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It is said that a certain Master Wallace occupied Hoenn Champion Steven's office computer and engaged in a flame war with a certain person's fans on a forum for thousands of replies, until the very essence of the internet was obliterated.
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And in the end, it is said that Master Wallace's angry shouts echoed for a long time from the Hoenn Champion's office.
Hiss Hiss
"It's not over yet?"
Steven, who was sitting on the sofa browsing the forum, glanced at Wallace and saw that Wallace's face was unusually red, so red that it seemed to be steaming.
"I'm going to solo them offline!!"
Mr. Wallace was furious.
"They said I didn't dare to show my face, and that no one in the world could be as handsome as Mammon. They haven't even seen my cross-dressing photos, so how can they say I'm not as handsome as Mammon?"
"Uh..." Steven was stunned. "Then why don't you just post the photos?"
Putting everything else aside, if it was about cross-dressing photos, Steven felt that Wallace certainly had a lot of authority.
Wait, if you're comparing looks with Mammon, why are you bringing up your cross-dressing photos?
Steven suddenly noticed this point. Or is it, Hajime, have you already accepted that your cross-dressing photos are your pride?
Steven's handsome face showed a subtle expression.
"I am Wallace. Can I really get into a serious argument with some brainless fans?"
Mr. Wallace said righteously.
"Then your offline solo is...?"
"I used a female account to argue with them. So, I'll just go in cross-dress when I meet them, right? They won't recognize me. I must prove that I, Wallace, am the most beautiful man in the world!"
Master Wallace unleashed his astonishing wisdom.
"...Whatever makes you happy."
Steven opened his mouth, but still said that.
Mammon! You've really caused a lot of trouble! Look at what Wallace has become because of you!
Steven silently gave Mammon a thumbs up in his heart. Well, after all, his good brother cross-dresses as various beautiful women every day, and Steven found it quite pleasing to the eye.
In terms of eye candy, Steven felt he had never lost.
"And these few! I also want to challenge them to a fight! Damn it! Don't they have any sense? They even want to establish a Team Rockets fan club for Mammon???"
Damn it!
Hearing Wallace's resentful grumbling, Steven couldn't help but roll his eyes and lay down in a more comfortable position.
"Don't tell me you can't even beat Mammon's fans."
"Huh? Steven, who are you looking down on?"
Wallace was very displeased.
"I'm Wallace! How could I possibly not be able to beat a few brainless fans?"
Wallace did not deny that he had been captured by Team Rockets a few times, but who were his opponents? Mammon, Zinnia, Caitlin, Colress—each of them was a top executive of Team Rockets.
Wallace felt that being captured by them was not a blemish, but he couldn't beat Mammon's brainless fans?
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
"Hmph~ See, as soon as I said I wanted to solo, they chickened out, didn't they?"
Wallace snorted twice, very proudly.
Then he used a small account to create another thread, challenging all of Mammon's fans online!
Steven fell into thought.
He felt that ever since Wallace was forced by Mammon to take those photos that became popular online in Hoenn, Wallace had become more and more abstract, more and more like a comedian.
You, a dignified Master-level Coordinator Trainer and former Hoenn Champion, bother to argue with Mammon's fans online?
Because he couldn't beat Mammon, he bullied Mammon's fans.
Wallace, you've fallen.
"Hmm? There's actually someone who dares to accept the challenge? Tsk~ I admit your courage."
Wallace was a little surprised to see that someone actually responded to his small account's challenge.
'My dad is not Slaking'
Seeing this nickname, Wallace couldn't help but feel a bit troubled. This was clearly a child.
And he had just gotten carried away. If he really went to duel with some fans, it would really be beneath his dignity.
Unova region.
"Hilda!!!"
In the hotel suite in Nimbasa City, Rosa's scream made Hilda's ears buzz.
"Are you trying to kill me?! My ears are almost deaf!"
Hilda couldn't hold back and shouted back at Rosa directly.
"No, something big has happened!" Rosa ran to Hilda in a flurry, her tone unable to hide her excitement.
"Mammon is actually from Team Rockets!!"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
Hilda, who was about to say something, was stunned. Mammon is from Team Rockets? That's impossible.
And then...
More than half an hour later, Hilda had an expression of awe and admiration.
"Mammon He's so great!"
Hilda exclaimed.
"Woo~! As expected of the man I fancy! Ah ah ah ah ah!"
Rosa was already overly excited and started shouting.
"What's gotten into you now?"
"Hilda! What should I do? I really want to pin Mammon down and lick him fiercely right now! What should I do, what should I do? What do you think I should do?"
Rosa looked at Mammon in the video, her eyes glowing red. Cupping her cheeks, her fair and pure little face was now flushed with an abnormal blush.
"How can Mammon be so handsome, woo woo woo~ Ah ah ah ah!!"
Gulp...
Hilda swallowed, looking at her sister, who was ninety percent in a state of frenzy, and shifted her butt to move a little further away from Rosa.
No, have you been suppressing yourself to this extent?
"Be normal! You're scaring me, you idiot!"
"Oh..."
Rosa responded, returning to a somewhat normal demeanor.
Seeing this, Hilda finally felt a little relieved. Rosa just now had really scared her.
"Although I've always known that Mammon is not an ordinary person, I never expected him to have such a grand ideal~"
Hilda admired him endlessly. She didn't feel that Mammon's identity as the Team Rocket Leader was wrong in any way.
Rather, the fact that Mammon joined Team Rockets for only half a year and then ousted the former Team Rocket Leader to take his place, didn't that demonstrate Mammon's capabilities?
Especially when Mammon passionately told his story, Hilda deeply resonated with it.
A missing younger brother, a mother who passed away early, a busy father—and Mammon, who grew up in such an environment, still yearned for sunshine!
He really... I'm crying!
"Ah ah ah ah!! I also want to join Team Rockets. I must help Mammon fulfill his ideal!"
"...Can you lower your voice? And aren't we already considered part of Team Rockets anyway?" Hilda felt a headache coming on.
"I don't care! I'm going to declare myself to be part of Team Rockets, not some temporary worker for the Arceus Corporation!"
"Alright, alright, just tell Mammon about this. He didn't tell us the truth before because he was probably worried about Team Rockets' bad reputation."
Hilda analyzed it this way, and honestly, it was true.
If she had known it was Team Rockets from the start, she probably wouldn't have joined, after all, Team Rockets at the time had a reputation as an Evil Organization.
Hilda was also a kind and righteous girl, so of course, she wouldn't have joined Team Rockets.
But now it was different.
"I must get Mammon!! I must make Mammon my husband!!" Rosa's fighting spirit was incredibly strong at this moment!
"Alright, alright, good luck. You'll have to get past Ms. Caitlin first."
Hilda rolled her eyes cutely and scrolled through the forum.
"Look, you have so many competitors."
Hilda pointed to the forum page displayed on her phone, showing many female netizens praising Mammon and saying they wanted a man like Mammon as their boyfriend.
There was even a Mammon fan club already.
"Heh~ A bunch of clowns. Do they even deserve to fight me for a man?" Rosa scoffed, not putting these women who only talked big online in her eyes at all.
"And this guy, the head of Mammon's fan club? That should be me, Rosa! I'm going to challenge her to a duel!"
Watching Rosa trying to arrange an online fight with someone over the title of 'Mammon's fan club leader,' Hilda felt that Rosa was probably getting crazy again.
Then Hilda shook her head, letting Rosa do as she pleased. Otherwise, she was too repressed, and she might just rush up and push Mammon if she saw him.
Hilda felt that with Rosa's personality, she might actually do something like that.
And then Ms. Caitlin would probably directly fight with Rosa, wouldn't she? And she would be dragged in by Rosa to help.
Thinking of this, Hilda felt that it was not good.
But just then, her phone buzzed. Hilda looked at it; it was a group chat.
'Unova Region Arceus Corporation Temporary Workers Group Chat.'
This was the name of the group chat. Hmm, it was created by Lacey, who said it was for convenient communication during future missions.
"Oh my god!! Mammon is actually the boss of Team Rockets, has everyone seen it?"
Lacey tagged everyone in the group and sent this message.
"Hmm, as expected of my leader, awesome! I declare! Mammon is my idol!" This was Drayton.
"Mammon! I will follow Mammon my whole life!" This was an excited Kieran.
"Eliminate all evil forces! This is the goal of our Team Rockets! Who says our Team Rockets is an Evil Organization?" This was Carmine.
It's worth mentioning that Carmine was still a temporary worker and not officially part of Team Rockets.
Messages kept popping up in the group chat.
"Then I'm relieved. By the way, if anyone wants to leave the company, just leave the group chat."
Lacey breathed a sigh of relief.
The group owner has changed the group name to 'Team Rockets Unova Region Branch Trainer Group Chat.'
Hmm, Lacey changed it very quickly.
Undoubtedly, Mammon's interview statement greatly excited and inspired Lacey and the others.
Coupled with their previous interactions and ongoing missions against Evil Organizations, Lacey and the others, who already greatly admired and liked Mammon, developed a strong fondness for Team Rockets.
At this moment, joining Team Rockets caused no psychological pressure whatsoever.
Offer heart and teeth to Team Rockets!
Sinnoh region.
Cynthia sat at her desk, her fair hand propping her cheek, her beautiful eyes fixed on Mammon in the video. A faint, almost imperceptible smile played on her exquisite lips.
Regarding this video, she could only say that Mammon's lines were very cool.
As for the rest?
Cynthia didn't believe a single word of it. She considered herself to understand Mammon very well, but...
Judge by actions, not by intentions. As long as Mammon didn't deviate from his current path, he was a 'hero,' wasn't he?
Looking at the 'playback ended' text on the computer screen, Cynthia silently clicked replay.
What a... fateful encounter~
Cynthia looked at the young man in the video, her beautiful, clear eyes a little dazed.
She hadn't seen him for a while, and she missed him a little.
Cynthia had always believed that the encounter between lives would always produce certain things—between people, between people and Pokémon, between Pokémon and Pokémon, it was always like this.
And often, this 'thing' was ineffable: feelings, bonds, destiny, and so on.
Cynthia had never thought that the 'thing' produced by her encounter with Mammon would be... feelings.
But this was clearly wrong.
"Caitlin..." Cynthia softly murmured the name.
Caitlin was her best sister, and also the 'bridge' to her meeting with Mammon.
But Caitlin also deeply loved Mammon.
If she really chose Mammon, it would mean she would have to compete with Caitlin, which was commonly known as 'stealing a man.'
But was this... really right?
No, actually, it couldn't be considered stealing, after all, Caitlin and Mammon didn't have a substantive romantic relationship, nor had they confirmed their relationship.
And she had, after all, had an intimate relationship with Mammon, so strictly speaking, Cynthia felt that her progress was higher than Caitlin's.
But the problem was that Caitlin had met Mammon first, and Caitlin had also warned her, stating directly that Mammon was the person she liked.
This always gave Cynthia a sense of betrayal, of hooking up with her sister's boyfriend behind her back, which was very bad.
But did she really have any other choice?
"Caitlin, in life, many times, you need to take the initiative."
Cynthia said softly.
They had kissed, they had hugged, her body had been seen by Mammon. How could she go find other men?
And to be honest, Cynthia didn't think she could meet a better man than Mammon.
Although their positions were different, and although Mammon was not exclusive, no one was perfect, and these things did not detract from Mammon's excellence.
"Perhaps... this is an opportunity."
Cynthia looked at her phone. It showed a message the Sinnoh League President had just sent her.
The Kanto League would be making a big move, targeting Team Rockets. To put it bluntly, a decisive battle between the full might of the League and Team Rockets was about to begin!
Caitlin, you always wanted to defeat me, didn't you?
Cynthia took a deep breath and suddenly stood up. She knew, she had always known.
Caitlin wanted to defeat her because she had never won against her. So, let's have Encore!
In this battle, let's decide the winner!
"Garchomp!"
Arriving downstairs at the League building, Cynthia released her Garchomp.
She was going to Stark Mountain!
Cynthia knew very well that Caitlin had already undergone a transformation and also possessed the legendary Lugia.
Although that Lugia was still a young one, after Caitlin's careful nurturing, its combat power was definitely not to be underestimated.
According to intelligence, Heatran, the king of Stark Mountain, slept within Stark Mountain. Cynthia decided to try her luck.
If she could capture Heatran, her combat power would also receive a significant boost.
Let's decide the winner in this battle!
And then...