Chapter 415: Attacking Through the Internet Cable

Chapter 415: Attacking Through the Internet Cable

Naoki was completely stunned when he received a call from Rotom.

What was going on?

Was Dialga really going to attack someone through an internet cable? Did he hear that right?

"It's true, Naoki!" Rotom said as it activated the video communication.

The next second, Naoki saw Dialga's massive figure flying through a destroyed world on Rotom's phone screen.

The surrounding Sky Islands sped backwards, and Dialga was surrounded by black aura, clearly in a state of extreme anger.

Naoki's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately called out to Garchomp and jumped into the Reverse World to chase after Dialga, while asking Rotom for more details.

According to Rotom's explanation, Naoki learned that Dialga had asked it to search for legendary Pokemon in the Sinnoh region. Upon learning that it wasn't there, an unknown netizen had provoked it.

All of this had directly caused the irritable dragon to fly into a rage, and it was now planning to teach that unknown netizen a lesson.

Seeming to feel that words couldn't express what had just happened, Rotom directly sent a screenshot of the comment to Naoki.

After reading it, Naoki was left speechless.

The guy on the other end probably never expected that the one he was arguing with was such a Pokemon...

But the most important thing now was to catch up to Dialga and stop its plan, or the consequences would be unimaginable!

Naoki suddenly felt a headache as he recalled how Dialga had unleashed its powerful attacks on him for hours in the past.

That irritable, vengeful, and petty dragon!

Dialga was already out of sight, but with the help of Rotom's phone's positioning function, Naoki could see that Dialga was moving at an extraordinarily fast speed towards the distance.

"Garchomp, speed up!" Naoki ordered.

"Garoch!"

Garchomp seemed to sense the seriousness of the situation as well. It responded and started flying with all its might.

Their speed was ridiculously fast, and the surrounding scenery instantly became a blur. Even Naoki's robust physique, strengthened by drinking life sheep milk, struggled to endure the speed.

But now was obviously not the time to worry about such things.

Naoki kept his eyes fixed on the little red dot on the screen. As Garchomp accelerated, the distance between the two red dots was slowly narrowing.

Compared to Garchomp going all out, Dialga's speed hadn't decreased much, plus the Reverse World was its domain, allowing Dialga to move through it as it pleased.

It was like a ghost, swiftly moving through the destroyed space.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

The originally disordered space around them became more chaotic as Dialga flew through it.

Just as the two Pokemon were about to get closer, a purple vortex suddenly appeared in front of Dialga, and it disappeared into the vortex the next second.

When Naoki checked Rotom's positioning, he found that the distance between the two Pokemon had suddenly increased to a very remote distance.

That was probably the distance from the Sinnoh region to the Hisui region!

Naoki couldn't help but curse in his mind. Was this the power of the ruler of the Reverse World? The ability to move freely within it?

Realizing that he might not be able to catch up to Dialga anytime soon, Naoki could only try to communicate with it through Rotom's phone and let Garchomp continue the pursuit.

Sensing Naoki's intention, Rotom, who had been riding on Dialga's back, plucked up its courage and climbed to the top of Dialga's head.

Then, Naoki's voice came out from Rotom's device.

"Dialga, stop right now!"

Dialga roared angrily, "Don't stop me! I'm going to teach that bold human a lesson!"

Seemingly afraid that Naoki would use something else to threaten it, Dialga directly ordered Rotom to hang up the call and ignore Naoki.

Rotom trembled and obeyed.

But it didn't turn off its real-time location.

Dialga was pleased to see Rotom being so obedient, and it said, "Don't be afraid! Stay by my side, and I'll protect you from now on. No one will dare to bully you!"

Rotom was touched, but it still kept the positioning function on.

At the same time, Dialga looked at the void in front of it, grinning maliciously.

It had arrived!

That despicable human, Dialga would show that guy the consequences of humiliating it!

At the same time, in the Sinnoh region, in a slightly old building in Sandgem Town, a young man with black hair was squatting on a toilet in the bathroom.

The young man's name was Ishihara, he was 24 years old, and his favorite drink was iced tea. His previous hobby had been playing coin-operated games at the arcade.

But ever since the Rotom Phone was released, Ishihara's hobby had become playing with the Rotom Phone and surfing the internet.

To attract more attention and gain fans, he wanted more people to pay attention to him.

A few days ago, Ishihara had specially taken pictures of the statues of the two legendary Pokemon on the small hill east of Sandgem Town and posted their legends online.

As expected, the legends of Dialga, the god of time, and Palkia, the god of space, had attracted many fans, and everyone enthusiastically commented on the post.

But this morning, there was a discordant comment on the post.

The netizen asked him if he knew about Dialga and claimed that Dialga was even more powerful than the gods of time and space.

This angered Ishihara, as a native of Sandgem Town, he had grown up listening to the legends of the two gods.

So, Ishihara directly questioned the netizen, expressing that Dialga, the Pokemon that could control time, was almost invincible to other Pokemon.

After sending the message, Ishihara thought that the other person would argue with him for a few sentences, but he never expected the person to completely disappear, not replying to a single word.

"Did I refute him?" Otherwise, why would he be left speechless?

Thinking of this, Ishihara couldn't help but smile.

"Crackle, crackle, crackle!"

Suddenly, the lights in the bathroom flickered a few times, and a cold, eerie wind blew from under him. Ishihara instinctively clamped his legs together and looked around.

What was going on? Was the bathroom light broken?!

The lights continued to flicker until finally, with a sharp electric current sound, all the lights in the room went out.

"Ahhh! A ghost!" A shrill scream suddenly erupted, and Ishihara forgot to pull up his pants as he rushed towards the living room.

Before he could even reach the door, he was tripped by his own pants and fell to the ground with a thud.

Giratina, who had been spying on the real world through the mirror, let out a cold hmph of disdain at this sight.

So bold online, but why is he so cowardly in reality?

Very well, it's time to teach this ignorant human a lesson!

Just as Ishihara scrambled to his feet, a vortex appeared in his living room, and a massive Pokemon with blood-red eyes and a body shrouded in dark aura emerged. It slowly descended and landed on the floor, exuding a sense of destruction.

Ishihara: "!!!"

How terrifying! He had never encountered a Pokemon with such overwhelming pressure!

No, something's not right! The way this Pokemon is looking at me... I sense danger!

Ishihara's instincts were screaming at him.

Giratina's eyes glinted as it opened its mouth, its face contorting with malice under the moonlight streaming through the window.

Petrified, Ishihara plopped down on the ground, dumbfounded as he stared up at the Pokemon filled with hostility towards him.

Just then, Naoki and Garchomp arrived in the nick of time. Taking advantage of the open portal, they rushed out.

"Stop right there, Giratina!"

"This has nothing to do with you! Don't get in my way, Naoki!" Giratina snarled, and then it opened its mouth. Terrifying energy gathered within, forming a Shadow Ball that it fired at Ishihara.

Witnessing this, Ishihara was scared out of his wits.

In that critical moment, Garchomp dashed forward and stood in front of Ishihara, taking the brunt of the Shadow Ball's attack.

Ishihara was terrified.

Seeing Garchomp and Naoki's actions, Giratina's expression changed instantly. It roared in anger:

"Why are you stopping me?! This human insulted me first!"

Naoki hadn't anticipated the situation escalating to this extent.

He said in a low voice, "I can sense that he doesn't have any malicious intent. He truly didn't know about your existence! And it's because I gave you the Rotom Phone that all of this happened. I'm sorry, Giratina, but I can't let you harm him."

If Giratina were to hurt humans, it would only lead to more humans despising it, and Naoki didn't want to see that happen.

Giratina's body burned with rage. While it didn't want to hurt Naoki, his actions in defense of Ishihara infuriated it.

Additionally, Giratina felt a deep sense of grievance.

For countless years, Naoki had been the first human to treat it like that, and it had even considered him a friend! But now, this so-called friend was standing alongside the human who had humiliated it!

Very well, then!

"If that's the case, you shall bear the brunt of my anger!" Giratina roared.

Instead of harming Naoki, it turned its attention to Garchomp.

Garchomp narrowed his eyes slightly.

The next second, the two Pokemon crashed through the window and soared into the night sky above Hearthome City, colliding at incredible speeds.

Seeing this, Naoki's heart sank, and he rushed to the window, looking up at the sky.

In the heavens above, Garchomp, transformed into a crimson ball of light, intertwined with Giratina's black ball of light, spiraling higher and higher as they clashed furiously.

This spectacle caught the attention of the people of Hearthome City.

They craned their necks, gazing up at the sky.

"Look over there! What is that?"

"They're flying so high! Are those Pokemon battling?"

"They're so fast!"

Someone observed the battle through a telescope. After catching a glimpse of the two unfamiliar silhouettes, the man muttered, "What kind of Pokemon are those?"

Could Garchomp be a match for Giratina? Until today, Naoki had no answer to that question. So, as he watched Giratina and Garchomp engage in combat, his heart was filled with anxiety.

However, the distance was too great for him to give any commands or advise Garchomp to avoid using Fighting-type moves, which would be ineffective against Giratina, a Ghost-type Pokemon.

Meanwhile, Ishihara, still in a panic, hurriedly pulled on his clothes in the living room.

He approached the mysterious man standing by the window and looked up with him at the two entwined Pokemon in the sky. Terrified, he asked, "What kind of Pokemon are those?!"

Without turning around, Naoki replied, "That's Giratina, the Pokemon you argued with on the Pokemon Forum. Your reply angered it, and that's why it's here."

Ishihara: "?"

He was completely bewildered.

Could Pokemon... also use the Rotom Phone to go online?

At that moment, the mysterious man continued, "Giratina is also one of the gods of your Sinnoh region. It was born alongside Dialga and Palkia."

"Unlike Dialga, the god of time, and Palkia, the god of space, Giratina watches over the shadows of the world, maintaining balance. It, too, is a great god."

"However, its world exists on the reverse side of the one we live in, and it rarely appears before humans like Dialga and Palkia."

As a forgotten god, Giratina yearned to be revered like Dialga and Palkia.

They were born together, each responsible for guarding different parts of the world. If only Giratina were forgotten, it would be unfair and only fuel its resentment.

Hearing these words, Ishihara froze in place.

He didn't have time to ponder why a Pokemon would play with a phone or who the man before him was.

All he knew was that his provocative reply had enraged that Pokemon.

"I..." Ishihara struggled to find the words.

At that moment, the battle in the sky reached its climax.

It seemed that a victor had emerged, as the two balls of light, after one final collision, began to fall back towards the ground.

At this moment, Ishihara took out a Poke Ball.

"Let my Honchkrow take you there!"

Ishihara released two Pokemon, a Honchkrow and a Murkrow.

He mounted the Murkrow, while Naoki rode on Honchkrow.

"Thanks." He expressed his gratitude to the unlucky guy and then, led by the two Pokemon, they flew towards the spot where Giritina and Dialga had fallen.

It was located on a plain in the outskirts of Hearthome City.

When Naoki arrived, Giritina and Dialga were standing a distance apart, both bearing numerous wounds and staring at each other.

Witnessing this, Naoki was astonished.

Was his Giritina so strong? To be able to hold its own against Dialga?

"Ah... Gaaah..." Giritina looked at Naoki dejectedly, its emotions appearing somewhat low.

Naoki could roughly guess Giritina's thoughts, and he reached out to pat its head in comfort.

"You did very well."

After saying that, Naoki turned to look at the silent Dialga.

He hesitated about whether he should take back the Rotom Phone from Dialga...

If the phone remained in Dialga's possession, there might be more incidents of it rushing through internet cables to attack someone.

If someone were to die as a result, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Dialga stared back at Naoki with its pair of blood-red eyes.

It remained silent, also not saying a word.

"I'm sorry!" Ishihara's voice interrupted the silence.

Naoki turned to see Ishihara approaching Dialga and sincerely apologizing: "I'm sorry, Dialga! This is my fault! Before today, I didn't know about you or that you were maintaining the balance of the world. So, please forgive me! I will never do something like that again!"

Ishihara deeply bowed to Dialga, expressing his apology.

Dialga silently gazed at the human for a few moments, then turned away, ignoring Naoki and Giritina. It opened the portal to the Reverse World and flew into it.

The Rotom that belonged with Dialga, its eyes filled with anxiety, looked left and right, and finally, it followed Dialga into the Reverse World.

Subsequently, the vortex slowly closed, leaving Naoki and Giritina stranded in the Sinnoh region, far from the Hisui region.

Naoki: "..."

Giritina also looked helpless: "Ah... Gaaah..."

Naoki checked Giritina's injuries and then went to the Pokemon Center in Hearthome City to ask Nurse Joy for help in treating Giritina's wounds.

After Giritina had recovered, Naoki mounted it and prepared to return to the Hisui region as soon as possible to check on Dialga.

Before leaving, Ishihara hesitantly called out to him.

"Hey, um... I wanted to ask, what's your name?"

This mysterious man seemed to know a lot about the secrets of the Sinnoh region.

Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina, did he know about the relationship between these legendary Pokemon? Even the historians specializing in legends in the Sinnoh region might not be aware of this.

Who was this man? And what about that mysterious Pokemon...

Ishihara also looked at the crimson Pokemon, exuding a wild aura from head to toe.

Naoki glanced at him and replied, "My name is Naoki."

"Also, try to avoid conflicts with others online as much as possible in the future!"

With that, Naoki turned and rode away on Giritina, leaving the Sinnoh region.

The appearance of a mysterious Pokemon in Hearthome City and the intense battle in the sky immediately caught the attention of the Sinnoh League.

The two terrifying Pokemon had the people of Hearthome City living in fear.

In this situation, the current Champion of the Sinnoh region, Cynthia, arrived in Hearthome City to investigate.

However, she regrettably found nothing.

It was only when a helpful citizen named Ishihara came forward that she received information about the incident.

"That Pokemon is Dialga. It was born alongside Palkia and Giratina. Dialga inhabits the dark side of the world, always guarding that place and maintaining the balance of the world! This was told to me by a mysterious man named Naoki! His Pokemon also had an intense battle with Dialga!"

Hearing these words and the name, Cynthia was taken aback.

Naoki... Was he the same Naoki she had met at that banquet in the Unova region?

Cynthia couldn't help but recall their brief encounter and was amazed at how knowledgeable this man was about the legends of the Sinnoh region.

Cynthia reminisced about the ancient mural she had seen in the Hall of Origin.

The scene depicted in the mural suggested that the gods of the Sinnoh region might not just be Palkia and Dialga.

But Cynthia had investigated for a long time and couldn't find any related clues.

After calm contemplation, Cynthia felt that she needed to make a trip to the Hisui region.

And so, Cynthia departed.

As for Ishihara, he returned to his newly rented house.

His previous home had been severely damaged by Dialga and was uninhabitable until the repairs were completed.

Sitting on the toilet, he turned on the Rotom Phone and logged into the Poke Forum.

The comments that Dialga had replied to were still preserved in the comment section.

Ishihara clicked on the profile of the netizen named [The Strongest Dialga in the World], silently observing the empty content on the page.

Even though he had personally experienced that bizarre event, 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 that internet-savvy Dialga, the legendary Pokemon of the Sinnoh region, born alongside Palkia and Giratina.

With these thoughts in mind, Ishihara deleted his aggressive comment and, for some reason, clicked the follow button.

The next second, the follower count on [The Strongest Dialga in the World]'s profile, which had been at zero, changed to one.

(End of Chapter)

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