By comparison, the scenes he had seen through Gardevoir were clearly more important.
"Gardevoir, can you work out when and where that scene took place?" Xiao Ran asked Gardevoir beside him as he browsed photos of the various Great Secret Realms.
"No!" Gardevoir shook her head, indicating that she couldn't.
"All right. But that last look you gave seemed to mean you'd spotted us. In other words, we must have made eye contact with your future self!" He had only asked on the off chance and hadn't expected much, but recalling Gardevoir's final glance, Xiao Ran suddenly paused.
At the instant Gardevoir turned her head, he seemed to have seen something hanging around her neck. The pendant and its chain had swung up with the motion, but it had been too far away for him to make out clearly.
"Something around her neck... what would Gardevoir wear around her neck?" Xiao Ran froze for a moment, then looked at Gardevoir's fair collarbone.
"Wait, it's an Evolution Stone!" Realization struck him. He quickly opened his bag and took out Gardevoir's Mega Stone.
Although its design differed from the one in the vision, its shape and color were essentially the same. Presumably, it had later been fashioned into jewelry so Gardevoir could wear it into battle.
"In that case, you should have at least reached Gym Leader Class by then. At our current pace, that should still be a few years away!" Xiao Ran breathed a small sigh of relief.
"Then does that mean there's no rush?" Gardevoir nodded and asked.
"Not necessarily. Since we foresaw something several years away, that means events starting now are already influencing it!"
"Looking at it that way, it also means this is more difficult to deal with, and more likely to happen. Even if we