On the edge of the Kanto region, beside Viridian Forest, the orphan An Yang grows up under the care of his kind Grandma Li. When he turns fifteen, fate gives him a heavy “gift”: the grandmother who was his only family passes away, leaving behind an empty little house and endless grief. His only comfort is the severely injured Pidgey he found in the forest shortly before his grandmother’s death. An Yang does everything he can to save it, and the bond they forge in their despair becomes a faint light that keeps him going.
But reality is as cold as iron. With no one left to rely on, An Yang must find a way to survive and pursue an answer he can’t even put into words. He resolutely steps into the gray underworld of the Pokemon world and becomes a **Pokemon Hunter**. This is no honorable path of League challenges, but a perilous journey along the edges of law and morality. He and the Pidgey, now evolved into a swift Pidgeot, are partners who depend on each other and merciless blades carrying out their assignments. They take jobs to track, capture, and even steal rare Pokemon, trading their work in the shadows for money and information. An Yang struggles between the cold demands of survival and his pure affection for his grandmother and Pidgey. He hunts Pokemon, even as the shadows of his past hunt him. As the name “Hunter An Yang” spreads through the alleys of steel cities and the dangers of untamed lands, the boy who once shared berries with Pidgey beside Viridian Forest seems to be growing ever more distant… What kind of hunter will he become? Where will the sky beneath Pidgeot’s wings take him?
