In Pewter City, at Brock's home.
Pewter Gym was taken over by Brock's younger brother, Jiro.
Brock's many other siblings.
The older ones either went out to travel and train themselves, just like when they were young.
Or they got married and had children.
Or they were still in school.
In general, the children had all grown up.
Brock no longer had to take care of so many people and be so tired like before.
Brock bought a three-story villa in Pewter City.
Living there were Brock's father, Muneo, and Brock's mother, Misty.
And Brock and his wife, Joy.
And Misty and Ye Feng's daughter.
And Joy and Ye Feng's daughter.
Of course, a few younger Brock siblings also lived here.
But they were usually busy with their own affairs.
They weren't home during the day and only returned at night.
And now it was lunchtime.
For Ash's arrival.
Brock's wife, Joy, prepared a feast to entertain Ash.
"Brock, I really miss our traveling days," Ash said.
At the dinner table.
Ash, uncharacteristically, had a few drinks of sake.
He couldn't help but sigh:
"I was just starting my journey then, only ten years old, and you were fifteen."
"So many years have passed in a blink of an eye. I'm twenty-five now, and you're almost thirty."
"Yes, back then my dream was to become a Pokémon Breeder. Later, I re-established my goal, which was to become a Pokémon Doctor, to heal all the Pokémon in this world. This dream has been realized."
Because Brock married into the Joy family, becoming a husband by marriage.
He was able to work at the Pokémon Center.
It's important to know that this was exclusive to the Joy family.
Only Miss Joy could work at the Pokémon Center. Other Pokémon Doctors who weren't Miss Joy were often dispatched for external support work.
Nowhere as comfortable as staying at the Pokémon Center like Miss Joy.
And because he married into the family, Brock also had this privilege.
Normally, he worked at the Pewter City Pokémon Center with Joy.
Hearing Brock talk about his dream, Ash couldn't help but recall his own.
"My dream. My dream is to become a Pokémon Master, but has this dream been fulfilled?"
From his debut, he had repeatedly lost and repeatedly fought back.
Kanto region's Indigo Plateau Conference.
Johto region's Silver Conference.
Hoenn region's Ever Grande Conference.
And so on.
Finally, in the Pokémon World Championships, he was among the Top 8 Masters.
Although he didn't get first place, he was considered one of the top trainers in the world.
Roughly speaking, he was only twenty-five years old, and such an achievement was acceptable.
At this moment, Ash sighed and looked up at the food.
He looked at Muneo.
Muneo had aged a lot since the first time he met him.
Then he looked at Misty.
Brock's mother, that is.
Hey, she hadn't changed much.
Then he looked at Joy.
Still youthful, but with a more mature aura of a married woman.
Finally, his gaze fell upon Misty's daughter and Joy's daughter.
Judging by their age, these two children should only be five or six, or seven or eight years old.
But their current appearance was that of fifteen or sixteen, seventeen or eighteen-year-old beautiful girls.
But this was not the key.
The most crucial thing was the appearance of these two little girls.
First, let's talk about Misty's daughter.
Muneo's greatest trait was his powerful genes.
He himself had narrow, squinting eyes.
And then all ten of his children had squinting eyes.
Too powerful.
But this youngest daughter was not.
Her eyes were large, bright, and incredibly beautiful.
Second, let's talk about Joy's daughter.
The Joy family had two curses.
The first was that they only gave birth to daughters, never sons.
The second was that the daughters born all looked exactly the same.
The entire Joy family had identical faces, and even figures...
But this daughter of Joy was not.
She possessed characteristics of both male and female, just like an ordinary child.
But it was strange that on this daughter of Joy, there was no trace of Brock's inherited features.