Chapter 477: Key Stone
Unfortunately.
In the end, Cynthia's little head still couldn't completely memorize it.
After all, these Pokémon only sang this one time.
However.
Since they already knew the Pokémon of these underground worlds would sing this tune at dusk, then there's no fear of not having the chance to record it in the future.
Moreover.
Diancie also knows how to sing it!
By the time Will and the others left the mine tunnel, the sky outside had completely darkened.
Monet and her group headed straight for the monitoring station.
After Will and Cynthia put a coat and a hat on Diancie, they took her and headed towards Ambrette Town.
It wasn't Diancie's first time leaving the underground Diamond Domain.
But it was her first time coming into a human town, and she had never seen the ocean before.
The moment she entered Ambrette Town.
Diancie's pink eyes lit up with white highlights.
"Cynthia, what is that."
Diancie tugged at Cynthia's culottes, then pointed to a colorful little cart by the street.
The uncle driving the food cart looked at Diancie's action, showing a kind smile, and waved at her.
The uncle didn't know what kind of Pokémon Diancie was.
But he didn't particularly care either.
After all.
In this world, Breeders, scholars, and Professors who know a lot about Pokémon are ultimately a very small minority.
Most people, upon seeing a Pokémon they haven't seen before, won't show too surprised an expression or look; at most, they'll take a few extra glances.
After all, for them, seeing an unseen Pokémon is not a particularly rare thing.
Just like at this moment.
The uncle completely didn't know the Pokémon he was looking at was actually a Mythical Pokémon.
Even if he knew, he wouldn't particularly care.
For an ordinary person like him with no ambition, yearning for an ordinary life.
Mythical Pokémon are like celebrities.
Take a few extra glances if encountered.
If not, then forget it, and won't specifically go looking for them; might even think people who specifically pursue Mythical Pokémon are sick.
This is not rare in the Pokémon world.
The Diancie in the anime being able to appear in broad daylight, at most drawing some attention, wasn't to the extent of making the streets impassable.
Of course.
That kind of behavior of appearing undisguised in everyone's vision also attracted various notorious thieves and evil organizations, thereby inducing the series of plots in the movie.
This is also why Will and Cynthia specifically put a coat and hat on Diancie, to cover those dazzling and brilliant pink diamonds on her body.
"That's ice cream, I'll take you to buy some."
Cynthia turned her head to take a look, her eyes lighting up.
Will watched this scene couldn't help smiling and shaking his head.
Blonde-kun herself was getting greedy too.
Cynthia is different from her mother, and also different from her aloof appearance.
She doesn't like bitter stuff like coffee; what she likes are sweets.
Going to a café to drink coffee, Cynthia has to add a lot of milk and sugar before she is willing to take a sip.
Recalling the past.
Lorelei liked cold things, and had no special requirements for taste.
Liz liked softer textures, but her pursuit of the desire for food and drink was very low.
Will liked to eat sour things.
Meowscarada perfectly "inherited" his taste, loving sour food.
And also loved being jealous (eating vinegar).
At the same time, because of her cat tongue, Meowscarada also didn't like eating hot things.
Watching the one big and one small girls discussing in front of the food cart.
Will consciously took up the responsibility of a guard.
Aura Power would fully activate from time to time, to see if anyone or any creature nearby was eyeing Diancie.
In this kind of leisurely and peaceful small town.
If a person had bad intentions, then in Will's "eyes", it would be no less distinct than a candlelight in the dark night, and would be immediately noticed by him.
Very lucky.
Ambrette Town, belonging to a remote rural area, has low foot traffic, and no legends of precious things existing, naturally wouldn't attract any bad guys either.
Will stared for a quarter of an hour and didn't find any ill-intentioned people.
But the food cart uncle had deep resentment in his heart.
Nothing more than Cynthia having her aboulomania act up again.
As for Diancie, she seemed to already be eating her sixth ice cream cone.
"Be careful of getting a stomachache from eating too much."
Will walked over and reached out to tug Diancie's little ear.
"I have never had a stomachache; moreover, there is no such delicious food in the underground Diamond Domain. Don't know when I'll come out next time, I want to eat more."
Diancie shook her ears, completely unconcerned.
In a high-temperature place like the underground Diamond Domain.
Of course, it's impossible to have such cold and sweet things for Diancie to eat.
This poor child probably hasn't eaten anything decent since she opened her eyes.
"The term 'I' (formal/humble: zai xia) is not what you, this Princess, should use."
Will smiled and shook his head.
At the same time, he reached out and pulled the still struggling Blonde-kun back, casually picked a peach-flavored one for her, and then picked a melon-flavored one for himself.
"Then what should I use?"
"If it's a Princess, you can directly call yourself 'I', or 'We' (royal We); but Diancie's status in the underground Diamond Domain is actually equivalent to a Queen, so calling yourself 'Zhen' (Emperor's I) is also fine. Anyway, it's better than 'zai xia'; that's what Majima uses."
Will raised his head and thought for a moment, then recommended a few to her.
"What place uses that title? Why have I never heard of it?"
Cynthia tasted the delicious pink ice cream in her hand, asking doubtfully.
She wanted to say.
Lucario really understands her!
Encountering the Pink Diamond Princess Diancie today, so she should choose pink ice cream.
This move of picking peach-flavored ice cream is simply a stroke of genius!
However, actually Will completely didn't think that much.
Just picked one casually.
"Mm, the royal family in the Kingdom of the Vale uses this title."
Will nodded.
That's right.
He taught it.
Anyway, three years ago when he and Cynthia were playing in the Unova region, he heard children playing around with Pokémon on the roadside calling themselves "Zhen".
Presumably, in the countries of Unova after the Kingdom of the Vale, there were kings who used "Zhen" to refer to themselves.
"Oh."
"Cynthia~ what is over there?"
"That's a clothing store, but it's already closed; I'll take you to see tomorrow."
"Okay~"
The two girls walked hand in hand like little sisters, heading towards the Pokémon Center.
Will standing behind was like a loner.
The salty and damp sea breeze blew from the sea beside Ambrette Town; the moist wind blew the fur on his body, inevitably making the atmosphere somewhat bleak.
"Lucario."
Cynthia's voice came.
"Hm?"
"What are you standing there blankly for, hurry up."
Cynthia ran over, grabbed Will's shoulder, dragged him and went back to hold Diancie's little hand.
Blonde-kun didn't leave any room for Will to feel melancholy.
They headed towards the Pokémon Center all the way. Although the Pokémon Center's doors are always open 24 hours, the gentle Nurse Joy is not there every moment.
Nurse Joy gets off work punctually at ten o'clock at night.
But fortunately.
It's nine-thirty now.
The Nurse Joy of Ambrette Town smiled at Cynthia and Will walking in.
Although there was shock in her eyes when she saw Diancie, on the surface she remained calm and didn't make any reaction.
Presumably, Nurse Joy also didn't want to cause a sensation.
"This is the legendary Pokémon Center, right? The place with the gentle Nurse Joy. Many Carbink in the underground Diamond Domain have been treated by Nurse Joy. As the Princess, I need to express my gratitude."
Diancie sized up the surroundings.
The reputation of the Pokémon Center is indeed very big; even the Princess of the Diamond Domain living deep underground has heard of it.
"Wait."
Cynthia reached out and hugged her.
Then properly told her about the matter that there are many, many Nurse Joys in this world.
Only then did Diancie understand.
The ones who saved their Carbink were many Joys, not just this Joy in front of them.
"This is really headache-inducing. Should I go visit them one by one?"
Diancie raised her hand and rubbed her little head.
"No need, right? When the Carbink were saved, they should have already thanked Nurse Joy. Moreover, they didn't save you guys to get your gratitude."
Will shook his head, telling Diancie not to care so much.
Otherwise.
Wanting to thank all the Nurse Joys in the world once.
Even if it were him, without a year's time, he probably couldn't do it.
"Right, Diancie, aren't you able to create pink diamonds? Why not use that to thank Nurse Joy? She will definitely like it."
Cynthia thought of the legend about the Princess of the Diamond Domain.
In Diancie's legend, there is this sentence that spreads the most widely: [Can compress the carbon elements in the air between two hands, instantly creating many pink diamonds].
It's exactly because of such a legend.
That caused Diancie's reputation to be very big, being targeted by many Pokémon Hunters.
"It won't work, the diamonds I create... will disappear on their own after a period of time."
Diancie lowered her head disappointedly.
"? Is that so? Sure enough, legends are just legends, still have to understand it personally to be reliable."
Cynthia nodded.
One of the reasons she pursued these was to seek the truth and correct those untrue historical legends.
"If I could create diamonds that won't disappear, then I could create the Sacred Diamond. But that needs the help of Xerneas."
Diancie sighed.
Speaking of this, she felt a headache.
She reached out a hand, created a crystal-clear pink diamond, and handed it to Cynthia.
"Thank you, can I accept it?"
Cynthia took it over.
But the next moment it was snatched away by Will.
"Of course, just treat it as a meeting gift for Will and Cynthia, congratulating us on becoming friends; although this diamond will disappear very soon."
Diancie's eyes dimmed a bit.
Diamonds will disappear.
Will friendship also?
"What if it doesn't disappear."
Will pinched the diamond in his hand, looking at it closely under the light.
Pink glimmers flickered in the depths of his eyes.
That was not the light released by Will's eyes.
But the light reflected from the diamond.
Deep inside this pink diamond, there was a curved pink crescent moon mark.
This is no ordinary pink diamond.
But the exclusive Key Stone that only Diancie can use, and only Diancie can create.
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