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At first I wasn't happy with the story as the mc was ver naive (giving knowledge without power to protect himself when they could extract that knowledge with psychic pokemon) but he is growing out of that so we will see. For the trade evolution you could make a theory that some pokemon could evolve if you changed their living environment ( like how they train, eat, play, etc.) but with diferent changes so that way you could take kyle pokemon and trained them sometime and then return them to him that way boldore could evolve to gigalith as in the manga I remember red and blue changed their pokemon by accident and after they return one of the pokemon evolve thanks to that.