"Now, where was I?"
"Did you just teleport out to..." Renamon trailed off.
"Yes." I nodded. "Yes I did."
She stared at me, before shaking her head. "Nevermind. You were talking about how successful Hypnos was?"
"Indeed." I began. "And, to answer; I suppose it depends on your point of view. Hypnos is, as an organisation, meant to track Digimon as they try to enter this world, and also meant to try to prevent it."
"They don't seem to be doing a good job, then." Renamon commented.
"You'd be surprised, actually. For every Digimon that succeeds in getting through, there's several more that Hypnos succeeds in preventing from crossing." I shrugged. "And for the ones that do get through -at least in Japan-, Hypnos is there to capture, contain, or destroy."
"They don't seem to be very good at that." She said, slightly amused.
"Between you and Rika, Guilmon and Takato, and Terriermon and Henry?" I asked. "They don't usually get there in time. You're all just exceedingly quick at deleting the Digimon that do come through. You and Rika especially, though Takato and Guilmon have been giving you a run for your money in the speed department."
She twitched -slightly- before nodding. "Takato and Guilmon are surprisingly quick. Quicker than I first expected."
I agreed.
"Anyway, Hypnos has been, all things considered, fairly successful. Aside from the major fuckup several days ago, anyway."
Her head tilted towards the side, before snapping upwards. "That incident with Mihiramon... That was them?"
I nodded. "Yes. That particular mess came about thanks to a program called Juggernaut."
"Juggernaut..." Renamon looked down.
"Indeed." I looked up. "Juggernaut acts as something like a vortex, sucking in all Digimon and deleting them. Problem is, Juggernaut also weakens the barriers between dimensions, and isn't invulnerable to attack." I looked at her. "Thanks to the weakened barriers, Mihiramon was capable of passing through to this dimension, and thanks to his power, he was also capable of breaking Juggernaut."
Renamon nodded. "Ironic." She noted. "If it were not for their efforts, the Digimon they sought to prevent bio-emerging would not have been able to."
"Indeed." I nodded. "That's what happens when you let a vendetta get the best of you, though."
She looked at me, confused.
"Yamaki does not like Digimon." I paused. "Actually, that's an understatement. Yamaki really does not like Digimon." Not being able to put an inflection on the words was... rather unhelpful.
I looked up, and then to the left. "And... there goes Sinduramon."
"Sinduramon?" Renamon asked.
"The Digimon that Takato, Guilmon, Henry, and Terriermon were fighting."
"You can sense Digimon being deleted from here?"
"Only because I'm paying attention to them." I sated. "My ability to sense things is, as you may have guessed, utterly broken on almost every level, but I do have to be paying some form attention if it's sufficiently far away."
Save for Madoka and Sasuke, anyway. Madoka for reasons already stated, and Sasuke because he was carrying around a piece of My Darkness with him at nearly all times. I couldn't not notice what was going on around him.
"I see..."
So little things to do today.
"So, is there a reason why you're here?" Rika asked.
"Not particularly." My head tilted to the side. "Takato, Guilmon, Henry, and Terriermon are all out on that camping trip, and Calumon followed them. I find myself unsurprisingly bored."
Impmon followed them too, but I didn't particularly feel like mentioning that.
"Right." Rika nodded. "No other Digimon around?"
"None in Shinjuku." I noted. "Actually, most of Tokyo is fairly free of Digimon at the moment."
"Oh." Rika looked up. "What do you do when you're bored, anyway?"
"Try to find something to relieve that boredom. I usually fail, and just end up waiting for something interesting to happen."
"Hold on." Rika frowned. "What about sleeping?"
"I don't sleep Rika. I actually just plain don't get tired at all." I stated.
"Sounds... useful." She noted. "And boring."
"Oh, it is. Hell of a lot of free time when you don't get tired, but it comes with minor problem of finding things to do to keep you entertained."
"Can't you do magic?" She asked.
"I can. It's just not always useful in keeping me entertained." I noted. I held my hands up, flames springing into existence a moment later, wrapping around my gloved hands. "Eventually, even playing around with my magic will bore me." I let my left hand drop, the flames extinguishing. My right hand twisted, the flames that surrounded it falling into a ball above my palm.
A moment later, and a floating ball of water joined it, followed by a ball of ice, and then rock, and then a swirl of wind.
I concentrated for a moment, and a sparking arc of lightning joined them.
That particular trick was actually fairly hard to do, since that wasn't how electricity worked at all. But fuck the laws of physics, I'm a Heartless.
"I knew it." Rika stated.
"Hmm?"
"Aside from those bands that you gave Renamon and the others, you only ever use fire and teleportation." She smirked. "Why is that, anyway?"
"Eh..." I shrugged. "I won't lie and say that I have no small preference for fire. Fire is easy to control, hard to get rid of, and when it gets hot enough, burns everything."
Lightning was fast, sure, and it hurt like a motherfucker, but controlling it wasn't so easy. It also had the minor tendency to be loud as fuck.
Ice, on the hand, wasn't so useful. Defensively, it was great, offensively, not so much. Same with earth.
Wind was... much the same, really. Versatile, but it worked better in a support role rather than purely offensive or defensive.
"Right." Rika nodded. "What else can you do?"
I flicked the ball of fire at her, stopping it just in front of her.
She stared at it for a moment, before frowning. "It's not hot?"
"Indeed." I nodded. "Go ahead, touch it."
She looked at me like I said something crazy, but she shook her head and reached out, quickly poking it before withdrawing her finger.
Her eyes widened, and she poked it again, before cupping it in her hand.
"It's my fire, Rika. It will not burn anything I do not want it to." I summoned another ball of fire, letting it drop to the ground.
The flames spread over the wooden floor like liquid, splashing out in every direction- but not burning anything, utterly heatless.
A moment later, the flames on the floor winked out, alongside all the other elements above my hand. The ball of fire that Rika was holding, however, did not.
She tossed the ball up in the air, and it came back down, splaying over her palm and dripping to the ground. I extinguished the flames as they did, shortly leaving them entirely gone.
"Bored." She stated. "How can you get bored when you can do things like that?"
"Several hours of doing nothing but that tends to make the sense of wonder wear off fairly quickly."
That amazed look on people's faces as they saw what I could do, however, never got old.