Naoki returo the kit with three buckets of reversal water.

  He opehe cupboard and took out the ingredients while humming a little tune.

  Sister Indeedee, stood nearby and asked curiously, "Ai Ai?"

  Naoki chuckled and shook his head. "No, I don't need your help this time. I'll ha myself, this is just a test."

  Hearing this, Indeedee nodded. She thought Naoki was experimenting with new dishes, so she stood quietly by his side, ready to assist if needed.

  However, Naoki wasn't pnning anything too plicated.

  For his first attempt, he decided to use the water to make a simple bowl of clear soup noodles.

  He boiled water in a pot, added the noodles, then tossed in sesame oil, salt, chi seasoning, light soy sauce, chopped green onions, a few slices of ham, shredded mushrooms, two pieces of bok choy, and a perfectly poached egg.

  In no time, the bowl of clear soup noodles was ready.

  The yellow broth glistened, with the chewy noodles floating in the fvorful soup, a soft poached egg resting on top, garnished with fresh green onions.

  Just the sight of it could make anyone's mouth water.

  "It smells amazing! I'm getting good at this!" Naoki grinned, proud of his growing cooking skills.

  Och of noodles made three bowls in total.

  Naoki lihem up oove, then checked eae closely. Information about the three bowls of clear soup noodles appeared in his mind.

  [Reversal Noodles as (S): A delicacy made with water from the Reverse World and premium ingredients.

  Cooking effect: After eating, the hearts of humans and Pokémon will be reversed—kind individuals will bee evil, evil ones will bee kind, timid ones will gain ce, and selfish individuals will bee generous.

  e with caution!]

  "Just as I expected," Naoki muttered to himself.

  For both him and the Pokémon on the ranch, this effect was definitely something to sider carefully before trying.

  Naoki hesitated, staring at the steaming bowl of noodles, unsure whether to eat it.

  His eyes drifted to the other two bowls. At first ghey seemed the same, but upon closer iion, there were slight differences.

  The names of the two bowls still read "Reversal Noodles," but the suffixes were different.

  [Reverseal Noodles and Skill (S): Reverses the Pokémon's abilities, aura, and authority, effective only fendary Pokémon.]

  [Reversal Noodles and Body (S): Reverses the physical dition of humans and Pokémon—strong individuals bee weak, while weak individuals gairength of an ox.]

  "Huh? Heart, body, and skill? Three different effects?" Naoki was taken aback.

  The heart and body effects were easy enough to uand, but what did "skill" mean?

  It only applied to Legendary Pokémon, reversing their powers, aura, and authority.

  'Could it mean that if fed to a legendary Pokemon like Giratina, it would transform from the Dragon God of Destru into the Dragon God of Creation?'

  'And what about Xerneas, the God of Life, and Yveltal, the God of Death?'

  'If I feed them this food, could I really s their abilities?'

  Naoki was a little unsure.

  But his instincts told him that tampering with abilities like this might cause an imban the ecosystem and possibly attract the attention of Zygarde.

  However, whehought about the Pokémo suited to eat this dish, his mind didn't immediately go to the famous Legendary Pokémon, or even the ones on his own ranch.

  Instead, he thought of the four disaster Pokémon sealed in the Paldea region: -Pao, Ting-Lu, Chi-Yu, and Wo-.

  Wo- absorbs energy from pnts and trees, causing forests to dry up and crops to fail in nearby fields.

  Ting-Lu trigger massive earthquakes. When it swings its massive, tripod-like antlers, it creates cracks over 50 meters deep in the ground.

  Chi-Yu, pyful by nature, manipute fmes hotter than 3,000 degrees to melt rocks and gravel, creating a sea of va to swim through leisurely.

  -Pao is i in nature, but it trol hundreds of tons of snow, causing avanches just to py in them.

  'But… if I reversed them?'

  Wo- could repel is and weeds. Ting-Lu could make the soil fertile. Chi-Yu might help fisheries flourish, and -Pao could trol snowfall, helping crops survive the entire winter.

  Wouldn't that create a whole new legend—the Freat Treasures instead of Four Disasters?

  Naoki couldn't help but feel tempted.

  He already had some ideas about these four a Pokémon, especially the fluffy Snow Leopard. Its ice-typing and soft fur made it perfect for cuddling in the summer.

  But given their reputation for disaster, Naoki knew he had to push these thoughts aside.

  Yet now, with these reversal noodles, could their fates be entirely rewritten?

  After his initial excitement, Naoki took a deep breath and calmed down.

  The truth was, he didn't know the current locations of these Pokémon. All he knew was that they were sealed away in the Shrine of Ruin.

  To free them, you'd o remove the stakes from various pces first.

  "Too plicated..." Naoki muttered.

  "There's no rush for this," he decided. The most important thing now was to test the effects of the three bowls of noodles in front of him.

  He hahe [Reversal Skill] noodles—si only worked on Legendary Pokémon—to Brother and Sister Indeedee, asking them to give it a try.

  Thee the "Body" noodles himself.

  As he slurped down the noodles, Naoki immediately felt ges happening within his body.

  The muscles he'd built over years of w on the farm seemed to shrink. Strength drained from his limbs.

  Whehiled down, Naoki looked down and realized he had bee well, sy. Like a stick-thin twig.

  Naoki: "..."

  Brother and Sister Indeedee gasped in shock at the sight of him.

  Naoki twitched his lips, turned around speechlessly, and began boiling water to make a cup of bck tea using the water from the Reverse World.

  Soon, the tea was brewed, and its information popped into Naoki's mind.

  [Reverse Bck Tea – Heart (S)]

  Naoki shook his head in disbelief and brewed another cup. This time, there was a different effect.

  Naoki: "Seems like this is pletely random."

  After brewi cups of bck tea in a row, he finally made a cup that seemed just right.

  He quickly drank it, and his body returo normal, going from a thin, nky form back to his regur size.

  The Indeedee siblings breathed a collective sigh of relief.

  While Naoki was eyeing the remaining dishes with heart-reversing and skill-ging effects, an idea suddenly popped into his head.

  'What would happen if these were fed to Giratina?'

  As everyone knows, Giratina represents shadows aru.

  The opposite of those

  Light and creation came to Naoki's mind.

  Excited by the thought, he hurried over to the ke with bck tea and hot noodle soup, then drank a mouthful of the poisonous mushroom soup to access Giratina's domain once more.

  This time, as soon as Naoki arrived, he was surprised to see Giratina immediately.

  It seemed Giratina had never left and was still lingering in the same spot.

  Naoki looked around, notig that the food he'd previously offered as tribute had vanished. It must have all beeen by Giratina.

  Giratina gred at him. "Human, what are you looking at?"

  Naoki smiled fidently. "Were you satisfied with the food I offered you earlier?"

  Naoki had figured out the secret to getting along with this intimidating dragon—praise it, stroke its ego, and avoid any sign of frontation.

  Giratina, although pleased, still grumbled, "Human food is nothing special."

  Naoki, uerred, smiled and said, "Well, I've just made some food using the water from your domain. I thought I'd bring it over for you to try."

  Giratina raised an eyebrow, intrigued.

  It seemed to appreciate this human's attitude. Although Naoki didn't match Giratina's e with Volo, he was respectful and admired Giratina in his own way.

  'Just like humans once built statues for Dialga and Palkia,' Giratina thought.

  With a casual gesture, Giratina opened a vortex of time and space.

  Naoki called over his sister Indeedee, who carefully poured the hot noodle soup and bck tea into the vortex.

  The gravity of the Reverse World was strange—simir to space. The tea and soup didn't drip as they would in the real world; instead, they floated gently in the void.

  This time, Naoki's had two effects: the reversal of personality (heart) and the reversal of abilities (skills). He was curious to see how Giratina would react to these ges.

  "Give it a try!" Naoki enced.

  Giratina g him and, with a flick of its tail, its massive body moved through the void, approag the floating food.

  The hot noodles and bck tea disappeared instantly.

  'What a rough way to eat!' Naoki couldn't help but think to himself.

  He stared at Giratina, waiting for something to happen.

  At first, Giratina seemed ued after ing the food. But soon, a strange sensation spread through its body. Giratina's eyes widened in surprise.

  A burst of radiant white light suddeed from Giratina's form.

  "A Fsh move?" Naoki muttered, surprised and puzzled.

  He had grown glowing crops before, and food made from those crops sometimes gave Pokémon the ability to learn Fsh. Back then, only Pawmot had uood how to use it, and the glowing looked simir to this.

  Moments ter, as the bright white light c Giratina faded, Naoki was left speechless.

  A pletely transformed dragon stood before him.

  Giratina's eyes were no longer blood-red but had turned a sacred golden color. The golden parts of its body had shifted to a pure, holy white, and the blood-red stripes running across its form were now a serene blue.

  H before Naoki, the massive dragon gave off airely different aura.

  Naoki's eyes widened even further.

  'This is… Shiny Giratina?!'

  'No… It's even more distinct than the usual Shiny form!'

  Maybe it should be called "Light Giratina," much like Shadoo or Shadow Lugia!

  At that moment, Giratina looked at the human before it with calm eyes. "What did you feed me?" it asked.

  Naoki hesitated and cautiously replied, "Just some human food with magical effects?"

  To Naoki's astonishment, Giratina's normally fearsome face softened into what could only be described as a grin.

  "I feel the magical ges it caused withihis is a sensation I've never experienced before. Thank you very much. You're always wele to visit my domain."

  Naoki was in shock, uo believe what he was hearing. 'Giratina has ged!' he thought.

  This was definitely not the Giratina he onew!

  Seeing Naoki's shock, Giratina chuckled softly and added, "Don't be so surprised. I quite like this new feeling. e o me show you around my domain!"

  Naoki blinked in disbelief. 'This was certainly not the Giratina he remembered.'

  Giratina wao use its powers to give Naoki a flying tour, but nothing happened. fused, it turs head to look at him.

  Naoki quickly expined, "I'm not really in the Reverse World right now."

  Giratina looked puzzled. "Why don't you e in then?"

  Naoki thought to himself, 'Am I not scared you'll bombard me with your ultimate move for aen minutes?' But he couldn't say that, so instead, he replied, "I haven't figured out how to get i."

  Giratina said, "That's easy. I ect to the real world through the water. I open a portal for you anytime."

  Naoki: "..."

  Seeing his hesitation, Giratina gnced around its territory and sighed, "pared to the world you live in, this pce is awful. Definitely not fit for humans. It would be great if flowers could grow here."

  Giratina's tone was wistful, and Naoki thought that if this were the old Giratina, it wouldn't just be envious—it would be full of jealousy and ahat's likely why Giratina once joined forces with Vol to cause a rift in space-time to destroy the real world. Just like an unappreciated child seeking revenge on their parents, with Arceus being that "parent."

  Suddenly, Giratina invited him, "I see yood at growing flowers. you e here and help me pnt some on those floating isnds?"

  Naoki: "..."

  He didn't know how to respond.

  'Help'.

  'If Giratina wakes up from this, it'll never let me go!'

  At that moment, bergy started swirling around Giratina's body. Within seds, the "light" Giratied back to its inal form.

  It gred at Naoki, eyes wide, and growled, "What did you do to me?!"

  Naoki, surprisingly, felt a sense of relief and said sincerely, "It's great to see you like this."

  Hearing that, Giratina's anger defted almost immediately. It huffed twice, then grumbled, "Fet what I just said! I'm not jealous! Foolish human!"

  Naoki, taken aback, asked, "Wait… were you still yourself in that state?"

  Although the w wasn't clear, Giratina uood the question. It gred and snapped, "I'm always myself!"

  Naoki fell into thought. 'The effect of the food doesn't seem to be perma. Or maybe it's because Giratina is the master of the Reverse World and ge ba its own.'

  He pondered further, 'It seems when a Pokémon's mind is ged, they're still the same Pokémon, just with a shifted personality. So, Giratina's ents earlier—about envying the real world—were genuine?'

  Naoki smiled and asked, "Does your invitation still stand?"

  Giratina looked fused for a moment, then realized he was talking about the invitation to pnt flowers. A flicker of emotion crossed its mind, but it wasn't ready to aowledge it.

  Irritably, Giratied, "I never said anything like that!"

  "Okay, okay," Naoki said with a chuckle, sensing the versation had reached its end. "I'll head baow. See you ime!"

  As he spoke, the effects of the poisonous mushroom soup began to fade, and Naoki left the Reverse World.

  Giratina, mid-pint, paused, stunned.

  'Did he just leave like that?'