Mingyou's brain was still frozen. He knew Diancie came from a mutation in Carbink, but what was going on here? Clearly, she wasn't a Carbink at all. Since when was mutating as easy as eating a meal?!
"Explain yourselves!"
He walked over to the two Diancie. If the large, Shiny Diancie was the queen, then this little Diancie was definitely the princess. Didn't they reproduce asexually?
After binding Oleana and her people with vines, Ogerpon and Serperior came over too. They were both stunned to see Carbink turn into Diancie. Could this be another kind of evolution?
"Obviously not..."
"Dian~"
After changing from Carbink into Diancie, her cry had changed too, becoming even softer and sweeter.
She gently poked her little fingers together. How should she explain this? When the queen created the Heart Diamond, its power had accidentally brought a new individual into existence: her. So the queen really was her mother, and her mother had been raising her to become the next queen.
As for why she hadn't said anything before...
Who would have believed something like that even if she had told them? Besides, she was terrified of exposing her identity. Her mother had used the Heart Diamond to turn her into a Carbink so she could slip into the crowd of refugees and escape.
If the queen died, the Heart Diamond's power would transfer to her, who had been born alongside it, allowing her to become the new queen and establish a new Diamond Domain.
And honestly, she hadn't trusted Mingyou much at first. Only after he truly kept his word had she decided to trust him unconditionally.
That was the whole story...
"I..."
Mingyou held his forehead and shook his head. Mystery solved.
No wonder she had refused to give him a diamond before, and