Golurk did not know why he felt this way either, but he soon composed himself.
"Golurk."
Golurk looked toward the passage entrance and asked Roy how he had entered the ruins, and whether anyone else had entered besides him.
How was the Alforf Kingdom doing now?
Had it withstood the natural disaster? After that Pokémon had been sucked into the black hole, had it ever emerged again? Had they repelled the Pokémon that had crawled out of the black hole...
"Stop, stop, stop. Ask one question at a time."
Golurk's barrage of questions left Roy unsure which to answer first. He had never suspected Golurk was such a chatterbox.
After hesitating for a moment, Golurk returned to his first question.
"Golurk?" (How was the Alforf Kingdom doing now?)
After asking, Golurk fixed the two rune-like eyes on his head on Roy, waiting for his answer.
Uh... Roy did not know how to tell Golurk that he had never even heard of the Alforf Kingdom.
But judging by the ruins as they stood now, Roy could tell that the Alforf Kingdom must have existed a very long time ago. Perhaps it had fallen shortly after the ruins were sealed.
He had never even heard of it?
The moment Golurk learned that the Alforf Kingdom had vanished long ago, he felt as though the sky had collapsed.
"Golurk!"
"Why would I lie to you? It's probably been about fifteen hundred years since the time you lived in."
Fifteen hundred years ago?
Seeing that Golurk had no sense of time and still refused to believe that the kingdom behind the Ruins of Alph had fallen, Roy explained the events of the past few centuries to him.
That included the successive establishment of Pokémon Leagues across several regions in recent years, and the League