"Then... you sent the members of Team Rainbow Rocket, when all the high-ranking members and high-level combat forces of the League were concentrated at Mt. Chimney, when the world-destroying crisis of the entire Pokémon world was descending, to take those large and small families... to take those families..."
The president of the Kanto League could not continue speaking in the end, because the impact that caused in his heart was too great.
"Yes! Uproot them all!!!"
"A short pain is better than a prolonged pain. Rather than letting them continue absorbing the nutrients of the entire League, it is better to uproot them and make the remains of those families become nutrients for the League, feeding back into the League!"
A trace of madness slowly appeared on Cain's face!
One had to admit that this plan was truly extremely insane.
Uprooting all those large and small families, as if they were worms, did not only require courage, but also enormous strength.
And, coincidentally, Cain, who controlled all of Team Rainbow Rocket, possessed precisely that strength.
At the same time, he also possessed that courage.
The most important thing was that this matter did not require the League to personally act. It was enough to push all of this onto Team Rainbow Rocket.
Moreover, Team Rainbow Rocket was also not working in vain. After sweeping through those families, although their own strength would be damaged to a greater or lesser extent, and even those losses would not be small, those leech-like families had hidden within their clans wealth and treasures that were not something an ordinary person could imagine. And Team Rainbow Rocket, by obtaining those riches, would not come out losing either.
Of course, Team Rainbow Rocket only took away those riches it could carry away. As for fixed wealth, such as houses, land, and things like that, all of it returned once again to the hands of the League.
It could be said that neither side came out losing.
But Cain also had not exterminated all the families indiscriminately, as if everything were kill, kill, and kill.
Some families with good reputations, who enjoyed helping others, were not touched. After all, those people had not done anything wrong.
Even within those families that were destroyed, not everyone was an unforgivable individual. To a greater or lesser extent, there were still some good people, some good Trainers. Those people also could not all be killed in one stroke.
They were also valuable resources of the League.
Precisely to determine which families had to be destroyed, which families had to be preserved, and within the families that had to be eliminated, how many people needed to be resolved and which ones could be spared...
All of that was the main reason why Cain invested an entire year!
During this year, both Team Rainbow Rocket and the League were silently collecting this information.
The information collected by the League was handed over to Cain through Kael.
All the preparations were for this moment.
"After today ends, the entire League will be equivalent to having been reborn. And the things I promised the Elder will also have been completed," Cain said loudly, stretching.
He remembered that day when the Sacred Church invaded, after Kael was captured, when Cain and the Elder talked for quite a while on the summit of Mt. Silver.
Back then, the Elder pointed out Cain's identity without beating around the bush, but Cain placed himself from another angle, from the identity he occupied at that time, and analyzed the League's current situation.
Back then, the two of them preliminarily established the plan that was now being carried out.
Because of that, although the Elder knew Cain's identity, he did not expose him. He even secretly helped him keep the secret, and helped him sit in the position of Hoenn Champion.
In reality, at that time, Cain mainly made a bet with the Elder.
Because Cain knew that Giovanni, as leader of Team Rocket, would inevitably attack the League after Mewtwo took form. If they could not even resist Team Rocket's attack, then everything would become a joke.
Because of that, Cain and the Elder established an agreement.
When Giovanni of Team Rocket launched an attack against the League, they would see whether the Elder could stop Giovanni.
If he could stop Giovanni, or even repel him, then Cain would carry out the plan he had created with the Elder and help the League clean up those malignant tumors. But if, at that time, Giovanni defeated the Elder and defeated the League's entire high-level combat force, that would represent that the League no longer had any need to exist. For Team Rainbow Rocket to replace the League would be the mandate of destiny, and Cain also could not go against heaven.
That was a bet that belonged only to Cain and the Elder, and only the two of them knew it.
That was also the reason why the Elder helped Cain keep his secret.
It was also the reason why, in the battle against Giovanni, even if he had to gamble his own life, the Elder summoned Arceus and used Arceus's strength to defeat Giovanni head-on.
In reality, when the Elder and Giovanni were fighting, Cain was hidden among the crowd, and the Elder knew it.
And in the later League meeting, when the Elder specially emphasized Giovanni's situation to Cain, that was also a secret signal between him and Cain. It represented that he had already defeated Giovanni according to the agreement, and that what came next depended on Cain.
Back then, the Elder was already like a candle about to go out in the wind. Even if Cain did not fulfill his bet, no one would come to demand an accounting from him. In fact, apart from the two of them, absolutely no one knew about this.
But at the end of his life, the Elder chose to believe unconditionally in Cain.
(End of chapter)