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detectiveichijouji · 9 months

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Case 12 - A fragment’s dungeon

[AO3 version]

Going to school a little late made Daisuke cross his path with a boy named Noel Leblanc, who was an overseas student from Amanogawa High. Daisuke used his good sense of humor and friendlish aura to introduce the kid to the school, with the help of Takeru and Hikari. Meanwhile, Ken discovered what the mysterious ‘treasure’ Arsenemon was after is, and sent the report to Miyako, who called everyone at the karaoke booth to discuss it after school. They learned that said pieces came from a digimental called ‘Digimental of Desire’ and that it was shattered into 20 pieces. Arsenemon has three while the Chosen Children only two. There’s still 15 pieces left!!

However, Arsenemon and his accomplice Espimon discovered the next fragment’s localization -- at Shinjo Michi’s residence. A calling card is sent, and the group went to talk with Michi but they saw Lune with her. And Daisuke dumped this case on the others in order to help Noel again?!

What will happen next?

“... And That’s all!” Daisuke finished explaining the places and routes to go to certain places in Tokyo… by using a map since he’s not very good at explaining things.

“O-oh… Thank you, Motomiya-san…! But… Weren’t you going somewhere with those other kids…?”

“Did you hear us…?” Daisuke blinked, maybe he talked too loud this time…

“No…” Noel shook his head, “I saw you with them and assumed you were hanging out…”

“We were going to a cafe, but you seemed lost again,” V-mon replied.

“Ah… I didn’t want to bug anyone…!! I’m sorry!!”

“N-no, it’s okay, it’s okay!! Daisuke waved his hands, “Besides, they can handle it by themselves, I have faith in them.”

“If that’s the case…”

“Do you have a digimon partner, Noel?” V-mon asked, out of the blue. Noel shook his head, “Ah…”

“Is… Is that bad?” the boy asked, concerned.

“No, but it’s turning into something rare nowadays” Daisuke replied with a sigh, so this kid running around without a digimon might be dangerous… -- he thought.

“There’s big numbers so far” V-mon added, “You might get a partner digimon someday too.”

“No age restriction though, my sister is six years older than me and she got a digimon in 2003--”

Suddenly, Daisuke’s phone rang -- “Just a sec,” and he answered the call, “Heeeeello? H-huh?? You discovered who’s the next target? Ok, I’m comin’ Ken!”

“What’s wrong?” V-mon asked, watching Daisuke hang up the call.

“They found Arsenemon’s target. We have to retrieve that piece before him!”

“Um… Who’s Arsenemon, Motomiya-san?” Noel asked.

“It’s a sneaky thief trying to gather pieces of a forbidden Digimental only for himself!” Daisuke snorted, clenching his hands, “He keeps making fun of us, but not this time!!”

“Hmm… Do you have any proof that he wants it for himself only? Ah, I’m not… defending him…”

“Huh?” V-mon blinked, and Daisuke stood quiet. Noel had a point though… They got something vague about ‘stealing’ a treasure, but… nothing for what purpose…!!

“He said he was going to steal those pieces…” Daisuke frowned, “But not for what purpose… I think…”

“The bad guys… Always want something like world domination… It’s a bit odd, don’t you think?”

“True… Hmm… Maybe next time we meet him, I will straight up ask him!!”

“Daisuke, should we go?” V-mon asked, “Maybe… We can ask him tonight!!”

“Alright! We catch ya later, Noel! Don’t get lost again!” and he and V-mon left, running…

“You shouldn’t do that” Noel heard a voice behind him, and he looked at the tree he was next to, “Why would you--”

“It’s not a lie, you know it… I think they misunderstood what was said.”

“Yeah, they did. Because being vague like this only made things harder.”

“But, doesn’t it make things interesting…?”

“... I won’t reply to that.”

“Soooo… This weird broken Emerald wasn’t actually a normal Emerald and yes a part of a Digimental?” Michi tried to recap everything those people said, right heading to her home.

“Yes/Yeah/Mhm” the 02 Group replied.

“And there’s a phantom thief digimon going after it, so that’s why you want me to give it to you?”

“Yes/Yeah/Exactly.”

“Well, I guess I can give it to you then…” Michi shrugged, “I wanted to make a necklace for a friend but I don’t think I should use a broken gem in it.”

“Will you??” Miyako smiled, “Thank y--” Hikari was about to thank her, but…!

“Besides, if it is a Digimental this could mean a broken Digimental might make digimon go amok without a complete one. So I don’t want any digimon to end up using it on them, including Plotmon or my friend’s Bakumon.”

“-- That’s a valid point here” Takeru blinked. “True, we didn’t get one of those pieces to react to a digimon yet, but it might be plausible” Iori mused.

“Haha, I’m just kidding! It can’t happen, can it??” Michi chuckled, but she noticed the other kids were… Taking it seriously…?!

“..........”

“Are you kidding me!?” She stopped and turned to the group, “Is it possible!?”

“Michi, you shouldn’t take this lightly” Plotmon sighed, on Michi’s arms.

Suddenly, they meet a long black haired girl, running desperately in their direction.

“Huh what is Sara doing here?” Plotmon tilted

“Michi, something’s off with Bakumon!!” she was waverining, pale as she saw a ghost, “Huh, aren’t they…”

“The famous Chosen Children? You bet!”

“What happened to Bakumon?” Plotmon asked.

“... Bakumon found a strange gem and…” she was very hesitant, “Something happened…”

“Could you please give us the details?” Hawkmon asked, politely.

“... Evolved with the gem. But now… It’s running out of control right now.”

“What!?” Michi, Plotmon and the 02 Group’s eyes widened with that big news.

“I think you shouldn’t have said that, Michi” Plotmon looked at the girl.

“D-don’t put the blame on me!! 💦”

At this point, they won’t get the Digimental fragment before Arsenemon, right!?

As the sun goes down, the 02 group alongside Michi find out that Michi’s house has turned into a strange dungeon, possibly fulfilled by Bakumon’s deepest desires. Bakumon evolved into Baluchimon instead of a wild beast, or Monochromon (which is the form Sara achieved before). The place was like a video-game, one of those Bakumon and Sara liked to play with Michi and Plotmon when they were kids.

“What is this…?” Patamon exclaimed, Huh, Takeru’s and everyone’s clothes…!!

They… Changed!?

“Are we on a Final Fan--” Iori covered Armadimon’s mouth.

“Ken-chan got a ponytail!!” Wormmon’s eyes were sparkling with glee, but Ken wasn’t very fond of having his hair way longer than his usual…

“Huh, Michi and Sara’s clothes didn’t change…” Plotmon blinked.

“The calling card mentioned Arsenemon would be here at 9 PM,” Iori reminded them all, “We have to hurry.”

“Alright!/Understood.”

Daisuke wasn’t there yet, though…

“Man, I wish we could be a little faster…” Daisuke whined, running on Lighdramon through the streets, “It’s already nighttime!”

“I’m doing my best here…!!” Lighdramon snorted, annoyed with that complaint,” It would’ve been easier if we went flying straight up there…!!”

“I’m sorry that I picked the wrong choice! But you can’t Evolve into XV-mon if you devolve now. It will waste your energy and you might not be able to fight!! And if you have no energy to evolve you can’t jogress-evolve into Paildramon with Stingmon so this means--”

“Alright alright, I got it…!!”

“... I have an idea! But promise to not drop me in mid-air.”

“Hm?”

“Let’s go to the top of the buildings and go from there, so you don’t need to worry about the traffic or the pedestrians!”

“Daisuke… Are you crazy?”

“You know I’m serious, and I trust you with my own life. So I know you won’t drop me!”

Lighdramon chuckled, “Ok… But hold tight…!” And he started a wall jump to the top of the buildings. Once they landed at the top, they could see some suspicious digimon flying there on his cane as some sort of magical hoverboard, “That’s…!!”

“Arsenemon” Daisuke clutched his hands, holding Lighdramon’s spine tightly, “Let’s go, Lighdramon!”

“Roger!!”

“This is the power of Baluchimon’s Cloud Vision” Ken reported to the group, “I’ve heard of that kind of digimon before… They use this technique to confuse the enemy and lead them to the exit of their territories.”

“Can we evolve?” Wormmon asked.

“I’m not sure…”

“How do you know that information?” Michi asked, impressed by Ken’s knowledge.

“... Um, let’s say I had studied the digimon and its culture before.”

“It was for Chimeramon, right?” The other four 02 kids looked at Ken, saying it with an annoyed voice.

“... 💧” Ken just felt a little… intimidated by their gaze.

“If you’re not sure about evolving… You could try right now” Sara suggested, and Hikari could feel the other was growing impatient by her seizing her hand with the other.

“Worth a try” Michi replied with a nod, “Let’s do it, Plotmon” and he took her digivice from her pocket.

But… Nothing happened. As Ken suspected, the power of Baluchimon was interfering with the digimon’s evolution. Could this mean…?

“Maybe Armor evolution might work” Miyako suggested, “Ok, here we go! Sincerity Digimental-- ” But the Digimental in front of her took the shape of a big shuriken, like the one used by Shurimon. The only difference was the Crest of Sincerity engraved in it “Huh!?”

“What-- How did you do that, Miyako-san?” Everyone asked her, who just felt the pressure over her.

“I… I don’t know!!” she babbled, “I just tried to Armor evolve Hawkmon into Shurimon!”

“That might be Baluchimon’s power too” Ken replied, “Hmm, interesting.”

“Don’t just say ‘Hm, interesting’ and stay there!” Sara finally snapped, “Bakumon is in danger…!!”

“Maybe we can use those strange weapons to advance,” Iori suggested, “Miyako-san and I have two Digimentals each, we can lend one for each of you.”

“Hohoho, gimme a cool Digimental then!” Michi grinned, then Miyako used the Digimental of Love and it became an Ax with the details of Horusmon -- the helmet became the blades or a twin ax “Hohoho, I loved it!!”

“Michi, don’t do anything reckless…” both Plotmon and Sara showed concern.

“So you think we can handle this by… brute force?” Hikari frowned. “There might exist a way to evolve,” Tailmon mused, “We still don’t know how.”

The rest used their own Digimentals and they turned into JRPG weapons too: Ken got a twin spear based on Pucchiemon’s ears; Iori a sword from Submarimon’s harpoon-nose, Takeru a gunbow based on Pegasusmon, while Hikari had a crossbow with Nefertimon’s motif. Iori offered the Digimental of Knowledge to Sara, but she refused: What if I hurt Bakumon!? -- Her denial was so deep that they decided to leave her in Michi and Plotmon’s hands.

With the help of their partners, they faced the challenges imposed by Baluchimon’s illusion. Since everything was fake, they didn’t care about hurting or destroying the enemy digimon popping out from the way -- also, they were weaker than regular digimon… Allowing the 02 group and Michi to beat them with those weapons.

When they were this close to reaching Baluchimon’s realm… Baluchimon itself had eyes glowing in green, just like the gem in its head. Huh odd, because this gem should be red and the eyes blue, isn’t it? -- Ken thought.

“Bakumon!!” Sara shouted with a worried face, “Bakumon please stop!! I… I don’t want to lose you!!”

“S…a…r…a…!!?”

“Bakumon’s reacting to Sara’s voice!” Patamon commented, and the group was still unsure what could happen next.

“Bakumon please… Please stop!!”

“...S…a…r…a……H…e…l…p…!!”

“Y’all need to remove the gem from its head,” they heard a voice?! From where!? “This will revert Baluchimon into Bakumon again!”

“Who’s ther-- Nevermind, Wormmon” Ken looked at his partner, “Use Sticky Net technique on that green gem from its head!”

“Right!” Wormmon nodded and aimed at the said diamond-shaped jewel on Baluchimon’s head, “Sticky Net!!”

The silky net hit the gem, and then all they had to do was to pull it out!! Everyone held the other end of the silk net and pulled it until they heard a “POP!” and the broken gem left Baluchimon’s head. And with this, the entire illusion vanished, as Bakumon regained its original form.

“Bakumon!!” Sara ran towards Bakumon’s direction and fell on her knees, then embraced Bakumon in a warm and tight hug, “Bakumon I was so afraid of losing you!!”

Ken took the fragment from the silky net and looked around, that voice…

“Ken-kun--” Miyako called him, but he ran to the entrance, “Wa-wait, where are you going!?”

The group followed him and Wormmon to find out…

“Yo.”

Daisuke and V-mon??

“Why did you take it so long!?” Miyako snapped, “If we needed to face a strong digimon and the only option were Imperialdramon we would’ve been--”

“I… I had another business to do” Daisuke shrugged.

“What business?” Armadimon raised an eyebrow.

“I met him, Arsenemon… He told me something about those pieces.”

“W-what!?”

“And you let him go!?” Patamon gasped.

“Only this time!” Daisuke growled, “Well, those pieces react to the strongest desires of a digimon, so we should be careful with them.”

“So that’s why you left the note on us inside,” Ken mused, “But why didn’t you come inside?”

“I couldn’t,” he sighed, “Something was preventing me from getting inside. But If you heard what I said…”

“Hmmm…/Suspicious…” they all squinted at Daisuke and V-mon.

“W-what’s wrong with y’all!?” V-mon and Daisuke stared at them in return.

“How did you know about the green gem, if you weren’t inside?” Tailmon asked, Daisuke felt this meant they wouldn’t believe him or V-mon.

“Arsenemon told me. Really, he just let us do it because… He didn’t want to see that Bakumon suffer like that.”

“Suspicious…” Patamon and Armadimon said together.

“ARGH! YA DON’T BELIEVE ME!?” “That’s cruel!!” V-mon dramatically fell on his knees.

“I think he’s telling the truth” Hikari frowned, “But I don’t understand…”

“If Daisuke-san met Arsenemon personally… This means he knows what he looks like, right?” Hawkmon said with a serious tone of voice.

“I didn’t see his face, it was…”

“STOP RIGHT THERE, ARSENEMON!! YOU WON’T ESCAPE TODAY!!” Daisuke screamed, he and Lighdramon were closer to catch the phantom thief this time.

“Pardon, but I can’t let you catch me.”

“Then answer me! Why are you after those Digimental of Desire’s pieces!? Are you a bad guy!?”

“My my… You think a vile digimon would steal those fragments before they run the digimon amok?”

That made both Daisuke and Lighdramon gasp in silence.

“What do you mean!?” Lighdramon asked.

“That Digimental was forbidden and hidden because it drove the digimon insane, besides forcing its user to pay a high cost to achieve that power. It’s a wicked tool, if you ask me.”

Daisuke was confused now…

“Then…Why are YOU stealing those pieces!?”

“That’s something you might not believe me, so I will spare you from the details for now…”

They reached Shinjo Michi’s residence, but once Daisuke tried to get in… Something prevented him and Lighdramon from going inside.

“DARN IT!!” Daisuke snapped, “What should we do!?”

Arsenemon used his own magician powers to look inside, “I’m too late, the fragment reacted to a digimon and evolved it into Baluchimon already.”

“Baluchimon?” Lighdramon and Daisuke repeated.

“I see your friends are inside too, this won’t end well… Unless we do something.”

“What should we do??” Daisuke seemed panicked, “How can we help them??”

“I’ll lend you my magic trick, use it to tell your friends what I’m about to tell you.”

“Daisuke… Should we trust him?” Lighdramon asked, he was tense as well.

“... We have no choice. I accept the deal.”

“So, Arsenemon casted a spell on you?” Hikari asked.

“Yeah sorta, but it didn’t last for much time…” he shrugged, “All I could say was about the green gem on Baluchimon’s head. I couldn’t tell y’all I was outside, or to warn about the piece turning digimon unstable.”

“Hmm, if you say so” Tailmon smiled “We trust you.”

“But why would Arsenemon help us?” Ken asked himself, musing “This is strange…”

“Yeah we don’t know either” V-mon this time shrugged and shook his head.

“It doesn’t matter now,” Takeru smiled, “All's well that ends well.”

They then left, heading back to their homes. But someone watched them from the distance,

“Why did you help them, boss?” Espimon asked Arsenemon, who had a warm smile on his face.

“Let’s say I was paying a favor in return,” he replied, nonchalantly.

What did he mean by that…??

#02 team digimon case files #young prince detective ichijouji ken

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vermilionvector · 2 years

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Digimon Ghost Game EP. 53

This episode was marvelous. There is a lot to talk about here so this one will be longer than usual.

After acting as a tour guide, Kiyo was "invited" to a shrine where he met a mysterious book who offered a game. Each person would ask a question that had a definite answer. If the other side answered correctly, they would gain a piece of the other's knowledge.

The first round was supposed to be a "test" for Kiyo, who answered correctly and he gained a piece of knowledge from the book. On the next day, after facing a complex problem, although unsure about the solution at first, a thought flashed in his mind and he was able to solve it immediately, much to his own surprise.

Lured by the perk of gaining new knowledge instantly, he decided to go to the game every night. This was told in a fantastic way. It had stylized image that represented the event even though it didn't mention the questions exactly. And the speed at which this happened really helped the pacing.

However, as he played, he continued to lose, and more and more of his memory got taken as a result. After many nights, he lost so much memory that he could not recognize faces like Fukatsu, some other dorm students, Ruli, and even his own partner, Jellymon. The voice and gesture that Kiyo had after he lost his memory was terrifying. It's as if that was what he would become if he didn't meet Hiro and his friends.

(Quick cut here, it seemed that even after 52 episodes, Gammamon still couldn't go to the toilet during the night by himself. His voice is so cute here. TBH it only needed an excuse for Hiro to see Kiyo going out at night and it didn't have to be this one. They could've just made Hiro going to the toilet by himself. The fact that they added Gammamon here was, in my opinion, purely fanservice.)

Afterwards, he continued to lose his memory until he couldn't even remember Hiro. This (finally) brought Hiro and Ruli to fully investigate by asking Jellymon. They decided to stalk Kiyo out at night. But holy shit Jellymon you didn't have to be this creepy while stalking your darling.

After they reached the shrine, they were immediately busted and the book transformed itself into its real form, Baalmon, a worshipper of knowledge.

To reclaim Kiyo's knowledge, the gang entered into a quiz battle with him. But knowing that they couldn't beat him in a battle of serious wits since even Kiyo couldn't beat him, props to Ruli for coming up with them being the one who would ask the questions and Baalmon being the one to answer.

And here is where the humor part started. Instead of asking serious questions, all of them shot trivial questions at him, and he couldn't answer most of them. The visuals during these trivial quizzes matched and depicted each character's personality well.

Ruli: Fashion/SNS - Reflecting how she's an SNS icon. The background is a moon, which is a part of her name (Tsukiyono means moonlit night field and Ruli is a reference to a rabbit so Symbare is included as one of her props).

Hiro: Camping - Reflecting how he has so much experience with camping having been on many solo camp trips (and recently with Gammamon as well). The background is the Milky Way, which is a part of his name (Amanokawa means Milky Way.)

Jellymon: Money - Reflecting how she would do anything if she could make a profit out of it. The background is a sea which matches her jellyfish theme. (Baalmon got this question right as he possessed the knowledge he took from Kiyo, though.)

(Symbare)Angoramon: Novel - Reflecting how he loves reading novels. The background is a typical field used in Asian battles. TBH I imagined this scene as Zoro from One Piece (cuz same VA) actually asking this because it's about a swordsman.

Espimon: Espionage - Reflecting his espionage abilities. The background is multiple distorted houses, which could be inferred as to how he could distort perception with his invisibility and how he could cover a large area at once.

And lastly, the most hilarious one (and probably why they saved it for last)

(Betel)Gammamon: Chocolate - Reflecting his innocence and love for chocolates. There is no background here but a set of images which represented his answer (along with cute voices of him calling Hiro. That's the 2nd fanservice here). The camera zoom-in was so dramatic that you expect it's gonna have some serious answer. But oh my god his answer was WAY beyond my expectation and it was hilarious and so befitting of Gammamon.

And yes, as expected, Baalmon is enough with their shenanigans. He denied their trivia as true knowledge and attacked them. They couldn't beat him, but fended off long enough for Kiyo to recover his memory and Jellymon Warp Digivolved to Thetismon. After some slandering and face kicking, Thetismon challenged Baalmon with the final question with the rest of Kiyo's knowledge on the line. Baalmon was very confident with this question because it was about his hometown: How many torii gateways were in a shrine where a popular anime based from?

Baalmon gave his answer right away. However, he didn't take one thing into account: updates. He's like an old-school encyclopedia. Resourceful? Yes. But no way it could be updated instantly. Turned out that an extra gate was installed just the day before after Kiyo donated the money to build it, with a certificate and an email as proofs. Baalmon accepted defeat and returned the rest of Kiyo's knowledge. Then, we have the 3rd fanservice being Kiyo and Thetismon in this fantastic torii shot, showing how much their relationship has developed.

Baalmon decided to go back to Kyoto to seek new perspective on knowledge, and revert his attendants back to "real" ghosts. (Yes. This episode confirmed there IS real ghost in their world after showing the "limbo" in EP. 33.)

The direction with horror, humor, theme, pacing, sound and visuals were all balanced and executed at its fullest. One could say that even though this episode was a Kiyo/Jellymon episode, it actually captured all characters' traits very well. I considered this the best non-lore episode so far. I'd love to see more like this later.

(After some readings, this EP's director was Saiho Noro, who also directed "Who Are You?" and "Red Eye", which were also great episodes both thematically and visually.)

#digimon #ghost game

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