Chapter 1289: A Time of Reunion

The Victini from the past vanished, and the Victini from the future probably doesn’t have the memories of the time spent with them, right?

Naoki didn’t know, but life still went on.

Mew and Teddiursa took a long time to come to terms with this.

Eventually, they decided to make another trip to Eindoak in the Unova Region to look for Victini.

The two Pokemon left, and life on the ranch soon returned to tranquility.

On weekdays, Naoki would go to work at the Gym, and on weekends he would stay home to accompany his Pokemon and wife.

But one day, on an ordinary day, a visitor suddenly arrived at the ranch.

That afternoon, Naoki had just finished work and returned home from Levincia City, when he saw a familiar figure in his house.

A petite body, the signature “V”-shaped ears, and those beautiful blue eyes.

It was… Victini?!

Naoki was instantly stunned on the spot.

Upon seeing Victini, Lono was also drawn over, while Koraidon only had a look on its face as if it had known all along.

“Nini~!”

Victini let out a joyful growl.

Immediately, it flew forward, arriving right in front of Naoki.

“Do you remember me?” Naoki tentatively asked.

“Nini!” Victini immediately replied affirmatively.

It had always been Victini! After disappearing in the past, the next time it woke, it found itself back in Eindoak, with an additional set of memories in its mind.

Besides the memory of meeting the Heroic Expedition Team and returning to the past with Naoki’s Helping Hand to save the Old King, there was also the memory of seeing its future self return to help the Old King.

Victini didn’t know how to express it.

Anyway… it all felt so magical!

Upon hearing this, Naoki quickly understood.

Victini’s memory had been corrected! Just like Arceus did initially!

It hadn’t disappeared; it had simply returned to Eindoak of the future!

“Nini…”

Victini began pitifully recounting its woes.

After returning, it wanted to go to the ranch to find Naoki, Mew, and Teddiursa, but last time it came sitting on Dragonite, it didn’t know the way to the ranch.

Thus, it hit many snags and got lost for a long time before gratefully encountering a migrating Kilowattrel, from which it learned the location of Naoki Ranch.

And that Kilowattrel had visited the Pokemon Tavern at Naoki Ranch as a guest multiple times.

“That’s great.” Naoki breathed a sigh of relief to himself and muttered, then suddenly remembered something and hurriedly asked, “By the way, did you see Mew and Teddiursa?”

“Nini?” Victini was somewhat confused.

Naoki explained: “A few days ago, they didn’t believe you’d disappeared, so they decided to set off for Eindoak to look for you. By now, they should already be there, right?”

“Nini…” Victini shook its head, quickly indicating it hadn’t met them.

“I see.” Naoki nodded.

It seemed that when Mew and Teddiursa went to Eindoak, Victini had just left there heading towards the ranch.

They had just missed each other.

“I need to inform Mew and Teddiursa about this.” Naoki said while pulling out the Rotom Phone: “They’ll definitely be very happy to know!”

Very soon, the call connected and, as Naoki had anticipated, Mew and Teddiursa were sitting on the Sword of the Earth with a sad expression.

“miu?”

“Yimu?”

Upon seeing Naoki, the two Pokemon asked what had happened.

Naoki smiled and said: “Guess who came to the ranch?”

As soon as the words fell, Victini flew up to the camera and greeted the two Pokemon excitedly.

“Nini!”

Mew and Teddiursa’s eyes lit up in an instant.

“miu!”

“Yimu!”

“Victini is fine. The reason you couldn’t find it at Eindoak is because it had just set off for the ranch, and coincidentally missed you.” Naoki said.

Mew and Teddiursa were very excited and promptly flew up, declaring that they would return to the ranch right away!

“Alright, we’ll be waiting for you here.” Naoki said.

The call ended, and Naoki invited Victini to have a plate of small biscuits at Calyrex’s tea party.

Victini’s cheeks puffed as it ate, and it kept narrating the events that transpired afterward to Naoki.

As it turned out, after Naoki and the others left, the two princes finally came to their senses, regretting the consequences caused.

They returned to the castle, both withdrew from the election for kingship, and after deep reflection, handed over the two stones transformed from dragons to their father, the Old King, for safekeeping.

Later, the Old King grew old and passed away.

Before leaving this world, he gave the two stones to Victini, entrusting it with their guardianship, hoping that Victini would give them to a certain traveler in the future.

Because the Old King believed that person was kind, willing to traverse time and space to help Victini and single-handedly stop the two dragons.

The Old King wished that no one would misuse the powers of the two dragons for conflict again.

“Nini…”

As Victini spoke, it patted itself down, leading to a miraculous scene: from somewhere it produced two stones.

Those were two round stones, one as black as the deep night, the other as pure white as the brightest daylight.