Ultra Wormhole, Activate!

"If you mean the passage, then yes, I was the one who opened the Ultra Wormhole."

Lusamine chuckled softly, not denying Xia Chen's guess.

The young man standing some distance away, having learned the truth, gradually darkened his gaze. He understood everything now.

His parents' disappearance four years ago had not been a natural disaster, but a man-made calamity!

A calamity personally caused by the ambitious Lusamine!

She had clearly known the danger of the Ultra Wormhole, yet to satisfy her almost perversely obsessive desire for Ultra Beasts, she had not hesitated to drag the entire Aether Foundation, even all of Alola, into the mire.

"What are you doing?!"

The sharp, almost piercing voice echoed through the empty laboratory.

The one who spoke was not Xia Chen, but Lillie.

"Why did you open such a huge passage? What means do you have to deal with those Ultra Beasts? Do you know how great a disaster this will bring to Alola? Dad disappeared because of your ambition too, didn't he?"

The tearful accusation did not change Lusamine's calm expression.

She looked at Lillie, her gaze lacking the tenderness an ordinary mother would show her daughter. There was only the fervor of someone on the verge of realizing her ideal.

"The larger the passage, the greater the possibility of crossing through it into that world. I've waited more than three years already. I don't want to wait any longer, and besides—"

Lusamine paused slightly. Her cold tone rarely revealed a trace of gentleness. "I'll bring them back. I definitely will—"

Whoosh—

Before Lusamine could finish speaking, a nearly imperceptible sound of wind suddenly rose in the silent, empty laboratory.

The next instant, a red humanoid Pokémon abruptly appeared behind Lusamine. The end of its right arm had transformed into a sharp spike