Shirona, who had boarded the hot-air balloon, was overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the Space-Time Tower rising above the city. Unlike the tower in Longpuxian, this tower was imposing, yet it felt perfectly at home in the city's atmosphere.
"Looking at it like this, it really is enormous."
"The view from the tower's observation deck is wonderful. It's different from what you see from the balloon."
"All right. I'd like to see it later."
"I'll show you around in a little while. First, let me give you a brief introduction to the Space-Time Tower."
Alice changed the balloon's course, moving it somewhere they could see the entire Space-Time Tower, then began to speak.
"This Space-Time Tower was designed and built by Godi, the same architect who created the garden we visited earlier. It might look like two towers standing side by side, but one is the Tower of Time and the other is the Tower of Space. I'm sure you've realized by now, but they symbolize Dialga and Palkia, the Pokémon worshipped as gods in the myths of the Sinnoh Region."
The mythical Pokémon, Dialga and Palkia. Cynthia remembered Cyrus speaking about how those two Pokémon had created this world, with its double helix of time and space.
In fact, she had seen both of them on Mount Coronet, but Shirona saw no need to mention it, so she remained silent and listened to Alice's explanation.
"The tower is actually an enormous musical instrument. When you insert something called a Soundboard into the designated slot, it plays the tune corresponding to that Soundboard."
"Oh? The tower is a musical instrument?"
"Yes. There's a mechanical tuning fork inside, and each of the records I mentioned plays a different song."
"This enormous tower is a musical instrument."
Cynthia was astonished.
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