At the foot of Mt. Silver.
Heiduo gathered his whole big family of Pokémon together.
"Today, a new life was born into our family." He held up the Scyther Pokémon Egg inside the incubator and swept his gaze over the Pokémon, whose expressions all differed. "All of you uncles and aunts need to keep that in mind."
Such a huge event had happened in the family, so Heiduo had gathered all his Pokémon together without a second thought.
Garchomp and the others looked at one another, unable to tell what Heiduo meant for a moment.
But after saying that, Heiduo carried the Egg away with the female Scizor and Gardevoir.
"You dragged us all the way over here just to say that?"
Umbreon, who had been happily watching a show before Heiduo pulled her over halfway through, curled her lip and turned to look at Shadow Lugia beside her, who had returned to its original size.
"Don't look at me. In my current state, how much empathy do you think I have?"
Even after losing its emotions, Shadow Lugia retained its Salted Fish nature. Rather than lacking empathy, it was more that it was too lazy to think.
Losing its emotions did not mean losing its ability to think logically. Besides, it had said before that its emotions would be gone for half a year, but Heiduo felt that it would recover in no more than four months.
That Salted Fish wasn't being honest.
Elsewhere.
Heiduo arrived at the Mt. Silver Pokémon Nature Preserve branch base.
"You aren't treating this place like a daycare, are you?"
Fei Liu had been heading over to greet Heiduo when he spotted the Pokémon Egg and incubator in Heiduo's arms. His steps unconsciously slowed, and hesitation appeared on his face.
"Isn't it because I