Future Lumiose City.
Unlike the current central metropolis of Kalos, the Lumiose City Darkrai knew had been rebuilt after its destruction.
Destroyed? Rebuilt?
Baimu realized this might be the original anime world—the original plot where the rampaging Legendary Stone destroyed Lumiose City, without any extra interference from him.
Darkrai's experience was this: while passing through future Lumiose City, it sensed the Evolution Stone inside Prism Tower. It secretly infiltrated the place in the middle of the night, found its target, and used the standard move of Dark-type Pokémon: Thief.
Wild Pokémon were mostly born with the Pick Up Ability anyway. They just were not as diligent as Zigzagoon when it came to picking things up.
Darkrai had never expected to pick up a bomb. It blew its mind to pieces and triggered widespread unrest.
It did not know what happened afterward. It only knew that it had struggled to survive on instinct until it sensed Baimu's presence and exhausted enormous effort to call for his help.
"Then why did you kidnap a child?"
"..."
Darkrai could not explain it. Many things had been done subconsciously, and if asked to explain, it truly could not make sense of them.
Baimu then brought up the Dread Plate and curiously asked where it had gotten that thing.
"Not... too... sure..."
Darkrai looked somewhat lost.
After it had gone berserk under the effects of Mega Evolution and created Nightmare Newmoon Island, linking it to Snowpoint City, the Dread Plate had appeared on its body.
Baimu could not help frowning. Could Arceus have done it?
—The possibility was low.
How could Arceus deliberately place an additional burden on a rampaging Pokémon just to achieve some goal?
It had never been much of a schemer.
Baimu did not keep speculating and began considering another matter: the