Xilin's words immediately caused an uproar in the ancestral hall.
"What? A Gardevoir in our tribe died yesterday?"
"That can't be right. We haven't gone out lately except to gather food, and none of the Gardevoir were nearing the end of their lives."
"Exactly. Why would a perfectly healthy Gardevoir die?"
For a moment, voices filled the ancestral hall.
Although their tribe had a community of Gardevoir and their pre-evolutions, there were only forty or fifty of them altogether.
Most of those were Ralts and Kirlia. There were very few Gardevoir.
Every Gardevoir was incredibly precious to them.
Yet now, Xilin was telling them that one had died yesterday.
How could they not be shocked?
Lia took a deep breath, slapped the table hard, and said sternly, "Quiet!"
Only then did everyone stop talking.
Lia turned to Xilin. "Xilin, tell us exactly what happened."
Xilin sighed. "Do you remember that Ralts with the different coloring?"
At those words, the image of the blue-haired Ralts immediately came to Lia's mind.
She vaguely remembered that this Ralts was disliked by the others and was often bullied by the other Ralts and Kirlia.
But what did this incident have to do with that Ralts?
Lia looked at Xilin in confusion.
Xilin immediately answered, "Lia, that differently colored Ralts was bullied so badly by her own kind that she ran away a few days ago. She hasn't come back."
"Her mother, a Gardevoir, spent a long time searching for her but never found her."
"Yesterday, that Gardevoir suddenly came back and went berserk, attacking the Ralts who used to bully her child. Then the other Gardevoir discovered what she was doing..."
Xilin could not bring herself to continue.
But everyone already understood what had happened.
Lia asked gravely, "So that Gardevoir was killed by