"Uh... what's the difference between those two pieces of news?"
The motion of Individual Three's right-arm tentacle abruptly stopped. Unfortunately, it had no eyelids and couldn't close its eyes; otherwise, a blink would have better conveyed its current bewilderment.
"The difference is that good news makes you happy, while bad news makes you sad."
Umbreon yawned, utterly unimpressed by Heiduo's twisted sense of humor.
After hearing that, Individual Three fell silent for two or three seconds, seeming to think it over before finally saying, "Please tell me the good news."
It was quite polite, actually.
Heiduo flipped through the information Steven had sent over. To be honest, he couldn't really understand the specifics—there were too many technical terms, things like DNA data.
"You have others of your kind. There are two of them, and like you, they fell from the sky. I don't know whether you recognize them."
Heiduo silently added that there was no way Individual Three could recognize them. Back then, it had still been a cosmic virus without the ability to think.
"Companions! Two!"
Having only heard half the sentence, Deoxys was already overcome with ecstasy, writhing its body as the core within the Black Triangle danced wildly in excitement. No one craved others of its kind more than it did. It didn't want to be the world's only lonely individual. Even Lugia had others of its kind—so it should too.
Deoxys, which couldn't even endure half a year of solitude, had begun to hate loneliness as soon as it acquired humanlike intelligence, especially after seeing the groups of Pokémon atop Anomalous Magnet Mountain communicating with one another.
Loneliness had gradually eaten away at Deoxys's heart.
But now, Heiduo had told it that it had companions—two of them!
"They're the same species, not necessarily your companions. It's