By evening, the casualties and cargo losses had been calculated.
The pirates, including those who had been stunned by electricity, were all bound together and locked inside a cargo container. Their Pokémon had been recalled into Poké Balls and placed somewhere they could not reach the switch by rolling around.
As far as Heiduo knew, neither side had suffered any deaths this time. Only two people had been seriously injured, while several others had minor injuries. Most of the Pokémon had merely lost their ability to battle. These pirates seemed to be after nothing but Pokémon and cargo; as long as their targets handed over both, they would be spared.
Were the pirates in this world naïve, or did they simply know that massacring an entire ship would bring them huge trouble, so they refrained from doing it?
He considered it through the lens of conspiracy theories from his previous life, theories that might conceal the truth.
These pirates were very likely the white gloves of some unknown force, obtaining supplies and all kinds of Pokémon for them. That force was either not particularly strong, or it had close ties with the pirates and feared being traced through them, so it had not dared to let the pirates go too far.
Of course, that was all speculation.
To find out the truth, he would have to question the bound pirates himself.
This freighter was carrying a large quantity of food, crops, and all sorts of daily necessities. In exchange, Orre would provide its metal ores and humanity's most precious resource.
—Oil.
Like its real-world counterpart, Arizona in America, Orre was home to the largest copper mining area in the Pokémon World, as well as a region with an exceptionally developed metal-smelting industry.
You could tell just by looking at its