Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhishi's parents visited the Pokémon Day Care to choose a companion Pokémon for her, but Fang Yan advised them to let Zhishi decide. Zhishi wanted a Pokémon strong enough to protect Shauna, so Fang Yan arranged for her to take a Dratini Egg home.

• Mr. and Mrs. Minamoto asked Fang Yan for help choosing a Pokémon to keep Zhishi company, and he suggested letting Zhishi choose for herself.
• The couple stayed at the Pokémon Day Care until school ended, when Zhishi arrived with Shauna and learned they had come to find her a Pokémon.
• Zhishi first chose Dali and then Rhyperior, but Fang Yan refused to give either Pokémon away.
• Zhishi told Fang Yan she wanted a strong Pokémon to protect Shauna, and he agreed to help her.
• Fang Yan offered the Minamotos a Dratini Egg, explained its qualities, and gave it to Zhishi after her parents agreed to buy it.

After selling Dratini's Egg, Fang Yan agreed to help Gary investigate two sick Shieldon in Canalave City and set out with his Pokémon, including Latias. He left Lucian in charge of the Pokémon Day Care after recruiting him to teach and handle visitors, then flew off before Lucian could assign him delivery work.

• Gary called Fang Yan about two Shieldon that had stopped eating despite treatment, and Fang Yan agreed to visit him in Canalave City.
• Fang Yan arranged for Mr. and Mrs. Fujino and the Pokémon at the Day Care to manage while he was away, then chose his team for the trip.
• Latias asked to accompany Fang Yan, and he agreed after explaining that he considered her a friend rather than expecting her to repay his gift.
• Fang Yan invited Lucian to come along, but Lucian refused because he had just finished working overtime.
• Fang Yan left Lucian to teach Shauna and Zhishi, handle possible student challenges, and oversee the Day Care while Latias carried him toward Canalave City.

Lucian enjoyed a break at the Pokémon Day Care with Shauna and Zhishi, but a wave of visiting Trainers kept him battling for days. Meanwhile, Fang Yan rode Latias through the cold and finally arrived where Gary and Byron were caring for two sick Shieldon.

• Lucian gave Shauna a Bronzong plush, met her friend Zhishi, and agreed to battle a Trainer who had come from Jubilife Academy.
• Shauna insisted Lucian battle personally so she and Zhishi could learn, and a growing crowd of students kept challenging him.
• Lucian battled brutally on the second day, then handed the challenges to Bronzong and the others on the third day while he watched and gave pointers.
• Fang Yan shivered as Latias flew him toward Gary and Byron, and Latias sped up to get them there sooner.
• Fang Yan arrived on Latias, and Gary greeted him as his manager while Byron realized he was Gary’s teacher.

Fang Yan treated the Shieldon’s discomfort as a sign of impending evolution and stayed at the Pokémon Day Care to care for them. Gary revealed he had obtained a Key Stone and challenged Fang Yan to a battle to demonstrate his training, leaving them about to fight.

• Gary introduced Gym Leader Byron to Fang Yan and explained that Ash and Dawn planned to rest at the Pokémon Day Care before the competition.
• Fang Yan examined the two Shieldon, realized they were nearing evolution, and prepared herbal medicine to ease their discomfort.
• Fang Yan gave the Shieldon medicine and rewarded them with Honey, then agreed to stay until the two Shieldon evolved.
• Gary told Fang Yan he had found a place for his research institute and planned to return after the League Conference, which began in two weeks.
• Gary showed Fang Yan the Key Stone in his pendant and challenged him to a battle, and Fang Yan accepted.

Gary challenged Fang Yan to a full battle, testing the strength he and his Pokémon had developed. Gary’s Mega Blastoise clashed with Fang Yan and Lilligant’s Bloom Doom, and Gary ended the match satisfied that he had shown Fang Yan the light he had grasped.

• Gary chose a full battle, and Fang Yan opened with Ninetales, who defeated Gary’s Arcanine with Scorching Sands.
• Fang Yan sent out Dali, Gothitelle, and Lapras in turn, and they defeated Gary’s Nidoking, Alakazam, and Umbreon.
• Gengar asked to battle Gary’s Electivire and defeated him with Toxic, Phantom Force, and Hex.
• Gary sent out Blastoise, who battled Lilligant before Gary Mega Evolved him using his wooden pendant.
• Mega Blastoise fired Dragon Pulse as Fang Yan and Lilligant unleashed Bloom Doom, and the clash left Blastoise unconscious while Gothitelle dealt with the aftermath.
• Fang Yan told Gary he had felt the light in his heart, and Gary said he was satisfied before promising to keep working hard with Blastoise and Umbreon.