Celebi in the air paid no attention to the fleeing Hunter E. It simply hovered quietly in midair, calmly watching the hunched figure on the ground.
Hunter C stood where he was, his body trembling slightly.
He completely ignored Hunter E's escape. At that moment, he was staring fixedly at the area where the Spirit World Passage had vanished, his cloudy gray-white eyes filled with madness.
Those Pokémon—those Ghost-type Pokémon—were ones he had spent more than a decade capturing one by one and raising one by one.
Now, they were all gone.
The plan had failed, Celebi had awakened, the Spirit World Passage had been closed, and more than a decade of his painstaking effort had been destroyed in an instant.
At this point, he had no way out left.
The madness in those cloudy gray-white eyes spread like a wildfire, burning ever brighter.
"Heh heh heh..."
Hunter C let out a low laugh. It was hoarse and dry, like withered branches snapping in the wind, or the final howl of some dying beast.
"Heh heh heh—!!"
The laughter grew sharper and more hysterical, echoing through the night sky and sending chills down the spine.
"Since I can't live—" He abruptly raised his head. A terrifying light burst from his cloudy eyes as he fixed them on Celebi's tiny figure. "Then none of you will have it easy either!"
His withered right arm shot up, his index finger, like a dead branch, pointing at Celebi.
"Everyone, attack together!!!"
His voice was hoarse and shrill, carrying a reckless madness as it pierced the night wind and reached the ears of every Ghost-type Pokémon.
The six Elite-level Ghost-type Pokémon beside him moved at once.
The first to strike were Gengar and Dusknoir.
Gengar's round purple body suddenly swelled. It did not gradually