Even Rika, who was only meeting with Kotone for the second time and hadn't even exchanged a word with her, could tell.
The reason this girl wanted to be a reporter was for Su Sheng.
"Kotone, it's true that not everything the Alliance says is true, but there is one thing that I did."
Su Sheng said at this moment:
"I did take the Jewel of Life for my own selfish desires, oh, that's the Shinnoh artifact mentioned in the news."
"I'm not worth you doing anything for me, your dreams are your own, don't change them because of others."
Su Sheng never claimed to be a gentleman, otherwise he wouldn't have cooperated so deeply with Sakaki.
To strengthen his Pokémon, he could also snatch things from others.
And Su Sheng didn't want Kotone, this innocent and lively little girl with a pure heart, to deify him.
"It wasn't you who stole it, the Jewel of Life in that woman's hand was fake anyway."
Rika couldn't help but interject.
In her opinion, the previous news from the Alliance through the media saying "Joker stole the treasures of the Shinnoh region" was fake news.
The Jewel of Life in Shirona's hand was a fake.
It wasn't stealing at all, at most it was a lucky find.
"You, you are... Joker's companion! ?"
Seeing Rika suddenly interject, Akane immediately guessed her identity.
At this moment, Rika was wearing large sunglasses that covered half of her face, and ordinary people wouldn't associate her with that.
But that conspicuous gray hair, plus being here by chance.
It was difficult for Akane not to think in that direction.
"Alright,"
Su Sheng stopped Rika, got up and raised his hand to stroke Kotone's light red hair.
"Don't do such dangerous things again in the future, go back to Johto early."
Su Sheng said gently:
"I don't know why, but seeing you, I'm reminded of those things from a year ago, our meeting this time is a joy."
Kotone, who was feeling the warm touch from her forehead, suddenly noticed that the top of her head was empty.
Turning her head to look, she found a figure walking further and further away in her sight.
And that tall woman wearing sunglasses quickly followed.
Kotone's heart felt empty, and she pursed her lips, wanting to say something.
But seeing the figure beside the other person, although she couldn't see her face, she could tell from the back that she was definitely a top-notch beauty, she didn't know what to say.
Just then, Kotone suddenly realized something important and shouted:
"Jo... Brother!"
Noticing that there were other passing citizens nearby, Kotone changed her words in time.
Su Sheng paused.
Only to hear Kotone behind him muster up the courage to shout again:
"That, that person lied!"
"He didn't know through what Team Plasma or anything."
"He said he can see the future!"
Other passing Nimbasa City citizens nearby heard this, and saw Kotone's little loli appearance.
They just thought it was children playing around or playing house.
They didn't take it to heart at all.
Only Su Sheng and Rika, who had just personally experienced the Lostlorn Forest incident, instantly understood what Kotone meant.
She was talking about Unova's wealthy Gut Munny!
"This! ?"
Rika suddenly changed her expression.
Gut Munny knew the whereabouts of their three people by seeing the future?
Co, could there be such a thing! ?
At this time, Su Sheng suddenly raised his hand, waved it behind Kotone, and then disappeared into the crowd with Rika.
"Hoo..."
Akane slumped into the seat.
No matter what, this matter was over.
But... should I tell Grandpa?
Akane thought tangledly.
But she felt that it was better to keep this matter to herself.
Although she was very close to her grandfather, Akane also understood that her grandfather was the most bottom-ranked among the Gym Leaders in the Indigo League.
He didn't have much say, and knowing too much wouldn't do any good.
"That... Kotone, where are we going to play in Unova next? Or are we going back to Johto?"
Akane pulled her best friend who was still staring blankly in the direction where Su Sheng left.
Kotone finally came back to her senses and said resolutely:
"Go back to Johto, I want to continue learning knowledge!"
"Ah?"
"I want to be a reporter! I want to be a news anchor! I want to tell the truth to people all over the world! Joker is a good person, definitely, definitely!"
Kotone tightly grasped the pink circle.
Akane:……
So all those words Joker said earlier were for nothing?
"That, that, Kotone, look, Joker has a female companion by his side, this..."
Seeing that simple methods couldn't help her best friend escape the sea of suffering, Akane decided to use some strong medicine.
Look, Joker has a woman, the kind that is inseparable.
And at first glance, you can tell that she is definitely a top-notch beauty.
Even if you get more involved, it won't make sense, right?
Kotone had already taken off her contact lenses and put on her round-frame glasses, blinking her eyes:
"Actually... I can be a mistress."
Akane:……
Okay, okay, whatever you want to do, I don't care!
……
……
When I woke up the next day to prepare breakfast.
Reports about the Alliance Trio VS the Criminal Trio have swept the entire Pokémon continent, starting from Unova.
Photos of the devastated Lostlorn Forest were on the front pages of many news reports, including reports and interviews with Unova elites who participated in the operation.
Unova's number one beauty, and also Nimbasa Gym Leader Elesa, accepted an interview with the Driftveil Daily: "Through this battle, I saw the gap between myself and Ms. Cynthia and others. I will also strengthen my training. In the face of powerful enemies, I won’t be so weak. Haha, to be honest, I was taken down by Joker in one face-to-face encounter. Ah? How did Ms. Cynthia and others win? No, I'm sorry, I fainted at the time, and I didn't see it."
When it came to the end, Elesa's bright smile turned into embarrassment, and she hurriedly ended the interview.
She was afraid of revealing the truth if she continued to speak.
Compared to Elesa, who was about the same age as Su Sheng and the others, Clay was obviously much more experienced. He said to the reporter from the Nimbasa Television Station: "It's a pity that you didn't see yesterday's duel. Of course, I didn't witness the whole picture either, because I was only responsible for guarding the exit of Lostlorn Forest to prevent Joker and the others from escaping, but even on the periphery, I could see the tragic nature of the battle, especially the combination of moves by Lance of the Indigo League. It is no exaggeration to describe it as 'earth-shattering'. Our young people in Unova have to work hard, don't be surpassed by Kanto and Johto."
In other regions, Sinnoh's best-selling Jubilife Daily reported: "According to Chairman Damarack's statement, Shirona of our Sinnoh League is the commander-in-chief of this team. Perhaps Lance of the Indigo League is indeed slightly better than our Shirona in terms of strength, but Shirona's command ability and leadership skills are far above the Dragon Master, and many Sinnoh Gym Leaders said that the reason why Lance can beat our Shirona in strength is only because he was born a few years earlier. I believe that in no more than five years, Shirona will be able to surpass Lance!"
Hoenn's Mauville Television: "We have previously reported that Steven Stone and Wallace of Sootopolis Gym will become the future twin walls of our Hoenn League. According to internal news we have obtained, Steven's role in this operation is immeasurable. The reason why he did not get the position of commander-in-chief is only because he is too low-key."
Goldenrod City Airport, Johto Region.
Akane yawned and said goodbye to her best friend, preparing to return to the Gym.
She spent the whole night on the plane yesterday, and she didn't sleep well. She planned to go home and catch up on her sleep.
Kotone, who returned home, listened to the reports praising Lance, Shirona and others.
She only felt stiff, her fists were stiff.
One day, I will tell the truth to the world.
Kotone returned to her room and opened her computer, which contained all the news reports about Joker that she had compiled.
She also made a PPT and drew a timeline.
Finally, Kotone set her sights on the Aspertia Gym attack, which was the watershed moment for Joker's reputation.
It was this incident that caused Joker's reputation to plummet.
Official reports claimed that Joker was a psychopath this time and deliberately retaliated against society.
But Kotone never believed this statement from beginning to end, and after talking to Su Sheng once, she became even more determined in this idea.
"Aspertia Gym... there must be a problem!"
……
……
Kotone and Akane flew back to Johto overnight from Unova.
Some people also flew to Unova overnight from Johto.
This person was Damarack, the chairman of the Pokémon League.
And beside him, there were Lorelei and Bruno, two Elite Four members, and Agatha, the current Indigo League Champion, following to protect him.
Well, Alder is not here again.
Forget it, forget it, his father pays so much money every year, just turn a blind eye.
The League's special plane stopped in Lacunosa Town, Unova. The Unova League headquarters is located in the northern area of the city.
Under the personal protection of the Indigo League's highest combat power, Damarack came to the entrance of the Unova League headquarters building.
The Unova League chairman, who is also Iris's guide and the elder of the Village of Dragons, had been waiting here for a long time.
"It's been hard for you to come early in the morning, Chairman."
The elder greeted with a smile.
"Not at all, old friend."
Damarack returned with a smile, and was about to enter the door with the other party.
Boom!
At this moment, an exaggerated loud noise came from inside the building.
The power was so great that the ground trembled.
Damarack was stunned, "What's the situation?"
The elder sighed, "That child has been like that ever since he woke up this morning."
The elder led Damarack and Lorelei and Bruno to the indoor training ground inside the building.
"Dragonite! Use Dragon Rush with maximum power!"
"Hakamo-o! You two need to be faster! You need to reinforce Dragonite at the first time!"
"Aerodactyl! Pay attention to observing the situation on the field, you are the eyes of this team!"
"Gyarados... alas, you need to improve in all aspects, you know?!"
As soon as they arrived at the door, the three people from Kanto heard a familiar voice through the door.
Lorelei and Bruno looked at each other.
The elder showed a helpless expression, "He has been in this state since he woke up this morning until now."
"Let me do it."
Damarack looked serious and stepped forward to pull down the door handle.
Hearing the sound of the door opening behind him, Lance, who was facing away from the door, said impatiently:
"Didn't I say that I would go to the meeting room when the time comes?!"
"Lance."
Hearing Damarack's voice, Lance, who was sweating profusely, trembled.
The "Dragons" who were undergoing hellish training also stopped their movements in unison.
"Are you taking your anger out on your Pokémon?"
Damarack, who was usually like Santa Claus and always smiling, looked cold at this moment.
"No, no!"
After hesitating for a second, Lance increased his tone.
Damarack glanced at the scarred Dragonite and the others. This training intensity obviously exceeded the limit of Pokémon.
"Why did you lose?"
Damarack asked again.
"I, I don't know..."
Lance, who was the number one pretender in the Pokémon League, may have shown such a confused expression for the first time.
He didn't know either, how did he lose!?
At that time, what exactly did that Joker guy do?
"Then what are you getting angry about here? If you have this time, you might as well review the battle situation at that time, so as not to make the same mistakes."
Damarack said with disappointment.
If you have time to be incompetent and furious, you might as well think more about why you lost.
"...Yes, Chairman."
Lance finally calmed down a little.
After taking his Dragons back into their balls, Lance followed Damarack to the meeting room.
Lorelei frowned slightly, thinking about how to comfort her old colleague.
However, Bruno raised his hand and pressed Lorelei's shoulder, shaking his head to signal her not to say anything.
Although Lorelei had known Lance the longest, Lorelei obviously didn't understand men.
A man's self-esteem is both strong and fragile.
Lance at this time is like a woman who has her period.
Don't do anything, otherwise he will explode at the slightest touch.
The best way is to let time solve it.
……
"Sorry, we're late."
Damarack said to everyone in the meeting room as he entered.
Many people had already gathered in the room.
Shirona and Steven, who also participated in the Lostlorn Forest operation, Blue, a Johto police officer who had fought with Joker, and Looker, an elite International Police officer who was secretly investigating Joker's whereabouts...
"It's okay, we just arrived too."
Professor Oak got up and smiled.
Agatha "hmph"ed and turned her face to the other side.
After everyone was seated, Damarack raised his hand and faced Shirona and Steven, who were sitting on his left.
"Shirona, Steven, please tell everyone what happened in yesterday's battle."
The reason why he didn't let Lance speak was because Lance was unpredictable like a Froslass, and the other reason was that he heard that Lance had fainted in the final stage of the battle.
He didn't witness the entire battle.
"Let me tell you,"
Steven got up and walked to the center of the meeting room, opened the slide and said: "The situation of the entire battle was basically Mr. Lance fighting Joker, I was fighting the psychic fatty, and Ms. Shirona was fighting the gray-haired masked woman."
As Steven spoke, photos of Su Sheng, Rika, and Itsuki wearing masks appeared on the projection.
Steven Stone pressed the remote, and Flannery's photo took over the entire screen.
Cynthia stood up and said,
"The Masked Woman is very strong and has many unexpected tactics, but I can basically handle them. However, her growth rate is very fast. Two months ago in Michina Town, I could completely suppress her, but yesterday, she fought with me for so long and didn't even fall behind. She's improving too quickly."
Steven nodded, brought up the photo of Anabel, and took the initiative to speak:
"The psychic little fatty's overall strength is not as good as the Masked Woman, let alone Joker, but his Pokémon, especially that Slowbro, is very strange. Hmm... Lorelei, could you release your Slowbro so I can use it as an example for everyone?"
Lorelei didn't waste any words and released her Slowbro.
Steven pointed at Slowbro's silly-looking face and then pointed at the Shellder biting Slowbro's tail, which looked annoyed.
"As everyone knows, Slowbro evolves when a Shellder bites a Slowpoke's tail. Strictly speaking, Slowbro should be a combination of two Pokémon, but the Slowpoke part dominates the body control, right? Dr. Oak."
Speaking of the end, Steven looked at Dr. Oak and asked.
"That's right,"
Dr. Oak walked up, pinched his chin, and said:
"So yesterday, Steven called me and said that both the Slowpoke and Shellder parts of the little fatty's Slowbro could release moves, and I was shocked."
"What did you say? Both places can use moves!?"
Lorelei was dumbfounded when she heard this.
Slowbro was considered one of her veterans, but she had never heard of this!
Not to mention Lorelei, the conference room was filled with exclamations.
"It sounds unbelievable, but that's the truth."
Steven explained with a wry smile:
"At the time, my Metagross was only fighting one Slowbro on the surface, but in reality, it was fighting two, so I couldn't take down the opponent for a while."
"That little fatty seems to call this ability... Parental Bond? Does Slowbro have this ability? Dr. Oak."
Professor Samuel Oak shook his head. "I've never heard of Slowbro having this ability. No, none of the Pokémon I've researched so far have this ability."
Molayne scratched his head. "A Pokémon being able to release two moves at the same time... that is indeed tricky."
Blue Jenny: "Joker's people always come up with new tricks."
Jasmine: "My Magneton is strictly speaking composed of three Magnemite, so can it release three moves at once?"
At this time, Lance, who had been silent in the corner, finally spoke:
"Whether it's that woman or that fatty, although they have some unorthodox methods, their overall strength is just so-so. We can just crush them directly. The key is Joker!"
Lance admitted that both Anabel and Flannery did have some tricks.
But with his absolute power, this ability was not worth fearing at all, the key was that guy!
Hearing this name, everyone who had seen that battle yesterday took a deep breath.
Alder nodded and said, "Indeed, we were guarding outside at the time and didn't see it. Cynthia, tell us about him... he has grown to a height that cannot be ignored."
Cynthia took the remote from Steven's hand and brought up a photo of Joker with a mischievous smile.
"First of all, it's his Umbreon."
"I don't know what he did, but his Umbreon can freely transform. At the beginning of the battle yesterday, it appeared as a Jolteon, then it became a new type of Ice-type Eevee, and then a Vaporeon..."
Dr. Oak:……
Alder:……
Drayden:……
Jasmine:……
No, no, they could understand every word Cynthia said, but why couldn't they understand what it meant when combined together?
It's raining heavily, I'm not going to see a doctor, let's see if I can heal myself.
