Chapter 128: A Top-level Item!
Water blasted apart as a blue humanoid aquatic creature with a long tail leaped out in a brilliant parabolic arc.
Kai took in a lungful of air before diving back into the ocean.
The moment his entire figure entered the water, his tongue tasting the salinity of the ocean, Kai's tail rippled furiously, and his webbed hands and legs flailed. Like a bullet, he shot towards the disappearing pillar of silver light in a straight line, ignoring the undulating silhouettes of small and large oceanic Pokemon alike.
He was in a race.
A race against time, and against the dozens of speedboats rushing in the same direction.
By now, all the townsmen knew that the Eon Pokemon had sacrificed themselves to save the Water City. So they were headed towards the pillar of light for the same purpose as that of Kai.
To collect the new Soul Dew.
Kai's instincts told him he must not let the Characters, no matter how inconsequential to the main storyline, touch the new Soul Dew. He had no way to be sure about it, but he could almost tell that if anyone other than a Contestant were to touch the Soul Dew, it wouldn't remain an Item anymore if it was one now.
For a moment, Kai had even deliberated upon killing all the pursuers.
But he had already killed quite a few people and Pokemon, and Meg's warning about the Mythical Pokemon's appearance still crawled like half-dead worms in his mind. He won't fuck things up. Not now when he was so close to having his hands on one of the most prized rewards of this Mission.
Well, most prized, if I were to ignore those absurd notifications, Kai snickered, kicking the water. Cosmic Authority? Outer One? How am I to make sense of them?