Serea nodded with difficulty. "I should have asked you about this, but considering you had amnesia, I specifically looked into your family tree. There were signs of human tampering."
The first cloned animal in his previous life—Dolly—was revealed to the public in 1996. It would not be unreasonable to place non-public cloning experiments five years earlier.
The Pokémon world's current level of technology available to the public was probably around that of 2004. Being able to clone humans was nothing strange.
Besides, cloning was not without precedent.
—Team Rocket!
"Do they have ties to Team Rocket as well?" Heiduo asked Serea in a low voice.
Serea was startled. "How did you know?"
Team Rocket's downfall had my contribution written all over it!
Heiduo did not want to discuss what exactly he had done in Kanto, so he merely looked at Serea without speaking.
Serea continued, "They spent enormous amounts of money to obtain cloning-related data and technology from Team Rocket, then applied it to humans... namely, your parents.
"They hoped to replicate your parents' talents, develop more medicines, and make even more money. But... they failed. The cloned humans were short-lived and had extremely low intelligence. That fake uncle was the same, with the mind of only a ten-year-old child."
The project to create Mewtwo had begun a very, very long time ago. It was only suspended for so long because there were not enough cell samples from Mew. Later, after Blaine's genes were added, they finally had enough. Pokémon Adventures setting.
It could be said that Team Rocket had poured its entire heart and soul into it!
No, it should have been the collective effort of the entire Kanto region!
After all, even Blaine had participated!
And those people could not even produce a single Top Trainer. How could