May 21, Jubilife Breeding Center.
Nurse Joy and Chansey, who was carrying a tray, walked ahead, while Kirishō, a grown man, trailed behind.
That was because something had suddenly occurred to Kirishō.
Wasn't the second lake Nurse Joy had mentioned the one by the artificial hill Aerodactyl had just flown into?
Kirishō had seen it with his own eyes: after carrying Li Wei back, Aerodactyl had flown into its nest.
Kirishō didn't have the nerve to claim he wasn't afraid of Aerodactyl. The Pokémon simply looked too fierce.
With everything that had happened with Aoli, Kirishō had forgotten to ask about Aerodactyl earlier.
And it wasn't just Aerodactyl. The Breeding Center had undergone major construction and changed so much, yet Kirishō had felt too awkward to ask about any of it.
In the end, Kirishō's curiosity as a reporter got the better of him.
"Nurse Joy, what are these Pokémon you mentioned? Are they really going to live with Aerodactyl?"
"Oh, these? They're fossil Pokémon too."
Kirishō asked in surprise, "They're all fossil Pokémon?"
Hideyoshi, the cameraman, immediately aimed his camera at the tray in Chansey's hands.
There were ten Poké Balls in all, meaning ten fossil Pokémon.
Kirishō pressed on. "That many fossil Pokémon? Where did they come from?"
Although fossil Pokémon were no longer particularly unusual these days,
from Grampa Canyon in Kanto to the Oreburgh Mine in Sinnoh, and then Kalos, Alola, and the Galar Region...
The technology was no longer new. It had already been tested over more than a decade.
Fossil Pokémon had been unearthed in every major region around the world, and fossils with intact genetic material were sought out for revival.
As a result, a considerable number of fossil Pokémon had reappeared in the world through revival technology.
Still, seeing ten fossil Pokémon