What's Yours Is Best

"Hehehehe, you dare do it but don't dare let people talk about it?" Lorelei seemed to be in a very good mood, her laughter never stopping. There was none of her previous mature-woman aura. "I heard you entered the Dragon King Tournament and got a pretty good result, placing in the top twelve?"

Heiduo was speechless. "Are you mocking me?"

A top-twelve result? Why did saying it out loud feel so damn embarrassing?

"How could I be? I've been keeping an eye on you all along, including your Battle Tower Tournament championship." Lorelei's cheerful voice suddenly grew a little subdued. "Did you find out?"

Naturally, Heiduo didn't believe Lorelei had been watching him all along. Otherwise, this call should have come as soon as he returned to Johto. More likely, she had spoken to Lance about him, then Clair had told Lance about him as well, and Lance had relayed it all to Lorelei.

Only then had Lorelei looked into what Heiduo had been doing recently.

Heiduo had openly bought a ticket to Kanto, so it was perfectly normal for Lorelei to find out.

"Mm." Heiduo spoke softly. "And I understand your good intentions."

A bunch of adults had worked themselves to the bone, playing both the bad cop and the good cop, all because they were afraid Heiduo would learn about his parents' deaths, suffer a complete mental breakdown, and go looking to die or do something else reckless.

Presumably, Lorelei had also seen the physical record report about Heiduo stored at the Team Rocket Base.

From the computer at that Team Rocket rookie training camp.

"..." The other end of the communicator fell silent for a while before Lorelei said, "I'm serious, actually. If your parents were still alive, they wouldn't think what you did was right either."