Blood spurted like a fountain, flowing across the ground.
Taro finally closed his eyes and collapsed to the ground.
His eyes were filled with regret, unwillingness, and fear.
Though on the surface they were nothing more than a pair of eyeballs, Eichi could sense those emotions within them.
After Taro died, his Pokémon had been dealt with as well.
The scene instantly fell silent, the ground covered in blood and corpses.
The silence was somewhat terrifying.
Eichi had several Pokémon gather all the bodies together.
Then Eichi said to Scizor, "Scizor, use Hidden Power to burn them all."
Scizor nodded. Facing the corpses on the ground, it opened its mouth and sprayed out a pillar of flames.
The bodies immediately began to burn fiercely, illuminating the surroundings.
The temperature around them rose rapidly as well. Watching the flames burn, he fell into thought. This was already the third executive to die by his hand.
That was the advantage of being powerful.
When facing enemies who wanted to kill him, he could turn the tables and kill them instead.
If he had not been this strong, then he would have been the one to die today, and Dratini would have been taken away as someone else's spoils of war.
Things like this would only become more frequent in the future, and his opponents would only grow stronger.
His own strength needed to grow stronger too.
A minute later, after the corpses had all burned down to piles of black ash, Eichi said to Heracross, "Clean this place up."
"Yaklu."
Heracross stepped forward and slapped both hands against the ground. The soil began to move, and fresh earth covered every trace of blood.
Eichi nodded, recalled his Pokémon into their Poké Balls, then turned and left.
After Eichi departed, the forest remained