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?"

25. 3-02

live once you become
3.02

Maki has covered her tracks reasonably well, but it won't hold up to close scrutiny and it doesn't when he scrutinises it. But there's nothing that explains her reasoning, her intentions, nothing that explains why. Yes, they've created weapons against digimon but it's because digimon are falling through the rift and they're infected, they're dangerous.

That's no reason to rip the two worlds apart completely. That's no reason to make the digimon forget humans and then destroy them in that ignorance.

And it's an enormous thing. With what should be an enormous impact and yet they are a separate world. The damage to their digital systems can be mitigated. They've mitigated it once already, getting back the information that had been snatched away once and deleted.

And then there's something smaller and – when he realises it – far more brutal.