>>23147445They were bros. That's why it pissed me off so much that they didn't get so much as a flashback (unlike a Goddamn tree did in the previous episode) when they left. It also annoyed me that their departure was so contrived. The guy was poaching poison Pokémon, and he just happened to have only obtained Ekans and Koffing, despite Ekans not even being found in the Hoenn Region.
It was a good episode, but they made it too obvious that it was written for the sole purposes of making Arbok and Weezing fuck off. They could have done a far better job hiding that if they had actually tried.