She woken to the sound of rain hitting the window. Opening her eyes she had seen the tanuki doll that Takato had given her the other day, she pushed it aside as she slid out of bed.
After the whole morning song and dance ADR-01 stayed in her room, doing the homework left behind before Juri left for the digital world. For her it is a cinch, all she had to do was mark down the answers.
Once finished she walk downstairs, seeing "her" brother playing with Culumon on the couch.
"Hello Juri-chan," "her" brother said when she saw her enter the living room. "Do you want to play?"
"Yeah, do you want to play Juri-chan?" Culumon asked.
"No.. Thank you, I was going to take a small walk," ADR-01 said. She grabbed her coat as she exited the house.
"It was odd of off yesterday," Takato said as he walked with his friend, Jenrya Li. "For almost the entire date she was, without emotion; like she was on the train. The only time she actually smiled was after I kissed her, just a light peck after the date."
"Ooh! Details, more details."
"Quite, Terriermon," Jenrya said in an even tone. "I do not know why you are telling me all this, Takato. It's rude to kiss and tell."
"I say kiss and exaggerate," Terriermon said. "Say you got into her pants or something."
"TERRIERMON!" Both boys shouted.
Takato shifted his weight from one foot to another, "well; I was going to say before Terriermon said that, that maybe I am having a positive impact on her."
"Really? How is that?"
"Well, on the train and yesterday she acted like a programmed zombie, like someone removed her soul. But she managed a smile." Takato stopped a moment, off in the distance he could see a piece of the chaos that had slipped into their world. He stood there at the railing, just watching both the helicopters and the thing move about.
"They're talking of evacuating Shinjuku entirely." Jenrya said, his tone was somber, even for someone with his maturity. "My dad, and his team along with those people at Hypnos are keeping an eye on it, at the moment it's pretty docile."
Takato lean on the railing, his mind was working a mile a minute, switching between the chaos and Juri's actions after Leomon's death.
"I wonder," Takato said. "What's going through that thing's mind."
"Maybe to destroy, kill and other unpleasentries," Terriermon piped up. "Now, let's get back to the action you had last night."
"It was just a simple kiss," Takato said. "Nothing more."
The three began to walk down the street. Heading away from the sight, each with their own thoughts about different situations.
The D-Reaper core slowly poked the soft body of Juri Katou, making sure the creature of alive.
Chaos, it will come, and destroy all there. She thought with a sickening smile, It will wash away the pain.
"It will come," the core said while poking the near corpse. "But it will require some time, data and research. Irrational actions will be the downfall of the chaos."
Yes, downfall.
Juri lifted her puppet dog. "Chaos will rain, and humanity will fall! Fall! Fall!"
The walls jitter.
It will all fall!
She seems to be degrading in mentality, the core thought to itself. From here on it must be delicately stepped around.
"Fall! Fall! Fall fall fall! FALLFALLFALLFALLFALLFALLFALLFALL!"
"FALLFALLFALLFALLFALLFALLFALL!"
Very delicately.
ADR-01 stopped at a small store front, not because there was something in the display that she was interested in but her own reflection.
She had been transfixed on the strange color of life in her skin, instead of the ashen grey there appear to be some kind of warmth and color.
She walked away, tightening up her collar. The streets were still sleek from the rain earlier and the air was pretty nippy too.
She watched the area, the people going and leaving their destinations and taking great care not to have something attack her foot.
Making way through the crowds she had made it to the barricade, she was careful not to be spotted by the police and S.A.T. members while advancing towards the large oozing and pulsating chaos. She could not wait to become one again, she was not hesitant to reach out and touch the chaos. Her human disguise was peeled away as ADR-01 gave her memories to the core, or receiving an upgrade to become more independent so she can learn more.
Leaving, ADR-01 return to being Juri. It was time to go home.
"Is there any progress on this thing?" Yamaki said as he looked over Megumi's shoulder.
"None yet," Reika rubbed a kink out of her neck before continuing searching through the data. "Except for the fact it's main body of activity is limited to the park in Shinjuku, there is nothing else to report."
"I wonder what the hell is this thing is doing," Yamaki said more to himself than anyone else. Removing his sunglasses and rubbing his tired eyes it has been 56 hours and counting since the last moment of sleep, which was about a couple hours worth. But he, along with the rest of Hypnos, must find out what the D-Reaper is and why it was here.
"The UN is planning to load it up with sensors," Reika said as the message flashed across the screen. "They're just waiting for a go ahead from you, sir."
"Tell them to be cautious," Yamaki spoke as he slowly walked away. "We don't know what'll do afterwards, and also to be ready for evac in case..."
"Got it."
"You're late," Mr. Katou said. "Next time, please inform us when you are going to be even a second late."
"Yes." ADR-01 spoke.
"Go clean up for dinner," Mr. Katou gestured towards the bathroom. ADR-01 walked off leaving Mrs. and Mr. Katou alone in the hallway. "Is it me, or does she seem more lively today?"
"I think it was that Matsuda boy, she started to change after that play date yesterday." Mrs. Katou said.
"Yeah, yeah," Mr. Katou said.
"How's Juri-chan?" Guilmon asked. He was currently snacking upon a piece of bread from the store below.
"Didn't see her today," Takato said as he placed his jacket onto a chair as taking a seat. "She acted strange ever since the ark, I was hoping that she would be something. I don't know, I guess a little better. But she is still acting like the way she did on the train."
Guilmon gulp down a piece of bread, thinking of something to say. Takato knew what it was going to be, he sighed while petting his digital partner. "I think I'm just being selfish."
"You're not being selfish," Guilmon said. "You just worry about your friend."
"Yeah... Thanks for that." Takato said, he did not really sound convinced. But he manage to keep up a modest mood, he'll properly feel better later on.
He just hopes that Juri will feel better.