"Sorry, my motto is: why run your mouth when you can throw hands?! Snivy, Beedrill, Eevee, teach her a lesson! Show her who's the master and who's the servant!"
Flustered and furious, Dian immediately unleashed his Pokémon.
Snivy and Beedrill exchanged a glance and surrounded Beauty Mark, who had slipped out again. Eevee blocked her retreat, and an instant later, Shadow Ball, Venoshock, and Leech Seed engulfed her.
Bang!!
A green mummy bound in a dense tangle of Leech Seeds struggled on the golden stone floor.
Dian calmly took out a Poké Ball and restored some peace and quiet. "Everyone, that proves my innocence, right? All that dirty talk earlier came from this filthy ghost."
"And... it looks like we really are in the Spirit World."
"Hahahaha..."
Ayaka clung to her Absol, her eyes vacant. Had she really died just like that? She was still...
"Meoow—"
Meowstic let out an equally anguished wail, mirroring its Trainer.
"Not quite..."
Professor Juniper remained composed and levelheaded. "We're most likely on a bridge between the Spirit World and the mortal world, and these ruins beneath our feet were indeed built by the ancient Incas..."
"But... contrary to our assumptions, the foundation of the Ancient Inca Civilization may not have been in the mortal world at all, but in the Spirit World!"
"In other words, this Path of Rebirth they built really is a bridge connecting the Spirit World and the mortal world!"
Even Danshu's eyelid twitched at that. "Life and death are what all living things revere most. If the boundary between them were broken..."
"The ancient Incas probably didn't think like normal people."
Dian nodded in agreement. Thinking back to the shamanic culture of the Shang dynasty, its most representative practice was human sacrifice... Perhaps the people of that time considered it