May 5, a clear morning.
Oreburgh City, Oreburgh Mine Museum.
It was very close to the Oreburgh Mine.
The air carried the mining district's distinctive scent, mingled with coal, yet surprisingly, it was not pungent.
Perhaps that was because Jubilife City had the same smell. It was a mining city, after all.
This was not Li Wei and Lucario's first visit to the Oreburgh Mine. Only Diancie and the others who had joined them later were unfamiliar with it.
Li Wei stood before the entrance to the Oreburgh Mine Museum.
Roark's gentle voice sounded behind him.
"Welcome to the Oreburgh Mine Museum, Li Wei, Lucario."
Li Wei, Lucario, and the others all turned around.
Roark crouched down slightly, resting his hands on his knees, a hint of surprise in his eyes. "So this is Diancie?"
As a Rock-type Gym Leader, Roark was naturally most interested in Diancie.
Although he had seen Diancie in online videos before,
when Roark finally saw Diancie in person, he was still captivated by the radiance of the diamonds adorning Diancie's body.
Diancie lifted the hem of the dress in a curtsy, and a voice sounded through Telepathy:
"Hello."
"Hello there, Diancie."
The doors of the Oreburgh Mine Museum opened.
Seeing how interested Diancie and Sirfetch'd were in the fossil museum,
Roark suggested, "Let me show you around the museum first."
"Sorry for the trouble, then."
At the museum entrance, glass display cases held coal-mining tools and fossil samples.
Each had a label beneath it: Shield Fossil, Skull Fossil, Shell Fossil, Armor Fossil, Plume Fossil...
There were more than Li Wei had expected.
Li Wei asked curiously, "Can you find Plume Fossils here too?"
If he remembered correctly, Archen was the Pokémon revived from a Plume Fossil.
The most common fossil Pokémon unearthed and revived in