Chapter 223: Relentless Pursuit

"Don't you understand my personality yet?"

"If I weren't interested in the things here, or didn't have a deep enough understanding of them,"

"do you think I would say these things now? Or is it that in your eyes, these are all insignificant? If you think that way, I really don't know how to explain it."

Ash finished speaking earnestly, and Brock curled his lip.

"I was just saying it casually, why did you take it seriously? Besides, the Gym we're going to this time,"

"I heard it's quite powerful. Anyway, let's be careful. And the son of this Gym's leader has Pokémon with combat power that exceeds the average person."

Ash and the others clearly didn't believe it when they heard this.

Because in Brock's view, this was completely an exaggeration.

"I've discovered that the people you can't beat are all quite powerful. If everyone has to be singled out to be talked about, wouldn't everyone be very exhausted according to you?"

Brock, who originally wanted to argue a few more words,

found that they weren't listening to him at all. He continued walking forward, somewhat angrily.

On the other side, Iron-Masked Marauder, who had already left, was still somewhat unwilling.

He had originally thought Celebi was his.

He even disdained cooperating with the Boss, but he didn't expect the final result to be unexpected.

Everything was completely contrary to what he had prepared.

He had originally wanted to use Team Rocket to find their location.

But after the other party heard his idea, they couldn't help but mock him.

Especially James and Jessie; the two of them didn't care about him to begin with, so it went without saying now.

"Do you remember? That guy actually came to ask us to help him scout the location of Ash and the others. This guy must not have woken up yet, right?"

"Anyway, I think he's too naive. I didn't think much of it when I heard it before, but now I think he's overthinking things."

James thought of what their Boss had said and was even more hateful.

"Next time we meet this guy, we won't show mercy. Don't let him think we're easy to bully, otherwise, wouldn't he do whatever he wants later?"

Although this sounded a bit outrageous, the two of them also felt it made a lot of sense.

"I think what you said is right. If it's really like before, wouldn't he do whatever he wants later? Using us and then throwing us away."

The key was that the two of them had kindly sought to cooperate with him in the beginning.

It would have been fine if he didn't want to cooperate with them.

But he actually did that kind of thing, which was simply speechless.

"Anyway, that's roughly the meaning. If he comes looking for us again, I absolutely won't be polite."

On the other side, Iron-Masked Marauder finally tamed two powerful Pokémon.

After putting these two Pokémon by his side and making them work for him, he prepared everything around him.

"Why are you still haunting us?"

Seeing this person, Misty said impatiently.

"You aren't still thinking of doing something to us, are you? I think you're simply delusional."

"And what time is it now? You're actually still trying to fantasize about these impossible things."

Although he wanted to argue and didn't want to admit the current situation,

he was still very resentful when he heard this.

"What are you talking about? Do you think everyone is like you? Or do you think I'm only after the Celebi you have?" Iron-Masked Marauder argued back.

"We don't care what you're here for. Anyway, Celebi and Samuel Oak are our friends, and we absolutely won't allow, nor is it possible for us to let you hurt them."

Misty said with a serious face, and the others nodded hurriedly.

Anyway, their Pokémon's strength had already recovered.

Even if they fought him, they wouldn't feel there was anything wrong with it.

"What you're saying is truly inexplicable. When did I say I was going to lay a hand on those two?"

"All of this is probably just you two talking nonsense and overthinking. I just think that we shouldn't fight without getting to know each other; I want to be friends with you."

"And my knowledge of Pokémon is much greater than yours. If you come with me, you'll definitely have higher gains than now."

When they heard this, it was as if they had heard a joke of the century. This guy was truly shameless and brazen.

He had almost beaten them to death before, and now he was actually delusional about being friends with them.

They really couldn't imagine what kind of person could have such a face.

"What's wrong? Is there a problem with what I said? I think what I proposed is very normal. You won't regret it if you connect with me."

He said this with a straight face, and Ash didn't care about that much; he turned directly and said to Pikachu,

"What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and go; don't let this guy be an eyesore in front of us."

Pikachu heard this, ran up quickly, and released Thunderbolt directly.

Seeing him get electrocuted into a crisp, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Samuel Oak wanted to say that this might be a bit too much; after all, this was a bit beyond people's expectations.

"What, are you feeling sorry for him? Don't forget that the harm he caused to Celebi was the heaviest. If you feel sorry for him, then consider what we said as nothing."

"But the things you did, you guy, are too much. Anyway, we won't forgive him no matter what."

Hearing this, Samuel Oak shook his head hurriedly.

"That's not the case at all. I was just saying it casually, and if he really did that, I also think he's very detestable."