Chapter 1246: The Truth of the Past_3

“When Marshadow followed the Spirit Realm’s entrance to find him, he had already passed away, and the Rainbow-colored Feather turned to ashes following the Rainbow Hero’s death. To save Long He, it carried the body containing most of Long He’s soul to the Sacred Forest to seek Celebi, but it was no longer there. It had no choice but to return to the place where Ho-Oh might come, waiting for it to save Long He.

“Unexpectedly, it waited for decades, and finally, when Ho-Oh passed over the skies of Ore, it used Long He’s example of sacrificing himself to save others to entice Ho-Oh to grant him a second Rainbow-colored Feather with enormous power to help resurrect Long He. But it failed.

“It believed it was because too much time had passed, and the soul in the remains had dissipated too much and no longer had the ability to resurrect until a beam of light came down, reshaping the ashes into a baby. But it knew that Long He was no longer Long He, so it sent the baby… named Baimu to Pyrite Town, secretly guarding him until a certain age before leaving.”

Shanren asked puzzledly, “Since Marshadow is the Pokémon guiding the Rainbow Hero, why didn’t it directly seek Ho-Oh but chose to wait instead?”

Marshadow seemed to understand him, shaking its head slightly, “Ma-si, ma-si!”

“It said that it also searched for Ho-Oh using the Rainbow-colored Feather, with a slight sensitivity to places Ho-Oh might go. The deceased Long He was no longer the Rainbow Hero, so it couldn’t actively find Ho-Oh, and the more you seek Ho-Oh, the less likely you are to see it.”

Furong didn’t know how to describe this tragedy.

She looked at Banette, said, “Marshadow told Banette to block the Spirit Realm entrance to prevent fragmented souls from returning to the Spirit Realm, doing so to keep the fragments of Long He’s soul from leaving.”

Baimu recalled the scene in his dream earlier, which prominently featured parts of Long He.

Once a person dies, the soul begins to slowly lose memory. If it can’t reach the Spirit Realm promptly, it becomes a lost soul with only a small portion of memory.

The dome.

The Spirit Realm entrance without a Gatekeeper Pokémon was shrinking step by step with a large number of lost souls, and was about to disappear soon.

The purpose of this trip has already been achieved, but everyone present and all the Pokémon looked at the disoriented Banette with a complex feeling in their hearts.

Suddenly.

Banette jumped up fiercely, as if returning to the Spirit Realm entrance.

Baimu quickly caught it, “Don’t do this! Banette!”

“Let go of me! I want to wait for him to come back! Long He hasn’t returned! You’re not him! You’re all liars! Marshadow is also a liar! Let go of me!”

Banette cried out, struggling hard.

But to break out of the Spirit Realm entrance, it wasted too much energy, unable even to jump out of Baimu’s human embrace or mobilize any Attribute Energy.

Baimu opened his mouth to say something, but several roars suddenly came from behind.

“Sha-ho!”

“Lai-oh!”

“Chu-loo!”

Everyone turned back to see Hoopa opening the Light Wheel, guiding from inside Long He’s Salamence, Flygon, and Altaria.

In their weakened state, they roared at Banette with great effort, their expressions particularly solemn but not blaming.

Hearing their roars, Banette gave up struggling and began to weep softly.

Porygon II told him.

Salamence and the others were trying to make Banette accept Long He’s passing.

Baimu heard this, his gaze trembling as he looked at those three Dragon-type Pokémon, opening his mouth but unable to produce any sound.

They couldn’t even see Long He one last time…

Forced to accept the Trainer’s death.

This, truly, had to be an unimaginably painful thing.