Chapter 478: Friendship is a Diamond
"Impossible."
"Of course it's possible."
Will grinned, recalling the plot in the movie.
When Diancie harvests her first truly pure friendship, she can create her first diamond.
And this diamond.
Is her own Key Stone.
As long as this friendship is pure enough and destined to last forever, then this diamond will never disappear.
However.
Possessing this Key Stone doesn't mean Diancie can evolve.
Because she lacks the Mega Stone corresponding to the Key Stone.
And Xerneas's Fairy Aura can let Diancie herself become that Mega Stone.
Moreover, the Diancie at that time also won't need a trainer to activate the power of the Key Stone at the same time.
She can achieve Mega Evolution by herself.
"Why do you say so?"
Diancie looked at Will curiously.
"In the Sinnoh region, there is such a saying, 'Memories are pearls, friendship is a diamond'. As a proof of our friendship, I believe as long as our friendship doesn't scatter, then it won't disappear."
Will smiled and returned the pink diamond to Cynthia.
It doesn't matter who holds this stone, as long as it's guaranteed it hasn't disappeared or broken.
After all, this is just a Key Stone, not the crucial Mega Stone.
According to the performance in the movie.
Even if this diamond is not on Diancie's body, it completely doesn't delay her undergoing Mega Evolution.
At the same time.
This is also why.
Will judged this diamond to be a Key Stone, rather than a Mega Stone.
Because if a Pokémon doesn't carry a Mega Stone on its body, it cannot undergo Mega Evolution.
But there are also many things in this that Will doesn't understand.
For example.
How does Xerneas rely on the "Fairy Aura" Ability to let Diancie achieve autonomous evolution?
In the games.
The effect of Fairy Aura is to increase the damage of Fairy-type moves used by all Pokémon on the field by 33%.
But in reality, it's clearly not the case.
The performance in the movie was nothing more than Xerneas and Diancie emitting a light together; other than that, what effect it produced wasn't mentioned at all.
Even the point of letting Diancie herself become a Mega Stone is just Will's personal guess.
Xerneas's power can let Diancie achieve autonomous Mega Evolution.
Then can it let other Pokémon do the same thing too?
Or is it only Fairy-type Pokémon that can?
Or is it only Diancie that can?
These many doubts actually stem from an expectation in Will's heart—whether Xerneas's power can let him take a step on the path of Mega Evolution.
Can try to explore in this direction.
If not used in this life, maybe can be used in the future.
"Really?"
An expectant expression appeared on Diancie's face.
If the diamond created won't disappear, does that mean she can create the Sacred Diamond?
She doesn't want to die.
And also doesn't want the entire Diamond Domain to be destroyed due to losing energy.
"Maybe!"
Cynthia responded with a smile, then asked again:
"By the way, what is the Sacred Diamond?"
She had never heard of any saying like "Memories are pearls, friendship is a diamond"; presumably Lucario made it up to comfort Diancie.
But she felt this saying wasn't unreasonable.
Friendship is such a precious thing.
How could it easily vanish like mist and smoke?
That kind wouldn't be true friendship.
"The Sacred Diamond is the energy that maintains all activities in the Diamond Domain. It seems only I can create it, but unfortunately, I don't have that kind of ability yet. But fortunately, the energy of the Sacred Diamond seems to be able to last for another dozen years or so. Right now, the top priority of the Diamond Domain is to find Xerneas's location."
Diancie shook her head regretfully.
"Um..."
Hearing this, Cynthia turned her head looking at Will, with inquiring intent in her eyes.
Will nodded gently.
Then saw Blonde-kun taking out the map from her backpack:
"Diancie, do you know the Allearth Forest?"
"Mm! I heard Majima say that when he was just born, the Allearth Forest was once destroyed. For decades after that, not a single blade of grass grew in that area, and it was called a 'Life Forbidden Zone'."
"Xerneas is sleeping there."
"Eh?!"
Diancie's eyes widened, then her two small hands clasped together,
"Cynthia, Will, can you take me there?"
"You won't find her even if you go. The sleeping Xerneas looks like an ordinary tree; unless she actively reveals her aura or someone simply burns that forest down, no one can discover her."
Will spread his hands.
He could feel Xerneas's aura before.
Was because Xerneas sensed Yveltal was about to wake up.
The relationship between those two is like Naruto and Sasuke.
As long as Sasuke plans to go crazy, Naruto will immediately catch up to stop him.
As long as Yveltal doesn't make a commotion.
Xerneas won't wake up.
Could it be that to wake her up, they'd have to specifically go wake Yveltal up?
That consequence is not something ordinary people can bear.
"Then what should be done?"
A touch of worry always hung deep in Diancie's eyes.
Looks like this little princess also has her sorrows.
"No need to be so nervous; you just let the Carbink keep an eye on the Allearth Forest, and go find her when Xerneas wakes up. Isn't there still over a dozen years, maybe she'll wake up by then."
Will comforted her a bit.
Actually, there is no need to worry about this matter.
According to the timeline in the anime, in about twelve years, Xerneas will awaken.
Even if she doesn't awaken on her own.
Team Flare will also try every means to wake her up.
Diancie just needs to send Carbink to keep an eye on the Allearth Forest; other than that, the thing to do is wait.
"Yeah, we will definitely come to play in the Kalos region again in the future. At that time, if Diancie still has no way to create the Sacred Diamond, Lucario and I will also come help you figure out a way."
"Really? Then it's a deal."
"Mm!"
Cynthia smiled and nodded.
"Then what are we doing here now? Sleeping here tonight? I heard Majima say humans have to sleep every day; truly a sleepyhead species."
"Hahahaha."
Will couldn't help laughing out loud hearing Diancie's words.
Of course he wasn't laughing at himself.
Will maintains sleeping every day purely because the act of sleeping itself is very comfortable.
But actually.
Now he only feels a slight sleepiness if he doesn't sleep for two or three days.
Even he himself doesn't understand what's going on.
It's like he's about to become an immortal.
"No, we are sleeping in the hotel nearby. We came here to let Diancie experience the life of the trainer community."
Cynthia raised her hand and pointed.
In the lobby of the Pokémon Center, twenty to thirty young trainers were sitting around.
Nine-thirty at night.
Is exactly the time when young trainers finish a day of battling and gather at the Pokémon Center to communicate with each other.
The Pokémon Center right now is considered relatively lively.
This is only in Ambrette Town.
If it were in Lumiose City.
The scene at the Pokémon Center now could be described as a sea of people.
"What are they doing?"
Diancie took a curious look.
"Communicating about battles."
"Battles? Fighting is not a good thing; no one in the Diamond Domain likes fighting."
"Pokémon battling is not simply fighting, it's a competitive activity; in human society, it is the most popular and most watched competitive event."
Cynthia patiently introduced the concept of battling to Diancie.
Will beside ran to Nurse Joy to order three glasses of juice.
The Pokémon Center not only provides Pokémon recovery and trainer accommodation services, but also meals, communication, and other services.
It is exactly because of its many functions that it can be called a Pokémon Center.
Sat in the Pokémon Center for a while.
At ten o'clock at night they returned to the hotel.
Cynthia did her best as a host, sleeping together with Diancie at night.
Will was even curious.
If Cynthia slept hugging that stone princess, would her whole body ache when waking up in the morning.
The next morning.
Facts proved it would.
"Ouch~"
Cynthia walked out of the room clutching her forehead.
"Sorry, Cynthia."
Diancie bounced out behind her guiltily.
"It's okay, not your fault, my sleeping posture is relatively poor."
Cynthia shook her head.
Usually when sleeping she likes to toss and turn Lucario.
Last night she forgot what she was hugging wasn't the dog.
Bumped her head.
Bumped against Diancie's hard pink diamond, bumping herself until it hurt, her forehead even turned red.
"Idiot."
Will leaned against the doorframe snickering.
"Hate you..."
Cynthia walked over and lightly hammered his chest with her small fist.
Then Cynthia held Will's palm with both hands, rested it on her forehead, glaring at him with big eyes, waiting quietly.
Aura energy like ocean gel emerged.
Cynthia felt her forehead instantly stop hurting.
Her heart also felt warm.
She couldn't help showing a happy smile on her face.
"Old husband and wife."
Diancie beside said a sentence with unclear meaning.
"This term is not used like this."
Will reached out and gave Diancie a flick on the forehead.
"You should properly learn the application of idioms. Oh, and Majima too. Go back and have Cynthia buy a dictionary for you to take back."
"Ouch."
Diancie clutched her forehead and bounced backward,
"I can't read human writing."
Will froze for a moment after hearing this.
Right.
Pokémon, if not specifically learning, cannot read human writing.
Just like when he first came to this world.
Seeing the writing of this world he didn't recognize, and was too lazy to learn, literally remaining illiterate for four consecutive lives.
Of course.
Among this, there was also the situation that he didn't really need to read writing.
And no one would specifically write anything for him, a Pokémon, to read.
Until he met Cynthia.
This girl in her youth strongly recommended various fonts of different eras to him, wanting to share the things she liked with the Pokémon she liked.
Will considered the matter of recognizing words; the benefits will last for generations.
Ultimately still taking some time every day to learn to read with Cynthia, the writing of various regions and various eras.
And facts also proved.
Recognizing words still has great use.
If he didn't recognize words, Will couldn't have become the State Preceptor of the Vale either.
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