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Radegast grit his teeth as the nauseous aura grew stronger with her approach. There were similarities between them, that much even Reggie could tell. But there was something terribly wrong in this girl’s case. Their genetics were definitely an amalgam of human and pokemon, but this girl seemed… forced, rushed, unstable, like she might melt into liquid ash if she so much as chilled out for a microsecond.

Even so, Radegast felt torn on whether the people in this laboratory deserved what they got. After all, they did create this… thing… and that deranged beast in the previous room. This laboratory was clearly violating the balance of nature with such demented projects… but were all of the workers evil, or just supporting families? Was it a means to their own end, or were they as evil as the projects they worked on? Radegast couldn’t possibly know, and he had an inkling of an idea that neither did this girl. For a moment, he didn’t really have an idea of what to say. He was about to turn to Elder to ask what he thought.

But Elder wasn’t there. None of his friends were there, only himself and what essentially boiled down to a family butler. I see no shame in being a butler, Reggie reminded the armoured Gallade. Do you think this one can be reformed?

She did just murder people… people who have done clearly horrible things… it’s hard… Two wrongs didn’t make a right; it stood to reason even more couldn’t make a right neither. This entire situation was a complete disaster, and he should’ve just kept his distance from the whole facility and waited. That was all in the past now. What mattered is he make it out in one piece, with whatever could possibly be salvaged.

“Well, uh… I wouldn’t want either of us to kill or be killed,” Radegast replied carefully as he stole a glance at the bodies and feeling sick to his stomach. He had come across dead pokemon in the wilderness, but nothing so… extreme. He forced a gulp and continued, “If anything… it’d be nice to have your help in stopping Melaine.” He wasn’t sure if this girl knew Melaine, or what she thought of the so-called Shadow Queen. Maybe there was potential in directing this girl’s penchant for violence towards someone her own size? If Radegast couldn’t find intel, maybe he could acquire assistance. Hopefully she knew something as well, the best of both worlds.