For a moment, Cain did not understand why Giovanni was looking at him with those eyes.
But Cain was not too worried about whether Giovanni had set his sights on him or distrusted him.
If Giovanni really were that kind of person, then long ago, when Cain had not yet fully grown, he should already have died. There was no reason for Giovanni to show hostility toward him now, when he had already fully matured.
Just as Cain could ask himself and say that he had done nothing wrong against the Hoenn League, nor anything that harmed the Hoenn region, he also had the confidence that he had done nothing harmful to Team Rocket.
Saying it like that sounded somewhat strange. After all, his identity had both black and white, and he had completely integrated into both sides. How was it possible not to have harmed the interests of either?
But reality was like that. What Cain had always pursued was something that simple: pursuing absolute strength.
And both Team Rocket and the League were nothing more than two ladders he used in his pursuit of power.
These two ladders intersected and complemented each other. Cain stood in the center, taking the best of both and making up for their shortcomings. This was also one of the important reasons why he had been able to increase his strength so quickly.
Sitting in the chair of the meeting room, he remained silent for a long time, trying to decipher that look from Giovanni.
"Gengar, tell me, what kind of look was that?" Cain said a sentence into the air, and a dark ghostly shadow slowly appeared beside him.
"Kekeke!"
"Hahahahaha... That is also true. Let's go. Let's see what important thing our great leader Giovanni sent me, for him to give it so much importance."
Cain stood up, patting his legs.
Teleport!
He appeared directly in his office inside Heaven Castle.
The transmission device had already completed the transfer. A disc shaped like an "R" appeared in the tray of the device.
"Is this it? Is there some important document inside?"
Cain took the disc. He did not even need to use a computer; he could directly read its contents.
But when a long list appeared in front of Cain, even with his self-control, he was stunned. The disc he held in his hand fell directly.
Fortunately, Gengar was still there, and before the disc touched the floor, he caught it.
Cain, however, paid no attention to that. He only stared fixedly at the information in front of him, or rather... a list.
The first line of the list said:
Name: Koga; position: high executive; identity: Johto Poison-type Elite Four; strength: newly entered Champion level...
...
A list like this, from the high executives at the top to all the captains at the bottom, included several thousand people. All the information was recorded in great detail.
From the names and strength of these people, to their birth, their relatives, how they came to occupy their position, how they started from childhood, and so on.
It was an extremely complex and detailed set of data.
Not only that. There were even quite a few Team Rocket Executives Cain had never heard of. And all of them, without exception, were extremely powerful Trainers, members of Team Rocket.
These people, without any doubt, were the true strength of Team Rocket that Giovanni had hidden.
Without exaggeration, possessing such a list allowed one to firmly hold the entire Team Rocket in the palm of one's hand.
Because with such detailed information, it was completely possible to use the data revealed there to control all these people.
Moreover, Cain discovered that at the bottom of the information on this "R"-shaped disc, there was a twenty-six-character password engraved. With that password, one could move without obstruction throughout all of Team Rocket's interior, whether physically, on the network, or in the databases.
In other words, only after possessing this data could Cain be considered a true deputy leader of Team Rocket.
He could even, if the leader of Team Rocket were not present, exercise power in his place.
"This... what does it mean?"
After being stunned for a long time, Cain finally came back to himself.
But even after regaining his calm, he could not understand Giovanni's intention.
To be honest, Team Heaven also had a list like this. Only, it was not in Cain's hands, but in the hands of Brad, Catherine, and Rose. With that list, they could better manage Team Heaven.
And Cain could give them that purely because he had planted his psychic seeds in their minds, so he could be one hundred percent at ease.
But to say Giovanni trusted him one hundred percent... Cain felt that was not very realistic.
"Then, what is this for?"
For a moment, Cain also could not be certain.
But after that murmur, Cain felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
His eyes slowly opened wider, and his pupils also gradually enlarged. He thought of a very possible answer, but one difficult to accept.
Cain believed that, with Giovanni's prestige and deterrent force inside Team Rocket, even if he had this information, Team Rocket's Executives also would not betray Giovanni.
But what if Giovanni were no longer there?
According to the current situation, whether in identity or strength, Cain was the person with the highest position inside Team Rocket after Giovanni. But that alone was still not enough for Cain to truly take power over Team Rocket. Even with enough strength, it was the same; he almost never appeared before them, so how could others obey him?
But with a list like this, the situation was completely different.
"It seems that even Giovanni, the leader of Team Rocket, does not have absolute confidence in defeating that old man. What is this?"
"Can he not bear for the fruit of his efforts, after his failure, to become a tool in the hands of a group of useless people?"
Cain felt slightly shaken in his heart. He felt as if he had seen another side of Giovanni.
But thinking about it in more detail, Cain's face gradually sank.
(End of chapter)