A massive pit had appeared in a clearing in the forest.
The foreman collapsed onto the ground, nearly scared to death by the thing levitating before him. "Y-you... what the hell are you? Humans or ghosts?!"
"Cough, cough, cough."
Tetsuya suddenly started coughing.
He hurriedly landed on the ground and stopped using his Psychic-type powers.
"We're human. We were just trapped underground.
Sir, what are you doing here? Digging for treasure?"
He looked around in confusion.
No one could blame him for thinking that.
After all.
Using an excavator to dig people out was rather unreasonable.
"Y-you, you, you..."
The foreman sat on the ground, raised a finger at Tetsuya's face, and kept repeating the same word.
Tetsuya was almost starting to wonder whether he had scared the man sick.
Then.
The foreman sprang to his feet, his face splitting into a grin as though he had won five hundred million.
"They're here, they're here!!! They're here!!!!! They're alive!!!"
Along with his cheers.
Tetsuya and Cynthia felt everyone nearby turn their eyes toward them.
For a moment.
Their feelings were difficult to describe.
In Viridian City.
Inside the temporarily established Emergency Incident Handling Office.
President Alder looked at the young man and woman before him and nodded in relief. "It's good that you're all right. Good, good."
"We made you worry."
Tetsuya asked, "Where's Team Rocket? The executives should all have been caught, right? And Giovanni? Is there any news about him?"
Alder shook his head. "The executives have all been transferred into custody.
But there has been no sign of Giovanni.
I agree with you as well.
Since he had endured hardship within the League for so many years, he definitely would not give up so easily at a time like this."
"But isn't Team Rocket practically gone now?