[She shifts and holds her arms to herself.] Uh-huh. I don't know if it was because they'd been enemies before or just because he was there. Red's back now, after the world started coming apart and trying to put itself back to the way it was, and Dome knows that took a lot of effort. Randomizers are unstable. The first one ever was especially so.

As for my dad... I don't know if he thought it was worth it. He definitely didn't stop once he made it through. He left a weird message at a Pokémon Centre once -- presumably when he found out there was a new host -- and it didn't sound like I knew him at all. So I had to go find him and confront him about it. After that... Things were rocky, is the best way to put it. He made me come fix his PC once. But then once they moved on to the next host, he took me out for ice cream and didn't do anything bad. Like he was trying to forget, too. Not that I could. Not that anyone could.

I guess that's why a few years later, I was stupid enough to come find him and try and talk him out of his plans. But the world was unstable. Something had to be fixed. And by that point, either he'd gone so far that he didn't care what happened to me anymore either, or he knew he'd gone far enough that he thought it was better if I hated him. ...I never found out which.