the expanded seating.
• Jin Cancan arrived with a resentful ghost clinging to his leg, ordered spicy broth, and asked Heath about top-quality beef.

Heath prepared thinly sliced, premium beef for Jin Cancan to eat raw, trusting the League certification that made it safe for raw consumption. A shabby customer then arrived at Little Rotating Hot Pot and asked to eat there, leaving Heath to welcome him and take his order.

• Heath considered how the finest beef depended on the customer's needs and chose the beef Jin Cancan wanted.
• Heath sliced the premium beef almost transparently thin and served it raw to Jin Cancan.
• Jin Cancan praised Heath's knife skills, and Heath told Zoroark what to charge him.
• A shabby-looking man asked Heath if he could eat at Little Rotating Hot Pot.
• Heath welcomed the man and asked what he wanted to eat.

Heath mistook a poorly dressed customer asking for expensive food for a wealthy man staging a prank, then realized the man was genuinely poor when he offered a greasy one-dollar coin. Heath made him a generously filled steamed bun and watched him leave into the snow.

• Heath wondered whether the man asking for pufferfish, lobster, and Ho-Oh red wine was a wealthy prankster testing people.
• The man apologized and offered Heath a greasy one-dollar coin for a steamed bun, revealing that he had little money.
• Heath agreed to make the bun and prepared a shiitake mushroom and minced meat filling suited to the man's tastes.
• Heath used Dialga's Pressure Cooker to steam the bun, then brought it out to the man waiting in a corner.
• The man thanked Heath, took the bun, and hurried outside into the snow, shivering in his thin clothes.

Heath ended his business in Eterna City and returned to Lavender Town through the Anywhere Door. After reaching home, he realized Mew was missing because it had gone out to play and had not come back.

• Heath considered whether to offer charity meals but decided to think it over after returning to Lavender Town.
• Heath ended the day's business early and received three Root Cards as his reward.
• Heath drove through the Anywhere Door with Ralts and Zoroark and returned from Eterna City to Lavender Town.
• Heath drove home without visiting the Officer Jenny Unit and realized Mew was not in the truck.