11.
"So, if I have this right..."
Arata nodded.
"You and your friends fought god, won, won twice."
Another nod.
"But the world was reset to where none of it happened."
"Yep." Takumi's expression was marred with… something. A complicated, uncomfortable something. Arata glanced back at him and got a smile so fast it had to have been physically painful.
"Like a reboot?"
"Yep."
"How?" Ken breathed. "Was it Homeostasis or someone? Wouldn't we have known? Why don't the Chosen Children know?"
"Yggdrasil made it that way."
Ken almost fell into his chair. He shouldn't be so surprised, realistically. He should expect this. They had all told him and the others about the ability to reboot. But that Yggdrasil, who had tried to murder all humans and make a new world, doing this?
"It's not as gentle as it sounds," Arata said, rubbing his neck. "And not as good either."
"You could stop sounding like EDENfeed and tell him," Takumi muttered, earning a jab in the arm.
Ken couldn't help his smile. Wormmon clambered to his shoulder. Takumi seeing that immediate went to scoop him up. Ken stiffened but his partner went happily.
"Come on," Takumi added with a small grin. "Let's get a snack. We'll let these two have a moment."
"Why would they need a moment?" Wormmon asked but they left anyway.
Leaving the two most awkward people, and an awkward silence in their place.
"Jerk," Arata muttered. And Ken laughed. And it didn't feel wrong.