"When I arrived a week ago, I got busy right away. I still haven't stopped."
Joanna's voice came through the phone.
Xia Yan gently rubbed the triangular pendant in his hand, feeling the patterns etched across its surface.
No matter how he looked at it, he could not sense anything unusual about the DNA Splicers. It seemed like nothing more than an ordinary pendant.
"Wuu wuu~~"
Zorua, lying across Xia Yan's lap, stretched lazily.
It extended a soft little paw and proactively pressed one of Xia Yan's hands onto its head.
Its eyes narrowed as it waited to be pampered.
Seeing the expression on its face begging to be petted, Xia Yan could not help but chuckle.
Still, he followed its wishes and gently began massaging its head.
Feeling the warmth and pressure from Xia Yan's palm stimulating its pressure points, it took on a blissful, languid posture.
At the same time, Xia Yan continued, "Send someone you trust to keep watch over him twenty-four hours a day without interruption. Colress may be a mad scientist, but he has his own pursuits and obsessions. I don't want to see any undesirable research results emerge."
"Of course, his abilities are also worth strongly supporting. We just need to give him a clear and correct direction."
"If used well, he'll be a sharp blade."
"If used poorly, he'll end up cutting us."
In the end, Xia Yan had chosen to keep the mad scientist Colress.
There was no helping it.
The man truly was exceptionally talented.
It could almost be said that he had single-handedly forced Team Plasma's ceiling higher.
Team Plasma's various technological capabilities had even troubled Xia Yan for quite some time.
If someone like that could be used properly—
Whether as a Pokémon League Elite Four member or as