Jayr POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  The few days after the events that ended up with Guilmon's evolution in Growmon were quite peaceful, at least for the current Digimon Tamers Universe's standard, but all that is quickly going to ge as I perceive through my ic Awarehat a new Digimon Realized in this world, and what is even more ing is that just like Devidramon, this Digimon also moved out of its Digital Field and it is now silently stalking its prey, Makino Ruki, Renamon's Tamer.

  Sensing that, I sigh and mutter, "This is clearly the start of a series of braests for the young Tamers that will allow them to grow closer to their Digimon Partners and bee strong enough to face what is about to e..."

  While I'm saying that, I focus my ic Awareness on Ruki and "see" that she suddenly perceives the presence of that Digimon who is stalking her, but wheurns around she doesn't see anyone as the Digimon has already hidden its preseheurns back to tih her day but bees surprised as she sees Culumon standing in front of her.

  The cute little Digimon starts to chase after her with the iion of pying and jumps into her arms, at the same time, Ruki's mother appears and begins describing her day as Ruki tries to leave.

  After Ruki finally gets away from her mother, she chases off Culumon but agaialking Digimon tries to make its move on her, but its movement and cold presence agai off Ruki who calls out her partner, making the Digimon once agaireat just before Renamon appears in front of her.

  Perceiving the malicious, cold, and somewhat familiar presence of the Digimon haunting Ruki, I immediately realize its identity, 'That Digimon is clearly Ice Devimon, an Adult Level Digimon. A variant of the Devimon species. Luckily this particur individual is nothing like the Devimon my Digimon faced in Italy. This Ice Devimon while strohan an average Adult Level, is nothing pared to that Devimon who was almost as strong as a Perfect Level in pure power, the only reason it didn't evolve to the Perfect Level was that Culumon was here in Japan log out his ce of evolution.'

  While I'm thinking that, Ruki returns home and she once again feels Ice Devimon's presenearby as it tio stalk her, and scared, she rushes into her room and calls out for Renamon asking to check for any hostile presence.

  Inside her room, Renamon says that it doesn't sense anything and tries to reassure her Tamer by promising to alrotect her, but Ruki, unnerved by IceDevimon's stant harassment in addition to all the doubts and insecurities she is holding, gets angry, saying she didn't need ao protect her and leaves.

  Ruki starts to aimlessly walk around to cool her head and in the end, she finds herself in the subway system.

  Ohere, Ruki is overe by the cold and malicious presence of Ice Devimon as the Digimon is now closer than ever, she turns around. Still, this time, she catches a glimpse of Ice Devimon's figure and chases it, but then the Digimon grabs her, transp her to the frozen top of a building, which is the pce where it first Realized and where the Digital Field ected to it is located.

  On top of that building Ice Devimon reveals itself, ing his wings around Ruki, and telling her how well the frozen Digital Field suits her.

  The Digimon tinues on, saying that it was the only one who uood her and that they were destio be Partners, it then shows Ruki its colle of frozen Digimon that it had fought as a way of demonstrating its power to her.

  Meanwhile, I sehat Takato, Jainliang, Terriermon, and Guilmon are rag toward the frozen building, knowing that it is a Digital Field.

  At the same time, Ruki es out of her trance, and thanks to Ice Devimon's dispy of all its victims she begins to fully realize that Digimon were not meant for just fighting and that she would never let Renamon bee what IceDevimon had, a monster.

  She begins to fight back, refusing to be the Digimon's Tamer and in respohe frozen Fallen Angel Digimon sends off a signal for Renamon so that it could prove to Ruki who was the stro.

  Quickly after that, Takato, Jainliang, and their Digimon arrive in the building and use the Digimon Analyzer fun of the D-Ark to discover that the Digimon they are now fag is Ice Devimon, an Adult Level.

  At the same time, Guilmon and Terriermon start to rush toward the Digimon, but befuilmon and Terriermon get even a sia, Ice Devimon freezes both of them with apparent ease.

  Renamon arrives soon after and a fight ences between it and Ice Devimon, but Renamon is easily defeated, which makes Ruki ed about her Digimon Partner so much that her emotion toward Renamon allows the Digimon to evolve in Kyubimon, with the help of a nearby Culumon, of course, but even as Kyubimon it is defeated by Ice Devimon.

  Meanwhile, Jianliang uses the Infting Space!! card on Terriermon which makes Terriermon infte and expand in size enough to break both himself and Guilmon out of Ice Devimon's ice.

  At the same time, Takato uses the bination of High-Speed Plug-In B and White Wings on Guilmon, which allows the Digimon to grab hold of Ice Devimon, fly up to the ceiling, and sm its head through the roof and as Guilmon falls back down, he destroys Ice Devimon with Fireball and loads its data.

  After the battle, the Digital Field fades away, but Ruki shocked by the revetion of how simir she and Renamon acted to Ice Devimon, suddenly annouhat she hates Digimon, and then she walks away, and Kyubimon follows suit, but iher dire, fusing Takato.

  Sensing this se, I 't help but shake my head while muttering, "In the end, despite my as the temporary split between Ruki and Renamon still happened... Well, it isn't all that bad that it happened, some retionships do need some form of break and separation to actually grow stronger and closer than ever before. I know it best as I personally experienced something simir to that with Seika many years ago and sihen our retionship has been strohan ever. I truly 't imagine how much emptier my life would have been without her..."

  After saying that, I focus ba cooking dinner for us, then after watg another few episodes of Digimon Adventure 02 with my Digimon Partners and Impmon, they all go to their rooms to sleep and I teleport bay home universe to che the kids and spend some lovely time with my lovers.

  Yamaki Mitsuo POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  I'm standing in the dome that funs as the aer of the Hypnanization as I hear Onodera Megumi's report about the current i, "We've lost it! The Gigabit Tracer 't catch up to it." which is followed by Reika who adds, "We are too te, it's Realizing!"

  Hearing that, I immediately remembered the material damages caused by the st i when one of those abominations Realized in the Real World and all the work we had to do to ehat the media and the public didn't learn about the dangers of the work and the Wild Oo the point that we had to shut down all the transmission systems in the whole city causing quite a bit of panid chaos, but it was still nothing pared to what would have happened if the existence of the Wild Ones was revealed.

  At the same time as I remember all that, I still focus on the current situation and immediately issue my and, "We 't allow that! Launch Yuggoth!" while thinking, 'After the successful impromptu field trial of Yuggoth against the anomaly, the gover fully allowed its use and thanks to that, we were able to stop aroy many more Wild Ones before they realized, unfortunately, Yuggoth isn't perfect yet and some of those abominations were still able to slip by from time to time, that's why I'm already designing a new more powerful and definitive program that will be able to capture and eliminate all these abominations, I already have the basic framework for it... It will be the definitive on against the Wild Ones, Shaggai!'

  While I'm thinking that, Reika issues her s, "The Wild One is already in the Realizing process. Exeg Yuggoth at this time could affect the Real World as well!"

  Hearing that, I immediately expin, "If the Wild One appears in this world, it will cause a lot of damage anyway. Do it!" in response, Reika nods and decres, "Exeg, Yuggoth!"

  Soon I look up at the dome ahe visual representation of the current situation as the executed Yuggoth is unched and starts to track after the Wild One, followed by Reika's voice that says, "Yuggoth has caught the Wild One."

  Hearing that, and seeing that the program is locked on the Wild One, I immediately and, "Destroy it without leaving a sie behind!"

  I watch as Yuggoth unches what is essentially a bst of virtual energy to strike ae the Wild O the same time, Reika reports, "The Wild One has been eliminated."

  Hearing that, I rex a little as I issue my and, "Check to see what effects it had on the Real World at once. Also, I want to know the specifi where it was deleted."

  While waiting for Reika and Megumi to plete my orders and issue their reports, I look at the ss to check the various analyses of this i while muttering, "No matter how much it pretends to be a living creature, it is nothing but work trash."

  But just as I'm about to focus on the new data, I hear a strange deep voice that says, "F-Fiends... I will get my vengean you..."

  Hearing that, I instantly turn around, but then I quickly notice that it seems that no one else heard that voice as they are all fog on their work, and a little shaken I 't help but think, 'Did that actually happen? Am I just too tired? If not... was that... the Wild One? What is going on here...?'

  Jayr POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  A new day started, and after a normal and peaceful m passed by, ign Impm to prank Wormmon but failing and ending up hanging from his feet by Wormmon's thread.

  But at the start of the afternoon, while grading the 6th grades' homework, I use my ic Awareo che the kids and the overall situation.

  Takato is pying a game with Hirokazu aa with the Digital Monsters Card Game and he evehe same bo he used on Ice Devimon and 't wait for anht, so he use it again.

  But at the same time, a new Digimoed i is about to happen as a Digimon is trying to Realize in this world, right in the middle of a busy street, and "tally" Jianliang and Terriermon are also nearby with Terriermoing ready to fight, but Jainling doesn't let Terriermon go fight as he doesn't want Terriermon to fight anymore.

  While Jianliang is holding Terriermon back, the Hypnanization makes its move to defeat the Digimon using Yuggoth, but Yuggoth isn't able to fully delete the Digimon who swears revenge as it retreats to recover from the damage it received.

  After that little i, the rest of the day passed without any other problems, and I focused ba grading my students' homework, after that, I returned bae ahrough the usual routine.

  In the evening, I focus on the young Tamers to briefly check their situation and sehat Jianliang is actually talking with Renamon while Ruki seems tle with the aftermath of the battle against Ice Devimon and the realization that Digimoual living beings as she threw her cards and D-Ark irash of her room while still deg her hate fimon as she believes that they all want to use her simply to further evolve, and Takato, well, he is already peacefully sleeping.

  After quickly firming their status, I go into the training area of my Soulbouory and start to train to ehat none of my skills and abilities grow rusty.

  The day passes just like the previous o least in the m, but, as soon as school ends, I focus a little on the young Tamers and sehat Takato is having a rematch with Hirokazu.

  Still, this time Hirokazu easily defeats Takato, upsetting the young Tamer who then decides to show off and introduce Guilmon to Hirokazu ao. Still, the two run away screaming when Guilmon sneezes.

  Soon after that, yesterday's Digimon once again tries to Realize in this world, and again Hypnos tries to prevent that by attag the Digimon with Yuggoth, but this time, ready for Hypnos' attack, the Digimoroys Yuggoth and successfully Realize in the middle of the same street where it starts to randomly attay human in sight, luckily without actually harming any of them yet as a certain benevolent God made sure to use his Spiral o to push and he people involved out of harm's way.

  At the same time, I perceive that Guilmon and Takato are quickly heading toward the Digimon's location as very likely Guilmon ses presence, and ohey reach the location they don't hesitate and start to fight the Digimon.

  But even with Takato's help, Guilmon is no match for the Digimon, even more so as Takato is way too obsessed with the bo he used against Ice Devimon so much that it tio spam that in any situation with almost catastrophic results.

  Meanwhile, Jianliang and Terriermain "tally" nearby as fate tio meddle with the kids, but Jianlinag refuses to interveil a little girl chases her balloon into the Digital Field and he and Terriermon chase after her, and when Musyamon tries to kill the little girl, Jianliang orders Terriermon to attabsp;

  Terriermon saves the girl and evolves into Galgomon when Jianlinag orders him to destroy the Digimon.

  Luckily Galgomon has plete trol of himself this time and easily destroys Musyamon and absorbs his data.

  At the same time, Guilmorieves the little girl's balloon, and they returo her mother, who never even noticed she was gone for a few moments.

  After they leave the girl with her mother, Jainliang apologizes to Galgomon f to keep him from fighting, as he now realizes that some battles are worth fighting, then as Takato, Jianliang, Guilmon, and Galgomon run off, Yamaki, who rushed over to do something about the situation after his program Yuggoth failed, watches from nearby.

  Ohey all safely return home, I do not focus on them anymore and simply tih my day, I train with my Digimon and Impmon, cook dinner, and tio wate episodes of Digimon Adventure 02 enjoying the start of Ken's redemption arc with his loyal Wormmon, who is now able to evolve in Stingmon, by his side, and after that, we all go to bed a.

  I wake up the m very early as usual and quickly start my m routine, and after that, I head to the Yodobashi Elementary School to start my day at work, today is quite the "heavy" one pared to the usual ones as I have a total of six csses to teach.

  After school, as I am heading bae on my bike, I sehree Digimon realizing in Shinjuku tral Park but then I also sehe presence of Renamon there who start to fight them as Jianliang, Ruki, Culumon, and Terriermon watch from the distance, but then Ruki runs away followed by Culumon as Renamoroys and uploads them without any help from her and this only further strengthens Renamon beliefs that even without Ruki it is still strong while Ruki starts to believe that Renamon only needed her to evolve and didn't actually care about her.

  After the battle between Renamon and those three Digimon, I arrive home and open a portal to my Soulbouory and quickly after that, Impmon, V-mon, Wormmon, Patamon, and Bidi walk out and together, we head to the training area in my house to start our usual training.

  Watg my Digimon and Impmon sparring, I nod while thinking, 'They have all improved a lot... Even more so, V-mon, Wormmon, and Patamon, both their bodies and Digicores became fully attuo their Adult Level, in fact, they easily evolve to their Adult Level permaly if they desire to, this means that they are fully ready to evolve to the Perfect Level... well, actually, V-mon and Wormmon could evolve to their Perfect Level much sooner as I fuse them into one single powerful Perfect Level Digimon. As XV-mon and Stingmon Jogress Evole into both Paildramon or Dinobeemon depending on who domihe Jogress.'

  While I'm thinking that, I focus for a moment on Takato and Jianliang who are walking home as I sense someone approag them and fog on that individual, I realize that it is Yamaki roaches them and warns them to stop pying their "game".

  But soon Juri arrives which makes Yamaki run away as he doesn't want to reveal himself, even more so because he is an unfamiliar 30-something-year-old man talking to a pair of 10-year-old kids alone which doesn't give the best impression.

  Actually, if it wasn't for the fact that the man actually warhem out of goodwill because he genuely feels that the Digimon are seriously dangerous and are probably trying to exploit the kids and harm them, I would have smitten him the instant he approached them.

  As Jianliang tries to chase after Yamaki, Juri, who has overheard an argumeween Takato, Hirokazu aa about Guilmon approaches Takato and asks to see him and of course, Takatets about Yamaki and introduces his crush to his Digimon Partner and Juri takes it a lot better than Hirokazu aa.

  I suddenly stop fog on them as I sense Renamon quickly approag my house, it is clear that the fox Digimon is using the presenpmon, V-mon, Wormmon, and Patamon to its advantage so that it lo this location.

  I immediately ect the dots and realize the reason behind Renamon's as, 'The reason is quite obvious sidering that since Renamon and Ruki drifted away the fox Digimon started to question itself and its previous belief to the point that Renamon even asked Jianliang and Terriermon for their opinions. So it is very likely that Renamon wants to talk to us about its doubts too.'

  While I'm thinking that, I also warn Impmon, V-mon, Wormmon, and Patamon about uest and then calmly walk out of my home to ihe fox Digimon inside.

  I operance door of my home and at the exact same time, Renamon gracefully nds in front of me, and with a reassuring smile, I ihe fused Digimon, "Wele to my home, Renamon. Please e in, there is o talk here in the open when we fortably do the same inside."

  In response, Renamon silently nods before it follows after me as I lead the way toward the living room where my Digimon Partners and Impmon are already waiting for us.

  Onside, Wormmon, V-mon, and Patamon cheerfully greet Renamon while Impmon simply snorts, then the fox Digimo walk around the issue and directly asks, "What does having a partner mean to us Digimon?"

  In his usual frontational style, Impmon quickly answers, "Nothing at all. Thinking about that in the first pce is a waste of time. Humans are selfish creatures. I'd never, ever let one of them try to keep me on a leash- Ouch!"

  But just before Impmon tih his tough limon act, V-mon sps him on the head and says, "Do not listen to this poser. He himself still doesn't uand very well what it means for a Digimon having a partner." followed by Patamon who nods and expin, "The poor Impmon ended up with parthat are way too immature to actually uand and form a true bond with him yet. But despite that both Impmon and his human partners actually care and worry for each other."

  Hearing that, Impmon quickly pins, "Hey! There is no way that I still care about Makoto and Ai! For sure I don't che them from time to time! I just enjoy seeing how pathetic they are!" making Wormmon, V-mon, and Patamon ent in perfect sync, """Sure.""" while Renamon calmly looks at Impmon and mutters, "I see..."

  Upset, Impmon excims while waving his finger around point at everyone in the room, "What's up with that sure!? What do you mean you see!? What the hell did you figure out from that?! Damn it! That "I know everything and you don't" face of yours really pisses me off!"

  At this point, Wormmon unches a small thread that attaches itself to Impmon's mouth shutting him up before he looks at Renamon and calmly says, "The ao your question both be simple and plex at the same time, depending on who you ask. After all, any Digimon have its own interpretation of what it means to have a Partner. But personally, I'd like to think that having a Partner pletes Digimon in a way we didn't even know we needed before. It isn't simply a matter of evolution, it is more than simple friendship, it is a bond that transds ventional links between living beings."

  V-mon nods and adds, "A Tamer will always fight by our side no matter what difficulties we are fag helping us no matter the cost and iurn we Digimon do the same. I always trust the fact that Jayr will be there to support me no matter how close or distant he is. And I will always be by his side no matter what tries to keep us apart." followed by Patamon who says, "The Tamer and the Digimon they partner up have a close e and their emotions strengthen each other to the point that the liween Digimon Partner and Tamer begins to blur. A Tamer will feel their Digimon Partner's emotions, as well as any physical pain that they endure sharing the burden of our battles and emp us with their energies allowing us to break our previous limits and grow even stronger."

  Hearing that, Renamon narrows its eyes and stands in silence for a few moments before it nods and says, "Thanks for answering my question... You gave me a lot to think about. I'm sorry for disturbing you."

  After saying that, Renamon turns around and starts to walk out of the room, and I follow after it to see her to the door, once Renamon steps out of the house, just as it is about to leave, I say, "Give Ruki a little bit more time. She is just as fused as you, but I clearly feel that she truly cares for you from the bottom of her heart, the fact that you were able to evolve in the first pce is clear proof of that. Just wait a little bit and she will prove it to you."

  Hearing that, Renamon nods and mutter, "Thanks..." before it jumps away heading somewhere peaceful to clear its head.

  Later the day a Harpymon Realizes in Shinjuku tral Part and Renamon heads there to fight it, meanwhile, sensing that, I also head to that location to check the situation.

  At the same time, I sehat Culumon is trying to get Ruki to look at her D-Ark that is reag to the battle and while she initially refuses, she finally relents and es.

  Ruki arrives just in time to see Harpymon being downed by Renamon's rush of punches in JoJo's style but then Renamon stops as it is still questioning itself, which leaves the fox Digimoo Harpymon's ter-attack making Renamon fall in danger.

  At the same time, Ruki realizes she left her cards at home, so she instinctively picks up a sharp stick, rushes toward Harpymon, and stabs the Digimon in the back with the stick, saving Renamon.

  Harpymon turns on Ruki, but seeiamer in danger causes Renamon to evolve to Kyubimon who easily destroys Harpymon.

  However, Kyubimo absorb her Data and seeing that, Ruki asks, "Aren't you going to load it?" but Kyubimon calmly replies, "No." making the young girl ask, "Why not?"

  Kyubimon then answers, "I don't o." in respoo that Ruki questions, "Don't o?" making Kyubimo, "I don't o... because I have you, Ruki." which surprises the young Tamer.

  After saying that, Kyubimon moves closer and says, "You saved me, Ruki." making Ruki turn her gaze away and say, " I couldn't help it. We're partners."

  This time it is Kyubimon who asks, "You couldn't help it?" making Ruki add, "You protected me, too, Kyubimon."

  In response, Kyubimon decres, "Because we're partners. Yes. I couldn't help it. I couldn't leave it be."

  At this point, Ruki giggle and says, "We couldn't help it... I guess that's all there is to it."

  Seeing this se I 't help myself but ent, "Man! How awkard those two be? But I guess the two have madeup and finally bond as true partners."

  Odyin