Elsewhere, deep with in the Dark Area of the Digital World, Barbamon and Lucemon watched the girl appear and her partner defeat their Kimeramon, with vested interest.

"It would seem that your little triple-DigiCore experiment has failed, lord of Pride," Barbamon observed with some amusement to the smirking toga-clad boy. Instead of losing his temper, as Barbamon had come to expect whenever a shortcoming or flaw of his was pointed out, he simply gave a curious look.

"Whatever do you mean, lord of Greed?" He smiled with feigned innocence. "Did you not witness how much damage it could regenerate from? I wonder how many fatal injuries it sustained before it was too much? A thousand? Ten-thousand? A hundred-thousand? A million, perhaps, or maybe even billions..."

"I witnessed," He smirked. "However, the extent of it's regenerative capabilities was already determined prior to your little field-test."

Lucemon's reply was cut off by Barbamon. "Now, I have a few questions regarding that Kimeramon. You are aware of our agreement with the Sovereigns and Yggdrasil? That we would completely annihilate any Kimeramon or Machinedramon we come across, to such an extent that they neither become Digi-Eggs, or reach our sanctum?" He glared at the boy.

"Yes, I am aware," He dismissively spoke, his tone, calm and unconcerned with the implied threat. "And I do not care."

"I suggest you start to do so," The Demon Lords of pride and greed felt, heard and saw Leviamon's arrival. "I doubt you would wish to face both the Sovereigns, their Devas, the Royal Knights and your fellow Demon Lords, simply because of your own foolishness."

That did it, Barbamon noted. Lucemon's smirk vanished almost instantly. "I suggest you hold your tongue, Leviamon."

"In any case," Barbamon interjected. "Perhaps we should focus more on the newcomer? We know what the Digidestined are capable of, while the girl and her Lopmon are relatively unknown quantities."

He took their silence as agreement. "I will continue my experiments regarding regenerating Digimon," Lucemon smirked, earning the angel bewildered looks from both of them, who had thought that he was done with the idea. "Perhaps four or five, on a IceDevimon or Nanimon..." He mumbled, deep in thought, as he faded out.

"Why, precisely, is Lucemon attempting to create regenerating Digimon?" Leviamon asked. "They are powerful, certainly, but we only have so many Digimon to send out, and I doubt that those monstrosities are as indestructible as he claims."

"And well you might," Barbamon responded. "I have just witnessed a Kimeramon he granted such power be destroyed, under strange circumstances indeed..."

"A Kimeramon!?" Leviamon exclaimed, shocked. "But, the edict-! No matter... What did you mean, 'strange circumstances'?"

"I mean, that a Digidestined and her partner arrived from another universe, and dispatched thirteen of the twenty-five Digimon we sent to the real world, using a strange pair of human trading-cards, it seemed," He explained. Leviamon shook his head in annoyance, wondering why the Demon Lord of greed saw fit to give him the run-around.

"Tell me what happened!" Leviamon demanded. If Barbamon was trying to incite his ire with that smug look... He was succeeding.

"I've told you, Leviamon; a Digidestined and her partner defeated thirteen of them," Leviamon repeated.

"You cannot be serious," Leviamon sneered. "What sort of Champion or Ultimate could be-" Before he could finish talking, Barbamon cut him off

"It was a Mega-Level Digimon; Cherubimon, in its virus-attribute no less..."

"Impossible! Among the twelve japanese Digidestined, they only have access to three separate Mega-Level Digimon, and across the globe, the humans have less than ten Mega-Digimon to defend them. You mean to tell me that someone that powerful showed up out of nowhere?" Leviamon said incredulously, before the later part of his statement registered in his mind. "A CHERUBIMON!? ONE OF THE GREAT ANGELS?!"

"Indeed..." Barbamon drily muttered. "We will have to assemble the Demon Lords and revise our plans to take these two in account."