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In other words, Lucario and Tapu Lele were not on the same level at all.
And Blissey, who had become aggressive, hadn't yet understood all these complicated dynamics.
But Blissey did understand that she had probably misunderstood the situation.
So Blissey touched the back of her head sheepishly—or was it the back of her brain?
That seemed even weirder...
In any case, she just laughed awkwardly twice before running away.
However, after thinking it over briefly, Tapu Lele roughly understood what had happened.
She apologized to Roy and Lucario on Blissey's behalf.
Both Roy and Lucario naturally expressed that they didn't mind.
We're not such petty Pokémon!
Roy silently added in his heart: You're not some irritable Arcanine.
Just as Roy wanted to continue explaining his intentions to Tapu Lele, he noticed Tapu Lele suddenly becoming a bit excited.
"Lele~"
Ah, the deity has come to my island again~
Roy looked at Lucario helplessly.
Roy was really unlucky today—he still couldn't finish even two sentences.
Not far away, Solgaleo walked across the sparkling moonlit water toward Akala Island.
After greeting Tapu Lele, he approached Roy and nuzzled Roy's back with his large lion head, showing his affection.
Of course, after a full day of inspecting the islands, Solgaleo had also felt the reverence of all the creatures from the Alola Spirit Realm toward him.
There was even something bordering on fanaticism in their devotion.
Such warm emotions were something Solgaleo had rarely experienced since being born.
After escaping from the Aether Foundation and meeting Roy, it seemed that life truly was getting better little by little.
And now, these passionate emotions also made Solgaleo feel a sense of responsibility.
He wanted to protect this place!
However, for Solgaleo, the most important thing was still his friend Roy.
Still, Tapu Lele had nothing to be dissatisfied with regarding Solgaleo's behavior.
After all, during the day's conversations, they had also learned about Solgaleo's suffering as Cosmog.
And the help Roy had given Solgaleo.
The emotions and bond between Solgaleo and Roy were completely understandable!
But Tapu Lele watched Solgaleo's current adorable behavior, bit her own handkerchief, and made an envious expression.
"Lele..."
Woo... so cute, so cute~
Roy was caught off guard by Solgaleo's sudden display of affection.
He quickly turned around and patted Solgaleo's large head, only then realizing he couldn't hold little Cosmog anymore at all.
Thinking about the days before—just yesterday, in fact—little Cosmog had still been sitting on his shoulders.
"Ah, there really are advantages and disadvantages to everything."
Seeing Roy's regretful expression, Solgaleo didn't understand what Roy's strange words meant.
In his view, the current situation was already wonderful.
"La?"
What's wrong?
Roy smiled, thinking that at least now he could see little Cosmog's expressions more clearly.
So Roy smiled and ran his hand through Solgaleo's mane, which made the fur stand up wildly and look completely disheveled.
It didn't look handsome at all anymore.
Solgaleo let out a cry of protest and shook his head, trying to restore his dignified appearance.
"It's nothing."
Lucario, who had been standing next to Roy, looked at the little Cosmog who was suddenly many times larger than himself, and found it somewhat hard to believe.
Lucario spread his fingers apart, sniffing at Solgaleo's aura in surprise.
He confirmed once again that this big fellow's aura really did belong to that little Cosmog.
"Rio? Rio rio?"
Did you take some kind of growth supplement? How did you get so big? What brand? Send me the link.
Lucario, who had always been somewhat self-conscious about his height, blurted out many words in his shocked state.
As the eldest member of the team, when Squirtle had evolved into the powerfully built Blastoise, it had been quite a blow to him.
However, compared to Mimikyu on the same team, he felt much better.
Although Roy didn't say anything about Lucario's reaction, he secretly laughed to himself.
Ahem, how could a Trainer's amusement be called mockery?
Solgaleo grinned, showing his white teeth, his eyes narrowing as he looked completely smug.
Lucario looked annoyed and stepped forward to strike Solgaleo with a Quick Attack combined with Rock Smash on the back.
Tapu Lele's expression changed, and the fresh pink scales on her body instantly shifted to a warning color.
But when the dust cleared and Solgaleo's smiling face was revealed once again, the scale powder beneath Tapu Lele's body returned to its normal colorful hue.
On the other hand, Lucario himself hadn't used his full strength against his teammate.
It just looked intimidating.
After all, this was everyone's favorite child, little Cosmog, wasn't it?
But when Lucario's strike neared Solgaleo, he instantly felt a dazzling light.
The light suddenly appeared in the night, so naturally Lucario couldn't dodge it and had to close his eyes.
In the next second, Lucario felt as though his paw had struck a ball of cotton candy.
No, more precisely, it had hit the surface of an extremely resilient bouncy ball.
And Solgaleo naturally sensed that Lucario held no killing intent toward him.
That small attack wasn't even enough to tickle him.
Fortunately, Lucario's attack power wasn't too overwhelming, so Lucario only took two steps backward.
But because of Lucario's extremely fast speed—having even broken through the sound barrier—combined with the very natural environment on Akala Island, the dust cloud naturally caused by Lucario's Quick Attack kicked up quite a bit of dirt.
Roy frowned, with a look of complete disapproval on his face.
After Lucario recovered from his initial surprise, he instantly realized he might have done something Roy disliked.
Lucario didn't even have the courage to meet Roy's eyes.
Just feeling the heavy atmosphere emanating from Roy made the canine Pokémon's ears droop considerably.
"Rio..."
I didn't mean to...
Roy frowned, not wanting to hear Lucario's excuses.
"I know you had no bad intentions."
"Solgaleo knows that too."
"But that doesn't mean you can attack your teammate without any warning!"
Roy's tone was stern, making Lucario bow his head even lower.
Solgaleo couldn't bear to watch anymore and wanted to say something in Lucario's defense.
"La... la..."
Actually, I didn't mind at all...