our bones, underfoot

by Aiko Isari

It makes it all so much worse, the knowing, the caring, the recognition, and the acknowledgment. Because he can't really save her partner no matter where and when but he can save her and he's going to try.

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21.

Deva.

Daigo doesn't remember the devas very well. They were in the background. Soldiers, friends, healers, smaller digimon. They'd probably been Digimon with big dreams and merry adventures.

But here they were just monsters who wanted to kill all of the humans. And sometimes Daigo couldn't blame them.

But they had taken Takato's parents. They had dragged Kato-san into more sadness and violence. And they were the reason that the Digimon were suffering right now.

It was humans too and Daigo knew that, but really, yes really, he was stuck with more tunnel vision than he wanted to admit.

Besides a Digimon was still killing Guilmon.

He wished for power, begged for it. But all he got was tears instead, tears and Guilmon's pain in his shoulder.