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?"

13. 2-03

live once you become
2.03

Maki goes and the road begins to vanish. He watches, swallows, and then goes as well. Maki doesn't look back either. Maki doesn't see him. Maki's not there when he wakes up again, either. And the children are nowhere to be seen either.

The world is strange. He's never been here before because he's not a Chosen. He's just a guy who works for a government agency and that agency chases digimon. And he's shot viruses at digimon. He's shot guns at digimon. He's driven children into warzones because of their digimon, and the digimon they fight. But for some reason, he hasn't imagined what their home looks like at all. But it's so detailed. Flora of their own making. A sky of different colours and yet the echo of earth is in everything.