live once you become

by reminiscent-afterthought

Daigo slips onto the sidelines while the Digimon Detection Agency plays on a board he can't see in the shadows. While the Chosen struggle in their own battle, Daigo searches for the reason he's pushed aside, and all Maki has to tell him is: "Haven't you grown up, yet?"

1. 1-01

A/N: Written for

Becoming the Tamer King Challenge, Training Peak task
Digimon bingo, the non-flash version, #618 - "I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision." Eleanor Roosevelt
Mega Prompts Challenge, dialogue prompts #020 - "So this is where it all began."
What if Challenge, What if Maki and Daigo were original Chosen Children?
The Drabblechap Competition

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live once you become
1.01

He's frustrated. He goes on teaching and keeping an eye on the Chosen and the infected continue to appear, but he does nothing more. He barely sees Maki now, and when he does it's only enough time to say that Izumi-kun hasn't been going to school, or Mochizuki-chan attending one day and not the next, or that none of them are really paying attention in class but, really, who can blame them?

But other things are happening. He knows they are. Infected digimon appear and then disappear without him being called. Meicoomon has disappeared and the only reason he knows is because Ishida-kun asked him about it.

And what can he say? He doesn't know.

He really doesn't know.