Diancie, Chen Kai, and Noma looked up simultaneously.
"Another one?" Diancie frowned. "Why are so many humans coming to my kingdom lately? This is the fourth one!"
Diancie looked at Noma and Chen Kai and asked, "Do you have any other companions?"
Chen Kai and Noma both shook their heads. "No."
Diancie waved her hand. "Bring the person over first. I want to see what's going on."
"The fourth one?" Chen Kai noticed that what Diancie said differed from what he knew and asked curiously.
Diancie nodded. "A month ago, a trainer stumbled in, following a lost Carbink. I used Fairy Energy to erase part of his memory and then let him leave."
She paused slightly, her pink diamond crown twinkling. "So I'm very curious, how did you find this place, and how did you get in?
Logically, without a token, you humans shouldn't be able to enter the spatial passage between our kingdom and Blue Star."
Noma merely smiled faintly, naturally not admitting that she followed Chen Kai in.
Diancie looked at Chen Kai.
Chen Kai shrugged. "Me? I just walked straight through the stone wall."
"Walked straight through?" Diancie's eyes widened slightly. "That's impossible. That's a spatial passage; you're not a member of my kingdom, so you couldn't possibly enter!"
Chen Kai spread his hands. "But I really did come in that way."
Just as the two were arguing, a commotion came from the palace entrance.
Several Carbink pushed and shoved a figure inside—it was an old woman. Her hair was as messy as straw, with a few dirty strands clinging to her face, and her clothes were wrinkled and covered in dust and stains.
Her hands were cuffed in front of her, and her steps were faltering, making her appear disheveled.
However, when she looked up, her sharp gaze instantly stunned Chen Kai and Noma.
"Grandma Ju?!" Chen Kai exclaimed in surprise. For a moment, he hadn't recognized that this was the usually elegant and composed Grandma Ju!
Noma nearly choked on her tea. "Why are you here?!"
As soon as Grandma Ju saw them, her previously tense expression instantly turned to anger. "Chen Kai, you... I heard you came to the mine and worriedly searched everywhere for you, only to be captured by them. And you two, you're here leisurely drinking tea?!"
Chen Kai: "......"
Noma: "......"
Diancie blinked, then seeing Chen Kai in a predicament, she was very pleased.
She lightly coughed and smiled, waving to the Carbink. "Release her."
The rock shackles shattered with a "crack." Grandma Ju rubbed her wrists and glared at Chen Kai in annoyance. "What did I tell you last night? You're still so reckless."
Chen Kai quickly went over and supported Grandma Ju, giving a dry laugh. "It's not... Grandma Ju, I have my own plan, and we only just met yesterday..."
Grandma Ju heard the hidden meaning in Chen Kai's words and remembered that she hadn't confessed to Chen Kai that she was there to protect him.
She leaned close to Chen Kai's ear and whispered, "I know you might think I'm meddling, but I'm very familiar with Liang Zhi and them. They sent me to protect you."
—Liang Zhi?!
Chen Kai's pupils suddenly constricted. He, of course, remembered Liang Zhi; his Hitmonlee's powerful strength had left a deep impression on him.
"Then why didn't you say so earlier?" Chen Kai whispered in response.
Grandma Ju looked at the mythical Pokémon Diancie in front of her, a helpless expression on her face. "How was I supposed to know you were so troublesome!"
Although Diancie didn't know what they were whispering about, it seemed this person knew Chen Kai. "It seems my palace is exceptionally lively today."
Then, she motioned to her other subordinates, "Return her Pokémon to her as well."
Soon, Grandma Ju's Pokémon were brought over.
Gengar also looked disheveled, its ghostly aura dim, yet it barely maintained its form, floating unsteadily beside Grandma Ju.
But upon seeing Sableye, Grandma Ju gasped in pain.
Sableye was covered in injuries, its once bright and spirited gem-like eyes now dull, its appearance messy, and its arms hanging limply.
Clearly, it had been severely beaten by Diancie's Carbink, and it would likely be difficult for it to recover in a short time.
However, Grandma Ju felt that her release was due to Chen Kai's relationship with Diancie, so she couldn't say anything now. She could only stroke a few Pokémon, thinking of leaving first.
Thus, the two people drinking tea in front of the palace became three...
When Grandma Ju learned that Diancie's inherited mega evolution stone was lost, she tidied her messy hair and solemnly nodded, "This old woman will also help keep an eye out. If I find any clues, I will inform Your Majesty immediately."
Just then, a low dragon's roar came from Chen Kai's waist.
Miraidon had awakened. Chen Kai released it from its Poké Ball, and it stretched its body, its scales shimmering with a metallic, dark purple luster in the dim mine.
"How do you feel?" Chen Kai asked happily.
"I feel almost fully recovered," Miraidon transmitted excitedly to Chen Kai.
"That's great. It seems we should take our leave," Chen Kai stood up and nodded to Diancie.
The group arrived in front of the stone wall where Chen Kai had first entered.
Under the shocked gazes of Diancie and the Carbink, Chen Kai raised his hand and lightly touched it—his arm went straight through the hard rock wall!
Noma and Grandma Ju also tried reaching out and found that they could similarly pass through.
Grandma Ju's face was full of surprise. "Strange... When this old woman tried to leave just now, this stone wall became solid. How is it like this again now!"
Diancie floated to the stone wall, her pink diamond crown flickering rapidly. "This is..."
She reached out and touched it, discovering that the kingdom's entrance and exit were indeed open.
"Chen Kai, you forcefully broke open our kingdom's spatial passage to Blue Star. How did you do that?"
Chen Kai could only scratch his head. "I'm not sure..."
In reality, Chen Kai roughly guessed that this might be related to the Taijing Energy within his body. If Taijing Energy could bring Miraidon and other Pokémon from other worlds to Blue Star, then breaking open a small spatial passage shouldn't be a big problem.
But he naturally wouldn't say it. Diancie, seeing Chen Kai say this, naturally had no choice but to have her subordinates monitor the passage more closely in the future.
Subsequently, Chen Kai and the two others passed through the stone wall and returned to the ordinary mine.
Diancie excitedly followed them out, dancing joyfully. "I want to see the human world too!"
"Your Majesty!" Stardust and Radiance were greatly alarmed and immediately chased out, biting onto Diancie's skirt.
"Let go! I am the queen!" Diancie struggled indignantly, her diamond body twisting in the air.
"According to regulations, the queen may not leave the kingdom without cause!" Radiance said loudly.
"Rules are meant to be broken!" Diancie tried to pry open Radiance's mouth.
Chen Kai and the two others stood on the other side of the passage, silently watching this legendary Pokémon pull and tug with her guards like a spoiled little girl.
Finally, Stardust summoned several diamond chains and forcibly bound their queen like a zongzi.
"Humans!" The retreating Diancie called out unwillingly, "Remember to bring the latest model of mobile phone to see me—"
Her voice gradually faded into the depths of the mine.
Chen Kai, Noma, and Grandma Ju exchanged glances.
Miraidon followed behind Chen Kai. Before leaving, Miraidon seemed to hear the Carbink's exclamations from deep within the mine: "Oh no! Your Majesty! Don't Bite the chains!"
