Pokemon: Spiritual Master-Chapter 697: Alola Pokémon School (Two-in-One - )

"Ka-kaah?"

Black hole?

Gengar bit into a chicken leg and suddenly raised its head.

Black holes, this old man is familiar with them!

Johan pulled the chicken leg from Gengar’s mouth and pressed it back into the basin.

"It’s not the kind of black hole you understand."

The "black hole" Nurse Joy mentioned referred to Ultra Wormholes, passages connecting the Pokémon world to the Ultra Space.

This mainly related to the Pokémon Sun and Moon storyline, involving the underwhelming multiverse, alternate dimensions, and alien phenomenon settings.

Rather than calling it a Pokémon world story, it was more like borrowing settings from other anime and shows.

"Does Teacher Johan know what that black hole was?" Nurse Joy couldn’t help asking.

Even as a Nurse Joy, she knew almost nothing about Ultra Wormholes.

After all, even within the International Police, this was classified intelligence only known to high-level officials.

So Johan smiled and didn’t delve too deeply into what the black hole was, instead asking:

"I heard that each island in the Alola region has a guardian deity? When this black hole appeared, did Melemele Island’s guardian deity show up?"

"Of course not."

Nurse Joy answered instinctively, then realized her tone seemed wrong and quickly added:

"I mean, although the black hole’s appearance injured quite a few trainers’ and tourists’ Pokémon, fortunately the injuries weren’t serious. It was quickly ’controlled’ by Officer Jenny and the others who arrived, so the ’guardian deity’ didn’t need to intervene."

"Melemele Island’s guardian deity seems to be Tapu Koko?"

"Yes!" Nurse Joy nodded. "Teacher Johan seems very knowledgeable about Alolan culture too."

"A little, a little. When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

Speaking of which, the four guardian deities of the Alola region actually had complex relationships with Ultra Wormholes, Ultra Space, and Ultra Beasts.

They should be the first four Pokémon born in the Alola region, representing the most ancient traditions and totems.

Through recent researchers’ investigations and studies, they discovered that Z-moves originating in the Alola region seemed to have considerable connections to these island guardian deities.

More precisely, it was a special aura covering the Alola region, and this aura... was under the control of the island guardian deities. ƒreewebɳovel.com

The main supporter of this theory was Professor Kukui.

Therefore, many people regarded the island guardian deities as the origin of Z-moves.

However, Johan knew that this special aura covering the four islands actually originated from the first powerful being from another dimension, called the "Blinding One" - Necrozma!

The island guardian deities were merely "natives" who first contacted the "Blinding One" Necrozma and gained certain abilities to manipulate the aura from Necrozma.

The so-called "Z-Crystals," "Z-moves," or "Z-Power" were called "Ultra Power," and this "Ultra Power" actually originated from Necrozma.

This was actually identical to how "Dynamax Power" in the Galar region and "Tera Power" in the Paldea region worked.

The difference was that "Ultra Power" came from Necrozma, "Dynamax Power" came from Eternatus, and "Tera Power" came from the "Crystal Turtle" Terapagos.

If we traced "Ultra Power" to its source, its essence was actually the power source belonging to the "Blinding One" Necrozma - light!

For example, the two most famous deities in the Alola region, Solgaleo the Sun God and Lunala the Moon God, actually carried most of the scattered "light" from Necrozma.

This setting was actually... quite familiar.

Especially in the anime plot, at the final moment, Ash and company gathered all the "light" from the entire Alola region, restoring Necrozma to its full power and sanity, once again becoming the "Blinding One" and dispelling darkness.

Light, cosmic beasts, Ultra Defense Force - if you didn’t know better, you’d think you were watching Ultraman.

One could only say.

Even in the Pokémon world, you could always believe in the light.

Actually, Teacher Johan had always been a sincere "believer in light."

There was only one way to help Necrozma - turn Ash into soup!

"But if Teacher Johan had been there at the time, it probably wouldn’t have caused such a big impact." Nurse Joy looked worshipful and convinced.

The entire Joy family had been paying close attention to Teacher Johan.

"Haha..." Johan laughed politely twice.

He just wanted to retrieve the "Fairy Plate" right now; other matters could wait.

It wasn’t that he couldn’t handle them, just that they took too much time. He needed to clear the Champion’s Path first, then legitimately "write his own orders and approve his own orders."

Every day the island’s development was delayed, his wallet became thinner.

Nurse Joy took a bite of coconut chicken and her eyes immediately lit up.

"This is... coconut water?" She looked surprised.

"Yes."

"Coconut water chicken stew? I never knew there was such a cooking method..." Nurse Joy was greatly shocked.

The Pokémon world’s cuisine wasn’t actually bad, and the development of culinary arts wasn’t low either, but ultimately this was a world centered on Pokémon. Their "development" of food certainly couldn’t match that of certain countries.

"Try this too, coconut pudding."

"Delicious!"

"Ka-kaah!!"

My chicken leg!

The next day.

Melemele Island, Hau’oli City.

"The sunshine is bright, Gengar-san!"

Riding a bicycle, he leisurely left the Pokémon Center and exited the city into the suburbs.

The Alola region truly deserved to be the least developed region in the Pokémon world; many natural environments were exceptionally well preserved.

Just after leaving Hau’oli City, he saw many wild Pokémon.

Gumshoos standing with hands behind their backs, looking serious as they kept watch, groups of Cutiefly dancing around flowers, and Rockruff that kept barking at Johan the stranger with adorable voices...

It was truly a vibrant scene.

Kukui Research Lab.

Knock knock—

Wearing green safety goggles, dressed in a white coat that revealed his bronze, muscular skin, Kukui was eating instant noodles when he heard the knock and immediately put down his chopsticks, saying casually:

"Coming!"

Opening the door, Professor Kukui was stunned, then exclaimed with delight:

"Teacher Johan!"

"Professor Kukui, Alola!" Johan appeared at the door with a full smile.

The Alola region was based on Hawaii, and the word "Alola" also referenced the Hawaiian word "Aloha," meaning "hello," "goodbye," "I love you," and also containing meanings of "hope," "love," "peace," "happiness," etc.

"Alola" was the most authentic greeting method in the Alola region, somewhat like "Have you eaten?"

Very versatile.

"Alola!"

Professor Kukui immediately gave Johan a big hug.

The two were old acquaintances, having first met at Kanaz Pokémon Academy, and had maintained contact since. When Johan was preparing to visit the Alola region, Professor Kukui was the first person he contacted.

"What would you like to drink? Coffee? Pineapple juice?"

Kukui stepped aside to let Johan in while offering.

"Pineapple juice."

Pineapple juice was one of the Alola region’s specialty drinks, even more famous than coconut water.

"Ka-kaah~!"

Hearing there was something to drink, Gengar immediately emerged from the shadows, raising its hand to indicate it wanted a cup too.

"Great!"

Kukui smiled and poured two cups of juice, placing them on the coffee table.

"Johan, you’ve been incredibly popular lately, household name doesn’t even begin to cover it. The kids at school are constantly clamoring for you to come teach."

Johan didn’t stand on ceremony, picking up his cup and taking a sip. The sweet and sour taste with a hint of coolness was quite good.

He said: "Alright, alright, I get it. I’ll go, okay?"

"Really?" Professor Kukui looked delighted.

Johan showed helplessness: "One Professor Kukui, one Professor Oak, plus the famous Pokémon regional variants specialist Professor Samson Oak - three Pokémon professors extending invitations. I can’t really refuse."

Professor Kukui laughed heartily.

"That’s wonderful! I’m sure the children will be absolutely thrilled!"

"Actually, I’m curious why your Pokémon school doesn’t have summer vacation?"

Professor Kukui sat on the sofa across from Johan.

"Because our school has flexible class hours. We don’t have classes all day - just three to four hours daily. Seven to eight continuous hours of studying would be too stressful, so we chose to extend the semester length."

I see.

"Also, some students need to help their families, so they prefer this teaching method."

It seemed the Alola Pokémon School was quite free, well-suited to Alola region residents, just with fewer holidays.

"What’s suitable is best," Johan said.

Anyway, as long as it didn’t affect his holidays.

Professor Kukui nodded, unable to help sighing somewhat:

"The Alola region is still too backward."

After traveling abroad and seeing so many regions and leagues, Professor Kukui deeply felt the Alola region’s backwardness.

"Johan, I’ll be honest with you. I actually want to establish a new Alola League in the Alola region, hoping to drive the Alola region’s development."

As a native Alolan with strength, ability, and a sense of responsibility, establishing an Alola League to enable better communication between the Alola region and other regions was his greatest goal or dream.

Just like Leon hoped to promote the Galar region, Professor Kukui also hoped to let more people recognize the Alola region’s existence.

"Alola League?"

Johan wasn’t surprised by Professor Kukui’s ideal and actually quite agreed with Kukui’s thinking.

Although there wouldn’t be situations like "falling behind means getting beaten," the Alola region’s relatively backward system had indeed... become a paradise for many Pokémon hunters.

"I support your idea. Establishing a league and creating new systems can better protect the Alola region while improving Alolan Pokémon trainers’ strength."

Moreover, if you really calculated it, the Alola region’s top-tier trainers weren’t actually weak.

The Island Kahunas of the four islands, while possibly different in some ways, could barely match other regions’ Elite Four, especially the Kalos region.

Additionally, Kukui himself wasn’t weak.

At his peak, he had challenged the Kanto League, defeating three Elite Four members before losing to peak Lance. Saying he had strength comparable to Champions wasn’t wrong.

If he also got help from island guardian Tapu Koko, matching some powerful Champions would be possible.

Add in Kukui’s close friend Burnet, young talents Acerola, Kahili, Hau - no matter how you looked at it, they didn’t seem much worse than the Kalos League.

Honestly speaking.

Kukui just chose the most difficult Kanto League. If he had chosen the "lazy" Kalos League back then, he might have succeeded.

So Professor Kukui’s peak strength, without Tapu Koko, could barely be considered an ordinary Champion, or peak Elite Four - more like something between the two.

But this was already the Alola region’s strongest fighting force.

Alolan Pokémon trainers’ overall strength was indeed somewhat weaker compared to other regions.

The current Professor Kukui was probably at Elite Four-plus level, still a bit short of his peak.

But don’t forget - he wasn’t just a trainer, but also a Pokémon professor!

Champion plus professor - currently only Professor Oak was known to have both titles. Even Professor Sycamore fell a bit short, showing how strong Kukui’s talent was.

If he had focused solely on being a trainer, perhaps his strength ceiling wouldn’t have stopped at ordinary Champion level.

"Really?"

Getting Johan’s recognition, Professor Kukui appeared very excited.

"I’ve already gotten recognition from two Island Kahunas. As long as I get approval from the other two, I plan to challenge the Kanto League to truly understand how big the gap between our Alola and Kanto really is."

Johan felt that Professor Kukui’s biggest obstacle in creating the Alola League wouldn’t be the Island Kahunas, but the Aether Foundation!

The Aether Foundation was the biggest "leader" in the Alola region, reportedly controlling fifty percent of the entire Alola region’s wealth.

Their influence on the entire Alola region was equivalent to Rose’s Macro Cosmos Corporation’s influence on the Galar region.

Without the Aether Foundation’s support, Professor Kukui’s Alola League establishment would probably face enormous difficulties.

However, he didn’t discourage Kukui, believing Kukui could see this clearly. He just smiled:

"Why not choose the Kalos League?"

Professor Kukui looked confident.

"I heard the Kanto League is the strongest league. Since we’re challenging, we should challenge the strongest to truly understand where the gap lies."

The strongest league?

Johan looked thoughtful, saying softly:

"In a while, that might not be certain."

"What?" Professor Kukui didn’t catch his words.

"Nothing." Johan smiled and shook his head.

He would be challenging the Hoenn League’s Champion’s Path soon. If successful, there would also be Steven and Wallace in the future.

If all were at their peak...

That would be at least three Champion-level existences!

With the Kanto League’s Champion position still undecided... whether Kanto League or Hoenn League was stronger was hard to say.

Of course.

If Red, Green, and that batch grew up in the future, it would be another situation entirely.

"I want to say..." Johan paused. "Professor Kukui, do you have a way to let me meet Melemele Island’s island guardian, Tapu Koko?"

"Tapu Koko? You want to meet it?" Professor Kukui was stunned.

"Yes. I have some matters I’d like to ask Tapu Koko about."

"Hmm..."

Professor Kukui nodded thoughtfully.

"You don’t know - although Tapu Koko is a guardian deity, it doesn’t appear often. Even people who’ve seen it can be counted on one hand."

"However..."

After thinking briefly, he said:

"Let me think of a way. It should be possible."

"Then I’ll trouble you."

Without Ash present, Professor Kukui was undoubtedly the best choice for meeting the island guardian deities.

Johan really didn’t want to use violent methods to "invite" the island guardian deities out, as that approach might not hurt Johan but would damage relationships and harmony.

"Mm."

The two chatted for a while longer.

"By the way Johan, let me take you to the school? Meet everyone first, especially those little ones who’ve been anticipating you for so long." Kukui suggested.

"Sounds good."

So Johan got in Kukui’s jeep and headed to the Pokémon school located in Hau’oli City’s suburbs.

Compared to Kanaz Pokémon Academy’s towering buildings, compared to Blueberry Academy’s advanced technology, compared to Orange Academy’s long history, the Alola Pokémon School seemed much more modest.

It had only one teaching building, one teachers’ office, one cafeteria, and a playground.

A small river ran through the campus, with quite nice landscaping around it.

When Johan and Professor Kukui arrived, several students were playing with their Pokémon on the playground, filled with sunshine and laughter.

Although the teaching facilities were somewhat simple, you could tell the students were quite happy.

Professor Kukui led Johan to meet the principal while introducing things along the way.

"The school’s current enrollment isn’t ideal - each grade only has four to six students. After completing basic courses, higher grade students mostly self-study, while the school mainly handles basic content teaching for lower grades."

Four to six students per grade?

"What about teachers?" Johan asked.

"Cough, mainly just Principal Samson Oak and me." Professor Kukui coughed lightly, looking somewhat embarrassed.

Johan didn’t think this was anything bad, actually finding it quite admirable:

"The teaching staff is truly outstanding."

This wasn’t sarcasm but heartfelt praise.

Although there were only two teachers total...

But look at these two teachers’ identities!

One was an authority in Pokémon research, Professor Oak’s cousin Samson Oak, a doctor in Pokémon regional variants!

The other was a doctor in Pokémon move studies, also a top trainer currently at Elite Four level with future Champion potential!

Although the numbers were small, the average teaching quality was so exaggerated that no one in the entire Pokémon world could surpass it.

As for student resources...

Just talking about Ash’s class...

Including Ash, including Lillie as Professor Kukui’s assistant, the other four would all become Trial Captains!

And Trial Captain wasn’t necessarily these people’s limit.

Alola region Trial Captains, after the Alola League was established, could from some perspectives be equivalent to Gym Leaders from other regions.

Add in Ash becoming Champion, Lillie being the Aether Foundation heiress...

One classroom in a single school would simultaneously contain one Champion, four Gym Leaders or higher, and one young lady controlling half of Alola’s wealth.

This wasn’t an ordinary Pokémon school but Alola region’s elite academy!

A small but elite teaching staff and student body.

If you pushed the timeline forward ten or twenty years, this school would probably become Alola region’s "military academy," the most solid foundation for the future Alola League!

This value was almost higher than Kanaz Pokémon Academy.

"Alola~"

"Alola!"

Many greetings along the way.

Entering the campus, Professor Kukui saw a girl in a white dress with golden waterfall-like hair wearing a large white sun hat and immediately waved at her.

She was stunned, then immediately ran over.

Her cheeks were slightly flushed, whether from running or feeling shy seeing the stranger beside Professor Kukui.

"A-Alola..." The girl held her hands together, appearing very shy.

Professor Kukui smiled and introduced:

"This is the assistant I told you about, named Lillie. Lillie, you definitely recognize this person - the famous Teacher Johan."

Under Lillie’s large white sun hat, her light blue eyes quickly swept over Johan’s face. Unable to suppress her surprise, she then quickly lowered her head shyly:

"Tea-Teacher Johan, I-I’m Lillie."

"Hello, Lillie." Johan smiled and greeted her.

This was a key character in the Pokémon Sun and Moon storyline.

As everyone knew, Serena belonged to Ash, while Lillie belonged to everyone (crossed out).

Cough, Lillie was one of the female leads in the Sun and Moon anime, quite popular herself, and also the character with the most obvious growth and change, loved by many.

The current Lillie, due to a UB incident in her childhood, should still be in the stage of fearing Pokémon, and her relationship with her mother, Aether Foundation President Lusamine, should also be quite tense.

"Ka-kaah!"

Gengar floated out from Johan’s shadow behind him, grinning mischievously as it greeted Lillie too.

!!

Seeing Gengar, Lillie immediately froze, her body trembling slightly, unable to speak.

Johan pressed Gengar’s head and pushed it back down, while apologizing:

"Sorry, Gengar means no harm. It’s just rather mischievous."

Lillie took quite a while to slowly recover.

Professor Kukui sighed softly, not immediately explaining anything, but instead arranging:

"Lillie, Teacher Johan will be coming to our school to teach for a while. You’ll serve as Teacher Johan’s assistant then."

Although Lillie was very afraid of Pokémon, she performed excellently as an assistant, thanks to her very good upbringing.

"Really?"

Lillie unconsciously raised her head, surprise bursting from her eyes.

Then realizing she had lost composure, she quickly lowered her head again, saying quietly:

"O-okay, I understand."

"Then Lillie, please take care of me from now on." Johan smiled.

Having an additional assistant, especially the Aether Foundation heiress, would undoubtedly make many things much simpler.

"Y-yes!"

"Right, is everyone here? Have Lana, Mallow and the others come out. The Teacher Johan they’ve been thinking about has finally arrived."

"Everyone... doesn’t have class this morning..." Lillie quietly explained, then immediately said: "I’ll go call them right away!"

With that, she immediately ran off to call her friends.

"Let’s go Johan. Since they’re temporarily not here, let’s go see Principal Samson Oak first."

The two came to the principal’s office.

Opening the door...

They saw an elderly man in a flower shirt lying on his desk sleeping and snoring, with a snot bubble growing and shrinking.

Professor Kukui helplessly approached and gently popped the snot bubble.

Samson Oak immediately bounced up from his chair.

"Haha! I’m Samson Oak, Samson hugged by Komala!"

While speaking, this Professor Oak Alola Form immediately transformed to look like Komala, actually quite resembling it.

Johan: "..."

Kukui: "..."

Instead, seeing this, Gengar immediately popped out again, rubbing its own head before also transforming to look like Komala.

"Ka-kaah~"

Samson Oak was immediately "shocked," feeling he had met a worthy opponent, about to cos again when Professor Kukui quickly stopped him.

"Principal, Teacher Johan is here."

This "man with a thousand Pokémon faces" Samson Oak finally noticed Johan’s presence.

"Teacher Johan finally came? Wonderful!"

Originally Samson Oak wanted to continue "performing" his cosplay abilities, but fortunately Professor Kukui was there, quickly completing simple introductions and setting up future teaching arrangements.

After all, there weren’t many classes or students anyway - the arrangement emphasized being casual and free-spirited.

As long as Johan had time, as long as it was daytime, classes could start anytime!

However, Gengar was both somewhat wary of and curious about this "Alola Form Professor Oak" Samson Oak’s cosplay abilities. When leaving, it couldn’t help looking back at Principal Samson Oak several times.

Alola Pokémon School, on-campus Tauros ranch.

A dark-skinned boy in red shorts was slowly descending on a majestic Charizard.

After taking bundles of hay from Charizard’s back, he used a pitchfork to deliver the hay into the ranch while banging on the fence.

"Feeding time! Feeding time!"

"Moo~Moo~"

Hearing the commotion, the Tauros immediately crowded over.

"Don’t push! Don’t push! One at a time, everyone gets to eat!" the boy called out.

"Kiawe!"

At this time, Lillie wearing a sun hat came running over.

"Lillie?" Kiawe cast a questioning look.

Lillie panted lightly: "Tea-Teacher Johan came, Professor Kukui wants us to gather on the playground."

"Teacher Johan?"

Kiawe was stunned, then his eyes seemed to burst with flames: "That Teacher Johan who punched legendary Pokémon, kicked mythical Pokémon, and shattered the space-time dragons with one punch?"

"Eh? Eh... I think so..."

Kiawe immediately dropped his pitchfork and climbed onto Charizard’s back.

"Charizard, let’s go! We’re going to challenge Teacher Johan!"

Lillie called from below:

"Before gathering, let’s call Sophocles first."

"Got it!"

Kiawe’s voice came from far away.

By the school’s seaside fishing area.

Blue-haired Lana sat quietly on the rocks, focusing intently on the calm sea surface.

"Today the wind is calm and waves are still. Let’s not fish for Kyogre today - target is Lugia!" Lana murmured quietly but with extreme determination.

"Lana! Lana!"

Lillie stood on shore, hands on her knees, calling:

"Tea-Teacher Johan came to school, Professor Kukui wants us to gather on the playground!"

"Teacher Johan?"

Hearing Lillie’s words, Lana was stunned, then immediately stood up, not even bothering to reel in the Horsea already hooked, immediately getting up and grabbing her water bucket.

Teacher Johan had defeated Kyogre and ridden Lugia!

She definitely had to ask Teacher Johan how he "conquered" these Pokémon.

Lillie hurriedly said:

"We-we should go to the cafeteria first and call Mallow too."

"Right, Mallow!"

Usually known for her calmness, Lana now showed some excitement too.

On the Pokémon school playground.

Johan and Professor Kukui had already arrived first.

Professor Kukui in thought suddenly said:

"I’ve got it!"

"What?"

"I know how to let you meet Tapu Koko!"

Hmm?

"Tapu Koko is full of curiosity, especially about battles and Pokémon it hasn’t seen much. The more powerful the collision, the more likely it is to attract Tapu Koko." Professor Kukui said.

Battle?

Johan rubbed his chin, somewhat understanding.

Professor Kukui wanted to battle him?

If it was to smoothly meet Tapu Koko, that wasn’t impossible.

Noticing Johan’s gaze, Professor Kukui understood he had misunderstood and immediately smiled:

"Not with me."

"At least, not with me for now."

He certainly wanted to battle Johan too, but for the current him, establishing the Alola League was most important.

For this, he could suppress his battle desires.

"Then..."

"With my master, Melemele Island’s Island Kahuna, Hala!"

Island Kahuna?

Professor Kukui explained:

"Johan, you don’t know - island guardian deities and Island Kahunas have closer relationships, and Island Kahunas can get more attention from guardian deities, so if you battle an Island Kahuna..."

It would definitely be more likely to attract Tapu Koko than battling others.

Johan mentally completed Professor Kukui’s explanation, fully understanding his meaning.

"Would Kahuna Hala agree?"

"He will!"

Professor Kukui appeared very certain about this: "Master always maintains a twenty-year-old heart when it comes to Pokémon battles!"

This had to mention that the Island Kahunas of Alola region’s various islands actually shared many personality similarities with their island guardian deities.

Although Hala was older, he always maintained passion for battles and curiosity about many new things. He was also the first Island Kahuna to support Professor Kukui in creating the Alola League.

After brief consideration, Johan nodded, accepting Professor Kukui’s suggestion.

As long as he could meet Tapu Koko, the other three island guardian deities would be easier to handle.

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