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The lush forest near the file city;

Maki and Honoka are enjoying the breeze as they strolled heading closer to the South. Ichigo and Polymnia are also happily walking alongside them until they began to sense a presence. At first, they were alert about the presence though, for some reason, Ichigo and Polymnia felt that the aura is familiar.

When they reached the area where the aura is strongest, they saw a public toilet with closed door, a Salamon sitting near it and a familiar person standing nearby with a dragon-like digimon.

"Erena-san?" Honoka called her first.

"Ah, Honoka-san." Erena replied politely.

The ginger girl cheerfully ran towards her.

"You're finally here!" she said happily.

"Honoka-san, I'm glad to see you but, where are we… exactly?" Erena asked.

"I don't know! Hehe! Maybe in another time? Eli-senpai said we're next to File City!" Honoka replied.

"I doubt that. Our digivice shows that we did not travel to the past or future. This is the present." Erena said.

"This is the present? But how can you know?" Maki asked.

"The Digivice adjusts its setting to the Digital world around it, just like when you are in the depths of the Digital world. In the depths of the Digital world, your time is moving twice as fast and the Digimon evolution system is on a lock-evolution. The longer you stay there, the more chances for your Digimon to reincarnate to a digi-egg. " Erena explained.

"Huh? What? Lock evolution?" Maki raised her eyebrows.

"It means that you can't devolve them." another familiar voice said.

"Anjuu-san!" Honoka said as she turned to the gentle girl walking with her Lalamon.

"You mentioned File City, right? It means that we finally unlocked our mystery. This is the city that is said to be 'lost' or has been 'upgraded' into the City of Memory… they truly are lying." Anjuu said.

"I, I don't understand. Can anyone explain?" Honoka asked.

"The City of Memory, the officials always say that the city is built on top the liveliest city in the Digital World, the File City. They also said that they built it with an agreement made with Jijimon, the digimon that has always managed the city. We've been led to believe that, yet it seems that we truly are wrong to believe it." Erena explained.

"Back then, when we reached the depths of the Digital world, we met a strange figure who told us that we better return before we turned our digimon into digi-eggs. Yet we were blinded by the rumor that the key of the Digital World's mess lay in the innermost depths of the Digital world. Many S-Ranked players have tried to go there yet, the deeper we go, the faster our digimon turns into digi-egg. Plus, the haunting Digimon soul lingering around it tries so hard to annihilate us." Anjuu continued.

"Haunting Digimon soul…?" Honoka and Maki asked.

"Yep, just like Ghosts in our world. That place is like the graveyard or 'junkyard' in digital terms. All the data that were deleted in the digital world will go there and those may try to delete each other as well." Anjuu replied.

"Woah… the Digital world is surely very interesting!" Honoka said.

"Pretty neat for a human creation." Maki commented.

"Now-now, I wonder if Tsubasa is done with her business already. I hope the fight she went through isn't messing with her." Erena said.

"T-Tsubasa-chan is here?" Honoka asked a little nervously.

"Yep, of course she is. She just fought with Angel about who should use the nearby toilet and lost. Now she has to run and find another nearby toilet. She is heading to the swamp though, so I doubt she has actually found a toilet by now." Anjuu said as she glanced at the other Salamon who is patiently waiting for her twin near the toilet.

"She isn't as cool as what people think…" Maki smirked.

"Nope, she isn't. Trust me, she really is not the right person to describe 'cool'. More like a jokester or something of that sort." Erena said.

"A-anyway! I think I have something to do!" Honoka suddenly said.

"Huh? Alright, we should go back, huh?" Maki asked.

"I'm fine on my own! Let's go, Ichigo!" Honoka said before she and Ichigo the Agumon ran away. They can see that Honoka is taking out her digivice as she moved away. They wondered what exactly she is planning to do though, since she seems to be happy, they can't complain about it.


The File City, Tournament Hall's gate;

Eli was taken to the Tournament Hall's gate by her own digimon, she seemed to be trying not to retort again, though her face doesn't show any signs of friendliness as she stood there. She has finished reading the mail that she received from Jijimon but she doesn't look intrigued by it at all.

"So, what does he say? How's the system?" Sakuya asked.

"Lock-evolution with life-span. That's all I can say to you." Eli replied.

"That means… I can't devolve before I reach my maximum evolution? Sounds interesting. How many days do I have?"

"Rookies Level are aged 1 to 5 days old, Champions Level are 6 to 9 days old or 12 at max, Ultimates are between 10 days old to 18 days old, then Mega has some wide varieties. Some Digimon's ages are frozen since they registered themselves in the role of File City, just like Jijimon." Eli explained.

"That's really short…" Sakuya remarked.

"You will reincarnate into a Digi-egg once you reach the deadline. By then, you will inherit the status in which the percentage is affected by my tamer-rank. The higher ranked I am, the higher the percentage is. Also, we can go higher than S-Rank." Eli continued.

"And how can we do that?" Sakuya asked.

"By winning high grade tournaments, collecting rare cards, digivolving into a high-tier Digimon, Hmm… why do ranks sound so easy to achieve?" Eli said.

"Should balance with the life-span I get. Let's hurry up to the training spot." Sakuya said eagerly.

"There is no training spot ready yet, silly."

"Then let's go outside." Sakuya said.

"Outside? You think you're strong enough to deal with the monsters out there?"

"I can fight a damned mega digimon, as long as you're going to support me. I can't do anything without you, Eli. So please, cooperate with me." Sakuya said.

Eli sighed.

"You are so stubborn." She said.

"You are stubborn too, Eli. Don't complain." Sakuya replied.

"Let's get this over with. I'm tired." Eli said.

"In that case, we can practice taking a break." Sakuya asked.

Eli was surprised to hear her Digimon make such a humorous statement. Had her girlfriend taught her that too?

"We've been going here and there non-stop. As much as I want you to train and acknowledge me, I don't want you to overwork yourself, so… that's why…" Sakuya blushed slightly as she turned her face away from her tamer.

"Let's just go home. Nozomi might be worried about us." Eli said gently.

"Understood." Sakuya the Renamon nodded before the blonde took out her digivice and teleported away with her Digimon.


The Swamp near the File City;

The Ginger girl enthusiastically walked through the damp swamp, despite Ichigo's complaints about how wet the place is for him. Soon, she reached a jumbo sized, colorful mushroom and she noticed a small toilet built near it. The door is closed and a familiar Digimon is waiting nearby.

"Isn't that….?!" Honoka pointed to the black lizard-like digimon.

"Black Agumon!" Ichigo said cheerfully.

Black Agumon recognized their voices and he cheerfully waved at them.

"Aaah! Honoka-chan! Agumon-chan!"

They ran to each other and exchanged a playful smile when they got closer.

"I have nickname now, Black Agumon!" Agumon said proudly.

"Yep, Tsubasa told me. You are Ichigo, right? A good nickname but I think I need to get used to it!" Black Agumon said.

"You should get a nickname too! I'll help you pick one!" Ichigo said.

"Sure, what should my name be?" Black Agumon asked.

"Sirloin…" Ichigo said.

"That's a food name! I wouldn't want to have similar name with food!"

"But Sirloin tastes good!" Ichigo replied.

"I know, but I don't want to have the same name!" Black Agumon replied.

"Then, Kuro sounds good?" Honoka asked.

"That name is too typical! Something else please! It can be related to black." Black Agumon requested.

"Hnng…. Sebastian?" Honoka tilts her head.

"Huh? Is that still a name related with the color black?" Black Agumon asked.

"Somewhat? I don't know why I came up with that name when I thought of Black." Honoka replied.

"hnng…. Alright. I just need to ask Tsubasa to officially name me with it." Black Agumon said.

"I accept!" Someone from inside the bathroom said.

"E-Eh? Is that you, Tsubasa-chan?!" Honoka asked.

"Yep! I need to go out now, but, can you… look away? Just for a bit?" Tsubasa asked.

"O-Ok?" Honoka replied as she turned around.

The ginger girl waited for a moment. She could hear the door open and close and the other girl's whisper asking for hand sanitizer from her digimon. It took a while for Tsubasa to clean her hand, but the wait was worth more than a thousand years for the ginger girl. To Honoka's surprise, Tsubasa suddenly hugged her from behind.

The warmth made her heart beat so quickly and she wondered if it's ok for her to have this—no, maybe she should wonder how she should react to the straightforward approach. She is so helpless right now and the conflicting feelings made her feel confused. Should she just give her smile and let anything escape her lips naturally?

Maybe she really should before it got worse.

"Aah! Tsubasa-chan! That surprised me!" Honoka said loudly. She kept herself within her embrace without any attempt to escape.

"I'm really happy to see you, Honoka!" Tsubasa said with an extremely cheerful tone.

"Me too!" the ginger girl replied, still overwhelmed with awkwardness. She just hoped that she can survive in this for a little bit longer. Lucky for her, though, Tsubasa released and turned her around to face her.

"You look awesome as always, Honoka!" Tsubasa said.

"You too, Tsubasa-chan!" Honoka replied.

This is truly awkward, but it can't be helped. What else she can say?

"How are you?" Tsubasa asked.

"I'm fine, thank you, and you?"

"I'm fine too, thank you!"

The two were quiet for a while, thinking of why they're having a textbook conversation.

"What were you up to?" Honoka tried to start a conversation.

"Just answered nature's call." Tsubasa replied.

That makes things even worse. Why did she ask the obvious?

"Uuuh…then, what are you going to do next?" Honoka asked, trying to make things less awkward.

"I don't know, let's take a walk?" Tsubasa replied.

"Around the swamp?" Honoka tried to confirm.

"Of course not, silly! Around File City, of course! Unless you enjoy walking around the dirty swamp and stepping on Digimon waste!" Tsubasa said.

"D-Digimon's waste?!" Honoka exclaimed.

"Yep, wild digimon waste. Some may care enough to use this public restroom, but some won't even bother to move from their spot and just let their waste litter around. I just stepped on one before!" Tsubasa replied proudly.

"T-That's disgusting…" Honoka smirked.

"Yep, it is! I cleaned my boots while I was inside. It surprisingly has the realistic stench." Tsubasa said.

"Really? I don't want to see it for real, but I suppose that's a very neat system!" Honoka said.

"This world is so realistic in a way, I wonder if it has any negative side effects for humans who stay here." Tsubasa said.

"Hehe, I only heard that we are digitized when we're inside the digital world, that's how we can use the teleporter and other facilities, including eating the food as well." Honoka replied.

"Yep, that's true, but it doesn't make sense that people could forget about their real body. I mean, we still age, right? This place can't be serving us immortality." Tsubasa said.

"Hnnn….now that you mention it, it does feel impossible to be immortal in this world. If that's the case, people probably want to stay here forever in their golden age." Honoka replied.

"Aahhh!" Honoka and Tsubasa raises their eyebrows.

"That's why people are conflicting! I get it now!" they said together.

"We still need to know if that kind of thing is true." Tsubasa said.

"Uhh…I wonder if Eli-senpai knows something." Honoka replied.

"Asking that person? Well, she wouldn't be the first person I would ask. She may look expert, but she is not that expert, really. She is still learning, so it's better to ask from me." Tsubasa said proudly.

"Then, how do you think it might be?" Honoka asked enthusiastically.

"Well, all I can tell you is that this Digital world runs in digital world hours, nothing like City of Memory and its surroundings. One hour in the real world equals one day in the digital world. So that's why we look like we never age. In fact, we just look like we are aging slower." Tsubasa said.

"Ahhh… I see, then we are still aging like usual?" Honoka asked.

"Yep! The good thing about being here is that we don't need that much rest. Four minutes nap will recover your stamina fully. After all, we're designed to follow only some part of the digital world's rule. I assume this to be human's work since it really benefits us." Tsubasa replied.

"That's very efficient!" Honoka appreciated.

"Exactly! With the Digimons' help, human beings will be able to advance into something better than the humans in the human world, so I assume that the one behind this plot is a human being!" Tsubasa said.

"Ooooh! That means, we're the evil ones here?"

"No-No-No! Not quite! Those humans are, we are not! We will be the heroes!"

"How?" Honoka asked.

"We will solve the mystery in the depths of the digital world!"

"Eeeehhh?! What exactly we need to solve?" Honoka asked.

"Hehe, since you are the one who asked, Honoka, I'll gladly tell you. Long ago, Erena, Anjuu, and I joined an expedition to the depths of the digital world. We were naïve, I admit. We thought that, if we are able to solve the mystery, we will get something great in the future—something really rare and maybe a worth a Nobel prize too."

"Hoooo…." Honoka responded in awe.

"But! We were wrong! The Digimon in there are so powerful, we can't win without using cards and items. We had to use the Mega digivolution from the beginning of the journey, with locked evolution and time that runs faster. I honestly don't believe that it was any faster for us, but we were very sure that the Digimon there are truly aging faster. Our digimon reverted into digi-eggs one by one. We don't know what source of power could help us and we were so close to the deepest part of the digital world… or so we thought." Tsubasa explained, full of emotion.

"Then we saw a light that led us all back into the entrance. We also saw a humanoid creature with huge wings and sparkling brilliant armor—not a Digimon, I'm sure! I scanned and my digivice gave me no record or information. It was so vague, but I felt it looked like a Lucemon in his Falldown Mode."

"Lucemon in his Falldown Mode?" Honoka wondered.

"Ah, right, let me explain. Some Digimon do not evolve into a different Digimon, instead, they change modes. This basically means they can change their mode in lock evolution areas, or so we believe."

"Hnng… what Digimon are those?" Honoka asked.

"Imperialdramon, Lucemon, Chronomon, and some other Digimon like them. It's very convenient, I say. Back then, we had someone with Imperialdramon, but his Digimon was still reverted to a digi-egg after a while. He managed to change modes from time to time though. If only we had someone with a Lucemon back then, we're pretty sure we could have saved time in the early stages." Tsubasa replied.

"That sounds great! We should ask the Lucemon tamer who came to visit us!"

"Huh? A Lucemon tamer came to visit you? I've never heard of any tamer who owns a Lucemon since that digimon isn't even registered as tame-able digimon, not yet! It's supposed to be in the next few updates."

"Well, she was an official!" Honoka said.

"An Official?! With a Lucemon? That might be illegal! Unless they were trying to promote Lucemon before launching their tame-able data." Tsubasa replied.

"That might be it! She has always been a kind woman to us!"

"Do you happen to know her name?"

"Uh…no? But she was kind so I'm sure she is kind!" Honoka replied.

"Is that so? Then, I believe your intuition, Honoka!"

"So, can we go to the city now?"

"Sure, Honoka! Let's go!"

The two walked off energetically through the swamp followed by their Digimon who have been chatting about nicknames and food.


Some distance away

The Bluenette wandered with her Penguinmon, Yamato, without finding a trace of the Blonde had gone off to. She was about to send a message through her Digivice, yet she isn't sure if it is polite to ask for a favor through text. With her current position, she believes that her senpai is still within the city. She stood next to a meat farm and a building that looked so close to a bird's house.

She carefully examined the building and read the name of the building written in Japanese letters. It says: Birdra's Transport. She wondered if the Digimon who is supposed to wait here is Birdramon, the one like Kotori's Digimon. Still unsure with her guess, she decided to find out by examining inside the Building. There's a small Digimon— a pink baby Digimon sitting calmly near a stick that looked like a Bird's holder stick. It was pretty big so she is sure that the size of the Digimon is nearly as big as Kotori's Birdramon.

"Aah! Welcome! I'm sorry that we are out of service right now. Birdramon hasn't returned here for a very long time." the baby Digimon said.

"Why?" Umi asked.

"I don't know. It's dangerous out there so I never go out to find out." The Digimon replied.

"Is there anything out there?" Umi asked.

"Plenty of wild Digimon. We cleaned the most dangerous ones around the city, but there are still some wild rookie Digimon going around. It might not be that dangerous for you, but they're still dangerous for me." The baby Digimon said.

"I see, but what kind of service does this place offer, exactly?"

"Birdramon used to take clients to where they wanted to go but, most of the time, she was only asked to send things from here to another place by other Digimon. It's a one way service so we don't accept clients outside this post." The Baby digimon explained.

"I see. Thank you, maybe I'll be back later." Umi said.

"Ok. Good luck and have fun." The baby Digimon said.

Umi and Yamato, walked out of the room in silence, then turning to the meat farm which currently tended by a plant Digimon. She has never seen this Digimon type before: A digimon with bright pink flower on its head and arms with long claws.

For a moment there, she was about to ignore it and go somewhere else, but…

"Ah! Welcome to the File City! Are you here to pick up your meat?" the Digimon asked nicely with female voice.

"M-My meat? I don't believe that I ordered any meat!" Umi said.

"What are you saying? Everyone receives a meat portion every day!" The Digimon replied before she took three giant pieces of meat and handed it to Umi.

"Enjoy. Please come back again tomorrow. If it's not enough, though, you can buy some here, but I don't have anything bigger than a Giant meat since some of my friends have been missing for a very long time."

"Thank you, and… your friends are missing too?" Umi asked while she placed the Giant meat into her bag.

"Yep, they were supposed to find seeds somewhere. We were really in need of more hands after a mess that happened in the File City long ago but, for some reason, they never returned." The Plant Digimon explained sadly.

"I'm sorry to hear that. Is there any way for me to help?"

"It's fine. A few Digimon have tried to help me out but they never returned too. But, maybe, instead of trying to find what was lost, do you happen to know anyone who has a passion for farming?"

"I might have." Umi replied as she recalled a specific junior.

"Great! Please introduce that person to me! I'd gladly accept the help!"

"I'll let you know." Umi nods before she gestured politely and walked away from the meat farm.


Back at the 's Home.

Nozomi listened to the woman's explanation about everything that she needed to know. The young purplenette is extremely interested with the concept explained by the older one. The first thing that she noticed is that the woman appears to know a lot about the Digital World. She even knows the system of places and even explained to her about the system that is used in the area.

Another thing about her is that her Lucemon appears to be the only prototype of Lucemon that is said to have been successfully tamed, but he doesn't seem to be willing to let anyone hold his data other than Heidr.

"So that's why the official announced that you are coming soon on the Tamed Digimon Evolution list." Nozomi tried to confirm.

"Yep, but they're putting their hopes up too much. I only obey her because we are similar." Lucemon said.

"Similar? In what context?" Nozomi asked.

"It's complicated. A person like you shouldn't think too much." Heidr said.

"Right, huh? Keeping that a mystery. I'll take that." Nozomi replied with a playful smile.

"Now-now, putting that aside, do we have a deal?" the woman asked.

"I'll consider it, ok? I actually talked to someone who asked for something similar. I need to talk to my girlfriend and we might have to discuss it first."

"Is your Ericchi around?" Heidr asked.

"Nope. She is away at—…" Nozomi paused,

"Wait! How did you know—oh… wait, you are an official and I kind of already called her in front of you a few times now." She continued.

"Sort of, how's her arm?"

"Arm? Huh? It's getting better… Wait-wait-wait! How did you know about that one too?"

"About what?"

"Her arm, I thought that we have never talked about that to anyone. I doubt she even show that wound to anyone too!"

"Something happened to her arm?" the older woman asked.

"You mentioned that yourself!"

"Well, I did, but since you are admitting it now, tell me what happened to her arm."

"You are impossible! But Alright, since you got that lucky guess, I'll tell you. Ever since she lost her Kuzuhamon, her arm somehow reacts to data. I don't know what kind of reaction it makes, but she always feels pain every time she gets too close to a device. That includes her digivice, that's why I kept her digivice from time to time. She never wants to talk about it nor tell anyone about this pain."

"Yet she is holding her own digivice right now, right?"

"She insist on doing that to throw everyone's suspicion away. She doesn't want to look like a loser who blames a device and she wants everyone to think that she just doesn't want to train a digimon she isn't fond of. That's truly one of her reasons though. Poor Renamon…"

"Well, moving on from one Digimon to another is painful, indeed. But sometime sacrifice is required to make a better result. That Renamon is 250% size, right? It could have been more than that."

"What do you mean?"

"The Digital World Official demanded a cap for a tamer Digimon's birth size which is 250%. It could've been more than that, but the official is always scared of having a tamer who could beat their official Digimon. The max size of their Digimon is 400% which is insane since it is a Machinedramon. That one Chaotic Digimon that is often used by that legendary Analogman."

"He is already winning in type. Sakuyamon can't possibly beat that thing alone." Nozomi commented.

"True, but that's not the only one. They're now building a Chronomon. The probability of its success is high. I've told you how they do it, but anyhow, that also means that you and your friends have to train as hard as possible before returning to that City."

"We know about that. Ericchi and I have guessed it."

"Good, then what about your leader?"

"Honoka-chan? Well, she is not the first person to talk to about plans. I'd expect her to wander off and play around with whoever she meets." Nozomi replied.

"It's rare to hear an Agumon trainer that playful since they are more likely to be naïve kids who train their Digimon too hard."

"Who do you think she will get as evolution?" Nozomi asked.

"I wouldn't know. Maybe that playful trait would do something. This is a big world with a huge variety of monsters. You won't be limited to the official Digimon List anymore."

"Ahh… so that also means that we can wander off with evolution, huh? Very nice. I wonder what everyone will get."

"Won't be that far with the official list. Maybe-…."

Before the older woman was able to finish, someone opened the door very quickly and took the purplenette's attention.

"Hanayo! Kotori!" she said before she turned her to where Nozomi is.

"Ah, Nozomi-senpai." She called. Nozomi remained in silent as she glanced to the guest who disappeared, along with her Lucemon.

"Umi-chan, what's up?" she replied.

"Where's Hanayo and Kotori?" The bluenette asked as Yamato followed her.

"They must be in their room, asleep. Any business?"

"Yes, Digimon in the city are in need of skilled hands. We may want to help them out."

"My, that's kind of you. But do we really want to stay here for a long time?" Nozomi asked teasingly.

"Do we?"

The purplenette giggled.

"We do, The File City is a very important city. We need to help around and find out more about the core of their problem. After all, Mastemon is the one who took us all here." She explained.

"You knew the answer, why would you ask me." Umi sighed.

"Now-now, I was just teasing you. If you keep being that serious, you'll be getting yourself a digimon that fits you."

Umi seem to be bothered with that statement. Either way though, she tried to ignore it and bowed politely to the purplenette before she headed off to where she needed to go. Her Penguinmon bowed as well before he ran to follow his tamer.

"Now-now, another Digimon not getting the love he needs. Someone needs to open their eyes about it."

A few seconds after her departure, a pair of Salamon came in to the room.

"Nozomi-chan! We're baccckk!" said one of the Salamon playfully before she run to her tamer.

"Ah! Angel!" Nozomi caught her Salamon and let her snuggle.

"Sheesh! Angel! You are always taking the first snuggle!" the other Salamon complained before she ran in and jumped to her tamer as well.

"There-there, it's not that different for the second snuggle." Their tamer said with a giggle.

"Excuse us, we're here to bother." A girl said as she came in with her Lalamon.

"Yes, Excuse us. We're here to ask why on earth we were taken here. A lot of Business needed to be accomplished in the real world." Another girl walked in with her Ryuudamon.

"That's a long and boring story. Can we skip that?" Nozomi replied.

"She is right, Erena, that's a boring story. We already know that we are near the File City. All we have to do is to take a rest now, then off we go to explore this File Island." Anjuu said.

"Without Tsubasa?"

"Ah—let her go with her dream girl, ok? Trust me, they won't be doing anything bad." Anjuu replied.

"Yup, what she said. Stop being a dad or I might form a Daddy Club with you, Umi-chan, and Ericchi as the members."

"W-what?" Erena smirked.

"Ooh, that's a good idea, Nozomi-san. Those guys need some punishment!"

"I'm not a guy!" Erena protested.

"That's what Ericchi said too—and probably what Umi-chan would say if we tell her that."

"But it's obvious that we are not guys!"

"You are making sense, Erena-chan, stop doing that." Anjuu said.

"I don't get it!"

"Now, you sounds like Maki-chan. Maybe we should add Maki-chan to the club too." Nozomi said.

"The one with red hair? Sure, she does look like a guy too. Except she might be the Prince-type guy." Anjuu replied.

"I'm so done with this! I'm taking my rest! Show me the guest room!" Erena said angrily.

"Now-now, you're so eager to hit the bed, daddy Erena. You need to make sure your wife is ready too." Nozomi said teasingly.

"I don't even have a wife! Damn it! I'm done! I'm really done!" Erena stormed away followed by Maki who walked in without saying a single word. Nozomi and Anjuu giggled to the reaction.

"Ah well, I guess I better wait for Umi-chan to go out, I'm curious about what she wanted from her friends." Nozomi said.

"Sure, I'll stay around the house to get to know them. Thanks for letting us in."

"Yep, next time though, tell me the time when you chatted me about it."

"Certainly. I'll remind myself to do that."


The File City;

Honoka and Tsubasa walked through the City together. This time, everyone in the city seems to be ready to serve the visitors.

"So, which one do you want to visit, Honoka?" Tsubasa asked with the friendliest smile she ever made.

"The Restaurant! I wonder if they're ready with their food!" Honoka said.

"Ohhh! The Restaurant sounds good! We should go there!" Tsubasa said cheerfully.

The two walked to the restaurant together and they found that the restaurant is open and a fairy-like digimon is waiting next to it.

"Aaaahh! Lilamon!" Tsubasa shouted.

"W-whoaa?! W-what's with that yell?" Lilamon recoiled.

"Oh, I thought you were her digimon. Sorry. You sound like a different Lilamon."

"Is that so?! Then call me Chef Lila! Also call everyone that works in this restaurant with similar nickname!"

"Alright!"


The two were invited in to the restaurant;

They were handed some menus and they began to search for desirable food. Both Black Agumon and Agumon also sat on a different table from their tamers. They are given the same menu and it seems that both of them are hyped up about the same type of food.

"Ichigo, do you want the T-Bone Steak?"

"I do!"

"Add that to the list!" Sebastian the Black Agumon said happily to the blazing man-like Digimon next to their table.

"What about Jumbo-Sirloin steak?"

"I do!"

"Add that to the list!"

The two went on with the food menu.

"Woah, they surely are into this." Honoka said.

"I'm sure they are but, put their needs aside, what about you, Honoka?" Tsubasa asked with bright sparks in her eyes.

"Uh…I think I'd like to try everything."

"Then, should we order one of each and share them?"

"Sure! That sounds fun!" Honoka said cheerfully.

"Ok! Let's do it!" Tsubasa replied cheerfully. Lilamon who had been floating next to them seems happy and she immediately wrote on her note.

"What about tdrinks?" Lilamon asked.

"Uh… Tsubasa-chan, what about drinks?" Honoka asked with her innocent eyes.

"All! We will share them too!" Tsubasa said happily.

"Alright!" Lilamon replied before she finally went away to the kitchen. The other Digimon waiting on Sebastian and Ichigo also finished listing their food orders.

"So, Honoka, how was the tournament?" Tsubasa asked.

"It was interrupted. I didn't get to finish it." Honoka replied.

"Hah! That's too bad! You could've owned them, I bet!"

"I don't know about that! But I'm sure that Umi-chan's training is too good! Hehe! She is the greatest trainer I know!"

"Ahhh! Is that so? Then I'd like to train with this Umi-chan later!"

"Yep! Hehe!"


The File City;

The Bluenette and her Digimon stood next to a gym, looking at the brochure that she just received from the Cactus-like Digimon who stood right in front of her now. Yamato seems to be very interested.

"Umi, do you want to train me here?" Yamato asked.

Umi turned to him and nodded,

"This is our best bet. They have expert tools."

"Do you think I'll evolve to what you want later?" Yamato asked.

Umi was surprised to hear the question. But, after a while, she nodded weakly.

"I'll do my best!" Yamato replied eagerly.

The two finally decided to enter the gym.

"How we will start it, Umi?" Yamato asked gently.

Umi seemed to doubt since she knows that there's still something that she needed to settle with him.

"Should we start from speed? Or perhaps, the Defense?" Yamato browsed through the room enthusiastically.

"Wait, Yamato!" Umi called him.

"What is it, Umi?" Yamato asked very gently and politely.

"Yamato, I hope I… didn't hurt you."

"What would hurt me?" Yamato asked—again, politely.

"By… complaining out loud about your evolution. It's still you, right? I feel… bad for… not accepting it."

"I'm taking that as just a warning. We are lucky that we received that warning."

"What do you mean?" his master tilted her head slightly.

"If we never knew what I will turn into, we will never know that we have been doing something wrong."

"But… until now, I don't know what we did wrong." Umi said.

"I don't know too, but we will figure out as we move on, right? We just need to keep practicing over and over until we get things right."

The bluenette smiled at him.

"You're right. With the system we have now, we will know our needs faster than being in the City of Memory."

"Yep, exactly. So train me as hard as you can and we can try to experiment with the digivolution factor. Maybe someone who is expert enough knows about it and we can try asking."

The bluenette nods.

"We should pay a visit to Kotori and Hanayo in the morning, other than for a daily meat portion, I think I'd like to receive advice from Kotori. Eli-senpai might be better but I doubt she would have enough time to tend to my training." She said.

"Got it! But, the sun is almost setting so, perhaps, we can train a bit then rest. We've been through a lot today and you haven't taken a single break, right?"

"That's true, but, I can go for some more and rest along with you, Yamato."

"Alright then. So, where we should start again?"

"Let's try the speed training device!" the bluenette pointed to the signboard that says Speed and Brain Training Device.

"Understood!"


At the Meat Farm;

Hanayo, Kotori, Rin and Nozomi stood near the entrance. Umi explained to them about what happened in the city and what they need to do to help. Hanayo and Kotori agreed to do what they asked for, though Rin and Nozomi were still clueless about what they can do to contribute.

"So, you say, the File City lost a lot of Digimon that usually contribute to the society, huh?" Nozomi tried to confirm.

"Yep, a lot of them. We don't know where they go to, but I suspect the dark power! It has been messing up our city over and over!" Said Palmon, the flower Digimon who has been managing the farm.

"Why did no one conduct a search-nya?" Rin asked.

"Some of the powerful Digimon did, but they said that they can't find them anywhere. Only wild Digimon were found and nothing else." Palmon replied.

"Really? That's bad. If what I suspect happened to this whole island is right, then we might need to solve a bigger problem than just the missing Digimon."

"What exactly happened to the Island-nya?" Rin asked.

"Hehe, that's still a little secret of mine. I'd like to investigate it further." Nozomi said.

"So, you are going to investigate outside of the city-nya?" Rin asked.

"Yep, but don't worry. I have two digimon. They will take turns from time to time."

"So, you will return to the city from time to time too-nya?" Rin asked.

"Yep, I think I'll be going to wherever Ericchi is whenever I return, so I better find her and ask for her decision." Nozomi replied.

"Then, I'll be going around with Leon-chan too-nya!" Rin said cheerfully.

"W-Wait, Rin-chan, are you really going by yourself?" Hanayo asked.

"Hehe, don't worry, Kayo-chin! I'll be taking you somewhere if I find something interesting!"

"R-Really? Ok then."

"Hehe, I'll be taking you somewhere too, but I need to get to know my surroundings before accepting my job." Kotori said.

"Then, that settled, we all have our own part. Good luck everyone." Nozomi said before she headed inside of the farm to speak with her Digimon, Angel and Lady. The Two Digimon were hanging out with Suzaku, Leon, and Mary. All of them are in their Rookie form.

Kotori, Hanayo, Rin, and their Digimon watched Nozomi flip a coin and they can see both Angel and Lady cheered with the result.

"Yeah! I win!" Lady jumped in her victory.

"Yaaay! I losee!" Angel hopped cheerfully.

"So what's the losing one doing?" she asked with her innocent voice.

"Well, you need to find a job around this city. Tell me when you get one, ok?" Nozomi said.

"Ok! I'll make sure to do that!" Angel nods cheerfully before she is ran off.

"And the winning one …?" Lady asked her tamer.

"You come with me. I need to go on a little adventure."

"Nice, more fight. I love that." Lady said before she and her tamer went away from the farm.

"Hehe, I think they don't even need to flip a coin to decide." Hanayo said.

"Maybe it's much more fun that way-nya!" Rin commented.

"Ahaha, or maybe Angel isn't someone to feel sad. I don't think there's anything that can make her feel sad." Kotori said.

"Speaking of a cheerful girl. I wonder where Honoka-senpai is. It's kind of a little quiet without her being around." Hanayo said.

"Hehe, Kayo-chan, you should start to call us without using 'senpai', it began to feel inconvenient after a while."

"E-Eeh? I-is that ok?" Hanayo asked shyly.

"Yup, hehe, Nozomi-senpai— I mean… Nozomi-chan told me that I should do that and to tell the others as well."

"When did she tell us about that-nya?"

"I was chatting with her through our digivice and the conversation happened long ago, but she said that I should take it easy and start the conversation when the time is right."

"So it's fine to call you… Kotori-chan?" Hanayo asked shyly.

"Yup! Certainly! Please take care of me, Kayo-chan!"

"Ok! Then I'll try to remember to call you as Kotori-chan!" Hanayo replied cheerfully with the brightest smile she ever made.

"I'll tell Honoka-chan and Umi-chan about it. Then, as for Niko-senpai… I mean Niko-chan, she agreed to this before. As for Eli-senpai, I mean… Eli-chan, Nozomi said that she wouldn't care about how we call her, so… we might as well call her without 'senpai' since we already call the others without it."

"Ok-nya! Let's get along!"


Meanwhile in the restaurant;

"Uwaaah! They're all amazing!" Honoka appreciated.

"I agree, Honoka! All the food taste so great! Who would've thought it can be better than food from real world?" Tsubasa replied excitedly.

"Hehe! Surely! Now, let's pay the bill and go somewhere else!" Honoka said.

"Oh-oh! Let me do that!" Tsubasa quickly stood up and run to the cashier.

Honoka sitting quietly, staring at her with a red blush on her cheek. She has never seen anyone willingly doing a favor for her. Honoka can see that the number that showed on the cash register has more than six digits, though Tsubasa quickly covered the number with her hand and waved at her playfully—trying so hard to distract her.

Is she…

Someone who wanted to embrace you, someone who wanted to be with you and spend their life time for you, someone who cares about you more than they care about themselves, someone who wanted to make you smile and someone who wanted to protect you at all cost?

Maybe her senior was right. Someone like that existed and she just needs to realize their existence. Honoka doesn't want to put her hopes that far up, though. Despite always having been someone who strive for something impossible, this matter is different and she doesn't want to let her confidence ruin it.

Does she truly have a crush on this person—who is now making some flirty yet silly faces at her as she paid through her digivice? It's a little too complex for her, she really doesn't want to think again, so instead of spacing out about it, Honoka replied with some silly faces as well—even though she has no idea why she is doing that.

"Hnng… Honoka-chan…" Ichigo said as he pulled Honoka's sleeve.

"Eh? What's wrong, Ichigo?" Honoka snapped out of her playful face banter with Tsubasa.

"I need… t-toilet…" Ichigo said as he held his own butt.

"W-whoaa! I don't know where the toilet is!"

"Y-You need toilet? Then you can use the one in Tournament Hall or the one south of Jijimon's house! But I suggest you to get the tournament hall one because it's so much cleaner than the one at south of Jijimon's house!" Chef Lila said.

"Got it!"

"Quick! Don't be late!" Tsubasa encouraged.

"O-Ok!" Honoka said before she and Ichigo ran out of the restaurant.


The Tournament Hall;

While Sakuya is training by herself in the gym, Eli was busy looking at a device called "Digi-Bank." She has never seen anything like this before, not even at the S-Rank special device list. She only knows that there is a Data-Bank in the official quarter, but, does it work in the same way?

She wouldn't want to guess too far from the truth, but it will be amazing if it happens to work like how it's described in the instruction.

"Hello! Welcome!" A heavy voice is heard from nearby. Eli quickly turned to the source of the voice and figured that it came from a Dinosaur-like Digimon with yellow skin with blue stripes and brown armored head.

"Greymon, isn't it." Eli said.

"Ah, right, I am. You can call me Tourney Greymon to differentiate with the other Greymon. But, anyhow, are you interested in joining the tournament?"

"I sure do, but tell me, how does this device work, exactly?"

"All you need to do is to save your Digimon data, then this device will create their physical data for you to use in the tournament. The easiest way to do it is to bring your digimon here and use the Digimon scanner, that way, you don't have to search your Digivice's data."

Eli's eyes widen in a slight excitement when she heard the last sentence

"Does that mean I can use any Digimon Data? I mean, I do have an information data but it can't be restored—as said by the official."

"Huh? All Digimon Data are recoverable as long as you have the exact information. The only thing you will never be able to recover is their personality data since it's still unknown how to keep such special data in a digivice."

"Is that so? Then, please teach me how to use that feature."

"Well, I wouldn't know since I'm not the technician, you might need to meet our Technician Andromon to get your answer, but then, he has been missing for the whole year! We don't have any technician who could help you."

"If that's the case, then allow me to be your technician. I'll investigate it on my own." Eli replied.

"I don't mind with that as long as you can do me a few favors before getting into your investigation. We have 40 floors and a lot of our devices are broken, fix them and I'll allow you to touch our Digi-Bank's system."

"I'll do that." Eli nods. Without Greymon and the blonde sensing it, Honoka and Ichigo ran behind them in a hurry.

"Good, I'll tell our staff about you then. Oh, some of our gym devices are also broken, there is—…"

Suddenly a very loud bang was heard from the gym. Eli and Tourney Greymon quickly ran towards the gym to check what happened,

"Sakuya!" Eli called her. There's a hint of worry in her voice.

Sakuya the Renamon was buried in a pile of wood and bombremnants . Apparently, she was trying to use the speed-training device.

"S-Sorry…" Sakuya coughed as she crawled out.

"Did a pile of bomb drop on you? That happened to the few last digimon who used it. That's why the training gym in the city is used more often. Usually, after that malfunction, the toilet will also—…."

"WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" A very loud shout was heard before the toilet door opened and flooded the whole hall with Digimon waste and murky water and Honoka and Ichigo were covered with it. Eli smirked in disgust, yet she is also glad that the training area's floor is higher than the hallway.

"Uhh…looks like I'll be needing someone to clean up this mess too…" Tourney Greymon said.

Eli sighed heavily and facepalmed.


At the µ's home,

The night has fallen and the dark blue sky enveloped the upper side of the Digital world. Maki had stayed at home with Erena and Anjuu. Erena hasn't come out of the room while Anjuu is taking her nap on the sofa with her Lalamon.

Maki herself had taken about ten minutes of nap in her room that is heavily painted in red. She was awakened by the excited noise that her Lunamon made as she got mesmerized by the falling stars drawn beautifully on the sky and of the way her hands tapped on the window also made it so much obvious that she has some special feeling towards the sky.

"Hey…" Maki called her.

Polymnia the Lunamon jolted and quickly attempted to hide herself.

"There, you don't have to be that surprised, I'm your tamer." Maki said.

"Oh, it's only you! You could've told me!" Polym protested to her.

"Put that aside, do you like stargazing?" Maki asked.

Lunamon blushes madly when she heard the question.

"Yes…" she replied weakly.

"Me too." Maki replied with a plain expression. It's like there's nothing special about it, but the words she said tells the opposite. The red haired girl walked closer to her digimon and tood next to her as she leaned closer to the window.

"Which part of the sky do you like?" Maki asked gently.

At first, Polymnia doubted, though it's a rare chance for her to have someone asking about her hobby.

"I love everything about the starry sky!" Polymnia said proudly.

"Me too." Maki replied with her gentle smile.

"I'm really happy with what you did to my room back in the City of Memory. You placed a lot of decorations related to the stars." Polymnia said.

"I love those decorations too, that's why I bought you those." Maki replied—still with her gentle smile.

"We both have similar interests, I'm glad."

"We sure do…" Maki replied softly.

"I miss my room, can we go back soon?"

"I spoke to Eli about that before. She said she needs to implement a system that S-Ranked players have to fulfill that request."

"I see. Then we just need to wait, right?"

Then suddenly, a small hand appeared on the outside of the window. Maki and Polymnia the Lunamon screamed in fear and recoiled all the way back to the bed. It took a moment for them to realize that the hand is actually someone they knew.

"Niko…?" Maki and Polymnia smirked.

"Help…." The black haired girl outside said desperately.


At the restaurant;

Tsubasa and Sebastian waited for Honoka to return, it's been a few minutes now and that should've been long enough for someone to reach a toilet then return to the restaurant. Tsubasa decided to call Honoka's digivice, though before she dialed a number, an interesting event happened right in front of her. To be specific, it happened in the clinic in front of the restaurant.

"Excuseeee meeeee!" A cheerful Salamon shouted.

"Ahh—welcome to-…" A gentle male Angel-like Digimon paused as he looked at the Puppy-like Digimon.

"There, are you hurt? Or sick?" he asked gently.

"Nope, I'm here to look for job!" Salamon said.

"Then, I have one for you. I'm Doctor Angemon, the one in charge of the city's health. Your job is to…"

"Hello! I'm Angel!" The cheerful Salamon already walked to where Tsubasa is before Angemon was able to explain her job.

"Do you mind if I do a little examination?" she asked gently as she looked at Sebastian.

"Sure." Tsubasa replied.

Angel quickly approached Sebastian then begins to check on his condition from the soles of his feet up to his head.

"Hmmmm…." Angel paused for a moment to think.

"You are tired, why don't you take a break?" she said.

Tsubasa raised her eyebrow, wondering if what she said is right.

"Ehehe, I can go for a little bit more." Sebastian replied with a big smile.

"There, Sebastian! You should've said that you are tired!" Tsubasa said.

"But, Tsubasa is so excited to meet Honoka, I can't possibly let her lose her chance just because—…"

"Nonsense! Let's just go to the Tournament hall and check on her, then we will go take a rest." Tsubasa said.

"Ok!" Sebastian replied happily.

"Good! Then, as for you, Tsubasa-chan! Don't push him too much, ok? A digimon's stamina may be restored with food, but they still need to sleep! So make sure he is getting what he needs!"

"I understand! Thank you Angel, I'll go meet Honoka now!" Tsubasa said before she went away with Sebastian.

Angel smiled to the two, then she headed in to the restaurant without hesitation.

Angemon, who had been watching her work, was astonished by how fast she works, even though he knows that there's something important she needs to know about the job she is supposed to do.


Outside the city;

Nozomi and Lady have been wandering aimlessly in search of anything that would interest them. Looking as far as their eyes can see, they spot a few strange monument-like objects, though they have absolutely no idea what those are used for. They decided to just take a few pictures and note their details.

While they wandered around, they met a few aggressive Digimon that tried so hard to eliminate them, yet Lady would annihilate them before they can even touch her. She is used to fighting on her own, but…

"I did it! I did it! Woohoooo!" Lady cheered a she defeated a wild vaccine rookie Digimon.

"Yup, you did it, Lady." Nozomi appreciated.

"Yeah! Now, where's the healing for the best lady over here?" Lady said proudly.

"Here you go." Nozomi throw a recovery disk at her.

Lady seemed to be flustered when she received it.

"What's wrong? Was it not enough?" Nozomi asked.

Lady remained silent for a moment to think of what she missed.

"I feel something is missing…" Lady said in her gloom.

"And… what is that?" Nozomi asked.

Lady tried to think of what she missed again.

"Angel…" she whispered.

"Hmmm? Be a little louder please." Nozomi said.

"Angel, she isn't here to cheer for me…" Lady replied sadly.

"That's because she is working in the city right now." Nozomi replied.

"Ah… right. She is…" Lady sighed.

"Without her silly cheer, I feel like a part of me is missing…" she continued.

"You surely are inseparable with her, ever since the beginning of your life…" Nozomi replied.

Lady nodded.

"To be honest, though…" she said before she sat down and looked at her feet.

"I didn't like her. I was wishing for her to be gone for good." She continued.

"Now-now, I never knew that." Nozomi replied.

"At the time when I met you and Eli with her Kuzunoha, I just thought that if I follow you, I will certainly become a stronger Digimon and soon will be able to out-power her. I wished that you only picked me up, but… Angel had to be there and said out-loud that she wanted to join too. I didn't have the courage to protest since—I thought that I'll be getting a bad reputation and you will not pick me up…"

"You should be glad that you were a coward, else, you wouldn't be here right now. I don't like a hateful Digimon as much as I hate myself." Nozomi replied.

Lady raised her gaze to her and realized that it might truly be fate that brought them together.

"I'm joking, I would still pick you up and ignore your protests, just as much as I ignore that other me."

"The other, you…? Do humans have variety as well?"

"Nope, it just means that there are two thoughts inside me that fights against each other. It's like twins… just like you and Angel."

"I see." Lady nods a little embarrassedly.

"Let me tell you a story about a twin that became the stars." Nozomi started with a gentle smile.

Lady remained quiet to listen.

"Their names are Castor and Pollux, they shared the same mother, yet came from different fathers-…"

"Different fathers!? That's so wrong in so many level!" Lady exclaimed.

"I know, but that's the story. Anyway! Castor is a mortal while Pollux is an immortal, they—…."

"Did Castor die?! Then what did Pollux do?!" Lady asked eagerly.

"Well… If you would like to hear the whole story…."

"Ah—save it for later! Maybe Angel would like to hear it too! It sounds like an interesting story! We need to keep moving, then, we should be thinking of what I should bring back later."

"You are thinking of getting Angel a memento?"

"Yes, certainly. I need to find something shiny…"

"Something shiny? I never knew she likes shiny things… I thought her requests were always so random."

"She is random and she likes almost everything that is given to her, but she only loves shiny and beautiful things! I don't want to get her what she likes, I want to give her something that she loves!"

Nozomi giggled at her Digimon's remark.

"That's a nice spirit you have there, but it's not like we will be going around for a long time, we will return to the city from time to time, then you will have to swap with her from time to time as well." She said.

"There-there, that doesn't mean you can tell her to not to bring something special for someone she loves." A familiar voice heard from a distance.

"Heidr-san…?" Nozomi turned around to see a graceful woman walking along with her Lucemon.

"Are you lost, honey?" the older woman asked.

"Nope, I can go home anytime."

"I'm talking about what you seek in this far distance. I thought we agreed to search for something specific rather than looking for anything you can find." Heidr replied.

"Everything need to begin with the basics, doesn't it? That's why I'm searching through the island."

"It's useless, what we seek is within the File City itself. The rest of these islands are only mere repeatable areas where there can never be any victory to achieve. You might still be losing something though."

"Like what?"

"I don't know. Items? There will never be an end to those wild monsters. They will re-appear like nothing happened. So, if you are out here, you better have another purpose than to clean up the population."

"Like farming, huh? It will be like an unlimited power source or—….!" Nozomi paused as she realized that she just said something crucial.

The older woman giggled.

"There you go, at least I hooked your thought into it."

Nozomi nodded.

"I see. If what you said was right, then I might as well bring the rest of the girls to try to maximize their training with these wild monsters. But, really, where do they truly come from? It feels so similar with the wild on the game we played."

"What if the 'game' isn't supposed to exist?"

"I don't understand, what do you mean that it isn't meant to exist? Are you trying to hint me about how the Digital World is created by a mysterious creator? Just like the real world?"

"Maybe? Why don't you figure it out with your friends? Wouldn't it be so much more fun if you do that?"

"True, I should talk with them." Nozomi replied.

"While you do that, I'll be going around to farm some power for my Lucemon. I'll meet you again when I'm ready."

"I'll be looking forward to that."


The Tournament Hall;

Eli has been working on fixing the gym's devices while Sakuya helped Honoka and Ichigo to clean up the mess that they made and they are still only finished half way. The Tourney Greymon is listing up items that need to be repaired.

"Haaa—why are we here now… I'm so tired…" Honoka said.

"Don't fall asleep, Honoka-chan! There are so many poo down there, if you fall asleep, you'll fall on top of it!" Ichigo said.

"It's a bad luck for you two to have to deal with this mess, but please stay a little longer, ok? I'll tell you when I feel like I can take care of it on my own…" Sakuya replied.

"Sakuya-chan! That makes me feel guilty!" Honoka said.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that." Sakuya replied.

"We will work harder, Sakuya-chan!" Honoka said energetically.

Behind her, Tsubasa and Sebastian arrived and found the mess that stained the whole place. She was all quiet until…

"Wow, did someone have a poo party?" Tsubasa asked as she reached close to the ginger girl's back.

"Whoaa!" Honoka was astonished by the familiar voice—she is so close to fall but Tsubasa quickly tried to hold her. Because the floor is too slippery, instead of being able to stand still to hold her, Tsubasa slipped and fell in the murky water along with Honoka.

"Gwaaah!"

"Ouch…" Sebastian and Ichigo cringed in disgust.

Sakuya sighed at them.

"Eewwww…." Tsubasa and Honoka said in disgust.

"You two will need a long bath after this…" Sakuya said.

"What are you even doing with this mess anyway? I thought you were just going to the toilet, not partying with these." Tsubasa asked.

"It's a long story, hehe, but my first reason to be here is because I wanted to help! I can't let Sakuya work on her own!" Honoka said.

"Aaah? Is that so? Then, I'll help too!" Tsubasa said cheerfully.

Sebastian was about to say something but decided to hold back and say,

"Me too! I'll help out!"

Then he cheerfully picked up the mop and bucket near the toilet's entrance. Tsubasa tried to find anything she can use and decided to pick the burlap hanging on the half wall inside the toilet. Tsubasa and Sebastian immediately started to work, which made Honoka somewhat very astonished and feeling even guiltier.

The ginger girl decided to work harder just so they can finish faster and get some rest together. It only took a few minutes for them to finally finish up. They just needed to dry off everything.

"Woaaah, that was so much faster! Thank you so much, Tsubasa-chan!" Honoka said cheerfully.

"That was nothing, ahaha!" Tsubasa replied proudly.

"Now, to dry these…" she continued as she turned to Sebastian.

"Do it like how we always do, got it!" Sebastian nodded happily before he ran to the middle of the room. Sakuya, Ichigo, and Honoka wondered how they exactly do it. They could see Sebastian charging a power, then Tsubasa signaled for them to move back farther.

Sebastian casted a powerful inferno around himself and, while it looked somewhat powerful, it also looked like it was done half-heartedly. No matter how he did it, it proved to be effective in drying the water stain instantly.

"Uwaaah! Tsubasa-chan! Sebastian! That was awesome!" Honoka appreciated them.

"Really nice, that finished everything so effectively." Sakuya appreciated as well while Ichigo cheerfully claps for them in the background.

"Now, since we finished with this, you two can go on and take some rest. I'll be going to help Eli." Sakuya said.

"You're off to help out again? Have you had any sleep? It looks so dark out there." Honoka asked with a hint of concern in her voice.

"Worry not, I did take a bit of my bed time. We got some rest before we decided to enter the Tournament Hall. Eli is such a hard worker; she wouldn't want to stop until she gets what she wants.

"And…what exactly does she want this time?" Tsubasa asked.

"I think the Tourney Greymon mentioned something about a Digi-bank being able to create a physical data from any form of data. My guess is that she wants to fight with her Kuzunoha again in this Tournament Hall." Sakuya said.

"Wow, she hasn't moved on? How troublesome. But at least now you know she will make such a faithful master once you have her heart." Tsubasa said.

"Eh..? Tsubasa-chan knows about Kuzunoha?" Honoka wondered.

"Of Course, she was so popular and we've been pretty much rivals in Digimon battles. I fought her once in an S-Ranked Tournament. A data Digimon that's able to crush my Virus Digimon, it was such a lesson to me. On the bright side, she made me realize that Digimon types don't matter when you're about to enter the S-Ranked battle. That's how I became a decent tamer myself." Tsubasa replied proudly.

"Ehehe, I only know a bit about her Kuzunoha from Nozomi-senpai's story. It was only a short story sent to my Digivice too." Honoka replied.

"Is that so? Then, don't you want to see her yourself?" Tsubasa said.

"Is that even possible?" Honoka asked.

"Oh, come on! Honoka! The Digibank will make it come true. I just need to insert a few data about my Digimon and she will do that as well, then, we will see. I'd like to battle her once more too."

"I can't wait to see that!"

"You can't wait? Then we can do that soon."

"But, Eli-senpai needs to finish repairing the devices in 40 floors to be able to do that."

"Don't worry, you should believe in my negotiating skills, Honoka."

"Negotiating skills?" Honoka tilt her head.

"Yep. I'll negotiate with Tourney Greymon, we should be able to fight by the day after tomorrow or tomorrow afternoon."

"Ok! Sounds good!" Honoka replied with a nod.

"Let's clean ourselves up and get some rest first, Honoka!" Tsubasa said cheerfully.

"Yup! Let's go-let's go!"

"Where can we take a bath tough?" Tsubasa wondered.


At the farm;

The night went on. Mary the Lalamon returned to her slumber after she and Hanayo planted the meat seeds given by Palmon. Hanayo isn't new with the Digital World's farming system as she has always dealt with it. Rin and Leon the Gaomon may have never actually have the passion to do farming, but they have been helping out with what Hanayo does until now. They are also fast asleep next to Hanayo and Mary.

As for Kotori and Suzaku the Biyomon, she may not be taking hard tasks yet since Suzaku isn't ready, but she started to pick and deliver a few items from building to building in the city. It's a profitable job, but takes a lot of energy and details which, gladly, were easy enough for Kotori and Suzaku.

"Aaah, that's the last of it!" Kotori said as she sat down on the Birdra-transport's seat. Biyomon hopped on the branch and sighed heavily.

"That was so tiring, but it's very profitable so we can't complain." Biyomon said.

"You two did a good job for starters." The baby digimon said.

"Hehe, thank you, uh... Transport-Tokomon?"

"Yup, Transport-Tokomon!" he nods.

"Hehe!" Kotori smiled to his reaction.

"You should get some rest, there will be more people to serve tomorrow." Transport Tokomon said.

"Ok! Thank you for today!"

"No-no, thank you for your support today!" Transport Tokomon said cheerfully.


Jijimon's house;

"Uwaaah, thank you so much for letting us take a bath in your bathroom, Jijimon!" Honoka said as she dried her hair with the towel handed to her. Her old clothes are currently being cleaned so she has to wear another set of clothes that Kotori gave her. She is lucky that she has such a caring friend who gave her everything she needed for free.

Jijimon sighed at her—despite not having anything forbidden to see, Jijimon decided to look away from her.

"I'd like you all to clean my floor later, but I suppose you can skip today's cleaning job. The City Cleaning Service will come by soon, so they'll be doing that job for you. Next time tough, you need to take off your shoes if it's dirty." He said.

"Ehehe, I'm sorry-I'm sorry!"

"Then, as for resting place... You can use the Sofa right there, but wouldn't you prefer a bed? I think Angemon in the clinic can help you with that."

"Sleeping in the clinic? That's not good, sick people need them more than us."

"Then, the only choice for you is to sleep here, huh? But hey, the tamers who often came here sleep anywhere. It's like they don't even care if they have to sleep at the dirtiest swamp or the hottest cave, as long as their Digimon are there to protect them from the wild."

"Ohh… heart of a wanderer for sure!" Honoka commented.

"Truly, they are very capable of doing everything we need." Jijimon replied.

"Anyway Jijimon, why are you facing away?" Honoka asked.

"Huh? This? Because I thought that was what every girls want? I mean, they don't want me to look at them when they are taking a bath, right?"

"Uh…that's certainly right, but, I thought the bathroom has a door? No sane girl would take off their clothes in an open space, unless it's some kind of hot spring or something of that sort." Honoka said.

"Oh…ok, so, it's ok to look? You're not going to hit me?"

"Why would I want to hit you?" Honoka scratched her cheek.

"Hmm…I see…" Jijimon mumbled.

"Eh…?" Honoka tilt her head in her confusion.

"Then…" Jijimon turned around.

As he did that, Tsubasa came out of the bathroom with only towel wrapped around herself.

"Hono—AAAAAHHH!"


I'll see you next chapter ^^ , its close to ending~