April 25.
After bidding farewell to the Dragon Elder, Li Wei, who had been away for nearly a month, set off for home with Lucario and the others.
Lance and Clair saw Li Wei off at Blackthorn City Airport and watched him board his plane.
"Come visit Blackthorn City again when you have time."
Li Wei nodded. "Sure."
Li Wei boarded the plane home.
Looking back over this trip to Kanto, Li Wei was very satisfied overall.
He had become a guest lecturer at Celadon University. In the future, he could even say he had students everywhere...
Li Wei had signed a contract with Celadon University, requiring him to teach there for at least two weeks every year.
The classes were all on Pokémon breeding, his strongest subject, so they would be relatively easy for him.
Then he had received Latias's Mega Stone from Doctor Lorenzo.
Granted, Li Wei had yet to catch a Latias, and the fact that Latias and Latios could Mega Evolve had not yet been discovered.
Catching Latias and Latios had now made it onto Li Wei's agenda.
Latias and Latios clearly had populations of their own, whether one looked at the Latias Nurse Joy had caught or the Latios caught by that Legendary-wielding Trainer during the Diamond and Pearl era...
The Eon Duo Ash had encountered also attested to their numbers, and even their parents could be traced.
Incidentally, the Eon Duo's sibling relationship applied only to the Latias and Latios Ash had encountered,
rather than meaning that all Latias and Latios were siblings.
As for how to encounter and catch Latias, the simplest method was naturally to summon them with the Eon Flute.
An item like the Eon Flute did indeed exist in the system's item list, but Li Wei had yet to draw