If one had to use a simple, easy-to-understand analogy to describe the Red Chain.
In Luo Mu's view.
The relationship between the Red Chain and the Time-Space Duo was like the relationship between the Exquisite Pagoda held by Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Li and his third son Nezha in the myths from before his transmigration.
The key was not the person wielding the item, but the item's abilities.
After all, no matter who held the pagoda, as long as they held that pagoda—or chain—they became the other's strictest father.
As for why Luo Mu had not brought out this "magical treasure" as soon as the Time-Space Duo went berserk, instead letting Luxray and the others fight them first.
The reason was simple.
He knew that the Time-Space Duo could still freely change forms in this era, unlike in later generations, when they lacked their respective Exclusive Items.
Compared to the negligible buff in the games, where their Base Stats were merely redistributed and their signature moves gained a slight increase in power.
The Origin Formes of the Time-Space Duo in reality most likely represented a massive enhancement to their respective special abilities.
The game Pokédex mentioned it as well.
Dialga's Origin Forme, a posture resembling the Creator God, was Dialga's original appearance at the beginning of creation.
It possessed the power to distort, destroy, and regenerate time, to toy with it in the palm of its hand, freely controlling the flow of time.
Palkia's Origin Forme was likewise similar to Origin Dialga's. Its pose, mimicking the Creator soaring through the sky, also represented a state in which it had made that power its own.
It possessed the power to distort, destroy, and regenerate space, freely tearing space into fragments.
Under such circumstances, it was not impossible that they could snap the