This place is inherently part of the internal space of the Grand Tesoro, and the gold material here is different from ordinary gold. Through the buildings ford by this gold, it has already beco an absolute independent space.
Normal activity can’t be detected outside, and now, besides taking a group of lucky ones for a sightseeing tour, Tesoro is also hosting a grand ball. As long as this place isn’t dismantled, people outside won’t notice anything unusual.
"What are you talking about? Mr. Tesoro, I don’t quite understand what you an..."
Even at this mont, Knight still maintained a look of confusion, rely showing a hint of fear.
Even though Tesoro precisely called out his code na, he still did not admit it.
If it weren’t for Who’s-Who vouching for him, he would hardly believe that this person was indeed a CP0.
His impression of CP0 remained stuck on the white suits and strange masks, the kind of flamboyant personalities afraid that others wouldn’t recognize them on the streets.
"It’s okay, it’s fine if you don’t understand. The stage is ready; it’s ti for the actors to make their entrance. And this ti, it’s an old acquaintance of yours."
A section of the wall in the Golden Theater suddenly lted, and the figure of Who’s-Who appeared there.
"Long ti no see, Senior Knight. You did promise to groom well back then, haven’t you forgotten so soon?"
In his Human-Beast Form, Who’s-Who appeared in front of Knight, looking very much like before, but his color had changed to mainly black and gray.
The expanded fur made his body appear a little bloated, but the originally fluffy fur was now entirely made of steel, with a Viking helt-like decoration added atop his head.
It wrapped around his original horns, representing the new ability he had acquired, the Viking Pokemon - Perrserker, the evolved form of Galar Region’s owth.
Originally, owth was a Pokemon resembling a house cat, but with the change of living environnts, owth evolved into different branches.
The Alola Region initially had no owth. A few owth were offered to the Alola Region and lived with the nobles, gradually developing a haughty pride.
In contrast, Galar Region’s owth beca fishern’s helpers, always living with the belligerent sea tribes and even participating in raids, evolving into a more combative form.
"I don’t understand what you’re talking about."
"At this point, there’s no use in denying it. Senior Knight, your mory can’t be that bad, can it?"
Who’s-Who released his transformation and revealed his original appearance. It was only then that Knight understood what had occurred.
"You traitor..."
Until now, he hadn’t thought he had any flaws, even assuming this was just a surprise event planned by Tesoro.
He had been very confident in his undercover work, but now Knight understood why Tesoro was so certain his identity was compromised — he had run into a damned old acquaintance.
For soone executing undercover work, encountering an old acquaintance is undoubtedly extrely perilous; a single word from them could expose an entire operation.
Knight’s situation was different. He encountered sothing even more fatal: the other party wasn’t only an old acquaintance but also a traitorous one.
He had known before that Who’s-Who had defected from CP9 and joined the Hundred Beasts, but according to past intelligence, high-level officials of the Hundred Beasts rarely appeared at the Grand Tesoro, and Who’s-Who had never been here at all.
He, like Queen, hadn’t shown his face outside for a while, with the last news being from the power swap battles within the Hundred Beasts.
Even if he ca here, with the Grand Tesoro’s daily flow of over thirty thousand people, without precise information, he wouldn’t have been exposed. Yet his luck was simply unfortunate enough to be discovered by the other party.
He wasn’t aware that the person operating the monitors was nad Baccarat, and her Fruit Ability was Tesoro’s deepest secret, with the Luck-Luck Fruit able to have miraculous effects in many inconspicuous places.
"Don’t say that, Senior. I’m just trying to survive. Unlike you all, I won’t die just to serve them. Since you said back then you wanted to groom well, please fulfill that wish for ."
"You bastard! Is this what you understand by grooming?!"
His squad had been short-handed back then, so he wanted to recruit Who’s-Who after his promotion, and in Knight’s eyes, Who’s-Who also seed like a promising candidate.
He had genuinely wanted to groom Who’s-Who at that ti, but now, Who’s-Who wanted to trade his life for his future.
"Each serves their master, or perhaps you might consider surrendering? I could recomnd you to Mr. Kaidou. Although many high-level officials detest World Governnt mbers, if you truly join, they could accept it too."
Shaina and King’s personalities are still disdainful of World Governnt mbers. When he first joined, he was often t with contempt.
"Heh, Who’s-Who, aren’t you overestimating your abilities a bit? You’re thinking too highly of yourself!"
Listening to Who’s-Who’s boastful words, Knight’s eyes were full of disdain. People like them never betray; they even dare to undertake missions like disrupting Kaidou’s battles, which are clear suicide missions.
He just couldn’t understand why a re forr CP9 was so confident.
"Not even you, let alone that kid Rob Lucci, is my match!"
With his feet repeatedly tapping the ground dozens of tis, Knight used Soru to instantly appear in front of Who’s-Who, his fingers aligning as he thrust a Finger Gun towards Who’s-Who.
The chasm between CP9 and CP0 lies in strength. Unable to defeat Queen, he didn’t consider a re Who’s-Who worth his attention.
"I hate... being compared to that kid!"
An oddity of CP9, ntioning Rob Lucci, the most genius recruit in eight hundred years, and ntioning Who’s-Who, is that he and Rob Lucci are of equal fa. No one likes being seen as a sidekick, especially when one thinks they’re not inferior.
The confrontation between forr CP9 and current CP0, Who’s-Who also chose to counter with Rokushiki.
"Fool, your Tekkai can’t withstand mine, Finger Gun·Impact Hamr!"
His finger bones seed to disappear, with his fingers bizarrely retracting into his palm, finally springing forward like a spring.
The Earthworm Fruit granted him not only Regenerative Ability but also strong muscles and transformations of his skeleton, allowing his entire body to morph into a spring state, thus launching stronger attacks.
Tekkai and Finger Gun are the spear and shield within Rokushiki. Those who overestimate the quality of their shield generally et bad ends, but this ti, it wasn’t the shield that was overestimated, but the spear.
The fur covering Who’s-Who’s body completely blocked Knight’s Finger Gun.
"Hahaha, if the ultimate aim of Tekkai is to emulate steel, what’s the effect if a body made of steel uses Tekkai? Have you thought about it, Senior?"
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