An "accident" caused six Gyarados to go berserk at the same time, leading to the largest criminal conspiracy in the Kanto region.
Ye Zhong, a retired coordination trainer, turns to work as a criminal police officer, and his partner is a retired police Gardevoir who refuses to trust anyone. One of them can read the micro-expressions of Pokémon, and the other can sense the residue of emotions - but the truth never lies in Pokémon, but in those who use them.
The Devil's stand-in kills, the Ghost Stone's dreamland death, the iron-shell chrysalis whose evolution is blocked, the distress signal on the 13th floor of the office building... Every case is a puzzle, and what is pieced together is a shocking conspiracy called "Project Origin": someone is systematically replicating the abilities of Pokémon and compiling a Shadow Manual that does not belong to any illustrated book.
The cause of death of Ye Zhong's partner who died three years ago was far from simple as he thought.
