The Hole Soon Appeared

Yoichi's efficiency was really very good, and after just negotiating last night, Rope was woken up this morning by the roar of the machines in action. Stepping out of his tent, sure enough, there was one construction truck after another pulling in, Junji was directing them, and it looked like work was about to begin.

Rope stood at the doorway of the tent for a moment, and soon Yoichi and Mizushin came out of the tent as well. The two even pretended to straighten their clothes.

Rope watched and skimmed.

However, given that the play hadn't finished yet, and he was interested in Mizushin's true identity, he wouldn't break up the relationship between these two people at this time. They could play out whatever relationship they liked.

Not to mention lovers, even if they were father and daughter... damn, it's so exciting to think about it...

Rope shook his head, interrupting his thoughts that were about to get more and more obscene. Then he smiled and waved at Yoichi.

Yoichi also saw Rope and waved as well, but had no intention of coming over to greet him, as he quickly walked over in the direction where the workers were gathered, apparently to start instructing the work.

It was a well-known fact that as long as there was a leader watching over this kind of thing, then the biggest credit for the whole job would go to the leader, regardless of whether or not the leader had even moved a single brick.

This was something Rope didn't really care about. Seriously, he was still really a bit nervous right now. Rotom Pokédex's voice came over his comm.

"If all of these machines are running at full power, then a preliminary estimate is that we can have all of the stinking mud corpses cleaned up by this afternoon. Rotom."

Rotom, in its backpack, said with a bit of excitement in its tone.

It was actually curious as to what kind of Pokémon or whatever it could be down there.

It didn't realize that Rope had already collected as much energy as possible from all of the Poison-type Pokémon, and the ones that hadn't were the ones that couldn't be collected.

And that, in turn, meant that the situation wasn't at all as optimistic as Rotom thought it would be to discover a new breed of Pokémon. If the culprit underneath was indeed a Pokémon, then Rope would have to think about running.

Of course, one thing is still okay, whatever's underneath is probably a pretty important discovery. With a little bit of referencing and a paper, Rope's name would have to catch fire again in the research community.

Thinking about this Rope was still quite happy, after all, this was the first field in which he had been recognized in this world. The reputation of the research world still had a different meaning for Rope.

While Rope was thinking about this, Yoichi and Junji were already over there directing the construction.

It can be seen that Yoichi is not the kind of leader who knows nothing and just stands there to get credit. His ability in project scheduling is almost the same as Junji's. Considering that Yoichi has been doing clerical work for many years and rarely goes to the site to direct work after being promoted to this position, it is estimated that Yoichi's work ability was even stronger than Junji's.

But, unfortunately...

If nothing else, Yoichi will never be able to turn his life around. This was already the pinnacle of what he could achieve.

In this world, if a civilian player wanted to excel and break the limits, the only option was to become a top trainer. At the very least, a trainer who could support a dojo.

Without this kind of talent Yoichi, even if he was no matter how talented he was in business and engineering, he would only be pinned down by the others with no room for resistance.

It was important to realize that even Devon Corporation, in the true sense of the word, had dominated the Hoenn region only after Steven had become the champion. Prior to that, the Steven family didn't have much weight to negotiate with the Hoenn League on a par.

The world will never be truly fair, because true fairness will never exist. It wasn't fair for a commoner to go and compete with the children of the big families who had received a good elite education from a young age and had seen all sorts of things in all shapes and sizes. But if all the additions were to be thrown down and the children of the great families were to give up their advantages, then wouldn't their fathers' efforts be completely meaningless? This is also unfair.

People with talent in this world are still able to get ahead. Far from it, Bruno from the Elite Four was a typical representative of civilians.

That's why Rope was curious about Mizushin's identity.

He believed that Yoichi wouldn't fail to understand that "you can't get ahead without a top trainer behind you", so it was conceivable that Mizushin was Yoichi's backbone, so who was Mizushin?

As for Junji, his biggest advantage right now is probably that he hasn't been exposed yet. After all, Junji's profile authority seems to be very high, and I'm afraid even Yoichi would have a hard time seeing his real profile after encryption.

Unfortunately, I don't know what kind of backhandedness the big boss has in store for him. Based on the current situation, Rope felt that if he didn't intervene, I'm afraid that Cerulean City Water Company would soon become Yoichi's possession.

Just as Rope was thinking, Mizushin stepped on her high heels, wore a red coat, and walked towards Rope with a gentle smile on her face.

[Tsk, not a white coat, bad review... did I expose something?]

The corner of Rope's mouth couldn't help but twitch for a moment before suppressing all the nasty thoughts in his head.

Rope smiled as if nothing had happened and asked, "What is it, Ms. Mizushin, does Mr. Yoichi have something to discuss with me?"

Mizushin smiled naturally, with the innocence and charm of a big sister next door, "Mr. Yoichi asked me to come here to inform you that the dredging work is estimated to end in ten hours. I wonder what guidance you have for the dredging work."

Rope car you for a moment, then said, "Logically I shouldn't be able to offer any guidance on the work of you professionals, but, this time, there is no small amount of danger involved, so I still wish to minimize unnecessary losses, and if possible, I wish to have all of my employees ready to evacuate at any time and be able to guarantee that they will do so at any time. And since it's a poison system, please have them wear the best protective clothing to avoid poisoning."

Rope finished and looked up at Mizushin with a smile, saying, "That's all, of course, if it will cause trouble in your work, then just forget I said it, after all, I'm not a professional related to this."

He doesn't hear Mizushin's response, so he looks over at her, and then Rope realizes with embarrassment...

Mizushin's face seemed a little... off.

"You are, truly, too gentle?" Mizushin said with rather misty eyes.

[No, please don't speak in that tone...]

Rope thought so helplessly.

Ten hours later.

The hole in the ground soon appeared.