Chapter 719: Love Makes One Omnipotent
Rather than calling it a dream.
It would be more accurate to say it was a memory.
A memory with Florges as the protagonist.
Kazuya slowly opened his eyes from the dream. He sat up and leaned against the tree trunk, looking up at the leaves above, murmuring: "You have been constantly repeating this dream, haven't you?"
You are afraid that you will be completely swallowed by the long span of time, thus forgetting us who are incredibly precious to you.
Therefore.
In these tens of millions of years, you have been constantly repeating this memory that only lasted a century.
Right?
"You must be in a lot of pain, Florges."
Kazuya blinked and lowered his head.
But when he lowered his head.
He found that at some unknown point, a stone had been placed in his embrace.
Kazuya blankly held up this grass-green stone. He looked at it for several seconds before belatedly realizing this thing was one of the Creation Plates.
The Meadow Plate, representing the supreme power of the Grass-type.
"..."
Kazuya casually placed the Meadow Plate in his hand aside, turned, and hugged the tree trunk behind him.
He remembered.
He had once told Rayquaza and the others that he was collecting things like Plates.
At that time, Florges was right beside him, listening very attentively.
"Don't worry, in this life, I will continue to stay by your side."
Kazuya stood up and stroked the tree trunk in front of him, glancing at the Meadow Plate on the ground. "This Plate should be the source of your power? Keep it with you."
As his voice fell.
A vine naturally hung down from the sky.
The position it hung down was right on target, exactly on Kazuya's head.
Smack!
The tender vine gently whipped Kazuya's head.
He looked up at the sky, scratched the spot where he was hit, and added: "I don't need it right now. If I keep it on me, it might be snatched away. I'll come back and get it from you when I need it in the future."
This was a lie.
Placed in his inventory panel.
Unless Kazuya took it out himself, no one could snatch it away; it would even follow him to his next life.
But in order to make Florges keep the Meadow Plate, he could only say this.
Kazuya wasn't sure if taking the Meadow Plate away would cause any negative effects on Florges.
And the Sun Tree, having listened to Kazuya's words, seemed to approve of what he said.
The Meadow Plate melted into the grass beneath his feet under Kazuya's gaze, gradually disappearing.
This scene made his eyes widen, feeling quite shocked inwardly.
Florges seemed to have mastered some extremely incredible ability...
For example...
Controlling all the plants underground in Kalos or something similar...
This kind of ability was comparable to those Legendary Pokémon, even more fitting the title of "God of the Forest" than Celebi.
No.
It should be said...
The current Florges is one of the Legendary Pokémon in this world.
Her category probably leaned more towards Mythical Pokémon.
The Mythical Pokémon, Sun Tree.
Kazuya looked up at the Sun Tree in front of him again. He stepped forward, patted the tree trunk, and said: "I'll take those two friends of mine back first, and I'll be back in a while."
He pointed to Volcanion and Diancie standing not far behind him.
A gentle breeze blew Kazuya's bangs on his forehead.
The Sun Tree didn't say a word.
But Kazuya already understood her meaning—I'll wait for you.
He turned around.
And walked towards Volcanion and Diancie.
Seeing that Kazuya's emotions seemed to have stabilized now, Volcanion and Diancie breathed a sigh of relief while exchanging an uneasy glance.
"Hey, are you okay?"
In the end, it was the bolder Volcanion who asked.
"Mhm."
Kazuya nodded.
His mood was somewhat complex right now.
There was the joy of seeing Florges again, and also the guilt of making the other party wait bitterly for tens of millions of years...
He didn't know if there was any method to change Florges back.
As for what to do with this underground world after she changed back...
They could transplant those Time Flowers scattered in the ocean over here.
This matter wouldn't pose any problem for Kazuya, who possessed the Crown of the Sea.
"That tree...?"
Volcanion weighed His words and asked, simultaneously carefully observing Kazuya's expression.
He swore.
From birth until now, He had never been so careful.
"Diancie should know something. You ask her first, I want some quiet time alone."
Kazuya forced a smile at Volcanion.
He could feel it.
Volcanion and Diancie were carefully tending to his emotions.
"Diancie?"
"Um, I heard the Carbink in the Ore Kingdom talk about it... We all call It the World's Eternal Tree, or you can call It the Sun Tree, It is..."
Diancie scratched her head while explaining haltingly.
The content she explained.
Was pretty much the same as what the Diancie three thousand years later said.
Kazuya didn't listen to what she was saying.
He just quietly recalled some things from his previous life.
Just as they were about to leave this underground world.
A sentence rippled in his heart.
[There are many, many beautiful places in this world. I'll take you to see them together in the future.]
[Hula.]
At that time, wherever he went, Floette followed closely.
The two had also made a promise to go see many places together.
That was a promise to grow up together.
"I'm the one breaking the promise again..."
Kazuya sighed, turned around, and looked back at the giant tree in the distance.
The soft light and shadow gathered on the tree trunk into a blurry figure, hard to see clearly. It seemed to be waving goodbye to Kazuya, and also seemed to be waiting for his return again.
"No, the promise hasn't been broken yet. It will definitely be fulfilled."
Kazuya pursed his lips.
He raised his arm and waved vigorously at that light and shadow.
Then, his heart full of joy, he followed Volcanion and Diancie, once again entering the path leading to the surface.
Watching the three little ones in the distance disappear from the underground world.
That light and shadow stood rooted to the spot for a long time, then quietly dispersed.
The bright underground world gradually dimmed.
As if nothing had happened just now.
But also as if everything was different.
All Pokémon living underground in Kalos could feel that the plants in the underground world seemed to have become more active and vibrant.
Returning to the Allearth Forest.
Volcanion still had a bewildered look.
He couldn't figure out what relationship this World's Eternal Tree Diancie spoke of had to do with Kazuya.
He was an impatient guy who couldn't hold back.
He immediately picked a suitable opportunity to run over and ask Kazuya.
Diancie followed beside Him, also looking full of curiosity.
"That is not some World's Eternal Tree, nor is it some Sun Tree, that is my family."
Kazuya smiled and explained.
"Ah? A tree?"
"Master, I don't understand."
Volcanion and Diancie both shook their heads in bewilderment.
"Plants are also a part of life, they also have their own thoughts."
"Of course, that's not the point. The point is that tree, she wasn't like that originally. She was a kind of Pokémon called Florges, which is the evolved form of Floette."
"This matter goes back to the ancient era tens of millions of years ago. At that time, the world was dominated by a group called the 'Dragon Clan', and Florges was the..."
As Kazuya narrated, the sky grew darker and darker, gradually entering late night.
He looked up at the hurried starry sky above and simply narrated that dream with 'Florges' as the protagonist.
She was always watching her two younger brothers.
For a hundred years, it was always like this.
Occasionally hiding in the flower fields and chuckling because they smiled.
Occasionally hiding behind rocks and feeling sad because they got hurt.
From Kazuya's perspective.
Florges's life was truly very boring.
So boring it made people feel drowsy.
Because in her life, besides the two little Charmander, there seemed to be only those flowers and plants.
But Florges didn't seem to think so.
In the dream Kazuya had, feelings of happiness occupied 90% of her life.
It seemed that as long as her two younger brothers were by her side, she could be very happy.
"Oh oh oh! I really can't take it anymore! Too great... Florges is too pitiful... Oh oh oh!"
Volcanion's crying, sounding like a slaughtered pig, echoed over the plateau.
Kazuya's mind, full of emotions, was instantly shattered by His crying. He could only shoot a speechless glance at Volcanion.
But he couldn't blame Him either.
Volcanion's short life had just begun.
He had never seen or heard any deeply moving, great stories.
Florges's story.
Was the first one He had heard.
It was inevitable that the emotional impact produced would be somewhat massive.
Of course.
Diancie next to Him was the same.
At this moment, Diancie was already covered in tears.
She clasped her hands over her chest, diamond-like teardrops constantly rolling down.
She seemed to have immersed herself in Florges's perspective, and also felt the will of that giant tree from this story.
This kind of sacrifice, protection, and unchanging waiting since ancient times.
Is this the true meaning of emotion?
Diancie couldn't understand.
This feeling made Diancie extremely painful. With teary eyes, she reached out and grabbed Kazuya's skirt: "Master, Big Sister Florges, why exactly was she willing to do this?"
"...Because of love."
"Love?"
"Because she deeply loved her two younger brothers, even if she was the only one left, she willingly slumbered for a long time in the dim underground."
Kazuya reached out to wipe away Diancie's teardrops, his expression somewhat bitter.
After all.
He, who deeply loved Florges.
Didn't wish for Florges to make such a choice for him and his younger brother.
This kind of remainder of her life, where she could neither live nor die, was too cruel for the gentle Florges.
He believed his younger brother thought the same way.
Kazuya could even imagine.
Before he appeared.
Florges must have had no choice but to rely on long slumbers to pass those long, tedious years.
If she hadn't done so.
Florges's consciousness would probably have been obliterated in these long years long ago.
At that time, Florges would probably have truly degenerated into a tree.
Rather than like now, still retaining some consciousness and able to give him some response.
"Love?"
"Mhm, love."
Kazuya gently pulled Diancie into his embrace and whispered in her ear, "Love makes one omnipotent."
Love makes people cross a millennium to fulfill a promise.
Love makes people summon a burst of strength before death to forcefully extend their remaining life.
Love makes people fear not life and death, going to the netherworld together.
Love makes people burn away their youth to forge eternity.
He will be that omnipotent character.
He will save all his deeply loved ones.
He is not afraid that one day in the future, he won't be able to hold on and choose to give up.
Because...
True love is eternal.
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