"Have you found the way?"
"I was about to ask you. Did you find anything upstairs?"
"Ugh, I'm freezing to death! What are the higher-ups thinking? Why can't they use a more efficient way to search? Do they really have to make us search by hand?"
Inside a medieval castle called Almia Ancient City, several Team Dim Sun grunts huddled together for warmth.
Shi, one of Team Dim Sun's three executives, had brought them all here to search for the blue crystal said in legends to be capable of countering the Dark Crystal.
That crystal was called "The Youngest Prince's Tears," and it was hidden somewhere in Almia Ancient City.
It matched that line from the story: "The third prince went nowhere and remained in the castle-"
One grunt rubbed his hands together, muttering through his shivers, "What the heck is this lousy clue supposed to mean? It only says it's in the castle. Why didn't it mention all the ice blocking our way and the doors that won't open?"
The Team Dim Sun grunts were nearly driven mad. The only route from Cold Wind Valley to Almia Ancient City was a waterway across the Lake of Ice.
They had rowed a boat across the river in this freezing weather to get here, and this godforsaken place didn't even have a single wild Pokémon they could control with their devices.
They could only conduct an exhaustive search by hand. Not only was it inefficient, but the surroundings were also about to freeze them to death.
Unable to bear the cold any longer, they had torn down one of the castle's wooden doors and lit it to build a fire.
Executive Shi had wandered off somewhere anyway. With no one supervising them, why bother working? Time to slack off!
"Here, I