"Is this... a fragment of the Mind Plate?!" Ye Lan exclaimed.
"You even recognize this?!"
The Lake Trio exchanged looks, seemingly beginning to understand why Ye Lan was that inexplicable extra chosen one.
Could he be a Trainer Celebi had sent back from the future? If they thought of it that way, a lot of things seemed to make sense!
But as they remembered it, Celebi had to expend an enormous amount of power to travel through time and space, and the time traveler couldn't interfere too much with the timeline's development. What good would coming back do, then?
Or was some higher power involved?
For a moment, Ye Lan's image in the Lake Trio's minds went from merely mysterious to positively imposing.
Ignoring the Lake Trio's shifting expressions, Ye Lan was now completely absorbed by the Mind Plate fragment before him:
Name: Mind Plate fragment Quality: ?????? Category: One of the legendary Plates Effect: Possesses partial authority over the Pokémon world's Psychic-type domain. Function unknown. Restrictions: The Mind Plate itself has suffered severe fragmentation and energy loss. This is now only a small piece of its lower-left corner, and its use is heavily restricted. Only the Lake Trio, who also possess Psychic-type authority, can use it. Description: A treasure containing the power that created the Pokémon world, and one of that world's supreme treasures. It should have been indestructible, yet it has been damaged this badly. What exactly happened all those years ago?
Ye Lan remembered very clearly that a Plate's condition directly reflected Arceus's condition. Yet the Mind Plate fragment before him was in even worse shape than the Blue Orb, practically crumbling to bits. Didn't that mean Arceus was...
Was this also connected to the "Black Cloud Catastrophe"? Or had the situation been far more