Chapter Eighty-Eight: Looking Out at the Mountain; Ever a clue

Overlooking Mountain, a mountainous terrain lying between the bewildered forests and cogwheel savannahs of Document Island. It was also the last place where the exploration team stayed in the digital world ten years ago, and it was also the trigger that ruined the happiness of the two families and led to the current conflict between the Digimon and humans.

"Ten years ago, Hedilumon and I came to Lookout Mountain under the guidance of the Digimon and met my family and Captain Julia."

In the darkness of the cavern, Ryder carefully led Kaye and the multi-way beast forward with a searchlight.

"There's a big crypt up the road, so be careful."

The Hedi Road Beast that walked in front rarely cared about the juniors.

"Yes."

Just like the vision of Ah Hai and Chishi in the trial, the structure of the cave has not changed. There are several forks in the road, and even the top of the rock cave is quite high. Soon, they found the black hole on the ground. Ten years ago, Ah Hai and Chishi fell into a black hole that suddenly appeared.

"Dad and Uncle fell here, right?"

Looking at the black hole on the ground, Kaye felt very uncomfortable.

"Ryder, I'll go down first."

In order to determine if there was danger in the burrow, the Hedillumon first jumped into the burrow, and this level of height was perfectly fine for it. Soon, the voice of the Darklumon was heard below.

"Ryder! No problem down there, come down! ”

"Let's go down, Kaye, the multi-way beast, watch your step."

Ryder took out the rope and held it tightly to the ground, then threw the rope into the hole.

The two of them and one beast slowly slid down the rope, the hole was not too high, and they soon reached the ground.

The light on the lower level was darker, but thankfully there was glowing moss on the stone walls, and it was still possible to barely see the surroundings.

"This is where Dad died"

Walking to a certain stone wall, Kaye's brow was covered with clouds. In the memory of the trial, it was here that my father died.

Kaye

Looking at his partner, the multi-way beast felt sad in his heart.

"Kaye Kaye, do you have anything to say?"

Seeing Kaye's worried expression, Ryder smiled.

"If you don't talk about the troubles in your heart, you won't be able to solve them."

"Yes, Kaye, you can tell us about your troubles."

The multi-way beast worried about Kaye also said.

"Ryder, do you know the trials that the Sagemon has given us?"

After a moment of silence, Kaye spoke.

"The trial of the sage beast? Ryder passed easily, you won't leave any psychological shadows because of the trial, right? ”

Hemdilumon asked.

"Actually, in the trial, I saw some truths about my father and uncle"

Kaye muttered, expressing the anguish in her heart.

"Dad really tried hard to protect my uncle, and after I looked at the situation from my uncle's point of view, I kind of understood why my uncle wanted to destroy Digimon."

"Is it because of hatred?"

As for Chishi's impression, Ryder thinks that he wants to destroy the Digimon out of hatred.

"Yes, after my father's death, my uncle hated Digimon even more, but"

After a pause, Kaye continued.

"Uncle wants to protect humans, and he's always thought that Digimon would only pose a threat to humans, and he has become extreme."

"Protecting humanity? What a ridiculous idea. ”

The Halfy Road Beast scoffed.

"During the trial, I not only saw things from my uncle's point of view, but also felt his feelings."

Knowing that the Dark Road Beast was dismissive of Chishi's thoughts, Kaye didn't care.

"Uncle who ran away because of the fear of death, his heart was always full of guilt and guilt for his father, and then eventually evolved into a strong hatred for Digimon"

"However, in the midst of his resentful escape, something strange suddenly happened."

"Strange things?"

The multi-way beast looked confused. Ryder and Hedrumon listened quietly.

"It seems that I was suddenly taken to a different space, and then a strange door engraved with seven badges appeared in front of my uncle, and on the door, only an orange badge was lit."

"The Spooky Gate of Seven Coins?!"

Hearing Kaye's words, the Darklumon looked shocked.

"What's wrong, Hemdilumon?"

The attentive Ryder quickly noticed something unusual about his partner.

"Maybe I'm wrong, because I've run into similar gates in the past, but they should have been destroyed a long time ago."

The Lediron muttered something.

"Kaye, go ahead, don't worry about me."

"Well, anyway, there was a voice at the gate asking Uncle to give him his 'heart', and then saying that despite hating Digimon and giving Uncle the power to destroy the rotten Digital World, he said."

"The last black mist appeared and poured into my uncle's body, enveloping the entire alien space, and that's all I saw."

After Kaye finished speaking, both Ryder and Hadilumon pondered in different moods.

"I didn't expect Tomoshi Osawa to encounter such a thing at all"

Ryder mused.

"It must be the gate that made Osawa bad, right? Kate. ”

The multi-way beast said.

"Probably"

Kaye wasn't quite sure either.

"Don't be naïve about things."

The Darklummon suddenly looked at Kaye and the Darklumon with a gloomy face.

"It's the hatred in the man's own heart, and the hatred is so strong that it attracts the 'door'. Then the negative emotions in the heart are infinitely magnified. ”

"Hedilumon, do you have any clues?"

Ryder asked the Ledhemon Lumon.

"I think that door could be the 'door of mortal sin'"

After a moment's thought, the Hemdilumon replied.

"The Gate of Mortal Sin?"

The three are more curious about its origin.

"The Gate of Deadly Sins, also known as the Gate of the Seven Deadly Sins, existed in the Digital World a long time ago, and no one knows where it came from."

The Black Diplummon explained simply.

"Only those with certain qualifications will be chosen by the Gate of Mortal Sin. In the war more than a thousand years ago, after the defeat of the Demon King's army, it seems that the Gate of Great Sin was also destroyed. ”

"Kaye, the door you described is similar to the Gate of Mortal Sin. But it was destroyed a long time ago, and I'm still not sure it's it. ”

"Hedilummon, what exactly is the Gate of Mortal Sin? What happens to the chosen ones? ”

Kaye then asked.

"I don't know very well, but the chosen ones have negative feelings about the world, or a desire for power. If you are unqualified, you will die even if you touch the Gate of Mortal Sin, and the digital core will be destroyed immediately. As for the chosen ones."

The Hedilummon smiled.

"Of course, it's to get power and status~~ I used to be one of the seven Digimon that were chosen~~"

"Huh?! The Hedilummon had something to do with the Gate of Sins. ”

Kaye and the multi-way beast were surprised.

"However, the Hedilumon said that the Gate of Great Sins was destroyed more than a thousand years ago. It turns out that the Hedilumon is more than a thousand years old, so old."

The unintentional words of the multi-way beast were immediately slapped by the black dilu beast.

"Do you think I'm old?!"

"Whew, it hurts!"

Covering its head with both paws, the multi-way beast looked at the angry black road beast with an aggrieved expression. I don't understand what I'm saying, because a thousand years is really long.

"Are you alright?"

Kaye crouched down worriedly and looked at the head that had been slapped by the Darklumon, but fortunately he was not injured.

"I'm fine, Kaye. Did the multi-way beast say the wrong thing to make the black-way beast angry? ”

The multi-way beast looked at Kaye with a pitiful expression.

"It's rude to say that women are old because of their age."

Soothing the emotions of the Hadilummon, Ryder smiled darkly.

"I don't know."

The multi-way beast is still very aggrieved.

"Multiwaymon, I think it's better for you not to talk about age-related topics to Hedilumon"

Kaye said with a grimace.

"Hmph."

Hedilumon was still angry.

"Hedilumon, you are an elder, forgive the unintentional words of the junior."

Ryder was still smiling and persuading it.

"That's right, Ryder. What happened to your uncle at that time? ”

Kaye later changed the subject.

"Actually, when I was looking for Chishi and your father with the adults and the Hedilummon, we didn't pass through the place we used to be, but went to the second basement floor in another tunnel."

Instead of continuing on unrelated topics, Ryder answered Kaye's question.

"Then we found the mentally deranged Zhishi at a junction in the tunnel, and learned the truth about your father's death. But when we arrived at the scene, we didn't see your father or the Digimon at all, just a lot of blood on the ground. ”

"As a witness to the scene, Chishi definitely believes that your father was devoured by Digimon, and the Digimon has left. Maybe he thinks so because that Digimon is very similar to the Digimon that killed Abei's mother."

"In the end, because they found me, there was no need to stay in the digital world. So, Fed up with the digital world, Chishi suddenly took out a space-time concussion bomb from nowhere and turned it on, and everyone was forcibly sent back to the human world. ”

"At that time, it was fortunate that Ryder hugged me tightly, otherwise I would have been separated from Ryder."

Reflecting on the past, the Hemdilumon said.

"Should Ryder tell Yabei about this?"

Kaye considered Yabei's position, and she had more rights to know.

"It's up to you."

Ryder didn't jump to conclusions.

"If I were you, I'd tell her."

The Hemdilummon doesn't have a different point of view.

"If you don't accept the harsh truth, you can't grow up in the true sense. Moreover, there may be more cruel realities waiting for her to accept in the future. The idiot girl in Yabei is not weak enough to be too escapist. Although I don't think highly of her, she's very, very good at recovering from the harsh reality. ”

"So, just tell her the hard truth."

"I'd better think about it first."

Although he understands Yabei's character, the kind-hearted Kaye still considers how to tell Yabei the truth so that she can accept it better.

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Toy City, located in the deepest part of the misty forest in the northwest of Document Island, is also the most famous place to visit on Document Island.

It's castles and streets that only appear in fairy tales. On the streets, there are all kinds of giant toys. For example, puzzles, building blocks, plush dolls, electric models, and the like.

You can even see many Digimon under their growth stage running happily around the streets, chasing and playing with toys like children.

It's called 'the city is as its name suggests.'"

"It feels so childish"

The seemingly interesting toy city made Yabei not have any interest. What's more, I'm also a junior high school student, and I'm going to become a high school student soon. How could you possibly be interested in toys for the little ones?

"What?! Don't you like it? ”

The most interesting part actually made the two of them not interested, and the puppet beast was devastated.

"Toy City is the most fun place on Document Island!"

"Ten years ago, Ryder used to have a lot of fun here."

"What has he done here?"

Yabei, who understands Ryder's black-bellied personality, asks the puppeteon.

"Ugh"

At the mention of this question, the puppet beast glanced to the side.

"I dismantled the electric model, drove the Toy City crazy car, and crashed the building blocks several times"

"I'm an ignorant kid anyway"

"It's obviously a bear kid who deliberately caused trouble."

Yabei complained, completely expected.

"But shouldn't all human affection be similar? Why don't you love toys? ”

The puppet beast asked.

"It's not that I don't like toys, I'm past the age of playing with toys. So, children's toys don't suit me well. ”

After Yabei answered truthfully, he was blinded by the little demon beast.

"Cut, obviously you only like to play electric! Isn't it a toy to collect boring figures!? ”

"What a wordy look!"

"Hit the electric? It turns out that there is still this trick! I understand! ”

The right fist smacked the palm of his left hand, and the puppet beast suddenly realized.

"I know there's a place where you can be happy!"

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Half an hour later, one man and two beasts stood in front of an eerie house with a clown-style sign carved into the door, the words 'Smile Shop' written at the bottom, and a clown stone sculpture standing on a ball at the door.

"Smile Shop, what's it?"

Yabei, who was standing at the door, asked curiously, feeling that the store in front of him was really weird.

"It's the prop house opened by the clown, and he's one of the four ultimate bodies of Document Island, just like me."

At the mention of the clownmon, the puppeteon's eyes were a little resentful.

"That guy has a very strange personality and always likes to collect strange things to sell. Anyway, there are a lot of things in his shop that are similar to items from the human world. ”

"What's even worse is that it's the youngest of our four Ultimate Digimon! Treat me like a little ghost every time! Obviously he is the most immature! ”

"You look like a child."

"Uncle Ben is more mature than you."

The puppet beast's resentment was only exchanged for the complaints of Yabei and the little demon beast.

"Even you think I'm a child! It's so unconscionable! ”

The truth completely makes the puppet beast even more popular, and no matter how you look at it, it looks like an awkward child.

"I don't care about you anymore! Humans are bad-hearted! Hate to death! ”

The angry puppet beast no longer wants to pay attention to the 'bad heart' human, and runs away noisily.

"What the hell, I'm a little kid."

Watching the puppet beast run away, the little demon beast continued to roll its eyes.

"The old man also has a childlike puppet beast, which should belong to the evolution of rejuvenation."

Yabei then complained about the puppet beast.

"Well, little demon beast, let's go and have a look first."

"Whatever you want!"

The little demon beast said angrily.

So, Yabei and the little demon beast pushed the door and walked into the store