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?"

10. 1-10

live once you become
1.10

Is hoping for the best possible future for all of them naïve? Isn't that their job? Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst? Isn't that what they're doing? Watching over the children while doing damage control. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

But the clock's ticking and he's got no idea how bad it can get – or how bad it's going to get, either. He hears about Maki taking Yagami-chan to the hospital and that's odd because Maki's not stationed at Odaiba Junior High so how did she get there?

And then a timer appears on every computer in the DDA sprouts a timer, and no-one'd told him it was the prelude to the end of the world.