"M-mess with you...?"
Dread was stunned when he heard Zekrom's words.
The ancestors of the People of the Land had forged a Contract with Zekrom, so Dread knew its power well.
Dread had also watched the livestream of the battle between the Hoenn Three Gods.
He figured that even if Zekrom couldn't match Rayquaza, surely it was no weaker than Groudon or Kyogre?
Yet today, Zekrom, with all that power, had actually told him...
They couldn't afford to mess with the human standing before them...?
Dread fell silent.
When Chen Shi kept telling him to bring Zekrom out earlier, he had assumed the boy was simply hotheaded and speaking in anger.
He hadn't expected Chen Shi to truly have nothing to fear, to the point that even Zekrom was unwilling to offend him.
Now Dread was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Chen Shi raised an eyebrow. "Why aren't you saying anything?"
"Come on. I really want to see Zekrom's Bolt Strike."
"You even know about that?" Dread was startled to hear him mention Bolt Strike.
He was certain he had only mentioned lightning earlier, not Bolt Strike.
After all, Bolt Strike was Zekrom's signature move. Aside from a handful of the People of the Land, practically no one could have known about it.
Yet this boy, the League's most outstanding prodigy, actually knew!
Chen Shi glanced at him. "There are plenty of things in this world I don't know, but there are also plenty I do."
"That includes the black and white dragons, as well as your People of the Land and the dragon vein."
Without waiting for Dread to answer, Chen Shi continued, "Before I came here, a certain prickly dragon told me that Zekrom in the Unova Region had already found its Hero of Ideals.