The Light of Righteousness

"Name."

"Chen Yue."

"Age."

"20."

"What do you do for a living?"

"League investigator."

Miss Jenny raised her head with a smile that seemed to say, "A League investigator digging up someone else's grave?"

Chen Yue: ...

Miss Jenny neatly placed the records in her hand aside and asked, "What did you discover?"

Chen Yue fabricated, "I'm sorry, it's classified information. We're prohibited from disclosing it to outsiders."

"Alright then!" Miss Jenny didn't press further. She nodded and stood up, saying, "In that case, I'll let someone from the League's [inside] talk to you."

As soon as Chen Yue heard this, alarm bells went off in his mind.

Without giving him a chance to speak, Miss Jenny turned and walked out of the interrogation room.

A door opening sound came from outside, and a young male voice echoed through the wall.

After exchanging greetings with Miss Jenny, the newcomer pushed open the door to the interrogation room.

Chen Yue looked up and saw a young man with red hair, wearing a black cloak and exuding a heroic aura, walking straight to the seat where Miss Jenny had just been sitting.

Red hair, cloak, and an air of righteousness...

Chen Yue knew who this man was.

— One of the Elite Four of Kanto, the Dragon Master, Lance!

Lance smiled as he looked at the new investigator in front of him, whom he had met once before, and asked, "How is the undercover mission going? Have you found any evidence?"

Chen Yue was taken aback, "You know me?"

Lance nodded, "I saw you and a few other investigators when you went to the Team Rocket training base back then."

Chen Yue's mind worked quickly, and he instantly realized what was happening.

Lance recognized not him but his identity, the identity generated by the scenario.

Lance sat there calmly, looking at Chen Yue. When he saw that Chen Yue didn't speak for a while, he raised an eyebrow and said, "You haven't answered my question."

Chen Yue cleared his throat. If his Main Quest had not been altered, he could now report the information he had learned from Team Rocket to Lance and complete the mission, leaving this world.

But the mission had been altered; he was no longer part of the Kanto League but Team Rocket.

However, the crucial point was that Lance did not yet know that he had turned.

With this in mind, Chen Yue continued to lie, "No, Team Rocket is currently very vigilant against us. They always blindfold us when we enter and leave the base, so we can't remember the location."

Lance furrowed his brow and fell into thought. "So, it's likely that the undercover plan has been exposed..."

Lance was a man of great righteousness, like the embodiment of justice in a novel, and he despised evil organizations like Team Rocket that committed wrongdoing. But he was never the kind of person who would jeopardize the safety of his subordinates for the sake of righteousness.

So, he said, "Your mission is complete, and from today on, you don't need to return to Team Rocket."

Chen Yue: ...

Chen Yue didn't want to leave Team Rocket for now. He looked at Lance, and after a moment of emotional preparation, he suddenly exuded an aura of righteousness. His tone was filled with a fearless spirit.

"No! How can I abandon my undercover comrades in Team Rocket just for my own safety? Once I leave, the identities of the others marked as priority surveillance by Team Rocket will be immediately exposed! I can't bear to watch them be humiliated by Team Rocket!"

Lance was almost instantly moved by Chen Yue's courage in his words. He reached out and patted Chen Yue's shoulder, expressing comfort and excitement. "Good comrade! With investigators like you, the future of the League is promising!"

Chen Yue: ...

Okay, that's enough, no need to pretend anymore, you're overdoing it.

He felt that Lance was even more exaggerated than himself.

"So, can I have my Pokemon back now?" Chen Yue asked.

"Of course!" Lance nodded and opened the door, calling Miss Jenny over.

Miss Jenny first unlocked the handcuffs on Chen Yue's wrist and then took out Mimikyu's Poke Ball from a drawer.

A white light flashed, and Mimikyu flew directly onto Chen Yue, protecting him while watching Miss Jenny and Lance vigilantly.

Lance innocently raised his hands, "Relax, little one, I haven't done anything to your trainer."

Miss Jenny looked at Chen Yue. "It seems like you have a good relationship with your Pokemon."

Chen Yue rubbed his nose, hugged Mimikyu to his chest, and reassured, "It's okay now, they're not bad people."

Miss Jenny raised an eyebrow and leaned against the door frame with her arms crossed. "So, can you tell us why you were digging someone else's grave? A grave robber?"

Grave robber...

Chen Yue's facial expression vividly conveyed what Looker would call "speechless."

Miss Jenny chuckled, "Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. If you don't want to say, it's okay. I believe you must have your reasons. What are you planning to do next? Return to the Team Rocket base?"

Lance stood by, looking at him, waiting for his answer.

Chen Yue shook his head. "Team Rocket probably already knows I've been caught."

After all, Team Rocket's eyes never left him, and he suspected that Ariana had known the moment he was put in the police car.

Chen Yue pondered and looked up at Lance, asking, "You didn't reveal your whereabouts today, did you?"

Lance shook his head. "Of course not. I don't want anyone to find me when I don't want them to."

"That's good then. I won't leave. Team Rocket will arrange for someone to pick me up," Chen Yue said.

Miss Jenny and Lance exchanged glances. Lance nodded at her and then turned and left.

Chen Yue was well-fed in the police interrogation room until ten o'clock at night, finally waiting for someone to pick him up.

To be precise, for a jailbreak.

When Ariana descended from the sky, Chen Yue thought he was dreaming.

Darn it!

Were Team Rocket members all this fierce now?!

Ariana didn't care about much, she threw down a rope from the roof with a gaping hole, directly tied it around Chen Yue's waist, and forcibly dragged him out.

Chen Yue's waist was hurting from the rope's tightness. Ariana gestured to the helicopter above, and it quickly ascended into the sky.

Miss Jenny's quiet orders in the police station soon disappeared from Chen Yue's ears.

Ariana flipped and jumped into the helicopter, using her strength to pull Chen Yue in.

With everything settled.

Chen Yue, clutching his aching waist from the tight rope, looked at Ariana somewhat speechlessly and said, "I thought you were going to throw me from the sky to dispose of the evidence."

Ariana:...

She never dreamed that her casual remark that day would come true today.

Chen Yue looked at her expression, took a deep breath, and said, "Ask away, I'll tell you everything I know." Yeah, right.

Ariana's forehead twitched twice, resisting the urge to hit him, and said with a strange expression, "Why did you go to dig up Amber's grave?"

Chen Yue glanced at her and said firmly, "You saw it too, didn't you? There was nothing in the coffin."