"This is more like it. If you send out that Gengar, can that little Elite Four member stop it?"
The mocking voice rang out again.
There was not the slightest hint of fear because of Agatha's actions.
It was hard to say whether he had confidence or was simply ignorant of the danger.
"Elite Four Agatha, are you looking for me?"
At that moment.
On the elevated platform some distance away.
A middle-aged man in a suit appeared at some unknown time.
He held a microphone in his hand.
Apparently, no one knew when he had gotten hold of it, either.
Logically speaking.
Even though there were too many participants at this conference, making it a mixed crowd where all sorts of people could slip in.
The Sinnoh League's security measures for the event were quite solid. There was no reason he should have gotten a microphone so easily.
Unless he was an insider of the Pokémon League, or had considerable connections within it.
"Is that him?"
Bertha, who was in the highest viewing stand with Chairman Igor and Flying-type Elite Four Kelvin, recognized the man's face at once.
Hoshino Ryushin!
The Gym Leader of Jubilife City Gym, and Hoshino Long Yi's son!
After the Alamos Town incident, the Pokémon League had immediately sealed off Jubilife City Gym.
Unfortunately.
Hoshino Ryushin seemed to have prepared in advance. By the time the Pokémon League's people arrived, he had already vanished without a trace.
Furthermore, another Elite Four member's wrongdoing had been exposed at the time, so the Pokémon League had focused its attention on that Elite Four member and had not paid much attention to the relatively obscure Hoshino Ryushin.
After all.
Within the Sinnoh League, Hoshino Ryushin had always been the very embodiment of someone who got by on connections.