Beep beep beep—a piercing chorus of horns rose and fell along the street.
With the Masters Eight finals about to begin, the road leading to Wyndon Stadium was completely jammed.
Asahi sat in the passenger seat, holding up her phone anxiously. "It's about to start, Kieran! Drive faster!"
Azumarill in the back chimed in. "Rururu!"
"—This is a car, not an aircraft."
Kieran looked at his companion helplessly and said calmly, "I can't drive through the traffic ahead."
Mawile, also in the back seat, spread her hands dramatically and shrugged.
"Maa~"
As everyone knew, Baimu's influence on the entire world manifested in every aspect of life. The most obvious example was the climate. Under his influence, three Lugia and a Calyrex had forcibly altered the natural environment of an entire continent, from ocean currents and monsoons to countless other factors.
That was why Kieran and Asahi, who should have been heading to an island at the edge of the world, had instead appeared at Wyndon Stadium to watch the finals between Baimu and Ash.
Actually, if Wyndon had not prohibited aircraft from landing, they had planned to drive the Mobile Research Lab right inside.
"Why don't we just get out and run?"
Asahi leaned against the car door and gazed at the enormous stadium in the distance. In a daze, she seemed to see a black-haired horse perched atop its petal-shaped facade, dark aura swirling around its body, with a large green-haired knight in a white cloak seated on its back.
She rubbed her eyes, only to find that the knight was gone.
"Did I see that wrong?"
"Let's walk. We really can't move forward." Kieran was growing just as impatient, so he turned the car around and drove elsewhere.
At the same time, countless unmanned Rotom drones streaked across