Giovanni hung up the phone, and there was no joy or sorrow in his eyes, as he tapped the head of Persian in his arms with his index and middle fingers.
The Persian in his arms dared not move a muscle.
As the Pokémon that knew Giovanni best, he knew very clearly, Giovanni was angry.
"Matori!"
"Boss, I'm here."
"Help me check with Kanto's Masked Man, see if he ever abducted a child named Silver."
"Understood."
Matori stepped back, tapped away in front of a specially-made machine, and data streams reflected in his glasses.
"Boss, Masked Man indeed has a child named Silver on his side, but…"
"But what?"
"But he doesn't seem to have joined Masked Man's faction willingly."
"According to our intelligence, he's been on the run for a while and is currently not with Masked Man."
"I understand."
Giovanni's mind raced with countless thoughts.
As Team Rocket's important partner in the Johto region, Giovanni knew very clearly that years ago, Masked Man had once gone on a spree of abducting young children.
Based on the timeline, the period when his own child went missing matched that timeframe.
"You're abducting kids right under my nose now?", Giovanni muttered to himself.
"Send people to release Entei, Raikou, and Suicune, and also help me find a strand of Silver's hair."
"If Silver is my child, then send people to smash up Casey's gym."
Matori didn't ask anything further and simply nodded.
Although doing this didn't align with Team Rocket's interests, Team Rocket itself only existed due to Giovanni, it was the extension of Giovanni's will.
Even if Giovanni asked them to attack the League, there wouldn't be many in Team Rocket who would refuse.
Just a mere ally's gym? Smashing it was nothing.
After Matori left, Giovanni's expression slightly softened as he stroked the Poké Ball meant to contain Mewtwo.
Although Masked Man was a very respectable ally, no one, no matter who, was allowed to touch Giovanni's son.
"Masked Man, oh Masked Man, I hope you have some self-awareness."
"Otherwise, I'll just have to kill you once..."
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Early the next morning, a "Rotom~ Rotom" sound rang out.
He was just about to release Duraludon and toss it out the window when he suddenly felt something was off.
'This doesn't seem like Gyarados's wake-up method?'
Seeing that the contact name was Norton, Axel adjusted Rotom to a view angle only he could see.
"Teacher Norton, is something the matter?"
["There is,"] Norton's face was practically plastered to the screen, looking excitedly at Axel, ["You kid are amazing. Silently pulling off such a huge thing."]
["Yesterday afternoon a bunch of Officer Jennys came to our school. I thought someone caused trouble, but turns out you created a personalized tactic for them!"]
"So?", Axel blinked.
["So the principal decided to directly grant you enough graduation credits and asked me to see if you'd be willing to become our university's strategy advisor professor."]
Axel was momentarily stunned.
If he remembered correctly, he had just enrolled as a freshman.
How did he end up becoming a professor?
"No thanks. I'll be going to Blueberry Academy soon as an exchange student. How can I fight if I become a professor?"
["You're going to be an exchange student?"]
Looking at Norton's excited expression, Axel helplessly sighed.
"I clearly told you before. You really don't pay attention..."
"Besides all this, please help me with one more thing."
Norton awkwardly scratched his head and instantly opened the memo app on his phone.
["Don't worry, I definitely won't forget this time."]
"Alright, then I'll begin," Axel started explaining his plan to deal with Masked Man in the coming days.
"After I revealed my Dynamax ability, someone in Johto started watching me. He declared that he'd come to fight me in a few days."
"I've already recruited Leon and Raihan as reinforcements and plan to set the battle in the western mountains of the Central Ninox Region."
"You help plan an event so I can appear legitimately and lower the opponent's guard."
["Wait a second!"], Norton was still taking notes diligently, but when he heard the names Leon and Raihan, his hand began to tremble slightly.
'Someone wants to fight you, so you brought Leon and Raihan?'
'Does the person who wants to fight you know what he's getting into?'
'Also... with Leon already on your side, you're still talking about lowering his guard?'
["You're a bit too cautious, aren't you?"]
Axel smiled, "Being cautious isn't so bad. After all, the opponent's pretty capable."
["Who are they? I'll take Ninox University's security team and arrest him directly!"]
"The masked man from the Johto region."
Norton: o(゚Д゚)っ
'Masked man from Johto?'
'And you were talking so casually just now?'
'I thought you were being targeted by some street punks outside campus…'
["Don't worry. I'll plan the event with Officer Jenny and set up external security properly."]
A few minutes later, Axel's Rotom received a message from Norton.
[I just contacted the Officer Jenny high commander in the Aurient region. She happens to be in Ninox University right now.]
[Two days from now, we'll hold an event in the western mountains where you'll be awarded the honorary instructor position of the Jenny family.]
Axel replied with a "thanks," then set his phone aside.
It was rare to wake up early, and he didn't intend to waste the time.
Just yesterday, a very interesting tag was revealed. He could try equipping it.
In the battle against the Team Rocket trio, even though Axel used traded Pokémon, the battle rewards were still credited to him.
[Mechanical Creation (Gold): The Gray Wolf of the Pokémon world. Building a Gundam by hand is a piece of cake.]
This tag was very interesting. In the Pokémon worldview, strange and bizarre man-made devices often appeared.
There were robots that could tank Pikachu, flying ships and castles that could go head-to-head with legendaries.
Although Axel didn't plan to develop in that direction, occasionally using it for a bit of sleight-of-hand wasn't bad.
The moment he dragged the tag from his inventory into his character slot, a flood of obscure knowledge instantly appeared in his mind.
Structural knowledge, material knowledge, mechanical knowledge… instantly integrated in his brain.
"So it's that simple~", Axel grinned and stood up to collect some flower petals that had been blown down by the wind from the balcony.
A few seconds later, with his hands flipping up and down, the petals had turned into three delicate bouquets.
Axel walked up to the alert Pheromosa and stuffed the bouquets into her hands.
Pheromosa took the bouquet from Axel, her pretty face slightly blushing as she buried her head in Axel's neck.
The next moment, a dazzling white light suddenly appeared on her body.
Because they were pressed so closely together, Axel could clearly feel that Pheromosa's body was undergoing some changes.
When the white light faded, Pheromosa's appearance had changed drastically from before.
Her originally skinny body became curvaceous and well-developed, and a shiny black-gold crown appeared on her head.
Her purple pupils exuded a noble aura, making anyone who glanced at her feel ashamed of their own filth.
Just like a noble queen.
Pheromosa, Bond Evolution.
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