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If that really is mochi shown in the OP and an allusion to Pecharunt's involvement in the arc, I wonder how exactly that will go. I can see it going one of a few ways:
>It's the same Pecharunt from the games but just uncaptured, this would disrupt Horizons as being in a game adjacent universe since Pecharunt isn't an optional capture.
>Its a separate wild Pecharunt similar to how Horizons treats Black Rayquaza as a different one from a normal Rayquaza (unless there can just be other Pecharunt.)
>It's the games Pecharunt who is owned by either Carmine or Kieran, again this would conflict with the games since the player canonically captures it.
>It's the games Pecharunt who is being owned/taken care of by Carmine or Kieran as after the player left it in their care/gave it to one of them. This doesn't outright conflict with the games since nothing says the player couldn't have left it to either of them but that would require indirect acknowledgement of the player character which ISN'T impossible, but seems unlikely.