I am the boss of Sakaki

When Qing Mao was taken onto the helicopter again, he was almost helped up by Sakaki's men.

His eyes were dull and his face was as pale as paper, like a completely hollowed-out puppet.

The helicopter took off again, this time heading for Tokiwa City, the "foundation" of Sakaki and Team Rocket.

When the helicopter flew over Tokiwa City, Qing Mao looked out the window and saw a scene that was completely different from Vermilion Port and Rainbow City.

There are no towering skyscrapers (the floors of Viridian City are basically the same), no suspended sky gardens, and no suffocating slums.

The city is clean, tidy and well-planned. The morning sun shines on the streets, and early risers walk leisurely with a peaceful and satisfied look on their faces.

In the park, children are playing, followed by common elves such as Popo, Rattata, and Pokemon, and their laughter can be faintly heard.

On both sides of the street, shops are open in an orderly manner, including steaming bakeries, fairy beauty shops with the fragrance of flowers...a vibrant atmosphere of urban life.

What made Qing Mao's pupils shrink even more was that he saw some people wearing the same uniform with the Rainbow Group logo, who were organizing cleaning activities in the community, and some were instructing residents on how to better take care of their elves.

There was a queue in front of a small medical center of the Rainbow Group, but the order was well maintained. People's faces showed hope and happiness from waiting, rather than the despair and pain of the slums.

The helicopter landed in a private area behind the Tokiwa Gym.

Sakaki walked into the city with the dazed Qingmao.

They did not deliberately hide their whereabouts, but the residents they met along the way, whether they were housewives carrying vegetable baskets or old men taking a walk with their elves, showed a heartfelt respect and gratitude for Sakaki rather than fear when they saw him.

"Morning, Mr. Sakaki!"

"Mr. Sakaki, thank you for sending someone to help me repair the roof last time!"

"Mr. Sakaki, my kid's caterpillar has evolved into a Metapod! Thanks to the guidance of the community breeding house!"

The greetings came one after another, friendly and natural. Sakaki also nodded slightly in response, and his face rarely faded away from the previous coldness, with a barely perceptible gentleness.

They came to a community center.

It was lunch time and the aroma of food wafted through the center.

Many elderly people and children were eating inside. The meals were simple but nutritionally balanced. A middle-aged man wearing the Rainbow Group uniform was greeting everyone enthusiastically. Qing Mao noticed that both the children and the elderly were in good spirits, and their clothes were not gorgeous but clean and tidy.

Their elf friends stay quietly beside their owners, or play in the small elf activity area nearby, creating a harmonious atmosphere.

"The people here," Sakaki stood at the entrance of the community center, looking at the happy scene inside, and spoke slowly, his voice low and clear, as if he was talking to Qingmao, or as if he was stating it to himself,

"Most of them are relatives of Rainbow Group employees, or ordinary residents of Viridian City. They don't have to worry about their next meal, or die if they get sick. Their children can go to school and have elf companions to accompany them as they grow up.

They can have this ordinary stability because someone shields them from the storm outside, and someone bears the darkness for them. "

Qing Mao's body trembled violently. He understood! He finally understood the purpose of Sakaki taking him on this tour!

Sakaki turned around, staring at Qingmao with his deep eyes. There was no boasting of a winner in them, only a heavy, almost compassionate calmness:

"Where do you think the money of Rainbow Group comes from? Do you think that maintaining the pure land of Changpan City does not require huge resources and power?

The rules of the alliance cannot protect them, but only drain them! The smuggling and black market that you regard as evil...the wealth they bring is transformed into food, medicine, schools and elf breeding houses here!

It turned into smiles on the faces of these elderly people and the carefree running of these children! "

Sakaki pointed to the people in the community center:

"Their peace and hope are built on the 'darkness' that you despise! It was the Rainbow Group (Team Rocket) and I, Sakaki, who, outside the rules of the alliance, used my own way to tear open a space for them to survive!

The new order I establish is not the hypocritical light of the Alliance, but a world based on reality where power and responsibility coexist!

Someone must stand in the shadows so that more people can enjoy the sunshine. This is my choice and my "justice"! "

Qing Mao could no longer hold on, his legs went limp, and he fell to his knees on the clean ground in front of the Tokiwa City Community Center.

The sunlight shone on him, but he could not feel any warmth at all, only bone-chilling cold and vast emptiness.

He looked at the happy scene in the community center, the ordinary and satisfied faces, and the innocent smiles of the children playing with the elves...

These scenes are wildly intertwined and collided with the filth and despair of Vessel Leaf Port, the arrogance and debauchery of the Golden City's dignitaries, the darkness of the alliance revealed by Sakaki coldly, and his own pathetic privileged background!

The belief he pursued all his life - the justice and light represented by the Alliance - completely collapsed and shattered into powder, crushed to nothing by the cruel reality shown by Sakaki and the "pure land" of Tokiwa City built on "sin".

He lost, completely.

He didn't lose because of strength, but because of the truth of the world that he had never seen clearly.

He once thought he was the guardian of light, but now he realized that he was just a pathetic pawn in the beautiful dream woven by the privileged class.

The tears finally burst out uncontrollably, dripping silently onto the clean ground of Viridian City.

He knelt there, like a statue abandoned by his faith, with only a huge void in the depths of his soul and Sakaki's words echoing like a spell:

"Someone has to stand in the shadows so more people can enjoy the sunshine."

Qing Mao's head was buzzing, and the investigator was also standing in the shadows.

But why don't more people bask in the sunshine?

Those who are said to be standing in the sunshine are not actually standing in the sunshine; they are just sunbathing.

Enjoyed the privileges that others had.

He suddenly felt a little tired.

Sakaki held out his hand to him, "Get up, it's not you who is wrong, it's this world that is wrong."

Qing Mao looked at Sakaki in a trance, and slowly stood up, "Brother Sakaki, can you erase all the injustice in this world?"

Sakaki looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, "I can't guarantee it, but I will do my best."

"Why, you wanna join me?"

"I need some time." Qingmao replied to Sakaki, his eyes particularly firm.

Even if he didn't follow Sakaki, he wouldn't return to the alliance.

Even dogs wouldn't stay in such an alliance!