After the welcome dinner for Ash, Cynthia, and the others, Mingyou had to explain everything to Akari because of that afternoon's incident.
So he deliberately avoided everyone else and went to the second-floor balcony, where he told her the whole story.
"That's it?"
"That's it!"
"How are you even busier than I was when I saved the world? Are you actually the protagonist?"
Akari rested a hand on Mingyou's shoulder and took a small breath, then lifted her eyes to meet his. "So what's next? How about letting me go into the Network World to talk to Miraidon? I've never seen that Pokémon before. Meloetta told me you can race around on it?"
"You just want to try racing, don't you?"
"Haha, you saw right through me~"
Akari grinned playfully. Trying out a high-speed ride was one thing, but she genuinely wanted to meet Miraidon, too. As a Trainer who loved Pokémon, she was naturally excited about one she had never seen before.
But she set those matters aside. She trusted Mingyou to handle them, so she said no more about it and brought up something else instead. "Cynthia asked me to tell you to go see her with Meloetta later."
"Got it."
"She was going to find you after we finished talking, but who could've guessed you'd gone inside your phone? There were too many people at dinner for her to bring it up."
After a brief explanation, Akari fell silent for a moment before asking softly, "You're leaving tomorrow morning, right? Have you packed everything?"
"Yeah, it's all ready."
"Stay safe out there."
"If there's something you want to say, just say it..."
Mingyou could tell she seemed to have something on her mind, but was finding it hard to bring up.
Since he had called her out,