Pokémon Court-Chapter 833: Counterattack

After ending the call, Terrance shook his head slightly, packed up his luggage, and then took the initiative to bid farewell to the father and daughter at the Saffron Gym. He had troubled them quite a bit during this period, and Sabrina in particular had offered many directions for improving Pupitar’s light and heavy mode. Terrance owed her a small favor for that.

After that, Terrance remembered something else. The Team Rocket trio still seemed to be working hard to look for Magtonium…

“No need to keep looking?”

When the Team Rocket trio received Terrance’s call, their expressions changed again and again. Although they really wanted to agree with Terrance right away, once they thought about how they had already promised Terrance and even talked big about it, the three of them found it hard to back down.

“We’ve already gathered more than half the materials, meow,” Meowth said, looking at James and Jessie, as if asking whether they were really going to give up halfway.

Thinking about the creation plan he had stayed up all night designing, Meowth couldn’t bear to abandon his brainchild.

“No! We must create Magtonium!” A strange glint flashed in James’s eyes. He felt this was an opportunity. Before he knew what Boss Giovanni’s intention was in having them investigate Terrance, James planned to stall for as long as possible.

“But Terrance said he’s leaving Kanto for a while to take care of something very important. What do we do then?” Jessie asked, puzzled.

“How about this, we keep collecting materials and making Magtonium, and during that time, we pull off a big job!” James suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, “Now that we’ve accepted a special mission, we can enjoy executive-level privileges. Why don’t we take advantage of those privileges and grab that brat’s Pikachu while we’re at it?”

“You mean…” Jessie and Meowth’s eyes lit up.

“That’s right. Since the budget is so generous, if we upgrade the equipment we used before to capture Pikachu, wouldn’t dealing with those brats be a piece of cake? Once we catch Pikachu, the materials for Magtonium should be just about collected. When the mission is finished, we can also present Pikachu to Boss Giovanni, and our chances of promotion will be even higher!”

The more James spoke, the more he felt like a genius.

Using public funds for private purposes! Using mission funds to conveniently capture Pikachu! What a brilliant idea!

“Great idea, meow,” Meowth exclaimed at once. With so much mission funding, was there really anything to fear about catching Pikachu?

With a new direction in mind, the trio immediately burst into loud laughter…

Terrance had left, and Team Rocket had also made their decision: first use the mission funds to capture Pikachu, and at the same time use this period to manufacture Magtonium—killing two birds with one stone.

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On the plane flying from Kanto to Hoenn.

Terrance had been keeping an eye on the follow-up to what he had discussed with Mr. Raoul Contesta.

To be honest with himself, Pokémon Contest did not yet carry that much weight in his heart. If the Pokémon Contest side did not show some kind of stance, it would be hard for Terrance to let this matter go.

At present, Terrance still lacked a sense of belonging to the Pokémon Contest faction. By emphasizing this issue, what Terrance wanted to see was how the Contest Committee would resolve it; whether they could truly help him vent this pent-up anger.

And after Terrance’s call with Raoul Contesta, Mr. Raoul Contesta, thinking of Terrance’s firm stance, seemed to have made a major decision.

“I really failed to consider this properly. To think I’ve reached this position, yet I still couldn’t make the members of the faction fully loyal. This is a dereliction of duty…” Mr. Raoul Contesta’s thoughts grew complicated. Terrance was someone he had personally elevated, and he understood Terrance’s personality to some extent. Since Terrance chose to fight over this matter, it meant that Terrance was dissatisfied with how he was being treated.

“Terrance isn’t the type to aim too high. After all, he has only just chosen the Pokémon Contest faction, which means that what he really wants to see is the attitude of Contest Committee.”

After thinking it over for a while, Raoul Contesta gradually grasped Terrance’s intentions. After careful consideration, he decided to give Terrance a satisfactory answer, treating it as a kind of ‘meeting gift’—using his own stance to let Terrance believe in his sincerity.

“Besides, this is also an opportunity… let me see just where your confidence comes from, Terrance.” 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Raoul Contesta was no pushover either. Once he made his decision, he quickly wrapped himself into the role of a ferocious tiger, mobilizing every connection he could use. Even at great cost, he was determined to resolve this matter perfectly.

Simply deleting malicious smear comments was not enough.

Using evil to counter evil was something these major powers had no qualms about.

In a very short time, the personal information of every keyboard warrior who had participated in maliciously slandering Terrance was exposed through various covert channels.

Even their family members and friends learned that their loved ones were engaged in such an improper line of work.

In fact, Terrance had no idea that, due to his firm stance, Raoul Contesta, together with part of the Pokémon Contest upper management, had directly torn off all pretenses with those competitors.

At a high-level meeting of Leda Entertainment, several shareholders wore grim expressions.

They had never expected such a fierce counterattack in response to this smear campaign.

Allegations of insulting a researcher who had made significant contributions to international security, allegations of insulting a heroic Trainer who had saved an entire city. Various advantageous factors were leveraged by the Contest Committee to launch a forceful counteroffensive against these competitors.

“Have they gone mad?”

At a high-level meeting of Konghai Media, many executives could not understand why the Hoenn giant Devon Corporation was launching such a strong commercial attack against them. Doing so brought no benefit to Devon at all; on the contrary, it would also cause them some losses.

In the Hoenn region, a bespectacled man sat in front of his computer, continuing to argue fiercely online, carrying out the orders given by his big boss. Before long, however, his computer was hacked, displaying all of his family information. At the sight of this, the man instantly panicked and contacted his boss.

“Sorry, we can’t even protect ourselves anymore. Our cooperation ends here.”

At the same time, the man picked up his phone and saw questioning messages from family and friends. His face turned ashen in an instant, filled with regret.

The next day.

When Terrance received all this information, the Contest Committee had already completed most of this series of swift and decisive actions. A massive industrial chain was exposed, with many people utterly disgraced. Some even had to publicly apologize online and reflect on their mistakes. Seeing this outcome, Terrance nodded. He was fairly satisfied.

The Contest Committee had shown their sincerity. Compared to their previous mild approach, this way of handling things appealed to Terrance much more. And with this incident as a precedent, anyone who wanted to use Terrance as leverage to target Pokémon Contests would have to carefully weigh their own standing.

This was, in a sense, the respect Terrance had fought for himself. He had no intention of becoming a breakthrough point for Pokémon Contest’s rivals to attack Pokémon Contest.

Along the way, because Terrance was so focused on following this matter, time passed quickly. By the time he had completely put the issue behind him, he had also arrived in Fallarbor Town.

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