Lavaridge Town, Here We Come-Hot Springs!

Meteor Falls.

Zinnia, still confined to solitary reflection, stared at the news playing on her phone in disbelief. Especially when she saw that unforgettable familiar face, her emotions surged beyond her control.

What had she just seen?

"No way."

The girl's murmur caught the attention of Whismur Xijiana, which had been dozing nearby.

It raised its head and looked at her in confusion.

"It's nothing. Go back to sleep."

Zinnia stroked its head, then searched online as if doubting whether the news was real.

Unlike the other people of Meteor Village, she did not reject modern things like these.

That was precisely why she did not find solitary reflection particularly boring.

When she had nothing to do, she trained with Salamence and the others. When she wanted to relax, she played on her phone for a while. When it ran out of battery, she had her Pokémon use Electric Type moves to Charge it, which also helped them train their control over their moves. It was quite nice.

This was also necessary training for her to become an outstanding inheritor.

But when she saw the overwhelming flood of news online, Zinnia fell silent.

The Shiny Rayquaza could be set aside for now. It was not an object of faith for the people of Meteor Village.

—But why had Hoenn Rayquaza, the "Dragon God," suddenly appeared in Larousse City and become that man's stepping stone?!

Zinnia could not accept this outcome at all.

Right now, she felt like a fanatic who had learned that the god she worshipped and admired had been cast down into the mortal world by a blasphemer—lost and furious.

Not to mention that Hoenn Rayquaza had played the role of an "invader" in this incident.

".I have to do something."

Zinnia sprang to her feet and paced