[@Pirouette]

[i][color=6ecff6]"...How do you really make a difference here, then?"[/color][/i]

[color=ea4c4b]‘Lady, if we knew that, we’d be doing it already,’[/color] the thief with the red hair who had used a Magnemite in the previous confrontation said, crossing her arms over there.

[color=d7bf83]‘I am one of those office workers…’[/color] the guy in the gas-mask said. [color=d7bf83]‘I have tried to change things from the inside. Still do. But believe me, the bureaucracy is built to crush any such attempt. They laugh it off, saying this is the way it is supposed to be…’[/color] he continued.

[color=e090b8]‘So we resort to using our Pokémon~’[/color] the Chimecho trainer inserted. [color=e090b8]‘Unfortunately, just beating them in battle isn't going to change the system~’[/color]

The thieves had spoken in order from left to right in a half-circle, so following that the attention went to the big guy with the Quilladin… and he said nothing.

[color=ac705c]‘[i]Our[/i] solution,’[/color] the leader thief filled the silence. [color=ac705c]‘is to make our teams and make robberies on noble-owned stores, and give the money to more deserving, and then to try to break into their bases and try to find anything incriminating. But if you're asking what [i]you[/i] can do…’[/color]

[color=e090b8]‘Not much, probably~’[/color] said the Chimecho trainer. [color=e090b8]‘There’s a whole caste of powerful people who would try to stop you~’[/color]

[color=d7bf83]‘But that's why we work together,’[/color] the gas-mask guy said. [color=d7bf83]‘You could make or join a team trying to change things. There's quite a few of us in the city.’[/color]

[color=ea4c4b]‘Or, hey! There's a perfectly good team right here!’[/color] the red-haired one said, clearly smirking under her mask as she held her arms out in demonstration towards the rest of them.

[color=ac705c]‘... If you can think of any other way to change the city, we’re all ears,’[/color] the leader said. [color=ac705c]‘We’ve tried to raise awareness in other cities with demonstrations, but the media always blocks it out, and it just becomes an excuse for them to brandish us as troublemakers. So for now, we do the one thing we’ve thought of that helps somebody,’[/color] she continued, and then gripped her Pokéball again.

[color=ac705c]‘We fight.’[/color]
[color=ea4c4b]‘and steal!’[/color]
[color=e090b8]‘And give~’[/color]

The two later callers looked at the guy with the gas-mask.

[color=d7bf83]‘I’ve got nothing,’[/color] he stated.

[color=ea4c4b]‘Aw, c’mon! We almost said something cool together as a team!’[/color]

[color=e090b8]‘And so spontaneously, too~’[/color]

[color=d7bf83]‘It’s because it was spontaneous that I’ve got nothing! If you want to be able to say stuff like that together, you have to rehearse it!’[/color]

[color=ea4c4b]‘Rehearsing is boring! We’ve got more important things to do!’[/color]

[color=e090b8]‘You could’ve said “and infiltrate”~’[/color]

… And the three of them behind the leader kept a sudden argument going. In the meantime, the leader looked to Erika.

[color=ac705c]‘No single person can be expected to change the world. I won't demand you do anything. That said…’[/color] she steeled her voice. [color=ac705c]‘For something to change, [i]someone[/i] must do [i]something[/i]. So, what will you do?’[/color]

She was asked again.

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[hider=Bigfjord City][center][h2]Bigfjord City[/h2]


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Bigfjord City. The center of industry in Isson. If there’s a company, it likely has its headquarters in this city of commerce. The city of Bigfjord is famous for needing a lot of hands. The storehouse of Isson, the city is riddled with countless cheap apartments for the many objects of commerce that are shipped across the land. The ships of Bigfjord sail by the sea to Pureplain, where it is traded to the rest of the world. Inside the city hundreds of companies grow out of nothing and employ the population, and that is the draw of the city. The city itself are just skyscrapers after skyscrapers, modern and organized as far as the eye can see, with the larger companies growing out of the bunch with spectacular structures showing of their wealth and power, lording over the workers who move to Bigfjord for a chance at an easy life working for the big boys.

As you enter the streets of Bigfjord City, the night of Route 13 does not leave. Where the roads of Worldedge City might feel magical, the streets of Bigfjord City feel unforgivingly real. Cars drive around causing long lines of traffic, and uncountable workers and humans tarry about, going to or from work. What perhaps stands out the most is the sheer lack of Pokémon-themed marketing. In Bigfjord City, it is like they look down on the premise of Pokémon driving the world. The only Pokémon you see are the Murkrows sitting on the street lights, hunting for their next meals and trinkets, as well as the Rattatas lurking just visible in the various alleys, doing very much the same thing. Unlike basically everywhere else in Isson, the atmosphere was not welcoming. It was stiffeningly uncaring.[/hider]