"Is this the ruin those Pokémon built for me?"
"It really is pretty big!"
Chen Shi surveyed the ruin and nodded in satisfaction.
After they had finished dealing with Goomy's situation, Professor Carolina suggested returning to the ruin, hoping Chen Shi could help answer a few questions.
So everyone had returned with Mew's help.
"Old Chen, look over there. They painted you as a disabled man!" Steven said, pointing at the mural in the middle.
Chen Shi glared at him. "What do you mean, a disabled man? That's a nasty way to put it."
Only then did he turn his gaze to the mural Steven was pointing at.
It depicted the moment he had first emerged with Giratina.
Cynthia explained, "Mew told me that your missing arm in this painting was probably just symbolic."
"The Pokémon felt that you'd lost Dragapult, your right-hand companion, so they painted you this way."
Chen Shi nodded slightly. "I understand."
Dragapult emerged from his shadow and stared at him resentfully.
Sure, you weren't crippled, but I went through hell.
"Heh, heh." Chen Shi chuckled awkwardly. "It's all in the past now. All in the past."
"I'll give you some more compensation later, okay~?"
"Baruya~"
(You'd better.)
Dragapult gave a soft huff.
"Shi, I'm honestly very curious. How exactly did you persuade Giratina to help?" Professor Carolina asked in puzzlement.
This was a question none of them had ever been able to figure out.
Giratina's infamy was so widespread in the Sinnoh Region that Professor Carolina had never imagined it possible.
Yet Chen Shi had actually managed to enlist Giratina's help.
"With sincerity!" Chen Shi said with a perfectly straight face.
"I appealed to reason and emotion, and in the end, my sincerity moved Giratina."
"That's why Giratina agreed to help me."
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