At the name Zekrom, the table fell silent for a moment.
Dawn, Cheryl, and Makomo all stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes to the elderly woman.
Clearly, they shared Xia You's confusion.
How did this old woman know?
After all... none of them had mentioned it, and it had been a long time.
Looking at the kindly, gray-haired old woman before him, Xia You was momentarily taken aback as well.
He had thought she meant the Dragonite he carried with him. As for the ancient aura, she might have meant Rayquaza.
He had just been thinking that sensing Dragonite's presence through a Poké Ball was quite impressive.
But he had never expected her to mean Zekrom...
Still, that was hardly strange. Compared with an equally ancient Pokémon like Rayquaza, Unova was, after all, the territory of Zekrom and Kyurem. Even when people here spoke of an ancient aura, they could only mean them, and would not think of Rayquaza.
But...
She could actually sense Zekrom's aura?
Seeing his expression, the old woman smiled softly, as though she knew what he was thinking.
"It seems I was right." As she spoke, she slowly sat down in the empty chair beside them. "I may look like this now, but I traveled when I was young too. I went to many places and met many people and Pokémon. I also met Zekrom and had dealings with it, so I've always been rather sensitive to its aura, and I have my own way of recognizing it."
Xia You truly was surprised.
He was surprised that she really was no ordinary person, and that this old woman had actually had dealings with Zekrom.
Of course, what surprised him most was that, after so much time, this person before him could still tell