High in the sky, Hunter E, riding atop Braviary, was equally stunned.
Her pupils contracted slightly as the slender green figure reflected in her narrow eyes. The expression on her face shifted from solemnity to shock, then from shock to gloom.
"How is this possible? How did it wake up..." she roared furiously inside, a thread of fear rising within her.
Their original plan had been for her to cooperate with Hunter C and use a specially made Poké Ball to capture Celebi while it was asleep.
But now, not only had it awakened, it had even appeared before them of its own accord.
Her gaze swept rapidly across the battlefield—the old ranger, the Champion level Sceptile, and Celebi hovering in midair.
An old ranger and a Champion level Sceptile had already been troublesome enough to deal with.
And now there was also a Legendary level Mythical Pokémon...
Hunter E's expression turned extremely grim.
Just as Hunter E and Hunter C were frozen in shock, Celebi moved.
A serious expression appeared on its tiny face. Such an expression should not have belonged on such an adorable face, yet at this moment, it seemed perfectly natural.
It slowly extended its right hand.
That hand was tiny, no bigger than an adult's finger, its three fingers tender like newly sprouted branches.
But the instant it extended its hand, ripples began spreading through the space around its fingertips.
They were not ripples on water, but distortions of space itself.
Circle after circle spread outward from Celebi's fingertips, as though a stone had been dropped into a lake called reality.
Celebi's pale blue eyes calmly watched the Spirit World Passage that continuously spewed grayish-purple deathly Qi.
Then its tiny finger lightly tapped toward the Spirit World Passage.
That finger pointed at empty air before