Chapter 138: The Golden Paladin; The Awakened Seraph

"Auntie, before you leave, I hope you can take this."

Before going to the digital world with everyone, Yabei handed the key in his hand to Jane.

"Actually, I learned from Kaye that your home was destroyed by the Omegamon, so my home may be a good place for Aunt and Sakura to live for a while."

Facing Jane, Yabei expressed his kindness a little nervously.

"It's okay to stay as long as you want."

"Is that really good? Give us your home to live in. ”

Holding the key gently, Jane was a little embarrassed, but she didn't want to cause trouble for Yabei.

"Finish, no problem! Anyway, my house is far from the city center, close to the suburbs. Besides, the royal knights who left did not attack my neighborhood, so I can guarantee that my house is safe. ”

Seeing that Zhen was a little embarrassed, Yabei hurriedly explained.

"Accept Yabei's kindness, aunt."

At this moment, Ryder walked over with a harmless smile on his face.

"Yabei actually hopes to be able to help you, and Aunt Yabei is completely similar to a 'loving mother' to Yabei. For a girl who wants to get 'motherly love', of course, she will want a gentle and beautiful lady like her aunt to become a member of her family. ”

"I say! Don't mess around, Ryder! ”

Unable to stand Ryder's serious nonsense, Yabei looked at him with displeasure.

"I'm just trying to help Kaye's family, not what you think!"

"Don't you have a crush on gentle aunts?"

Ryder feigned surprise.

"What are you talking about! My aunt is always so gentle, of course I have a good impression! Wait a minute! Don't take the topic in a strange direction! ”

Yabei, who realized that he was being tricked, immediately stopped the topic from developing in a strange direction. Although I'm a little bit lily-inclined, I'm never so mad as to have a strange crush on Kaye's mother! My sexual orientation is very normal! Damn Ryder, always so bad-hearted!

"It's a little bit of a headache, you seem to have misunderstood my words, I'm just asking."

Ryder pretended to have a helpless expression again, and the keen Yabei quickly noticed that the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked, he obviously did it on purpose!

"You did it on purpose!"

Yabei is in a state of madness.

"Haha"

Looking at the 'dispute' between the two, Jane smiled helplessly. It seems that it is better to accept Yabei's kindness.

"Okay, Ryder don't embarrass Yabei, she's an introverted kid who isn't good at expressing herself."

The empathetic Jane is the way to the North of the Pacific.

"Yabei, I'll move into your house with Sakura later, thank you very much for your kindness."

"Where, where, as long as you can help your aunt"

Yabei said a little nervously again.

"Yes, I hope that my aunt and Sakura can live happily in the Yabei house. When we return triumphantly, my aunt will definitely prepare a sumptuous meal for everyone to celebrate the family reunion. ”

Ryder chuckled.

"Hehe, that's fine."

Jane smiled and agreed. Everyone is risking their lives to go to the digital world in order to rescue Ah Hai and prevent the disaster. All I can do is pray that everyone will return safely.

"I am confident that you will succeed and return safely"

―1―

In the midst of a huge crack in the sky, a blue dragon-like Digimon in golden armor flew out of the crack leading to the digital world and entered the human world.

"If it weren't for the emergence of the 'Ark Project', maybe this country would have been completely destroyed a long time ago."

Looking at the city in ruins from a high vantage point, the golden-armored drake beast sighed.

"Forget it, it has nothing to do with me anyway. Let's find the Ball Beast first."

The golden-armored dragon beast, which did not know the whereabouts of the rolling ball beast, had to slowly search the city.

At the same time--

In the secret base, an alarm sounded on the terminal that detected Digimon's information, and both Nami and Yaan showed panicked expressions on their faces when they saw the signal displayed on the terminal.

"Mr. Li! The reaction of Digimon in the city is a royal knight! ”

"What should we do now?!"

Nami looked uneasily at Li Jianyu, who was temporarily in charge of DHT in place of Julia. The trio's partnership can only evolve at most, and it is absolutely impossible to defeat the royal knights of the strongest organization in the digital world. What's more, Ryder and Captain Julia also went to the Digital World, and the city's defenses are very weak now.

"Let's observe for the time being, don't go into battle with the royal knights lightly!"

Li Jianyu decisively gave the order, and then reminded Ya'an.

"Mato, you immediately make phone contact with Kamijo Zhen, who is temporarily living in Osawa's house, and ask her and the child not to leave the house to avoid attracting the attention of the royal knights."

If you go to the evacuation site, you will not only waste time, but you will also face the danger of being discovered by the royal knights. Only by letting Jane and Sakura, a mother and daughter, hide at home, it is safer.

"Understood!" *2

Following Li Jianyu's command, Ya'an and Nami respectively carried out the orders given by the 'temporary captain'.

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In the kitchen on the first floor, the 'children' are sitting at the table with great anticipation, and today's dinner is Jane's special omelet rice, which is fragrant, and the golden egg skin is drizzled with tomato sauce with a heart or cat and bear pattern.

"I'm really sorry, because I can't find enough ingredients, so I can only use omelet rice to entertain everyone."

Pouring milk for Sakura and the two Digimon, Jen smiled apologetically.

"Mom doesn't have to be so modest at all, no matter what you cook, it's very delicious!"

Choosing an omelet rice with a cat pattern of tomato sauce, Sakura said happily.

"Then I'm moving!"

The already hungry Bowling Ball Beast began to feast.

"Thank you very much for your hospitality."

Unlike the Bowling Ball Beast, Badamon first thanked Jane for providing dinner, and then picked up a spoon with his little paws and ate slowly.

"Delicious!"

"Hehe, as long as you like it."

Jane was happy to see that the 'kids' loved the food they cooked

Bell bell bell bell!

At this moment, the phone placed near the entrance rang.

"I'm going to answer the phone, maybe it's Mr. Li and they called, everyone should get along well."

"Yes~~"

One man and two beasts watched Jane leave the kitchen.

"Hey, did the Ballmon come to the human world with Badamon?"

Looking at the ball beast that quickly finished the omelet rice and stuck the rice grains to its mouth, Sakura asked curiously.

"I was swept by a pillar of light, and then I teleported to the human world, and finally collided with the Badamon who had just arrived here."

Licking the rice grains stuck to the corners of its mouth with its tongue, the ball beast replied.

"Can Badamon and Ballmon tell me what's going on in the Digital World? My brother and everyone went to the digital world again to rescue my father. I've heard people say that it seems like a terrible disaster has happened in the digital world, can you tell me the truth? ”

Worried about the safety of her brother and Ryder, Sakura, who wants to learn about the digital world, asks about both.

“”

Hearing Sakura's question, both Badamon and Ballmon fell silent. It was obviously a pleasant atmosphere, but it became heavy because of the girl's words.

"Except for the City of Angels and the World Tree Realm, almost the entire Digital World has become an abyss"

Badamon answered Sakura's question first.

"Sakura, your family is in the World Tree Realm, and the 'God' Realm is not threatened"

"That's great"

Sakura, who was worried, was temporarily relieved to hear Badamon's answer.

"It's too much! Don't you think about my feelings?! ”

Ballmon suddenly loses his temper at Sakura and Badamon.

"Both the City of Angels and the World Tree Realm are places blessed by the 'gods' and are certainly not threatened. However, the Digimon in other realms were eaten by the dragons, and their hometown was destroyed. ”

"The digital world is hell right now! If I wasn't lucky enough, I'd have died!! ”

Recalling the terrible encounter, the Ballmon was in a very unhappy mood.

"Ballmon"

Realizing that the topic was going in a bad direction, Sakura and Badamon looked at Ballmon apologetically.

"I'm sorry I didn't consider that you are a survivor, it must be very difficult to suffer such a terrible disaster"

Badamon apologized.

"Well, I don't blame you, I just don't want to talk about the digital world."

Seeing Badamon apologizing to himself, Ballmon felt that it seemed a bit too much to lose his temper. But the terrible catastrophe that happened in the digital world, Ballmon didn't want to think about it.

"But Digimon are going to return to the Digital World sooner or later, right?"

Badamon added.

"The digital world is so scary I don't want to go back"

Even if you go back and stay in the digital world that has become an abyss, you won't be able to do anything. Ballmon vetoed.

"Badamon, you"

――Are you still going to leave me? ――

Before the inner words could be spoken, Jane ran over in a little panic.

"Sakura, you take Badamon and Ballmon back to your room first. Remember to close the curtains, don't turn on the lights, and preferably be quiet. ”

"What's wrong? Mom. ”

Seeing Jane's uneasy expression, Sakura was a little worried.

"Just now, Mr. Li contacted me. He told me that Digimon had reappeared from the city, and it was a Royal Knight. ”

“！！！”

Sakura and Badamon both had uneasy expressions on their faces.

"Okay, you guys go to the room first, I'll lock the doors and windows on the first floor first. Everyone must be quiet and not be discovered by the royal knights. ”

Turn off the lights, Jen reminded again.

"Why should you be wary of the Royal Knights?"

Ballmon didn't quite understand.

"Because someone has done a lot of bad things to the digital world, the 'god' of the digital world has asked the royal knights to punish the human world and attack our city."

Picking up the ball beast, Sakura replied.

"Badamon, we're Badamon too?"

Originally intending to ask Badamon to return to the room with her, Sakura noticed that Badamon had opened the glass door that led to the courtyard and looked up into the distance.

"Sakura, the royal knight is nearby"

With Digimon's fighting instincts, Badamon senses the breath of other Digimon.

"Is that the one?"

Looking at the sky from Badamon's gaze, Sakura could only faintly see a faint golden figure in the night sky.

"Sakura, you guys get out of here quickly and flee to safety"

With a certain determination, Badamon took off the sacred ring that he wore on his ear and unleashed all of its power. That's a trick that I learned before I came to the human world, and as long as the power of the Divine Ring is fully released, I can evolve into a mature stage to fight.

"I'll fight the Royal Knight and hold him back for the time being. In that case, flee as soon as possible. ”

As he spoke, a golden light enveloped the body of the Badamon. In the light, its body slowly grew larger, and Badamon evolved into Flame Angelmon.

"Wait! Badamon! ”

Before it could stop it, the Flame Angel Beast spread its wings and flew quickly into the sky.

"Mom, please take care of the ball beast!"

Entrusting the ball beast to Jane, Sakura immediately runs out of the house.

"Sakura, wait a minute!"

Sakura, who was chasing the Flame Angel Beast, ignored her mother's worried cries.

―2―

Above the ruined city, the golden-armored drake flew and looked around, looking for the Rolling Ball Beast.

"Stop!"

At this time, there was a shouting voice behind him. The Golden Armor Dragon Beast subconsciously turned around, only to see a Flame Angel Beast pointing at itself with a holy staff with a hostile expression.

"This is the human world, please leave immediately!"

"Are you one of the Digimon standing on the human side?"

It's unclear if the other party is a Digimon belonging to the City of Angels, but the arrogant attitude of the Flame Angelmon makes the Golden Armor Drakemon a little unpleasant.

"That's right! As a royal knight, he still has no shame in wanting to continue to destroy the human homeland and sacrifice his innocent life! If you don't leave the human world again, don't blame me for sanctioning you! ”

The Flame Angel snapped.

"I don't have the time to waste time with you. If you don't want to get hurt, just disappear from my eyes! ”

Not wanting to continue wasting time with the Flame Angel Beast, the Golden Armor Dragon Beast said impatiently.

Seeing that the other party ignored his warning, flames began to appear on the wings behind the Flame Angel Beast, and the flaming flame feathers struck towards the Golden Armored Dragon Beast like meteors.

In the face of the meteor shower-like fireball attack, the Golden Armor Dragon Beast did not dodge or dodge, allowing the Flame Angel Beast's attack to hit itself.

"It's just a mature Digimon that dares to dictate to the royal knights, even attacking!"

After withstanding all the attacks of the Flame Angel Beast, the Golden Armor Dragon Beast did not show any scars on its body at all, and even the pain could not be felt. Then, it stretched out its hand, and a golden ball of energy appeared, striking at the Flame Angelmon.

"Hmm"

The energy bullet is close to the speed of sound, and it is simply impossible to dodge. Attacked, the Flame Angelmon fell from the sky to the ground like a meteorite, and the ground was smashed into a large crater. It was only the lowest-damaging attack, but it left the Flame Angel Beast scarred all over its body.

"Badamon!!"

Sakura, who was chasing after her home, saw the Flame Angel Beast lying on the ground covered in wounds, and a sad expression appeared on her face.

"Badamon, cheer up."

The small hand reached out to the Flame Angel Beast, hoping to lift him up from the ground, but his own strength was simply not enough.

"It's okay, I can still fight Sakura, leave me alone, run away"

Reluctantly getting up from the ground, the Flame Angel Beast felt as if the bones in its body were about to fall apart, and it couldn't exert any strength at all. Despite this, the Flame Angelmon's belief that it wants to protect Sakura will never change.

"Enough is enough! Badamon, stop fighting! ”

Recalling the scene when the Flame Angelmon had died, Sakura grabbed the Flame Angelmon's hand and cried.

"Let's run away together, even if we lose, we can't help it. No one will blame you."

"I don't want Badamon to die!"

Seeing Sakura weeping for herself, the Flame Angel Beast smiled wryly.

"I've always been protected by the people around me without power, and now, it's clear that I can evolve into maturity with my power, but it doesn't come in handy."

"I'm such an unqualified angel, carrying so many expectations, but no one can protect them, if possible, I really hope that I can regain my true strength at this moment to protect the people around me"

Looking into Sakura's eyes, the Flame Angel Beast whispered.

"Badamon"

Sakura looked at his gentle expression and reached out to wipe away her tears. 'Badamon' is always thinking about himself, and it is too bad to cry all the time.

A golden soft light appeared in front of the Flame Angelmon, and looking at the small golden figure, the Flame Angelmon unexpectedly looked at the Digimon that appeared in front of it. The Digimon was staring at him intently.

"Huh?"

The Flame Angelmon heard a voice. The voice came out of his head, it wasn't clear language, and there wasn't a specific word, but the Flame Angelmon understood the meaning of the sound very clearly. In such a short moment, he understood everything.

"I understand, I will do this in order to gain the power to protect others"

"Badamon?"

Sakura didn't quite understand what the Flame Angelmon was talking about.

"It's okay, Sakura"

Reassuring Sakura, the Flame Angelmon stared at the Digimon with a serious face and began to make a declaration.

- Ancient Progenitors, Digimons, please listen to my prayers. ――

- I swear by the voice of the gods! Those who do the good of the world punish the evil of the world. Follow the dictates of fate and ask the ancient ancestors to liberate my primordial power! ――

At the end of the declaration, the Digimon's body emitted a dazzling glow that was both warm and serene. The light enveloped the Flame Angelmon's body, transforming its form.

The divine armor that shone with silver light covered the entire body of the Flame Angel Beast, and even its face was completely obscured by the blue helmet; The wings on the back have been transformed from two huge wings to ten golden wings.

Wishing on the Digimon, he evolved into the Ultimate Angelmon after his true power was truly liberated. But the price is that, in order to fulfill the Flame Angelmon's wish to protect it, the Digimon burns out his clone to release the light of pure evolution, allowing him to evolve into the ultimate body.

This is because the Digimon are both a group and an individual, and each Digimon shares the same memories and will. Even if one of the Digimons disappears, the other one will take its place.

"Thank you for your favor, Ancient Ancestors"

Powerful power gradually overflowed his body, and the Ultimate Angelmon firmly believed that he could protect Sakura.

"Sakura, I'll be fine"

Softly, the Ultimate Angel Beast spread its golden wings and resolutely flew straight in the direction where the Golden Armor Dragon Beast was.

"Come on!! Badamon!! Come on!!! ”

Trusting the Ultimate Angel Beast, Sakura shouted for him and cheered him on.