Chapter Summaries

Heath served a busy lunch crowd and prepared a spicy boxed lunch for Hemi, whose unusual food requirements hinted at an embarrassing predicament. After she left, Heath received a strange reward and brushed off Zoroark’s teasing.

• Heath noticed that Hemi’s food requirements mentioned intense vibration and that she appeared flushed and restless.
• Hemi ordered a small spicy boxed lunch, and Heath made her spicy chicken with pounded chili paste and two side dishes.
• Hemi thanked Heath and hurried out with her food.
• Heath received an Expression Control Candy for serving Hemi.
• Zoroark teased Heath about Hemi, and he told her to get back to work or lose pay.

Heath served Miss Jessie Hot Dry Noodles after she woke from a night of drinking with stomach acid, nausea, and heartburn. He warned her that her symptoms might require medicine, but she avoided taking any because of the alcohol still in her system.

• Heath reflected on unusual customers and recalled seeing someone led on a leash through a shopping district in his previous life.
• Miss Jessie arrived at Heath's Food Truck in the early afternoon after sleeping for a few hours.
• Miss Jessie told Heath she had stomach acid, reflux, and heartburn after drinking all night and going without food.
• Heath explained possible causes of excess stomach acid and cautioned Miss Jessie that her symptoms might need medicine.
• Heath began preparing the Hot Dry Noodles Miss Jessie had ordered.

Heath explained why he used plenty of sesame paste in hot dry noodles while Miss Jessie watched him cook. She reflected on Team Rocket’s orders to leave Heath alone, even though he owned Lugia.

• Miss Jessie asked Heath why he added so much sesame paste to his hot dry noodles, and he explained that the dish had originally been called sesame paste noodles.
• Miss Jessie recalled a Team Rocket meeting where a junior officer proposed stealing Lugia from Heath.
• The Saffron City branch leader refused to disobey Giovanni’s order to leave Heath alone and warned the junior officer against acting.
• Miss Jessie reflected that Giovanni and Sabrina had both protected Heath despite his possession of a Legendary Pokémon.
• Heath served Miss Jessie her hot dry noodles.

Heath chatted with Miss Jessie while she watched him cook, then realized that the Pokémon world had no milk tea shops. He considered introducing milk tea as a new business and left the idea focused on pearl milk tea.

• Heath asked Miss Jessie why she had chosen a seat beside his cooking area, and she said it was warm there before admitting she was teasing him and wanted to watch him cook.
• Miss Jessie told Heath she planned to learn cooking, and he replied that it was easy before serving more customers.
• Heath became busy and later noticed that Miss Jessie had left while Zoroark helped wash the dishes.
• Heath recalled how competitive milk tea businesses had been in his previous life and realized the Pokémon world had no milk tea shops.
• Heath considered launching a milk tea business and thought pearl milk tea was the most famous kind.

Heath planned a milk tea business using Miltank milk or cheaper ordinary milk, black tea, and tapioca pearls he made himself. Snorlax tested Heath’s idea for ice cups, but Heath worried about cleanliness; Snorlax’s supercooled milk tea turned to slush when shaken, and Heath tasted the chilled drink.

• Heath planned milk tea options and ordered milk and tea through the Psyduck Merchant Guild app, while noting that tapioca pearls were unavailable in this world.
• Heath prepared tapioca pearls and asked Snorlax to make an ice cup that would stay cool without melting onto a customer’s hand.
• Snorlax formed a chilled ice cup, but Heath worried that customers might consider it dirty.
• Heath had Snorlax supercool a batch of milk tea, which turned into slush when shaken.
• Heath tasted the chilled milk tea and found that it tasted good and was less cloying.

Heath remembered visiting Viridian City's Welfare Home with Sister Feng and learning about children harmed by human traffickers. He wondered how the children were managing now as the home struggled to support them.

• Heath served Snorlax bubble tea made with Miltank's milk and considered selling his recipe, but he was unsure how to do so while traveling.
• Heath recalled Sister Feng taking him to Viridian City's Welfare Home on a League care visit.
• Sister Ling explained that a year earlier, rescued children had suffered brain damage after inhaling harmful gas while abducted by human traffickers.
• Heath saw the Welfare Home's children facing limited educational opportunities and having to work to afford further schooling.
• Heath remembered the children giving him a yarn flower they had made to sell and wondered how they were faring as their products became harder to sell.

Heath proposed partnering with the League to teach Welfare Homes across the region to sell milk tea and fund their care for children. After testing the drink with customers, he received a formal visit from Sister Ling, Grandpa Officer Jenny Xiu, and League representatives to discuss the plan.

• Heath called Sister Feng and proposed that Welfare Homes sell milk tea to support the children in their care.
• Sister Feng asked Heath about the plan’s feasibility, costs, profits, and partnership structure, then arranged for Sister Ling to meet him.
• Heath decided the League should help Welfare Homes open milk tea shops rather than try to monopolize the business.
• Heath offered customers milk tea at half price to test the drink, and most of them liked it.
• After the afternoon meal, Sister Ling arrived with Grandpa Officer Jenny Xiu and several formally dressed League representatives.

Heath presented the League with his milk tea plan to help Welfare Homes become more financially self-sufficient. After evaluators approved the product’s potential, Officer Jenny Xiu praised the idea but said the League would keep Heath’s role anonymous, and Heath agreed.

• Officer Jenny Xiu asked the evaluators to assess Heath’s milk tea, and they judged it tasty, convenient, and commercially promising.
• Officer Jenny Xiu told Heath that the League would consider rolling out his plan across its regions if market research was favorable.
• Officer Jenny Xiu explained that the League hoped the milk tea income could support Welfare Homes and fund more children to become Trainers.
• Heath said he cared more about helping the children than earning money and agreed that the League should not publicly credit him with the idea.

Officer Jenny Xiu took Heath’s milk tea proposal to the League for market research, while Heath remembered his mission involving the three sisters and headed to the exhibition hall. He found Xiumei, Xiunian, and Xiuhui waiting outside his Food Truck, and was surprised they could leave the hall.

• Officer Jenny Xiu left with the League review team and took Heath’s milk tea and recipes for market research to assess whether the League should fund milk tea shops for Welfare Homes.
• Heath remembered his mission to help Xiumei, Xiunian, and Xiuhui pass on together and decided to visit the exhibition hall to learn more about their wishes.
• Heath checked the Dream Nightmare Flower, which had begun growing with water from Kyogre’s Watering Can but remained stuck as a bud.
• Heath drove to the exhibition hall and worried about how he would get inside now that the exhibition had ended.
• Xiumei, Xiunian, and Xiuhui appeared outside Heath’s Food Truck, and Xiuhui said they had thought Heath would not come that day.
• Heath let the three sisters into the truck and asked how they could leave the exhibition hall.

Heath cooked dinner for Xiuhui, Xiumei, and Xiunian while Mew and the others watched from the Lounge. He served curry omurice to Xiumei and Xiunian, then struggled to make the old-fashioned white bread and other food Xiuhui requested.

• Xiuhui explained that she and her sisters could briefly leave the exhibition hall at night, while Xiumei and Xiunian browsed Heath's magazines.
• Mew and Zoroark discussed Heath serving three spirits, and Mew worried that Heath might eventually send it away if he caught it.
• Xiumei and Xiunian ordered curry omurice with extra-runny eggs, while Xiuhui requested white bread with mashed potatoes and sliced grilled sausage.
• Heath made the curry omurice with sterile eggs and served it with two complimentary side dishes.
• Heath researched Xiuhui's white bread request and spent a long time making an old-style loaf, then found her sausage requirements baffling.

Heath prepared the unusual chicken-intestine sausages Xiuhui remembered from her past. When she tasted them, the familiar food brought back vivid memories of her mother and childhood home.

• Heath realized Xiuhui wanted chicken intestines stuffed with chopped chicken organs rather than the sausages he had expected.
• Heath washed the intestines, prepared the organs, and stuffed them into separate sections to preserve the dish Xiuhui remembered.
• Heath served Xiuhui the sausages with white bread, and she recognized the food from her past.
• Xiuhui tasted the sausage and relived the memory of waiting at home for her mother's cooking.

Heath served Xiuhui a meal that reminded her of her mother’s cooking, bringing her to tears and fulfilling her wish. After the three sisters left, Heath discovered Xiuhui had left behind an old banknote from the League’s first series.

• Xiumei and Xiunian discussed why Xiuhui was crying and praised Heath for making food that suited their tastes.
• Heath received Xiuhui’s Memory Fragment after serving the three sisters and waited to examine it until they had left.
• Xiuhui ate the familiar-tasting food, remembered her mother, and cried as Heath fulfilled her wish.
• Heath comforted Xiuhui, who then left with Xiunian and Xiumei after placing something on the table.
• Heath found the item was a banknote issued in the League’s first series.

Heath discovered that Xiuhui had paid him with a rare first-edition League banknote and learned the tragic story in her memories. He considered how to uncover Xiunian’s wish, then returned to the Food Truck’s Lounge, where Mew acted strangely before flying out the window.

• Heath recognized Xiuhui’s fifty-denomination banknote as a valuable first-edition League note and decided it would make a gift for Sister Ling.
• Heath crushed Xiuhui’s memory light and learned that her mother had been her only comfort before she died, and that Xiuhui was later beheaded with the noble family.
• Heath wondered whether Xiunian’s wish concerned the close female friend mentioned in her diary and planned to seek more clues from the Three Ghost type Sisters or Officer Jenny.
• Heath closed the shop, set the Food Truck’s Autopilot, and returned to the Lounge to rest.
• Mew flew over to Heath looking bashful, then hurried out the window without explaining what was wrong.

Heath found Zoroark playing a newly released game after staying up all night and gave her a Pokémon Energy Drink to help with her fatigue. He told her not to stay up all night again and considered whether his staff needed a regular day off.

• Heath woke after an ordinary night's sleep and noticed Zoroark was missing from his bed.
• Heath found Zoroark on the sofa, still playing the newly released game, and realized she had stayed up all night.
• Heath gave Zoroark a trial-size Pokémon Energy Drink and told her not to pull another all-nighter.
• Heath reflected that his restaurant offered no regular days off and wondered whether he should establish one.

Heath explained why Zoroark could not use the regulated fatigue-relief drink to stay up gaming and warned her about the dangers of sleep deprivation. He still had to run the restaurant himself, though he hoped Farfetch'd would eventually become capable enough to share the work.

• Zoroark asked Heath whether the fatigue-relief drink could help her stay up late, and Heath told her it was regulated by the League and unavailable to her.
• Heath thought of Ms. Lori and resolved to visit her again when he had the chance.
• Heath warned Zoroark that staying up late could harm or even kill Pokémon, and she argued that sleeping afterward should make it safe.
• Heath flicked Zoroark on the forehead, then took her to wash up while keeping watch for her gaming schemes.
• Heath considered Farfetch'd's improving cooking but decided Farfetch'd still could not read customers' preferences well enough to take over the restaurant.

Heath served the three sisters at the Technology Expo and showed Xiunian a video of her old friend Ayumi. Xiunian recognized Ayumi, and her quest was completed, leaving only Xiumei’s quest unresolved.

• Heath learned that Xiunian’s close friend Ayumi was now a middle-aged mother of three and asked Officer Jenny Guang to find her.
• Heath noticed Mew was missing, and Zoroark said Mew had gone out the day before and had not returned.
• Heath arrived at the Technology Expo, served Xiuhui, Xiunian, and Xiumei, and received five Ghost Candies instead of a clue.
• Heath showed Xiunian a video of Ayumi, and Xiunian recognized her and wondered why she had become a fitness trainer when that had been Xiunian’s dream.
• Xiunian’s quest was completed, leaving Xiumei as the only sister whose quest remained.

Ayumi remembered how her childhood friend Xiunian died saving her and, with Heath’s help, reunited with her before the three ghost sisters passed on. Heath completed their mission and received a super surprise grand prize.

• Young Zhuniàn told Ayumi she dreamed of becoming a fitness trainer, while Ayumi hoped to become a dancer.
• Zhuniàn gave Ayumi a birthday gift promising they would be best friends for life, then died saving her from falling glass at a science museum.
• Ayumi woke from a recurring nightmare and saw Zhuniàn at her bedside, where they shared an emotional farewell.
• Heath explained that he had helped the sisters fulfill their wishes, including finding Xiumei’s head encased in concrete.
• Xiuhui, Xiuniàn, and Xiumei thanked Heath and faded away together, and the system awarded him a super surprise grand prize.

Heath received a Special Lucky Cat that could attract customers and invite spirits to his restaurant, but Little Red mysteriously vanished when Heath tried to touch him. Heath returned his Food Truck to its usual spot and was greeted by Miss Jessie.

• Heath received a pitch-black Special Lucky Cat whose powers included attracting customers, protecting the home, and drawing spirits who could be helped by eating.
• Heath found Little Red asleep in a cardboard box and discovered that his hand passed through the Pokémon's body.
• Little Red grew fainter and vanished, and Heath could not find him even after searching or using Hoopa's Golden Ring.
• Heath decided to wait and look into Little Red's disappearance later, then returned the Food Truck to its original spot.
• Miss Jessie entered the Food Truck and greeted Heath.

Jessie brought James and Meowth to Heath’s restaurant after they became teammates, and Heath cooked them the super-spicy hot pot Jessie requested. Jessie and James traded teasing remarks about their school days, while Meowth asked Zoroark if she was a Pokémon.

• Jessie arrived with James and Meowth and told Heath that the company had assigned them as her new coworkers.
• Heath recognized James and Meowth and noted that Meowth could speak despite not being a Psychic type.
• Jessie ordered her usual super-spicy hot pot, and James and Meowth bravely agreed to eat it.
• Jessie teased James about his poor tolerance for spicy food back at school, and James urged her not to dwell on the past now that they were teammates.
• Meowth asked Zoroark whether she was a Pokémon.

Heath watched as Meowth nearly exposed Zoroark’s disguise after detecting her Pokémon scent. As Heath prepared a dangerously spicy hot pot for Jessie, James, and Meowth, Zoroark was left embarrassed by her slip and Heath planned to curb her all-night gaming.

• Heath was surprised that Meowth had noticed something unusual about Zoroark’s disguise and watched to see how she would respond.
• Meowth told Zoroark that it had smelled a faint Pokémon scent on her, but the scent vanished as she concealed it.
• James picked Meowth up and apologized to Zoroark, while Heath teased her through Telepathy and remembered her ill-conceived plan to make money with illusions.
• Heath planned to set a gaming time limit on Zoroark’s console after she had stayed up all night playing games.
• Heath prepared an extremely spicy hot pot as James and Meowth questioned whether they could eat it.