What the League planned to do about Team Rocket, or what clues about Team Rocket the League had uncovered, was outside Heath's concerns. He knew very well that once Ash set off on his journey in a while, everything in this world might gradually unfold as he remembered it. Heath would also be able to watch with a smile as Ash transformed, step by step, from a rookie Trainer whose own captured Pokémon would not even obey him into a powerful Pokémon Master, ultimately standing above all those Champions. All of that could be anticipated.
But those were matters for the future, and Heath had no intention of concerning himself with them at the moment. He was focused on studying the things in his hands.
"Sir, I can tell at a glance that you really know how to choose quality goods. This is the oyster sauce our company has just developed, an absolutely first-rate product." A man with a somewhat worrying hairline was enthusiastically introducing his company's products to Heath, who held two bottles. The bottle on the left read [Blended oyster sauce], while the one on the right read [100% all-natural oyster sauce]. Both bottles contained the same amount, eight hundred grams each, but their prices were worlds apart.
To put it this way, twenty-three bottles of the blended oyster sauce on the left would buy just one bottle of the all-natural oyster sauce on the right. The two sauces also had completely different colors. The one on the left was closer to the oyster sauce most households used, while the color of the one on the right was not as thick and was somewhat lighter. Although describing it that way might sound very strange, that really was Heath's main impression. In his view, the two oyster sauces were