After Ethan Vale dragged Sprigatito over and had it press a little paw print—an unmistakable plum blossom—onto the paper titled *"Three Rules of Conduct."
With its injuries fully healed and stamina completely restored, Sprigatito once again gazed longingly out the window.
The meaning couldn't have been clearer.
It wanted to improve—desperately so!
Ethan Vale smiled and nodded. "Go on, then. Just remember to be back before dinner."
"Meow-fee!"
After replying cheerfully, Sprigatito bounded out through the window in two or three quick leaps, vanishing from Ethan Vale's sight.
There's a door, but you insist on using the window—what kind of habit is that?
Muttering a complaint to himself, Ethan Vale turned on his computer and started editing a video.
Not last night's livestream recording.
To put it bluntly, if Ethan Vale were still cutting livestream highlights right now, he'd really be missing the boat—even hot leftovers would be gone.
Last night's match against Raihan had already spread all over the internet. Open any video app's trending section and it was guaranteed to be there.
The commentary from marketing accounts was even more unhinged, one after another.
"The entire internet collapses: The strongest man beneath the Champion is beaten into surrender by a random passerby in a realistic Pokémon battle! Let's take a look at what happened in last night's world-shocking match…"
"Galar wakes up to the sky falling—its strongest Gym Leader, Raihan, was beaten until he raged out by an unknown small streamer using an unevolved Pokémon!"
Paired with the same stale background music, AI narration, and subtitles so big they looked designed for elderly viewers, it was cringe beyond measure.
Ethan Vale felt they ought to pay him emotional distress compensation just for watching.
Anyway—back to the point.
As mentioned earlier, before Ethan Vale's streaming career took off, he was actually a small creator in the Pokémon history niche.
At the time, choosing this relatively obscure track served two purposes.
First, it helped funnel traffic to his streams.
Second—before the system ever arrived—Ethan Vale's dream was to become the Cynthia of Pokémon mythological studies.
…Wait, no. The Cynthia of Pokémon mythological studies is still Cynthia.
In short, he wanted to make a name for himself in that field, and starting with related content during his student years was the perfect entry point.
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This world's Pokémon mythology had many gaps.
That was the best low-cost "account-building" method Ethan Vale found after three years in this world—
account, of course, meaning life itself.
His thinking back then was simple:
Borrow the creative model of a certain top history creator from his previous world.
Use humor and exaggeration to tell stories that blended orthodox history with apocrypha—regional anecdotes and Legendary Pokémon legends mixed together.
Become the Pokémon world's Tongliao Khan!
After all, while Pokémon as a franchise was family-friendly and aimed at children, its mythological framework was filled with religious symbolism and dark, tragic epic undertones.
Pick any region and you could talk for ages.
Take Kalos, for instance—
The fate-bound entanglement between the last king AZ and Floette, the Ultimate Weapon and the Eternal Flower, or Yveltal's world-ending legend.
Or Unova—
Kyurem's creation myth, and the catastrophic collapse caused by the clash between ideals and truth.
And so on.
Some of these stories were already known to people in this world.
Others were secrets buried in history.
Ethan Vale would selectively package them with artistic flair, presenting them in a near-novelistic narrative style.
These half-canon, half-apocryphal Legendary tales—true and false blurred together—naturally drew massive attention.
Some viewers treated them as entertaining "electronic side dishes."
Others, approaching with academic rigor, nitpicked and criticized.
Ethan Vale didn't care.
Conflict meant traffic.
Slap on a disclaimer—"This video has been artistically adapted; any resemblance is purely coincidental"—and everything was fine.
As for how much was historical fact and how much was embellishment…
Only Ethan Vale himself knew.
In any case, as of now, the first video in the series—
"Secrets of the Burned Tower in the Johto Region: The Truth Behind the Mysterious Fire and the Resurrection of the Three Beasts"—
had already surpassed three million views.
Honestly, that was no small feat on P-site.
After all, the incident occurred only about two hundred years ago, and the burning of the Brass Tower was a household legend in this world.
Fortunately, the true cause of the mysterious fire lacked reliable records, leaving Ethan Vale plenty of creative freedom.
So he chose the most conspiracy-laden possibility he knew—
An evil organization's plan to create a god.
Adaptation isn't fabrication.
This theory was even recorded in a certain Pokémon spin-off game.
After that, drawing on memories from his past life, Ethan Vale produced videos on Lugia and the three Legendary Birds, among others.
Even now, despite only updating about once a month, he still had plenty of loyal fans urging him to post new content in his livestream chat every day.
Ethan Vale had no intention of abandoning this video series.
His original career plan was solid. With enough time and energy, there was no need to "eunuch" the project halfway.
Besides, Ethan Vale wasn't the type to forget his roots the moment he got a system.
And now that he'd wrapped up the system reboot, capturing Sprigatito, and all that over the past couple of days, he finally began preparing this month's update—
The start of a new series.
The Creation Myth of the Sinnoh Region.
From a philosophical or real-world allegory perspective, this generation's mythological background might not be as rich as Unova, Kalos, or even Galar.
But the grand epic of Arceus creating the world?
That was undeniably peak.
In the real world, there were of course myths related to it—but they were fragmented, unsystematic, and lacked preserved written records.
As a result, the prevailing academic view still treated Arceus as a totemic, mythic Pokémon—
Much like "dragons" in Ethan Vale's previous world—rather than a real Creator God.
The reason was simple.
Since the advent of photographic technology, no one had ever recorded real footage of Arceus.
Ethan Vale, a transmigrator with a god's-eye view from another world, knew the truth of Arceus's existence.
But people in this world regarded it merely as an idol fabricated by ancient humans for worship.
For this video, Ethan Vale didn't plan much artistic embellishment.
Because the legend itself was already awe-inspiring enough.
Using the Thousand Arms to create the three gods of matter—who governed time, space, and antimatter.
Creating the three gods of spirit—who spread knowledge, emotion, and will to living beings.
Forging sixteen elemental Plates to grant diversity to the world.
Then came the conflict between the gods of time and space, nearly shattering the Sinnoh region.
Arceus descended the Spear Pillar to quell the war, and banished the violent Giratina to the Distortion World.
Along the way, it casually created the magma god Heatran, while the remnants of the Spear Pillar formed the world's most majestic mountain range—Mount Coronet.
All of it narrated in a Bible-like religious epic style, carefully polished.
It was easy to foresee—
Once this video went live, it would become another massive hit under Ethan Vale's account, a perfect piece of "electronic side dish" content.
And more than that, from a deeper, long-term perspective—
When Arceus's creation history was someday proven true, the value of this video would skyrocket without limit.
And Ethan Vale himself would become a prophetic figure shrouded in myth.
So—
To restore Sinnoh's great glory, it is our bounden duty!
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