Ultimately, after Team Rocket and Team Flare agreed to discuss the specific implementation plan in the Kalos region next month, the two sides ended the call.
“What do you think?”
After ending the call with Lysandre, Giovanni turned to look at Joker.
“Perfect, a meeting between the heads of two major criminal organizations, leading to one being killed due to disagreements, isn't that great?”
Su Sheng's rhetorical question immediately made Giovanni understand his meaning.
Lysandre and Siebold serve as the chairman and Elite Four member of the Kalos League, respectively, and without evidence, it's indeed not appropriate for Su Sheng to target them with his public identity.
After all, you don't have any evidence.
But using the identity of Joker is fine.
He's a wanted criminal registered with the League!
“I originally thought that if they didn't bother me, I would just leave them alone, but now that they've come, I might as well wipe them out in one go,” Su Sheng said.
He never took Team Flare seriously from beginning to end.
But since you've already stuck your neck out, it would be impolite of this Su official not to chop it off.
“Joker's reputation is quite good now, is that okay?” Giovanni asked, thinking of something else.
Since the Lental region incident, Joker's reputation has improved quite a bit.
As early as last year's Indigo Plateau Conference, after Giovanni revealed the "truth" about Joker joining Team Rocket, he attracted many fans, Marnie being a typical example.
Many new members who joined Team Rocket this year came for Joker.
And the Lental region incident half a year ago further increased Joker's reputation.
If Joker killed Lysandre, and did so before Lysandre's identity as the boss of Team Flare was made public, then his reputation would definitely be greatly reduced.
“Uncle, do you think I care about that?” Su Sheng asked with a smile.
In the manga, Red was almost broken by Team Rocket because at that time, the Team Rocket Executives forced Red to submit by saying, "If you don't show yourself, we will continue to launch terrorist attacks on the Sevii Islands."
So many citizens transferred their anger to Red and Blue, saying, "If it weren't for you, the Sevii Islands wouldn't have encountered this kind of thing."
Su Sheng, who was young in his previous life, felt angry when he saw this plot, but now he only finds it funny.
He doesn't want to be held too high; as long as I have no morals, no one can kidnap me!
“Heh~ I'm just confused,” Giovanni said, shaking his head and smiling.
Su Sheng took out his phone and replied "Okay" to Diantha.
Since he was going to Kalos anyway, he might as well join in the fun.
“It's a deal, I've already screenshotted the picture!” The Kalos Champion was afraid that Su Sheng would go back on his word and replied in seconds.
Su Sheng found it funny and asked, "Who are the participants?"
Before long, Diantha sent a document, which was the current list of players who had signed up for the Junior Cup.
Um--- a bunch of names that Su Sheng didn't recognize, 99% of whom were filler characters.
Just as Su Sheng was about to turn off his phone, a name actually caught his attention—Alain!
Su Sheng: ---
Could it be that Alain who uses Hydro Pump?
Su Sheng doesn't remember how old that kid is, but he's much taller than Ash, so he should be a few years older and already traveling.
Su Sheng doesn't have a good impression of Alain.
But the reason is not because of Hydro Pump, but more because—why wasn't he arrested and imprisoned?
Regardless of whether this guy was bewitched by Lysandre or blindly pursuing power in the early stage.
In the end, he still did a lot of terrible things for Lysandre.
Later, Siebold surrendered to Officer Jenny, probably went to jail, so why didn't Alain go to jail?
Is this differential treatment?
Glancing again at the names of the filler characters on the list, Su Sheng silently sent a message to Professor Oak.
Leaving the Celadon Game Corner, Su Sheng opened his phone to buy a plane ticket to the Kalos region.
He often takes Hoopa around when he has time, just to leave "teleport points" all over the world.
Because Hoopa's opening of a portal is like Fly in the game, it can only be opened in places he has already been to.
For example, if you say to Hoopa, "Go to Area Zero", Little Hoopa will only ask blankly, "Where is Area Zero?"
And after what happened with Siebold a few days ago, Hoopa has already left a teleport point in the Kalos region.
But if he's not in a hurry, Su Sheng still prefers the more adventurous way of walking or taking transportation.
At this time, Little Hoopa, who was playing games online, came over and said: "A Sheng, Mew said he wants to come out and play with us."
Su Sheng was a little surprised, that good-for-nothing dried fish cat actually wants to go out?
Hoopa said it was because there weren't any good games released recently that Mew was thinking about going out for a stroll.
Su Sheng, who occasionally plays online with Zoroark, thought about it.
Indeed, there haven't been any big hits in the past two months, and even the dog author is working hard to save manuscripts for the New Year because he has no games to play, waiting for February next year to arrive.
It's no wonder that dried fish cat wants to go out for a walk.
“Okay, let it come over,” Su Sheng thought about it and saw no reason to refuse.
Although this guy always wanted to get benefits from Grandpa Su every time he asked that dried fish cat for help in the past, their relationship was actually quite good.
Little Hoopa nodded and used Su Sheng's Pokedex to reply to Mew.
“Ouch!”
Accompanied by a young woman's exclamation, a shadow flashed before Su Sheng's eyes.
Seeing this, Su Sheng reflexively reached out and helped Sonia avoid falling to the ground.
“This, where is this? Uh---A Sheng?”
Sonia, wearing a white coat and black-framed glasses, was still a little confused.
Originally, she had just finished her morning work and was eating lunch with "Pikachu" as usual, but in the blink of an eye—
“Pikachu, you did this again!”
Sonia poked the forehead of the fake yellow-skinned mouse in her arms with her finger in annoyance.
She already knew that her Pikachu's teleportation was very powerful, but she didn't know its true identity.
“Pika Pika~”
The fake mouse tilted its head and acted cute.
“I plan to go to Kalos next, do you want to come along?” Su Sheng invited.
He suddenly remembered that after having Hoopa, he didn't ask the dried fish cat for help much, and he didn't go to see Sonia much either.
It's like treating people as tools, using them and then throwing them away.
“Oh~ Is the champion inviting me? How long ago was the last time you asked me to take a walk?” Sonia joked with a smile.
“Well-. Sorry, I'm busy.”
Su Sheng also felt that this was not good.
“Tch~ Then you have time to have a scandal with the Kalos Elite Four?” Sonia threw a beautiful white eye at Su Sheng.
Although she is Nessa's best friend, she was not pulled into Su Sheng's family group, so she doesn't know the true identities of Lysandre and Siebold, nor does she know that Siebold's previous behavior was just to prevent Su Sheng from telling the truth.
Su Sheng shrugged, he could only take the blame first.
Anyway, he had already taken advantage before.
Speaking of which, I don't know how far that kid Balzac has progressed, it's been half a year, if he hasn't hit a home run, he should at least be able to hug and kiss a few times, right?
The next day, Su Sheng and Sonia took a plane to Lumiose City in Kalos.
As soon as he walked out of the security check at Lumiose Airport, he was surrounded by reporters who had heard the news.
“Dr. Su Sheng, you refused the invitation of Unova Champion Alder to participate in the Junior Cup two months ago, why did you accept Champion Diantha's invitation now? Is it because you have a better impression of the Kalos region?”
“Is it because the opponent arranged for you is Elite Four Siebold? As expected, are you two in that kind of relationship?”
“But there are rumors that Elite Four Siebold has been frequently dating another young man of your age for the past six months, which is very similar to your situation, are you two playing your own games?”
Hearing the last question, Sonia, who was walking behind Su Sheng, was dumbfounded.
Playing your own games?
Is the way people date so fancy now?
“? Excuse me, are you Dr. Sonia from the Aether Paradise? Why are you coming to Kalos with Dr. Su Sheng?
Does your good sister Nessa know?”
Viola, the chief beauty reporter of Lumiose Television, noticed Sonia and immediately pointed the microphone at Sonia.
After joining Aether Paradise, Sonia also gained some fame in Alola.
Some time ago, she also discovered the Ultra Beast Buzzwole codenamed "UB02: Absorption" and notified Bea in time, and assisted Bea in capturing Buzzwole.
Su Sheng covered his temples.
The reporters in Kalos are as gossipy as ever.
If they could put their minds on serious matters, Team Flare wouldn't have been discovered until now, Su Sheng said: “Sonia is my good friend, she has been very tired from work recently, so I invited her to Kalos to play, I hope everyone doesn’t listen to the wind and rain, Kanto Champion Lance and Elite Four Lorelei also have a good relationship, but they have always been just friends, right?”
Viola and a group of reporters were stunned.
They really didn't expect Su Sheng to use Lance and Lorelei as examples.
Indeed, when Lance and Lorelei, who were childhood sweethearts of similar age, first became famous in Kanto, many people thought they were a couple.
But so many years have passed, anyone who isn't blind can see that these two are impossible.
But are you Su Sheng and Lance the same kind of person?
If Lance is in love, it will definitely be the number one trending search, but netizens are a little strange if you Su Sheng step on a few more boats.
“Get out! You reporters who are looking for trouble, didn’t you hear Su Sheng say that they are just ordinary friends?”
At this moment, an angry voice of a young age sounded.
The reporters looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was just a boy who looked seven or eight years old.
Gary!
“Su Sheng!” Gary waved enthusiastically.
“I thought your brother was coming,” Su Sheng was a little surprised.
He sent a message to Professor Oak yesterday, saying that if those kids from Pallet Town were free, they could come to Kalos to participate in this Junior Cup and let these new generations learn from each other.
I thought it was Blue who was coming, but it was Gary.
Well, definitely not because I wanted to put Alain on the pressure.
“My brother is starting from Kanto and will be slower, it’s faster to come from Alola,” Gary said with a smile.
The group walked quickly out of the airport hall, and the car arranged by Diantha was already waiting at the airport entrance.
“Thank you for accepting our invitation, Dr. Su Sheng,” Diantha, sitting in the passenger seat, turned halfway and said with a smile.
“It’s okay, I just wanted to invite my good friend Sonia to relax, she has been researching Ultra Beasts with Professor Burnet since she came to Alola, she’s too tired,” Su Sheng said with a light smile.
“Yes, yes, nice to meet you, Miss Sonia,” Diantha reached out to Sonia.
“Where, nice to meet you,” Sonia shook hands.
Diantha looked at Sonia's outstretched hand, and also saw the— behind that hand.
Diantha's face suddenly didn't look good.
Big, really big!
Diantha really wanted to ask Sonia what she usually eats to grow so big.
“That, that—————-Champion Diantha, is there anything else?” Seeing that Diantha didn't let go for a long time, Sonia couldn't help but ask.
“Sor, sorry,” Diantha hesitantly withdrew her hand.
“How sad—” Su Sheng couldn't help but sigh for Diantha.
I couldn't help but think of Blue who I met by chance at the Sea Cottage before, I feel that Diantha's combat power is about the same as Blue at 10 years old.
It is estimated that Blue at 11 years old next year will be able to surpass her.
“That—-before the Junior Cup starts, I have a Master Class performance match in the evening, if you don’t mind, everyone can come and watch it,” Seeming to ease the awkwardness, Diantha took out a few tickets from the sachet she carried with her and handed them to Su Sheng.
“Master Class——-”satellite match? What, what is it?” Gary asked, reading the strange competition name.
“A competition held only in the Kalos region, unlike traditional battles, it focuses more on the ornamental and performance aspects,” Su Sheng explained.
“Similar to the Contest Spectacular?” Gary asked subconsciously.
Recently, regions such as Kanto and Sinnoh have also begun to hold Contest Spectaculars under the strong promotion of Hoenn Champion Wallace.
His sister Nanami went to participate, and Gary himself had watched it several times.
“It’s not quite the same, Contest Spectaculars basically only have two steps—obtaining high scores by showing the charm of Pokemon through moves and battles, while the performance themes of satellite matches are different each time, sometimes it’s the same as Contest Spectaculars, showing the charm of Pokemon through moves, sometimes it’s dressing up your partner, sometimes it’s working with your Pokemon to make desserts——.”
As the top performer in the Kalos region, Diantha carefully explained to everyone.
However, Gary didn't give any face and waved his hand: “I’m not interested, I’ll find a place to train Stufful and Swablu, and strive to win the first championship before the official adventure.”
“Want to go see it?” Su Sheng turned his head to look at Sonia.
Sonia pursed her lips, “Well, then let’s go see it.”
Before long, Su Sheng and his party stayed at the most famous Sycamore Hotel in Lumiose City.
In the evening, as they were preparing to watch the satellite competition, Xiao Mao said, "Brother Su Sheng, my brother and the others have arrived. I'm going to pick them up. I'll leave first."
Really? What a coincidence?
Su Sheng didn't think too much about it and invited Sonia out for dinner together.
"Going out to eat? Aren't you afraid of being photographed?"
Sonia joked.
"Anyway, I have enough news on me. What about you? Aren't you afraid of being misunderstood by Leon?"
Su Sheng retorted with a smile.
"Don't mention that idiot to me!"
Sonia's face instantly fell, her smile disappearing.
It had been over a year since she left Galar, and that guy hadn't even called her once.
She wasn't some clingy person who had to chase after him.
Su Sheng didn't comment on this.
Leon and Lance, although their personalities were worlds apart, were equally clueless when it came to dealing with women.
When they arrived at the theater where the satellite competition was being held, unsurprisingly, Su Sheng and Sonia were surrounded by a group of fans.
Su Sheng helplessly shouted, "If we don't go in, the competition is about to start."
"Dr. Su Sheng, according to investigations, Dr. Sonia was childhood friends with Galar Champion Leon, and Elite Four member Siebold has also been frequently seen with a young man in public places in the past six months. Do you have a preference for women with boyfriends?"
A male fan asked.
Bewear suddenly jumped out of its Poké Ball and pushed the male fan away.
Its terrifying aura scared the surrounding audience from approaching.
Su Sheng silently gave Bewear a thumbs up.
When Su Sheng and Sonia sat down in the theater, Sonia suddenly asked, "Do you like people with boyfriends?"
Su Sheng's face grew darker.
Before long, the satellite competition officially began.
The large screen behind the stage began to show past competition videos of Diantha winning the "Kalos Queen" title when she was younger, although she is still young now.
Then, all the lights in the venue dimmed.
"Gardevoir, Moonblast."
Diantha's voice suddenly rang out.
A light pink ball of light rose from the center of the stage and gradually enlarged, turning into a full moon that enveloped the stage.
Diantha and Gardevoir appeared together.
The scene was filled with fervor.
"So beautiful!"
Sonia's eyes shone.
"The biggest difference from the Grand Festival is that the trainer has to perform with the Pokémon," Su Sheng analyzed.
Although the theme of the preliminary competition was different each time, as Diantha had said in the afternoon.
Sometimes it was cooking, sometimes it was making clothes, and sometimes it was even guessing riddles.
But in the later stages, they all showcased the charm of the Pokémon through moves, just like the performance stage of the Grand Festival.
The biggest difference was that in the Grand Festival, the trainer only needed to give commands, while the performer needed to participate themselves.
That's why Serena's outfits in the anime were basically never the same.
After Diantha's performance competition ended, the subsequent main matches of the other contestants were not as exciting.
Before the final outcome was revealed, Su Sheng and Sonia left, otherwise they would be blocked by fans again.
"Ms. Diantha and Gardevoir's performance was really amazing, especially the MEGA Evolution at the end, it was simply the finishing touch."
Sonia was still immersed in the performance.
Su Sheng smiled and said, "Why don't you give it a try?"
"Ah? Me?"
Sonia pointed at herself with a look of disbelief.
"Hey? This little girl is eating without paying!"
Just then, an unhappy scolding voice came from a dessert shop across the street.
The two subconsciously looked across the road.
They saw a child wearing a black robe, with a height estimated to be around one meter, being reprimanded by a dessert shop employee.
Many people were already looking over.
"Let's go take a look," Sonia said, walking towards the opposite side of the road. "Little friend, are you okay?"
Sonia, who had arrived, squatted down and gently patted the "girl" on the shoulder to comfort her, vaguely seeing rare light pink hair under the girl's hood.
"Are you her mother? Perfect, your daughter ate a bunch of cookies in my shop without paying, settle the bill."
The clerk said unpleasantly.
Sonia raised her eyebrows slightly.
Did she look like someone who had given birth to a child?
Sonia didn't say much and prepared to take out her wallet to pay the bill.
Looking at the child's attire, she was probably a homeless child who was too hungry to resist.
[He told me I could try anything]
Just then, a little girl's voice rang out.
But it wasn't coming from the girl's mouth, but echoing in everyone's minds.
Telepathy!?
