The scene returns to the training camp grounds.
Hearing Mars's words, Raven felt extremely irritated at this moment. "Playing mysterious! Where's that good-for-nothing Shana?"
Mars pointed to the ground. "Isn't she right here?"
Raven followed Mars's finger and looked down, only to see that Mars actually had two shadows. One of the shadows, separated from Mars, wriggled, and suddenly a pair of pitch-black claws stretched out from within.
The claws swung violently, and a spherical object flew out, soaring towards Raven.
Splat!
Raven flicked his hand, and a shuriken flew out instantly, directly piercing through the sphere. The forces collided.
This caused the sphere to crash heavily onto the ground.
However, droplets of liquid splattered from the sphere, leaving Raven and the people behind him momentarily stunned.
Raven touched the cold liquid on his face. The crimson color was glaringly bright to his eyes.
Roll, roll!
Wasn't that disheveled head on the ground Shana's, dead with eyes wide open and covered in blood?
Silence! The entire area was terrifyingly silent!
Raven's gloomy face was indeed somewhat frightening. Crunch, crunch, his teeth ground together, making a crunching sound, and his blood vessels bulged, even climbing from his neck to his face!
Mars certainly couldn't have done something like this.
The only one who could give him such confidence and possess this method and strength was one person!
He squeezed a name through his teeth.
"It's you!!!"
Step!
A pair of long, straight legs stepped in from outside. Dressed in black, with a severe, cold face, wearing a mask, and eyes as dark as night, as if they could suck in a person's soul.
"Long time no see, my brother."
Raven's hands were already filled with shurikens. The Poké Balls at his waist kept opening, revealing Pokémon of Senior Level, though they seemed somewhat unstable.
He couldn't control his killing intent as he spoke, "How dare you come back!?"
In the past year, he had everything he wanted!
All of this was thanks to Giovanni not being able to return, making him the sole candidate!
Under Captain Price's influence, he had already fallen in love with this life of holding power and having everyone curry favor with him.
Giovanni's sudden appearance made him feel a sense of crisis again, causing him to lose his composure and calmness.
Swish, swish, swish!
He suddenly swung his arm, and shurikens flew through the air!
Clang, clang, clang!
A white streak, like a full moon, flashed by, and several shurikens were instantly deflected.
Giovanni still stood in place, not retreating a single step, only now holding a long blade gleaming with a cold light!
Lightly twirling the blade, Giovanni spoke, "You are still as despicable as when we first met!"
Disdain. Giovanni's eyes held only this emotion, and it deeply stung Raven's heart.
Ever since Giovanni left, he had killed many people, yet he had always adhered to Team Rocket' rules, fearing he might cross Madame Boss's bottom line.
He even rarely dared to act within the base.
But, upon seeing Giovanni return, he felt that his actions during this period truly seemed like a joke.
There was only one truth. He shouted, consumed by unbearable jealousy, "Why? I've always followed the rules, precisely to avoid following in your footsteps! But why did you come back?!"
Giovanni's words were even more incisive, "Because you are the one who follows the rules, and I am the one who creates them!"
He lightly patted the Poké Balls at his waist. Snap! Snap!
Only two Poké Balls opened, revealing a colossal Rhydon and an equally sturdy, tank-like Nidoking.
Senior Level Mid-stage!
In these few months, Nidoking and Rhydon had both broken through to level forty-six, reaching Senior Level Mid-stage.
The mere aura of these two Pokémon already overshadowed all of Raven's Pokémon.
This was the disparity in strength!
Giovanni spoke even more bluntly, "And one more thing, you are useless!"
Raven looked at Nidoking and Rhydon, his pupils constricting. Although he had always been elevated by Captain Price, he had still, like Giovanni, climbed out of a pile of dead bodies.
He could still see the gap between his Pokémon and Giovanni's Pokémon!
And he clearly remembered that Giovanni's strongest Pokémon was a Beedrill! A terrifying Beedrill!
If Giovanni hadn't released it, only releasing an unknown Pokémon and a Rhydon, it meant he looked down on the current Raven!
Raven muttered a few words, "This isn't possible…"
Giovanni glanced at Ashin. Even after a year's separation, Ashin immediately understood Giovanni's meaning.
He immediately shouted to a group of young men, "Fall back!"
Then he led Archer and the others far away from here.
Raven's subordinates behind him were also in a state of panic. A person's reputation precedes them, and the terrifying battle record from a year ago had not yet been erased.
After another year, how strong would he have become?
"It really is him!"
Raven only felt that his ears were incredibly noisy, but at this moment, he couldn't afford to be angry. "So what if you're back? It's too late for everything. Now, all the Squadron Leader and Team Leaders of the entire Viridian Base are my people! You'll still die!"
Giovanni shook his head in disdain. "You seem to overestimate yourself?"
Before Raven could reply, he lightly snapped his fingers. "Sandstorm!"
Rhydon let out a roar, and a sky full of yellow sand swept through the confined space!
… … …
At the same time, the changes occurring within Viridian Base were significant.
Figures, though wearing Team Rocket uniforms, but masked, with a Murkrow on their shoulders, appeared in various locations.
And without exception, these locations were all where Raven's subordinates were stationed.
And these people were all members of Giovanni's Shadow Squad.
Thump, thump!
A member of the Shadow Squad lightly knocked on Anke's door.
Yotaro and Vicious opened the door and came out. They looked at the person in front of them in confusion, "Who are you?"
The Shadow Squad member replied: "Elephant. Please inform Captain Anke that the Boss Giovanni has returned. He needs to hold off Captain Price for a while; the rest will be handled by us, Shadow."
Before Yotaro and Vicious could reply, Anke rushed out from inside in a hurry, "You said who returned?!"
Elephant replied to Anke again:
"The Boss Giovanni has returned. Now the tides can turn. He has already gone to kill Raven."
Anke was first stunned, then realized.
"He's already acting? He just got back, how dare he? No, it's the Boss's intention! As expected, as expected!!"
He clenched his fists and headed directly towards Captain Price's residence. "Don't worry, Captain Price's place is on me. All the anger I've endured these past few days, I'm going to vent it all out!"
"Don't worry, I'll definitely stop that Price!"