Ground is dumbfounded...
His mouth is open, and he can't close it for a long time. An unspoken "ho-ho-ho" sound came from his throat.
"Ground, what are you waiting for? Why don't you hurry up and bring our guests to the supply point and prepare delicious food and drinks for them." Rock shouted in dissatisfaction as he looked at the dazed Ground.
While saying so, he scowled at Ground, as if asking him if he had forgotten the program...
[I want to smash your little head into pieces right now and see if it's filled with brains or stinky mud...]
Where is the oddball who brings the opposing BOSS to his own base?
This guy may be crazy, but crazy and stupid are two different things!
So this guy's nature is not a lunatic, but a fool...Then he, Ground, is not a blind man!
Rope was also startled for a moment at the sight of Ground, and then there was a heavy sigh.
Whitley looked at Rope suspiciously.
"I single-handedly thought that if the number of people was small enough I could make my plan work. But I didn't think you could ambush me here..."
Rope said in a tone of regret to the core.
And Rock and Whitley were both a little unsure.
Ground was a different story.
He went straight to his knees and almost fell to the ground. If it wasn't for Solrock behind him who was quick on his feet and promptly supported his master with Confusion, it was estimated that Ground would have already knelt at this moment...
"Yo, if it isn't Brother Rope! I was wondering why there were a few Murkrow, no, Swablu, chirping in the trees this morning, so it's you!"
The smile on Ground's face was flattering.
Whitley and Rock, the two uninformed people, were dumbfounded. What the hell kind of path is this?
Rock wasn't a pure scatterbrain, Ground had mentioned the name 'Rope', then of course he reacted to the fact that this was the one who had been working against the organization.
So he subconsciously wanted to make a move, but in the end, he felt stagnant, and looked up at the mid-air Solrock, who was glowing with a faint pink light, and was obviously just using his skills to get comfortable with Rock's movements.
Rock looked to the side of Ground in disbelief, Ground used the hand behind his back to gesture towards the side of him.
[Don't say anything if you want to live, I'll take care of it].
Thinking that Lunatone just now was probably also instructed by Ground not to fight Rope and not to organize Solrock's movements, that's why Lunatone stayed there motionless like a block of real Rock's head.
"Rope, you two, know each other?"
Whitley asked, looking at Ground, who had just stood up straight, but was obviously still a little weak in the knees, and then over here at Rope, who wasn't looking very good.
Actually, this is a nonsense...the two of them are like this and how can they not know each other. So Whitley was really just asking Rope who this guy in front of him, who didn't look like he had much of a backbone, was.
"Nariga Gen, the young master of the Nariga family, the old master of the Nariga family's favorite grandson, the current master of the Nariga family's most hated son, I met him when he was still a little kid and left a 'deep' impression on him. "
Rope said it lightly on his lips, but Whitley looked at Nariga Gen's face and knew that the process of leaving that so-called 'deep' impression was definitely not something that just had to be remembered...
"But now it's not quite the same as when I was a kid," Rope said. Whitley and Ground both looked at Rope, waiting for his next words... as for Rock... the guy was staring at Ground as if he was looking at some kind of monster.
"This this guy went from being a brat to a spineless brat, will he turn into a brat that's going to get a day trip to jail next?"
The threat in Rope's words couldn't have been more obvious.
Nariga Gen, also known as Ground, looked serious and was about to start defending himself. But Rock's words blocked the words he wanted to defend himself in his throat.
"You're the young master of the Nariga family? But wasn't the first batch of resources you took me to rob the Nariga family's birthday gift to their own head of the family?"
Rope: ...
Whitley: ???
Ground: o_O???
"Father's kindness, son's filial piety[1]"
However, this silly remark also broke the atmosphere created by Rope. Rope looked at the lunatic and the filial son in front of him and shook his head helplessly.
He looked at Nariga Gen and then said, "Five minutes, give me a reason that can convince me."
With that, he raised his watch towards Nariga Gen, and then pulled out the Poké Puff from his own backpack, which he had made earlier and Daisy had stuffed in; it was already nearing noon, and it would be meal time again in a while. But after such a long journey, it's not bad to have some food first. He gave it to Whitley, who took it and ate it.
While eating, he thought that he couldn't be like this anymore, he would be spoiled into a waste by Rope if he went on like this.
Mmm, Poké Puff smells so good!
Rope didn't care, of course they should eat something good if they can afford it in the wilderness, it's not like the conditions don't allow it, they're out to travel, not out to suffer.
He chewed on his Poké Puff as he watched Nariga Gen make up his reasons now. He didn't mean to make things difficult for Nariga Gen, after all, Gen was his friend, and although he was talking about how this little brat was, Rope, who in essence would be lenient to acquaintances in most cases, wouldn't make things difficult for his friend.
Furthermore, even if he taught Gen a lesson, what's the point? Like Rope just said, even if he puts Gen in jail, it's just a day trip.Gen won't be in pain, not to mention that Rope will still be missed.
Moreover, the relationship between the Oki family and the Nariga family is very good, otherwise Rope wouldn't have known Gen back in the day.
On the other hand, Whitley conjured up the Rotom from Rope's bag, and then began to inquire about the Nariga family's news.
In fact, the Nariga's are a family of little repute.
A lot of their assets were invested in a lot of companies, water, electricity, shopping malls, all of them had shares, and all of them had a lot of shares, it was a family that rarely had the largest shareholders, but was the second largest shareholder in a lot of companies.
It seems to have no assets.
But when it comes to utilizing their influence, the power that this family can utilize is definitely not much worse than that of the Oki family, and a large number of this family's assets are distributed in various regions.
In other words, Gen's influence was really spread throughout the entire League, not just Kanto.
After about three minutes, Gen opened his eyes and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"What? Finished making it up?"
Rope asked with a faint smile.
"Didn't make it up, knew you'd leave me alone if I did, but after thinking about it, it seems like I don't need to make anything up with you."
Gen said bitterly.
"I ran away to get away from the old man at home."
"He want me to be the head of the house."
[1] 《父慈子孝》 - "the father is loving towards his children and the children show filial piety towards their father" but sarcasm: "the father and child are engaging in family quarrel either verbally, financially or physically" (thanks wikipedia)