Part 57

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Mamoru Keiichi- Aged 23, found outside Cerulean City with his jaw ripped out, as well as his organs mysteriously torn out as well.
Rokaru Tenchi - Aged 8, found limbless in Route 12 just south of Lavender town
Fujinaru Shion - Aged 34, remains found near Diglett Cave Eastern Enterance, identified by only by extensive evaluation of her remaining teeth with existing dental records
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The list goes on, and on. The death count and number of disappearances has sky rocketed in Kanto, following in a twisted, looping path slowlly and panderingly in a mimick of her's. At first I indeed though, perhaps, it was her behind it. But as I tailed her, I kept detailed time-logs. The times didn't add up; New Bark Masher was comitting murders even as I followed her. Obviously, she wasn't to blame behind the act. I considered speaking to her during her travels but decided against it after some deliberation. No need to instill a perhaps false fear into her... I only have theories, theories...

This old room of mine still has that stale smell it's had since I came back to here in Kanto weeks ago... It's a nostalgic, yet painful smell. It tells of good friends long gone, and days past that will never return...

It also has a haunting tinge of failure to it... my personal failure to my comrades, and my profession to us all... It is a painful yet necessary thing for my heart, for my constitution. The police failed to stop Team Rocket here in Kanto, allowing them to call irreprible damage to innocent people. We were cops, we weren't exactly "innocent" either. It was, so to speak, our war, but the system we existed in made it impossible for us to do anything to stop them from hurting first others, then us... The system that I've left behind. I know things have changed since then, and yet I know that I cannot return to the police force as one of them, in either Johto or Kanto, because of my failure. I am simply content to remain what I've become... a detective on his own, performing what duties people can afford, be they the police or otherwise.

And yet, this case is different. It's latched onto my mind, onto my heart. Even though in my heart of hearts I know that it has nothing to do with Team Rocket, it calls to my failure and my conscious, and screams at me to act. And so I sit here at this desk, in this shadowed, smoky room... alone. But it's for the best; if anyone should solve this, or die to it, it should be someone like me... Someone who won't be missed in the end, someone who can simply be buried and that will be that. No one will shed tears, no one will feel the haunting reminders that I feel everyday... fading into obscurity can be a blessing, as much as the fame-seeking ones might object.

But alas, my mind wanders. This drink cools my mind, however; or perhaps it simply loosens it with its effects? Regardless, the task at hand... the questions still remain, with little evidence gained. However, I have some guesses, some ideas...

For awhile I had abandoned my thought that this could have been done by a Pokemon, thinking it was perhaps done by a trainer or a sadistic murderer, perhaps even the League Champion, Roxy. But now, after following her... she seems truly pure hearted in a true sense of the words, and great with a Wooper too. Thus disproved, my mind wanders back to the original hypothesis: a Pokemon.

But the thing is, Pokemon don't do things like this. I have done my research in the past, back when I was learning to join the force. Research had joined that, in the entire written history of mankind, there has not been a single written source that showed a truly evil Pokemon. Pokemon can be used for evil in the wrong human hands, and they can be angry, raging, antisocial and of course oftentimes predatory, but Pokemon have been been seen as evil. Some scientists argue that Pokemon are too pure and innocent to do anything between neutral and good deeds. Others claimed that their inherent lack of intelligence made them incapable of discerning good-and-evil, but had a natural tendency towards good deeds as a form of communative survival. The actual reason doesn't matter, it's the fact that matters: Pokemon can't be evil...

But is it not possible? Pokemon reproduce and evolve in massive scale. Couldn't it be, logistically, a chance that something such as a truly evil Pokemon could be born, one with the true capability to be cruel and sadistic for its own dark pleasure? The police here in Kanto disagree with my theory, but the more I look at this murder photos I can't help but have my mind wander back to that idea, a Pokemon...

Could it truly be that, sometime, somewhere, a truly evil Pokemon was born for the first known time into this world... and that it's now slowly starting to assert its dark tendencies over the world, while following one of the true paradigms of goodness, Roxy, as she continues her path along self discovery? It almost sounds metaphorical, but could it be... could it be that...

Something malign in a dark way never seen before even now is stalking her, killing so many just out of some pervertedly dark need?

May god guide her, then, and I as well... I feel we will both need it.

_{A bit low on pictures this time. Ah well.}