Located between the Kanto and Johto regions stood the Indigo Plateau.
Inside the Pokémon League Headquarters’ battle arena—
“Dragonite!
Use Dragon Rush!”
Lance, the strongest Trainer in the Kanto League and widely recognized as the most powerful Trainer in the entire world, issued his command with an icy expression.
Hovering above his head, his Dragonite—nearly twice the size of an ordinary Dragonite and showing a fierce, intimidating expression—erupted with deep blue draconic energy that completely enveloped its body.
The energy transformed into a colossal dragon over ten meters long.
Before Incineroar even had time to react—
It was struck head-on and violently launched across the battlefield.
The impact smashed straight through the wall behind the arena!
“Incineroar!”
Professor Kukui, Alola’s Pokémon Professor, cried out in alarm.
As the smoke slowly cleared, Incineroar could already be seen lying unconscious on the ground.
Serving as the battle referee, Elite Four member, Lorelei, lowered the arms she had folded beneath her impressively full chest before raising one hand and announcing,
“Incineroar is unable to battle.
Dragonite wins.”
“Since Professor Kukui’s six Pokémon have all lost the ability to battle, the winner is Lance.”
Lance calmly recalled his Dragonite before looking down from above.
“You can’t even gather four Elite Four members, and your Champion candidate is only this strong.
You actually think you’re qualified to join the League?”
With those words, Lance turned around and walked away without looking back.
Professor Kukui clenched his teeth tightly.
Every single year, he traveled all the way from the Alola region to Kanto.
His sole purpose was to apply for permission to establish the Alola League.
Unfortunately—
Alola’s overall strength was still far too weak.
Not only could they not even gather the standard four Elite Four members required for every region, but even finding eight Gym Leaders was difficult.
Seeing Kukui come back year after year, even League Chairman, Charles Goodshow, eventually began to sympathize with him.
So he gave Kukui a chance.
If Kukui could defeat just two of Lance’s Pokémon, Alola would immediately be granted permission to establish its own League.
Sadly, even though Professor Kukui’s strength had barely reached Champion level—
He still had his entire team swept clean by Lance’s peak Champion-level Dragonite.
…
“You son of a—”
Standing at the edge of the battlefield, a handsome young man with sharp eyebrows, bright eyes, and a pair of goggles resting on his forehead stared coldly at Lance’s departing back.
“Calm down, Noah.”
Professor Kukui quickly grabbed his assistant.
Noah also forced himself to settle down.
After all, he had only transmigrated into this world one week ago.
He simply didn’t possess the qualifications to challenge someone like Lance, a Trainer standing at the absolute peak of Champion level.
That’s right.
Noah was a Transmigrator.
One week earlier, he had arrived in this Pokémon World.
Having absolutely no identity whatsoever, he fabricated a story about surviving a shipwreck.
Using the Pokémon knowledge he had brought from his previous life, he successfully impressed Professor Kukui enough to be hired as his assistant.
“So…
another failure.”
Professor Kukui forced a bitter smile before patting Noah on the shoulder.
“Let’s head back to Alola.”
“The next time we meet, I’ll beat him until he’s kneeling on the ground calling me ‘Grandpa’.”
Noah glanced one last time at Lance’s retreating figure, now nothing more than a tiny black dot in the distance.
“Oh my, little brother, you’re certainly brave.”
Lorelei, who had been preparing to leave, turned around after overhearing Noah.
“But you’d better avoid making such outrageous boasts.
Otherwise, you’ll only make yourself look like you’re raging because you’re powerless.”
Noah gave no reply.
In the Pokémon World, talking accomplished nothing.
Only strength spoke.
Noah and Professor Kukui left the League Headquarters.
Behind them, Lorelei quietly muttered to herself,
“The look in that young man’s eyes…
surely he wasn’t actually serious, was he?”
…
“Professor, next year you won’t have to come here anymore.”
While seated aboard the airplane, Noah spoke to Kukui.
“I’ll make the League beg Alola to join them instead.”
Although he had lied to obtain the position of assistant—
Professor Kukui had still shown him genuine kindness.
Repay kindness.
Repay grudges.
Sleep with beautiful women.
Those were the three principles Noah lived by.
Professor Kukui could only return a smile that looked even worse than crying.
He simply assumed Noah was trying to comfort him.
After taking his seat, Noah appeared to close his eyes for a short rest.
In reality, he silently called out in his mind,
‘System.’
Immediately, a virtual interface that only Noah could see appeared before his eyes.
[Digimon System at your service.]
[Host: Noah]
[Prestige Points: 13,000]
[Owned Digimon: None]
This was Noah’s greatest cheat as a Transmigrator.
By collecting Prestige Points, he could exchange them for Digimon stored within the System.
As for his current Prestige Points—
They had all been earned by publishing research papers based upon Pokémon knowledge from his previous life—information that had not yet been discovered in this era.
That was also the reason he had declined Professor Kukui’s offer of one of Alola’s starter Pokémon.
‘System.’
‘Spend 10,000 Prestige Points and exchange them for Agumon!’
Among all Digimon, the most iconic representative was naturally Agumon.
Its status in the Digimon World was comparable to Pikachu and Charizard within the Pokémon World.
[Ding!
Exchange successful!
Digimon awarded: Agumon.]
[Digimon Information]
[Name: Agumon]
[Type: Dragon / Fire]
[Ability: Blaze (When HP falls below one-third, Fire-type moves become 1.5× stronger.)]
[Known Moves: Baby Flame (Exclusive Move), Fire Spin, Dragon Breath, Slash…]
At the same time, a standard Poké Ball with a red upper half and white lower half appeared in Noah’s hand.
Through the translucent top of the Poké Ball—
He could clearly see the tiny creature inside.
A little dinosaur that looked remarkably like a chicken nugget cheerfully waved its tiny claws at him.