Chapter 278:
The sensation of stepping into thin air made Hayashi Kaede instinctively use his psychic abilities, but the feeling of solid ground beneath his feet soon left him stunned.
He subconsciously looked down and saw that the ground was no longer the concrete floor of the barn, but soil of a strange color.
He looked up.
The surrounding scenery had also changed dramatically. As if waterfalls were descending from the sky, pillars of water hung inverted above one piece of land after another.
These lands weren't all on the ground; instead, they were fragmented, suspended in the sky like separate pieces.
He could see the reversed image of the plantation orchard in the sky's illusion.
'This is the Reverse World!'
This was Hayashi Kaede's first thought upon arriving here.
Immediately, he looked behind him.
Sure enough, a pair of blood-red eyes with black pupils in the center were staring at him expressionlessly.
Giratina in its Origin Forme!
As the master of the Reverse World, only it could arbitrarily pull people into its realm.
He had only seen it briefly in the barn before, never its full form, but now he was directly inside the Reverse World...
It floated just behind Hayashi Kaede, looking down at him from above.
Its flowing body was at least several dozen meters long.
Its dark, tattered wings fluttered slightly. There was no sound of wind, no movement of air—it was an almost deathly silent space.
Coupled with Giratina's massive form, the sense of oppression was almost overwhelming.
Hayashi Kaede stared at it, momentarily dumbfounded.
(Why is it less?)
A cold voice abruptly arose in his mind, startling Hayashi Kaede.
But he quickly realized it was Giratina using telepathy to speak to him.
However, Hayashi Kaede wasn't worried. Instead, he looked around.
Soon, he spotted a barrel of Grepa Berry Wine next to Giratina.
"Less of what?" Hayashi Kaede asked, feigning ignorance.
(This!)
Giratina's voice remained icy, as if devoid of emotion.
It flew over to the barrel of Grepa Berry Wine, its gaze falling on the wine-filled chocolates on top of the barrel.
"You like eating these?"
Walking up to the Grepa Berry Wine barrel and seeing that only a little wine remained inside, Hayashi Kaede couldn't help but ask.
Giratina fell silent.
After a while, it finally spoke.
(Human, you are very bold. No one has ever dared to speak with me like this before.)
"Has anyone actually spoken with you before, then?"
Hearing Giratina say this, Hayashi Kaede grew interested.
In his impression, there might still be people in the Reverse World.
Like, for example, Newton Graceland. After Ash reached the Sinnoh region, he once entered the Reverse World due to Shaymin and, with his help, returned to the real world. (TSL note: Newton Graceland is the primary protagonist from the Giratina and the Sky Warrior movie. He is the foremost expert on the Reverse World)
That person might have already come to the Reverse World by now.
Giratina was taken aback by this question and fell even deeper into silence.
Because until now, it had truly never actively sought conversation with anyone.
That is to say, Hayashi Kaede was the first human it had actively sought out to talk to.
Before this, however, it had actively pulled humans into the Reverse World.
But those humans were very timid; they became terrified the moment they saw it.
Left with no choice, it could only send those humans back.
There were also those who actively sought the entrance to the Reverse World.
Realizing they were only investigating, it didn't stop them either.
"So that means no, right? If not, then I'm definitely the first. Speaking of which, this is my first time seeing the Reverse World!"
Hayashi Kaede looked around at the sky, where near the scattered lands, there were also various bubbles.
Those bubbles contained scenes of various discoveries from the real world.
Like Blaziken, still eating, and Serperior and Gardevoir, who grew anxious the moment they couldn't sense Hayashi Kaede's presence...
They both possessed Aura abilities.
So the moment he disappeared, Serperior almost immediately slithered into the barn, followed closely by Gardevoir.
Gardevoir calmed Serperior down and then stayed quietly in place.
It didn't inform the others about his disappearance.
This situation reassured Hayashi Kaede somewhat.
He then turned to Giratina. "You're asking why I reduced the amount of those wine-filled chocolates, right?"
"But I'm the one who made those wine-filled chocolates. Isn't it up to me how many I put out?"
Giratina didn't speak. In all its long life,
No one had ever reasoned with it like this before.
That Existence had never spoken to it about right and wrong, simply defining its violent nature and then casting it into this Reverse World.
This novel feeling gave it a... sense of being at a loss for words.
"But speaking of which, you're so powerful, of course you can just take my Grepa Berry Wine as you please. I have nowhere to complain.
But I believe that as the deity of the Reverse World, the esteemed Giratina must be reasonable and wouldn't do something so unjustified, right?"
"From your behavior of only taking one barrel of Grepa Berry Wine each time, I can tell you came to explain the situation to me this time, right?"
Hayashi Kaede looked at Giratina.
Although he didn't know Giratina's exact personality, generally speaking, starting with a bunch of compliments probably wasn't wrong.
Sure enough, the words that appeared in his mind the next second made Hayashi Kaede's eyes light up.
(Naturally.)
"So, after drinking so much of my Grepa Berry Wine, what do you plan to exchange for it?"
Hayashi Kaede rubbed his hands together, looking at Giratina expectantly.
This time, it was Giratina's turn to be stunned. It hadn't expected the situation to develop like this at all.
For a moment, it felt a sense of helplessness, completely at a loss for how to respond.
And Hayashi Kaede began to steer the direction of this conversation.
"If you don't have anything, how about this: you provide a passage for me to freely enter the Reverse World, and I'll give you Grepa Berry Wine and wine-filled chocolates. How does that sound?"
"Also.... Can I take some of this soil back with me?"
Hayashi Kaede's eyes gleamed as he looked at the soil in the sky—it was the soil from the plantation.
Just by being in the Reverse World, it had become like this.
[Reversed Soil: Planting on this will yield reversed ingredients...]
(Ok, I permit you...)