[Digimon 06] Purple

In fact, it was the best outcome she could have imagined.

Zi lowered her head and kicked the broken vine that was scorched black by the flames and remained on the ground with her toes.This is part of the unfortunate Pharamon that was forced to stay behind when the Rakshasa chose to flee.The flower with sharp petals that can be used as a hidden weapon that was born on its top is currently fixed not far from the vine by a few bright red bee needles.

Looking away from the vine, Zi walked slowly towards his partner.

After passing through Digi-Xros, several parts of Hualamon's body changed accordingly, the most obvious being the pair of dark red wings that once belonged to Waspbeast were born behind her.After gaining the speed of the Queen Bee, the Huala Beast can easily walk through the dense vines of the Raksha Beast, avoiding attacks and finding the enemy's flaws at the same time.It's just that the pair of dilapidated wings painted with dark golden eye patterns are now drooping behind her, which directly and externally shows others that the flower is in a bad mood at the moment.

"Damn bastard..." Hualamon stared at the pothole made by Rakshasamon on the ground to escape, and kept cursing this opponent who would run away.

"This is enough." Zi bent down and patted Hualamon's shoulder as a gesture of comfort.

"How can this be enough!" Hualamon complained loudly, "If it weren't for..." She cast a vicious glance at Noriko Shimura, who was kneeling in the corner of the roof, full of anger, but she didn't know who to vent to.

Zi followed Hualamon's gaze, and saw Noriko Shimura crouching in a corner with her head down.The long hair that fell from her shoulders covered her side face, making it impossible to see her expression clearly.Withdrawing her gaze, she couldn't help but let out a low sigh.

"Don't be brave." Zi whispered to Hualamon again, "Even if Rakshamon didn't use Shimura-san as a shield to limit your attack, you still can't defeat it successfully." Before letting Hualamon attack, She was mentally prepared to accept the worst outcome.After all, no one expected that two consecutive vicious battles would take place in less than two hours.With the current state of the Huala beast, it is reasonable for any accident to cause the hunting to fail.

In this battle, her only goal that must be achieved is to rescue Noriko Shimura.

But Hualamon didn't want to just explain her understated explanation like this, "Damn it! Are you looking down on me?!"

"I'm stating the facts." Zi calmly replied to his partner who was dazzled by anger.Even though Hualamon put on a fierce expression towards her, her round eyes made her expression have no deterrent effect. "Don't worry, that Raksha beast is my prey, and I won't just let it go..." After finishing speaking, Zi shook the XrosLoader in his hand at the Huala beast, "Not going in yet rest?"

The flower turned its back stubbornly and refused to pay attention to her.

"In that case," Zi reluctantly pointed the machine in his hand towards the open space on the other side, "Reload, Molecular Beast."

When the figure of the mechanical Digimon appeared in the open space of the roof, the Phalamon on the side was forcibly turned into a stream of light and absorbed into it by Zi's dark green XrosLoader. "Sorry, the rule book says that hunters can only reload one Digimon at a time," she smiled and looked at her partner who was locked in the XrosLoader, without any apology in her tone, "Now I want to use the Molecular Beast's Strength, it can only wrong you to stay inside temporarily."

Not wanting to continue listening to Hualamon's useless cursing, Zishun put the machine back into his pocket.

"Okay, let's go back." Stopping in front of Noriko Shimura, Zi stretched out her hand to the girl who was huddled in the corner.

After hearing her voice, Shimura slowly raised her head. There were still a few leaves that fell from the Rakshasa Beast in her hair, which made her look a bit embarrassed. "Going back...is that all?" Shimura asked incredulously, "I did such a thing, but you can say 'go back' so easily?"

"Otherwise, what should I do?" Zi asked in confusion, "I have to think like the show in the TV series? Instill chicken soup for the soul to Mr. Shimura aggressively, and then make Mr. Shimura cry and burst into tears to wake up?"

While talking about Zi, she couldn't help imagining such a scene, and finally she shook her head and commented: "That's too stupid."

"Besides, did Shimura-san really do that thing? It's Suzuya Sayori and Yamano Mitsuki who are the first and second graders in the accident. Combining with Shimura-san and your situation in school, wouldn't it be a matter of course? The first suspect? Shimura-san, you are a very smart person, even if you want to do it, you shouldn’t do something so stupid that the public’s suspicion will fall on you.”

Said, Zi raised her hand.

Shimura couldn't help being stiff when he saw her movement, but he didn't expect that Zi just took the leaf that fell in her hair.

"I remember that Shimura-san was a person who would scream in fear when he saw a moth accidentally intruding into the classroom. Does such a timid Shimura-san really have the courage to drive Rakshamon to attack Suzuya and Yamano?" ?" Shimura's reaction naturally fell into Zi's eyes, which made her more sure of her inference.

"Would Shimura-san be willing to take the blame for someone else's crimes that he never did?"

Shimura Noriko lowered her head, and after a long time, she softly uttered a sentence, "The moth thing happened in the third grade, I didn't expect Luo Ye to remember it. Plus today is the second time , the me who was seen by classmate Ruoye."

"I'm sorry." Purple said frankly, "But I will keep it a secret for Shimura-san."

"But there is one thing, everyone is right." Noriko Shimura grabbed Zi's hand and let her pull herself up from the ground.Then she plucked up her courage and looked straight into Zi's eyes, "The reason why Suzuya-san and Yamano-san became what they are now is because Rakshamon heard my wish..."

"Perhaps the jealousy hidden in my heart was indeed exploited by the Rakshasa Beast."

After returning home, Zi received a call from Feihe.

"... I just found out that Suzuya and Yamano seem to be fine."

"Really, really?" Although the news was known in advance - just 10 minutes ago, Zi used the convenience of the digital crystal world to watch the medical staff send Suzuya and Yamano, who were gradually regaining consciousness, to the hospital. Hospital——But in front of Feihe, she still had to pretend to be surprised, "Why all of a sudden..."

"I'm not particularly clear about the details." Feihe in the receiver sighed maturely, "In short, it's good that nothing happened."

safe and sound.

Where Feihe couldn't see, the corners of Zi's lips curled up bitterly as he repeated these syllables.After hanging up the phone, she took out the round school badge engraved with nadeshiko flowers found in the digital crystal world from her school uniform pocket, and put it in front of her eyes for a closer look.The orange sunset outside the window slowly fell into the horizon, and a large swath of black traces bloomed in the sky, swallowing up the sporadic remaining rays of light.

Subsequent investigations into the incident do not appear to have yielded any useful progress.But Zi still received a message from the school at night.After all, Suzuya and Yamano didn't seem to suffer any damage to their health because of this incident, so the school's top management decided to resume normal teaching activities in the school on the second day.

But back at school, Zi found that the seat in front of her that belonged to Mitsuki Yamano had become empty.Teacher Lin casually mentioned during roll call in the morning that Mr. Shan Ye asked for a day off due to physical discomfort and rested at home.The young teacher who had just joined the job pretended to be calm and said this on the podium, but his eyes still uncontrollably glanced at the direction of the other victim, Suzuya Saori.

As one of the accident victims, Saori Suzutani rested her chin with one hand and stared out the window with a calm expression, as if she didn't notice the sights mixed with various complex emotions from the classroom at all.Her behavior was as usual, and she did not change the slightest because of such an accident.

until--

Until the lunch break, under the attention of everyone in the class, Zi Wakaba walked to Saori Suzutani's desk.She tapped Suzuya's table lightly with her index finger, and whispered something to Suzuya.Then Suzuya stood up silently, followed Luo Ye and left the classroom.

Saori Suzuya followed Zi all the way to the rooftop, and subconsciously closed the door connecting the rooftop and the stairwell behind her backhand.After confirming that she would not be disturbed by others, Suzuya turned to the classmate who led her here, "Student Wakaba, what can you do for me?" For some reason, Suzuya's voice seemed to be A little nervous.It is ridiculous to say that the two have been studying in the same classroom for nearly two months, but the conversation between them has never exceeded five sentences.

In the same way, Zi didn't know Suzuya Saori, so she felt a little uneasy.Fortunately, her indifferent face has always been an excellent camouflage. As long as she maintains an external expressionlessness, it is not easy for others to find that she has already been swallowed up by uneasy emotions.

Zi took out the school badge from her pocket and handed it to Suzuya, "Student Suzuya, this is yours."

From Suzuya's ears, the tone she used was gentle and firm, without a trace of doubt.She subconsciously looked down at her skirt, and after confirming that there was nothing there, she still hesitated to glance at the silver Nadeshiko lying quietly in Zi's palm, and did not pick it up immediately, "It is true that I lost it." That's right, I got the school badge," she said uncomfortably, reaching out to touch the front of her shirt, "but Ruo Ye, how can you be sure that this school badge belongs to me?"

Zi lowered her eyes, and her eyes fell on the school badge in her palm. "I noticed yesterday that Suzutani's school badge had disappeared when the accident happened. And this school badge just meets the requirements, so I'm a little concerned..."

Judging from the current situation, there are only two types of people who will throw this thing in the Digital Crystal World: one is Digimon hunters like her, and the other is humans who have had contact with Rakshamon—in other words, The real culprit who sent Shimura Noriko into the Digital Crystal World.

Zi didn't fully explain some words, but when Digital Grain World picked it up, she immediately confirmed the situation of the school badge. The petals in the lower left corner were clean and flawless, without any trace of defect.Through the characteristics of the school badge, the scope of the school badge holders can be narrowed down to at least the students who have only entered the Huajing Academy since last year.The students of other grades have no interest in this matter, and in the end, only those who meet the two conditions of "the first grade in the middle school" and "going to or enrolling this year" are left.

Just after Zi discovered the school badge, she finally dully recalled the unnaturalness she noticed when the incident happened.

That was Sayori Suzuya's jacket that lost the decoration of the school badge.

"So, is this your school badge, Saori Suzutani?" Although she had the answer in her heart, Zi didn't reveal any details about the Digital Grain World.It's like she asked Suzuya Sa to take care of her so far just to return the other party's lost school badge.

Saori Suzuya stared at the school badge in her hand for a while, then nodded suddenly, "Yes." She took the round silver metal piece from Zi's hand, lowered her head and pinned it back to the collar, At the same time, he replied irrelevantly, "It was me who brought Noriko Shimura to that world... before the Rakshamon."

After seeing the school badge, she knew that her argument was meaningless.

After all, she left it in that incomprehensible world—the world where the Violent Rakshasa Beast appeared.

After neatly pinning the school badge on his jacket, Suzuya raised his head.She stroked her short hair hanging by her ears, her delicate face remained calm, "As expected of you, classmate Luo Ye, you don't seem to be surprised by the truth."

"No, it should be Suzuya-san who is worthy of praise." Zi shook her head, "After all, no one would have thought," including before she saw the school badge, "that the person who led this incident to happen was actually a victim." one of you."

"Why?" She couldn't help asking this puzzled question for a long time.Competition between grades?No, it is understandable for Yamano or Shimura to use this as a reason, but Zi can't figure it out. In order to attack Yamano, slander Shimura, and even put himself in danger, it is none other than this mid-term exam. Saori Suzuya, who won the No.1 grade in the middle school.

"What is the reason for you to do these things?"

"Reason?" Suzuya shrugged his shoulders, "If we really want to investigate the reason, it's because of you, Wakaba-san."

"Student Ruoye, you must not know that I was admitted to the Girls' School of Huajing Academy for the sake of classmate Ruoye."

The author has something to say:

Hello everyone, this is the manuscript box.

Your good friend Mouse has not been in the mood to write this article recently, but is keen to write the story of Zi's parents (the prototype), so he sent me to express his condolences.