"Madam, you're a smart woman, but don't try anything funny. Just tell me what really happened, and I won't kill you."
As soon as Roy finished speaking, the Ancient Gengar, Annihilape, and Dragapult exchanged knowing glances and formed a circle.
Curious, the Mankey went into the circle formed by the three Pokémon and found them playing rock -Pokémon paper-scissors.
Why play rock-paper-scissors?
Roy's words were like a lifeline to the woman, a drowning person grasping at straws. She never considered that Roy might not want to let her go, and quickly said:
"I'll tell you! I'll tell you! It was the Wazik Family from Ecruteak City! They impersonated Ranger and placed Pokéblock with a sedative effect in the National Park, kidnapping two groups of Primeape from the National Park."
Roy didn't care that the woman was hiding the fact that she was also a member of the Wazik Family, and continued to ask:
"Why? Why are they arresting the Primeape tribe?"
"Because..."
The woman looked at Roy's Annihilape and continued:
"Ever since the young master of the Wazik Family returned from his last trip, he has been saying that he wants to create an Annihilape that looks exactly like your Annihilape."
So he kept having us catch Primeape for experiments, and then we searched for and caught Primeape and Mankey on Route 37 in the National Park.
Young Master?
This reminds Roy of someone.
"Isn't that young master of the Wazik Family a bit chubby, and doesn't he have that kind of face that makes you want to punch him?"
Upon hearing Roy's question, the woman paused for a moment, then nodded, though she had no idea how Roy knew.
Roy was recalling the Little Fatty who had threatened him on the S.S. Anne, who had also disembarked in the Johto.
The other party had threatened me on the S.S. Anne to sell him the Annihilape. If it weren't for the fact that the other party had an Intermediate King level Pokémon Trainer by his side, he would have definitely made the Little Fatty disembark lying down.
Unexpectedly, the other party had not given up and was even thinking of creating another Annihilape through experiments.
I thought this was a righteous act, but it turned out to be a case of bad luck meeting me.
Over the next few minutes, Roy asked for more detailed information about the Wazik Family.
The woman answered almost flawlessly, detailing the location of the Wazik Family, their defensive strength, and so on.
He even told Roy about the connection between the Wazik Family and Team Rocket in Ecruteak City, and that the burly man Roy had just killed was a member of Team Rocket.
What Roy didn't expect was that the head of the Wazik Family was now the Gym Leader of Ecruteak City.
It's clear that the other person is willing to do anything to survive.
"Where are those Primeape and Mankey used for experiments being kept?"
"This... I really don't know. We're only responsible for providing the materials needed for the experiments; they won't let me participate in any of the subsequent experiments... But I often hear strange Growl in the back mountains of the family manor."
Is it the hill behind the manor?
After learning what he wanted to know, Roy began to plan his rescue operation and how to surprise the Little Fatty.
"I've told you everything you want to know and everything I know myself. Now you can let me go, right?"
Seeing Roy deep in thought, and sensing that her Psychic type hadn't diminished in the slightest, the woman also...
"Of course, you are an honest lady, and I will keep my promise."
"Misdreavus, let her go."
The Misdreavus Psychic type that had bound the woman disappeared, and she regained her mobility. Her legs gave way, and she knelt on the ground.
The woman, now free, only wanted to escape as quickly as possible. As soon as she stood up, she was confronted with the face that her family's young master had been longing for.
The Annihilape appeared before her without any emotion.
Only then did she realize that Roy had never intended to let her go.
"You... you can't do this! You said you wouldn't kill me! You said..."
"Yes, I did say I wouldn't kill you, and it wasn't me who was going to kill you."
Roy couldn't understand it either; how could someone who was already a villain be so naive?
Before the woman could say anything more, a wisp of Ghost type energy appeared in the palm of the Annihilape and entered her brain.
This time there was no violence; the Annihilape's hand, imbued with Ghost-type energy, slapped the woman's head.
The woman seemed to have seen something terrifying, and soon after, she bled from all seven orifices and died.
After taking care of all three men, Roy went to the stream and cleaned the blood off his hands.
When it returned, the Ancient Gengar pulled out the man it had suppressed into the shadows, but the man was already lifeless.
It looked as if it were dead beyond any doubt.
Roy skillfully used his Ghost Power to break the lock on the Spatial Bracelet and began searching the corpse.
The woman's and the man's shadow, which Gengar had pressed into, had almost nothing in their Spatial Bracelet.
It only contains a few Poké Ball and some materials for raising Pokémon, which are basically useless.
But Roy found a Badge shaped like Ho-Oh on the burly man's body, and below the Ho-Oh Badge was an R-shaped Badge.
That woman wasn't lying to him.
This person is a member of the Team Rocket.
But that's not all. Below the Team Rocket Badge are three Ranger badges. One belongs to a burly man, while the photos on the other two Ranger badges are smeared with blood.
Looking at the Pokémon League logo above the ID, Roy figured it probably wasn't fake.
The burly man turned out to be a Ranger, but he had been bribed by the Wazik Family, and he killed the other two Ranger because they were in his way.
That means this guy is both a member of Team Rocket and Ranger in the Pokémon League...
Double agent?
This person has quite a mixed background.
I should have known better than to punch that guy to death. Maybe I could have gotten some other information out of him. But who would have thought that he couldn't even withstand one of my punches? He's too weak.
Hearing Roy's sarcastic remark, and looking at the person whose chest had been punched through, the Mankey, "Is it really because that person was too weak, or because you didn't hold back?"
After collecting all the Poké Ball, Roy had Chandelure burn away all traces at the scene before leaving the National Park.