The more time passed inside this place, the more severely his psychic power was suppressed. Now, even extending it five meters from his body was already the limit, and the longer he remained, the greater that suppressive force became.
Only the energy in the enemy's hands did not weaken.
Seeing Cain direct his attention to the net wrapped around him and to the masses of energy in their hands, Will looked very excited, as if something extraordinary he had done had finally been discovered by someone.
"What do you think? Are you curious about our power? This was prepared especially to deal with you!"
"Do you feel your psychic power being miserably suppressed? Even using all your strength, at most you can only extend it a little, right? You also cannot feel any spatial energy, can you?"
By sending out all the obstacles, there is no one here who can come bother us.
Will admired that mass of black energy in his hand.
This was the enemy they had prepared for Cain, because in the entire League, the one with the strongest methods against the Sacred Church's alternate spaces was Cain.
If they wanted to find them here, they would necessarily need Cain to act.
As long as they waited for Cain to arrive, they could leave him alone here. Without Steven and the others getting in the way, they could concentrate on dealing with him.
As Champion, Cain's strength was undoubtedly powerful.
But during this period, they had not remained without improving either. Moreover, with the help of that treasure, suppressing Cain, defeating him, and burying him forever was not impossible.
"And then?" Cain looked directly at Will and said calmly. He lightly patted the dust from his sleeve and then unconsciously arranged his hair.
He had spent more than three months in the past without leaving the back mountain of the Blackthorn City Gym, so he also had not cut his hair much. As soon as he returned, he ran into this matter and had no time to tidy it properly. Now it was indeed blocking his sight and command of the battle a little.
Seeing Cain still maintain such a calm appearance, Will's smile gradually faded, and his face became gloomy.
Finding that Will did not answer his question, Cain helplessly shook his head and continued, "In other words, you spent so much effort, searching for some treasure to suppress my psychic power, expelling Steven and the others, for what?"
"Or do you really think that with you, these rotten potatoes and rotten eggs, you can face me?"
"You!" Will's eyes reddened, and he gritted his teeth with a furious expression.
"Originally, if you always hid in the darkness and spread unfavorable things about me, I truly would have had no way to deal with you. But I did not expect that you would actually deliver yourselves to my door."
Cain slowly shook his head. The gaze with which he looked at Will and Irene was full of pity.
After arranging his hair, Cain removed the Poké Balls from his waist one by one and threw them. He looked completely calm, without haste or nervousness.
"Not being satisfied with your current situation nor with the future you can see at a glance, and rebelling against it, is not wrong in itself. What was wrong was your unscrupulous method for reaching your goals. What was wrong was that, when you had choices, you chose the path least suitable for you. You chose to join the Sacred Church. From beginning to end, that was an enormous mistake."
Cain looked at Will.
He had no choice. He had to join Team Rocket to survive and have more opportunities to climb upward. But Will was not like that. He did have the right and opportunity to choose.
Even if he had chosen to join Team Rocket like him, Cain would not have rejected him too much. Unfortunately, he chose to join the Sacred Church, an organization that even seemed somewhat anti-human.
And now, he had even become something neither human nor ghost.
"What right do you have to talk about me? You yourself are a member of Team Rocket! And moreover, you took advantage of the moment when Hoenn's Team Magma and Team Aqua were eliminated to make the Team Heaven you created grow all at once, making it large and powerful! Did you not do that by relying on your identity in the League? What right do you have to point at me?"
Will stared fixedly at Cain, seeming somewhat hysterical.
"Heh. I am not the same as you. Do not speak as if you and I were the same kind of person. You and I are fundamentally different!"
"What is the difference? It is nothing more than that you joined Team Rocket, but you still have not caused substantial and serious harm to the League, while I joined the Sacred Church, which has already caused great destruction to the League. That is why we, the so-called remnants of the Sacred Church, are like rats crossing the street, whom everyone shouts to beat."
"It is not the same."
Cain did not become hysterical like Will. He only calmly shook his head.
"I had no choice. If I had had the opportunity to choose, without a doubt, I would have chosen to be a good person."
"But you are different. You did have a choice. However, because of the deepest desire in your heart, you joined the Sacred Church, because within the Sacred Church there were some special methods that could allow you to increase your strength through abnormal means. That 'strength' that was so important to you."
"Then, do you now admit that you are the deputy leader of Team Rocket, and at the same time the leader of Team Heaven, and even that you perhaps have other unknown identities?" Will recovered his calm and asked word by word while looking at Cain.
Cain looked at him with a strange expression, with a mocking smile that seemed to be between smiling and not smiling.
Or rather, Cain was not looking at him, but at what was behind him, behind all of them, something they blocked with their bodies to prevent him from seeing clearly.
A long, black, reflective tube.
(End of chapter)