After a lot of effort, the superpower user finally managed to deal with the reporters and audience.
[You, looking exhausted, are ready to leave Mechanical City, but unexpectedly, the Mechanical Gym Leader Kawu is waiting for you at the door. He expresses that personally sending off every victorious challenger is his habit and compliments his well-proportioned physique and muscles, looking forward to meeting you and battling again at the Champion Cup.]
Standard dialogue.
Baimu is all too familiar with the phrase "battle again." Too many people have said this to him, but so far, it seems no actual rematch has happened.
Hmm, and none have complimented muscles either.
On the other side, after leaving Mechanical City, the superpower user set the next target at Fistgate City, but before that, the issue of the Gigantic Mushroom needs to be resolved. Having acquired a new Pokémon, he also routinely plans to train his Galarian Slowpoke, using the Galar Bean Branch he bought.
Through narration, it's revealed that during the days idle in Mechanical City, the superpower user actively researched information about Galarian Slowpoke and the Gigantic Mushroom and went to the local supermarket, where he purchased the special materials needed for Galarian Slowpoke's evolution, the Galar Bean Branch.
The Gigantic Mushroom is extremely rare due to its growth only near Energy Points.
However, there was much information about Wild Gigantified Pokémon in the Wilderness Zone, rumored to be temporary Energy Points created from an unknown influence.
[You decide to try your luck in the Wilderness Zone, searching for those suspicious temporary Energy Points.]
On screen.
The superpower user, accompanied by a group of Pokémon, progresses through the Wilderness Zone filled with Wild Pokémon, occasionally encountering wild Trainers, with little issue. Hypno quickly secures victory.
Even if encountering those who can't take a loss and resort to physical conflicts, it's fine as the Pokémon finish, then the Trainers do too.
In terms of Pokémon battles, the superpower user is a pro. In terms of real fights, he's equally unafraid, having traveled through two regions and met all kinds of people.
Baimu watches the superpower user traversing the vast fields, certain that these so-called temporary Energy Points are most likely Pokémon dens for Gigant Group Battles in the game.
It's just that, unlike the game's fixed Energy generation sites, the animation's Energy Points are unfixed.
The reason is these Energy Points are created by a special stone called [Wishing Star], and the Wishing Star is not the Wishing Star Kilari that Baimu handed to Da Wu for research, but rather meteorite fragments brought by Eternatus's arrival on Earth and meteorites that later descended in the Galar Region.
In the game, a den that loses its Energy Point can simply be activated again by throwing a Wishing Star Block — a fragment of the Wishing Star — to rekindle it.
Luozi has always tried to gather all the Wishing Stars in the Galar Region to revive Eternatus, giving a breath of life to the energy-depleted Galar Region a millennium later. In the animation, he refers to this energy as Galar Particles.
Yet in the animation, attempting to find temporary Energy Points single-handedly remains very challenging.
After days of futile searching, the superpower user decides to first address Galarian Slowpoke's evolution problem.
[You ponder over whether to weave the Galar Bean Branch into a bracelet or a garland, as the two items not only require different amounts of Galar Bean Branches but also represent two different evolutions for Galarian Slowpoke.]
[After careful consideration, you decide to make both items and let the Galarian Slowpoke choose itself.]
On screen.
The superpower user quickly crafts both the bracelet and garland using the method he learned, which makes Baimu find him unexpectedly resourceful...
His learning ability is also quite strong, not easily found.
Baimu is well aware that, despite many Trainers often out traveling for years, most have limited self-care skills. Someone like Ash Ketchum has essentially bid farewell to life skills, while Shinji, who seems reliable, doesn't even make Pokémon food, relying entirely on buying canned goods for his Pokémon.
Only now are the Pokémon food cans more reasonably nutritionally balanced, and the food standards in the Pokémon animation world are exceptionally high, or who knows if Shinji's Pokémon could maintain such high combat effectiveness.
After all, food is also an essential part of training Pokémon.
The Galarian Slowpoke looks at the bracelet and garland, under Slowking's expectant gaze, and with dull eyes, slowly crawls towards the Galar Bean Branch bracelet.
Exactly.
It crawled, like a caterpillar.
But when it reaches the bracelet, instead of putting it on its paw, it opens its mouth wide, trying to eat it.
[Seeing this, you quickly snatch up the Galar Bean Branch bracelet and slip it onto Galarian Slowpoke's left forepaw, leading it to the riverbank.]
At the riverbank, the Galarian Slowpoke, as if naturally instinctual, places its left forepaw bearing the Galar Bean Branch bracelet into the river, with vacant eyes, as if waiting for something.
The superpower user, not in any hurry either, sits next to Galarian Slowpoke with Slowking, waiting for whatever it may be.
The scene quickly transitions.
It doesn't leave Baimu waiting long — the Galarian Slowpoke suddenly shivers, and the left forepaw it dipped in the river abruptly retracts, though, at some point, a large blue river clam has appeared on its paw —
Shellder!
A string of ellipsis appears above the Galarian Slowpoke's head, while the superpower user and Slowking look overjoyed.
In the animation, Slowpoke follows the Illustrated Guide's setting faithfully, where being bitten on the tail by Shellder allows it to evolve into Slowbro, and the requirements for Slowking are relatively stricter, needing to be bitten on the head by Shellder while wearing an Ancient Crown.