Rope looked at Lance, who had visibly raised his spirits, and, feeling a little strange, asked, "Lance, what's wrong with this guy?"
Lance pursed his lips before saying, "Remember that clue you gave us about the Servants of God organization?"
Rope nodded, it was certainly something he remembered, after all, something like being shouted up early in the morning could still be irritating. He immediately responded to what Lance meant, Rope frowned and spoke up, "You guys finally got to the bottom of this one?"
Lance shook his head and said, "Whether or not it's final isn't certain, but the guy in front of us named Taito can only say that there's indeed a not-so-small problem."
Lance said it still more implicitly, according to the information they got, the guy in front of them should be the newly assigned chief of the Kanto region by Servants of God, and the probability was that it would be towards the headquarters if they proceeded to check along with him down the line.
Rope looked like he suddenly thought of something, and then spoke, "Lance, I don't care what you want to do, you must let me know before making a move against Servants of God."
Rope's face was very serious when she said this, Lance frowned when he saw this and said, "There's a question I've actually wanted to ask for a long time, Rope."
Lance stared at Rope and said seriously, "Where exactly did you get your information? How much do you really know about this organization? Why haven't you told us anything?"
Emm, you're asking too many questions at once I don't know where to start.
Rope glanced at the match starting below, and Blue, who was clearly planning to watch the show, and turned his face to look at Lance, "Actually, I wanted to ask why you guys were so careless about Servants of God... Obviously, this organization is related to the legend Pokémon, but I can see that you guys still don't know anything about it... But I see that you guys are still not bothered about it..."
Lance was momentarily speechless after hearing this.
There was no way to answer that, and he was now wondering why they cared so little about the organization at the time.
"It's not uncommon to see organizations like this," Blue said, taking over from Rope as he saw Lance fall silent, "What region doesn't have one or two similar organizations full of legends about you, Pokémon. But all of them have demised before they were even halfway through their careers. And most of them weren't even Leagues, they were Legendary Pokémon themselves."
Blue shrugged, "Seriously, there aren't many people in the League who've dealt with these organizations and the Legendary Pokémon head-on, and you, me, and Red are the ones who've dealt with them the most in the Kanto League."
Rope was also helplessly holding his forehead... after thinking about it, it did seem like such a thing...
Lance also had a 'I see' reaction on his face, and could only say that it was indeed the authorities who were in the dark. Their conflict with Team Rocket wasn't much of a conflict in itself, and an organization like Servants of God wasn't something they'd ever come into contact with head-on.
"You said it so well with your line, 'The business collapsed before it was halfway done[1]' !" Lance exclaimed.
"Rope said that." Blue pointed to Rope.
Lance looked at Rope again.
"I copied it."
Rope says bluntly.
Lance: ...
"I think you'd better watch out for Team Rocket though," Blue duly puts a cold shower on Lance's head, "I'm not trying to excuse you from something, on the contrary, I'm trying to tell you that Team Rocket itself isn't dying out, you would be underestimating me and Red if you underestimate Giovanni."
"By the same token, be vigilant about Servants of God, Lance, or you'd be underestimating me too." Rope was serious too, "I'm not going to bother bother bothering with all that disappearing."
"Then tell me!!!"
Lance growled lowly as he looked at Rope with a serious bitchy look on his face.
Before he met Rope, it was really hard for him to imagine anyone being seriously bitchy...
"Let's watch the match first, seriously, I can't trust some of the people in League, I'll talk to you alone when we find time." Rope, however, didn't mean to pay attention to Lance's anger, "You have to realize that the big event is Servants of God's mess, the Cerulean City water contamination has Servants of God's shadow, and even the Safari Zone incident has Servants of God's participation behind it. ."
Rope had a helpless look on his face, "I'd believe you if you said the entire KantoLeague was a sieve infiltrated by Servants of God. Though all of these people ended up being my people."
Rope didn't say the last sentence very loudly, so Lance didn't hear it either.
But it was also true that it was the first time he realized that the original Safari Zone incident actually had Servants of God behind it as well.
If the big event is to affect the Kanto League, and even the entire League's Pokémon Trainer pattern and policy, then the Safari Zone incident is to bring about the turbulence of the entire political bureau. The highest relevant person in charge of the Kanto League changed four times, and each one of them is the one that ensures the prosperity of a family for decades.
Thinking about this, Lance's eyes became even more terrifying as he looked down at Taito, wishing that he could just arrest him, but he couldn't scare the snakes, so he could only put it off for the time being.
He turned his head to Rope, "Do you have any more valuable information there?"
Rope, who was watching a Victreebel and a Swampert battle it out on the field, said, "You don't say, I can really give you a valuable piece of information."
Lance came up, "What news?"
Rope calmly pushed Lance, who was leaning on him, away.
"Mo take it from the old man! I advise you not to think of anything else when you catch this guy later, just lure him."
As Rope said this, Blue frowned as he listened, "Is it really okay, according to what I know about these organizations, their beliefs are all still relatively strong."
Rope shook his head and said, "This organization is not quite like the others. Their members tend to be good in strength, but on the contrary, they don't have any so-called faith in them."
"They all seem to have gathered together for money and resources, their hearts are not united not to mention that they don't seem to have any sense of belonging to the organization. This is a group of profit-seekers. Luring instead achieves better results than forcing them."
Blue frowned as if thinking, "That's not right! It's impossible for an organization like this to gather these people together through profit if it doesn't have any large-scale resource income. But on the contrary, it doesn't seem like there are any large corporations or big families supporting them."
"I don't know, I'm still checking, but I can be sure that it's definitely not just money. There should be no shortage of truly valuable resources anywhere."
Rope said with a serious face.
He kind of let Snow talked about the basic resources that the organization had sent her, and to be honest, looking at Rope was a little bit greedy.
The quality of the stuff was high not to mention the quantity wasn't too small. It was really hard to understand where all this stuff came from.
After all, there were some scarce resources whose stock League had counted, and in the event that they weren't lost, or if they were lost and kept under wraps, the presence of the resources themselves meant something was wrong.
Things like a mole within the League...
It was also just a guess...
Lance had obviously thought of this as well, and his face fell into silence as he grimaced.
"Alright, both of you, enjoy watching the match. I see both of these guys in front of us are quite interesting."
Blue looked down at the match below with an amused smile on his face.
Both Rope and Lance's eyes gathered on them as well.
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"Swampert! Ice Punch!"
The simple-looking Taito calmly gave his Pokémon his orders. His fighting style had always been known for its cold, knife-like feel. It was also a stark contrast to the naive smile he himself often wore on his face.
On the other hand, Morio on the other side, who had a few small handsome looks but commanded the ugly Victreebel, had a style quite similar to his own looks; restrained, elegant, on point but just right.
"Evade from a distance, Razor Leaf Attack!"
Victreebel jerked backward, dodging the Swampert charging towards him and the arm-blade-like Razor Fist in his hand. Then the leaves on his left and right sides were thrown forward, and two Razor Leafs just flew out to strike towards Swampert.
However, the witty Swampert had already seen through everything.
He calmly closed his fists, then ambled over with a sliding shovel, and rushed towards Victreebel with unabated speed or even a little more speed. The hand still carried the ice-made arm blade.
Looking closer to his feet, the combination of sticky skin and paws and a shallow layer of water allowed for a quick glide.
Morio frowned slightly as he realized that Taito guy's rainfall in the beginning wasn't to enhance the power of his water skills or anything. Nor was it for the purpose of playing Rainy Day Team, but simply for this water.
With this water, Swampert's movements weren't so well restricted.
What to do with it now?
Sunny Day evaporates?
Wake up, it's too slow...
Victreebel uses rooting to suck the water dry?
What did Victreebel do wrong again????
If it wasn't for the sake of maintaining his calm and handsome tomboy persona, Morio would want to compete with this Taito guy right now in a contest of basic Pokémon Trainer-to-Pokémon Trainer abilities.
Mouthing off...
That's a dirty routine, too.
The point was that this guy's previous sets against each other all tasted pretty punchy as well. I didn't expect this guy to have so many dirty sets...
He looked up, and between them Taito was still tracing a naive arc on his naive face.
[What a way to pretend!] Morio thought in his mind.
The person who can use this kind of dirty routine is still pretending to be naive here, does he still think that he, Morio, is also one of those pinkish little newcomers? Being one or two good words to be said to the head to believe in your evil?
"You seem to be thinking of something very rude."
Taito's words came from across the room.
"Nope. Just marveling at the fact that Mr. Taito really does think in a clear and fast-paced manner. Those people calling you a rookie assassin are really underestimating you."
Morio responded defiantly.
"Don't care about your Victreebel? He doesn't look like he's in a good place."
Taito pointed at Victreebel and then said.
Morio also looked into the arena and saw that Victreebel was being pushed back by Swampert and although he was resisting with all his might, he was still about to be cornered.
Once cornered, it was game over.
"Heh, a 6v6 match, it's just one game, say it's a pity, it's not that much of a pity."
Morio still had a careful smile on his face.
And in the stands, Rope looked at the close-ups taken of Rotom giving Morio a tsk tsk, "This kid is a talent, I'm telling you being able to control his micro-expressions to this extent, this kid really is a talent. Mentally already cursed Taito's ancestors twice I guess."
You hard to say Lance is also an old 'criminal investigator', he also nodded very agreeably, said, "This guy's level of playing dumb is not low, also a little fox."
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"Victreebel is unable to battle!!! Swampert wins, competitor Morio, please send out the next Pokémon!!!"
With the referee's command, Morio collected Victreebel with the Luxury Ball in his hand.
He took a deep breath, then looked careless as he said, "Good job, Victreebel."
But in pinning Victreebel's Pokéball back to his waist, the movement was extraordinarily gentle.
Then his eyes snapped, "Come out, Beedrill!!!"
Then, he threw the marked Luxury Ball in his hand, and with a flash of white light, a Beedrill just appeared on the field.
This Beedrill looked actually full on, like a sheathed blade that didn't hide its sharpness at all.
"Beedrill then... it seems like I can't see any advantage in it..."
Rope rubbed his chin and said so. After all, he had already sent his own Pokémon as a backhand, so it was indeed a bit odd to hastily send a Pokémon whose attributes were not dominant.
"This kind of choice then? It can only be because Beedrill is strong, strong enough to ignore that."
Lance said so without thinking. And Blue nodded, after all, they 'old' Pokémon Trainers were pretty good at guessing this kind of basic thinking.
Even though real battles weren't turn-based, guessing still required a bit of basic ability.
"Kalos is coming... this guy won't..."
Rope suddenly thought of a point while before he could say it, everyone's doubts were answered.
"Respond to our bonds, Beedrill!! mega evolution !!!!"
Morio rolled his sleeve up and then revealed the bracelet with the keystone embedded in it. At this moment, the keystone was shining with a seven-colored light.
And where Beedrill's head and body were connected, there was the same seven-colored light shining, and if you looked closely, you were able to find where there was a mega stone with a transparent bottom and black and yellow entanglement.
"Indeed."
Rope nodded, his guess was right.
He just didn't know exactly where this mega stone came from. But since the Kalos region was the very origin of the mega stone, it was true that even if it was said to be a strange encounter, it was still acceptable is all.
There was also a fervor in the stands because of the appearance of mega evolution. You know, mega evolutions were rarely seen at tournaments in regions other than Kalos.
After all, it's a rare resource.
Morio revealed a bright smile and said, "My stamina is pretty good, should I surrender?"
Beedrill also cooperated by waving the four long needles in his hand.
Turns out both of them...
"Swampert! Mega evolution !!!!"
[1] "创业未半而中道崩殂" from "Chu Shi Biao" by Zhuga Liang