The Distortion World.
With Giratina escorting them,
Li Wei and Cynthia were heading to Dahara City in the Kalos Region.
The relationship between Hoopa and the Prison Bottle was somewhat like that of a genie and its lamp.
Li Wei also learned more about Hoopa from Giratina.
"It's not control."
Giratina corrected Li Wei.
In truth, Hoopa could only pull them out. Its supposed control over them was practically nonexistent.
Hoopa Unbound was relatively brutal and belligerent.
Whenever boredom struck, Hoopa would pull out a few Legendary Pokémon to battle.
Before long, it would turn into the Legendary Pokémon ganging up on Hoopa Unbound.
Almost all of Hoopa's innate talent lay in manipulating space, but those rings gave Hoopa tremendous combat potential.
You could say Hoopa had a low floor but a high ceiling.
It all depended on whether Hoopa could make good use of those rings.
Later, after the Prison Bottle took away most of Hoopa's power, Hoopa could only be a cute little pet.
For the past hundred years, Hoopa had lived in the Valley of Creation.
Giratina knew all of this, too.
Living in the Distortion World, Giratina liked to observe the real world whenever boredom struck.
That had made Giratina a font of knowledge.
Cynthia pressed, "Then who took the Prison Bottle?"
"Someone from the Valley of Creation. A man."
"Do you know where he went?"
"No. I haven't seen him yet."
To observe the real world, Giratina needed a connecting passage-in other words, a reflective surface.
"All right."
Cynthia wasn't disappointed.
On the contrary, Giratina's help had saved them quite a few detours.
Meanwhile, Steven had arrived in Dahara City ahead of them and met up with Ash and the others.
Steven had already been in Coumarine City, very close to Dahara City, which