Jubilife Breeding Center.
A special guest arrived there that day.
Matori, secretary to Team Rocket's leader, Giovanni.
At Giovanni's request, Matori had come in person to invite Li Wei to become a new executive of Team Rainbow Rocket.
Team Rainbow Rocket was the new direction Giovanni had personally chosen after several years in retirement. Having weathered the storms, Team Rocket would now see a rainbow and stand in the sunlight.
Li Wei had not expected Giovanni to value him so highly, inviting him to become a new Team Rocket executive right off the bat.
Matori occupied only a third of the sofa, her back ramrod straight as she meticulously explained things to Li Wei.
"Although you may already know this, I still think it needs to be explained."
"Team Rocket is a large, publicly listed company operating across multiple regions. We provide employees with six Jin funds, two types of insurance, low-interest housing loans, and gifts for annual meetings and holidays."
"Annual paid leave ranges from fifteen days to a month, depending on the employee's rank."
Team Rocket really did offer excellent employee benefits. Hearing about them even tempted Li Wei...
Li Wei knew perfectly well that these benefits were real. Ideals alone could never keep all those people firmly under their control.
Incidentally, Jessie's Arbok had been a Team Rocket employee benefit for the Ghost Festival, while James had won his Weezing in a raffle at an annual meeting.
Being a Team Rocket grunt was not as difficult as people imagined, either. Anyone who enrolled in the Team Rocket Breeding School and successfully graduated could join Team Rocket.
Obtaining a Pokémon from Team Rocket was not as difficult as people imagined, either.
It was just that, in the beginning, the origins of Team Rocket's Pokémon had been unclear. Or,