Pale Yellow Long Dress

Viridian City, Team Rocket's A3 Base.

Clean floors, comfortable soft beds, and on the TV cabinet opposite the bed sat the hottest manga, the latest tablet model, and a game console loaded with the most popular games.

Nicole sat by the bed, her reddened, lifeless eyes staring at the locked heavy steel door.

As for the manga, game console, and the like beside her, she had never touched them even once.

Strictly speaking, this was not the first time she had been taken hostage.

Back then, her father had been forced to remain trapped in the Reverse World, while she and Uncle An had been more or less compelled to board Brother Moyan's ship.

Although there was a reason for it, and Sato had also needed to protect Nicole indirectly.

It could not be denied, however, that there had indeed been a deeper implication of using Nicole as a hostage.

As a highly respected super-rich man in the Sinnoh Region, Bourgeois could only end up as a porter for the Reverse World. Have to say, it was a kind of tragedy.

Though he had chosen it himself, the ones who benefited were undoubtedly Sato and the Dark Night Gym.

Nicole, mature beyond her years, had understood the complicated relationships involved since childhood. Although she missed her father, she had never held even the slightest grudge against Brother Moyan, the Gym Leader.

But what she had not expected was for a real kidnapping to come so suddenly.

She had guessed that Uncle An would send people to protect her in secret, and she had never considered refusing that kindness. But she had not expected it to be Uncle An himself.

And now, she had even dragged Uncle An into being captured with her.

She had been kept in this fairly well-appointed