Everyone wore the same expression at Xia You's claim that he had gone for a walk-disbelief.
Ash curled his lip. "You're lying. We all saw it just now. Only you could cause such a huge commotion so far away!"
They had seen it?
But on second thought, that made sense. The weather was clear, it was daytime, and the battle had taken place over the sea, with nothing blocking the view from here. It was perfectly normal for them to have seen it.
Even if they had looked, though, they had probably only seen a huge bank of clouds, certainly not any specific details. But at the very least, they must have heard the constant booming of the moves.
And since they knew, that changed things.
Besides, Ash was right. The commotion just now really had been considerable, and apart from him, hardly any Pokémon Trainer around a "starting town" like this had the strength to produce a battle on that scale.
Xia You spread his hands and smiled nonchalantly. "That's why I just said I ran into a little situation."
"So to you, a little situation means a battle on that scale?" Ash was long used to Xia You's evasiveness and hurried to press him. "So who exactly were you fighting just now?"
Xia You looked around at everyone in the room.
He could tell that everyone was equally curious about whom he had been fighting. Professor Juniper, Makomo, and Bianca, who had spent relatively little time with him, looked particularly curious.
As for Xia You, he knew what sort of people they were. They were all decent people with no ill intentions, and now they were all his friends, so there was no need to hide anything.
After all, he had only fought Zekrom, not caught him to