After the banquet ended, Axel learned from Clerk Wang that some wealthy gentry officials did not come because they were ill.
He then went to visit several gentry households in the city, making sure everyone got their share.
After finishing all the visits, Axel was basically completely out of it, to the point where he could barely walk straight.
"Can you still manage? If not, I'll take you back."
At some point, Clerk Wang had disappeared. Diao Chan looked a bit helpless and could only support Axel herself.
"Of course I can~", Axel looked at Diao Chan with sleepy eyes, "You don't know whether I can or not?"
"Other than Pheromosa, no one can say I'm not capable!"
Diao Chan had also drunk a bit too much. Subconsciously ignoring Axel's last sentence, she supported him as they staggered forward.
Suddenly, a reversed portal appeared in the alley ahead. Giratina had returned to its normal form at some unknown moment, staring at Axel with what looked like a stomachache.
Today, it had been training various control skills and resistance to control skills in the Distortion World, when it suddenly felt an extra portal appear nearby, and Zygarde ran over to it.
What felt even more ridiculous was that that guy actually brought along Arceus's order, telling it to store Diao Chan and Gardevoir inside a Great Platinum Orb enhanced with new functions to avoid the erosion of time.
And they had to lie low for two thousand years, then after two thousand years, follow Axel around.
How could it tolerate that?
Forget two thousand years later. Today, it would make Axel not qualify as a person.
It was Giratina, the Renegade Pokémon, not some matchmaker Giratina.
After spotting Axel alone through the Reverse World, Giratina decisively moved in. Its earth yellow body continuously shifted between reality and illusion.
It did not get close to Axel, to avoid being detected by Arceus. It simply used the control skills it had just learned today to torment him.
Confuse Ray, Thunder Wave, Swagger, one status move after another.
When the drunken Axel and Diao Chan both fell into a mixed state of confusion and paralysis, Giratina opened another portal and left in grand fashion.
Barely keeping the last shred of clarity, Axel took out Gyarados's Poké Ball.
"Send us back, and remember to send Diao Chan first…"
Gyarados appeared in a white light and let out a huge drunken burp.
'What is this? Sending everything to Diao Chan's residence?'
'Mission guaranteed!'
———
When Diao Chan woke up from sleep, she found she had already returned to her room. She could not help but breathe a sigh of relief and relaxed onto the bed.
If she remembered correctly, before passing out, she seemed to have run into that god called Giratina.
She had thought she and Axel were done for there, but it turned out they had just fallen into a paralyzed state.
After the fright, Diao Chan felt her mouth dry and subconsciously wanted to get some water.
But as soon as she moved, she realized something very serious.
She was still under the added effects of confusion and paralysis. Her body completely refused to listen to her brain.
She had barely gotten up when she could not help but fall over onto Axel beside her.
Hearing Diao Chan's words, Axel could not help twitching the corner of his mouth, 'Why did even her Jinxin regional dialect come out?'
'Could it really be like what Yongnian County officially said, that Diao Chan is actually from northern Ji?'
But the situation now left Axel no time to think further.
In a situation like this, even if it would not work, it had to work.
———
Early the next morning, Axel leaned against the headboard, his gaze empty.
In the middle of the room, Diao Chan had already prepared many small dishes and was sitting on a stool with a flushed face.
"Axel, can you still move around today?"
Axel: "..."
'No, being asked something like this by a girl is just too embarrassing.'
The problem was that the tag on Diao Chan had already changed from zero times to a full nine times.
If Axel had not pitied Diao Chan yesterday and added Water Overflows Gold Mountain, a buff exploded from a dream, the one lying there now would probably be Diao Chan.
"Did we run into Giratina yesterday?", Axel rubbed his temples, feeling like his head was still a bit fuzzy.
Even as a golden Super Rookie, he still felt powerless when facing a god's control.
No matter what, he never expected Giratina to be bold enough to do this, launching a sneak attack just after being beaten up.
If this were in later times, it would be fine. Even if they were too busy to meet often, there would still be chances to meet eventually.
If one day Axel really became so strong there was no way to get stronger, picked a place to slow down, the girls he had entanglements with would at least have a home.
But now Diao Chan was in this era, and he would return to later times in one day, with almost no chance to see her again.
Wasn't this just ruining someone?
Axel took a bite of food, getting angrier the more he thought about it. He felt like he did not even want to accept the gifts from the various lords today and just wanted to beat Giratina up.
Preferably beat it half to death, the kind where its origin was damaged.
Besides beating Giratina, Axel also planned to look for Dialga of this period and see if Diao Chan's matter could be discussed.
Although the chances might not be high, it was still better than waiting here meaninglessly.
"Diao Chan."
"Mm?", Diao Chan looked at Axel, instead taking the initiative to comfort him.
"Actually, you don't need to feel pressured. If you really don't want to take responsibility, I can just go live in seclusion. It won't affect Rayquaza Orthodoxy's reputation."
She glanced at the bloodstains on the bed, her eyes watery, "I-I may be clean, but my reputation is bad after all. I really don't deserve a man who is going to rule the world."
Axel: "..."
'Damn it, I have been chased by rich women my whole life. How did I end up being treated like a scumbag now?'
He really could not take this.
"Wait at home. I'll go find…"
Just as Axel was about to say he would go find Giratina, he suddenly felt a dazzling white light flash past, and the entire city of Xiapi seemed to be enveloped in some mysterious aura.
A huge spatial rift appeared, turning into a portal in the sky. Giratina, as if out of its own control, emerged from the rift in terror and floated above Xiapi City.
The next moment, a creature resembling an alpaca appeared out of thin air above Xiapi City.
Its body was unimaginably massive. The entire city of Xiapi was not even as large as one of its feet.
Around its waist was a mysterious divine ring, and brilliant Plates rotated around its body, releasing gorgeous light.
With just one look, everyone gained instant understanding in their hearts.
This god was the creator god.
"Arceus?", Axel's gaze fell on Arceus, and he subconsciously took a step back.
"System, are you there!"
[Currently hacking enemy Plates. The Fairy Plate has already been fully analyzed.]
[Temporarily copying Spectrier's tag. Suggest adding the tag to Rayquaza to unlock a new Fairy Queen form.]
Before the system could finish speaking, Arceus's gentle voice suddenly entered Axel's mind.
["Child… don't be nervous. I can sense that powerful presence within you, and I can also feel that you mean no harm."]
["This time, I came to deliver Giratina to you."]
Axel: "???"
Arceus showed up just to deliver Giratina to him.
'And you are sure that system just now did not have malicious intent?'
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