"Not it! Ah sir, to be a man is to will reason. I'm all set to defect, aren't you guys going to give any favors?" In an empty room, the tied up Taito howled towards a mirror.
Rope frowned at Taito, who was scowling towards the mirror on the screen in front of him, and said suspiciously, "What's this guy doing?"
Lance's mouth twitched before he said, "Probably thinks that's one-sided see-through glass..."
"Didn't he notice that camera up there?"
"You can't ask me that... after all, I'm just a normal human..."
Lance spread his hands helplessly, stating that he really wasn't sure, but then again... shouldn't Rope ask himself about this kind of thing?
After all, among Lance's evaluations, Rope wasn't exactly a normal human either.
There weren't many people behind the duo, only Lorelei and Jenny Qin remained. After all, the people had already been captured, things were basically done, what the rest of them needed was more of a strict defense.
Definitely can't let something like a prison break happen again.
Rope watched for a moment, then leaned down into the mic and said, "Dude, look right at us, look at the camera."
Looking up at this voice coming from diagonally above, his body shuddered, then stiffened, then looked at the security camera diagonally above him.
He looked in the mirror again...remembering all the squinting and eye-rolling he'd just done...
Can't wait to get out of the Kanto region...
"Ahem..." He cleared his throat, then turned his head and looked at the camera seriously, "Do you guys act like it! I'm at least a worthy and sincere defector, right? Are you guys even afraid to have a conversation with me face to face?"
Rope nodded, a nice counterpoint.
"That was a nice eyebrow dance you just did, but we didn't get a good look at it from this angle, so why don't you do it again. There's no point in dancing for the mirror."
"Please don't say it big brother!"
Taito wanted to kneel...
Lance shook his head in exasperation and amusement. Funny of course because of the guy's reaction, and as for good-natured...
"Are all the people in your organization cut from the same mold? Or is it really true that things come in small packages?"
Lance asked, opening his mouth.
Taito's eyes wheeled from side to side in their sockets before she opened her mouth to ask, "What makes you say that, Champion Lance?"
Lance's tone was tinged with amusement, "We've interrogated Rai and Denki before... and they both reacted much like you. They both looked like they were looking cheeky, but in reality, they had a belly full of bad intentions."
Although the tone of his voice was laced with laughter, no matter how Taito interpreted it differently, the murderous aura of meaning carried in those words was always hard to be dispelled.
"Aye, Champion Lance is wronged! I'm not like Rai and Denki. I've come to defect with all my heart."
"After all, my boss is Water, not someone directly under Psychic."
"And... you guys are being lied to...this Denki guy is pretty strong. He can just be promoted to 'Agent' after completing one Plate mission."
Taito said with a smirk, revealing a lot of valuable information in the process. It looked like the guy said he wasn't panicking, but he was actually still scared.
Lance raised his head and glanced at Rope.
Rope clasped his hands to his chest, frowned and shook his head softly, "I didn't know about Denki's hidden strength."
"But everything else should be true, at least 'Psychic,' 'Water,' and 'Agent.' 'Plate mission' are all correct terms."
Hearing Rope's words, Lance nodded, then pressed the button again and the light on the microphone changed from red to green, then spoke and asked, "It does seem like you're quite sincere. A little more valuable intel."
Lorelei behind her was listening with great interest, but Jenny Qin was having a hard time.
She could see that the two bigwigs in front of her were not even thinking of negotiating with this guy in the interrogation room. This wasn't an interrogation scene either.
They just wanted to whore themselves out for nothing.
Apparently Taito realized this as well...he blushed slightly, after all, he had already given quite a bit of information and had expressed his sincerity. But Lance and Rope clearly had no intention of having a friendly conversation with him.
"Don't yah, how about we talk about the conditions first? As long as the conditions are agreed upon, I'll tell you everything!"
Hearing this, Rope and Lance looked at each other, then both laughed unscrupulously.
"Mr. Taito, aren't you mistaken about something?"
Lance chuckled.
"Do you think you're some kind of collaborator of ours? No...you're a captive! When have you ever seen a captive make a deal with someone???"
Taito's expression was unusually brilliant.
He had always thought that League's people should have a bit of a bottom line. But what the hell was this Chaos-Evil tone that sounded like Chaos-Evil at first listen???? This was something a League champion could say?
"Say, you don't realize what this place is in right now, do you."
Rope suddenly spoke up.
Taito looked around and forced a smile, "Isn't this the interrogation room? What else could it be..."
Then he heard the sound of the walls rising other than the mirror he had just seen.
He subconsciously looked around.
Then cold sweat dampened his back directly.
It was night and the sky was full of stars hanging on the night curtain shining brightly. The moon was like a shallow smile, also staying there quietly, not saying a word, as if watching everything that was happening below.
Even more interesting...
Those shining eyes in the dense forest here.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!
Here are the gods and demons!!!
"Welcome to Victory Road in Indigo Plateau... I guess your Excellency has heard about what Victory Road really is. But..."
"Victory Road is much more than just the first hurdle to challenge the Champion."
"He is also the holding place for all of League's dangerous Pokémon. Every Pokémon that commits a crime on its own, or refuses to follow League's commands after its master commits a crime is thrown here to fend for itself...survival of the fittest."
"The Pokémon here are all combative...the genes of a Pokémon that isn't combative won't survive here at all. That's why they're all fierce one by one as well."
"Seriously, your information is really important to us. But you should also know that we also have our sources of information, and according to the information we've received. the Servants of God organization doesn't seem to have any points of head-on conflict with our League to be correct..."
"Flying and Koga are just personal grudges as well..."
Hearing this, Taito's pupils abruptly shrunk...
Damn it, just how many two-biters are there within the organization!
I should have defected as an undercover agent instead of just resigning from the organization...
It's still a good deal for an undercover agent!
"...I really kind of like knowing who in the organization is your undercover agent...you guys are going too far here..."
Lance choked on that. It wasn't just Lance either, all three people in the room except Rope choked on it.
What do you mean 'our' undercover.
The undercover is just Rope's alone...
Rope looked at the group of guys who were looking at him rather resentfully with an innocent face and shrugged rather helplessly.
Disgusted with me... so I'll go?
"So, Mr. Taito, can you give us a reason to make a deal with you?"
Lance slowed down, then opened his mouth to ask.
It was said to be an inquiry, but it was actually essentially giving Taito a chance to prove his worth.
A circling bear walked up and looked at Taito in the cage, his nostrils twitching before he opened his mouth and grinned.
They had experience with this guy, and odds were that in a few moments this guy would be thrown to them for food.
He turned his head to look behind himself at the big-mouthed bats, Rhydon, and other Pokémon with a wary expression.
After all, for them, the snacks in front of them were really not enough for so many Pokémon to share together, and when the time came, there would still be a fight...
Taito looked at the approaching Pokémon, gulped, and then his mind raced.
Lance, on the other hand, pretended to glance at his watch, then started a countdown.
"Ten."
"Hey, hey, hey, give it more time!"
"9."
Taito's sweat came down...why the fuck does it feel like League is more evil than the Organization !!!!
...
"3."
Taito's eyes lit up, trying to finally think of something, then hurriedly spoke up, "I know the true identities of some of them !!!!"
Lance raised an eyebrow, he could really force out some information.
Jenny Qin behind him was speechless, why is this guy stupid...this is believing, League has some darkness yes, but it's also true that the straw man thing hasn't been done for a long time.
At least this kind of thing wouldn't be done by a champion himself.
"Tell me about it."
Lance asked.
But Rope was shaking his head. He had already guessed what this guy was going to say.
Plan A... failure.
"You guys want to know the identity of the newly appointed Agent 'Ice'?"
"When I first looked into this pretty little girl I found out about her meager criminal record. Also found out why she wasn't able to get League status."
"What about her father, who robbed the chances of the child of one of the big shots of the Dragon Master family at the time! Then the big shot planted a random charge and sent him down to jail!"
Lance's brows tightened. He subconsciously looked at Rope, only to find that Rope's face was very ugly...
"Yeah, what about the Dragon Master family.The big family in the Kanto region has a certain status in the League. It's not very simple to plant a charge. Then what follows is a pretty lame plot."
"A beautiful mother is taken in by a big shot, and when she fails to resist, she ends up losing her life.When the League was founded, all the legislation wasn't very strict, except for the death penalty, which is quite complete and strictly enforced."
"The Big Man had already committed the crime of certain death."
"So he put everyone who knew about it to the torch. I don't know if it was guilt or conscience that finally saved the lives of the two little girls. But they were also abandoned to the wilderness, and the initial thought was probably that they intended to leave them alone."
"Thanks to all the hunters in this world, they are vile, they are shameless, they are evil, but they will not lay their hands on human cubs. In that sense, having a conscience is perhaps the uppermost nobility."
"The children grew day by day, and when they were not children, malice came again. Beauty once again becomes a spell of death."
"The good thing is that children are no longer children. The hunter died of carelessness. The two young maidens set out on a journey to the end of their lives."
"Do you know how hard it is for two girls with no identity to move an inch in the League? Especially when those two girls are beautiful."
"So they have the stain of crime on them. It's not big, but it's still punishable."
"But... who's going to punish the big man of the year?"
"Life, it's so unjust, even with a different master, the girls still didn't get their revenge."
"It's really lamentable, two girls with little substance who still don't know who their enemies are. Will their master tell them?"
"He erased all the records of the girls' crimes and created new identities.Oak Snow and Oak Dream. Really, it's a gift! They have surnames as noble and ancient as 'Dragon Master'!"
"But will he avenge them?"
"Professor Rope...will you?"
Everyone looked at Rope. only Rope locked eyes with Taito across the screen.
There was a sneering smile on his naive face. Like he was mocking Rope for being just another son of a bitch who liked to play chess too.
Lance had a complicated look on his face, and he certainly knew what the Dragon Master family was like. He knew what the Dragon Master family was all about. So Lance wouldn't be surprised if something like this really happened.
Rope was silent for a while, then spoke, ''I'm actually looking forward to the moment when they take revenge on their own. Besides...the little scheme you were going to play has failed."
"Snow, Vision, you all heard it. What I told you guys before was not meant to comfort you. Your father is not a sinner. His sins were planted by others. Your father is actually a very famous trainer!"
"His name was Koki, a genius who was very good at Ghost- and Ice-type Pokémon back in the day."
Rope removed the communicator from his collar, then said seriously.
"Your enemy is still alive, and I will keep him alive until the moment you take revenge yourselves. If the Dragon Master family won't allow it, then let's see if they want to turn their backs on a human who represents the interests of the gods."
Lance and the two behind him went numb...more than just the undercover agent had been listening all along.
Rope had known about these things for a long time too...
Especially Lance, his face is now a complicated batch...you say to persuade Rope not to do it...this thing is still not done? What about conscience?
If you want to say to do it... he can't clap his hands and applaud ah, in the end, this is his own family, maybe it's also the elder who is closer to him...
But the one with the most complicated face was Taito who heard that...
There really is such a person... to turn against his best friend's family for two of his men, and to talk like this in front of his best friend...
There is such a person, who will tell the person concerned everything upfront, without leaving any cards to hold them hostage.
There really is this kind of person, willing to turn his back on one of the biggest families in the League for two undercover agents who can be abandoned at any time...
Such a guy...really exists...
"If that's your sincerity. I think you can go to hell."
Lance's tone was eerie, like a ghost from the spirit world.