楽しい事や悲しみ事など。。。

By: ジャハ・カノン

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Chapter 17: 実験と結果

Experient and Conclusion

Timeline: The day BelialVamdemon (Malomyotismon) was defeated.

Ryou watched the screen on his digivice as five blinking lights were headed toward the outskirts of Tokyo. One of them was very obviously Koushirou. The others? Courage, love, faith, and friendship- he figured.

"What's the plan?" he silently said to Koushirou through the communicator he wore.

"Will message." Koushirou answered briefly.

Just then a message popped up.

Because the Tokyo gate was blocked up by BlackWarGreyMon, we're going to try going to the camp from three years ago. –こう (Kou)

The message had every sign that Koushirou was feeling rushed and preoccupied- including the fact that he didn't bother putting more than the first two characters of his name in hiragana.

Ryou replied back:

Sounds like a good idea. I'm not currently picked up any gate signals from that area, but it's worth a try anyway. –Ryou

Koushirou nodded slightly at Ryou's response. He looked around the car he was sitting in. He was in a carpool of parents of any digidestined who happened to have a car at their disposal. For a bunch of Tokyo citizens, this was rather impressive.

It warmed his heart a little to realize that no one was asking him what he was doing at the computer or to try to help him. After all these years, these people trust him to do what he's supposed to do. They believe in him to use the information he gathers in the best way possible.

'So I'll use everything I've learned in the best way possible.' The redhead thought to himself. Feeling clearheaded and understanding his duty, he began typing a reply to Ryou.

I've learned a lot from all of our trips to other worlds. I learned how to open the digital world port from other computers- like Taichi-san's and my own laptop. It only makes sense now that the next step for me is that I should try to open the gate at the camp. –Koushirou

Am I supposed to be surprised by this? -Ryou

No, but there's more. Can I bring a few friends? -Koushirou

….who exactly are these friends? –Ryou

Koushirou sent Ryou an image of the globe with several lights blinking on each continent.

Ah, your penpals. –Ryou

They are aware of what's going on and they're gathering around the digital world portals, just like Taichi-san, Yamato-san, Sora-san, Jyou-san, and I right now. All we need to do is to get them activated. –Koushirou

Ryou looked at his digivice again, he could tell that the five dots have stopped moving and that they were at the camp location. Looking at the world map, he could see thousands of dots gathered around places that were at least once known to have been connected to the digital world. The possibilities are endless.

Even if you can open all those gates and get everyone through them, it'll be hard to guide them all through the correct portals to the Digital World. –Ryou

I know, that's why I need your help. Onegaishimasu! –Koushirou

Wakatta. If we can get those gates open, I'll be right where you will all need me to be. –Ryou

Koushirou wrote a quick note of thanks to Ryou. Multitasking being his strongsuit, he had already done a lot to try to open the gates. He put out his digivice with his teammates, but nothing happened.

He pulled his laptop out again, 'There's definitely something I need to be doing here.'

Suddenly, he noticed the lights around the globe had gotten brighter, at the same moment; correlating lights were getting equally as bright around the area that Ken and everyone were in the Digital World.

"It's the bond between the Chosen Children of the world and their Digimon" Koushirou stated, tilting his head slightly so the explanation would go to Ryou as well.

"There's no time better than now," Koushirou heard Ryou speak through the communicator, "the ties between the two worlds are the strongest that they've ever been. Try opening all of the gates again."

Koushirou nodded slightly. He typed in all of the necessary commands.

"Looks good." Ryou commented.

Koushirou put away his laptop and put up his digivice as the chosen children around him did. "Look at all those lights." Koushirou commented quietly through the communicator just before the wave from three years ago came and washed them away.

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Ryou felt like a sheepherder. A very powerful sheepherder herding some very powerful sheep.

Boy, this was a really weird thought procees.

Ryou focused as he flew around the familiar area guiding thousands of lights behind him.

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Ken looked around in amazement at the sight of people all around the world coming to help them. He spotted Ryou in crowd standing nearby Koushirou. He saw them exchange a sort of smug glance and wondered if they had anything to do with this. He'll ask later. Ryou met eyes with Ken and did a slight wave.

All it took was a lot of confidence and some well-aimed digivices and BelialVamdemon was gone.

"Well, Izumi Koushirou-kun," Ryou said quietly to the redheaded form who was heading the middle of the canyon where his teammates were meeting, "you just performed the first ever large scale meeting of worlds, how do you feel?"

Koushirou caught what he said through the communicator. "I'm just glad it worked. I was worried about it look so much for us just to beat VenomVamdemon three years ago." He spoke silently to the communicator so noone around him could hear.

"Well, with all of two worlds' power, he's gone for good this time." Ryou replied.

"Yeah." Koushirou responded.

"Now that both worlds have been assured a future, what are you going to do with it?" Ryou asked.

"I want to continue doing what I have been doing," Koushirou answered, "I want to continue to learn more about the Digital World, as well as in general about portals to other worlds."

"This doesn't surprise me at all," Ryou replied, laughing a little. "Hey, look at how many people around the world have Digimon partners now. Before too long, everyone will."

"Sounds like an exciting future." Koushirou remarked.

"Are we there yet?" Ryou asked.

Koushirou rolled his eyes.

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23 years later

"Are we there yet?" Ryou asked again, as if he suddenly remembered.

Koushirou looked over his computer, "I'd say so."

"What are you talking about?" a redheaded girl asked as she entered the room.

"A conversation from a few decades ago, Haruko." Koushirou replied to his daughter.

The kanji characters of her name were the character of Osamu's name (治) plus the "ko (子)" character to make it feminine. As far as Haruko is concerned, she lucked out that it spells out an actual female name. Ryou wasn't sure what Osamu would think of Koushirou naming his daughter after him. Would he be flattered? Offended? He didn't worry about it because Koushirou so obviously didn't.

Haruko looked annoyed at not understanding what was going on. "Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about something, Tousan."

Koushirou turned his attention to his daughter. "Yes?"

"I'm not really interested in studying the gates and portals to other worlds." She said slowly, as if breaking bad news to her father.

Koushirou looked unshaken. "Alright."

"I'm a lot more interested in the biology of the Digimon and the plants in their world. It seems like a whole field of study that no one has even touched before." Haruko stated.

Koushirou nodded, he would know because he'd been the only person studying the Digital World since, well, he was ten. Now he had Jyou's brother Kido Shuu and Sora's father helping him, but the whole subject of Digital World studies was very much still completely in his hands.

"Sounds good," Koushirou replied with a smile, "let me know if you need any of my information or you need someone to bounce ideas off of."

Haruko's eyes lit up. "Thanks Tousan!" she gave him a hug and ran out the door.

"I would think that Ken-kun would name his daughter after his brother." Ryou commented.

"Ken-kun's probably jealous because I thought of the name Haruko before he did." Koushirou replied jokingly, "Besides, his son is already named Osamu, but with a different character."

"Oh," Ryou suddenly remembered as he reached into his pocket, "Here's all the data I collected on my last field mission."

Knowing that Ryou's inter-world portal duties would prevent him from getting a "real job," Koushirou hired him onto his staff as a "field researcher."

"Thanks," Koushirou said graciously as the information popped up onto his screen. "Exactly what I needed."

"Ah, Ryou-kun, when did you get here?" asked Koushirou's wife, although she knew this was a kind of pointless question.

"Just a little while ago." The dimension hopper replied.

"Do you want something to eat? We have some leftovers in the refrigerator. I always make too much because my family doesn't eat." She offered, while glaring at her redheaded husband.

"Haruko-chan is becoming like you now?" Ryou asked Koushirou. "You should quit being a bad example." He looked back at Koushirou's wife who was giving him a grateful look. He would recognize it anywhere as being the same look the redhead's mother used to give him.

"I am kind of hungry," Koushirou admitted, finally realizing that he had been neglecting his stomach for a while. Just then, his phone rang. "Ah, hold on, though. It's an important call!" He answered the phone. "Moushi moushi?"

"Hey Koushirou!" a familiar voice greeted him.

"Ambassador Yagami-san!" Koushirou greeted a response, "What brings you to call me today?"

"Oh, come on, Koushirou-"

"I'm just kidding, Taichi-san. What's up?"

"I was wondering how the live television project was coming."

"Well, with only a week to spare, I'd say it's going well." Koushirou replied.

"Great! The Digimon in the Digital World are looking forward to seeing Yamato and Gabumon's land on Mars on live television at the same time that everyone on Earth sees it."

"I'm sure they wouldn't mind catching Mimi-chan's cooking show live either."

"It's great. Thanks Koushirou, for taking time off of your usual studies for this."

"Don't worry, Taichi-san, it's something I wanted to see happen anyway. Go ahead and tell everyone that everything should go according to plan."

"Thanks Koushirou! I'll let you know if they need a statement from you as well."

"I'll prepare one, just in case."

They said goodbyes and both hung up.

The microwave beeped.

"Good timing, don't you think?" remarked Koushirou's wife to Ryou.

"Excellent timing. Should I go retrieve your daughter?"

"Onegaishimasu!"

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