"Su Hao! Today is the day you die!"
Watching the familiar figure that had been etched into his hatred as an obsession gradually emerge from the smoke, Lance shouted with a savage expression.
Ignoring Lance, Su Hao slowly stepped out of the smoke, his gaze first falling on Dr. Xiuli and his daughter, Little Mei, in the middle of the ruins.
When he noticed that Little Mei's breathing was somewhat weak, and that there was an extremely conspicuous bloody hole in her calf along with some dark, foul-smelling liquid, Su Hao frowned.
Poisoning a little girl?
Team Rocket's methods were getting more and more despicable.
His gaze shifted to the Golbat beside Lance. Seeing its sharp, exposed fangs, Su Hao realized that the poison had likely come from this Golbat.
The Golbat was merely at Gym Level Early Stage. The Purifying Water Milotic possessed would be enough to cure her.
Su Hao took out Milotic's Luxury Ball and was about to press it when Lance sneered.
"Two years have passed, yet you're still so impulsive. You broke in here alone, and you don't even have a single Pokémon with you!"
"So what if you defeated Clair? So what if you're Ho-Oh's Rainbow Hero? Before Ho-Oh comes to support you, you'll die by my hand!"
"Hahaha, didn't you realize before entering the Ruins of Alph that you had already entered the effective range of the Anti-Poké Ball Device developed by Team Rocket? All Poké Balls produced by the Pokémon League have malfunctioned and been locked, while Team Rocket's Poké Balls can still be used!"
As if showing off to Su Hao, Lance threw out the Poké Ball in his hand.
"Come on out, Sableye!"
A Pokémon with a short, dark-purple body and a pair of protruding sapphire-like eyes appeared within the