Who could have imagined that the Phione, nowhere to be found outside, were all hiding here?
No wonder those Pokémon Trainers had failed to find them, no matter how hard they searched.
Who could possibly find this place?
If Xia You had not been guided by that strange power, he could never have discovered it either.
It was simply too deep!
Too well hidden!
He had thought the Blessing of the Sea would hardly ever come in handy, but now it seemed quite useful indeed!
Sure enough, no being capable of bestowing blessings on others was ordinary.
After their initial tentative interactions, May soon began playing with the Phione and Manaphy.
Just playing, in the simplest, most literal sense.
Perhaps because they were somewhere familiar, these Pokémon showed no obvious resistance to the human who had cautiously ventured in. They simply gathered curiously around May, dancing through the water with her gentle movements.
The sight inevitably reminded Xia You of Ash.
After all, whether during their usual interactions or in the anime, he always saw Ash getting close to Pokémon just like this, quickly forming bonds and being accepted by these wild Pokémon.
All he could say was that May really had picked up the essence of it through traveling with Ash and observing him.
And such goodwill was naturally what May had hoped for.
He could tell that May had set her sights on one particular Manaphy.
As a true and undisputed Mythical Pokémon, Manaphy was a migratory Pokémon, generally born on the cold seabed. Though they swam from place to place, at a certain time each year, no matter how far they had traveled, they would return to the Sea of Origin where they were born.
That fit perfectly with why they were here and the various accounts