>>25210228"G-Guhhh.. Xerosic... Xerosic.. Come now, get a hold of yourself... You don't want to start vomiting blood again.. How ghastly that would be... unghhh... but I can barely stand, let alone walk.. How.. How in the seven hells am I supposed to make it back..? Crobat is incapacitated.. the lab is so distant.."
"Unghh... By the gods.. None of this would have ever come to pass if Lysandre had just played his cards right.. How unfair it is.. He was a pawn, a foolish pawn, I know, but he was meant to succeed.. meant to conquer.. so that I could be spared and granted life in his new, beautiful world.. to which I would then immediately afterward /betray him/ in the pursuit of SCIENCE!"
"But then he had to screw it all up... get defeated by that boy... vanish off the face of the earth... disband Flare entirely.. leaving me to rot out here on these cold streets.... Perhaps the only bright side of it all is that /Malamar/ met his demise in the most karmic way possible during that brutal upheaval a few days back.. hmhmhm~ A bitter end for a bitter traitor, I'd say.."
"Nngh.. I've not seen hide nor hair of those balloon fellows either.. If the media is of any merit, they too.. single-handedly dismantled by the child in that catastrophe.."
"All these malevolent affiliations going under thanks to that infernal schmuck... and yet.. I still don't feel a shred of safety.. where does that leave myself? A magnificent monarch of the sciences.. second-in-command to the great and gullible Lysandre.. demoted to a freelance researcher in a recuperating metropolis.."
