After the doing the gym we need to fight Irona (somewhat Meta-aware character obsessed with battling) to move to the next city
She runs a Sun team spamming a new move which is basically Fire type U-turn + "Mega incineroar" which... whatever, not too difficult.
And so chapter 2 starts... on my way to Neon City (where the next gym is located) we encounter some blonde rich boy getting assaulted by merchants to buy shit, so he ask us to tag along because he can't say "no" to some randoms
On my way there the map suddenly breaks into a glitch mess for seemingly no reason (unless this is slight evidence of my character being inside a matrix like scenario)
We escape glitch city, only to find a waste land with another Raid Boss mon