"Fine, I will not keep talking about other things with you. Originally, I truly did not have too many ways to deal with you, but that was mainly because I had too many important matters to attend to and could not deal with a jumping clown like you. That is why I allowed you to live until now."
"But since you came to my door yourself, and even dared to act under the banner of my Team Heaven, then there is no other choice. I cannot allow you to keep doing foolish things."
"Act!"
As soon as Cain's voice fell, Will's face changed abruptly. Just as he wanted to throw the Poké Balls in his hand, before he could do so, a sharp dagger shining with cold white light appeared from behind his back and pressed against his neck.
The icy edge of the dagger made all the skin on Will's neck prickle. Just by being close, it already gave him a cold, stabbing sensation.
"You! Why?"
Will did not need to turn around to know who had acted.
A white and flawless hand held that dagger. But one should not think that, because it was a woman's hand, that dagger was not a threat. This was not a simple woman!
As if they had received a common signal, some remnants of the Sacred Church who were originally behind also took out sharp weapons from their hands and subdued the people in front of them one by one.
There was not even any need for the Pokémon to act. Almost half of the people there had already been subdued. Only a small portion was not controlled, but upon noticing the situation, those people also frantically retreated, looking at the scene before them in horror.
Only they could distinguish that those subdued were diehard loyalists of the Black Messenger, while those subduing them were diehard loyalists of the White Messenger.
They, the small subordinates no one cared about, were people neither side valued too much. They only continued there to earn a bowl of food, because otherwise they also could not survive in the League.
However, in normal times, the White Messenger almost never interfered in the Black Messenger's decisions. Even, to a certain extent, she acted according to the Black Messenger's plans. Although it could not be said that she was under the Black Messenger's command, in reality it was almost like that. Originally, they thought these remnants of the Sacred Church would continue acting according to the Black Messenger's plan.
They did not expect the situation to become this.
"Why? Irene, tell me why."
Will seemed extremely agitated, even unconcerned about the sharp dagger beside his neck. As he moved his neck, the blade opened a deep blood mark.
Irene showed no expression. One of her hands tightly held the dagger, while the other pressed directly against Will's back to prevent him from moving.
"Because I want to live!"
Irene's cold and clear voice sounded beside Will's ear.
Since all these people had been subdued, the special energy net that originally wrapped around Cain dispersed. Seeing the subdued people, Cain nodded in satisfaction.
But hearing Irene's words, Will fell silent.
Live.
A simple word.
But coming from Irene's mouth, it seemed extraordinarily heavy, so heavy that Will felt he could almost not breathe.
As both of them were cadres of the Sacred Church, and moreover the White and Black Messengers who represented the bishop of the Sacred Church when walking through the world, Will knew Irene quite well.
Irene was originally a singer from the Johto region, born as a commoner. In principle, she had no opportunity to come into contact with the profession of Trainer. Her whole life could only have been that of an ordinary singer, ending her existence as an ordinary person.
But things did not go as expected. Although Irene was a commoner, her appearance was too outstanding, which made many people covet her. They not only coveted her singing and dancing, but also her body.
Not only that. Even the other singers who performed on the same stage rejected her, because she attracted most of the attention, leaving many without opportunities to perform.
After a long accumulation of problems, the danger Irene feared finally occurred. At a dangerous moment of life and death, Irene unexpectedly awakened her psychic power on her own and sent all those people who bothered her flying. But because of that, she could no longer keep living in that city.
Even so, it could be said that her fate was not to die. Thanks to her psychic power, she finally captured a Pokémon and managed to become a Trainer.
At the same time, Kael, who at that time was searching for psychics, also found Irene, offering her protection and an opportunity to survive.
It could be said that the reason Irene made her strength continue increasing was only because she wanted to live.
Because among that group of psychics recruited by Kael, in the end, the only one who managed to survive was her. After Kael valued her potential, she gradually became the White Messenger of the Sacred Church.
The special identity of White Messenger, for Irene, in reality was nothing more than something she was forced to accept in order to keep living.
After Kael failed and the Sacred Church was subdued, Irene's greatest backing disappeared.
She understood that, with only the identity of a remnant of the Sacred Church, they would not be able to survive. Because of that, she needed to find a new backing.
And Cain, who had become the deputy leader of Team Rocket, was at the same time the leader of Team Heaven, and at that moment was also the person with the greatest possibility of becoming Champion of the Hoenn region, was Irene's best choice.
Fortunately, during the Space-Time Continent, the one who saw through Cain's disguise was not only one person. Irene, in fact, also understood it later, only she did not see it clearly at the first moment.
Because of that, she took the initiative to seek out Cain and left herself an escape route.
(End of chapter)