"Enough, Ditto. How many times have I told you not to turn into me whenever you please?" Just as Heath was puzzling over this, another Giovanni walked in. He looked helplessly at the Giovanni in front of him, then took the sunglasses off the other's face, revealing a Giovanni with beady eyes before Heath. Heath looked at Giovanni, then at the beady-eyed Giovanni. Putting that together with what the newcomer had said, Heath now understood what was really going on. Simply put, Giovanni had caught a Ditto at some point, and it had turned into him. But Ditto generally could not speak, so what had that remark just now been about?
Ditto was a rather unusual species of Pokémon in the Pokémon world, possessing the ability to change its form. With training, it could even take on a human appearance and imitate clothing and the like. It was certainly a species that gave people cause for concern. Fortunately, Ditto had one fatal flaw: whatever Pokémon or human it turned into would have Ditto's beady eyes. That was an important way to identify a Ditto. Some Pokémon had beady eyes themselves, however, so identifying a Ditto in the wild was not particularly easy.
A Ditto in human form was very easy to identify. After all, Ditto's eyes and human eyes looked completely different, and anyone could tell at a glance. Seeing this beady-eyed Giovanni, Heath knew that this was the Giovanni Ditto had transformed into. Speaking of Ditto's transformations, the League actually had a protective act specifically concerning Ditto: the act "prohibiting the use of Ditto as adult-service Pokémon."
As everyone knew, Ditto was a soft-bodied Pokémon, but it could also increase its body's hardness by learning moves such as Harden. At some point, a bizarre business had sprung up that