After a freak accident and a near death experience (more like he was dead for a few minutes), Ash had been a magnet for ghost types and been in tune with them. So it didn't surprise anyone when he decided to be a ghost type specialist. What was surprising is that his overprotective mother allowed him to go and become a trainer and even requested he becomes an On-Field Trainer and Researcher for Oak. Especially with the Mindless out there, people whose mind is just gone, shells of instincts and confusion. But maybe Delia is just more afraid of what creates the Mindless.

Ash is forced to move in with his father Giovanni, his wife Ariana and their son Silver. Ash doesn't want to but he doesn't have much of a choice. Because of the way his mother's husband treated him, he knew it would be the same with the Sakaki's, probably worse as he is Giovanni's affair child, so he tries to keep his distance. Even more so when the flowers sprout...