"Don't worry. Your big brother believes you can do it."
Ye Qing stroked the little princess's cheek. What worried him wasn't whether Diancie could create a Sacred Diamond, but whether she would still follow him on his travels after creating it.
"Gar!"
Garchomp looked back at Diancie and his master in displeasure, grumbling inwardly, Can't you two wait until we've landed to chat?
Do you have any idea that the rock beneath the little princess is almost digging into my flesh?!
True to his standing as a Pokémon whose flying speed was second only to Dragonite and Pidgeot, Garchomp flew at full speed and finally reached Africa before nightfall.
According to Diancie, the Diamond Kingdom had many entrances, and the forest beneath them had a passage that led straight to it.
Garchomp plunged into the forest, but his legs had grown somewhat stiff from the long flight, so he misjudged the force of his landing. With a thud, he drove his head straight into the ground, pulling off a textbook face-first stop.
Fortunately, Diancie had flown off with Ye Qing a moment before Garchomp's face hit the ground. Otherwise, he too would have had an intimate encounter with the earth.
"Gar..."
Garchomp kept his head buried in the dirt, unwilling to get up. He felt he had thoroughly disgraced the Dragon Clan.
"Hehe, Garchomp, are you all right?"
Although Diancie didn't want to laugh, she couldn't help it when she saw Garchomp with his rear sticking up.
Ye Qing shook his head and recalled Garchomp, then sent out Gardevoir and followed Diancie toward the Diamond Kingdom.
"The princess is back! The princess is back!"
Upon seeing Diancie return, the Carbink passed the news among themselves. Before long, all the nearby Carbink had gathered.
Returning to this familiar underground space, Ye