Chapter 193: Birthplace

"Bi?"

Celebi asked with interest: 【Why do you want to enter that secret realm?】

Being able to flip through the forest's memories, it naturally knew that the villain from just before had been talking about opening the secret realm to control Yveltal.

Therefore, at least one First-Class Legendary deity must reside in the secret realm above.

Setting aside why that villain was so certain Yveltal was in the secret realm above, what was Su Hao's purpose in wanting to enter?

Su Hao looked troubled; this was not easy to explain.

"Um... Celebi, do you know Diancie?"

【I roughly know, but Diancie is not in this secret realm, you know?】

According to what Celebi knew, the secret realm where the current Queen Diancie of this timeline resided was not here.

Articuno lay to the side, eyes closed in rest; it had already seen Su Hao's Carbink, which was currently mutating in the direction of Diancie.

【Let Celebi take a look at the Carbink, and it will understand.】 Articuno reminded.

"Bi?"

Celebi admitted that Su Hao had successfully caught its attention.

Whether it was making that Articuno—which in its impression had a very irritable temper and didn't resemble an Ice-type Pokémon at all—obediently enter a Poké Ball,

or the Viridian Force of unknown origin within his body, or the idea of wanting to enter the large secret realm above,

all made it feel that it could stay to watch the show before heading to the future.

Su Hao took the Luxury Ball at the front of his special belt; this was Carbink's Poké Ball.

A red light flashed, and Carbink, which had been steadily increasing its mutation progress since leaving Wuling Village, appeared in Celebi's line of sight.

Looking at the Carbink before it, whose diamonds all over its body were now almost indistinguishable from the pink diamonds on Diancie, Celebi understood Su Hao's purpose.

This unopened secret realm contained the God of Death, Yveltal. Logically speaking, even if Yveltal were sleeping in the state of a Cocoon of Destruction, the power of death would constantly devour all life in the surroundings, never stopping.

But if Yveltal were the only deity in this secret realm, no matter how vast the scale of this secret realm was, how could it not have finished eroding the secret realm after hundreds of years with Yveltal's power?

Once there was no life left inside the secret realm for Yveltal's death energy to devour, the death energy would break through the secret realm's spatial confinement and enter the real world.

Without a doubt, there was currently another deity inside the secret realm who held authority related to life, suppressing it, or perhaps sacrificing itself so that the death energy overflowing from the Cocoon of Destruction could not spread out.

All clues pointed to one deity.

Xerneas!

One of the deities holding the authority of life; it is said that when it enters active mode and the large horns on its head flash with seven-colored light, it bestows eternal life upon people or Pokémon.

Celebi had heard that the first-generation Queen Diancie was influenced by Xerneas's exclusive ability—Fairy Aura—and mutated from a Carbink into the first-generation Queen Diancie.

Su Hao's Carbink was now only a step away from mutating into Diancie, so it was understandable that he would want to go into the secret realm to find Xerneas.

However, logically speaking, the current Queen Diancie was in the prime of her life, and there was still a long time before she would naturally pass away.

The authority exclusive to Diancie was also being held by the current Queen Diancie, so why would this Carbink be mutating toward Diancie?

Celebi did not understand; it couldn't be that this Carbink was born beside Xerneas and had been receiving Xerneas's conscious Fairy Aura modification the whole time, right?

Su Hao repeated to Celebi the explanation he had given Articuno about Carbink's origin.

"Bi~"

【Understood, are we going in now?】

Celebi suddenly realized; it hadn't expected that this Carbink might truly come from this secret realm.