With Gengar's current strength, inside the League headquarters of Mt. Silver, there were originally not many people capable of dealing with him.
Only the council Elder, Magnus, and a few others would have the possibility of discovering him.
Now, both the council Elder and Magnus were outside facing Team Rocket. The people remaining inside the Mt. Silver headquarters posed no threat to Cain.
He advanced without any obstacle. Everyone, whether themselves or their Pokémon, was easily hypnotized by Gengar.
The prison of the League headquarters did not occupy a large area, and the number of cells was not very high either.
But anyone locked up here was not a simple person. Basically, all of them had caused great disasters to the Pokémon world in the past, or had caused very severe losses and blows to the League.
Some of these individuals possessed extraordinary special abilities. For example, someone with the ability of an Advanced-level Breeder, but who had violated the principles of Advanced-level Breeders and, purely for profit, had manufactured things that caused enormous harm to Pokémon, dealing a great blow to the reputation of the League's entire Pokémon Breeder Guild.
Another example was some owners of breeding grounds who, in order to obtain profits, researched Pokémon genes and heredity without restraint, attempting to create new species of Pokémon, but ended up creating monsters.
And so on...
But regardless of who these people were, none had a deterrent force as great as Kael.
In the deepest part of the prison, Cain finally once again saw the former arrogant bishop of the Sacred Church, Kael Drako!
Seeing him now, he discovered that he seemed to have become a kind of monk. He wore an extremely simple linen robe and was sitting silently cross-legged on the floor.
Leaving other things aside, Kael's treatment was quite good. Even as the most important prisoner, there was no problem with his daily life. He was supplied with good food and drink, and even the place where he lived had quite decent decoration.
If one looked carefully, one could discover that at Kael's feet there was an enormous chain.
Seeing that chain, Cain immediately knew what material it was made of: extremely high-quality minerals filled with Dark-type energy. Even with Kael's psychic power, without the help of his Pokémon, it was impossible to break it.
Moreover, Cain discovered that the psychic power fluctuations Kael emitted were who knew how many times weaker. They could barely serve him to maintain his daily movements after losing both hands. As for spatial ability, that was even more impossible.
"You have finally come."
Kael, who was meditating with his eyes closed, slowly opened them. No one else could discover Cain's existence, but he could.
Cain appeared before Kael in a flash. The so-called prison, to him, was nothing more than a joke.
His figure gradually revealed itself.
Looking at Kael, seated on the floor with a calm expression, Cain smiled and said, "It seems you knew I would come."
As he spoke, Cain did not care whether the floor was dirty or not and sat directly beside Kael.
Looking at the current Kael, he did not find too many differences from the one in his youth, apart from some marks that the passage of time had slightly left on his face.
Kael curved his lips a little. His severed arms, hidden beneath the linen robe, pointed wrapped toward his own head.
"What is inside here, isn't that so? Its power is truly strong. Although now I clearly know that this has a great relationship with you, I still cannot get angry. I even feel respect because you were able to start influencing me from that moment."
"Tell me, isn't it strange?"
Hearing this, Cain also curved his lips, and little by little, his smile became larger and larger.
"Hahahahaha... I'm sorry. In reality, back then I also did not think it would end up becoming like this."
Kael ignored Cain's laughter. His expression was slightly complex.
"After coming into contact with Giratina, that thing in my mind was sealed by him, so I did not perceive too much about you. But when I saw you personally for the first time, some fragments suddenly appeared in my mind. My subconscious told me: do not hurt him."
"When I saw you on Mt. Silver, that feeling became even stronger. It was not until Arceus released my mind, affected by Giratina, that I understood where that feeling came from. Only then did I understand what you meant to me."
Cain also withdrew his smile.
"Then, did you cut off your hands to leave me the Unown?"
Hearing Cain's question, Kael fell silent again. Only after thinking deeply did he slowly speak: "Was it like that? I myself do not know either."
As he spoke, a somewhat bitter smile appeared on his face.
"Maybe... it was for you. Or maybe it was only because I hated those hands."
Cain slowly nodded, thoughtful.
In reality, to be honest, there had not been too much contact or friendship between the two.
When Celebi sent him back to the past, Cain thought his objective was the Dragon's Den, or rather, the things inside the Dragon's Den.
But he had not expected that the true reason was the person called Kael.
He made those preparations after the facts had already happened, so he felt that everything was very strange. But in Kael's eyes, this became something Cain had planned from the beginning. Thinking about it that way, this person seemed somewhat terrifying.
"What do you plan to do now?" Cain asked, changing the subject.
But Kael did not directly answer his question.
"That you can appear here in this way proves that right now, there must be very few people in the League headquarters, right?"
"At least, people like the old man and Magnus are not in the headquarters. Otherwise, even you would not be able to approach this place."
"Put that way, the League headquarters of Mt. Silver is empty of personnel. Then there is only one possibility... Giovanni? Has Giovanni come?"
(End of chapter)