041 – When the world ends…
Their adventures in the digital world ended almost as abruptly as they had begun. It was quite plain and simple, Koushirou had stated, the portal simply didn't work anymore.
They couldn't get through, no matter how hard they tampered and dwelled and begged. No matter how much they prayed and cried and hoped.
It was over. That whole adventure, that whole massive everything that had given their lives a purpose in the first place, was finished, gone, just like that.
Daisuke threw his bags on their little sofa, watching Takeru fiddle with his D3, with his laptop, with his hope.
"No luck?"
Takeru shook his head, tossing the device onto the desk before him. "Nothing."
Daisuke sighed, unsurprising really. "Do you…do you think we'll ever be able to, y'know, go back?"
The blond didn't answer straight away, opting instead to stare at his long, pale fingers. "I dunno. Adults have never really been allowed to go, well, except Genai…we're 22 now…"
"It's the end of the world as we know it, eh?" Daisuke joked, that familiar twinge of sadness in his voice.
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