楽しい事や悲しみ事など。。。
BY：ジャハカノン
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Yeah… yeah… long breaks between each chapter. Sorry sorry!
On with the show!
Chapter 13: 大事の人々と話している
Talking with important people
"I know you have more pressing matters." Said a man wearing a brown hood. "But we feel we need to bring up the issue of the Chosen Child of Knowledge with you again."
Ryou, who usually blends so smoothly, was the odd one out- the only one in this large room not wearing a brown hood. These people (if that's the correct term) are a strange breed.
"There is no one better to accompany me on some of my tasks than Koushirou-kun." he replied pointedly. "And you told me in a previous meeting that at birth he was chosen as I was to guard and patrol dimensions."
"That's true. We acknowledged his ability to survive travel between worlds and his personality traits were ideal. However, since then his biological parents died and we decided not to bequeath the responsibility to him. It's too hazardous to have someone with such a strong, though subconscious, tie to death have access to so many worlds. It was a coincidence that he was there the night of the fight in Hikarigaoka (Highton View in dub) and we found that he is still more than qualified to be a chosen child."
"Coincidence… that's a funny word for folk who collect and go by prophecies to use." Ryou commented. "I don't let Koushirou-kun go to worlds that might hurt him in any way that can't be easily be healed. We go to world's where he can use his mind more efficiently… doesn't that make sense?"
There was a muttering among the listeners.
"And even Koushirou-kun's own world and the digital world he knows presents a danger of their own kind… to everyone."
More muttering.
"Listen, I'm speaking to you as someone who was handed a two person job without knowing it." Ryou stated "but I knew when I first picked up Koushirou-kun's unique signal on my digivice that he would be a valuable ally."
The one heading the meeting cleared his throat. "We'll talk about this another time. You're excused, Akiyama Ryou-kun."
"You know, I'm just going to say the same thing next time too." Ryou said with an eye roll.
"That's not the least bit surprising," the head replied, "But you know that we can't tell you what to do or take away your job- it's yours given to you by destiny. In the end it's your judgment that will make all of the difference, but I hope that you'll listen to our input now and then."
"Hm." Ryou looked thoughtful, "Well, sure. And I'm glad you trust my judgment." He began to walk away.
"Well, boy, we don't have much of a choice." the head said, with a slight smile. He watched Ryou walk off. "He's a good kid, Gennai."
A tall man, now next to him, nodded. "It's true," he said "and, you know, if he makes a mistake he'll go back and fix it. Koushirou-kun, too." He walked off to catch up with Ryou.
The head laughed to himself. "That's Gennai," he said "always has faith in the kids."
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"Hey Ryou-kun!" Gennai called after the Chosen child of Portals.
Ryou turned around, "Gennai-san? Is that you? You look younger and you've copied my spiky hair!"
Gennai frowned, "I've had hair like this since before you were born."
"Once again, I'd like to mention my previous statement about all the prophesies you all have floating around…" Ryou joked.
Gennai laughed, "I'm certain none of the prophesies have any mention of what you do with your hair."
"Hmm… there goes all my theories. I'd better listen to Koushirou-kun more."
"Then maybe you might pick up some excellent theories." Gennai responded with a smile.
"He's been trying to contact you, by the way." Ryou remarked, "Any ideas?"
"Well, I knew he was trying… but the committee didn't want me to give any contact information. It's kind of top secret, you know." he shrugged "Sorry!"
"None of us really understand the nature of the portals." Ryou sighed, "Not one authorized OR unauthorized user really knows how they work. And now we're competiting with scientists in several worlds- they aren't getting very far… but… I think Koushirou-kun has a chance of unlocking the secrets before anyone. And he'd protect whatever he finds with his life and wouldn't let anyone abuse it- so I want to help him figure it out before anyone else does so that we can figure out how to protect it."
"That is a good plan that one would expect for a Chosen Child of Portals." Gennai replied with a smile. "No one would deny that. You know, it's the committee's job to fret over everything. You have a lot more support from them than they let on."
"Well, that's good." Ryou replied.
"So, you mention that you've known that Koushirou-kun would make a good ally from the first time you detected him. When exactly was that?" Gennai asked.
"Oh, well… three years ago when the Chosen Child of Courage was suddenly taken from the Digital World back to his own world, all of the other Chosen split up to look for him, right?"
"Yes, I recall that."
"Well, due to a plot to get Koushirou-kun's crest from him, he was brought to another dimension himself."
"I remember that too," Gennai said thoughtfully, "Vademon's universe."
"Right," Ryou continued, "but this dimension was unauthorized. The only reason why I hadn't gone in and shut it down was because there was so little to it, just a few comets and small planets, that I didn't even know it existed. So, when Koushirou-kun vanished from the Digital World, I picked up the sudden lack of traceable energy in that world. Usually, the energy transfers to another world, but instead it just vanished."
"I see…" Gennai remarked. "At this point, Koushirou was in Vademon's universe and was separated from his curiosity- his biggest power source. So he just blended with the other things, like the comets and such. His digimon partner was equally powerless because of his human partner's state."
"Right, but then… the most important part is that he managed to wake up from that stupor- without his curiosity! And his mere return to consciousness was enough to bring a signal of the unauthorized dimension so that I could almost trace it. Then, after he got his mind back together and got Kabuterimon to evolve to Megakabuterimon, I was easily able to track the world as soon as he left and shut it down." Ryou finished.
"So, without Koushirou, you would've never found that universe to begin with." Gennai summarized. "And who knows what kind of problems that could have caused."
"It's not just that Koushirou-kun is really smart, it's that he was able to be woken even when it didn't seem like he was every going to wake up. That's why I think he can travel between worlds. There are worlds that bring weaknesses to everybody and trying to avoid the weaknesses is useless. The real skill, I think, is to be able to find one's strength in a time of weakness."
"You're preaching to the choir, Ryou-kun." Gennai said to the boy.
"The committee doesn't appreciate story time quite as much as you do, Gennai-san."
Gennai laughed. "Well, I -do- enjoy story time!"
End- Chapter 13
I was going to have two mini stories for this chapter, but the first one went for too long. Ah well.