After dinner, Axel chatted with his parents for a while, then headed to Giratina's small courtyard.
Earlier today, Gardevoir had mentioned that Giratina had something he cared about very much.
Axel was curious. What could there possibly be that he cared about that much?
He thought it over again and again but couldn't come up with anything.
Now he not only had a large number of Pokémon partners by his side, but his parents, who had been missing for many years, were completely safe.
A proper winner in life.
If he had to name a regret, it would probably be Diao Chan and the white Gardevoir.
Axel didn't lack romantic prospects. The others were all in the Pokémon world and easy to contact.
Even if he didn't have time to go out on dates for now, they could still chat often over the communicator.
But Diao Chan was different. After the two of them became involved, she stayed alone in the Three Kingdoms era.
That was a time of warlords fighting everywhere. Even with the white Gardevoir there, Axel still worried about Diao Chan's safety.
Because of that, he had even once considered looking for Arceus.
For something that involved rules like that, aside from Arceus, or Dialga and Celebi at their peak, probably no one else could do it.
As he approached Giratina's courtyard, Axel shook his head and stopped letting his thoughts run wild.
Instead of thinking about how to find the elusive Arceus, it would be better to pressure Dialga in the future.
A few thousand years old. That's exactly the age to go out and make things happen.
"Giratina, working so hard?"
Axel pushed open the courtyard gate and happened to see Giratina pulling several Ultra Beasts to practice Confuse Ray.
"Lately it feels like you've been avoiding me. Got something on your mind? Don't tell me you've prepared some kind of surprise for me?"
Because he sensed something odd in Gardevoir's tone earlier, Axel didn't sell her out.
["Master's here?"], Giratina jolted instinctively. Since when could Master, like Gardevoir, also peek into people's hearts?
Then his head started to ache.
Because for the past month, he had been thinking about how to tell Axel about this, and still hadn't figured it out.
He couldn't just walk up and ask Axel if he wanted his wife back, could he?
Giratina had talked with the most shameless flatterer, the White Dragon. According to the White Dragon, if what Giratina offered was a new wife, Axel might resign himself to it and casually let some benefits slip through his fingers.
During this past month, the White Dragon had successfully grown stronger through Lillie's connection and was already faintly surpassing the Black Dragon.
If that were all, Giratina would have gone long ago.
The problem was that the White Dragon had added one more sentence.
["Are you crazy? You dare lose the God Lord's woman? Don't you know the God Lord values loyalty and feelings?"]
["In your situation, you'll be the one losing your life, not the God Lord resigning himself!"]
["If I were you, I'd go find ten beauties to compensate the God Lord right now!"]
Giratina had immediately fallen into despair. Even if he searched the entire Ultra Space, he couldn't find ten beauties on Diao Chan's level.
["Ahem… Master, if I said I prepared a surprise for you, would you be happy?"]
Seeing Giratina's fawning smile, Axel instinctively felt something was wrong.
Usually this guy wasn't much different from Kyurem, his eyes full of desire for control-type moves.
Now that he was smiling, it just felt strange.
'He's not about to backstab me, is he?'
Axel didn't commit either way, "You tell me what it is first. Then I'll decide if I'm happy."
Giratina pondered for a moment, pulling out the speech he had refined over the past month.
["If I said I recovered memories from thousands of years ago, would you be happy?"]
Axel smiled, "Of course I'd be happy for you. That's good for improving your strength."
Giratina continued, "Then if I said that Lord Arceus also asked me to bring you a gift, would you be even happier?"
"Definitely," Axel nodded. A gift from Arceus couldn't be bad.
"Good," Giratina tried to keep his tone calm.
["Actually, the task Lord Arceus gave me was to bring Diao Chan and her Gardevoir back. So at the time, I gave up a supreme treasure to stop the flow of time inside them."]
["Just before I entered Ultra Space, I discovered that the Great Platinum Orb where they were located had already appeared. It's now in the Paldea region!"]
"Really?", Hearing news about Diao Chan, Axel became excited without thinking. Even his voice changed slightly.
But very quickly, he regained his senses, 'Something about this doesn't add up.'
'If it is such good news, why has Giratina been hemming and hawing about it?'
If it were any other Pokémon, even someone stubborn like Kyurem, they would have run over long ago to trade this for benefits.
There was an even bigger flaw. Axel knew clearly that Giratina hadn't encountered any opportunity recently. How could he suddenly recover his memories?
Axel looked at Giratina suspiciously, "Don't tell me Arceus had already told you to bring Diao Chan and Gardevoir back long ago, and because you weren't convinced by me at the time, you pretended to have amnesia and deliberately didn't tell me?"
Giratina froze, ["It's a misunderstanding, Master!"]
He never in his dreams expected things to develop like this. Not only had he failed to cover up losing Diao Chan, now Axel even thought he had been unconvinced?
The last one who was unconvinced had been locked in an ice prison and beaten for nearly a month.
"Then why didn't you tell me the moment you recovered your memories?"
Giratina blinked, ["If I say I wanted to give you a surprise, do you believe me or not?"]
Axel sneered and grabbed Giratina, flying toward the outskirts of the city.
"Fine. Then I'll give you a surprise too."
["What surprise?"]
"Colress's Planet-Destroying Cannon has been built for half a month and hasn't been tested yet. Perfect timing for you to go experience what it feels like."
Giratina let out a breath, ["Colress's thing… wait, Planet-Destroying Cannon? What the hell is that?"]
Axel grinned, showing white teeth, "It's actually what Colress calls the Axel Savior Cannon. I just changed the name."
["Ahhh!"], Giratina's voice cracked, ["Master, I confess! I confess everything! Please stay rational!"]
When the "Axel Savior Cannon" was completed, Giratina had been present. He knew exactly how powerful that barrel was.
Just his own full-power Confuse Rays alone numbered no fewer than a hundred inside it.
There was also Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Ho-Oh… even the newly arrived Groudon. Every Legendary Pokémon had charged it with power.
If that cannon fired, even Groudon would be blasted away.
Giratina's psychic power spun wildly, telepathy surging out like madness.
["I actually recovered my memories a long time ago and had already received Lord Arceus's order."]
["It's just that two thousand years ago, I thought about hiding Lady Diao Chan somewhere safer to prevent accidents."]
["But I hid her too well, and later even I couldn't find her. But now I've found her, Master!"]
Axel's eye twitched. He hadn't expected Giratina to have so much drama.
At the same time, he felt a little helpless, "Why were you hiding this… we could've just searched together."
Giratina let out a long sigh toward the sky, 'I didn't want to hide it either. But is it possible that, to us Legendary Pokémon, you're a little too terrifying?'
Back then, he wasn't familiar with Axel at all. He only knew that Axel's methods were extremely ruthless. He was afraid Axel would stew him in a pot over the slightest disagreement.
"Alright, go back and sort out the information on Diao Chan's location. I'll see if I can find a new test subject."
Axel waved his hand, planning to head out in the next few days to bring Diao Chan back.
At the same time, he started calculating which villains in the Pokémon world would be useful, so he could trick them over together.
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