"Is it fun deceiving yourself?"
Heiduo's expression remained calm. If he had truly intended to take out Darkrai, he would have already won by now.
While Darkrai was helplessly raging, the two Pokémon focused on kicking it while it was down had already claimed seventy or eighty percent of the Line-Drawing Highland Dreamscape, leaving Darkrai with only a miserable little patch.
Yet it paid no attention to that. It raised its head and stared fixedly at the Dark Crystal glowing white. Its exposed eye widened, though there was a trace of unfocusedness in it.
As someone who had personally experienced the purification process, Darkrai naturally knew far better than Heiduo what had happened at the time.
But knowing did not mean Darkrai could accept that reality.
"Let it go!"
Shadow Balls were hurled at Heiduo as though they cost nothing, but with the Normal type fixed onto his body, Ghost-type moves were completely useless against him.
Heiduo said, "Fine."
He had already done everything he wanted to do, and he had also completely confirmed that this Darkrai was the Darkrai from the side story.
The light shrouding the Dark Crystal dispersed.
Dense fog spilled out once more, endlessly producing useless Darkrai clones.
"I let it go. So what? It's still fake."
Heiduo raised a hand, signaling that he would not do anything.
"This has nothing to do with you."
Darkrai lowered its head, its flowing white bangs covering its eyes.
Then, its Dream World began to shake and crumbled into fragments within seconds, while Darkrai's true body slowly vanished from where it stood.
Mega Gengar said, "It woke up. To be safe, I didn't stop it."
It and Mismagius had already taken control of over ninety percent of Darkrai's dream. If they had wanted to, they could have trapped that