Chapter Summaries

Heath woke at home in Lavender Town and found Mew waiting angrily after returning from Sinnoh. After calming Mew with food, he went to his food truck to make breakfast because his home had no cooking ingredients.

• Heath woke late for his usual routine and found Zoroark and Farfetch'd still asleep.
• Heath found Mew waiting in the washroom, and Mew complained that he had forgotten about it.
• Heath promised Mew breakfast and eventually soothed its anger with delicious food.
• Heath picked up Ralts while washing up, then discovered that his home refrigerator was empty.
• Heath gathered ingredients from his food truck and began making soy milk, fried dough sticks, and matuan with sweet Herba Mystica.

Heath discovered that Charizard had caught the flu and took his Pokémon to the Pokémon Center, where Charizard quickly recovered. Afterward, Heath considered visiting Officer Jennys' headquarters to learn about Ralts's case, unsure whether fulfilling her lingering wish would mean losing her.

• Heath noticed Charizard was listless and sneezing, and Zoroark translated that he felt low on energy.
• Heath recalled his Pokémon and drove them to Lavender Town's Pokémon Center, worried the flu might have spread.
• Nurse Joy examined the Pokémon and Heath, and tests showed that only Charizard had the flu.
• Charizard took medicine and received Blissey's healing beam, recovering immediately.
• Heath decided it was time to visit the Officer Jennys' headquarters about Ralts's case, but he wondered what would happen if her wish were fulfilled.

Heath kept Ralts in her Poké Ball while he checked on the investigation into her past at Lavender Town's Officer Jenny Unit. After learning there were no breakthroughs, he prepared to leave for Vermilion City to visit Sister Feng.

• Heath kept Ralts in her Poké Ball to prevent her painful memories and emotions from causing trouble at the Officer Jenny Unit.
• Heath asked an Officer Jenny about the investigation into Ralts's case and learned that it had not made any breakthroughs.
• Heath left the Officer Jenny Unit, reflecting on his attachment to Ralts and his wish for her to find peace.
• Heath decided to travel to Vermilion City to visit Sister Feng and explore the port city.
• Heath began packing clothes and ingredients for the long journey from Lavender Town to Vermilion City.

Heath drove his food truck from Lavender Town toward Vermilion City, bringing Mew along while Little Red slept. A highway traffic jam stopped his journey, and Heath learned that migrating Pokémon had closed the road.

• Heath left his locked house in Lavender Town and set out for Vermilion City in his food truck.
• Heath checked on the sleeping Little Red while Mew and Zoroark played a fighting game.
• The food truck stopped behind a long line of traffic on the highway.
• Heath asked a nearby driver about the jam and learned that Pokémon were migrating across the road.
• Heath concluded that the migration would likely delay traffic only briefly.

Heath cleared away his Little Rotating Hot Pot equipment and stopped at a service area to make lunch for his Pokémon. Professor Cerise and his family visited his food truck for a meal, leaving Heath with a strange sense that he had seen them before.

• After the traffic cleared, Heath put away the Little Rotating Hot Pot setup so he could restore his food truck’s dining area in Vermilion City.
• Heath drove into a service area and made lunch for his Pokémon.
• Professor Cerise asked Heath whether he had food for sale because his daughter wanted cream puffs.
• Professor Cerise returned with his wife and two children, and they ordered omurice, cream puffs, something crispy, and fried rice with soup.
• Heath noticed that Professor Cerise’s family gave him an inexplicable feeling of déjà vu.

Heath prepared omurice, Yangzhou fried rice, cream puffs, and iron pot bibimbap for Professor Cerise’s family. After serving them, he received three cards and wondered why the family’s names and faces seemed familiar.

• Heath made omurice for Professor Cerise and his daughter, then prepared Yangzhou fried rice for the woman.
• Heath baked standard cream puffs for the little girl and chose stone pot bibimbap for the boy, using a small iron pot instead of a stone pot.
• Heath served the iron pot bibimbap and cream puffs to the children.
• Heath received a Root-Stem Card and two Leaf Vein Cards for serving Professor Cerise, Chloe and Sota, and Yoshino.
• Heath wondered where he had heard Professor Cerise’s name and seen the family before.

Heath traveled from Lavender Town toward Vermilion City and helped Ralts open a puzzle toy. After the toy came apart, Heath noticed that Zoroark, Mew, and Ralts had all stopped moving.

• Heath stopped wondering why Professor Cerise sounded familiar, tidied the Food Truck, and set off for Vermilion City.
• Heath watched his Pokémon pass the time on the journey, then lay down on the sofa when he grew sleepy.
• Ralts brought Heath the puzzle toy that had come with one of Zoroark’s books, and Heath recognized it.
• Heath pressed and turned the toy against the tabletop, opening it for Ralts.
• Heath noticed Zoroark, Mew, and Ralts had suddenly become motionless.

Heath prepared an elaborate sea bream sashimi dish for Giratina, who had frozen Heath’s Pokémon while asking for food. As Heath finished arranging the sashimi on an iceberg, Giratina revealed that Ralts had little time left before she would fulfill her wish and enter the Distortion World.

• Giratina emerged from the restroom, froze Heath’s Pokémon, and asked Heath to make him thinly sliced sashimi.
• Giratina patted Ralts and told Heath he had no intention of taking her to the Distortion World, though she had little time left.
• Heath chose a sea bream and used Dialga’s kitchen knife to prepare an Iceberg of Fresh Sea Bream.
• Heath sliced the entire fish thinly, arranged the sashimi over an iceberg provided by Giratina, and began making a dipping sauce with Herba Mystica.

Heath served Giratina an Iceberg of Fresh Sea Bream, and Giratina told him Ralts had only two weeks left before her soul dissipated. He left Heath with the choice of sending Ralts to the Distortion World, where she belonged, as Heath sat beside the sleeping Ralts.

• Giratina praised Heath's Iceberg of Fresh Sea Bream and enjoyed the dish made with Herba Mystica.
• Heath received two Leaf Vein Cards for serving Giratina.
• Giratina explained that he had solidified Ralts, but her weak soul would last only two more weeks and could not withstand solidification again.
• Giratina urged Heath to let Ralts go to the Distortion World, then vanished from the kitchen.
• Heath found Ralts asleep on the sofa and sat beside her, worrying over her remaining time.

Heath worried that Ralts might fade away unless he fulfilled her lingering wish, and he hoped a Jirachi Wish Card could save her. He arrived in Vermilion City to meet Sister Feng, but she immediately hurried him back outside.

• Heath noticed that Ralts felt solid again and feared she might disappear within two weeks if her lingering wish remained unfulfilled.
• Heath remembered his Jirachi Wish Card and planned to try making a wish again when the next month began.
• Heath reached Vermilion City and drove toward the Officer Jenny Unit building, hoping to surprise Sister Feng.
• Heath ran into Sister Feng in the building lobby, and she grabbed his shoulders before rushing him back outside.

Heath arrived in Vermilion City and Officer Jenny Feng led him to what he thought was trouble at a mine. He discovered that Feng and the other Officer Jennys had arranged a surprise welcome for him.

• Officer Jenny Feng hurried Heath into his food truck and asked him to drive to a mine near Vermilion City to bring food.
• Heath noticed Feng seemed worn down and grim, but followed her instructions without asking more.
• At the destination, Feng pushed Heath out of the truck, and a group of Officer Jennys emerged from the woods to welcome him.
• Heath recognized Officer Jenny Aya and Officer Jenny Ling among the group and realized the mine trouble had been a pretext for a welcome ceremony.
• Officer Jenny Feng explained that Aya had spotted Heath's food truck, prompting her to arrange the gathering.

Heath attended a barbecue gathering organized by Officer Jenny Feng, which gave him a chance to meet Vermilion City’s Officer Jennys and build connections for his food business. As they talked, Feng asked about his time in Lavender Town, and Heath learned she knew Silver and considered her a good person despite her temper.

• Heath asked Officer Jenny Feng why she had arranged wilderness survival training, and Feng explained that Officer Jenny Aya had gathered a group of like-minded people.
• Heath realized the barbecue was also an opportunity for him to meet Vermilion City’s Officer Jennys, who could affect where he worked as a street vendor.
• The Officer Jennys enjoyed Heath’s food, while Farfetch'd and Charizard drew attention with their grilling; Feng praised Farfetch'd’s growing skill.
• Feng asked Heath how things had gone in Lavender Town, and Heath asked whether she knew its Officer Jenny.
• Feng identified the Lavender Town officer as Silver and said she was a good person despite her temper, while Heath privately recalled that she had nearly wanted him dead before he healed her legs.

Heath secured a prime vending spot in Vermilion City with help from the Officer Jennys and opened his food truck for business. He was surprised when Kailunya arrived and ordered shrimp, while noticing something strange about her shadow.

• The Officer Jennys helped Heath obtain a vending permit and a prime location in Vermilion City.
• Heath drove to his assigned spot, put up the Open sign, and prepared to serve customers.
• Kailunya greeted Heath and said she was traveling, though she was surprised to find him in Vermilion City.
• Kailunya ordered shrimp, and Heath noticed her shadow seemed to squirm.

Heath prepared garlic dry-pot shrimp for Kailunya and avoided her attempt to tease him about the Collector, a criminal from a horror movie. As customers arrived, Zoroark received an unusual request from a family and went to ask Heath whether he could make their specialty dish.

• Heath decided Vermilion City's port was better suited to trade and tourism than fishing, and he prepared garlic dry-pot shrimp for Kailunya.
• Kailunya asked Heath about the Collector, and Heath revealed he knew the criminal was trapping victims in specially made Poké Balls.
• Heath called Zoroark to help serve the arriving customers while he ended his conversation with Kailunya.
• Customers recognized Heath's food truck as a Silph Co. creation, which Heath knew had been featured at a Technology Expo.
• Zoroark told a family of three to wait while she checked whether Heath could make their specialty dish, then hurried over to ask him.

Heath prepared sugar-cured seafood and sweet noodles for a family with unusual food preferences while serving customers at his busy stall. He noticed a strange glint in the father’s eyes and used his Ingredient Identifier, discovering that the man carried many parasites.

• Zoroark told Heath that three customers wanted sweet seafood and sweet noodles, and Heath agreed to make them.
• Heath chose sugar-cured seafood because the customers disliked sour and spicy flavors, then made it alongside sweet noodles for the family.
• Heath noticed the father wore an unusually valuable watch as Zoroark delivered the meal.
• As Heath continued serving customers, he saw something flash in the father’s eyes and checked him with the Ingredient Identifier.
• The Identifier revealed that many parasites lived inside the man, and Heath suspected some were moving in his eyes but did not know how to tell the customer.

Heath warned a seafood-loving customer that a parasite might be moving through his eye, but the man initially mistook the warning for a sales pitch. Heath’s Food Truck grew busy in the cold Vermilion City weather, where a group of young men arrived hoping to order food for a soccer watch party.

• Heath politely warned the man about parasitic infections and recommended regular checkups.
• When the man dismissed him as a salesperson, Heath mentioned seeing something pass through his eye and returned to cooking.
• The man checked his eyes with his phone and decided to take his wife and child to the Pokémon Center for an examination.
• Heath served a growing crowd at his Food Truck as the cold and strong winds drew customers inside.
• Several young men asked Heath to make food for their soccer match gathering that evening.

Heath prepared barbecue for customers watching a soccer match while Charizard handled the grilling and Farfetch'd drew a crowd at his own counter. Zoroark then asked whether they could make roast duck for a customer, and Heath agreed.

• Heath decided to serve barbecue and beer to customers watching a human soccer match.
• Heath prepared meat skewers and let Charizard grill them, relying on Charizard's improved heat control.
• Heath noticed that Farfetch'd was attracting more customers than he was at his own counter.
• Zoroark teased Heath about losing customers to Farfetch'd, then returned to serving.
• Zoroark asked whether they could make roast duck, and Heath said they could.

Heath made a convincing vegetarian roast duck for two customers who had requested the dish without meat. A-Zhe and Meiye tried it, were amazed by its resemblance to real roast duck, and rewarded Heath with candies.

• Zoroark told Heath that two customers wanted roast duck but were vegetarians.
• Heath decided to make Vegetarian Roast Duck from fried tofu skin, adding shiitake mushrooms for a meaty flavor.
• Heath reminded Zoroark to assure the customers that the dish contained no meat.
• A-Zhe and Meiye tasted the dish and were astonished by its roast-duck-like texture and flavor.
• Heath received an Agility Candy from A-Zhe and a Stamina Candy from Meiye.

After closing his food truck in Vermilion City, Heath went for a night stroll with his Pokémon and followed Zoroark to a small bookstore. Zoroark recognized it as a real-life setting from her favorite novel, and Heath understood that they had found a pilgrimage site.

• Heath parked his food truck in a nearby lot instead of staying in the Officer Jennys' parking lot Sister Feng had offered him.
• Heath went out into bustling Vermilion City with his Pokémon and browsed shops, buying Monster Hunter merchandise.
• Zoroark pointed out a bridal-carry competition whose prize was a newly released Dream Ball, but Heath declined to enter.
• Zoroark led Heath to Nanya Bookstore and explained that it was where the protagonist and Gardevoir made their relationship official in 'My Gardevoir Has a Big Root'.

Heath discovered that Mew had found a strange golden egg linked to Zapdos and the other Legendary Birds. He put it aside for now and considered contacting Lugia to learn more.

• Heath woke early and prepared to explore Vermilion City's market for specialty ingredients.
• Heath woke Zoroark and found Mew playing with a soft, glowing golden egg.
• Mew told Heath it had picked up the egg while playing outside the previous night.
• Heath used his Ingredient Identifier and learned the egg contained Zapdos's power as well as flame and frost powers, and that eating it could provoke the Legendary Birds.
• Heath put the egg away and considered contacting Lugia for information.