Hisuian Braviary was completely baffled. Before it clearly stood the blue-and-white great bird from deep within its memories, the one that had saved it, Lugia. Why did Su Hao say it was not Lugia?
Within the Sea of Psyche, Reshiram also noticed the flaw in the Lugia before them after Su Hao pointed it out.
As the True Dragon, it possessed a certain ability to see through illusions, though that was not its specialty.
Thus, with its power restrained and hidden within Su Hao's Sea of Psyche, it could not tell whether Lugia was lying before revealing its true form when facing a deity on the same level as itself.
But the more it listened to Lugia's words, the more something felt wrong. Leaving aside Lugia's inexplicable obsession with those Silver Feathers, those things were not even valuable. The Rainbow Beak next door practically mass-produced Rainbow Feathers and scattered them across the world to select Rainbow Heroes.
For Lugia, who stood in opposition to Ho-Oh, Silver Feathers should have been nothing more than something it casually gave away.
And as a Psychic-type, Lugia had not fallen so low that it needed to catch its own Silver Feather with its hands, had it?
Legendary Pokémon still cared quite a bit about maintaining their image.
And Lugia's greatest flaw was the question Su Hao had asked.
If Su Hao had not participated in the Lake Guardians' Trial, then based on the Plate Fragments in their hands, they would certainly have reached one conclusion—
Something had happened to Arceus.
But the Lake Guardians, Arceus's messengers, had shown them an image that confirmed Arceus in this world was still at the height of its power. The Plates had not shattered at all.
Lugia, who had participated in that battle, could not possibly have been