His chest torn open, Golurk mustered one final burst of strength and threw himself directly over the fossil, pressing his chest toward Aerodactyl's heart.
Type Energy spilled out in uncontrolled chaos, and Golurk was gradually losing his life as well.
This was the second-to-last picture. Shen Qi's initial reaction was that Golurk had died for love, but on closer thought, this Pokémon probably could not come up with such a sophisticated idea.
Besides, a fossil was neither alive nor dead to begin with, so how could he die for love of it?
"He... he wanted to bring Aerodactyl to life!"
Since a soul could be bestowed upon special materials, combining Rock-type and Ghost-type energy to create Golett, who then evolved into Golurk, his rudimentary understanding was that giving the energy inside him to other stones would bring those stones to life too.
His own demise was beside the point. Golurk hoped the object he loved could possess this power and move.
In theory, of course, that was impossible. Reviving an ancient, extinct Fossil Pokémon was not as simple as stuffing energy into it, nor would extracting a soul and stuffing that inside work.
How could just any stone serve as a vessel for a soul?
But what if he had managed it?
Wasn't there still one last picture in this scroll?
Shen Qi grew a little excited. If Aerodactyl had come to life, he would be the protagonist of "Stone Bone Longing."
[Memory Image] consisted of images in his mind, in his soul. Had it been a physical book, Shen Qi's hand would certainly have trembled as he turned the page.
The final page!
Torrential rain and flash floods swept Golurk, who had crumbled without energy to sustain him, into a low-lying area along with the fossil, burying them in