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"...I don't know..." Miyako said, doubtful of the task Hawkmon was urging her to perform. "I still think it's silly."

"It's not silly." Hawkmon retorted "It'll be good for you to get your feelings out."

Several days ago, Miyako had finally let Hawkmon in on her feelings for the Ichijouji boy, to which the bird digimon had, in her opinion, overreacted. One thing led to another, and now, here they were, standing atop a large open canyon in the digital world, where she was attempting to, under Hawkmon's advice, "get in touch with her true feelings" Apparently, this could be accomplished by standing atop a cliff and yelling them as loud as you could.

Hearing your own voice echo would allow you to believe that you really had these feelings and blah, blah, blah. Miyako hadn't paid too much attention to the whole theory behind it, and was really only doing this to shut Hawkmon up.

"Will this really help?" She asked him, looking down into the depths of the cliff. "Well, I don't see how it could hurt." "I guess you got a point there...." Miyako finally agreed. She prepped herself mentally "Alright, Miyako, here we go, gonna say it, yep, any second now, gonna blurt it out, get in touch with the ol' feelings about Ken and know what you mean, uh-huh, here I go, just clear the throat once more and-"

"Whenever you're ready..." Hawkmon hurried her on.

"Gimme a second." She grumbled "This isn't easy." Inhaling in deeply to relax, she rehearsed in her mind one last time, and said "I... like you... Ken."

"That was a good start, now try it a bit louder."

"I like you, Ken." She repeated with a tad more confidence. A tad.

"Ah, ah, ah, louder, or else you won't here the echo." Hawkmon said, waving a nagging finger at her. You do like him, don't you?"

"Of course I like him! How can a girl not like him?"

"Are we talking about the same Ken?"

"You know, you're not that encouraging..."

"Well, if you think about him that way, you should really say it..."

"Fine, fine... I'll try again." She held her head high this time, trying to look as if she were very proud of what she was saying. "I like you, Ken." She proclaimed. She heard an echo come back at her, repeating the words she had just said. Hawkmon was right- hearing those words aloud really made a difference. Maybe she was really was in denial about how she felt towards Ken...

"I LIKE YOU, Ken." She said again, loudly, getting another echo. It reinforced her, making her say it again and again, each time getting a bit louder. "I LIKE YOU, KEN, I LIKE YOU KEN, I LIKE YOU KEN!"

"Alright! Now you've got it! Now, loud as you can, let the world know how you feel!"

Miyako took in a deep breath, then inhaled even more in an attempt to get her lungs filled to maximum capacity. Opening her mouth, she summoned up all the enthusiam she could find from the deepest parts of herself, and combined it all into one statement, which she blared louder than anything she had ever said in her whole entire life.

"I LIKE YOU KEN!!!"

"Wow. I didn't know I could yell so loud..." She thought to herself. "I haven't yelled that loud since Daisuke accidently walked into the girl's change room..." Miyako was surprised that she could achieve so much volume when she tried. Of course, what came next surprised her far more.

"I LIKE YOU TOO, MIYAKO!"

"Gee, that was a weird echo, Hawkmon. Must have been where I was so loud, or something..."

"Um, Miyako, I'm not sure that that was an echo..."

"Huh?"

"Look over there." Hawkmon pointed way across to the other side of the cliff. "I've got eagle-eye vision, but you should be able to make it out if you try..."

"What is it?" Miyako squinted, trying to focus on the ralitivly miniscule object Hawkmon was pointing at.

"Hmm... it kinda looks like... like...Oh no... oh no no no..." It had been more than just some weird echo-it had been Ken himself!

"KEN!?" She blurted in a combination of a question and an expression of surprise.

"YES?"

"He's here! He heard me!" Miyako squealed "He knows..." Her face turned ghastly white. "Um... HI!" She responded, unsure of what to do.

"HELLO!"

"So... HOW YOU DOING?"

"NOT BAD! YOURSELF?"

"FINE! Say... YOU WANNA... TALK?"

"...SURE! THAT'D BE NICE!"

"That'd be nice!" Miyako repeated to herself. She could have sworn that her heart was now beating faster than usual. "OKAY! I'LL FLY RIGHT OVER ON AQUILAMON!"

"NO, I'D BETTER COME OVER THERE."

"WHY?"

"BECAUSE DAISUKE, TAKERU, HIKARI, AND IORI ARE HERE WITH ME!"