Shinsuke typically isn't fazed by much, especially after being a digidestined for so long, but this district he finds himself in is really starting to eat at him. Freezing, with no hint of shelter anywhere. He thinks briefly of how Kazuchika would hate it and smirks grimly as he buries his hands deeper into his jacket. Coronamon hates it too, riding on top of Nakamura's head, trying to avoid the worst of the snow billowing around them. He tucks his partner into the hoodie of his jacket as best as he can, continuing to trudge forward.
He can sense the cause of the unseasonably cold temperatures just ahead, tempted to tell Coronamon to digivolve already, but he waits to see. Perhaps speaking to the creature will help- probably not, but it wouldn't hurt to take his time, make sure. Especially with the digidestined's numbers dwindling between releases and mysterious happenings in the digiworld itself. He already misses James Ellsworth, wishing that they had more time to go surfing the last time they were on tour together.
When Shinsuke finaly comes in view of the creature, he's not surprised to find that it's a Blue Meramon, the creature's flames frozen in shards of blue ice, his eyes glinting coolly as he manipulates the weather around him just by being. Each step hardens the ice under his feet, every breath freezes the wind by another degree. Shinsuke gives in, nods then and feels as Coronamon flies out of his hoodie and digivolves, Apollomon landing heavily in front of Blue Meramon, flames pouring out of his back just to keep his body stabilized, warm enough to function. Blue Meramon snarls, stomps his feet and pours more power out into his ice, closing his eyes as Apollomon roars out, panicking when his skin begins to crack and freeze despite the flames flowing from his orb.
"Apollomon!" Shinsuke cries out, the cold getting worse and causing him to waver for the first time since coming here. Not for the first time, he's glad that he's decided to take this mission on by himself. The other digidestined, they wouldn't be prepared for this, some of them not even having fully digivolved partners yet. He tries to step forward, figure out a way to help his partner, but there's no way to do so. Blue Meramon simply turns his focus onto Shinsuke, blasting more snow and ice at him, quickly encasing him in shards of ice.
Nakamura drops to his knees and wavers, looking up with watery eyes as he realizes that this could easily be his end. There may be no way out of this. As sad as he feels for not being able to assist the new digidestined longer, his chief regret is not being able to see his home country once more. "Japan," he breathes out, wavering as the last of his energy fails him, sending him face first into the snow billowing around before him.
As he loses consciousness, he thinks he can hear Blue Meramon laughing mockingly a few feet away, but he's too far gone to look up and check.
