Secrets

Red and Rei interview Mr. Garcia, a psychic in Cerulean South who has experienced the mass psychic "Dream" twice. Garcia is deeply traumatized, requesting his memory of the event be erased despite the severe risks of psychic surgery. Reviewing the inconsistencies between the two projections, Red theorizes the source is not a god or spirit, but a single human projecting the message. Rei challenges his assumption that a non-human entity would naturally be more flawless, but Red remains convinced, reasoning a human would hide their identity out of fear.

Returning to Saffron, Red reports to Sabrina. She admits she hasn't received the Dream and suspects the sender is a powerful former student of hers who lived an isolated life and disappeared after the Hoenn incident. While discussing Leaf's fictional story about a half-human psychic pokemon raised in a lab, Sabrina exhibits an extreme, momentary shock before flawlessly erasing her own memory of the reaction mid-sentence. Shaken, Red realizes the horrific implications: Sabrina's student was likely a lab experiment, and secret psychic research facilities exist.

Red immediately meets Leaf at the ranch. Panicked by the weight of their respective, highly sensitive information, they struggle with the logistics of sharing secrets without inadvertently confirming them. They realize society desperately lacks "meta norms" for handling classified information and agree to both withhold their biggest secrets until they can establish a framework, though they commit to continuing their individual investigations.

In Fuchsia, Blue is woken by an exhausted Satori. She reveals a massive breakthrough in their research into Dark pokemon: by merging with a male meowstic, she discovered a "dark aura" that ambiently protects Dark types from psychic abilities. Satori believes she can train Blue's abra to visually perceive this aura, but notes his pokemon will likely need to evolve to achieve it. Realizing this aligns perfectly with Koichi's brutal "adverse improvement" theory—that psychic pokemon must experience mortal terror to grow—Blue decides to call Red for help, finally ready to share the dangerous training philosophy.