Naoki still felt a bit dizzy.
He remained calm, observing the surroundings while beginning to ponder: "Changed positions…"
"This should be the reason my position in reality shifted."
The last time he drank poisonous mushroom soup, he was over by the sofa.
Now, he should have been moved to the bed in the bedroom by the Indeedee using psychic powers.
Naoki tried to move two steps and was surprised to find himself able to walk freely in this world?
He wanted to walk to the edge of the island and carefully observe the situation here.
Meanwhile, in reality, Koraidon and the Indeedee sibling watched Naoki rise from the bed, step to the bed's edge, then crouch down to inspect the situation under the bed.
Koraidon, Indeedee sibling: "?"
Koraidon was concerned: "Ah ga si?" (Is Naoki okay?)
The sister Indeedee shook her head lightly: "Ai yi..." (So strange…)
The brother Indeedee remained relatively calm.
He couldn't help but speculate: Perhaps because Naoki drank poisonous mushroom soup, he could see things normally invisible?
The three Pokemon felt their minds were somewhat confused.
Just then, they saw Naoki start moving randomly around again.
Seeing he was about to fall off the bed, the brother Indeedee hurriedly used telekinesis to support him, placing him gently on the floor.
...
"Amazing."
Naoki had just felt his body float up, seemingly unaffected by gravity here.
At this moment, he had already reached the other side of the sky island.
Here, there was a small waterfall flowing upwards.
Naoki looked up, curious, he couldn't help but reach out to touch the waterfall, but ended up touching nothing at all.
"It seems I haven't truly entered the reversed world."
Naoki thought slightly, that mushroom soup should have just let him "see" here, but couldn't touch anything.
What's this? The world's backside?
Naoki suddenly recalled an ancient saying from the Hisuin Region — strong light casts shadows.
It balances and coexists with the real world…
He looked at the relatively small waterfall, and the information about the waterfall jumped into his mind.
[Water of the Reversed World: Mythical Level ingredient, when used to make dishes, can grant them the effect of "Reversing the Universe", originating from the reversed world, guarded by Netherworld Dragon Giratina, extremely difficult to obtain, an invaluable ingredient.]
Naoki: "?"
What's this?
Just then, Naoki suddenly felt a chill as a gaze, impossible to ignore, was watching him.
The gaze was so intense, carrying an ancient, chilling sense of oppression.
The source of the gaze...
Behind him!
Naoki spun around and saw a massive, ancient creature in the void behind him.
Its body resembled an enormously huge serpent, with its chest and belly covered in alternating black and red stripes, six golden spikes extending from its sides and six ghost-like black wings on its back!
Those six pairs of striped wings glowed darkly, their tips blood red, beneath the golden mask lay a pair of lonely, cold blood-red eyes.
At this very moment, those fear-inducing eyes were silently watching below!
Giratina! Master of the reversed world! And it's in Origin Forme!
Naoki felt chills run down his spine, struggling not to collapse to the ground.
This sense of oppression was something he'd never felt before!
Even with Koraidon at full power, he hadn't felt such oppression!
At this moment, time seemed to stand still.
Between heaven and earth, there were no other objects, only two figures, one large, one small.
The enormous Giratina looked down indifferently at the tiny human below.
Its gaze and expression revealed no hint of its thoughts.
Naoki felt panic inside.
Because he didn't know if Giratina could hit him in his current state!
But he still forced himself to confront this Dragon of Destruction.
He didn't move, Giratina didn't move; the two were locked in stalemate.
Time ticked by, and after the initial panic, Naoki gradually calmed down.
"No fear, no fear, in my current state I shouldn't be able to touch anything in the reversed world, Giratina can't touch me!"
Yet, Naoki still dared not provoke the Netherworld Dragon.
Because who knows if it might come to the real world through mirrors like lakes or rivers, using a Shadow Force to wreck the new home he'd just built.
After calming down, Naoki tried his best to express goodwill and began to speak dishonestly:
"Well… I mean no harm, nor have I come to compete for territory! I just accidentally stumbled in here!"
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he noticed Giratina showing a disdainful look.
Naoki: !!!
Ha, looked down upon.
"In the movie, you embarrassingly got captured and controlled by human machines!" Naoki couldn't help but grumble inwardly.
But these words remained only in his thoughts; under Giratina's dominance, he could only offer a polite yet elegant smile.
Then, he felt someone feeding him Pecha Berry Juice.
Naoki's vision immediately returned to the real world, his heart relaxed.
He looked at the worried faces of the Indeedee siblings and the very wounded Koraidon before glancing down at his current position.
What happened? Wasn't he supposed to lie down on the bed after drinking poisonous mushroom soup?
Could it be… his movements in the reversed world also correspond with movements in the real world?
Naoki hurriedly questioned the three Pokemon before him.
As expected, he received a positive answer from them.
"Indeed, the world's backside…" Naoki gradually freed himself from Giratina's influence.
After all, in Giratina's eyes, he as a human was still too small.
The other party would never chase him to the real world to kill him, nor deign to attack him.
Thinking about this, Naoki felt his body gradually relax, accepting the Pecha Berry from the sister Indeedee, munching it, and fearfully explaining to them:
"You don't know what I just saw."
The siblings exchanged a glance: "Ai yi." (Just now, you looked at Koraidon, showing a terribly frightened expression.)
Naoki: "..."
He immediately turned his gaze to the injured-looking Koraidon, suddenly realizing, no wonder!
"No, how could I be afraid of Koraidon?"
Naoki patted Koraidon's head, seeing Koraidon cheer up, then smilingly explained the effects of the poisonous mushroom soup to the Pokemon:
"Drinking the poisonous mushroom soup allows me to see another world."
The sister Indeedee widened her eyes: "Ai yi?" Another world?
Naoki nodded: "Namely, the backside of the real world."
However, unfortunately, the Pokemon seemed to have difficulty understanding.
Seeing this, Naoki gave an example.
He closed the window, then turned on the light, placing a book under the lamp.
Under the bright light, a shadow appeared behind the book.
The three Pokemon looked down, as Naoki explained:
"It's like the relation of this book, you see the book, but can't see the area behind it."
"The world we live in now, in places we don't see, is like this book, similarly casting a shadow, that's the world's shadow."
"After drinking the poisonous mushroom soup, I can see things normally invisible, namely the world's backside, the realm shrouded in shadow."
Koraidon and the Indeedee sibling listened, half comprehending, half not.
The brother Indeedee pondered: "Ai yi?" (Is there anything terrifying there?)
Naoki: "It is home to a Pokemon named Giratina; it is the master of the shadow world, humans call the world the destroyed world, the reversed world."
"The reason I was scared just now is because I saw it; it suddenly appeared, and its appearance is simply terrifying."
Seeing Naoki wasn't afraid of him, Koraidon immediately cheered up, pouncing forward like a big golden retriever, happily licking Naoki with its tongue.
"Alright, alright." Naoki was splashed with saliva, helplessly pushing Koraidon's face aside.
He recalled the waterfall he'd seen just before Giratina appeared.
Water of the Reversed World… capable of granting dishes the effect of "Reversing the Universe"...
This thing just sounds advanced by its name!
Intuition told him it was an ingredient even more precious than Zapdos' feathers.
Naoki's mind was stirred.
He wanted it!