"I was worried about Team Rocket..."
Dian smiled faintly and glanced at the latest issue of this week's magazine lying on the coffee table. "I didn't expect the Professor to like this too. Last time, I even won a pack of wet wipes with Pikachu printed on them."
Dr. Fuji stared at the magazine, Pokémon Friends, with a complicated expression. "This column... was proposed and hosted by Mihara..."
He looked at the confused young man before him and calmly continued, "You should know Giovanni, right? Team Rocket's current leader..."
"Mihara was Team Rocket's former leader, Giovanni's mother..."
At that moment, a breeze happened to blow in, flipping open the first page of the magazine on the desk. It featured a report...
"Apprentice of Kalos Queen Yashio, Pokémon Performer Ai'er officially debuts, aiming directly at this year's Pokémon Showcase in Kalos," along with a photograph,
A photograph of Ai'er hugging her Fennekin.
The title of the entire column was "The Harmonious Development of Humans and Pokémon."
"I can vaguely feel it..."
Dian's gaze lingered on the title for a moment. Then he reached out, closed the magazine, and slowly exhaled. "Irony?"
If the world was a stage, then justice was surely different for every person.
However, no matter what, he didn't believe there were no good people in Team Rocket. Likewise, he didn't believe the League consisted only of good people.
That was why Dian often judged people by what they did rather than by their identities.
Thus, stealing Pokémon, destroying ecosystems, and even severing bonds were all "evil" in his eyes.
The opposite was "good."
So when he heard that the founder of Pokémon Friends had once been Team Rocket's leader, he felt a trace of irony.
"Actually, if you trace things back several decades, there was no Team Rocket,