[T/N: 🎊 HAPPY NEW YEAR chaps! 🎊 May this year be Healthy and Productive for you! Enjoy~]
By dusk, Axel's space backpack was filled for the first time.
Suddenly, a strange power came from spacetime, and everything in his eyes began to speed up.
"You're leaving?", Seeing the surrounding environment change, Diao Chan grabbed Axel's arm in a death grip.
During the day, Diao Chan had already learned about Axel's departure.
"It's a pity, Little White also expressed her feelings to me today, saying she's willing to serve alongside me, that from now on the two of us will rely on each other and no longer dwell on matters between men and women."
"I just didn't expect that you wouldn't be able to stay until night."
Axel tugged at the corner of his mouth, looking at Diao Chan beside him with complicated feelings.
He swore to the heavens he was not upset because he had not gotten to have a deeper exchange with the white Gardevoir, but because he was worried about the two of them.
Diao Chan was not the girl he had spent the least time with, but now at the moment of parting, Axel's emotions were still complicated.
This was a fate separated by two thousand years. Once the two of them parted, there was basically no chance of seeing each other again.
What was worse, this era was extremely dangerous.
According to the records in the history books, Diao Chan went missing after a certain battle, her life or death unknown.
In this one day, Axel had only been able to do his utmost: on one hand, openly showing intimacy with Diao Chan in front of the various lords so they would be wary.
On the other hand, he still took the time to draw up a training regimen for Giratina, so it would properly protect Diao Chan.
As for anything else, Axel felt there really was not much more he could do.
"It's time to go."
Watching Axel gradually fade away in front of her, Diao Chan kept a smile on her lips, trying her best to present her most beautiful side to Axel.
In these two days, her view of Axel had changed several times, and finally collapsed completely when Axel, for the sake of her purity, took a blade to go find a god's hidden treasury.
Although they had only known each other for two short days, she still did not want Axel to see her looking anything less than beautiful.
When Axel fully vanished, Diao Chan's body went weak. Just as she was about to collapse to the ground, she suddenly heard a familiar and wicked voice.
["I really can't understand you humans, wasting time on such boring feelings."]
["A real man should be training!"]
Giratina appeared at some unknown moment with Diao Chan's white Gardevoir in tow, a radiant orb floating at its side.
["Enough, enough, you two hurry up and get in. I have to work hard on my training."]
["After two thousand years, I still have to let you out and prove I'm a gift from the Great Lord to Axel!"]
"Two thousand years later?", Hearing this phrase, Diao Chan's eyes lit up. She had just opened her mouth to ask something when everything suddenly went black.
The Renegade Dragon skillfully slid open the Distortion World and carried the orb containing Diao Chan and Gardevoir on its back as it entered the Reverse World.
["Where should I hide you two~ The Great Lord said my memories will be temporarily sealed in a bit, so I'd better not accidentally break you."]
Just thinking of Axel's battle power made Giratina's head throb.
If he accidentally got Axel's wife killed, he would be enjoying a lifespan of exactly two thousand years.
———
After a long transmission, Axel appeared in the small courtyard.
As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Dialga's body rapidly enlarging as it charged toward him at top speed in a high-speed running state.
Axel skillfully pulled out a few Poké Balls and released them in midair.
Rayquaza swung its tail, slapping Dialga back over to Giratina's side.
Gible expertly flopped onto the ground, picking up every last fallen scale from Dialga, and even remembered to hand a bunch to the Great General, making the Great General instantly weep with gratitude.
Beside them, Palkia was using Dragon-type power to support a huge pile of drinks and snacks. Seeing Axel and the others appear, it immediately teleported over.
["Teacher Mewtwo, this is a welcome feast your student prepared for you. Gyarados, hurry and help pass things around!"]
Mewtwo, Gyarados: "..."
Dialga relaxed the red chain around his neck, not bothering at all about having just been smacked, and instead sounded a bit delighted.
["Since when have I been this accurate? The timing isn't off by even a second?"]
Axel: "..."
Why did it feel like the whole vibe was off the moment he got back?
Just one second ago he had been contending for the world, pressing the lords so hard they could barely breathe.
Now that he had returned to the future, he suddenly felt like he had walked into a circus.
'You guys are a bunch of Legendary Pokémon.'
Sighing, Axel also knew that his team's "tone" had at some point already become irreversibly crooked, so he simply chose to pretend he did not see it.
He walked past Dialga and Palkia and focused his gaze on Giratina.
Giratina's stats were exactly the same as when he had sent it away, and it also did not have the Great Platinum Orb.
Axel suddenly felt a bad premonition, and at the same time, his balls kind of hurt.
Aside from its moves, nothing else felt like the Giratina he had encountered in the Three Kingdoms period.
Still, clinging to his trust in Arceus, Axel asked, "Let me ask you, do you still recognize me or not?"
"Of course I do!", Giratina's eyes flickered with panic, and it immediately straightened up its body.
"You're the hero who stopped the Sinnoh catastrophe, my greatest, greatest, most towering master, the one who can raise me to be invincible under heaven."
Axel: 凸(艹皿艹)
'Crap, I knew! I have been fooled!'
Sooner or later he was going to find Arceus and demand justice.
Flicking his sleeves, Axel's already not-so-good mood became even worse. He sighed and went back to his room.
Once Axel had gone far enough, Gardevoir suddenly looked at Giratina with a bit of suspicion.
["You're sure everything you just said was true, that you really don't remember anything?"]
Giratina nodded, ["I swear it's all true!"]
["In that case, you can be responsible for finding Diao Chan and her Gardevoir yourself. I'm not getting involved."]
["Right, I'll definitely find them safe and sound!"]
The moment Giratina's words fell, its pupils shrank and its six legs suddenly went soft.
["Sis Gardevoir, save me, I really didn't mean to forget them!"]
Giratina dropped to its knees in a wave of ball-aching pain. How had it forgotten that Gardevoir had the power of telepathy?
["I swear to the Great Lord, I was worried they wouldn't be safe, so I hid them too well."]
["I just temporarily can't remember where they are right now. There absolutely won't be any danger at all, big sis!"]
Gardevoir gave a cold laugh, took the red chain from Giratina's hands, looped it around his neck, and passed the other end to Dialga.
["You... understand what I mean, right?"]
Dialga's eyes lit up with joy, and he nodded like crazy, ["I understand, I get it, Sis Gardevoir!"]
At this point, who in the courtyard did not know that Gardevoir was the number two figure in Axel's team?
Now that Gardevoir had handed the chain to him, this was his chance to rise up.
["As long as you get it... Help him recall where Diao Chan and Gardevoir are."]
["Also... everyone, don't tell the master about this for now, so he doesn't get distracted."]
Gardevoir knew that before long, Axel would have a great battle with Necrozma.
As a reborn queen, she was very clear on how terrifying Necrozma was. This was absolutely not the time to divide Axel's attention.
More importantly, judging from Giratina's emotions, he had hidden Diao Chan and Gardevoir somewhere very, very safe. Even if they were found later, nothing would happen.
After the fight with Necrozma, if they still could not locate them, it would not be too late to let Axel search with them.
After carefully thinking it over, Gardevoir turned back to Dialga.
["There is one more thing... you're not planning on running away, are you?"]
Dialga shook his head like mad.
Run?
After being tormented by Giratina for so long, he had finally gone from exploited peasant to singing free man.
Even if every evil god in the world came charging over right now, Dialga absolutely would not take a single step out of this courtyard.
═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═
[email protected]/AmbitiousTranslator
🥳Joining P@treon keeps me motivated and eager to work diligently, so please consider joining.🥰 You can access upto 20 advance chapter through P@treon.