Just as everyone was marveling at how powerful the Hisui Region was, something suddenly occurred to Chen Shi. He glanced at Cynthia, then asked Professor Carolina:
"Grandma Carolina, who was the ancestor of your Temple family?"
Carolina paused, then thought it over carefully before answering, "If you mean our very first ancestor, I honestly don't know. But we have records of all our other ancestors."
"Why do you ask?"
Not getting the answer he wanted, Chen Shi was a little disappointed. Then he smiled and said:
"In the Hisui Region, I met someone who looked exactly like Cynthia."
"I almost couldn't tell them apart."
"Exactly alike?" Professor Carolina was startled and hurriedly asked, "Are you sure she looked exactly like her?"
"I'm absolutely sure!" Chen Shi said firmly.
He had been busy all this time and hadn't given it much thought.
With Cogita's appearance, he wouldn't believe she had no connection to Cynthia's Temple family even if someone beat him to death.
For all he knew, Cogita might even have founded the Temple family.
"Was there really someone who looked exactly like me?" Cynthia touched her face, looking rather bemused.
Even if the person Chen Shi mentioned was her ancestor, surely they shouldn't look exactly alike?
Chen Shi smiled and rubbed Jirachi's little head as he held the Pokémon in his arms, saying nothing more.
Jirachi's eyes darted around, and it produced an ice cream from somewhere. "Shi, where's Togekiss?"
"Togekiss!"
Before Chen Shi could answer, Togekiss impatiently burst out of its Poké Ball, hurried over, and gave the ice cream a huge lick.
"Toge, Togekiss~"
Finally tasting ice cream again after a year, Togekiss gave Jirachi a grateful look.
Sure enough, the present-day Jirachi was better.
Chen Shi shook his head with a chuckle and set Jirachi on Togekiss's