HOMOPHONIC 🌺 KYOKO KUREMI

[piteous]

THIS IS DIGIMON?

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[factoring]

[There's something nice about knowing they agree on that front.]

Do you know why?

[piteous]

I have some ideas... Though I don't think he'd like it if I told people.

[ Sometimes you will respect privacy. ]

He already doesn't like it when I say it.

[factoring]

That's fair enough. Everyone is entitled to their secrets.

[But not according to the pigs, one of which displays this memory (until the battle begins).

She just sighs.]

[piteous]

[ DID I JUST WATCH THE MEMORY, BUT NEVER SUBMIT MY TAG ]

Wait—is that you?

[ ALPHA? ]

[factoring]

[ Alphamon, the thirteen Royal Knight, a legend among even them.

Kyoko, smiling, ]

Do you think so? We look very different.

[piteous]

[ You going to gaslight him, well it's working. ]

You... Have to be somewhere in here. This is your memory.

[factoring]

[ The robot has her voice, Vash. ]

It is mine.

[piteous]

[ STILL. IT'S NOT LIKE THEY HAVE MOUTHS? IT'S ONLY BECAUSE DIGIMON IS SO STRANGE TO HIM, so he's having a moment. ]

Alpha... Mon?

[factoring]

[I'm not sure any of the Royal Knights have any visible mouths to begin with.]

That is the name, yes.

[piteous]

[ bwuh ]

Then the body you're using here... It's like an avatar? A puppet?

[factoring]

This is also my body.

[ A girl can have two forms. ]

[piteous]

... But one is digital?

[ Is that right. ]

[factoring]

That's probably the fastest way to explain it.

[piteous]

What's that other guy's deal, anyway...

[factoring]

Duftmon? [ We call Leopardmon Duftmon in this house. ] He's an idiot who thinks everything should be destroyed.

[piteous]

... He kind of reminds me of my brother.

[factoring]

My condolences. I don't wish this kind of person on anyone.

[piteous]

Yeah, my brother is kind of a freak. Even if... I understand why he ended up the way he did, he could learn to calm down.

[factoring]

If I could get all the other Royal Knights to calm down two worlds wouldn't be in this much danger.

Half of them are too stubborn to back down. I know why they're like that but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

[piteous]

... How are humans ruining this other world, if you don't mind me asking?

[factoring]

It's not really all humans. One made a mistake and let something extremely dangerous into both our worlds.

[piteous]

One mistake did that?

[ HELLO? ]

[factoring]

They did rip a hole between our dimensions. That kind of thing is extreme.

[piteous]

That barely sounds like a mistake.

[factoring]

They were doing beta testing for virtual reality back then.

I doubt anybody is expecting to tap into another dimension at all. I'm not even sure they were aware of us until that point. Regardless, I'm not going to say it's the fault of all humanity. We did have a plan to fix all of this.