August 23.
Lily of the Valley Island, top-floor strategy conference room.
While Li Wei was preparing for work,
Pokémon League President Samaranch, Cynthia, Lucian, and several other heads of senior League departments
were holding a meeting with the head of the International Police Sinnoh Division and the heads of the Emergency Management Department, Pokémon Ecology Research Department, Public Relations Department, and Pokémon League Strategy Department.
The League's senior officials, Cynthia included, all wore grave expressions.
It was hardly surprising that the League took this so seriously.
After all, Alamos Town had vanished from Sinnoh for quite some time, and the Temporal Dragons had appeared.
This was already a crisis of the highest level for the League.
It was no different from Groudon and Kyogre appearing in Hoenn and battling each other.
The atmosphere in the conference room was tense and solemn. People filled the seats around the ring-shaped conference table, their expressions grim.
Lucian adjusted his glasses, his notes laid out before him, while the other department heads sat upright.
President Samaranch nodded. "Begin, Cynthia."
All sorts of conflicting claims were circulating online.
But in truth, President Samaranch had ordered people to muddy the waters.
The Temporal Dragons appearing in Sinnoh and making Alamos Town briefly disappear was a terrifying event.
But they did not want to cause public panic.
After all, there was nowhere to run.
If Palkia went berserk again and came to Lily of the Valley Island, they would have no choice but to drive Palkia back.
Making the news public would only create panic, so they were better off withholding it.
Cynthia rose, her expression as calm as ever, walked to the center of the conference table, and switched on the holographic projector.
Immediately, a series of processed, heavily distorted images,
photographs of Palkia captured by