Lance refused to give up. He appealed to Roy's emotions and reason, even trying to guilt-trip him by laying out crimes involving oppression, persecution, and disruption of public order.
But Lance's guilt-tripping had absolutely no effect on Roy, because Roy had no morals to begin with.
"Prosecutor Lance, I really have no interest in becoming a prosecutor. You keep talking about people being oppressed and suffering, but I'm not the one who caused their suffering.
"Look at the reputation we Ghost-type Trainers have now. Has anyone ever gone out of their way to speak up for us? So please stop trying to persuade me."
Seeing that nothing got through to Roy, Lance wanted nothing more than to stuff a prosecutor's badge into his pocket.
But he couldn't. Roy had two exceptionally powerful mentors, Bruno and Agatha, who were also Lance's colleagues. He couldn't force Roy to become a prosecutor.
This Roy fellow was every bit as infuriating as Giovanni.
No, he was even worse.
All Lance could do was point at Roy's nose and berate him for lacking even a shred of the drive a young man ought to have.
Roy turned his head away and picked his nose with a look of distaste. He was completely immune to Lance's verbal attacks. The man barely had any fresh insults, and listening to him was getting rather tiresome.
Eventually, Lance wore himself out. With Roy still refusing to budge, there was nothing more he could do. He simply told Roy to give it some serious thought.
If Roy changed his mind, he could come to him anytime. There would always be a place for him among the League Prosecutors.
With that, Lance turned and escorted Wazik Leia, the culprit who had nearly turned Ecruteak City into a ghost town, into the