10. Pain and Love Are the Same
Now, Tailmon was an agent of Vamdemon. That blood could have come from anyone or anything, especially due to these last few days. But Taichi knew, possibly by the look on her face and the stain still being there, what with it ought to have being washed away by now, who that blood belonged to.
"You," he sputtered out. "You-"
Agumon had, thankfully, gotten quite past that issue. "Baby Flame!" Tailmon leaped to the side, almost breaking her new landing perch. The tree that she had been on started to smoke. She scowled, winced, but narrowed her eyes like it didn't happen. She would not cower to this Child.
"Come to take revenge on me?" The taunt was barely weakened by the roiling in her stomach and the lingering pain. "For another dead life?"
Taichi found his words and his fists. "You killed my sister!" He was beyond rage at this point, but he could still word it, the pain, the grief, the emptiness. "Why?" He crouched as if to jump the tree and climb hims
Tailmon smirked. It was dry and humorless and he didn't care right now. "Well, I see why Knowledge isn't your Crest."
Agumon's face turned red and he released a larger burst of fire. She dodged again. "How slow!" she taunted. Her tail swished and ears were twitching at a distant whirring whine. Ah humans were coming. Good. "You expect to end my master with such weak skills?"
Taichi didn't hear, couldn't hear. His Digivice began to shine, matching Agumon bright light for bright light.
Tailmon took that as her cue and leaped away, bolting off. Certainly, she could fight him fairly easily, even in this state. But her master would get angry again and they were getting enough attention as it was.
Also there was that nagging sense of unease again, that painful feeling of don't do, hesitate, you are better that was still around from when before she had killed the human. She didn't like it. It needed to go away.
But if killing didn't get rid of it, what would?
