Dragonite Island

The time returned to not long after Kyogre and Groudon had left.

Luo Mu was asking Politoed, whom he had quietly placed in a safe area to watch the battle, whether it had gained any inspiration from the heavy rain Kyogre had caused.

After he finished communicating with Politoed,

Lugia, having dispelled its Stellarization, remarked that this miraculous power had actually worked on it as well, then somewhat urgently brought up that it, Giant Dragonite, and Giant Tentacruel would be leaving first.

They did not like interacting with humans to begin with. Giant Dragonite was one thing, but both Giant Tentacruel and Lugia had suffered persecution at human hands. They truly did not want to become too entangled with humans other than Luo Mu.

Lugia did have a favorable impression of Ash, the "commander" who had been its partner at the time, but he had not participated in the heart of this battle. There was no need for it to specifically wait around here.

Without Lugia's help, Luo Mu's own team would have had a hard time dealing with Kyogre at sea.

On the ocean, Luxray's pride-worthy close combat was nearly completely useless. It could only rely on releasing electricity.

—Because it had nowhere to stand.

As for Mega Swampert, if it wanted to handle Kyogre, whose compatibility did not counter its own, and achieve what Giant Dragonite had,

it would likely have needed to expend quite a bit of effort.

Why would Luo Mu make things difficult for Lugia when it had willingly contributed its strength?

He also understood very well why Lugia and the others were unwilling to interact with humans, so he did not stop them. He merely agreed to meet them again in a certain stretch of sea after dealing with the aftermath.

It was then