Chapter 1340: Luring the Nightmare

"Lai... Lai!?"

Darkrai woke up from its confusion and retreated vigilantly.

When it saw the group of Pokémon in the room, it didn't hesitate at all, turned into a shadow, and disappeared through the wall.

The Poryphone was taken aback. "All Baimu!"

"Don't be nervous."

All Baimu showed the Darkrai Mega Stone to it. "With this thing here, no matter how far it runs, it won't be able to stir up any waves, not to mention..."

The one who asked him for help back then was Darkrai itself.

If it wants to run, let it run.

Mew was somewhat disappointed when it saw him not chasing Darkrai. "Mew?"

"If you want to chase, you go."

All Baimu was too lazy to chase a Pokémon that could appear and disappear like a ghost; at worst, he would let Hoopa catch it back.

He subconsciously looked at Hoopa, and the latter immediately understood. "Leave it to——"

"Wait a bit, let that guy calm down; it's been manic for so many years, I estimate it's mentally abnormal."

All Baimu held down its agile hand.

Then Hoopa was tricked by Gengar into playing games.

After such a toss at night, everyone had no interest in continuing to sleep. Blissey and Ogerpon began to process the berries brought back from Nightmare Newmoon Island.

But to be honest, even if they were processed, All Baimu wouldn't dare to let any Pokémon eat them.

They definitely had to be taken to the laboratory for testing first.

Mew looked at the fact that no one was paying attention to it, turned around a few times with a strange expression, and went to pester All Baimu, who was preparing to fuse the Dread Plate into the Jewel of Life.

In the living room.

The outer shell of the Dread Plate peeled off, revealing the colorful, crystalline interior.

Sixteen plates appeared one by one like stars, and the Dread Plate swayed and merged into them, gathering seventeen types of attributes excluding the Normal type.

Just when All Baimu breathed a sigh of relief because of this, a Poké Ball placed in the bedroom suddenly opened.

Bang!

"Buzz buzz buzz——"

Regirock appeared suddenly, shrinking to two meters, walking slowly to the living room, and raising its arm.

All Baimu happened to turn his head and caught sight of the grayish-white plate on its arm.

"..."

"The eighteenth one!? Where did you get the plate?" The Poryphone was shocked; it had thought the Dread Plate would be the last one, how could there be another one in Regirock's hand?

Could it be another set from a parallel world?

At this moment, All Baimu spoke: "It's the Blank Plate."

"Blank Plate?"

Question marks appeared on the Poryphone's screen.

He replied: "Each plate represents an attribute; don't you remember that we haven't obtained the Normal-type plate?"

The Poryphone suddenly realized.

All Baimu was surprised and complicated; after all, if the text records on the back of the plates were true, Regigigas voluntarily handing over the plate was equivalent to admitting defeat?

Come to think of it, no wonder the Hyper Beam just now was so fierce.

——The plates don't need to be activated like Team Galactic; just carrying them can significantly increase the power of a Pokémon's moves.

It's 20% in the games; it's hard to say how much it can increase in the anime.

All Baimu took the plate from Regirock's hand. "Thank you, did it secretly give it to you?"

"Buzz buzz buzz~"

Regirock's tone had already given an affirmative response.

Handing it over through the Rock Pillar was indeed less embarrassing than it giving it actively or All Baimu going to ask for it.

"Mew?"

"That's right, another plate, the last——not the last one." All Baimu remembered the Legend Plate.

But it was estimated that it would be very difficult to obtain it from Arceus like Regigigas did.

He brought the plate close to the Jewel of Life, but didn't expect the gem below to light up first, growing larger in a blink of an eye and extending limbs and a head.

"Ba~~~ga~~~!"

Terapagos let out a long groan of being well-rested, opened its shining star eyes, and met the gaze of Mew, who had leaned over to touch faces out of curiosity.

The little turtle was so scared it retreated several steps, fell off the coffee table due to carelessness, and lay on its back with its four limbs swinging powerlessly. "Baga~! Baga~!"

It shouted repeatedly.

Mew was amused by it and flew around it. "Mew mew~"

"Baga!"

"Mew~"

Terapagos was helped up by Mew.

It looked at this inexplicable guy angrily, turned its head to see All Baimu, ran over along his trouser leg all the way up, occupied the high ground, and shouted at it arrogantly, "Baga~!"

Mew: "... Mew?"

What was going on with being scolded for no reason?

All Baimu didn't pay attention to these two troublemakers, gazing at the Blank Plate peeling off its grayish-white outer shell and showing its pure posture.

Eighteen shining plates swayed, gathered one by one, and merged into the Jewel of Life, making this palm-sized object shine brilliantly, and then it floated up out of thin air, flying toward All Baimu's chest amidst Terapagos's excited expression.

"Baga~!"

"Woo!"

All Baimu groaned, pulled open his collar to look at his chest, and the Jewel of Life was nowhere to be found!

He was stunned, and Terapagos was anxious.

"Baga? Baga!"

"Shh, don't shout!" All Baimu covered its mouth manually, frowning at his empty chest.

The little turtle struggled wildly, stretching its neck to find the Jewel of Life.

All Baimu had to take it off his head and aim it at his chest. "It merged in, it's gone."

"Baga..."

Terapagos was shocked, its eyes wide open.

Mew also flew over to stare at All Baimu's chest, and even swung its long, slender tail to touch it, making him itchy.

"Mew!"

"Stop mewing, this situation isn't quite right." All Baimu frowned and reached out to aim at the vase on the coffee table.

The next instant, a translucent blue Jewel of Life phantom appeared in the air, and water appeared out of thin air and fell into the vase.

The Poryphone said in surprise: "You can use the plates without the Jewel of Life now?"

"To be precise, the Jewel of Life has merged with me."

All Baimu realized that collecting the plates was purely Arceus wanting to bestow this power upon him.

But he couldn't understand why Arceus gave him this power, and he didn't have any use for it!

Could it be that some cosmic-level crisis would appear?

All Baimu felt quite chilled, threw Terapagos, who had started crying, onto the sofa. "Blissey! Come and comfort it!"

Because it had been sticking to the Jewel of Life all the time, the little turtle almost regarded it as its own thing. Now that it had lost it for no reason, Terapagos immediately became a child whose parents had given their favorite toy to a relative, crying and making a scene non-stop.

Mew circled around it, wanting to comfort it but finding it difficult to continue, and could only show a troubled expression. "Mew... Mew!"

It pulled All Baimu's clothes, wanting him to think of a way.

All Baimu was of course thinking of a way; he went to the bedroom to find Hoopa, who was playing games with Gengar, and asked it for a Jewel of Life.

Hoopa was stunned, heard the crying outside, and asked curiously: "Whitey, what's wrong outside?"

All Baimu explained: "A little friend lost something, and I don't have a spare one here, so I want to borrow one from you temporarily."

"Oh oh!"

Hoopa immediately reacted, manipulated the ring, reached its hand in, and pulled hard!

In an instant, a head popped out of the ring.

It was Baraz.

He was startled, saw the embarrassed All Baimu and the sheepish Hoopa, and said speechlessly: "What on earth are you doing?"

"Help! Need a Jewel of Life urgently! Do you have a spare one?" All Baimu put his hands together and prayed to Baraz, who only had a head.

Baraz was surprised. "Where is yours? Don't tell me you lost it!"

"It's hard to explain in a few words, it's not lost, I'll tell you the specifics after I get back, so can you give me a Jewel of Life?"

All Baimu prayed like a Buddha, listening to the increasingly loud crying outside.

Baraz sighed: "The Jewel of Life is something passed down from generation to generation in our family; logically speaking, there are no spares. But I remember the cabinet in the middle of the house..."

He explained the location of the Jewel of Life to Hoopa, and Hoopa immediately freed up another hand and grasped that Jewel of Life.

"Got it! Whitey!"

"Many thanks, I'll return it to you when I get back to Orre!" All Baimu thanked him profusely.

Before Baraz's head retracted into the ring, he warned: "Don't lose it, this is my great-grandfather's Jewel of Life."

Great-grandfather?

Which side of the family was this?

All Baimu couldn't remember for a moment; his attention was entirely on Terapagos outside.

Returning to the living room, he handed over the Jewel of Life.

When Terapagos saw it, it leaned over with teary eyes and examined it carefully. "Baga? Baga!"

Not this one!

It pushed the Jewel of Life away and continued to cry.

All Baimu reasoned with it patiently. "The original one merged with me, it really can't be found back, just make do with this one."

"Baga..."

Terapagos was depressed; it still liked the previous one.

All Baimu had the heart to scare it, but seeing how sad this guy was, his words softened when they reached his lips. "Nobody wants this kind of thing to happen, how about this, I'll make one for you myself when I get home."

"Baga?"

"A Jewel of Life specially crafted for you, belonging to Terapagos, how about that?"

Listening to his gentle tone, Terapagos knew that the matter was irreversible and could only agree sadly.

Mew breathed a sigh of relief.

It, being clever and eccentric, really didn't know how to comfort a sad Pokémon.

Especially this kind that wasn't teased to tears by it.

If it were teased to tears, it might even laugh out loud.

Seeing that Terapagos wasn't sad anymore, Hoopa went back to find Gengar to play games.

All Baimu comforted the little turtle and began to test the Jewel of Life.

He soon realized that he was now comparable to a Pokémon, able to use various attribute energies freely.

The pity was that he had to change his thinking to use this power with ease.

"Wait for Cynthia to return to the hotel, tell her a few words, and we'll go back to Mt. Silver." He said to the Poryphone and Mew.

The reason Mew stayed all along, even if it felt bored and didn't leave, was clearly also wanting to hitch a ride on Hoopa's ring.

It hadn't forgotten its purpose for going to the Orre region; it was mainly to see Mewtwo.

The Poryphone said: "Did you forget something?"

"Forget what?"

All Baimu was stunned, and then realized that one who ran away hadn't come back——

Darkrai!

He suddenly felt something and looked at the window; a ghost-like shadow was floating outside the window.

It was indeed Darkrai, who had run away from home.

It returned to the hotel room, looked at the humans and Pokémon present, and bowed sincerely in the human way.

"Tha... Thank... you..."

"Why are you still stuttering?"

All Baimu was surprised.

He had originally thought that Darkrai was too painful, which caused its speech to be stuttering all along.

It turned out to be natural?

But this was clearly telepathy, how could it stutter?

Spectrier appeared suddenly and said: "Perhaps it's an aftereffect."

"Mew——"

Before Mew could pounce on it, Spectrier disappeared again.

The reason it hid and didn't appear was because it was worried about such a little thing.

Mew was greatly disappointed. "Mew!"

Ever since it fought Spectrier last time, it had been quite curious about this guy. This time it saw that it seemed to be stronger, and immediately wanted to fight another round.

Spectrier wouldn't agree at all; it didn't want to waste energy on meaningless things.

Therefore, it kept hiding from Mew.

And Mew didn't give up even though it couldn't see Spectrier, and even became more courageous as it fought!

Causing Spectrier to be fed up with this sticky candy.

"Aftereffect..."

All Baimu's mouth twitched, looking at the humble and polite Darkrai, and his impression of it was still quite good. "It's been hard on you, being tortured by the plates and the Mega Stone."

Darkrai looked depressed and lowered its arms when it heard this. "Lai..."

It had indeed been tortured for too, too long, to the point where it went everywhere seeking help, and it took great pains to meet All Baimu and lift the runaway state through his power.

Darkrai was very grateful for this.

After going out for a cold breeze just now, letting its chaotic brain restart, it realized its own situation again.

So it returned for the first time to thank All Baimu and the other Pokémon for their help.

"Where do you come from?"

He asked the question everyone wanted to ask.

Darkrai was a bit confused. "Lai..."

It really didn't know where it came from, and didn't understand why All Baimu asked this.

The Poryphone whispered: "You asked too far beyond the syllabus; do wild Pokémon really have the concept of worlds?"

"... My mistake."

All Baimu forgot that nine out of ten wild Pokémon are illiterate.

Darkrai: "..."

Although it didn't know what they said, it felt offended.

"Mew!"

Mew glared at the Poryphone; it often observed humans secretly, so it could understand what the latter said.

At the same time, it felt that it had been affected.

The Poryphone turned away awkwardly.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything from Darkrai for a while, All Baimu asked about its plans for the future.

This asked it again.

Darkrai really didn't know what it should do next.

"Lai..."

Maybe find a warm place.

Snowpoint City was too cold.

It didn't feel anything when it was rampaging before, but now it just felt it couldn't stay here at all.

All Baimu glanced at the Poryphone. "Do you want to come to my house?"

He said it.

Pokémon popped out from the surroundings.

Everyone looked at each other, and a meaning was revealed in their eyes——"It's starting, it's starting!"

The trainer's grand plan to abduct Pokémon!

Darkrai was confused. "Lai... ee?"

"There's a huge mountain over at my place, usually no one goes there, if you don't like places with many people, you can stay there all the time. If you like places with many people, you can come."

All Baimu still had a very good impression of Darkrai.

Because this guy is really handsome!

If Cynthia was his childhood goddess, Darkrai was his childhood male god.

Although the image after Mega Evolution was a bit abstract. ===== CHAPTER 1341 =====