It was Giovanni.
Looking at the true boss of Team Rocket standing before him,
Tetsuya felt both stirred and unable to put his feelings into words.
To be honest,
when he watched the anime in his past life,
he had found Giovanni quite charismatic and thought he might not necessarily have been a bad person.
However,
after arriving in this Pokemon World,
he finally understood.
A bad person was a bad person.
Even the good among bad people was still black inside when cut open.
Under Giovanni's orders, countless innocent Pokemon had died in horrific genetic experiments.
Tetsuya could still remember the specimens of Pokemon corpses soaking in certain liquids that he had seen in Viridian Forest, near here.
And that had merely been one experimental base.
No one knew how many bases Team Rocket had secretly built,
or how many pitiful, kind Pokemon they had harmed.
Yes, Giovanni had a tremendous love for his own Pokemon. Otherwise, he could never have gained Aura's recognition and possessed such an exceptionally rare ability among humans.
However, that only applied to his own Pokemon.
When facing other Pokemon, Giovanni had only two views of them—useful tools and useless trash.
"Long time no see, Tetsuya Tamaki."
The mastermind behind Team Rocket, the owner of Viridian Gym, an adept of Earthly Mysteries, a ruthless ambitious man—Giovanni—looked at Tetsuya and greeted him with a hint of nostalgia.
He had actually begun paying attention to this young man a long time ago.
Much earlier than many people imagined.
"Did you know? The Orphanage you were in was the first Orphanage I invested in within Viridian City."
Gesturing for Tetsuya not to be so tense, he actually began making small talk.
To be honest, Tetsuya was rather Astonished.
Because after gaining a certain degree of ability, he