The red-and-yellow tunnel was dark and narrow.
But soon, white light appeared ahead.
Baimu, Mawile, and the Legendary Giants emerged one after another into an enormous, empty main hall.
Red and yellow still divided it cleanly in two.
At the far end, two oddly shaped stone statues with round heads and dotted faces like those of the Legendary Giants stood in recesses above tiered steps.
On the floor before them were rows of neatly arranged black circles.
Their positions seemed to match the dots on the statues' faces.
Baimu finally relaxed. "That's it!"
The anime hadn't lied to him!
There really were two statues!
In the game, there was only one. Players could release either Regieleki or Regidrago by lighting up the circles beneath their feet to match its face.
That was why the ruins were called the Ruins of Choice.
The anime's creators had ignored the game, added another statue, and made it possible to activate both mechanisms at once. Goh and Gary had each gotten one.
Those extra details were the foundation of Baimu's plan to catch both.
He looked around, then glanced up.
Light entered the hall through cracks in the fractured rock overhead. There were plenty of cracks, but none looked wide enough for Regieleki or Regidrago to escape through.
As for exits...
There was only the one behind him. This was a place built to seal away Pokémon, after all.
Baimu took several more pictures of the statues, clicking his tongue in wonder.
He thought, They used the giants' power and sealed them away afterward too, but this is a different kind of seal altogether.
The ancient civilization of the Galar Region had been remarkably capable. They had sealed the Regis inside stone statues.
It looked like something out of a fantasy story.
How had