Making flower cakes wasn't too plicated, but with only one Moon Rose and so many Pokémon on the ranaoki needed more ingredients to make enough for everyone.

  To ehat every Pokémon could have a piece, he headed to the gss greenhouse and picked a basketful of flowers, nearly clearing out all the edible blooms in the greenhouse.

  Butterfree and bee watched him with teary eyes, looking sorrowfully at the petals he collected.

  Naoki paused, feeling a bit guilty.

  Just then, Calyrex, watg with an amused smile, raised a hand. Instantly, vibrant flowers bloomed on the bare stems, rest the garden to its full glory.

  Butterfree and the bee buzzed happily, gazing at Calyrex with admiration.

  "free!" Butterfree chirped, clearly impressed. 'So amazing!'

  "Buzz buzz!" bee added.

  With a calm smile, Calyrex gracefully picked up a teacup and sipped his bck tea, the very picture of elegance. Butterfree and bee, pletely captivated, flitted around him joyfully.

  Naoki sighed in relief. It was great having Calyrex around.

  With a grateful nod to Calyrex, he returo the kit with his basket of flowers.

  "Ai-ye?" 'What are all these flowers for?' asked Sister Indeedee, peeking curiously into the basket.

  Naoki chuckled, "I'm going to try making flower cakes, though it's my first attempt. I'll have to see if my method is right."

  The process started with making rose jam, the key ingredient for the cakes. However, true rose jam required a month of fermenting before it would be ready to use, which meant that the flower cakes would have to wait a little while.

  After some thought, Naoki decided to begin with the jam. Carefully, he separated the petals, washed them, ahem dry. Once ready, he mixed the petals with sugar, gently pressing them together.

  Naoki carefully poured the rose petals into a gss jar, added a yer of hoo seal them, and then securely closed the jar. Now, all that was left was to wait for the petals to ferment.

  He ended up making three jars of rose jam in total.

  As he looked at them, an informational prompt appeared in his mind:

  [Unfinished Rose Jam: A jam made from freshly picked rose petals, with 30 days left to ferment.]

  "Just as I thought—30 days to ferment," Naoki murmured to himself.

  He pced the jars in a cool, dark er of the kit to let them ferment naturally.

  , Naoki retrieved the frozen "Water of the Distortion World" from the refrigerator. He thawed the ice, brought it to a boil, and used it to brew tea.

  The "Reversal" series of dishes he reparing had three types: Heart, Body, and Teique. To calm the fiery temperament of Giratina, he would o use a "Heart" infusion.

  After brewing three pots of bck tea, Naoki finally achieved the desired result.

  [Reversal Bck Tea·Heart (S): A bck tea brewed with water from the Distortion World and tea leaves.

  Effect: Reverses traits. Upon ption, the hearts of humans and Pokémon may be reversed—kindness bees cruelty, timidity bees bravery, selfishness bees generosity, and vice versa.

  Note: Hah caution!]

  "Perfeow I'll just o add it to tomorrow's s firatina," Naoki phoughtfully.

  He mentally mapped out the steps. First, he would use the tea to reverse Giratina's personality, making it more receptive. Then he would bring Calyrex and Koraidon into the Distortion World.

  Ohere, he'd search for suitable nd to pnt seeds and use Calyrex's powers to nurture them. If the seeds grew, it would firm that crops could flourish in Giratina's realm.

  And so, Naoki could fulfill the task Giratina had given him—to transform the barren Distortion World into a vibrant, green haven.

  For a farmer, turning a desote world into a nd brimming with flowers and greenery would be deeply fulfilling.

  ...

  The m, after pleting his daily chores on the ranaoki shared his pn with Calyrex.

  "Yesterday, you saokémon from another world—a shadowy realm filled with floating isnds, barren and devoid of life. It's a pce that feels heavy with destru."

  "I stumbled into that world by act ond met a Pokémon named Giratina. It has a surprising love for flowers and asked if I could pnt some in its world."

  "But that world is... different. It exists as a shadowy terpart to ours, where there's no sunlight, no real soil, just shadows everywhere. So, we'll o check if we even pnt seeds there."

  Hearing this, Calyrex houghtfully. "I see. I'm happy to lend a hand, especially if it brings a bit of life ay to such a pce."

  While Giratina's presence had indeed felt powerful and intense, Calyrex was sure that any Pokémon with a fondness for flowers couldn't be all bad.

  With Calyrex's agreement, Naoki smiled brightly. "Then I'll trust you with this task!"

  Naoki, however, was careful not to rush into the Distortion World too quickly. He hadn't fotten how Giratina had nearly pelted him with its fierce attacks st time.

  To avoid that, Naoki went to the ranch ke with his carefully prepared infused with the reverse bck tea.

  Sure enough, as if Giratina had sensed him from across dimensions, a purple vortex began to swirl over the ke, f aryway to its world.

  Naoki tossed the tribute into the vortex and waited by the ke.

  After a moment, a calm, inviting voice echoed from the whirlpool:

  "My friends, you may enter."

  The reversal had worked!

  Naoki stood up, giving a nod to Calyrex and Koraidon. Then, climbing onto Koraidon's back, he rode forward with Calyrex following, and together they leaped into the glowing purple vortex.

  In the desote space of floating isnds, a massive Pokémon with golden eyes and a pure white, ethereal body marked by blue stripes hovered slowly in the void.

  "o meet you," said Giratina, its expression oddly friendly for its usually grim demeanor.

  Naoki blinked. He still wasn't quite used to this newly amiable Giratina. After a moment's pause, he responded, "I think I've figured out a way to pnt flowers here, just as you asked before."

  "Oh? Truly?" Giratina sounded pleasantly surprised. "Is there anything I o do?"

  Naoki shook his head. "Just… maybe don't try to attack us."

  With Giratina's approval, Naoki, riding atop Koraidon and joined by Calyrex, moved to a smaller floating isnd. Giratina floated behind, its immense form casting a calm yet curious gaze over Naoki's work below.

  "What exactly are you doing? Digging around in the dirt like you did in your world?" Giratina asked.

  Naoki chuckled. "It's called farming," he expined, iing the grouh him.

  The soil on the isnd was a hard, reddish-brown, ly the best for pnting. Naoki tried digging into it with a small hoe, but the soil was clumpy aant t.

  After some thought, Naoki decided it was time to call in a little help. He sent Koraidon back to the ranch to fetch Diglett.

  "Raao~" Koraidon chirped happily, dashing off aurning in record time with Diglett, who wobbled nervously at the sight of Giratina.

  "Squeak?!" Diglett's eyes widened as it sensed Giratina's imposing presend quickly hid behind Koraidon, shivering.

  "Raao…" Koraidon gently, coaxing Diglett forward.

  Naoki reassured Diglett with a gentle smile. "Don't worry, it's alright. I brought you here to help tidy up the nd."

  Hearing this, Diglett gnervously at Giratina.

  "Squeak…"

  Seeing that Giratina had no iion of attag, Diglett felt a bit more at ease. With determination, it burrowed into the soil, tilling the ground effitly.

  As Diglett worked, the soil softened noticeably, ready for pnting.

  "Looks like we're good to start pnting," Naoki thought happily.

  Sihis was a test run, he hadn't brought many seeds—just a few leftover berry cores. He was just about to pnt them when he sensed a shift in Giratina's aura.

  Turning around, he saw Giratina's eyes had returo a fierce blood-red, with its body stripes ging back to bd red.

  'Uh-oh. The effects of the Reverse Tea must have worn off!'

  Naoki's heart skipped a beat, worried that Giratina might be angry. However, despite its menag aura, Giratina remained silent. In fact, it even spoke in a surprisingly friendly tohough a bit awkward:

  "My friend, why are you looking at me like that? Go on, pnt those crops!"

  Naoki bliaken aback. 'Was Giratina… pretending nothing had happened?'

  fused, Naoki thought, 'Is it ag like the tea's effects are still w?'

  Giratina, fully aware of what Naoki had done, retained all its memories from the Reverse Tea's influence. When it first found itself expressing such friendly thoughts, it had been as shocked as anyone.

  And now, with the tea's effects go still felt embarrassed aered an 'Aate,' its pride wounded but too stubborn to admit it.

  Giratina was no fool; it khat this human had e to fulfill the request it had made before—to pnt flowers on the floating isnds of its realm.

  Giratina was eager to see if flowers could truly bloom here. So, as the effects of the Reverse Tea wore off, it decided to maintain a calm front, hoping not thten Naoki and his Pokémon. Giratina, however, hadn't realized that its "recovery" had already been noticed, nor was it aware that its body's color and appearance visibly shifted with its temperament.

  Watg Giratina pretend to still be uhe influenaoki felt a smile tugging at his lips. Since Giratina wasn't ag aggressively, he decided to py along.

  With a nod to Koraidon and Calyrex, Naoki turned and buried the fruit seeds in the freshly softened soil.

  Then, stepping back, he left the steps to Calyrex.

  The flo Calyrex's head glowed a soft blue, and in an instant, the buried seeds sprouted and grew, bursting forth as a tall fruit tree with lush, green leaves and branches den with ripe, juicy peaches.

  'Success!' Naoki beamed with joy.

  The tree had grown perfectly, which meant that life could flourish here in Giratina's world.

  Even Giratina couldn't hide its awe, its crimson eyes fixated on the vibrant fruit tree, clearly captivated by the sight of life thriving in a pce desote.

  In its own domain, a world filled with decay and shadows, fruit had actually grown!

  For a moment, Girati a surge of plex emotions.

  Sihe beginning of time, it had been exiled to this barren realm due to its tempestuous nature. Angry, restless, and full of rese, it spent eons drifting alone, gazing up through distorted refles to catch glimpses of Arceus, its creator, basking in the light of the other world.

  Over millions of years, however, that initial storm of emotions quieted. Arceus and Dialga faded into the void, and Giratina came to accept this pce as its own, occasionally peering through its ke to admire the sunshine, grass, and flowers of the other realm.

  Now, here in its own world, a vibrant tree stood before it, filled with life.

  Giratina watched the tree in silehen turs gaze toward Naoki and his Pokémon, as if ihought.

  Meanwhile, Naoki was fully captivated by the fruit tree, specifically by the strange, shimmering peaches growing on it.

  Something seemed unusual about them, and as he looked closer, information about the fruit appeared in his mind.

  [Peach Fruit: A highly toxic fruit that causes poisoning if ed. Despite this, it's highly appealing to certain Pokémon, especially Poison-types, who find it irresistible.]

  Not only that, but the tree itself seemed affected by the unique properties of this world.

  [Peach Fruit Tree (Eternal): A typical peach tree transformed by antimatter, giving it aernal state. It will remain as it is—never withering, growing, ing.]

  "Wow!" Naoki whispered in awe.

  At st, he uood the significe of the phrase, "All the rules in the reverse world are different from those in the real world."