At this moment, Ishihara hastily put on his clothes in the living room.
He walked over to the mysterious figure standing by the window and looked up at the two Pokemon intertwined in the sky alongside him, asking in astonishment, "What on earth are those Pokemon!!"
Naoki didn't turn around: "That's Giratina, the netizen you were arguing with on the Pokemon Forum. Your replies angered it, so it came."
Ishihara: "?"
He was completely bewildered.
Could Pokemon... also use Rotom Phones to go online?
At this moment, he heard the mysterious figure in front of him continue: "Giratina is also a [god] of your Sinnoh Region, born alongside Dialga and Palkia."
"Unlike Dialga and Palkia, who govern time and space, Giratina oversees the shadows of the world, maintaining its balance. It is also a very great [god]."
"It's just that its world is located on the reverse side of the one we live in, and it seldom appears before humans like Dialga and Palkia do."
As a forgotten god, Giratina wishes it could receive the same treatment as Dialga and Palkia.
They were born at the same time, each responsible for watching over different aspects of the world. It would be too unfair if only Giratina were forgotten.
That would only increase its resentment.
Hearing these words, Ishihara was stunned.
He didn't have time to ponder why Pokemon would play with phones, nor who the man before him truly was.
He only knew that it was his taunting replies that angered the Pokemon...
Naoki shook his head and said, "You don't need to worry, since you didn't know before today."
"I..." Ishihara was at a loss for words.
Meanwhile, the battle in the sky was reaching its conclusion.
The battle seemed to have ended without a clear winner. After one last collision, the two balls of light began plummeting toward the ground.
Seeing this, Naoki immediately wanted to go down and check.
But he had come in a hurry this time, without any other Pokemon.
At this moment, Ishihara took out a Poke Ball.
"Let my Staraptor take you there!"
Ishihara released two Pokemon, a Staraptor and a Murkrow.
He mounted the Murkrow, while Naoki mounted the Staraptor.
"Thank you," he said, expressing gratitude to the unfortunate man, and then flew towards the place where Koraidon and Giratina had fallen with the help of the two Pokemon.
The place was on a plain outside of Eterna City.
When Naoki arrived there, both Koraidon and Giratina were standing on the ground, covered in wounds, staring at each other from a distance.
Seeing this, Naoki was filled with astonishment.
Could his Koraidon really be so strong? It could even arm-wrestle with Giratina?
"Agh..." Koraidon looked despondently at Naoki, appearing somewhat dejected.
Naoki could roughly guess Koraidon's thoughts and reached out to pat its head in comfort.
"You did very well."
After speaking, Naoki looked towards the silent Giratina.
He hesitated about whether he should retrieve Giratina's Rotom Phone...
If the phone remained in Giratina's possession, perhaps incidents of traveling through the internet to hit people would occur in the future.
Giratina also silently looked at Naoki with its blood-red eyes.
It remained silent and didn't speak either.
"I'm sorry!" Ishihara's voice came.
Naoki turned to see him running up to Giratina, sincerely apologizing:
"I'm sorry, Giratina! This was my fault! Before today, I didn't know about you or that you were maintaining the world's balance, so please forgive me! I will never do such a thing again!"
Ishihara bowed deeply, apologizing to Giratina.
Giratina silently looked at this human for a few moments, then turned away, ignoring Naoki and Koraidon, and opened the entrance to the Reversed World before flying in.
The Rotom belonging to Giratina showed a worried expression, glancing around before following Giratina into the Reversed World.
The vortex slowly closed, leaving Naoki and Koraidon in the Sinnoh Region, far from the Paldea Region.
Naoki: "..."
Koraidon also looked helpless: "Agh..."
Naoki checked Koraidon's injuries, then went to the Pokemon Center in Eterna City, asking Miss Joy there to help heal Koraidon.
Once Koraidon had recovered, Naoki climbed onto its back, preparing to return to the Paldea Region as quickly as possible to check on Giratina.
Before leaving, Ishihara hesitantly called out to him.
"Hey, um... could I ask for your name?"
This mysterious man seemed to know so much about the secrets of the Sinnoh Region.
The relationship between Giratina, Dialga, and Palkia—these are things that even historians who specialize in legends in the Sinnoh Region might not know, right?
Who exactly is this man? And what about that mysterious Pokemon...
Ishihara looked at the crimson Pokemon full of wildness.
Naoki turned back to glance at him and said, "I'm Naoki."
"Also, try to avoid getting into conflicts online in the future!"
With that, Naoki turned around and left the Sinnoh Region on Koraidon.
*
The emergence of a mysterious Pokemon in Eterna City and the ensuing intense battle in the sky immediately caught the attention of the Sinnoh League.
The two terrifying Pokemon had left the people of Eterna City in a state of panic.
In this situation, Cynthia, the reigning Champion of the Sinnoh Region, arrived in Eterna City to investigate.
Unfortunately, she discovered nothing.
Until a passionate citizen named Ishihara arrived, providing information about the incident.
"That Pokemon was Giratina, born at the same time as Dialga and Palkia. Giratina resides on the reverse side of the world, always guarding that place and maintaining the world's balance! This was told to me by a mysterious man named Naoki! His Pokemon even had a fierce battle with Giratina!"
Upon hearing these words and that name, Cynthia was slightly taken aback.
Naoki... was it the same Naoki she had met once before?
Cynthia recalled her brief encounter with him at a banquet in the Unova Region.
That man was so knowledgeable about the legends of the Sinnoh Region...
Cynthia thought back to the ancient murals she had seen in the Celestic Town ruins.
The scenes depicted on those murals suggested that the gods of the Sinnoh Region weren't just Dialga and Palkia.
But despite her investigations, Cynthia had never found any further clues.
After some cool-headed reflection, Cynthia suddenly felt it was necessary to visit the Paldea Region.
Cynthia left.
Meanwhile, Ishihara returned to his newly rented house.
His previous house had been severely damaged by Giratina, and until it was repaired, it was uninhabitable.
Sitting on the toilet, he opened his Rotom Phone and logged onto the Pokemon Forum.
The comments Giratina had replied to were still preserved in the comment section.
Ishihara clicked on the profile of the user named [Giratina the Greatest in the World], silently staring at the sparse content there.
Even after experiencing it firsthand, he still found it hard to believe that a Pokemon could use a Rotom Phone and surf the internet!
But without a doubt, this account belonged to Giratina, the internet-savvy Pokemon that was also the Legendary Pokemon of their Sinnoh Region, born alongside Dialga and Palkia.
Realizing this, Ishihara deleted his combatively toned comments and, as if driven by a strange impulse, clicked the follow button.
In the next second, the follower count on [Giratina the Greatest in the World]'s profile shifted from zero to one.