In the End, He Bore It All Alone

"Reporting, Executive! I've sent you the information I gathered on Malva and Lysandre."

Matori's diligent voice came through the phone.

"Got it."

In truth, he did not care much about how much information Matori could gather.

His goal was simply to use Matori to draw Team Rocket's boss, Giovanni's attention to Lysandre.

And whatever task he assigned would definitely reach Giovanni's ears immediately.

Perhaps—

The information he received had already been sent to Giovanni before Matori forwarded it to him.

With Alakazam's Teleport, Xia Yan did not need to camp out in the wilderness.

He was currently staying at the nearest Pokémon Center.

The Pokémon played around in the spacious room.

He silently opened the information Matori had sent over.

Whether it proved useful or not, taking a look would not cost him much time.

There was little need to mention Lysandre. He was something of a celebrity in the Kalos Region. Especially after the emergence of "holo caster" technology, even before it had become widespread, he had already been hailed as "the man who changed the world's methods of communication."

A casual online search would turn up plenty of information about him, though most of it was positive.

The information Matori had sent was similarly rather basic.

Given Lysandre's status, it was basically unrealistic for Matori and the others to uncover any of his "secrets."

Xia Yan's understanding of Lysandre was limited to the anime and manga he had seen in the past.

To sum it up—

Lysandre had once been an idealistic, world-loving teenager with a serious case of chuunibyou. Then he witnessed the cruelty of reality, got battered down by society, saw through the world, and turned dark. He became determined to change the world by reducing the population of both humans and Pokémon so everyone could