Rope looked down at the man tilting his head on the screen below and silently shook his head.
People are always like this, always thinking that the truth they find in certain clues is the biggest truth, the hidden secret that is not known to others. But in reality, the clues themselves meant incomplete information.
How can one get a complete image from incomplete information?
The three-dimensionality of that person's image is only what you think is three-dimensional.
He's still a broken human figurine, only parts of which have been painted in real colors, and the rest of which is just your letter scribbles.
Rope doesn't know what clues and rumors Taito got his image of the man behind his own hand from. But he did know that Taito was definitely not like Rai and Denki...those two guys seemed to have no bottom line, and in fact did have no bottom line.
They were more like true villains, whereas this Taito guy...seemed to have some unique sense of justice...
"Taito... give me useful information or you can die. You know Snow and Vision's identities and their relationship with me, but the two of them haven't had any other problems so far, and I have initial trust in you."
"But you know who they are, and I can't trust you completely, so now you want me to make me trust you, either..."
"Shut up forever..."
Rope wasn't hiding anything from anyone when he said that. It was only natural to defend your own men. Or else they would turn around and realize that all of their people had become scouts for the others.
Rope wasn't saying this because Snow and Vision were listening, he was still reserved enough to evacuate Snow and Vision first if they were in any danger instead of waiting there to die.
"I..."
Taito's plans were disrupted, and honestly, right now his mind was still in a daze. Other than that time when Quarterfinal was put on the spot by that big brother who suddenly withdrew from the competition, this was the second time his plans were disrupted.
The point was, his plan had already reached the end, and now it was suddenly disrupted. There was no way to wrap it up. In other words, the plan, failed.
What he didn't know was that just a moment ago, Rope's and their plans had also failed.
Rope and Lance originally thought that they would rely on intimidation to get as much information as possible, and then after draining this guy's value, they would just place him in a random place.
But after the failure, they were really planning to talk to Taito seriously. Because judging from his performance just now, this guy Taito had a strong desire to perform. If they really didn't fulfill his demands, then in the end, Rope and Lance didn't know what would come out of it.
So the best option now was not to threaten a guy who wasn't afraid of death, but to negotiate a deal...
I'm afraid even Water himself doesn't know. This so-called Pathfinder they sent here...
Is a madman...
"I don't know if you really have some sense of justice or simply want to disgust us. But I can make the call here, as long as the information you give is important, then we can make a deal."
Rope reassured again.
"I'm a man of my word."
After a few moments, Taito finally came back to his senses. he didn't want to believe every word Rope said, but seriously, there was nothing left for him to doubt.
If he couldn't get value out of it, then he'd be an outcast in the truest sense of the word.
Rope might not like chess. But the guys in the organization who were hiding their heads were really into this game of chess.
"It's hard to find out information about anyone other than Snow and Vision. These people disguise themselves well, or rather... they were meant to have a certain strength and status to be able to disguise themselves."
"But Snow and Vision are different, both of their information is also hard to find out, but if I'm willing to put in the work, I can still find out. But you don't have to worry too much, what you've done is actually very beautiful, if I hadn't had the experience of checking this kind of stuff Ben, I don't think I would have been able to find it out."
"And Snow and Vision's news I cover very tightly, after checking it also put the information you missed to please scan again, although I do not dare to guarantee if there are still people who can check it out. But I can guarantee it's definitely not the workload of ten days and half a month anymore."
Taito decided to show a bit of his sincerity first. After all, judging from Rope's behavioral actions just now, this guy was still quite defensive of Snow and Vision. Then it wouldn't be a loss to use Snow and Vision to show Rope a favor first.
"I can give you the information you want, which involves speculation about the true identity of the other Agent. And the true purpose of my coming here."
Taito's eyes were cool, and his face looked a fraction colder even after the absence of his naive smile.
"But as you all know...I'm not actually afraid of these things."
This he said looking at the Pokémon outside the cage, his tone full of sarcasm.
"Death is something I'm not afraid of at all. My terms, then, are League's identity, a completely clean one, and at the same time, a declaration that I'm dead...and as for why I'm doing that...that involves the last piece of information I'll give you, so let's leave it at that for now."
"Finally, money, a large sum of money, and a promise not to embarrass me, guaranteed by the name of Professor Rope, or Champion Lance."
"Of course, there are a lot of little problems attached to that. Such things as common sense about the inner workings of the organization, I will tell you all about them."
"So, my request, is it still reasonable?"
Taito smiled confidently. Seriously. These conditions of his really just couldn't be simpler.
Money that wasn't worth anything to League. A commoner's identity, plus a promise of non-aggression. This was simply a big sale!
What reason did League have not to agree to his demands?
"There's no reason for us not to grant his request."
Lance looked at the three people beside him and shook his head as he said seriously, "This person's intelligence is important to us. It's because this person's information can give us enough clues about this organization to determine whether it's a friend or foe."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Rope as if asking for Rope's opinion.
"I don't have an opinion," Rope shook his head, "I shouldn't have been involved in this in the first place. You guys have actually violated the law, so if you don't produce a little bit of results, the ones who are in politics won't give you a hard time, but a secret laugh is still inevitable."
Rope's point was also clear, if they didn't want this prestigious operation to be reduced to a joke, then they'd better agree to Taito's demands. This was their source.
And League needed a source of their own.
Rope is a League citizen, not a League employee, and getting involved in something like this is crossing the line itself.
Lorelei and Jenny Qin looked at each other, then back at the two men whose faces weren't really that good. One could only nod.
Although they were involved in this operation. But the leader and person in charge of this operation was Lance, and as long as Lance said that he had agreed, then everyone else's thoughts were optional.
And it was true that they had heard enough gossip today.
——————————
"Sis," Vision but a worried glance at her sister, "are you alright."
Snow gently exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, then revealed a bright smile, touched his own sister's head and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine, just some emotions."
These two sisters looked exactly the same, and when the two were looking at each other it was like looking in a mirror. Only to see a similar but not identical self.
"The two of us have been unlucky for more than twenty years, and we are finally lucky."
Snow had a one-point satisfied smile on his face.
For people who were born unfortunate. A little luck would be worth being happy.
What's more, meeting Rope wasn't small luck!
——————————
"'Water', my boss in the organization, a guy with a Kyogre mask." Taito said seriously as he sat in his own chair and looked across at Rope and Lance.
"I've talked to him a few times, and I have some vague guesses as to who he is."
"You checked him out?" Lance asked.
"Checked, but nothing much. I've checked basically everyone in the organization. But not too many of them got the information. And of the Agents, it's even more so that Snow is the only one whose information is accessible."
The room was still the same, only it was Rope they walked down. The surveillance room was still being watched by Jenny Qin and Lorelei yet, who needed to take notes on this interrogation.
"So, Water's identity is just a guess on your part." Rope said with a frown.
"Yeah, and the identities of the others, I had guesses but none of them were much use. Even if I were guessing, I'm looking from people who are already widely known, but it's probably more unknown people that are their true identities."
Taito spoke helplessly and seriously. The man was under the roof, and now he could only say whatever Rope asked.
"You go on about Water."
Rope nodded then said.
"I suspect that Water is Poloson, that well known rookie director from the Kalos area."
Rope and Lance's eyebrows just wouldn't stop furrowing tonight.
"Poloson...I've heard of him and seen his movies. Tell us the reasoning behind your judgment."
Lance asked as he opened his mouth.
Poloson was indeed a famous man, his debut movie made a large group of movie lovers go crazy when it debuted on the big screen. He was also the only director in the movie circle, the movie circle, who was able to get Diantha and Sabrina to appear on the same screen.
It shows just how strong the man's appeal is in the movie world.
Seriously, Rope, who had seen the blockbusters of his previous life, still didn't feel any sense of rejection when he watched the Pokémon Hollywood movies. At most, it felt like every movie was like Detective Pikachu.
After all, every movie has Pokémon in it.
But the kind of movie in the game that purely focuses on Pokémon as the main character is rarely seen. It's more of a story between trainers.
"Water and I actually disguised ourselves pretty well the few times we met. But I spent quite a bit of time with him. You have to realize that after spending a lot of time with someone who wants to get along, a person will bring you a sense of familiarity, no matter what kind of situation the person appears in."
"That time I saw an interview with Poloson on TV, and I obviously saw Poloson for the first time, but I still thought the man looked familiar. I'm in intelligence, and I knew that there had to be some special reason behind this perverse feeling."
"So, I carefully recalled all the points that might have intersected with Poloson. And then realized... the only point I could find that I wasn't sure wasn't connected to Poloson was 'Water'."
"So in conversations with Water afterward, I would occasionally and unintentionally display my love of movies and some curiosity about the film industry. He would always answer my doubts, consciously or unconsciously."
"Up to this point, I got about to speculate on the identity of the person who was interested in Water. There is a big possibility that he is that rookie director who is quite famous now.Poloson."
Taito's words were spoken with such righteousness that Rope couldn't wait to add a Conan bgm to them.
The reasoning process sounds simple enough, but the cause and later very confidently lining up the cause and effect were extremely difficult things to do, not to mention getting words out of the mouth of another guy with a pretty wary mind. Every step here was easy to say, but a lot harder to do.
Even Jenny Qin was quite moved, if what this guy in front of her said was true, then letting this person become a police officer to get it was also a good choice.
After all, as long as one was not a member of Jenny's family, it would be impossible to truly be in the top echelons of the hierarchy. If you're a frontline cop, feel free to arrange it.
Rope tapped the desk with the pen in his hand and lifted his head, eyes fixed on the ceiling as if he was thinking about something.
Lance was reacting pretty much the same way, in short, thinking.
And Taito didn't say anything, just silently watching the two, seriously, he was still confident in his reasoning. But the only point of difference.
Poloson was fat, but Water was thin.
This could of course be camouflage; after all, with Ditto around, there wasn't much point in basic recognitions like body type, or even face.
After a moment, Rope's nib tapped hard, as if he had made up his mind about something. Then she looked at Taito with a smile and said, ''Okay, the first piece of information, count yourself as passing. Let's talk about the next intelligence."
——————————
"It must be a lie, Poloson has Elite Four level strength, and all the Agents have at least one or two Pokémon with Elite Four level strength. it's that all of them together can't be bigger than the one called Arceus."
"Even if that group of guys in Kalos region are watery as hell, but Elite Four level save the world Elite Four level ah!"
Lance had a look of disbelief on his face, "It's true that League might not have found some well-hidden powerhouses. But these people can still all be found by this Servants of God organization???"
"I don't want to believe it either, but every conclusion he says is logically unproblematic."
Rope rubbed his temples as well, this night did seem a bit too much information. But that was a good thing too.
He was suddenly glad he was involved in this one this time.
Perhaps the clue to his main quest 'Salvation' was in the middle of this ah.