The moment the azure flames landed on Lance, they seemed to encounter some kind of accelerant and swelled even larger.
In just a few breaths, they had completely enveloped him.
Like the towering wall of fire surrounding Tokyo, the Blue Flare did not initially burn Lance's body. Instead, it used his desires as fuel, strengthening itself.
This was also Reshiram's mercy.
Unlike Zekrom, which would unceremoniously unleash destructive lightning upon those who scorned ideals and had lost their Justified.
When Reshiram encountered someone whose desires had begun to breed, even if it bestowed Blue Flare, the flames would not immediately burn away a living creature's vitality or body. Instead, they would continuously grow by using that creature's desires as fuel.
Only when they had grown to a certain extent, surpassing the "bottom line" Reshiram had set, would Blue Flare reveal its true power.
Every living thing harbored desires.
The desire to eat, the desire to become stronger, the desire to possess something.
The white dragon of truth would not reject such desires outright. After all, even it had desires of its own.
Those judged by Blue Flare were always sinners who indulged their desires, were driven by them, and committed evil after evil.
And now—
As the Blue Flare burning around Lance, who looked utterly baffled as to why he had not been burned, grew ever fiercer and nearly reached the ceiling of the Ruins of Alph, Reshiram, sharing Su Hao's vision, closed its sky-clear blue dragon eyes.
For a human named Lance to fuel Blue Flare to such an extent with his desires alone, he truly was an utterly vile criminal.
The things he had done... were too numerous to record.
A moment later.
Reshiram's majestic voice rang throughout the Ruins of Alph.
"This is a man burdened with