[Ah. His expression sombers a little. His smile is a bit grim.]

I think we did the best thing we could have done in a situation like that.

[He pauses.]

We're not religious people, really, but we can't deny the truth behind some of the legends of the gods and the old world. It's...

[He thinks of how to explain this.]

Like how Gigas attacked our home, humans attacked or mistreated pokemon. Maybe the gods didn't want conflict but like us, they were driven to act, angry with righteous fury. In a situation like that, it can sometimes seem like there's no choice but to fight, lest you lose everything.

In a conflict like that where both sides firmly believe they are in the right, there's not really a way to make one side concede without bloodshed. What we did was at least help the side that was maybe more in the right than the other. I honestly believe that white god, Lugia, would not have backed down until it had it's comrade free, and who knows how many would have died then had we not intervened? How many soldiers would have gone down while humans stubbornly refused to free their prisoner? It could have been a battle that went on for far longer than it did.

We did our best, Honoka.