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?"

26. 3-03

live once you become
3.03

He realises it surprisingly late. Maki has also sent the children to the Digital World. And has gone herself.

It's a suicide bombing that's going to kill twelve children and herself.

And he still can't understand why. And suddenly he's forgotten all about the digimon who will be wiped out with it and maybe that's understandable because he's a human so of course his priority is to other humans –

But there's something welling up inside of him: something yellow and black and dizzying and he's on the ground with his feet propped up and the first aider crouching beside him before he's able to register anything outside of a blur again.