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Although Mira did not retrieve the Hodgepodge Organization's pendant, she did promise Evergreen that she would help him gamble once.
The implication was clear: even if Evergreen succeeded, Mira would never join the organization's inner circle.
Dealing with smart people was exhausting. The moment Mira mentioned Oleander, it proved that she had made up her mind to leave.
Rather than repaying a favor, it was more accurate to say that she had long wanted to break away from the organization. Had Evergreen not successfully persuaded her back then and dragged her into this mess, she might already be challenging the Lily of the Valley Conference.
Evergreen had originally thought that time would wear her down. He never expected her to be so stubborn, holding firmly to her bottom line and never crossing it.
This operation exposed the Hodgepodge Organization's weaknesses, and Mira sensed the crisis facing the organization. She chose to strike first.
"Going to Alola for a vacation? Even if you don't know the core secrets, what if the Hodgepodge Organization ends up in my hands and survives this ordeal?"
Evergreen pressed a button on the tabletop. Soon, several members of the Hodgepodge Organization entered through the door. They were all people trained by Mira in battle techniques; one could say they had been raised by Mira herself.
"Two weeks from now, whether you succeed or not, you will all take Type-I enhancement devices and deal with Mira."
Without hesitation, they all replied, "Yes."
The man leading them asked, "Do we bring Mira back?"
"Find a place and bury her."
Mira could never understand the resources available to a leader. She never had the qualifications to mobilize personnel; she could only cooperate.
Their loyalty would always belong to the leader, not to Mira as a person.
After conveniently helping Evergreen clean up the basement, everyone left the room, leaving Evergreen alone as he read the report that had come back from those who had been tailing Luther that afternoon.
After confirming that Luther was indeed closely connected with Cynthia, Evergreen found the glass of lemonade at his side increasingly unpleasant to look at.
In the end, he restrained the urge to smash the glass and temporarily set Luther's matter aside. The most important thing at present was the meeting in two weeks.
Evergreen did not make this decision on a whim after the failure of this operation.
From the moment he joined the Hodgepodge Organization and was valued by its leaders and sent into the International Police, he had begun to have doubts.
They could infiltrate the Pokémon League and the International Police, maintain an unbroken funding chain for twenty years, and keep their secrecy flawless. Yet, the Hodgepodge Organization behaved like a pack of homeless dogs.
They clearly possessed abilities capable of disrupting the situation, yet they missed their chances again and again while blindly waiting for the enhancement devices to succeed.
At the time, Evergreen could still convince himself that this was merely a minor flaw. But what happened afterward made him feel profoundly uncomfortable.
The leaders' obsession with old rules and severe resistance to new things was overwhelming.
This was understandable. These professors, who had devoted their lives to research, were around forty years old when they first joined the Hodgepodge Organization. Now, with an average age of sixty, they were well into old age.
Their resistance to new things stemmed from fear... fear of being left behind by the new era. The only way to compensate for this sense of loss was through the sense of achievement brought by successful experiments.
What truly caused Evergreen to collapse was the way these people judged Cynthia.
"She's just a Champion."
Evergreen's fear and sense of crisis began with that Frillish-like remark.
These "shadows," intoxicated by their research world and believing themselves omnipotent, hid in the darkness, imagining they could unleash a thunderous strike to shock the Pokémon League. Yet they looked down upon the very peak of Sinnoh's combat power, that dazzling tomorrow.
Only then did Evergreen understand that their cognition was stuck in the past, twenty years ago or even further back.
Some of them might have remained clearheaded, but collective fanaticism quickly turned even those people "mindless." Mocking Cynthia and the combat power of the Pokémon League became their daily source of amusement in research.
The enhancement device was their ultimate weapon to defeat the Pokémon League. They believed this without the slightest doubt.
They were unaware that, as Pokémon studies advanced, outside professors had developed a far greater understanding of Pokémon than in the past and that Pokémon battles had undergone earth-shaking changes.
Cynthia's generation stepped onto the stage precisely in the midst of those changes.
The enhancement devices being produced now might be able to defeat Pokémon Trainers from twenty years ago, but what about today's Pokémon Trainers?
Even Luther, fighting at full strength, could defeat a Mismagius wearing an enhancement device, and that Mismagius was the laboratory's finest creation!
At that time, Mira was not yet a rising star watched by the Pokémon League. This orphanage-raised drifter, who roamed the wilderness and battled freely, shocked Evergreen.
Her talent, her ability, her understanding... what Evergreen feared was that more and more people like Mira would keep appearing, while the closed-off Hodgepodge Organization would only ever be able to recruit from within itself.
By manufacturing a crisis and then personally stepping in to resolve it, using persuasion mixed with threats, Evergreen had managed to make a dazed Mira lean toward his side.
He had hoped Mira's presence would prompt the organization to recognize that the times were changing and that they needed to attract more powerful Pokémon Trainers by sharing their ideals.
However, the leaders reacted fiercely. They believed that this would turn the organization's secrecy into a joke. They launched frenzied attacks on Evergreen's intentions. If not for someone contacting the leaders and giving final approval, Mira would never have been allowed to join the Hodgepodge Organization.
Evergreen couldn't understand what that individual was really thinking. But doing nothing was wrong!
From the beginning, the Hodgepodge Organization had been wrong.
In the Pokémon world, people hear this phrase from childhood to adulthood: As long as you are spiritually connected with your Pokémon and form a deep bond, your life will be complete.
The influence of this idea is profound. One of the most important criteria for Pokémon League examiners is the degree of rapport between a Trainer and their Pokémon. Battles, breeding, medical care, and contests, every method tests that rapport.
Therefore, the highest combat power will always be in the hands of those who trust their Pokémon. The Pokémon League, an organization that unites the strongest forces, will always have new members.
The structure of the Pokémon League makes it difficult for it to decay. Even if it is infiltrated, its most vital artery cannot be severed. For any organization that wants to challenge the Pokémon League, this is an unsolvable problem.
The path of brute force has always been a dead end. Yet, the Hodgepodge Organization mistakenly interpreted this as, "Our force isn't strong enough... we need even greater force."
But power is not limited to brute force alone. Why not try new ideas?
The Hodgepodge Organization's doctrines, if released, could stir up a massive uproar.
Evergreen submitted such documents, hoping the leaders and the individual would think them through together.
However, the individual tossed the documents back to Evergreen, saying only one sentence: "You don't understand the Pokémon League."
In terms of status, Evergreen certainly understood the Pokémon League far less than that individual did. But was Evergreen really wrong?
Ideas are far harder to destroy than people imagine. Even if they contradict this world's fundamental belief of "loving Pokémon," as long as they are repeated, they will become an enduring ideology.
Only by splitting public opinion could one gain the support needed to survive.
Yet, these fools were stubbornly insisting on dismantling the Pokémon League through brute force.
Countless organizations have already tried this approach. Even with maxed-out stealth abilities and cutting-edge technology, the Hodgepodge Organization would never be a match for an organization like the Pokémon League, which stands beneath the banner of justice.
This was a dead end. Evergreen did not want to go down with these leaders.
Let a few leaders die, then correct the course. Before the ship sank, Evergreen decided to burn the boats.
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