Those words moved Mew, the Black-Hearted Meowth, so deeply that it could no longer keep up the act. It threw itself onto the things on the ground.
[Waaah, this is wonderful! My treasures! I didn't lose you after all!]
"Look at you, acting like you've never seen anything before," Chen Shi said disdainfully.
"It's just some junk that fell off Legendary Pokémon. Do you really need to make such a fuss?"
[What do you know? It took me so much trouble to collect these!]
Mew refused to take that lying down. It admitted that Chen Shi was indeed richer than it was now.
Chen Shi could look down on it and mock it, but he couldn't look down on its treasures.
"All right, all right, you're amazing. Happy now?" Chen Shi didn't want to argue, so he gave a casual reply.
Mew grumbled inwardly, Now you're looking down on my treasures? Who was it that used to try every trick in the book to pry these things out of my paws?
After happily putting everything away, Mew flew over and lay on Chen Shi's stomach.
[Little Shi, when are we going to the World Tree Mystery Realm?]
"In a couple of days. Let me soak up the sun for two days, then we'll go."
[Can't we go now?]
[The ritual won't take long. If we go now, we can be back by noon.]
Mew wanted to try persuading him. Until Chen Shi became the World Tree Guardian, its heart would remain suspended in anxiety, refusing to settle no matter what.
Chen Shi hadn't wanted to agree at first, because he felt that something had rubbed off on him: wherever he went, trouble followed.
He was afraid that the moment he went to the World Tree, something would happen to it.