-It is revealed/confirmed to the audience that Ash can't age because he's an android
-When Ash returns to Pallet Town after winning the Alola League, he spends his first few days at home fooling around with default CyberLife (or whatever company in the Pokémon world would make androids) programming, and stumbles upon government witness protection databases. Through these files, he discovers that due to an incident with Team Rocket, Ash's father (Red, for the sake of simplicity) was put into witness protection, but the government had taken his sister, Gloria (Yuri in Japanese), with them. (Let's say this is a month or two before the Kant