Time... began to flow again.
The faded black-and-white world was dyed back into a vibrant one. The Mandibuzz continued flapping their wings, their hoarse cries echoing through the sky.
Bai Du and Mega Salamence stared dumbfoundedly at the Rayquaza shed skin that had instantly shriveled before them, their eyes full of disbelief.
—It was dead just like that?
Was it really that fragile?
For a moment, Bai Du suddenly regretted instinctively running away all these past few months, barely managing to organize any proper attacks.
Had he known Sky's Cast-Off Shedding was so fragile, and that its head was a weak point, he would have blasted it even if it meant getting hurt!
He regretted it deeply now.
But that regret was quickly replaced by delight.
No matter how he looked at it, the one who had dealt the final blow to Sky's Cast-Off Shedding should, perhaps, probably, definitely have been Mega Salamence's "Sky Skin: Hyper Beam," right?
Didn't that mean he had carried Su Hao?
Bai Du felt inexplicably pleased with himself, nearly humming aloud.
But before he could show off his swelling pride, the Dragapult brother and sister crawled out from the two hollow eye sockets in the shed skin.
Dragapult brother: "Heeya?" (It stinks in here. Does Rayquaza usually never bathe?)
Dragapult sister: "Heeya, heeya!" (Not bathing is bad! It's not clean at all!)
Just as they chirped away, condemning whether Rayquaza's actual body was smelly too, Dragapult crawled out as well and grabbed them by the scruffs of their necks with its tiny Tyrannosaurus-like claws.
Mega Salamence, who could understand the Dragapult siblings' conversation, thought it would scold the two children and tell them to show more respect to the owner of Sky Tower. Instead, Dragapult said this.
"Ruto~" (If you want to discuss it, go