596 The Aftermath

"We need to seize all the money from this previous mayor. As much as we could.", shouted Liam with passion.

"But we don't know where is the money hidden. He might have spent all of them.", said Oliver.

"Oliver, that guy had sucked trillions of Poke dollars. Do you really think that he had spent all of them? I believe that he had invested or hidden that money somewhere.", said Liam.

Squirtle was going to be born tomorrow and he wanted to spend some time with the egg but he had to deal with the matter of mayor urgently. He didn't like it but this was his job.

Liam came up with a proposition that the money that the mayor stole had been hidden somewhere. The mayor was still in jail and if they wanted to get that money, they had to plan well.

"Why don't we use one of our Pokemons to interrogate him?", asked Axel.

"Sir, that is not good on morale. We cannot let a Pokemon torture a human."

"I am not saying torture. My Slowemperor can use illusions and can extract information from him without him knowing."

"That is a great idea. But if people found out that we are using Pokemon to interrogate, it might go out of hand."

"Don't worry, they don't have to know."

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Adam was sitting in the cell. Just some weeks before, he was the mayor of the town. He had a very lavish life but now he was living on such a small stinking cell.

He knew that he was in the wrong. His family had been stealing money from the city for hundreds of years. Due to this, his family had been able to accumulate a large wealth. They were able to buy a lot of land in different regions too.

However, he also didn't want the city to be run over by the tide. He didn't know what to do cause he was caught. He could guess that his family members were also caught and they were put in different cells.

Suddenly he felt that his head was burning up and then it subsided.

"This must be due to my old age.", said the mayor to himself.

Then he heard steps. This must be the guards but the steps were very hurried and what he saw surprised even him.

"Gloth, what are you doing here?", asked Adam.

"Father, keep your voice down. I was out of the city and suddenly I heard that you were arrested. So I came to save you."

"That is my boy. Take me out of here."

Gloth started to meddle with the locks but he could not take the mayor out.

"Father, it looks like I cannot take you out. I have found a team that could help us out but they are asking for a lot of money. I need to know where you are hiding the money and also all the lands."

Adam felt that something was wrong here. First of all, how could his son come here? He was asking for money and that was okay but why was he asking for details about all the lands and all the hidden money?

However, he trusted his son and knew what his son was doing for the betterment of the family. So, he told his son everything.

Then he fainted.

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"I cannot believe that the mayor was hiding so much money.", shouted Liam as he slammed his hand on the table.

He had been tireless working to save the people of this city and this mayor was stealing money? How could he not be angry?

"But as per my estimation, the amount of money is still very little. The city has been here for hundreds of years. How could they only have around 6 trillion Poke dollars?", asked Axel.

"But it is still better than having no money.", said Liam.

After the tide, the city had to use 300 billion Poke dollars. The city had given 50 billion Poke dollars to the mercenary team. Some of them were used to repair and maintain the city. Some of it was used for the health of the soldiers and the majority was used for the family of the soldiers that had died.

Liam argued that they should not give so much money to the family but Axel was going to give it. For most of the families, these soldiers were the only ones who brought out income for the household.

"Sir, 10 million Poke dollars for each of the family is still very high. Most of them don't even know how to use that kind of money and might go wasting it on some stupid things.", said James.

"Yes, you are right."

James felt relaxed after hearing it. The families were compensated by the city but the amount never reached a million and Axel wanted to give 10 million Poke dollars to each of them. That was a lot.

"The family may not know how to use these kinds of money. So we will come up with a plan and save that money for them and they can take that money during the time of their need.", said Axel.

"Sir, that is not the issue here. We are wasting 10 billion Poke dollars on those families alone. That is a huge amount of money. We don't have any so much money in the vault."

"Is that so much money?"

"Of course it is. Normally, the family is paid around 100k Poke dollars and that is also for those cities that are very rich."

"Sigh, you guys are strong and can lead a battle but you guys are still stupid.", said Axel sighing his head.

"What do you mean sir?"

"Just a few years ago, my family didn't have a million Poke dollars with them but now I have billions of Poke dollars with me. If I die, will you be giving me only 100k Poke dollars? My capacity is way higher!!"

"Sir, respectfully, not all of them are as talented as you."

"Yes, you are right. Not all of them are talented as me but do you really think that the children of those families, none of them are talented? If we give only 100k Poke dollars, do you know what most of them would do? They will go to different places.

Now the league is also not supporting us, so the places where you can get your first Pokemon, Poke center, Poke mart, all of these would be gone. Most of the families would not want to stay here. Their dad, mom, brother, or sister had died now and the city is also not giving them anything. So do you really think that they would stay here?

No!! They might come here in the future to even wage war when they get stronger. Our city is very fragile right now. The tide may have ended but do you really believe that Arcanine? Even if we find that human, that Arcanine might wage war on us anytime when it gets powerful.

So, we need soldiers who could stake their lives for us in the tide. And they could only do it if they could be assured that their family would be taken care of.

So, no, we cannot go back on that. Also, we are paying 1 million Poke dollars each to those that are permanently injured."

James and Liam got silent after hearing it. Axel might have been right but the city still didn't have any money left now.

"Sir, what is the plan that you are thinking of for those families? You said that we need to plan and give those families money at the time of need.", said Oliver.

"Yes, I am thinking of saving the money of those families. Of the 10 million, we will give them 2 million for now. And then..."

The plan was discussed a lot and soldiers were surprised to hear such a proposal. It was benefiting both the city and the citizens.

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Axel told others to get that money, sell those lands, and then gather as much money as they could so that they could restore the vault. However, he didn't tell them to sell all the lands.

Some of those were at strategic places and the city could build business on those lands and that would have stable revenue. The mayor had also invested in some restaurants and those restaurants were earning some good money.

Axel just changed the ownership from the mayor to the city. All in all, they had been able to gather around 4 trillion Poke dollars.

Axel was also making some new changes and this would take a week to finalize. After working till midnight he went home and told others that he would be taking a leave tomorrow.

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"Brother, I think they will hatch soon enough.", said Agnes as she was concentrating in the incubator.

She had been with the egg from the day they got it. She was very excited to have her second Pokemon.

The 3 girls were also eagerly waiting for 2 eggs to hatch. Axel had not concentrated on these 3 girls. He just told all 4 girls to train their bodies in the training ground and also do the same for their Pokemons. All the 3 girls had Squirtle.

Daisy, the oldest one also had the oldest Squirtle. It was around 4 years old. Even though it was 4 years old, it had not evolved. This showed how relaxed these girls really were.

Axel didn't have a good first impression of them. They were young girls that only said that they were powerful but they didn't even train properly. His sister was far better than them.

Since Axel was busy with the tide, the girls followed his sister in the training routine. The girls gave up after one hour. The training was very hard. Daisy, the oldest one was the only one that didn't want to give up. She was going to be a trainer after 1 year and she needed to have some power to travel.

Otherwise, her parents would not let her travel.

Days passed and they slowly started to realize that they were very stupid and relaxed. When they saw Axel's Riolu training so hard, they could not believe it. Riolu was younger than their Squirtle and it might be more powerful than them.

That day, Daisy realized that she needed to step up. She started to seriously train herself and her Pokemon. However, her Squirtle didn't want to train. It had been living the life of royalty for 4 years and now its trainer wanted it to train and sweat? Why would it do it?

It had been 2 weeks since they came here and it had been a week since Daisy had been requesting Squirtle to train. But it would not budge even a little.

"Sister, why are you going so hard on training? Relax a little. We are still kids. We need to enjoy our childhood.", said Violet with a smile.

"You might be little but I am already 12 years old. I will be starting my journey after a year. I have to train hard. Didn't you see that Riolu training so hard? I think we have become very relaxed and need to step up.", replied Daisy.

"That Riolu is just a freak."

"And what about the Dragonite of Agnes and Agnes herself? She is younger than you but more powerful than you. Don't you want to get stronger?", asked Daisy.

"Sis, we are from elite families and Agnes is from a common background. Of course, she needs to train harder. I can rise up faster than her and I will be stronger than her in the future.", said Violet.

Daisy didn't talk to her after that. Agnes had also stopped talking to them. When they first met, Agnes started to show how she trained and the girls were obviously shocked. They called her a brute and that she was not a lady.

"How can you train like a madman."

Being a little girl, Agnes was hurt and she started to talk to them after that day. Slowly Daisy realized that they were the ones that were stupid. So, she apologized to Agnes. After multiple apologies, Agnes had forgiven her but she had yet not forgiven the other 2 sisters.