It was a snowy day.

  Outside the window, the world was bed in white, with snow falling steadily. The se was serene, yet the cold crept into every er. Inside, Naoki was cozy, sitting on the sofa and surrounded by a pile of sleek new devices—fifty Rotom Phones he had pre-ordered.

  He began installing software on eae, going through the apps avaible oom app store. Despite the phone's ret release, the store was already teeming with options.

  Many apps were creatively named after Pokémon, refleg their purpose in the most straightforward way. For instance:

  Pichu TV: A ptform for watg TV shows and movies, its i a cute Pichu-shaped television s.

  Pichu Live: A live-streaming service that allows creators to upload their tent directly to Pichu TV.

  Pokémon unication: A social w app remi of a chat ptform from Naoki's previous life, plete with a timeliure akin to social media.

  Pokémon Takeout: A food delivery service featuring Touon as its mascot.

  Pokémon Online Shopping: A marketpce for purchasing goods.

  Pokémon Online Banking: A veool fital payments and transfers, much like popur payment apps.

  Pokémon Forum: A hub for discussing news, curres, and random musings.

  The app is and funality immediately caught Naoki's attention. He first clicked on Pichu TV, marveling at its user-friendly interface. Then he switched to Pichu Live, noting the seamless iioween live-streaming and on-demand tent.

  When he opened Pokémon unication, he couldn't help but smile. Its interface was strikingly simir to WeChat, a ptform he was familiar with from his past life. He had shared some of these design ideas with the Rotom Teology team during development, and it was gratifying to see them implemented.

  , he explored Pokémon Takeout and found that the app was still recruitiaurants and delivery Pokémon. Meanwhile, Pokémon Online Shopping was still building its vendor list but showed great promise.

  Naoki also tested the Pokémon Forum, where he stumbled upon a post by a user named Desert Tyrant: "Hello? anyohis?" The replies were mostly greetings and ents marveling at the Rotom Phone's capabilities, with users expressing awe at the eology.

  Naoki: "…" Look at these people, they seem to have never seen the world.

  Uandard smartphohe Rotom Phone offered i access anytime and anywhere, even without Wi-Fi, thanks to the unique abilities of Rotom itself. Phones without Rotom required a special i card, making the Rotom Phone signifitly more expe infinitely more ve.

  With the first phone fully set up, Naoki spent about eight minutes installing all necessary apps. He theed a user profile on Pokémon unication for Calyrex, who had been intrigued by the idea of these human devices.

  Handing the phoo Calyrex, Naoki expined, "Here it is—your own phone! I've installed everything you'll need."

  Calyrex examihe device with curiosity, his eyes glowing faintly. "This is the device you spoke of earlier?" he asked.

  Naoki nodded, grinning. "Exactly! Look here—this app is Pichu TV. You use it to watch movies anytime you want, without ads."

  Calyrex's expressihtened. "Truly? No interruptions?" His tone was filled with genuiement.

  "Would you like to give it a try?" Naoki said with a smile. "You open an app just by lightly tapping it with your hand. Plus, there's a Pokémon named Rotom living inside your phone. You simply tell Rotom what you want to do, and it will help you."

  He added, "If there's anything you don't uand, just ask Rotom, and it will expihing it knows."

  Hearing this, Calyrex hesitated momentarily before loosening his grip. The Rotom Phone floated up automatically in front of him.

  Calyrex tried cautiously, "Rotom, open the movie app for me."

  "Uood, opening Pichu TV," Rotom's cheerful voice replied.

  The s lit up, and Pichu TV unched, dispying a ly arranged library of movies and animations. Rotom began introdug each title, giving a brief description for the ed King's venience.

  Calyrex selected a movie he had watched before and said, "Py Warm Slugma House."

  Rotom responded, "Pying Warm Slugma House for you now."

  Sure enough, the movie started pying on the s. Calyrex stared at it, his eyes lighting up with amazement.

  "How extraordinary!" Calyrex thought. "This device is a marvel!"

  Naoki smiled at the awed expression on Calyrex's fad tinued introdug the other features. When he opened Pokémon unication, he added Calyrex as a tad expis uses.

  "With this app, you tact me anytime—whether through video calls or messages. Rotom will even transte your words into human nguage and vert them into text automatically," Naoki expined.

  He poio differeures on the app, saying, "This is your personal profile. Here, you ge your online name and profile picture. And this is the 'Friends Circle,' where you see updates from your friends or share your own thoughts."

  Calyrex listened ily and began expl the phone himself. He tested video chatting with Naoki, dictated text messages for Rotom to transte, and browsed through his Friends Circle with curiosity.

  While looking at his personal profile, Calyrex asked, "What is an 'online name'?"

  Naoki replied, "It's like a niame or a dispy hat others use to address you online. You also use your real name if you prefer."

  Calyrex pondered for a moment before nodding. When Naoki gnced over, he noticed that Calyrex had set his online o "[Farmer]."

  Naoki: "…"

  Well, that was certainly… fitting, sidering Calyrex's pastoral tendencies.

  "I uand now," Calyrex said with a nod of satisfa.

  Naoki chuckled. "Alright, if you have any questions, feel free to ask Rotom or message me anytime."

  Calyrex nodded again and immersed himself in expl the new device.

  Naoki then took the remaining Rotom Phoo the Reverse World. He located the members of the Hero Expedition Team—Mew, Baby Bear, and Zapdos—and hahem each a phone.

  He patiently expihe phone's features to them, just as he had done for Calyrex.

  "With these Rotom Phones, you stay in touch with the ranatter where you are," Naoki said. "If you enter beautiful sery on your adventures, you use the camera feature to capture the moment ahe pictures to me."

  Baby Bear aared at the Rotom Phone floating in front of them with wide-eyed curiosity. Their excitement bubbled over as they chirped in unison, happily signaling that they had uood how to use it.

  "Very good," Naoki said with a warm smile. "From now on, Rotom will also be a member of the Hero Expedition Team. Let it travel with you and assist you on your adventures!"

  "Miu~" Mew twirled through the air in delight, orbiting the Rotom Phoh glee.

  Satisfied, Naoki made his way to Giratina.

  At first, Giratina dismissed the device with a huff of disdain. It grumbled about how it didn't need human-made tris. But when Naoki casually mentiohat all the endary Pokémon had one, Giratina's pride fred.

  Scarlet eyes burning, Girati out two heavy snorts, gng toward the Rotom Phones h near Naoki. Its sudden i, however, sent the timid Rotoms into a panic. As if sensing the dragon's formidable aura, the little Pokémon darted behind Naoki for prote.

  Naoki blinked in surprise at the se, while Giratina growled in frustration. The mighty ruler of the Reverse World, disrespected by these "insignifit" Pokémon? Its temper boiled over.

  With a sharp movement, Giratina lunged, capturing the most timid Rotom. The poor Rotom trembled, looking as though it might faint on the spot.

  Naoki quickly stepped forward, raising his hands. "Hey, hey! Don't be sh!" he excimed.

  Giratina, thhly insulted, barked at the quivering Rotom, "What are you afraid of? I'm not going to eat you!"

  Naoki crossed his arms, staring firmly at the imposing dragon. "Giratina, you ot treat Rotom like this. You'll terrify it!"

  Giratina grunted in irritation, its pride visibly wounded. "Am I the kind on that would harm such a weakling?" it retorted, its toh defensive and indignant.

  Naoki sighed, his expression softening. "Look, if you want a Rotom panion, I find ohat's not afraid of you."

  "No," Giratina subbornly. "I want this one."

  The captured Rotom trembled harder, earning anh from Naoki. Despite Giratina's fiery temperament, Naoki k would ruly harm an i Pokémon. He crouched down to address the frightened Rotom gently.

  "Don't worry," Naoki said softly. "Giratina might have a bad temper, but it's a protector at heart. I promise it won't hurt you. If anything ever happens, just send me a message, and I'll e get you immediately."

  Hearing this reassurahe Rotom rexed slightly, its trembling subsiding. It hesitated but finally nodded.

  Naoki smiled. "That's the spirit. I hope you two get along."

  After ensuring the Rotom was reasonably fortable, Naoki helped Girati up its phone and added the legendary Pokémon as a tact. He left the Reverse World with the remaining Rotom Phones.

  Back at the ranaoki decided to give the hardw Dragowo days off. With the snow falling steadily outside, he instructed them to rest aurn to the rance the weather cleared.

  Naoki decided to save the remaining Rotom Phones for the Dragonites when they returo work. He also inteo give oo Koraidon, but Koraidon politely deed, expressing that its stant presence alongside Naoki made the devinecessary.

  Relutly, Naoki agreed ahe remaining Rotom Phones in the living room, allowing the Pokémon to i with them freely. Some Pokémon eagerly explored the devices, while others remained indifferent. Naoki didn't press the matter, letting everyone do as they pleased.

  Naoki sat o Calyrex, who was deeply engrossed iom Phone, listening ily as Rotom expis many funs. It was clear that Calyrex had developed a liking for the deviaoki chuckled at the sight and opened his own phoo check his social app.

  To his amusement, the Hero Expedition Team had updated their online o simply "Hero Expedition Team." It was straightforward and fitting, he thought with a smile.

  ...

  Meanwhile, in the Reverse World, things were not as peaceful.

  After Naoki left, the Rotom assigo Giratina was gripped with terror. Despite its best attempts to remain unnoticed, Giratina's pierg scarlet eyes seemed to see right through it. When Giratina finally left, Rotom heaved a sigh of relief, only to resume its "pying dead" routine when the fearsome dragourned.

  This time, however, something ued happened. Giratina rolled a few red apples towards Rotom. "Hmph, you're so timid," Giratina grumbled, though its voice cked the earlier hostility. "I wo you. I brought these fruits—eat them."

  Rotom blinked in surprise. The terrifying ruler of the Reverse World had actually offered it food? It hesitated for a long moment, but Giratina seemed ued, zily curling up to sleep nearby. Rotom finally floated upward, cautiously iing the apples.

  But as it did, Giratina cracked one eye open, its blaze falling on Rotom.

  Rotom froze, its mind rag: What now?

  "I do fruit, Rotom," it stammered nervously. "I need electricity to recharge…"

  Giratina's tone shifted, being more curious than irritated. "Electricity? Hm, I see."

  Rotom expined further, mentioning how it usually recharged using sor power. The notion of sor power clearly puzzled Giratina. What Rotom didn't realize was that the few sunflowers on the sky isnd—potential sources of sor energy—had been actally crushed by Giratina during its naps.

  Without saying much, Giratiended a golden d touched the Rotom gently.

  Giratina used a mini version of Thunder Wave.

  However, Rotom was already fully charged, and in just one sed, it felt like it might explode from the overload of electricity. It quickly floated backward, shaking its head frantically. "I'm not hungry yet, Rotom!" it excimed, trying to calm Giratina down.

  Giratina snorted but said nothing more. It closed its eyes and began to doze off.

  Rotom, still trembling from the experiearted to realize that this fearsome Pokémon might not be as bad as it seemed. After a brief hesitation, it decided to take the initiative and began expining the funs of the Rotom Phoo Giratina.

  Giratina's crimson eyes snapped open as it watched the s ily. As a legendary Pokémon, its pride made it instinctively dismissive of human iions. Yet, curiosity was gnawing at it. Despite its aloof demeanor, it was genuinely intrigued.

  When Rotom mentiohe ability to make video calls, Giratina immediately demanded, "Show me! Call Naoki now."

  Obediently, Rotom initiated a video call. Within moments, Naoki's face appeared on the s.

  It worked! Giratina stared at the s, visibly astonished as it saw Naoki's smiling fa the other side.

  "Oh, so you're already using the Rotom Phone?" Naoki remarked with a grin, instantly realizing that Giratina had warmed up to the device. He exged a few lighthearted words with the legendary Pokémon before ending the call.

  This brief iion only deepened Giratina's curiosity. It began Rotom to open various apps, oer another. Since Giratina couldn't read, Rotom patiently transted and expihe text on the s, detailing how to use each app and its purpose.

  Meanwhile, Naoki was busy with his own tasks back at the ranch. He was expl the Pokémon Online Shopping app, preparing tister as a mert to officially unch Dragonite Express. With the Rotom Phone's ectivity, the Dragonites could now deliver goods across the entire Paldea region.

  As Naoki was setting up his at, the video pho his home suddenly rang.

  When he answered, Geeta's cheerful face appeared on the s.

  "Long time no see, Naoki!" she greeted warmly.

  "Geeta? What brings you here?" Naoki asked, slightly surprised by the ued call.

  Geeta raised a Rotom Phoo view, shaking it slightly with a smile. "You got one of these too, didn't you? Add me as a friend!"

  Naoki blinked, slightly caught off guard. A mier, he received Geeta's friend request on his own phone and nodded, accepting it.

  Geeta's profile was remarkably straightforward. Her dispy picture was a close-up of herself, almost identical to the ID photo orainer card. Her username was equally no-nonsense: [Geeta].

  Moments after accepting the request, Naoki received a message from her.

  [Geeta: This is so much more ve! Now I won't have to worry about you not being at the ranch when I o find you. :)]

  Her message unctuated with a cheerful smiley face emoji.