"A deal?"
Ho-Oh circled in the air, its wise eyes holding a trace of scrutiny and curiosity as it gazed at the insignificant human below who dared to discuss a deal with a god.
Ye Li was not cowed by its divine might.
He met Ho-Oh's gaze, his voice steady and strong as he publicly exposed the Pokémon League's crimes through the loudspeaker.
"This world is facing a true crisis unlike anything it has ever seen."
"And the source of that crisis is not a natural disaster, but a man-made catastrophe."
"It's the Pokémon League, which has always touted 'justice' and 'peace.' Behind the scenes, they're conducting inhumane Biological Weapon research capable of destroying the ecological balance of the entire world!"
As he spoke, Ye Li gestured to Lin Feng beside him.
Already prepared, Lin Feng immediately activated the ultra-high-resolution holographic projector they had set up beforehand.
The next second.
An enormous, incredibly clear three-dimensional image filled with bloodshed and cruelty was projected into the night sky above the Bell Tower.
The footage showed the giant Ursaring modified into a "Rampage" model that Ye Li had filmed in the underground factory in Goldenrod City.
It was secured to a cold operating table, its body riddled with all sorts of tubes.
Its flesh was cut open again and again, then replaced with cold machinery.
Its nerves were stripped away one by one, solely to eliminate its sense of pain.
Its anguished howls, its struggles, its eyes that went from pain at first to numbness and emptiness in the end...
Every detail was laid bare before this god of life by the high-definition footage, with nothing held back.
Ho-Oh, as the creator and guardian of life.
When it saw this scene that profaned life, in which a living soul was transformed into