Viridian City, Team Rocket Headquarters.
In the enormous office, Giovanni quietly studied the detailed information on the Pokémon League's "Rampage" series of Biological Weapons that Ye Li had sent back from Goldenrod City, displayed on the screen.
His face, always as cold and stern as an iceberg, showed not the slightest surprise or anger. Instead, an utterly contemptuous sneer appeared.
"Monsters forcibly cobbled together with such shoddy methods deserve to be called 'weapons'?"
His voice brimmed with disdain for the Pokémon League's clumsy imitation.
In his eyes, compared with his perfect masterpiece-Mewtwo-the Pokémon League's so-called "Rampage" models were nothing more than a pile of crude lumps of metal that knew only brute force.
True power should be elegant, intelligent, and above all else.
Not these pathetic puppets, stripped even of their own consciousness.
But he also approved of Ye Li's proposal.
"At the upcoming Johto League Conference, reveal this 'masterpiece' of the Pokémon League to the public. Let them make quite a name for themselves before the world's media."
A malicious, scheming gleam flickered in Giovanni's eyes.
He agreed to Ye Li's plan.
With Giovanni's approval secured, Ye Li immediately began making his arrangements.
He would turn the Johto League Conference into a stage for putting the Pokémon League on trial. He would show the entire world just how filthy and ugly a face lay hidden beneath the polished exterior of the Pokémon League, which had always championed "justice" and "peace."
The videos and data were already shocking enough.
But Ye Li felt that this was not enough.
He needed a "witness" with greater weight.
A sacred "witness" who could leave everyone speechless, one whom even the Pokémon League could not refute.
He turned his attention to an ancient legend of the Johto Region.
An eternal legend of life and