Over by the Creation Trio.
Everyone stared in shock at Arceus flying into the sky and Shadow Lugia below, its wings black and abyssal.
An indescribable sense of revulsion slowly rose in their hearts.
Especially Lance, the Viridian Child. At the sight of Shadow Lugia, that suppressed emotion corroded his heart like sulfuric acid.
It was as though another glance or two would leave his guts rotting, his eyes blind, and his ears deaf.
—Dark Aura was at work.
Aura was a kind of spiritual power. Though ordinary people could not easily master it, those with firm wills or powerful minds could vaguely sense a little of it.
And among those present, setting aside the three bosses, even Team Rocket's Four Generals were considered powerful Trainers.
Even if they could not directly observe the existence of Aura, they could subconsciously sense that something in the air was fermenting.
Giovanni, whose physical condition had deteriorated to the extreme while his senses had grown sharper, frowned.
Shadow Lugia gave him an inexplicable sense of familiarity...
Suddenly.
It was as though he had thought of something, and his pupils slightly dilated.
"Modification!"
Giovanni's deep voice clearly reached everyone's ears.
He was no stranger to modifying and creating all kinds of Pokémon, and he was extremely sensitive to living beings bearing traces of artificial modification.
Of course, he could not immediately connect Shadow Lugia with the Shadow Team's Dark Pokémon.
After all, Shadow Lugia's appearance had changed, while the Dark Pokémon's appearances had remained unchanged.
Lance frowned deeply at those words. As a former great villain who had resolutely chosen to stand against humanity for the sake of Pokémon, he had always loathed modifying Pokémon.
"What exactly is Heiduo—"
Before he could finish.
Judgment from the enraged Arceus above crashed down like falling rain!