Had Silver already set his sights on Professor Elm's Totodile so early?
Honestly, stealing someone else's Pokémon was an extremely awful thing to do, even if Totodile had been meant to be given away from the start.
And later, Silver even stole Professor Oak's Pokédex, becoming a wanted criminal.
The siblings really were cut from the same cloth.
Although Gold's obsession with catching him himself had luckily kept Silver from being arrested by Green immediately after the battle with Pryce, bad behavior was still bad behavior in the end.
Heiduo wanted to stop Silver, but he was also afraid of changing the plot. In a sense, Silver's theft was the fundamental reason the friendship—or bromance—between him and Gold had come to exist.
If Silver had not stolen Totodile and the Pokédex, perhaps that mysterious bond between him and Gold would never have formed.
That would have been rather unfortunate instead.
Gold was one of Silver's few friends. If Silver knew that his theft would not only give him more strength to fight Pryce, but also bring him a close friend, he would probably choose to steal without hesitation, right?
Even though he himself knew that theft was wrong.
From birth until he grew up over the course of eleven whole years, Gold might have been his only friend of the same age.
Heiduo was not particularly willing to let Silver, who already had so few friends, lose Gold as well.
What right did I have to make choices for someone else, anyway?
The one who should make the choice was Silver himself, not him.
He could not impose his own views of good and evil on others.
Was he being too arrogant? To think he could make decisions for someone else.
Once he thought about it that way, Heiduo immediately