Birth Island.
Beneath the pitch-black night sky.
Buzz buzz buzz—
Two Beedrill stared at each other.
One appeared ordinary, while the other was somewhat more unusual. Fine currents of electricity bathed the wings on its back, making them seem as though they had been dyed pure gold.
A Trainer stood beside each Beedrill.
They were, naturally, Giovanni, Team Rocket's current leader, and Xia Yan, who had not been in this world for long.
Giovanni narrowed his eyes. The moment he saw Xia Yan's Beedrill, he could not suppress the surprise in his heart.
Others might not have noticed.
But as someone who understood Beedrill better than anyone, Giovanni could observe certain things from minute details in Xia Yan's Beedrill's behavior, movements, and demeanor.
Xia Yan's Beedrill bore traces of his own Beedrill!
Although their differing training methods and ultimate directions had resulted in major differences between the two Beedrill.
Giovanni could still be certain.
Xia Yan had absolutely used his own methods for training Beedrill as a reference when raising this Beedrill.
And precisely because of that.
Giovanni found it astonishing.
He had written a secret manual such as Earth Profound Meaning.
He was exceptionally proficient with Ground-type Pokémon and bore the title Giovanni of the Earth.
Even after leaving the Viridian Gym, he had left Earth Profound Meaning behind.
As a Pokémon Grandmaster, he had left behind a legacy.
But.
He had absolutely never revealed his methods for training Beedrill to anyone!
Because no one else could replicate them.
Nor could those methods be passed down.
Yet the truth now stood before him.
Even if Giovanni did not wish to believe it, he had no choice but to.
And the two Beedrill gave the two men, who had originally shared no connection, another bond.
A bond called "legacy."
"Everything