For Digimon Game/Manga Flash Bingo 031 - prompt: divide
6. A Piece of Them
Why not go?
The adults would want him to come quietly, play along, as children were supposed to do. As minors ought to. But he never has before.
(What good's that done ya?)
He's relied on his instincts for so long, and they've kept him alive all these years. Why stop now?
Why not do what they want to do? Because Nokia would do that, because they would do that. Because Aiba was kind and stupid and weak and did not understand-
because he didn't want to lose. He couldn't lose. Not now. Not like this. This was his fight. The adults wouldn't dare be able to take it. Not like this. Never again.
He just had to keep saying it until he believed it. Until it became true. When Infermon attacked and nearly shattered a pile of papers and the window, he laughed and laughed. HE was the villain now (always was) he could get away with doing that.
(No, I'm good actually, you're very good, but never mind that. There's no safety in being good. None in being bad either.)
He thinks that he's so much more than he is.
He's completely wrong.