"You only lost a few lives, but I lost my phone!"
Hinako could no longer understand the madman before her.
The man himself, his Pokémon, his combat strength-they were all far too insane.
Still, she had bought enough time!
A sharp blast of air sliced through the entire wooden cabin, sweeping the gravely injured Domino into the aura of Fly.
The Tulip Squad Member who had escaped had brought reinforcements!
"Heh." Hinako jumped through the gap in the house. "I was waiting for reinforcements. I have no idea what you were standing around for."
"Me? I was waiting for your reinforcements too."
Off-road vehicle headlights pierced the darkness as the Security Bureau and Ranger Union arrived at Lake Acuity under Shen Qi's guidance.
All they saw were damaged wooden cabins and collapsed walls.
"Spread out and search for survivors!"
Officer Jenny directed the security guards, while Candice, the Snowpoint Gym Leader, also arrived with her Gym Members.
Everyone was shocked to see the horribly mangled corpses strewn across the ground. Domino and another Tulip Squad Member were gravely injured, tightly bound and dumped in a corner of a wooden building. They could be taken back for investigation and questioning.
Besides them, there were others who were not Tulip Squad Members.
The Security Bureau checked the corpses' fingerprints...
"Reporting! One of them belonged to the Matori Matrix!"
"The other has no criminal record, so their identity is still unclear. Since they were acting together, they were very likely affiliated with Team Rocket too."
In the Mega Evolution World Line, the Matori Matrix had also fought alongside the Tulip Squad.
"Reporting! We found Li Ke!"
Inside another relatively intact wooden cabin, a drunken Li Ke was sleeping soundly, completely unaware of what had happened outside.
"Wh... what happened here?!"
Candice