“N-Noah…
this Pokémon is…?!”
Back at Professor Kukui’s Laboratory on Melemele Island in the Alola region—
The moment Professor Kukui saw the Agumon Noah released, his eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
After all, it’s a completely unknown Pokémon!
Noah answered, “Professor, I discovered this new Ultra Beast inside an Ultra Wormhole before.
I named it ‘Agumon.’ Could you register it in Alola’s Pokédex?”
Ultra Wormholes were mysterious phenomena that occasionally appeared throughout the Alola region.
Powerful and often extremely dangerous Pokémon would sometimes emerge from them.
Alolan scholars referred to these mysterious creatures as Ultra Beasts.
Examples included Celesteela and Guzzlord.
Even Poipole, the one Ash eventually caught in the original series, belonged to this category.
In fact, even Solgaleo and Lunala could arguably be considered Ultra Beasts.
“So this little one is actually an Ultra Beast?
That’s surprising.”
Professor Kukui looked astonished.
“I’ve studied Ultra Beasts before.”
“In my experience, every one of them has an incredibly violent temperament.”
“This is the first one I’ve ever seen that’s so gentle.”
Naturally, Kukui had no reason to reject Noah’s request.
He immediately registered Agumon into the Pokédex.
The entry also clearly recorded Noah as the discoverer of this brand-new Pokémon.
Not only would that increase Noah’s reputation—
It would also earn him another wave of Prestige Points from the System.
“Professor, could you lend me some travel funds?”
“I want to head out on a trip.”
During the journey home, Noah had already given the matter considerable thought.
If he wanted to revitalize Alola—
Doing everything by himself simply wasn’t enough.
Leon, the undefeated Champion of the Galar League, was undeniably powerful.
Yet among the eight regional Leagues, Galar still ranked second from the bottom, only barely ahead of Kalos.
The reason was simple.
Aside from Leon, Galar lacked top-tier Trainers.
A peak Champion-level Leon.
A beginner Champion-level Raihan.
A single Elite Four-level Piers.
They couldn’t even gather four Elite Four members.
That was why Galar remained the only League among the eight regions that didn’t officially have an Elite Four.
It was honestly rather embarrassing.
Therefore, Noah’s first step—
Besides earning more Prestige Points to exchange for additional Digimon—
Was to strengthen Alola’s immediate fighting force.
To put it even more bluntly—
He intended to poach people.
Aggressively steal talent away from every other League.
With the advantage of being a Transmigrator, that shouldn’t be especially difficult.
It wasn’t that Noah particularly enjoyed stealing other people’s future stars.
He considered himself a believer in true love.
He was simply sacrificing himself for the great revival of the Alola region.
…
After hearing Noah’s entire plan, Professor Kukui admitted that poaching talent from other regions felt somewhat unethical.
But…
At the moment, it genuinely seemed like the only realistic path toward strengthening Alola.
Truthfully, despite his normally easygoing personality—
Being rejected by the League over and over again had begun to ignite his temper.
In the end, Kukui even took out the savings he had originally planned to use as his future wedding fund and gambled everything on Noah.
‘All right!’
‘Let’s do it!’
…
That very night, Noah didn’t rush to depart.
Instead, he stayed inside his room compiling a list.
He carefully wrote down every potential candidate he believed could be recruited to Alola.
Although he would have loved to recruit people like Cynthia, the beautiful Champion of Sinnoh, or Kanto’s voluptuous Elite Four member, Lorelei—
Trying to poach Champions or Elite Four members from established regions was practically impossible.
Instead, Noah shifted his attention toward future prodigies who hadn’t yet begun their journeys.
For example—
Ash, Blue, and Misty from Kanto.
May from Hoenn.
Dawn from Sinnoh.
Serena from Kalos.
Marnie from Galar.
‘Although…
Ash…’
Noah couldn’t help rubbing his forehead as he thought about the original protagonist.
‘He has one amazing battle followed immediately by one absolutely terrible one.’
Even though Ash eventually became the strongest Trainer in the World Coronation Series Masters Eight Tournament—
A considerable amount of luck had been involved.
And before that, his performances had been wildly inconsistent.
The definition of ‘one match like a god, the next like a clown’…
That described Ash perfectly.
‘Forget it.’
‘Kalos is the closest region to Alola.’
‘I’ll recruit Serena first.’
After thinking things through, Noah made his decision.
Serena was, after all, the very first heroine in the original series to clearly display romantic feelings toward Ash.
Wait…
Did that technically mean he was stealing Ash’s girl?
No.
No, no, no.
That wasn’t stealing at all.
He was doing it for the great revival of the Alola region.