Reborn In Pokémon, My SYSTEM Pays Me For Showing Off, So My GRENINJA Learned To FLY!

Recap

Lin Haran has been reborn in a world where Pokémon are real—but for three months, the promised reincarnation “cheat” never appears. With entrance exams looming and his family able to afford only a modest starter, he expects to fall behind wealthy students who have been training Pokémon since childhood.

Then, in the middle of class, Lin blurts out that he wants an Oddish. The outburst finally activates his system. It can identify Pokémon’s hidden stats and potential, and it rewards him for dramatic public humiliations. Its first gift pack contains Naruto techniques usable only by Pokémon, including Rasengan, Shadow Clones, and Flying Thunder God. Lin realizes he can turn his game knowledge and show-off tendencies into a serious advantage.

At a Pokémon shop, he spots two remarkable eggs: a Mudkip with Gym Leader potential for his loyal friend “Fishball,” and a shiny Froakie with Elite Four potential. Lin spends his parents’ entire 100,000-yuan savings on both. When the eggs hatch, the shop erupts, and customers immediately offer huge sums for the shiny Froakie. Lin refuses to sell. Back home, his parents are alarmed by the gamble, but the Froakie’s quality quickly changes the mood.

Lin names the frog Frog Bro and gives him Rasengan and Shadow Clone training. Because clones can pass their experience back to the original, Frog Bro rapidly masters moves that normally take years to perfect. The system’s first public “face-slap” mission arrives when wealthy class monitor Wang Lee mocks Lin for being poor. Lin reveals his shiny Froakie, wins a 100,000-yuan bet, and then crushes Wang’s expensive Charmander in a school battle. Wang is so humiliated that he faints. Lin’s reward is the mythical Human-Human Fruit, model Nika—another power that can only be used by a Pokémon.

The victories snowball. Lin earns a place in a prestigious training camp by beating a string of stronger students, then dominates the challenges that follow. In a secret realm, Frog Bro uses Shadow Clones to stack Power-Up Punch boosts before returning them to one body, allowing him to knock out opponents far above his apparent level. Lin also recruits a driven Snorlax that has been training alone by punching a mountain. After receiving the Nika fruit, Snorlax gains rubber-like abilities and becomes a hulking brawler capable of stretching its limbs and punching through attacks.

The secret realm supplies another surprise: Lin catches a Gyarados with Champion-level potential. Instead of settling for an ordinary evolution, he gives it the Azure Dragon fruit. The Gyarados endures a painful transformation and emerges as a four-legged, horned dragon that can fly on flaming clouds and wield fire, thunder, and wind. Lin’s increasingly unbelievable Pokémon are eventually explained away by school leaders as the result of a rare human superpower that awakens special abilities in his team.

Lin also repairs his relationship with his younger sister by using his prize money to buy her a Growlithe egg. She has spent years expecting a cheap, ordinary starter; when the egg hatches into a Growlithe, she can barely hide her happiness. Her laughter at the dinner table is a small but meaningful sign that Lin is earning back her trust.

At military camp, Lin’s Frog Bro defeats instructor-level Pokémon, while Snorlax turns battles into spectacles with Nika-inspired transformations. Lin’s cheek gets him into trouble—and pays off: when a rich student challenges him, Lin tells him, “I’m your father,” after successfully bargaining with the system for a better reward. Snorlax gains major move upgrades from the insult.

Lin also grows close to Shangguan Linger, a brilliant student with a powerful team, and defeats her in a hard-fought battle. Frog Bro’s divine-level Quick Attack is so fast that it overwhelms even her Dragonair and Gardevoir.

The camp competition brings Lin face-to-face with Yan Wei, the city’s strongest student. Yan’s powerful team includes an elite Haxorus, but Lin’s transformed dragon wins a spectacular final clash, securing the championship for his school. Soon after, a hidden attack strikes the military base. A giant Shadow Ball threatens hundreds of students—until Frog Bro appears in a golden cloak and Sage Mode, cuts the attack apart with a Rasenshuriken, and defeats the intruder in seconds. Lin’s friends and former rivals witness the rescue, and the incident sends his reputation soaring.

On the road to the national exams, Lin gains a scarred, one-eyed Treecko that other Pokémon have been bullying. He defeats the bullies, helps Treecko evolve, and gives it Wood Release abilities. It ultimately becomes a towering Sceptile with a Champion-level ceiling. The growing team later faces a Gym Leader-level Pokémon during the practical exam and wins through Sceptile’s battlefield-shaping forest techniques and Snorlax’s devastating Nika forms.

But the exam is interrupted by a much larger conspiracy. The Symbiosis Society, an organization that fuses Pokémon and humans, attacks the examination ground and unleashes Galarian Moltres. The legendary bird is held off by the nation’s mysterious old master, while the Society’s leader—revealed to be the supposedly dead geneticist Dr. Dolph—defeats two of the country’s top trainers.

Dolph’s hatred has a tragic origin: he lost his wife and children in an attack and believes the country abandoned him. His grief has curdled into a plan to destroy the nation.

Lin summons Darkrai using one of his system rewards. Darkrai easily neutralizes Dolph’s massive attacks, stops his escape, and ultimately kills him when he threatens to take the soldiers with him. Afterward, Darkrai gives Lin a mysterious crystal and disappears. Lin learns that Darkrai is sealed somewhere and will need rescuing—but only when Lin is strong enough.

The story ends with Lin promising to find Darkrai, while Galarian Moltres remains a danger and the mystery of a century-old war hangs over the world.

Key Personalities

• Lin Haran — The reincarnated protagonist: clever, ambitious, and almost incapable of resisting an audience or a chance to show off.
• Frog Bro / Greninja — Lin’s first Pokémon and loyal ace; cool-headed in battle, devoted to Lin, and obsessed with a television show about fighting toads.
• Snorlax — A diligent, mountain-punching powerhouse who becomes a rubber-bodied Nika brawler.
• Gyarados — A determined Pokémon whose dream of becoming a real dragon comes true through the Azure Dragon fruit.
• Sceptile — A scarred, one-eyed Treecko who earns Lin’s trust and evolves into a formidable Wood Release user.
• Shangguan Linger — A talented, composed student and rival who respects Lin’s strength and insists on rematching him.
• Fishball — Lin’s loyal childhood friend, who stands up for him even when the class laughs.
• Lin’s younger sister — A brilliant Pokémon expert who slowly begins to warm to Lin after years of resentment.
• Dr. Dolph — A gifted scientist turned antagonist, driven by grief and revenge.
• The mysterious old master — The country’s sole Master-level trainer, who confronts Galarian Moltres.