The next day.
Fang Yuan's party set off directly.
The Pokémon left behind included Mewtwo, Eevee, Monferno, Ditto, and Venusaur, as well as Victini, which had been persuaded by Eevee to stay and help with its training.
The other Pokémon, however, went traveling with Fang Yuan.
At the start of the journey, Rotom switched into workaholic mode.
Ever since it had traveled to this parallel universe, Rotom had been earnestly recording everything.
Now that Fang Yuan was about to begin his world travels, Rotom still needed to continue documenting.
Each of Fang Yuan's footprints, the training plans of every Pokémon in the team, their growth trajectories—it had to record all of it clearly!
And for this task, Rotom was already quite experienced.
On the first day Fang Yuan left the World Tree to begin his travels, the China Trainer Association was still looking for him, but Fang Yuan couldn't be bothered to show up. He left everything to Rotom to manage.
Rotom, on its part, could only take on the role of the tool reluctantly, remotely guiding the China Association in receiving knowledge about Mega Evolution, Energy Blocks, and Fossil Revival Techniques, while also urging the Association to prepare Legends Resources quickly.
That day, under Rotom's navigation, Fang Yuan and his team returned to Tongshulin Forest and roused the still-sleeping Celebi, entrusting it with the task of overseeing Darkrai.
Celebi: ٩(ˊ〇ˋ*)و
"Well... our task is basically complete, and you seem to have rested enough. Since you're not doing anything else, how about you help Darkrai with its control over the Force of Time, how does that sound?" Fang Yuan said this seriously, looking at the creature with heavy black circles under its pale blue eyes.
"Celebi...??"
Celebi yawned and then suddenly froze in surprise.
The task Fang Yuan had in this universe... was already complete?
That was much quicker than Celebi had expected.
However, instead of asking to return to the original universe, Fang Yuan came to it to entrust Darkrai. What was this all about?
Moreover, he actually wanted it to teach Darkrai the Force of Time... Don't ask for the impossible, please!
Celebi: (っ`-´c)
If it weren't for the fact that Fang Yuan was related to the World Tree Dreams and was a special person tasked with maintaining the stability of space-time, Celebi would have just turned away and left.
Unfortunately, those identities made Fang Yuan confident in delegating this task to Celebi, saying, "Darkrai is quite talented. You just need to supervise and give guidance. If it really doesn't work out, you can take it on a few time travels to let it comprehend on its own."
"As for us, although our task is essentially complete, I still need some time to finish finalizing things, about a month. You just need to help train for one month... After that, I won't bother you anymore."
Celebi: *whine*
Such a hassle...
Reluctant.
"No good... Hmm, it seems I'll have to go ask 'Mewtwo' instead." Fang Yuan murmured to himself.
Hmm?
Mewtwo?
Upon hearing Fang Yuan mention Mewtwo, Celebi was instantly startled.
That was when it remembered, one of Fang Yuan's goals coming to this universe was to resolve the Mewtwo crisis.
Although Mewtwo was new to being a Legendary Pokémon, its power was something Celebi couldn't contend with.
Celebi might be powerful, but its strength was average, especially now that it had lost contact with its counterpart in a parallel universe, thus losing its ability to revive and becoming even more vulnerable.
It's precisely for this reason that Celebi was unwilling to join Fang Yuan in the risky venture of the Mewtwo crisis.
If initially Celebi was reluctant due to cowardice and descriptions from future seniors, then a subsequent experience had completely frightened Celebi of Mewtwo.
During its time asleep, Celebi had a discreet foretelling confrontation with Mewtwo.
Before the Mewtwo crisis unfolded, many humans and Pokémon attempted to prophesize the future. Being a master of the Force of Time, Celebi naturally noticed this.
Driven by curiosity, it followed the thread of time prophecy to investigate and collided directly with the precognitive power of Mewtwo, resulting in a clash.
Although it managed to escape unscathed, the process had truly scared Celebi.
Why did this Pokémon named Mewtwo possess such formidable Time Force??
Didn't this mean that even with its ability to traverse space-time, Mewtwo could potentially intercept it in advance?
No, that was too scary. At that moment, Celebi chickened out, allowing other beings to make prophecies while it fell back to sleep.
What Celebi did not know was that this very collision accidentally saved the Second Generation Lilac Master who was trying to prophesize, helping her to fend off Mewtwo who had come after her.
But Celebi didn't care about all these things. All it could think about now was that before it could contact its parallel universe counterpart and regain its revival ability, it absolutely must not seek death!
In Celebi's eyes, Mewtwo was clearly a dangerous creature.
Now, hearing Fang Yuan mention Mewtwo, Celebi suddenly recollected the incident.
Something's not right.
So terrifying was that Mewtwo, how could Fang Yuan have resolved the crisis of the Mewtwo game so smoothly?
Or was it that Mewtwo strictly honored promises, and after its subordinate Pokémon lost, it just left?
But no, that didn't add up.
From what Fang Yuan had just said, he clearly knew Mewtwo!!
What had happened during its sleep?
What was the status of the Mewtwo game?
"Celebi (Mewtwo??)??"
Celebi immediately asked in haste.
It inquired about the result of the Mewtwo game with Fang Yuan.