Chu Xin tossed his coin into the lake, then silently made his wish. Of course, he wished to meet Azelf. If Azelf really heard his wish from within the lake, perhaps it would appear before him. After all, he had a stone imbued with Azelf's power!
But even after Chu Xin waited for ages, there was no movement in Wish Lake.
"Ah, forget it. Looks like my wish didn't come true."
"Didn't they say you had to go back and wait a while? How could your wish come true as soon as you made it?"
Bai Le explained this to Chu Xin with a puzzled look, but Chu Xin already knew how the Wish Core worked. He had merely hoped that making a wish would attract the attention of Azelf, one of the Lake Guardians in the lake. Now, however, it seemed his idea had failed.
"It's fine. We've seen what this wishing business is all about, so let's head back. There are way too many mosquitoes here."
After chatting with Bai Le for a while, Chu Xin left with him. The scenery in Forest Park was indeed lovely, but there were far too many mosquitoes around. No matter how beautiful the scenery was, their constant pestering left him in no mood to appreciate it.
Just after Chu Xin and Bai Le left Wish Lake, the pink Pokémon Mesprit surfaced, holding Chu Xin's coin.
Mesprit clasped the coin in her palm, and a surge of emotional energy flowed from it into her body. She had deliberately spread the legend of Wish Lake to entice tourists into tossing coins imbued with their wishes into the water.
These coins, filled with the tourists' wishes, contained their emotional energy-the finest nourishment Mesprit could ask for.
As Mesprit sensed the coin Chu Xin had