Hearing the Chi-yu's words, Amethio and the other two snapped out of their dazed state instantly.
They immediately summoned Corviknight and Skarmory, flying off toward the distant sky.
At the same time, their minds were filled with frantic complaints.
'Seriously?'
'This is the so-called calamity Pokémon? That's way too shameless!'
Just a moment ago, it was talking about wiping out all enemies in the world, rebuilding the Paldea Kingdom, and going on about being beneath one person but above ten thousand others.
And now, not even five minutes later, it's scrambling to become the other party's lackey… no, fish lackey.
The worst part is, just to become a fish lackey, it even wants to sacrifice them?
Amethio knew it, 'This thing is completely unreliable!'
While they were fleeing, a faint glimmer flashed in the Chi-yu's pitch-black pupils. The jade pendant on its eyelids flickered, and light instantly spread over Axel, Raifort, and their Pokémon.
In the next moment, flames of jealousy ignited fiercely, appearing out of thin air in the surrounding environment.
Under the corrosion of these flames, the nearby ground instantly turned into nothingness, transforming into a river of molten lava.
The Chi-yu drifted leisurely through the magma, in no hurry at all to chase after Amethio and the others.
After Amethio and his group had run over two hundred meters away, the Chi-yu blinked lightly, and the power of jealousy spread outward with it as the center.
In the next instant, something extremely bizarre happened.
Hundreds of meters away, flames suddenly burst out from the mouths, eyes, and other openings of the two Explorer Team subordinates, and their entire bodies ignited in an instant.
Spontaneous combustion.
After doing all that, the Chi-yu looked at Axel eagerly, its tone full of excitement.
["See? I told you I didn't want to hurt you just now, right?"]
["When I reveal my true form, as long as I want to harm someone, it will trigger the flames of jealousy inside them and make them combust."]
["You didn't have any abnormal reaction just now, which proves I had no intention of harming you!"]
"Do you want to take a look at the three of them?", Axel said faintly, pointing in Amethio's direction.
It was true that the two subordinates were on fire, but Amethio wasn't.
Not only was he not burning, even his clothes weren't scorched at all. It was as if the power that ignited jealousy had deliberately bypassed him and specifically targeted the two subordinates beside him.
["Huh?",] Following the direction Axel pointed, the Chi-yu's bulging eyes widened even more.
'That shouldn't be!'
As a calamity Pokémon that was born with control over the flames of jealousy, its power had almost never failed.
As long as there was jealousy in someone, they would be ignited by the power of jealousy. That was an ironclad rule.
Especially when facing villains or hypocrites, the effect would be even more pronounced.
'But why isn't this guy burning?'
'No way… this has to be fake!'
Seeing the Chi-yu freeze, Axel deliberately let out a cold laugh, "See? I knew you weren't being honest."
"You're trying to harm him right now, and yet he's perfectly fine."
The Chi-yu froze, "I… I didn't try to harm him?"
Axel's sneer deepened, "You just said you wanted to follow me, and now you're going easy on my command?"
"Giratina, kill this liar!"
Chi-yu: "..."
If it had known that after wreaking havoc in the ancient kingdom, its first awakening would run into someone this moody and impossible to read, it would've just followed that king back then.
"Well then…", Sensing the Chi-yu's urgency, Axel felt it was about enough and decided not to keep pressing it.
As someone with top-tier Psychic attributes, Axel's mental power was practically at the highest level in the Pokémon world.
He could clearly see that strands of black energy had indeed emerged from the Chi-yu, separately enveloping Amethio and his two subordinates.
It was just that Amethio wasn't affected. This situation was actually easy to understand, because not everyone harbors jealousy.
Amethio was fairly handsome. Compared to Axel, he was only 99% behind, and his strength wasn't bad either. (In Axel's heart, of course, none of them could compare to the readers, ahem~)
For someone like this, a favored child of heaven, even if he joined a villain organization, it would be hard for him to develop feelings of jealousy.
The reason Axel chose to pressure the Chi-yu a bit was mainly to see what other benefits he could get from it… such as the locations of the other three calamity Pokémon.
The moment he saw the Chi-yu's power, a bold idea had already formed in Axel's mind.
The power of jealousy's flames was also a form of emotion. It was a lower-tier power compared to Gardevoir's psychic abilities, but not entirely inferior.
Because Gardevoir's emotional power only affected living beings themselves, while the Chi-yu's emotions affected the environment.
If he could obtain this kind of power, Gardevoir's abilities might be strengthened once again.
Especially in terms of area attacks, it might even surpass Giratina, Groudon, and other T1-level Pokémon in one leap, becoming a true ace on par with Rayquaza and Mewtwo.
Even if the Chi-yu's power alone wasn't enough, there were still the other three calamity Pokémon.
Thinking about Gardevoir's bright future, Axel paused, then continued speaking to the Chi-yu, "I'm not someone who holds grudges. I'll let go of the fact that you tried to kill me earlier. You just need to provide some information that's useful to me, and we'll call it even."
Some things Axel couldn't say outright, so he could only let the Chi-yu figure it out on its own.
Otherwise, wouldn't he be no different from that foolish king of Paldea?
The Chi-yu looked completely confused. It really hadn't tried to kill Axel, it had just wanted to rule the world.
So why couldn't this matter be let go?
And besides, it had been sealed for so many years. What information could it possibly have?
For a moment, the Chi-yu stared with its bulging eyes, like a little goldfish that had lost all its dreams, completely devoid of hope.
Seeing the Chi-yu in this lifeless state, completely unable to grasp his meaning, and Giratina beside him staring fiercely at it as if ready to bite it to death at any moment, Axel twitched his mouth.
'Damn it, looks like you really can't do without experienced old-timers like the Black and White Dragons here.'
If either of the two dragons were present right now, they would've immediately understood his meaning and shouted, ("How dare you! Hurry up and reveal your companions' locations as compensation for the mental distress caused to our lord!")
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