Teacher Jing He's "Mercy"

Looking at Zarude, half-kneeling on the ground, Jing He opened his mouth.

"Zarude." Zarude opened its mouth to explain, only for Jing He to stop it with a raised hand.

"Wait, let me take a guess."

"Zarude?" Zarude looked confused.

Take a guess?

At a time like this, he still wanted to guess?

But Jing He said, "A group of people came and attacked your 'Sacred Tree,' even damaging it?"

Father Zarude froze, staring at Jing He in astonishment.

Jing He continued, "The leader of the other side was an old acquaintance of Koko's parents, and they had a very powerful robot."

Father Zarude looked utterly dumbfounded as he stared blankly at Jing He, who was rubbing his chin with the air of some mystic charlatan.

The reason Jing He had guessed correctly was mainly because—

Damn it, isn't this the plot of the movie Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle?

Jing He then muttered softly, "That's not right. By all accounts, this plot should have waited for Ash..."

Although some previous plots had had "accidents," they had all been within an acceptable range.

But without Ash and Pikachu, how was Koko supposed to resolve his inner conflict?

"Zarude?" Father Zarude snapped back to his senses and could not help calling out.

If Jing He had not entered the "Sacred Tree" last time without causing it any damage, Father Zarude would have started suspecting that Dr. Jedo's group had been arranged by Jing He.

Otherwise, how could he know so much?

"Oh, it's nothing." Jing He came back to himself, looking somewhat puzzled again.

Honestly.

According to how things developed in the movie, even if Dr. Jedo's group had a powerful robot, as long as Zarude and the wild Pokémon joined forces, along with Father Zarude's "awakening," dealing with