Chapter 1723 - 1717: The Elder’s Funeral!

Chapter 1723: Chapter 1717: The Elder’s Funeral!

Not many people knew what had happened in the Sinnoh region.

Team Galactic had silently changed its true master.

The next day, the League held the funeral prepared for the Elder.

Because of the Elder’s special instructions, the League did not hold an excessively ostentatious funeral. Even when the great leaders of the various regions wanted to hurry to Mt. Silver to attend the funeral, they were refused.

According to the Elder’s request, the current focus of the entire League had to be placed on stabilizing itself. No matter what Team Rocket and the other underground forces planned to do, they first had to stabilize themselves.

Because of that, this funeral was not grand. Even the attendees were not too many.

After returning from the Sinnoh region, Cain did not go to Hoenn, but hurried once again toward Mt. Silver as quickly as possible.

He did not appear openly, but silently watched from the distance as the Elder’s funeral was carried out.

His political teacher, an old woman several decades old whose hair was already half white, had to send off her grandfather at that moment. For an elderly person like her, that blow was not small.

Fortunately, Cain’s master, Matsuda Takashi, was accompanying her, so she was able to endure it.

Seeing this scene, Cain’s heart also felt more or less complicated.

"I suppose when the Elder’s son and the others passed away back then, the pain in this old man’s heart must have been even harder to bear than Grandma Syl’s now."

Cain gently rubbed his nose, feeling somewhat emotional in his heart.

He was someone truly worthy of respect from the bottom of the heart, no matter from what angle one looked at him.

Even Giovanni, who had once stood on the opposite side from him, clearly revealed in his words the respect he felt for the Elder.

Not everyone, after possessing such a long life, could continue dedicating their entire life to the League with the same devotion as always. And after possessing such powerful strength, not everyone could remain faithful to their heart and work diligently as the patron saint of the League.

As the overall president of the League, it could be said that the Elder was the person with the greatest power in this world. But even after his death, why was every one of his words executed without reservation, even though he had directly designated a successor in a very unreasonable way?

It was because, for more than a hundred years, what he did could practically not be criticized. He was an old man worthy of respect.

Cain stood in the distance, watching as the Elder’s coffin was gently buried in the earth. He bowed slightly to show his respect.

At the same time, he extended his psychic power in an extremely discreet manner.

It was not for anything else. Cain had confirmed that Giovanni had not truly died, but had disappeared for some special reasons. Because of that, Cain could not guarantee that the Elder was not in the same situation.

Although from Arceus’s own mouth, he had received confirmation that the Elder had exhausted his three opportunities and would walk toward death, Cain still wanted to confirm it.

The Pokémon world was an extremely magical world. Many things, no matter whether one dared to imagine them or not, could happen.

Losing Arceus’s abilities and still continuing to maintain his life was not something completely impossible.

At least from Cain’s own perspective, if he knew that he could walk toward destruction at any moment, he would undoubtedly leave a backup card. And he, in fact, had more or less some methods.

But at that moment, within the perception of his psychic power, after confirming that the Elder really had been buried inside the coffin, for some reason, Cain also secretly let out a sigh of relief.

Giovanni, the Elder, and even Kael, Cyrus of Team Galactic, and others, were not people easy to face.

When playing against people with such strength and ability, one had to be careful, very careful, and even more careful. Otherwise, it was very possible to fall into their traps.

Fortunately, Cain could always be considered someone hidden in the shadows, so he possessed a considerable advantage.

Moreover, with Giovanni and the Elder’s departure, Cain was also confident that, although his strength could not be considered the highest, at least it was at the level of the top five.

When the Elder was truly buried, Cain left again silently, just as when he had arrived.

Almost no one present discovered his existence. Only that person hidden under the white robe, who acted as old Matsuda’s bodyguard, slightly turned his head and cast a brief glance toward the place where Cain had stood before.

When Cain returned to Hoenn, he had already gone two days and one night without resting.

But the current situation did not allow him, as the Champion of the Hoenn region, to set aside his affairs and rest at will.

Not only Kanto and Johto, but the entire Hoenn region was also at that moment within a rather depressed general atmosphere.

Cain did not deliberately emphasize anything either.

During this period, both the League and the various forces headed by Team Rocket needed to reorganize. The policy they would follow next would depend on the decisions of both sides.

For now, Team Rocket had once again recovered a state of calm. Without Cain’s order, Team Rocket members would not casually launch attacks against the League again.

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Several days later, when all forces stabilized, Cain, using his identity as the new leader of Team Rocket, once again convened an internal meeting of Team Rainbow Rocket.

The seven chairs from that meeting were still there. Only, the chair that originally belonged to Cain was now empty, while Cain himself sat in the place that belonged to Giovanni.

Before this, the six people present had different expressions and reactions.

The most intense reaction was Lusamine’s, the president of the Aether Foundation.

"I say, deputy leader of Team Rocket, I do not even know what your name is, and I am also not even sure whether you truly possess the strength to sit here."

"Originally, out of respect for Leader Giovanni, I was not going to say too much. But now that Leader Giovanni is not here, do you think you can replace him and lead us? Heh, heh."

Lusamine crossed her legs and spoke indifferently while looking at Cain, who still hid his identity.

At the same time, Lusamine gave a signal with her eyes to Cyrus of Team Galactic, and also cast a glance at N, the king of Team Plasma, with whom she had always had a not very harmonious relationship.

Their alliance still existed. Team Rocket’s leader, Giovanni, had disappeared, and his life or death was unknown. Then, they had no reason to keep obeying the words of a Team Rocket deputy leader whose name they did not even know, right?

(End of Chapter)