Case 11 - Beware of the new Amanogawa High student!!
[AO3 version]
It had been a while since the 02 group had gotten a call from Inspector Fujieda. Apparently their capers with Arsenemon had turned less frequent. But that one from that night they just had settled that they would stop him from gathering the pieces of the ‘forbidden Digimental’ and recover the stolen ones.
(Ok, this was more of a Daisuke-only obsession than anything…)
“WAIT THERE, ARSENEMON!!” XV-mon screamed, while trying to catch up with the phantom thief. Daisuke was on his back, holding on the digimon’s neck.
“Non non, I have to go now” Arsenemon smiled, and then with a snap of fingers and a cloud of smoke… he vanished, “Adieu, Chosen Children~”
The Smoke was dispersed and Daisuke looked around with a pair of binoculars. No signal about Arsenemon!! Dang it!!
“He escaped!!” Daisuke growled, “Ugh, we were THIS close this time!!”
“Daisuke--” XV-mon was about to say something, but then his stomach growled, “... I’m hungry…”
“Alright…” Daisuke frowned, and with a sigh he said “Let’s go back and eat dinner…”
Ken spent the entire night thinking about the time he and the group discovered that the mysterious broken gems stolen by Arsenemon were… pieces of a Digimental. But not a regular Digimental, and yes a forbidden one.
He turned the computer on and started checking his old Kaiser-era tools, in order to check if he ever had that information before. He checked every archive and transcription of old digimoji materials like books, scrolls, walls, etc…
… Enough to fall asleep on the keyboard until morning.
One of the pages had the results of the time he had begun studying the Digimentals in order to counter Daisuke and the others’ powers, but he had given up on securing those objects before his former rivals.
“Ken-chan?”
In the morning, the sunlight hit the balcony’s glass and he was still there, sleeping on the keyboard. Wormmon Armor-evolved into Pucchiemon and went to wake Ken up.
“Ken-chan?” Pucchiemon gently shook Ken by the shoulder, “Wake up, you will get late for school…!”
“Uh… W-what!?” Ken opened his eyes, “Pucchiemon?”
“Hurry up, you will be late for school!!”
“Aa-ah!! Right, the school!!” He panicked for a second, then got up from the chair and went to change into his school uniform.
Pucchiemon looked at the computer next and realized there was something in Ken’s research, so he saved the info on an email and sent it to Miyako. Ken returned dressed for school and looked at Pucchiemon on the computer, “Huh, what did you do…?”
“Oh! I copied the part you highlighted from your documents and sent it to Miyako-san! If that's okay, right?”
“Ah, thanks for the help Pucchiemon” Ken smiled and gave the tiny fairy digimon a pat, “But why did you evolve into this form?”
“I think any other alternative would be bad for using the computer, hehe” Pucchiemon chuckled awkwardly. Ken imagined Stingmon’s hands would be too big and powerful for a computer, and he wouldn’t fit inside the room either…
“CRAP, I’LL BE LATE AGAIN!!” Daisuke had overslept, and lost the train. So he had to wait for another train and now he was super late, running as fast as he could and without paying enough attention to his surroundings…
“DAISUKE, WATCH OUT!!” Chibimon screamed but it was too late. Daisuke tried to stop to not collide with this person in front of him -- A blonde boy with bangs covering his eyes -- but it was a bad idea.
He just flew against the boy and BAM! Fell over the poor kid.
“I told you to be careful…” Chibimon was on the top of the ‘human pile’ and shaking his head.
“Ack! I’m-- Gah! I’m sorry!!” Daisuke got up and babbled apologies nonstop, then he helped the other to get up, “You OK?”
“Y-yes… I’m…” the boy was also in panic, “I’m sorry I should’ve paid attention to my surroundings…!!”
“No, it was just Daisuke who was careless,” Chibimon commented with a shrug.
“I already said sorry, Chibimon…!”
“I-it’s okay…” the boy tried to stop them from fighting, “Besides I’m new here so I’m… lost? And late for school,I presume…”
“Oh?” The duo looked at the stranger, and realized he was wearing the same uniform as Daisuke’s.
“Ah! I know where it is!!” Daisuke grinned, “You’re going to Amanogawa High, right? I study there too!! We’re getting hella late at this point, I’ll show ya my shortcut!”
“Shortcut?” the other blinked (though it wasn’t visible for anyone else because of the hair bangs in his face. Chibimon jumped from Daisuke’s back and evolved to V-mon.
“Hey, didn’t the principal say--” V-mon tried to argue, but!
“It’s okay, we don’t do this every single day so…” Daisuke pointed the digivice at V-mon, and then the digimon evolved into XV-mon. Daisuke dragged the new student to XV-mon’s back and the phantom dragon sighed.
“Fine, just only this time. Brace yourselves.”
“What are you--” the shy kid started his question, but XV-mon jumped into the sky and flew to the school’s yard “AA-aa--AAAAAAAAA--!!!”
“Hahaha! Hey don’t worry, it’s okay… The first time it’s a little scary but, XV-mon is a good bud.”
“Hmmm…!!”
“I won’t let you fall” XV-mon said, “If you fall, I can catch you before you hit the ground”
“S-sure…??”
“I’m Motomiya Daisuke, and this is my digimon partner, XV-mon” Daisuke introduced himself with a smile.
“I’m… N-Noel Le-Leblanc…” the kid replied, shyly and still afraid of falling from that height…
“Ah! So that’s why you said you’re new here! You’re an overseas student, right?? If you need anything you can ask me!”
“R-r-right…!!”
Once they arrived at school, Daisuke decided to give Noel a little help to get used to the school facilities, also a few train lines to get back and forth from school. It was too much information, the boy was taking notes, and asking a few questions with a timid voice.
Hikari and Takeru saw Daisuke with this new kid, but they noticed he was busy explaining stuff (in the most Daisuke-way as possible) that the moment Daisuke saw Takeru he asked for help.
Takeru was also nice, he and Hikari joined in the tour, and covered the subjects Daisuke wasn’t good at explaining. It was fun, except…
… All of them arrived late for their classes 💧
After class…
Daisuke, Takeru and Hikari met with the others at the same karaoke booth. Daisuke was complaining about something and being comforted by Hikari and Takeru.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, I forgot today I was on morning duty!! *sigh* Goddammit!!”
“It’s okay, it’s okay… At least you explained to the teacher that you were helping the new student…” Hikari said gently.
“Hikari-chaaaan…” he was… crying now?
“New student?” Iori showed some curiosity on the subject.
“Yeah, Daisuke-kun helped him by showing the way to our school” Takeru replied, “He’s a 1st grade overseas student named Noel Leblanc.”
“I wonder what it's like to study abroad…” Miyako mused, “Maybe it’s scary but a good challenge…”
Ken looked at her, then he asked: “Miyako-san, did you read what Wormmon sent to you while I was busy?”
“Oh right! That’s why I called you all here!” She took her laptop and put it on the karaoke booth’s table.
“??” The other four and their partner digimon looked at the laptop’s screen.
“What is in the wall of text, Miyako??” Daisuke asked, clearly overwhelmed by the document.
“Um… *ahem* This is an old research I did when I was the Kaiser” Ken explained instead, quite embarrassed by this, “I gave up on it because I believed the Digimentals weren’t… useful.”
“He’s sulking because he was wrong about it… Ain’t he, dagya?”
“Yeah, he’s pretty much sulking here,” V-mon agreed with a nod.
“Sure sure,” same as Patamon.
“You guys are not helping here… 💧” Daisuke sighed.
Ken was feeling like he got stabbed by those comments and this hurt him harder than he could imagine. But he calmed down and continued: “If I can trust past me’s logs and notes, there were more than eight Digimentals in the past.”
“Right…” Daisuke said seriously, “There’s the Digimental of Miracles and Destiny too…”
“And Ichijouji-kun turned his Crest into a Digimental before,” Hikari added.
“Turns out that King Shoutmon’s story is legit.” Miyako continued, “Old transcripts found in the ruins mentioned a Digimental called ‘Digimental of Desire’ and it was too powerful, even more than the golden Digimentals we know.”
“But one detail in King Shoutmon’s story intrigues me” Tailmon looked at them, seriously, “If Vulcanusmon hid it… How did it reappear now in our current era, and broken into pieces?”
“I can answer that…” Ken seemed a bit… nervous now.
“Can you?” V-mon asked, innocently.
“... Ok, are you ready to know?” and the boy sighed.
“Yes/Yeah/Mhm!!”
“... I… I found it and broke it.”
“YOU WHAT!?” they all exclaimed together, in shock.
“Ken, how did you wreck a Digimental, dude!? Daisuke babbled, “What the heck!”
“With the power of a strong servant digimon and the ire of a god” Wormmon answered it, ashamed. Ken frowned, better none of the digimon know it…
“Another item to the Digimon Kaiser’s crime list” V-mon shrugged.
“If it was the strongest Digimental, why did you break it (dagya)!?” Hawkmon, Armadimon and Patamon asked in unison.
“..............”
“You couldn’t lift it, right?” The rest of the 02 group asked with an annoyed voice tone.
“G-guys… I… I tried to get rid of it because I didn’t want you to acquire it!! 💦”
“Yeah, he couldn’t lift it, so threw a tantrum and broke it” the others shook their heads. Ken felt an extra dose of shame.
“C-come on… I… No, you’re right…” he sighed again.
“I never thought you could break a Digimental…” Takeru commented, “That was a surprise to me.”
“So how many pieces did ya shatter this one, Ken?” Daisuke glanced at his best friend, “I’m not mad, I just wanna know how many of them we need to find before Arsenemon.”
“Uhh… Wormmon, do you remember the exact number of pieces we gathered and tried to hid without letting anyone know?”
“20 Pieces.”
“And how many pieces have we lost to Arsenemon so far?” Iori asked nonchalantly.
“3 pieces.”
“Counting with the ones with Izumi-senpai…” Miyako reported, “we have two pieces.”
“So there’s 15 pieces left…” Tailmon mused.
“But why would Arsenemon want those?” Hawkmon frowned, “I mean, he wouldn’t be a bad digimon, could he…? He stopped that Meicoomon from getting in trouble at that time.”
“Maybe he wants it for himself!!” Daisuke mused, “I’ve seen bad guys doing good things sometimes so…”
“Hmm…”
However, Ken’s old notes and research on the Digimentals did not clarify one important detail about the Digimental of Desire…
… That its usage requires paying with a grand cost in return, so it was turned into a forbidden tool and hidden by Vulcanusmon.
“Boss!!” Espimon flew as fast as she could and stood in front of someone, who was definitely Arsenemon in disguise, “I’ve caught the signal of another piece!!”
“Ah… Now?” He blinked, “Hmm… Where is it?”
“Inside this residence, by the way” Espimon showed a holographic map with a house, the house had a family name plate saying Shinjo.
“Oh? Hmm… I wonder if they’re aware of that…”
“Of what, boss?”
He shrugged, “Well, it won’t hurt to check it out ourselves. But I like to play a cat and rat game with that group of human children…”
“I see… If my radar is correct, they’re… Leaving the karaoke bar.”
“But how will we find those pieces?” Hikari mused, “Miyako-san, Ichijouji-kun do you have anything we could use to track them?”
“Uh… I…” they started together, but they stopped.
“What if we let Arsenemon send those cards and get’ em?” Daisuke suggested, “So we know when he will attack and then we can counterattack!”
“That sounds easier to say than done,” Iori commented.
“Right, you didn’t catch him until now so how can we be sure to catch him first, dagya?”
“H-HEY!!” Daisuke and V-mon hissed, “We almost caught him last night!!”
“And with this he got three pieces ahead of us” Patamon shook his head.
“You don’t need to remember us!! 💦”
“Patamon, you don’t need to tease them like that…” Takeru frowned, “Next time I’m sure Daisuke-kun and V-mon will catch him.”
“We will get him for sure!” Daisuke clenched his fists.
Suddenly something like a flier flew on Daisuke’s face. He growled irritated, and took the paper, then everyone noticed it was a small black card with a golden paw in it. A calling card!!
“Arsenemon made his move!” Wormmon exclaimed, and Ken immediately snatched the card from Daisuke’s hands.
“H-Hey!!”
“He says he will be going to Shinjo’s residence tonight to steal a treasure.” Ken read it, “Maybe for this one we can follow Daisuke’s idea.”
“Wait… Really?”
“Hmm, I will talk to Izumi-senpai and see if we can program a radar for the remaining pieces,” Miyako added, “Just don’t screw this up, Daisuke.”
“W-what? Wait, what do ya mean!?? Why do y’all think it’s my fault!?”
“We need to discover where to find this residence” Iori commented, “Hmm… I think I’ve seen someone whose family name is Shinjo before…”
“Hm? Who is?” Hawkmon asked, curious.
“There’s a new cafe shop, they are like a place for Chosen and digimon to gather and meet each other.”
“Oh that’s right! That one!” Miyako smiled, “I went there before to deliver some supplies!”
“Why does Iori know about that place?” V-mon was also curious.
“I passed by there once, saw Koushiro-san inside and I met this barista called Shinjo Michi.”
“We have to talk to her then! So let’s go--” He stopped walking and looked at someone a few meters away from them.
“What’s wrong?” Armadimon asked, and then everyone looked from Daisuke’s direction, seeing Noel kinda lost.
“Can y’all handle this for me?” he asked, with the palms of his hands together, “I have something to do…!!”
“Huh?” Miyako blinked, “Is it about that kid there?” But Daisuke and V-mon left, “D-don’t leave when we’re talking to you, Daisukeeee!!!”
“Who’s that boy Daisuke-san is talking to?” Iori asked Takeru and Hikari.
“That’s the new overseas student we talked about,” Takeru explained, “Daisuke-kun said he would help him with anything he needed…”
“I guess he’s lost again…?” Hikari frowned.
“... What was his name again?” Ken asked out of the blue, watching the other two boys and V-mon talking in the distance.
“Noel Leblanc, but why?” she replied.
“Out of curiosity,” then he turned to say to the others, “Let’s go to that cafe shop then…”
The group stood in front of the mentioned cafe and then Hikari noticed a barista talking with… Lune?! When they stepped in, they were received by a Lopmon (the owner’s partner)
“Welcome, please take a seat. I’ll send someone to take your orders.” and the long eared digimon gestured to a free table for five.
They thanked and sat on the free table, and then Hikari looked discreetly at Lune and the girl who looked like her somehow. There was something off there but could she tell what was?
“... Besides that,” they heard Lune talking to the girl, “I think you should be aware of your surroundings, Michi-san. I sense something… Extremely troublesome coming.”
She took her cup of espresso and left, waving, with Lunamon munching something that looked like a strawberry flavored candy.
“I wonder what she meant by that…” Miyako muttered to the group. Until Shinjo Michi went to take their orders.
“Hello, Welcome to Cafe Truffle!” Michi said, enthusiastically, “I’ll be your barista today, so can I take your orders?”
“Yeah!” Miyako spoke energetically “I would like a frappuccino, a strawberry cheesecake with tons of whipped cream, and two chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing, and one super sweet sundae, please.”
“M-Miyako-san…” the kids blinked while the digimon started asking stuff… Except Tailmon.
“W-wow… I mean, r-right!” Michi blinked, once she finished taking their orders, “Excuse me, I’ll prepare your order.” and she left their table.
“Miyako-san, we came here to talk with her about Arsenemon” Iori whispered, but he was calm.
“Oh… I… I got hungry, sorry hehe… And it’s rude to come in and not order anything, so I had to…!”
Hikari went after Michi, and called the other’s attention, “Um, Shinjo Michi-san?
“Yes?” Then Michi was cutting the strawberry cheesecake.
“Um, we came here to talk with you about a digimon.”
“Hm?” she looked at Hikari, smiling, “About which digimon?”
Ken left the table and went to meet with both girls, “A phantom thief digimon who has targeted your home.”
“W-what??” she stopped preparing Miyako and the digimon’s order and stared at them, in shock, “What do you mean??”
“Michi” Plotmon (her partner) came in “Someone left a note here…”
“A note!?” Michi then took the paper from Plotmon’s mouth. Ken and Hikari noticed it was the same style of the calling card that flew on Daisuke’s face, “You gotta be kidding!! Is this a prank!?”
“We got one too…” Ken showed her theirs, but the 02 group version was more casual -- as if they were already friends.
“Who’s this Arsenemon and why is he--”
“Because of this Digimental fragment you have” and then he showed his phone with the photos of the pieces stolen and the ones they had sent to Koushiro.
“This thing wasn’t a normal gem?!” both Michi and Plotmon exclaimed.
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