Pecharunt's body dissolved into pinkish-purple energy dust and dispersed into the air.
No one had imagined Xia Chi would execute Pecharunt so decisively.
That was a Legendary Pokémon!
And a Legendary Pokémon willing to serve as his slave, one he could have caught without lifting a finger!
Everyone around him was dumbstruck.
Especially Verdant Town's chief.
With Pecharunt dead, the town chief under its control naturally regained most of his senses.
And the moment he came to, he witnessed a sight that nearly made his eyes burst from their sockets.
His Legendary Pokémon was dead!
Although Pecharunt had controlled the town chief, he had never seen it that way. He had always regarded Pecharunt as his collaborator and partner, even his Trainer.
His fury was easy to imagine.
"You bastard! What the hell are you doing?!"
The town chief roared in anguish, "What gave you the right to kill my Pecharunt? It was Kitakami's guardian deity!"
Xia Chi gave the obstinate old man an incredulous look.
That thing controlled you. It controlled all of Kitakami.
If it wanted to, every last one of you would be its poisoned puppet.
Everything's been exposed, and you still haven't snapped out of it?
At that moment, he finally understood how the protagonist of The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon, a film he had watched in his previous life, had felt upon seeing people brainwashed by a cult.
If murder weren't illegal, Xia Chi would have loved to have Ogerpon obliterate this old geezer too.
You like Pecharunt so much, don't you? Would joining it in the afterlife make you happy?
Unfortunately, that movie's protagonist was an outlaw with nowhere left to turn. I, Xia Chi, am an upstanding young man with a bright future.
*Staining my record over scum like this isn't