[Digimon 06] Purple

Feihe opened her shoe cabinet, and as expected, she found the same invitation letter in it, "But the cardboard inside is blank, and there is nothing written on it!" She twisted the envelope with her name on it, turned it over and over, and looked inside and out. Repeatedly, "Why?" Fei He raised his head in confusion, and habitually asked Zi for help.

Purple looked around.At this time, the students who did not participate in the club had already gathered in the entrance one after another. "This is not a good place to talk." She hesitated for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "You...have nothing else to do after school?"

Feihe gave her a helpless yet amusing look, "What can I do?" She asked back, then shook the envelope and letter paper in her hand, "Since we all received this, Senior Daqi and the others must It's no exception. I see, today's street basketball game must be a failure." Fei He, who was proud of her deduction, didn't deliberately control her volume, which made the girls next to her who seemed to be rushing to watch the game all look forward to She cast a dissatisfied look.

As soon as the two of them reached the school gate, Youdou, who had been waiting in front of the school gate for a while, immediately greeted them.

"You Dou Jun?" Seeing You Dou's appearance, Fei He was a little surprised, "Why are you here?"

Hearing this, Youdou coughed unnaturally, not knowing how to explain it to Feihe, he rarely showed a clumsy gesture.

"I haven't had time to tell you yet." Zi sighed, "Youdou is also... the same as us." Due to the comings and goings of people around, Zi dared not speak too bluntly.Seeing Fei He's eyes widened in vain, she knew that the other party had understood her meaning.

"It seems that you have also received it." After explaining to Feihe, Zi walked in front of Youdou.The usual cold face caused or expected this, since she saw Yudou appearing, she didn't show too much surprise.

Youdou took out the invitation card that he had folded in half several times from his pocket, handed it to Zi and went straight to the point, "Sister," he said with a strong bite, "I've already checked, this The invitation card just doesn’t seem to have any words written on it.” As he spoke, he walked between Zi and Feihe, and unfolded the paper facing the direction of the setting sun, “Look.”

Fei He leaned over in a daze, and after seeing the secret on the paper, she opened her mouth unconsciously, "Oh~! So that's how it is!" She suddenly realized that she took out her invitation card, imitating You Dou's movements and opening the invitation card. The invitations were aimed at the setting sun.The orange-red sunlight hit the seemingly empty paper, revealing a faint trace of a barcode.

"Let's go, sister, Sister Feihe." Youdou put away the paper and stuffed it into his pocket, "Let's go to the library to continue the discussion."

The two siblings, who were familiar with the library, quickly occupied a table in the corner of the reading room.After Yuto dropped his schoolbag, he turned around and went to the borrowing office to find Shiori, who used the scanner to identify the hidden numbers in the barcode.Feihe sat opposite Zi with her chin in her hands. Due to her personal interests, she came to the library very few times, so she couldn't help but look around curiously, "It's great that mom works in the library. I had the illusion that 'all the books in this room belong to your family'."

"But my mother is very hard. If you work the night shift, you have to go home very late." She didn't expect Zi to respond to her soliloquy indifferently.It's just that using that indifferent tone will inevitably seem to be accusing, which makes Fei He feel a little embarrassed.

"I... didn't mean that." Sensitively aware of Feihe's changing mood, Zi lowered his head and explained uncomfortably.

Udou's return slightly relieved the lingering embarrassment.After getting the number hidden in the barcode, he borrowed a pencil and copied it directly on paper. "Okay," Youdou spread the paper on the table, pointing to a series of irregular numbers on it, "the second puzzle appears, we must find out what this series of numbers mean."

"If you want to talk about the invitation letter," Feihe snapped her fingers, and she forced her mind to shift from Zi to the inexplicable invitation in front of her. "It should state the time, place and invitee of the event on it. But the envelope says Without our names, the 'invited guests' can be ruled out. Thinking about it this way, this string of numbers refers to the time and place."

"You're right!" Yudou's eyes lit up excitedly.

At the same time, Zi suddenly pushed away the chair and stood up, approaching the bookshelves beside her.

"Ah Zi..." Silently watching Zi's back, Fei He couldn't hide the disappointment on his face, "What's going on..."

"I'm sorry, Feihe-senpai." Seeing Feihe's expression, Yudou also felt depressed.But he knew that it was Zi's own business in the final analysis. Even as her nominal younger brother, he didn't have the right to disclose her personal privacy casually until Zi really figured it out. "Let's take a look at these numbers." He abruptly changed the subject, and dragged Fei He's attention back to the string of numbers, "Look at the top ten, don't they just indicate the time?"

Feihe leaned forward.The first six digits are the year, month and day, and the last four digits are the hour and minute. "That's right! You are too powerful, Mr. Youdou!" She calculated the time in her head, "The time is at nine o'clock in the morning this Sunday. But..." After clicking on the numbers behind, Feihe and Youdou once again Lost in thought, "Where do these numbers refer to?"

"Coordinates." A cold and calm voice interjected between them.I saw Zi returning from the bookshelf at some point, holding a thick atlas.After confirming the coordinates of the location, Zi took a pencil, separated the numbers with commas, and compared them to the numbers to search in the map book.

"It's amazing!" Forgotting the previous grievances for the time being, Fei He didn't hide his admiration at all, "Ah Zi, how did you suddenly find out that this is the coordinate?!" After a short period of excitement, Fei He instantly threw himself on the table "Being with you, I suddenly realized the feeling of being crushed by IQ..."

"But..." Zi's finger moved on the map and fixed on a certain point, "This place is not in Japan."

"That's not a problem." Youdou rubbed his messy hair, "Sister, don't forget, I still have a boat!"

Zi sat upright on the wooden bench in the cabin. From her position, she could see Feihe and Yudou standing side by side on the deck through the glass porthole, perhaps talking about something.And the Huala beast leaned weakly on her leg, completely missing the vigor and vitality of the past.

Zi looked at the backs of Feihe and Youdou, and lowered her head sadly.

She is such a sucker!Obviously there is a knot in his heart that cannot be untied, but he vents all his dissatisfaction on Xiaohe and Youdou in the form of emotions.In the past, I deliberately avoided the crowd and was alone, so I didn't have any worries if I didn't get tied down.But now, she already has such an important friend as Xiaohe, why should she hurt her with indifference?

but.However, once the vacant part is filled, and after remembering all the forgotten things, she can no longer face Feihe's enthusiastic smiling face with her original mentality.

Lying on the purple legs, the flower beast closed its eyes that had been opened secretly.She has seen all of Zi's troubles these days, and she finally vaguely knew that this girl hid in the digital world to escape the real world, and she didn't want to be pulled by her and the boy's forces in another world. In the end... Now that she returned to this girl, she wanted to make amends, and whether she could remind her of the past was secondary.It's just that now that I have remembered, I must learn to let go of past entanglements and move on.

"What are you looking at?" Zi Leng's voice made Hualamon tremble.

Unable to pretend anymore, Hualamon simply opened his eyes and stared back pretending to be fierce, in fact to cover up his guilty conscience at this moment, "You don't care what I do!"

Zi tilted his head and stared at her for a while, then said, "I never thought that Digimon would be seasick."

Hualamon's pale yellow cheeks flushed red, "... I want you to take care of it!"

This standard reaction made Zi suddenly feel a little more relaxed.She didn't notice that she pursed her lips lightly.

The space distortion of the digital grain world has shortened the long voyage a lot—although in the eyes of Hualamon, this long journey looks like a silent torment.They soon reached the island of their destination.From the map, the area of ​​the entire island is not large. Most of the island is covered by tropical broad-leaved plants. The shallow sea area of ​​the beach is the landing location chosen by the iron hook beast for the pirate ship.

After putting away the pirate ship, the three of them and their partner Digimon entered the forest along the only path opened in the forest.Not long after walking, everyone heard a melodious sound of the piano.Following the direction of the sound of the piano, a half-collapsed bungalow came into view.Without hesitation, Zi walked into the building first, followed by Youdou and Feihe.

The interior of the bungalow looks a bit like a dilapidated bar.There are already several hunters sitting on the long bar, their Digimon partners are either vigilantly following their partners, or hiding and secretly watching.If there was a word to describe their attitude, it would be malicious.

Surprisingly, the source of the music that guides them is someone's leisure.Ryoma Mogami was sitting in front of the upright piano in the corner, his slender fingers hopping back and forth across the keyboard, composing beautiful movements as the keys rose and fell.His partners, Ren Tobari and Airyu Suzaki stood by the piano on the left and right.

"Tch, isn't it just knowing how to play the piano, what's so great..." Fei He stretched his face and muttered.Zi's ​​hostility towards the Ryoma trio has long been subtle to her.So, she purposely walked to the piano—squeezed Susaki Airyu away politely, and sat down on the empty seat beside Ryoma.After the latter glimpsed her appearance from the corner of his eye, his hand hanging in mid-air couldn't help but froze for a moment.That is, during these few seconds of free time, Fei He stretched out his hands and pressed the black and white keys, and a few simple notes filled the unnatural vacancy just right.

However, Ryoma did not show a trace of anger at Fei He's interruption of his performance, but continued to play with her four hands with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.After all, Feihe's insertion in the middle not only did not destroy the integrity of the whole piece of music, but she knew when and what kind of notes could perfectly become the accompaniment to the main theme.

It's just that the music gradually changed from soothing to joyful, and the main tune that was originally dancing at Longma's fingertips gradually shifted to Feihe's fingertips.Just changing the pitch and the speed of playing can completely change the style of the whole tune.

Zi quietly enjoys the piano music, but Youdou on the side is stunned when he hears it.He turned his head almost simultaneously with Hook Beast and Flower Beast and looked at Tabby Beast. After accepting these gazes, the latter had to spread his hands and shrug his shoulders to express his helplessness.

The song is over.Zi looked down at the watch, the minute hand almost stopped at the position of "12", and finally the belated hunters also stepped into the cabin with the end of the music—unsurprisingly, it was Da Qi who hadn't been seen just now. People, besides Yu and Ji, they were accompanied by a tall, thin boy whom they had never seen before and a Doberman pinscher.

After meeting Daqi's line of sight, Zi bowed slightly to say hello.Yu looked at her, then lowered his head with a pale face.

"Hahaha, there are more than I imagined!" A familiar laugh sounded from a high place.Everyone looked up to the second floor, and saw the grandfather of the watch shop standing on the stairs with the clock beast overlooking everyone.

The quick-tempered Akashi Kiki is always the first to grab the white.It looks like he can't wait to get started on this hunt.

"Yes, this is the starting point of this hunting competition." The grandfather of the watch shop showed a mysterious smile. He raised his crutch and pointed to a certain place on the island. Digimon. It is the target you are going to hunt this time."

Feihe left the piano and returned to Zi and Youdou, but she kept turning her head and listening carefully to every word the grandfather of the watch shop said.

"That is to say," the tall, thin boy who was following Da Qi with his hands folded behind his head said carelessly, "The hunter who catches that Digimon is the winner, right?"

"That's right." The grandfather of the watch shop nodded affirmatively, "But as a rare species, it is the best prize. Don't underestimate the ability of this Digimon. By the way, as a hunting operation, there is no Any rule depends on each individual's ability. Whether it is cooperation or competition, the choice is in your own hands."

As if responding to the words of the grandfather of the watch shop, the ferocious roar of animals came from far away.I don't know if it was affected by that Digimon's ability, but the originally clear blue sky suddenly turned into a fiery color.Several glass windows of the mansion shattered at the same time amidst the deafening roar.