"..."
Giovanni's casual remark left Qingyu speechless for a moment.
What did he mean, "entrusting Mewtwo to me"? Clearly, the righteous Teacher Yu had swept away Kanto's evil and rescued an innocent Pokémon from Team Rocket!
"You don't need to worry about what happens next, Gym Leader Giovanni."
Qingyu shook his head helplessly.
"Besides, Mewtwo isn't some tool to help you conquer the world. It's a Pokémon with thoughts of its own. Its future should be its own decision, not something you can settle with a casual 'I'm entrusting it to you.'"
"In a sense, Mewtwo is a child you created with your own hands, too. Your attitude toward your children leaves a lot to be desired, Gym Leader Giovanni."
If this were just a game, Qingyu wouldn't have particularly disliked an outright villain like Giovanni.
But in reality, a lot of his ideas struck Qingyu as downright absurd...
Mewtwo was a genetic Pokémon he had poured a fortune into creating. Couldn't he spend some time interacting with it normally and slowly win its affection through his personal charisma?
A Giovanni like that really would have been frightening. It would have patched up his last weakness.
Among all the villainous leaders in the Pokémon world, Giovanni was one of the more charismatic ones.
Yet he had insisted on doing the exact opposite, acting like a ruthless taskmaster and slowly driving Mewtwo's affection for him down to rock bottom.
That approach might have worked on his subordinates, but trying to force a pure, newborn Pokémon into submission through intimidation was clearly no easy task.
How could a child raised with such heavy-handed methods not rebel?
Unfortunately, Giovanni was a villain. Otherwise, Qingyu really would have given him a thorough lesson in parenting.
Perhaps Giovanni's biological son, Silver, existed in this world,