Time returned to not long ago, to the day Su Hao made his wish.
The power of the wish did not take effect instantly. It was only at night, beneath a sky full of stars, that the first semblance of a miracle took shape.
—It was just that this "revival" seemed rather different from the revival Su Hao had imagined.
"So, you turned into a crystal because you 'passed away peacefully,' and calmly accepted the reality that you were about to return to the world?"
Looking at the small land turtle before him, with rose-red markings around its eyes and an utterly harmless appearance, Su Hao remained silent for a long while before slowly speaking.
The little land turtle had an exceptionally bright pair of eyes, shining just like the strange power that originated from it.
Yet behind that brightness lay an inescapable air of twilight.
The aged Legendary Pokémon known as Terapagos nodded slightly. "Even I never expected that, while I was peacefully waiting to return to the origin, someone would pull me back from the ambiguous boundary between life and death."
Logically speaking, Legendary Pokémon that wielded the laws of Authority and coexisted with the world were almost free from the limits of lifespan.
Examples included the three gods of time and space, who had endured since the creation of the world, as well as the creators of land and sea and the ruler of the skies, who had fought ever since the birth of land and ocean.
As for Terapagos, which was born afterward and served as the origin of Terastal Form, it should never have reached the end of its lifespan.
Yet when it awakened once more, it told Su Hao this—
"I have grown tired of this long lifespan. I voluntarily gave up continuing to