Brock left in a hurry. He had some things to take care of, and although he had not said what they were, Heath could more or less guess what he was going to do. Most likely, he was going to cancel the League's collateral agreement. The League's collateral agreement was actually quite interesting: it was only available to people who worked for Gyms or the League. If they encountered special circumstances, they could put up their Pokémon as collateral with the League in exchange for a sum of money to get through their difficulties. Of course, although it was called collateral, it was really no different from selling them, so many League employees would never do it unless they had absolutely no other choice. After all, League employees actually had plenty of options, such as bank loans. But Brock's situation was somewhat more unusual. The League did offer Brock help, but not too much, since the circumstances surrounding his father were still unclear.
What if Brock's father had run away? What if he had joined a dark organization? If the League treated Brock too well and Brock subsequently ran away too, wouldn't all its efforts come to nothing? So the League's current attitude toward these matters was to offer some support, but not its full support. The League had its own concerns, and everyone could actually understand them. Previously, in the Johto Region, a League Gym Leader had also disappeared like this. The League had then raised his daughter, only for her to run away and join Team Rocket, leaving Johto deeply humiliated.
So the League's attitude toward this sort of thing was now awkward. On the one hand, ignoring it would not be right-what if the person had died a heroic death? But if it intervened, it worried about