I wandered around the city, doing my best to escape notice. Mostly, that meant sticking to rooftops and being invisible, which, as far as things went, was... really, really effective actually. So rarely did people look up, and against bright blue skies?
What little distortion I gave off when I was invisible was just about impossible to notice anyway. A wonderful thing, so wonderful in fact that it occasionally even led to Chunin missing my presence.
Not that I got much opportunity to practise it.
As I went around the city, I couldn't help but notice the... distinct lack of anything interesting going on.
At all.
Shinjuku is being completely normal. There are no signs of any Digimon around, anywhere.
That is, as one might imagine, really unhelpful.
Most of the day passed like the night. Slowly, boring, and with nothing interesting happening.
It wasn't until the evening when something actually happened.
Something that I didn't actually immediately notice. Mostly because I was only really paying attention to this dimension, and not any of the others.
It got my attention real quick, however. A giant pillar of light rising into the sky, coupled with sensing a Heart breach the barriers between dimensions tends to do that.
Dear god.
Takato is completely motherfucking adorable.
"Hiii?"
And Guilmon, too.
"This is the coolest..." Takato broke out into a smile, laughing. "I really created you. And you're mine. I can't believe it, my own real life Digimon! Hi, Guilmon!"
Takato, mildly shakily, reached up, his hands hovering just in front of Guilmon's head, who leaned forwards, his eyes closing, all but nuzzling against Takato, letting out a cute growl/purr.
Dawwww.
Guilmon leaned closer, Takato's laughter growing, the two sharing a hug.
My non-existent heart is about to burst out of my chest, because this is just so fucking adorable.
Guilmon is either surprisingly stealthy, or the power of 'it's not my problem' is stronger than I thought.
Probably the latter, as I wouldn't associate the giant bright red and white dinosaur hiding in a box with stealth any time soon.
Or ever, for that matter, unless it was a particularly interesting brand of Malfeas Stealth.
Still, the both of them managed to get a fair way across Shinjuku, travelling from the place he emerged, to Takato's house.
Which was good, because I now knew where Takato lived.
... Aaaand in the context of a mysterious cloaked figure talking about about a 10 year old boy, that sounded so wrong.
Night came by quickly. Which is... kind of blatantly obvious, since it was nearly night time when Takato had met Guilmon.
Either way, the two weren't doing anything interesting, and if I remembered correctly, Rika and Renamon were going to go murder a Digimon in a park not too far from their house.
So, too the park I went.
The park, as befitting of the time, was almost completely empty; save a young couple, an adorable little girl that I recognized as Rika, and, up in the trees, a bipedal yellow fox.
I... kind of wondered what Rika was already doing in the park this late at night, but I suppose that since Renamon is watching over her, she doesn't exactly have anything to fear from the average Human.
Meh.
Either way, the Digimon popped up, accompanied by a burst of light and a cloud, which promptly sent Rika-
Di-did she just put her shades on?
At night?
Dear god.
I followed her into the Digital Field, watching as she stopped, taking her shades off with one hand, striking a pose -back straight, arms crossed-, and letting the shades hang out to the side.
She's trying so hard to look cool.
And the only thing it's doing is making her even more adorable.
My eyes traced a path to Renamon, who was currently in the process of trolling fighting against a Goblimon.
Well, actually, she was baiting and taunting it, using her superior speed and agility to strike at it without harm to herself.
Which... was a very sensible plan of attack, I will admit. I kind of wondered whether it had been Rika or Renamon who'd thought it up in the first place.
Could be both. Renamon was fairly sensible, and Rika probably wasn't called the Digimon Queen for nothing.
Either way, it wasn't actually working too well.
"He's not losing strength, Rika."
"Yeah, this is boring." Rika stated, sounding oddly petulant. Idly, she pulled out a stack of cards. "Let's see, which one?"
"Err, hello?" A voice spoke up from behind me, sounding young and childish.
I turned around, seeing nothing, before looking down to see...
Dear god that is adorable.
Calumon. The cute white little ball of fluff.
And also the source of digivolution, containing immense power.
I considered the first part more important, currently.
"Hello there." I spoke, nodding at it, a gesture that was only barely visible.
"You talk funny." Calumon said, confusion on his face, and in his Heart.
A Heart which, I couldn't help but notice, showed absolutely nothing about his true nature.
"So I have been told." My head tilted to the side, though the gesture was, again, barely visible. "Who are you, if you do not mind me asking?"
"I'm Calumon!" He smiled, which was very, very cute.
What is it with this World and adorable or cute things?
"Who are you?"
"You may call me Drich."
"You have a funny name." Calumon informed me, still smiling.
"So I have been told."
"Do you want to play a game?"
I looked back at Rika and Renamon, noting that Renamon was currently in the process of absorbing her opponent's data. I idly wondered exactly how many the pair had killed and absorbed.
"Oh, why not? What do you have in mind?"