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The Nightmare Pokémon, Darkrai.
The Legendary Pokémon that rules over nightmares.
Roy searched through his memory and confirmed that this marked the first appearance of the "Nightmare Pokémon" on Earth. Before this moment, there had never been any recorded sightings of Darkrai.
Could Darkrai be the same as Mew, having arrived only recently?
Or had it been here for a long time, remaining hidden until now, only choosing to reveal itself at this moment?
Most importantly, how did Caroline know about this beforehand?
That's right—Roy remembered that Caroline had told him long ago that she possessed Future Sight abilities.
Roy didn't doubt that a powerful psychic could achieve such feats.
However, he had never expected that her "Future Sight" ability was so remarkably strong that she could accurately predict the appearance of Legendary Pokémon.
Why did the Nightmare Pokémon Darkrai attack Los Angeles?
Was it driven by human influence, or acting on its own will?
Regardless of the reason, the United States would certainly respond to a Legendary Pokémon attacking one of their cities.
There would likely be news about this tomorrow.
'How can anyone sleep after seeing this?'
At four o'clock in the morning, when even dogs wouldn't want to get up, Roy had originally planned to return to bed. However, he was now filled with curiosity and doubt, making sleep completely impossible.
He decided not to sleep at all and instead prepared to go for a morning run.
Today's opponent in the group stage was from a well-known school in the South China Division. They weren't particularly strong—their overall power was roughly equivalent to Eastbridge University—so there was no need for him to worry too much.
August 4th.
Just when everyone was still absorbed by Roy's overwhelming and unreasonable strength displayed in yesterday's national competition, another piece of news spread across the entire world, instantly provoking fierce reactions globally.
Los Angeles had been attacked.
The perpetrator was suspected to be a Legendary Pokémon.
Even though American Trainers had responded promptly, thousands of people had still lost their lives in this assault. Moreover, everyone in Los Angeles now fell into agonizing nightmares whenever they tried to rest, leaving them with serious and life-threatening aftereffects.
The severity of these aftereffects shouldn't be underestimated.
Long-term sleep deprivation led to declining reaction times and memory loss. It also made people gradually irritable, caused them to lose concentration, and affected their life expectancy.
More seriously, it could give rise to impulses toward criminal behavior and suicide.
But the most important issue was something else entirely.
"Isn't this the first time a Legendary Pokémon has killed humans since the War a hundred years ago?"
Yes, this was the real problem.
Since the establishment of the Pokémon Alliance over the past century, many Legendary Pokémon had descended to Earth. Although they had caused considerable commotion initially, they had quickly reached friendly agreements with humans.
Humans respected them as 'gods' and treated them with appropriate reverence.
The gods, in return, would pass on their power to Trainers they favored, creating a reciprocal relationship.
However, this Legendary Pokémon's attack on the city suddenly raised human concerns about another possibility.
Evil.
Good and evil were fundamentally human definitions.
Anything unfriendly to humans was considered evil.
Human understanding of Legendary Pokémon was no longer as limited as it once had been.
The powers of Legendary Pokémon could generally be matched to specific 'concepts.'
For the Legendary Pokémon that had appeared over the past hundred years, their powers had all leaned toward the 'good' side, so incidents like this had never occurred.
Until now, when a god biased toward 'evil' had finally appeared.
Soon, Legendary Pokémon from various countries and allied nations confirmed this and obtained the name of this evil deity.
The Nightmare Pokémon, Darkrai.
It would plunge victims into endless hellish nightmares.
To cure the symptoms of these 'Nightmares,' the corresponding 'Dream Pokémon' would need to take action.
"These past two years have been truly eventful."
"That's right—the four Guardian Pokémon of Alola, the Lord of the Tree of Beginning and the Divine Pillars, and now the Nightmare Pokémon Darkrai..."
"Ah, I can't keep track... nine Legendary Pokémon?"
"With more Legendary Pokémon appearing now than in decades past, it always feels like a sign of something approaching."
"If so, this omen doesn't seem particularly good this time."
Roy looked at the conversation in his class group chat, showing a thoughtful expression.
Again, good and evil were merely human definitions. For Legendary Pokémon, they were simply fulfilling their natural duties.
In the Pokémon world, wherever Darkrai traveled, nightmares would inevitably follow.
The corresponding Dream Pokémon, Cresselia, would follow in its wake, dispelling nightmares and bestowing healing dreams.
This represented the natural power and responsibility of both Pokémon.
The existence of the Nightmare Pokémon and Dream Pokémon had achieved a certain degree of "positive and negative balance," which hadn't caused excessive disasters in the Pokémon world.
But currently, there was no Dream Pokémon Cresselia on Earth.
The balance had tilted.
Just as ecological imbalance caused natural disasters, the unipolar distribution of power would also cause extremely severe catastrophes.
Apart from Cresselia, no one could cure the nightmare symptoms caused by Darkrai—not even Darkrai itself.
Not only that, but Roy found it puzzling that Darkrai had simultaneously plunged more than four million people in Los Angeles into nightmares all at once. He didn't think this was an unintentional act.
His intuition told him that Darkrai had definitely attacked Los Angeles with some specific purpose in mind.
After thinking it over, Roy sent a message to Sebastian.
"Elite Sebastian, how do you evaluate this nightmare incident?"
Soon, Sebastian's reply came back.
"Thank you for asking. I'm in Los Angeles—just got off the plane."
"The Alliance urgently dispatched Elite-level Trainers from allied countries to hunt down Darkrai together. The American side even deployed their Champion, who seemed extremely agitated. It's too likely that he's angry simply because people are dying."
"I'll investigate the specific details secretly and tell you when I return. This involves too many vested interests, so I need to keep things hidden."
Sebastian was quite shrewd.
However, as Roy had suspected, Darkrai must have done something to provoke the United States into such a rage.
After all, this American Champion was the winner of the last global competition—truly the 'world's number one, strongest current Champion.'
It wasn't enough just to send out the strongest Champion as a precaution; they were also seeking assistance from Alliance power.
All of this was to hunt down Darkrai.
Such an enormous effort clearly demonstrated one thing.
They were urgent, they were desperate!
The scale of their response revealed just how seriously they were taking this threat, and Roy couldn't help but wonder what exactly Darkrai had done to warrant such an intense manhunt involving multiple nations' most powerful Trainers.