My Own People Sealed Me In An Ice Coffin, So I Woke Up And Ate Pryce's Whole Pokemon Gym In 1 Hour

Recap

Awakening and a New Life

Sui Han wakes after centuries of imprisonment in an ice coffin inside Pryce’s Mahogany Gym. The warning carved on the lid begs future generations not to wake him, but Sui Han’s first concern is more immediate: food. He cracks his way out, startling a Swinub, and meets Pryce and Professor Oak, who are still trying to understand why Pryce greeted him with, “Is it you? Who changed my destiny?”

The mystery briefly takes a back seat when Sui Han eats the gym’s entire food supply in an hour. Even Lapras food helps more than the human meals, and Pryce has to order emergency supplies. Oak is so fascinated that he proposes an eating contest against Snorlax.

Sui Han’s arrival has also changed Pryce’s life. Pryce’s Lapras survived a fall into a crevasse because the ancient coffin broke their landing. In the story Sui Han remembers, that loss would have turned Pryce toward tragedy.

A golden “research system” appears in the form of a magical incense burner that rewards Sui Han with points for learning about Pokémon. He discovers that Pokémon moves don’t hurt him—their energy seems to be absorbed by his body. He also has an extraordinary appetite, a talent for understanding old writing, and a mysterious past he can’t remember. Despite Oak’s suggestion that he become a trainer, Sui Han wants a quieter life raising and caring for Pokémon.

Learning to Care for Pokémon

Sui Han’s first project is helping Pryce’s young Lapras, who has plenty of natural talent but little interest in studying her battles. Sui Han points out that she lost to Ampharos partly because she politely waited through the trainer’s long speech before reacting:

“You didn’t lose to thunder. You lost to good manners.”

Later, Sui Han leaves the gym to study breeding and Pokémon medicine, and Pryce entrusts the Lapras to him.

In Goldenrod, Sui Han sells Team Rocket a Mareep-inspired battery design for five million, then accidentally wins prize after prize while shopping for socks. Pryce’s Delibird decides he must be a Togepi disguised as a human. Sui Han’s explanation that he was merely buying socks does little to change its mind.

At dinner with Oak, Kurt, Agatha, and others, Agatha’s Gengar tries to paralyze Sui Han by licking him. He catches its tongue, smells it, and deduces that it has stolen spicy energy cubes. When Agatha asks what a breeder should do if a Pokémon dreams of competing, Sui Han says the whole household should support it:

“You don’t tell family their dream is the wrong kind.”

The dinner becomes another feast, leaving Kurt’s six-year-old granddaughter Maisie inspired to learn to eat like Sui Han.

In Azalea Town, Sui Han learns to make Apricorn Poké Balls with Kurt and invents new energy treats. His batches come out as glossy spheres instead of cubes, and they prove so delicious that his Lapras empties the tray. A taste of an intensely spicy medicinal pill goes badly, however: Sui Han turns red, then has Lapras freeze him in a block of ice until the burning stops. Lapras finds the whole episode hilarious.

Inventions and Confrontations

When poachers threaten Pokémon in the forest, Sui Han rallies the wild Pokémon to stop them. Diglett opens a pit, birds blow the poachers off balance, and Oddish hit them with powders. One poacher complains that it’s unfair to attack with a combo. Sui Han replies that if he can’t finish them in one combo, his damage is too low.

The confrontation also reveals a frightening side to Sui Han’s presence: when he is angry, he can make a room feel as though an ancient monster is nearby.

Sui Han’s inventive streak continues. He creates specialized Poké Balls, including a heavy ball powerful enough to dent steel, and a “sticky glob” that can calm Pokémon trapped in the cruel Dark Balls used by Team Dark.

In the Slowpoke Well, Sui Han finds a giant Slowking crown. A memory preserved in its shell shows an ancient Slowking using its power to bring rain, then surrendering its crown and strength once the drought has ended. The discovery points to a recurring theme in the story: power can be given back rather than hoarded.

Academy and Laboratory

At Joy Academy, Sui Han chooses the written entrance exam rather than risk treating a sick Pokémon before he’s properly trained. The Dean reveals that this was the real test. In the practical combat assessment, Sui Han feints by rushing the Dean, then hits her Mightyena with sticky globs. The Dean calls him a “little brat,” but awards him a laboratory.

Sui Han also becomes a campus legend for lifting his heavy Lapras overhead—and for being mistaken for a girl or “big sister” so often that he finally calls himself “Grandpa Nurse Joy.”

Later, Sui Han invents a bottle that preserves Lapras’s healing Life Dew, a breakthrough that could help Pokémon clinics. His lab work and new partners bring warmer moments, too. The shiny Milcery he receives hatches early after apparently growing impatient with its family’s constant eating. It bonds with Lapras, rides on Sui Han’s head, and decides its ambition is to make him “the king of desserts.”

Team Dark and the Mystery of the Coffin

The darker mystery grows when Sui Han helps Pryce and Team Rocket’s Koga investigate Team Dark. At the Lake of Rage, he treats injured Pokémon caught in the chaos of a destroyed Dark Ball factory. He also rescues a neglected seal pup whose tusks have been pulled. In a rare moment without jokes, Sui Han calms and treats it, then insists that the League keep him informed about its recovery.

The investigation uncovers an ancient wall marked with the tracks of enormous Gyarados. Pryce realizes the marks record a lost training form: Dragon Dance. Sui Han shares photographs of the wall with the lake’s resident Gyarados, which learns the move by studying the images and practicing.

Meanwhile, Pryce finally shows Sui Han the black stone that sealed his coffin. It bears the warning Sui Han heard on waking, but offers no explanation of who he was or what he did.

By the end, Sui Han has a name, a laboratory, two devoted Pokémon companions, and a growing reputation among researchers and powerful organizations. But his past remains buried. The stone is foreign, the people who sealed him are unknown, and a masked figure connected to Team Dark is still at large. Sui Han’s next challenge is to investigate the lost history of Magikarp while figuring out what the warning on his coffin was really about.

Notable Personalities

Sui Han; Pryce; Professor Oak; Lapras; Milcery; Kurt; Maisie; Agatha; Bugsy; Dean Joy Jing; Nurse Joy; Lt. Surge; Sabrina; Giovanni; Koga; Lance; Hau; Delibird.