Recaps

Fang Yan reassured Alcremie that the Pokémon Day Care was its home and that it could make desserts without fearing rejection. Alcremie embraced its love of baking, made a golden honey cake that delighted everyone, and prepared to share its desserts with customers in Twinleaf Town.

• Fang Yan asked Alcremie whether making desserts made it happy and told it that the Pokémon Day Care was its home.
• Alcremie remembered its hardship and the kindness it had received from its friends, then cried and agreed that the Pokémon Day Care was its family.
• Alcremie made a golden cake with Vespiquen's Honey and Moomoo Milk, and Fang Yan and the other Pokémon praised it.
• Alcremie brought a slice to Rhyperior, who congratulated it, and Fang Yan said customers in Twinleaf Town could try Alcremie's desserts the next day.
• Gengar ate Alcremie's first cake before it could share a bite, then gave Alcremie some of Fang Yan's snacks instead.

Fang Yan discovered that Alcremie's desserts carried beneficial effects and sent Alcremie, Rhyperior, and Gengar to give them to Twinleaf Town residents. Grandpa Muzhi and Grandma enjoyed the desserts, which warmed them and eased their aches, and wished Fang Yan and the Pokémon Day Care well.

• Fang Yan praised Alcremie's desserts and learned that their ingredients could promote optimism, health, courage, diligence, and happiness.
• Fang Yan arranged for Alcremie to deliver free desserts with Gengar and Rhyperior, while Gothitelle and Roserade went to the cottage.
• Gengar, Rhyperior, and Alcremie brought desserts to Grandpa Muzhi and Grandma, who welcomed the Pokémon and accepted the gift.
• Grandpa Muzhi and Grandma shared the desserts and felt warmth spread through their bodies as their aches eased.
• Grandma and Grandpa Muzhi wished Fang Yan and everyone at the Pokémon Day Care peace and safety.

Fang Yan planned a food delivery service for Twinleaf Town and gained the support of the Pokémon at the Pokémon Day Care. After organizing the service, he received an urgent call from Nurse Joy about an accident at sea.

• Fang Yan considered residents’ requests for food delivery and asked the Pokémon at the Pokémon Day Care whether they would help.
• Gengar, the Machamp, Staraptor, Gogoat, and other Pokémon agreed to make deliveries, while Fang Yan spared Gothitelle and Vespiquen from the extra work.
• Shauna suggested that Golduck and Azumarill could help, and the leaders of both groups readily agreed.
• Fang Yan planned uniforms, menus, online orders, and delivery zones with Mayor Qiyi’s support.
• In the middle of the night, Nurse Joy called Fang Yan and urgently asked him to come because there had been an accident at sea.

Nurse Joy called Fang Yan for help when a Gyarados rampage struck Twinleaf Town’s harbor, leaving a passenger ship wrecked and people stranded in freezing water. Fang Yan and his Pokémon rescued the victims and stopped the fighting, then persuaded the Gyarados to wait while he investigated who had started the conflict.

• Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny coordinated rescues after Gyarados attacked a passenger ship, and Nurse Joy called Fang Yan for help.
• Fang Yan brought Pokémon to the harbor, where they rescued people, warmed and treated survivors, and knocked out Gyarados attacking the rescue boat.
• Fang Yan found Officer Jenny and her team surrounded by Gyarados, rescued them from the icy water, and froze the sea so everyone could escape.
• Fang Yan and his Pokémon struck down the surrounding Gyarados, while Lapras’s mother arrived with her pod to help confront them.
• The leading Gyarados said humans had started the fight, and Fang Yan promised to investigate; the Gyarados agreed to wait and left with their leader.

Fang Yan rescued the passengers from the sunken ship and learned that a trainer had provoked a group of Gyarados, triggering their rampage. After treating the injured Red Gyarados and resolving the conflict, he watched the Gyarados and Lapras return to the nearby waters and headed home with his Pokémon.

• Fang Yan, Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy, and their Pokémon rescued the shipwreck survivors and treated them for injuries and hypothermia.
• Gothitelle brought warm herbal medicine to the ship, and Fang Yan helped administer it before directing the passengers' transfer to the Pokémon Center.
• Fang Yan learned from the Gyarados that a trainer had attacked their injured leader and mocked them, prompting the group to destroy the ship; their later infighting had concerned how to handle the people in the water.
• Fang Yan treated the injured Red Gyarados, while Officer Jenny brought the responsible trainer to apologize and announced that the Sinnoh League had blacklisted him and would notify other Leagues.
• The Red Gyarados accepted the apology and left with its group, while Lapras promised to remain nearby and protect the waters; Fang Yan then headed home with his Pokémon.

After the rescued passengers recovered, Fang Yan returned to the Pokémon Day Care with Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy for breakfast and rest. Gothitelle cared for the exhausted Fang Yan, and the chapter ended with the household settling into sleep.

• Nurse Joy told Fang Yan and Officer Jenny that everyone rescued from the water was out of danger, thanks to Ninetales, Gothitelle, and the timely rescue.
• Fang Yan invited Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy to the Pokémon Day Care for breakfast, and Gothitelle hurried back to prepare food for them.
• Fang Yan and the others ate together, and Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy teased him after he accidentally called Gothitelle “Mom.”
• Gothitelle massaged Fang Yan’s shoulders until he fell asleep, then carried him to bed and settled down beside him and Lilligant.
• Fang Yan murmured that he loved everyone most, and Gengar replied that they loved him too.

After waking, Fang Yan joined Gengar, Lilligant, and Gothitelle for Fight the Landlord and repeatedly gave Gengar disastrous advice. The Pokémon got revenge by leaving Fang Yan paralyzed with a pile of Cheri Berries as they went downstairs.

• Fang Yan woke up and removed the paper strips from Gengar’s face before joining the Pokémon’s card game.
• Fang Yan told Gengar to pass with a powerful hand, but Gothitelle played an airplane and won the round.
• Fang Yan urged Gengar to become landlord and play a pair of threes, but Lilligant beat it with four twos.
• Fang Yan told Gengar to break up its airplane, and Gothitelle answered with four aces before Lilligant finished the game.
• Gengar caught Fang Yan trying to leave and paralyzed him, while Gothitelle left Cheri Berries beside him and went downstairs with Lilligant.

Fang Yan learned the League planned to reward him for helping save the ship’s passengers, and he asked Officer Jenny to help obtain Pokémon Eggs and staff for his Day Care. After the group headed to the forest hot spring, Grandaunt’s gift made its water automatically refresh each day.

• Fang Yan and Gengar bickered before everyone ate dinner and gathered in the lounge.
• Officer Jenny told Fang Yan that the League planned to commend and reward him for helping protect passengers from multiple regions.
• Fang Yan gave Officer Jenny a long list of Pokémon Eggs he wanted, and she agreed to ask the League about them and request more staff for Twinleaf Town.
• Fang Yan asked Officer Jenny to obtain Pokémon that could help with cooking, then invited Shauna and her parents to join him and the Pokémon at the forest hot spring.
• Grandaunt’s gift made the hot spring automatically replace its water every day, and Fang Yan led the group there while Snorunt rode on Lapras to enjoy the snow.

Fang Yan prepared the Pokémon Day Care’s delivery service by outfitting Pokémon with branded gear and arranging for them to distribute menus throughout Twinleaf Town. The service was set to launch the next day, and the town’s residents eagerly anticipated it.

• Fang Yan received the custom-printed takeout containers, hats, and backpacks, then dressed the Pokémon as delivery workers.
• Fang Yan confirmed that Xia Lan had set up the delivery app, and Xia Lan offered to buy him a Rotom Phone.
• Fang Yan divided Twinleaf Town into delivery areas and sent the Pokémon out with menus and maps to learn their routes.
• Gengar, Gothitelle, and the other Pokémon delivered menus throughout Twinleaf Town, announcing that the service would begin the next day.
• The residents of Twinleaf Town went to sleep looking forward to the Pokémon Day Care’s food deliveries.

Fang Yan and the Pokémon Day Care rushed to fulfill a flood of delivery orders, while their Pokémon couriers sped through Twinleaf Town. The service proved popular, and a visiting Trainer watched the deliveries in disbelief.

• At 9:00, the Rotom Phone announced a flood of orders, sending the Pokémon Day Care into a rush to prepare food and desserts.
• Gothitelle threw Fang Yan into the kitchen when he stood around instead of helping, then frightened a visiting Trainer who saw what happened.
• Psyduck, Azumarill, Golduck, and other Pokémon delivered orders around Twinleaf Town, where customers thanked them and gave them tips.
• At lunchtime, Fang Yan cooked while the Pokémon and Fujino and her husband packed and dispatched more orders.
• A Trainer saw the Pokémon couriers obey traffic signals and deliver food across Twinleaf Town, and wondered how the town's service had become so advanced.

Fang Yan enjoyed a quiet weekend at the Pokémon Day Care and talked with Officer Jenny about its delivery business and struggling traditional services. Officer Jenny brought the League's reward and left Fang Yan wondering whether his suggestions had been accepted.

• Fang Yan rested while the Pokémon delivered orders and Shauna helped Rapidash make deliveries around Twinleaf Town.
• Officer Jenny visited Fang Yan, and they discussed how food service and deliveries were sustaining the Pokémon Day Care through winter.
• Officer Jenny told Fang Yan that the League's reward had arrived and was waiting outside.
• Fang Yan asked whether the League had accepted his suggestions, and Officer Jenny told him to guess.

Officer Jenny delivered League supplies and Pokémon Eggs to Fang Yan's Pokémon Day Care, including rare seeds, starter Pokémon Eggs, a Dratini Egg, and a Larvitar Egg. Fang Yan agreed to accept more rescued Eggs from the League, and Officer Jenny left after asking him to prepare food for her.

• Officer Jenny and Fang Yan moved forty-two Pokémon Eggs into the Day Care's incubation room with help from Gogoat, Gengar, Lilligant, Dali, and the others.
• Officer Jenny gave Fang Yan rare Berry seeds, tea seeds, and Evolution Stones supplied by the League.
• Fang Yan examined the Eggs and found several starter Pokémon, a Dratini, and a Larvitar among them.
• Officer Jenny told Fang Yan the League could allocate more Eggs rescued from a Team Galactic base and Mt. Coronet, and Fang Yan agreed to take them.
• Officer Jenny said she had to return to Twinleaf Town, and Fang Yan began preparing food for her to take back.

Fang Yan looked forward to spring and imagined planting seeds, growing the Day Care’s business, and traveling with its Pokémon. He exchanged playful messages with Lance and Cynthia, learned Wallace planned to visit for Contest advice, and asked Cynthia to help find Pokémon for housework.

• Fang Yan examined the seeds from Gengar and told Gengar and Ninetales he was excited to plant them in spring and build a future together.
• Fang Yan thanked Lance for helping him receive Dratini’s Egg, teased Lance about being mistaken for a Flying-type Elite Four member, and matched him with Cynthia for a battle.
• Lance told Fang Yan that Wallace planned to visit the Day Care to ask about Pokémon Contests, then gave Fang Yan his address so Fang Yan could mail him food.
• Fang Yan joked with Cynthia over messages and a video call, and Cynthia agreed to ask around for Meowstic and keep an eye out for Indeedee to help with housework.
• Cynthia’s Garchomp confronted Fang Yan about his teasing, but he changed the subject by praising her and promising delicious Alcremie desserts; Cynthia then planned a visit to her grandmother.
• Fang Yan called Gengar a traitor after Gengar licked his face during the call, while Ninetales watched them resume their antics.

Fang Yan slept late while Gothitelle managed the Pokémon Day Care, where Wallace arrived for a visit and settled into its peaceful routine. After Fang Yan woke and greeted him, a girl came seeking an Evolution Stone for her Eevee, but she did not know which one she needed.

• Gothitelle woke Fang Yan by chilling his room, then made sure he washed up and ate breakfast.
• Fang Yan learned that Gothitelle had stayed at the Pokémon Day Care while Roserade and the others watched over the cottage.
• Wallace visited the Pokémon Day Care, waited for Fang Yan to wake, and helped Gothitelle prepare meal boxes while enjoying the company of the Pokémon.
• A girl arrived with her Eevee and recognized Wallace, then asked Fang Yan whether the shop sold Evolution Stones.
• Fang Yan offered several kinds of Evolution Stone, but the girl admitted she did not know which one she needed.

Fang Yan advised Xiaoya to discover her and Eevee's Coordinator style before choosing an Evolution Stone, then demonstrated performances with Ninetales and Lilligant. After watching Fang Yan dance with Lilligant, Eevee evolved into Sylveon, and Xiaoya celebrated.

• Xiaoya told Fang Yan she did not know which Evolution Stone or evolved form she wanted, and he suggested she first consider her Coordinator style.
• Fang Yan demonstrated Ninetales's fiery performance and explained how Coordinators could build a style around their Pokémon's distinctive charm.
• Fang Yan danced with Lilligant in a Contest-style performance, impressing Xiaoya and Wallace.
• As Xiaoya praised Fang Yan and Lilligant, Eevee evolved into Sylveon, and Xiaoya excitedly congratulated her Pokémon.

Fang Yan recovered from his embarrassment over mistaking Sylveon’s gender and invited Wallace to enjoy afternoon tea in the Day Care’s winter garden. As Wallace sampled Vespiquen’s Honey and Gothitelle’s tea, he felt at peace and wished he could stay there.

• Fang Yan brooded over discovering that Sylveon was male until Ninetales comforted him, and he praised the Day Care Pokémon as the cutest.
• Fang Yan invited Wallace to share winter afternoon tea, and Lilligant agreed to look after the Day Care.
• Fang Yan showed Wallace the blooming garden and told him about Shauna’s work building the flower beds.
• Vespiquen welcomed Wallace with a jar of Honey, which Gengar eagerly shared with him.
• Gothitelle and Alcremie served tea and desserts, and Wallace enjoyed the quiet afternoon with Fang Yan and the working Combee.

Fang Yan hosted Wallace at the Pokémon Day Care, where afternoon tea, a hot spring visit, and a conversation about Wallace’s past with Winona brought the two closer. The day ended with Gothitelle giving Fang Yan knitted sweaters and making sure he and the Pokémon finally went to sleep.

• Fang Yan introduced Wallace to Mime Jr. and Shauna during afternoon tea, while Gothitelle finished knitting hats for the Pokémon and children.
• After dinner, Fang Yan took Wallace to the forest hot spring, where Cynthia messaged Fang Yan and briefly spoke with him over a video call.
• Wallace told Fang Yan that he and Winona had broken up because she disliked having a boyfriend stronger than her, and Fang Yan advised him to show weakness sometimes.
• Fang Yan mistakenly suspected Wallace liked Steven, but Wallace clarified that he liked Winona before they left the hot spring.
• Gothitelle gave Fang Yan three knitted sweaters, then caught Fang Yan, Gengar, and Mime Jr. playing instead of sleeping and ordered them to face the wall before they finally went to bed.

Fang Yan watched Wallace attract more challengers to the Pokémon Day Care and tried to recruit him to help with deliveries. Wallace refused Fang Yan’s first request but agreed to make deliveries after Fang Yan accepted an invitation to the next Wallace Cup, which Wallace decided to hold in Alamos Town.

• Gothitelle told Fang Yan she planned to take a day off to try a new herbal tea, and he approved.
• Wallace defeated a Hoenn trainer who came to challenge him, and Fang Yan encouraged the trainer with a small wooden carving.
• Fang Yan proposed that Wallace deliver food, but Wallace refused before he could hear the request.
• Wallace invited Fang Yan to his next Wallace Cup, and Fang Yan initially refused in retaliation.
• Wallace agreed to deliver herbal tea and traditional medicine, then chose Alamos Town as the next Wallace Cup's location with Gengar's nod.

Fang Yan welcomed new Miltank and arranged for the Pokémon Day Care to supply Moomoo Milk to Sandgem Town. He then helped Gothitelle test her newly developed Beauty Tea, whose effects appeared promising.

• Wallace set off for Twinleaf Town to deliver herbal tea, while Fang Yan welcomed six new Miltank to the Pokémon Day Care.
• Fang Yan arranged with Sandgem Town's mayor to deliver Moomoo Milk to the school and elderly residents starting the next day.
• Gothitelle showed Fang Yan a strange herbal tea, and they made Gengar drink it to test its effects.
• Gothitelle recorded the recipe as Beauty Tea, which was said to improve skin, clear impurities, ease anxiety, and aid sleep.
• Fang Yan drank a bowl of Beauty Tea and praised its effects, making Gothitelle happy that her recipe had worked.

Wallace delivered herbal tea to Twinleaf Town residents while Paul faced a Kalos Trainer’s Mega Lopunny and found the resolve to Mega Evolve Aggron. Elsewhere, Gary also Mega Evolved Blastoise against a Kalos Gym Leader, while Fang Yan and Gengar watched the battles and drank tea.

• Wallace followed Staraptor to an elderly woman’s home, delivered herbal tea, and learned that residents gave snacks to the Pokémon Day Care’s delivery Pokémon.
• Paul’s Electivire and Aggron battled a Kalos Trainer’s Mega Lopunny, and Aggron kept fighting despite its disadvantage.
• Remembering Fang Yan’s advice to believe in his Pokémon, Paul opened the wooden pendant and found a Key Stone and Aggronite.
• Paul and Aggron Mega Evolved and charged into a Focus Punch clash with Mega Lopunny.
• Gary Mega Evolved Blastoise to battle a Kalos Gym Leader’s Mega Abomasnow.
• Fang Yan and Gengar drank beauty tea in the rest area while the battles continued.

Fang Yan and the Pokémon Day Care staff surprised Shauna with a birthday party, where she received a matching stone necklace and celebrated with friends. After the festivities, Wallace prepared to leave, while Lapras invited an unseen Pokémon to visit the Pokémon Day Care.

• Fang Yan, Officer Jenny, Wallace, the Fujinos, and the Pokémon prepared a birthday celebration for Shauna while she visited a Pokémon by the sea.
• Shauna returned with Zhishi and found the Pokémon Day Care dark before everyone surprised her with a party.
• Fang Yan gave Shauna a stone necklace matching his own, and she wished for her loved ones and her new seaside friend to be happy.
• Gengar disrupted the birthday cake candles, triggering a cream fight that ended with the Pokémon Day Care covered in cream and Shauna hanging up a photograph.
• Fang Yan and Wallace discussed Wallace's departure and his next Wallace Cup, while Lapras encouraged a faint, airplane-shaped Pokémon to visit the Pokémon Day Care.

Shauna introduced Zhishi to the Pokémon she had befriended at the harbor, and the two girls discussed its appearance and the bullying it faced. After watching them, Fang Yan's Staraptor stayed nearby as Shauna and Zhishi wondered whether they should learn to battle so they could protect their friends.

• Wallace promised Shauna plushies before leaving to resume his journey, and Fang Yan reminded him to give advance notice.
• Shauna told Fang Yan she was going to Twinleaf Town with Zhishi to visit a new Pokémon friend, and Fang Yan sent Staraptor to follow them.
• At the harbor, Shauna explained how she had freed the Pokémon from capture and later stopped children from bullying it; she and Zhishi fed and petted it.
• Some children mocked Shauna, Zhishi, and the Pokémon, but Shauna ignored them, and Staraptor remained nearby.
• Shauna and Zhishi talked about battling and decided they might learn so they could protect their friends, though Shauna worried Fang Yan might not approve.

Shauna asked Fang Yan to teach her battling after explaining that she wanted to stand up for a Pokémon others called ugly. After she met Feebas and let it return to the ocean, Fang Yan agreed to teach both Shauna and Zhishi to battle, though Shauna would have to wait until she was ten to go on a journey.

• Shauna told Fang Yan she wanted to battle so people would stop calling Pokémon ugly, and he explained that battles could sometimes help make a point.
• Fang Yan gently coaxed Shauna into admitting she had befriended a Pokémon, then asked her to show him her new friend the next day.
• Fang Yan and Shauna visited Feebas, and he explained that it could evolve into Cynthia's beautiful Milotic.
• Shauna let Feebas return to the ocean and promised to find it again when she was older.
• Shauna asked to go on a journey, and Fang Yan said she had to wait until she was ten; he agreed to teach her and Zhishi to battle.

Fang Yan taught Shauna and Zhishi type matchups, though Shauna fell asleep while Zhishi excelled. After Fang Yan defeated a Jubilife Academy student challenging the Day Care, he learned more students would come, while Latias secretly followed him inside.

• Fang Yan brought Shauna and Zhishi to the Day Care and began teaching them Pokémon type matchups.
• Zhishi listened and answered Fang Yan's questions correctly, while Shauna ate a sausage and fell asleep.
• A Trainer from Jubilife Academy arrived to challenge the Day Care, and Fang Yan sent out Vespiquen to battle his three Pokémon.
• Vespiquen knocked out Mothim with Air Slash, and Fang Yan gave the Trainer pointers before his challenge ended in failure.
• The Trainer explained that challenging the Day Care was a Jubilife Academy outdoor assignment, and Fang Yan learned more students were coming.
• Fang Yan returned inside, where the text [Latias] appeared as Latias followed him into the Day Care.

Fang Yan discovered that Latias had secretly visited the Pokémon Day Care and learned she was bored while her brother traveled with a human. Latias happily settled in with everyone, and Fang Yan gave her a Soul Dew as a welcome gift.

• Fang Yan spotted Latias with his ability, and she revealed herself and explained that Lapras had suggested she visit the Pokémon Day Care.
• Latias told Fang Yan that her brother Latios had left to battle with a human while she planned to eventually return to Alto Mare and help protect it.
• Fang Yan introduced Latias to the Pokémon and people at the Pokémon Day Care, and she quickly befriended Gengar, Lilligant, Shauna, and the others.
• Fang Yan invited Latias to stay for dinner and later found a Soul Dew to give her as a welcome gift.
• Latias accepted the Soul Dew, thanked Fang Yan, and kissed him on the cheek.