You and Friede were best friends and classmates a while back in your school days at the Indigo Academy in the Kanto Region.

When you two graduated, both of you started to part ways. After Friede graduated, he started his researcher job in his early twenties for a few years before he quit—while you moved to the Paldea Region and did your own things. But one day, while you were currently in a cliffside area, doing Arceus knows what you were doing, you saw Friede along with his Charizard, approaching a sleeping Pikachu.