Hoopa's memories and the reason it had stayed in the Valley of Creation remained impossible to decipher, so Su Hao could only approach the matter from another angle.
For example, whether Hoopa knew about the Prison Bottle and the Malice sealed within it.
Hoopa's eyes lit up at the question, and it raised a hand to answer first. "Hoopa knows this!"
Making a splitting motion with its hands, it began gesturing animatedly.
"Bad guy got kicked out of Hoopa's body!"
"Power split into two."
"Hoopa got the smaller half..."
The more Hoopa spoke, the more aggrieved it became. Ever since waking up, it had felt an enormous emptiness, as if something were missing, along with fear over its own weakness.
That was also why it had chosen to hide and secretly observe Su Hao instead of openly begging for food.
Ultimately, it lacked a sense of security because it had lost part of its power.
Su Hao had long been mentally prepared for Hoopa's incomplete strength.
Still, he held onto a faint hope and asked Hoopa if it could try helping him find someone.
"Xiao Bai is a friend!"
"Hoopa will try its best!"
Having been won over by a meal and some donuts, Hoopa nodded vigorously and even declared itself friends with Su Hao.
Yet the desire in its eyes made one thing clear.
For now, that friendship was not entirely pure.
Explaining the people he wanted to find to a Hoopa whose mind was clearly still rather childish was obviously quite difficult.
There was also Ash's vague description of "the one that flies fast" in the Super Hoopa movie, which had ended up summoning a black Rayquaza—the Latios and Latias incident being a perfect precedent.
Su Hao was currently pessimistic about Hoopa's comprehension abilities.
Fortunately, through the all-purpose