Time did as time does, and passed.
The school trip came up in short order, and I went and got Guilmon to take to Takato when he arrived.
Nice and simple.
"Hello."
Renamon twitched, turning her head to look at me. "Hello." She greeted.
I moved over, sitting next to her.
She looked forwards, her eyes focussed on the school building in front of us. Focussed on one part of the building in particular, actually; a room that I could see Rika's Heart inside of.
"You don't actually do much during the day, do you?" I asked.
"There is not much to do." She responded.
"Indeed." I nodded. "No Digimon come during school hours, it seems." I paused. "Well, not in Tokyo anyway."
Her head tilted to the side. "I noticed that. And what did you mean by 'not in Tokyo'?"
"Exactly what I said. There are plenty of Digimon trying to get through into this world, and though not all of them succeed, those that do don't always bio-emerge in Tokyo." Yamaki's organisation did do quite a bit of good work when it came to preventing Digimon from crossing over.
Shame that the recent fuck up had been such a massive one.
Renamon nodded. "Who is it that deals with them?"
"Hmm?"
"The other Digimon that appear around the world." She elaborated. "There are never any reports about them, nor is there ever any reports on the destruction they should be causing. Something or someone must be dealing with them."
"Indeed." I nodded. "You're actually already aware of one of the people responsible for making sure that Digimon don't cause any trouble and their existence isn't leaked."
She looked at me, confused, before her eyes widened. "Mitsuo Yamaki?"
"Among others, yes." My head tilted to the side. "Mitsuo Yamaki is in charge of an organisation known as Hypnos, which is the group more or less responsible for Digimon that appear in Japan."
"In Japan? What about the rest of the world?" Renamon asked.
"That's actually something I don't know myself." I admitted. "Hypnos is a government agency in Japan, but I'm not sure what other organisations exist with a similar goal. Or, indeed, if they exist at all."
Renamon slowly nodded. "So, you don't know everything."
"Now, wherever did you get that impression?"
"You." Renamon stated. "You seem to know a lot more than you really should, most times."
"True enough." I nodded.
"This organisation..." She began, after a few moments of remaining silent. "How successful are they?"
"That's... a fairly odd question to ask." I noted. "A good one, but odd."
My head tilted to the side.
"Hypnos is, all things considered-"
I paused. " Actually, hold that thought." I looked to the left.
"What is it?"
"Ah... just a Digimon crossing over." I said.
She tensed.
"Not in Shinjuku, Renamon. This one's a bit further away than that."
She relaxed- slightly.
"Hold on for a moment, I'm just going to go warn Takato, Guilmon, Henry, and Terriermon about it."
"-How dangerous could one tiny little Digimon be?"
"Please tell me that you didn't just say that, Takato."
Takato and Henry spun around, to find me standing right behind them.
Guilmon, Terriermon and Calumon, displaying both an impressive flexibility and balance, all looked in my direction, smiling.
Impressive flexibility and balance; because all three were arranged in a totem pole. Guilmon was balanced on railing of the bridge, one arm held out to the side. Terriermon was balanced on top of Guilmon's foot, one ear propping him up, and the other ear splayed out to the side- much like Guilmon's arm. Standing on Terriermon's foot was Calumon, who held out one of his short legs to the side.
"Sorry to break up the fun, you three, but you might want to get serious for a moment."
"But it's a tiny Digimon, how bad could it be?" Henry asked.
"That depends. How bad does Ultimate-level Deva sound to you?" I asked.
The two froze. To the side, and recognizing the suddenly serious atmosphere, Calumon hopped off Terriermon, who then flipped to the side, allowing Guilmon to right himself.
"Suddenly seems a lot more dangerous, doesn't it?"
"A Deva?" Henry asked, his voice slightly wavering.
I nodded. "Take that as a warning, Henry. Just because something is small doesn't mean that it isn't dangerous." I paused. "In fact, in my experience, the most dangerous things in existence are often fairly small." Most varieties of Heartless, for example. Small- but they were capable of ending Worlds. "Especially when you're talking about Digimon." I said. "Take Guilmon for example. He's fairly small as far as Digimon go, but he's capable of causing a lot more destruction than his size implies. Same goes for Terriermon."
He nodded. "Kind of feel stupid now."
"Ah, cheer up. You made a mistake. Learn from it, and you'll be fine."
"What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Terriermon leapt onto Henry's head. "Better stop him before he can cause any damage."
"Eh..."
"What is it?" Takato asked.
"The Digimon you're going to face is known as Sinduramon." I stated. "As far as things go, he's not actually all that strong. Starting off, anyway."
"Starting off?"
"Sinduramon is a fairly unique Digimon, all said. He's small and not that strong for an ultimate, but he's capable of absorbing electricity and using that to increase both his strength and his size." I noted. "Nevertheless, right now, he's pretty weak, so you won't have too hard a time."
"'You?' You're not coming with us?" Takato asked.
"I'm confident in your ability to handle Sinduramon, considering that he's weak at the moment, and both Guilmon and Terriermon can get up to Ultimate more or less on a whim." I nodded. "Go have fun, you deserve it."
I, meanwhile, will be going back to my conversation with Renamon.