"Team Rocket..."
Dian rubbed his forehead. Money really did let people do whatever they wanted.
With all that money, why didn't Giovanni build himself a palace full of women, indulge in endless food and wine, and coast through life?
He really couldn't understand the ambitions of people like that.
"Team Rocket!!"
Chinami nodded, her tone heavy.
As a born-and-bred Johto native, and especially as a member of the Jenny Family, she couldn't have been more familiar with that organization.
It was a behemoth with deeply entrenched connections, far beyond what ordinary people would dare oppose.
And this movement of funds had revealed yet another tip of the iceberg.
Team Aqua, Team Magma—funding two major regional organizations at once. Whatever Giovanni had gained from it, that act alone made one thing clear:
They were filthy rich!
Even the company backing Dian, run by Yue Jifei and the others, only had a few hundred thousand in liquid funds altogether. To Team Aqua and Team Magma, that was barely a drop in the bucket.
A simple calculation showed that a hundred ordinary members would cost at least 300,000 League Dollars a month.
With the leader, officers, and so on included, even if they did absolutely nothing, an organization of a hundred people would burn through nearly 500,000 League Dollars a month.
And that was only a hundred people. The monthly expenses of a large regional organization like Team Magma were almost unimaginable.
Let alone the operating costs of two major organizations!
Team Rocket, Giovanni—what an extravagant move!
"How does Team Rocket have that much money?"
Dian couldn't help asking. This was far too outrageous.
"The Rainbow Game Corner in Kanto's Celadon City, one of the world's six largest Game Corners; the Goldenrod Department Store Group in Goldenrod City, one of the retail industry's