[Digimon 06] Purple

"This is a piece of advice." In the darkness, Zi heard the voice of Badamon again. "It is very dangerous for the soul to leave the body. First of all, without the protection of the body, the soul will become very fragile and more vulnerable to harm; but more importantly, once the soul gets used to the state of leaving the body, it may Leading to loss, in other words, your soul will never return to your body, and will wander outside forever. I don’t think I need to say more about what this means.”

"So please be more careful, otherwise, even unintentional mood swings may cause the restless soul to leave the body again. If someone takes advantage of this... No one knows if you will still have this kind of feeling next time." good luck."

She listened carefully to every word that Badamon said, and was about to say a word of thanks to it, but just as this idea emerged in her consciousness, she felt an unknown force behind her that swept away all her past. The last tug... and then, all she could do after that was to open her eyes with some difficulty.

It's almost summer, and the bright sun's rays overhead make people feel a little bit scorching.Zi's ​​eyes only opened for a moment and then closed again. She quietly adapted to the touch of the sun on the eyelids, and then slowly opened them again.

What comes into view is not the decadent and apocalyptic scene of the Digital Grain World, but the lush green bushes on both sides of the road.The straight road showed an inclined angle according to the height change of the terrain. At this time, she was lying behind someone. Although the other person was walking with her back, they still walked steadily step by step.

She didn't even need to think to realize who it was.

When the hands hanging in front of his shoulders moved, Yu immediately responded, "Are you awake?"

"Hmm..." Zi Hun replied in a dazed voice, trying to bend the hand that was on his shoulder, trying to grab his shoulder, "Well, please let me down."

As if expecting her to say that, You sighed inaudibly, "Sorry, I can't do this." Very rarely, he rejected her request with a firm tone, "Badamon told My current you will be very weak, and I’m afraid you don’t even have the strength to keep standing.” His explanation was more of a cover-up, and the fingers that scratched his shoulders but couldn’t hold his cloth tightly proved this. One point, Zi reluctantly tried several times and finally had to admit that what Yu said was true: she can't even do such a simple thing as controlling her fingers, let alone walking as usual.After recognizing this fact, Zi gave up trying to continue struggling, and her loose hand fell back to the original place. She turned her head a little discouraged, and let her chin rest on his shoulder.

"That, is it over?"

It was not only her voice that came from behind, but also the warm breath when she spoke, which rushed to his ear, which made Yu tremble involuntarily.He had to concentrate on holding his hands around her knees before he answered softly, "Well, it's over."

Facing Patamon's hand extended to him, Yu couldn't think of any reason to refuse.He even felt that he was only caught in the endless entanglement between angels and demons, and it didn't matter even if he was used by one of them now—rather, as long as he could expel that demon from Zi's body quickly, he would become It doesn't matter what it is.

Thinking of this, Yu held the small black paw that Patamon handed him almost without hesitation.

After gaining the power of the angel beast, all difficulties were quickly resolved, and he naturally became the biggest winner of this hunting game.

Zi didn't follow up to ask more details about that battle - she was not Ji, nor Ai Liu, and her obsession with hunting Digimon was not to collect Digimon.Now that Yu had told her that the incident had been resolved perfectly, her trust in him naturally made her let go of the burden of hunting in her heart.

If Uto's friend Kojima Yugo-kun is still stubbornly dragging him to find out the truth about this urban legend tomorrow, at least they will not encounter the threat from Digimon.

When mentioning Yugo Kojima, Zi quickly thought of another person who was passionate about supernatural events.

"What about classmate Dai? How is she?"

The last impression of Kaoru left in her memory was before she was bewitched by the eyes of the magical beast.At that time, Kaoru's eyes were closed and his face was pale and floating in the black mist. It didn't look like he could use simple words like "it doesn't matter" to perfunctory.This made her worry that, when Kaoru went down to the water well to liberate the Demonic Beast, or after she lost consciousness, the Demonic Beast would do something malicious to her innocent classmate and cause her to suffer to irreparable damage.If this is the case, then the sense of guilt that has weighed on her heart since she released the smoke and went down the well cannot be easily eliminated.

Human beings' curiosity about unknown things and their persistent spirit of inquiry to find out the truth should not be the reason for a person to be harmed for no reason.

You heard something from Zi's urgent tone, and immediately comforted her, "She's fine. Don't worry."

In fact, it was Kiki and Airu who found Kaoru unconscious in a corner room of the factory.The two of them unfortunately lost their way in the maze in order to escape from the pursuit of the Dark Dragonmon behind Digi-Xros and Queenbeemon, but they also found Kaoru's location by a coincidence.

Probably after the Evil Beast took control of Zi, it felt that Kaoru was useless, so he threw her aside casually, so that Badamon found an opportunity to protect her with what little power he had left.

"Student Dai also woke up soon after the Evil Beast was captured. And she..." Speaking of this, Yu paused uncomfortably, as if thinking about how to organize her words to explain Kaoru's current situation to Zi, "She seems I lost all the memories of walking into the factory. Before Ji and I left, she insisted on squatting outside the phone booth, waiting for the call that would make a distress call." But after all, it was the demonic beast's curiosity to snare humans. Now that the evil beast has been captured, Kaoru may never wait for the moment when the urban legend comes true.

Knowing that Kaoru was safe and sound, Zi breathed a sigh of relief.After listening to Yuu's explanation, she felt a lot more relaxed, "That's fine." There were already enough people around her who were involved in disputes over Digimon, and by chance, Kaoru was able to forget everything. It's not a bad thing for Zi and herself.

"As for Ji and Ms. Zhouzaki..." Without waiting for Zifa to ask, Yuu took the initiative to tell her about the situation of the other two in their temporary "expedition team": except that they were deliberately left behind by Yuu and then were killed by the dark giant. Apart from the dragon beast chasing them all the way, the two of them encountered no other troubles.Even after several people successfully reunited, knowing that there were two more Digimons in Yu's XrosLoader this time, he was excited and protested like a child.

Just listening to You's description, Zi could imagine Ji's lively appearance, and couldn't help but slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

However, this insignificant smile lasted only for a short moment. After she realized something, it was as if something lightly hit the bell in her heart, causing some indescribable emotion to be as loud as the sound of the bell. , spread to all directions of the body.

She has already asked about Digimon, Kaoru, and Yuu mentioned the situation of Ji and Ai Liu, so... her question should have continued logically, but somehow, the most important sentence, The sentence that she instinctively asked in a nonchalantly concerned tone was stuck in her throat.

The flame that had been suppressed with great difficulty, burned again in her heart when she was not paying attention.

"What's the matter?" She didn't know how Yuu noticed that her situation was different, "Is there something uncomfortable?" Her steady pace slowed down again compassionately.

"That..." Zi struggled for a while, but what she blurted out was completely different from what she had prepared, "I have something to tell you."

Yu's footsteps stopped.He kept his back on her and stood firmly on the sloping road. "Well," he replied in a gentle tone, "tell me." He tried his best to control, trying to present a calm appearance, but the fact is that his tone of voice revealed that his mood at the moment was not at all as good as His steps down the mountain were so steady.

Zi tried to raise her hand that had just regained consciousness and patted Yuu's shoulder, and the latter let go of her knowingly and put her down, and held her at the moment when her feet became weak after landing.

The moment his hand came up, Zi unconsciously turned his eyes to the side.The asphalt beneath his feet still showed a large, irregular patch of dark color, one of the few evidences of the hasty shower that came and went just now.

"I should have told you earlier."

A sour emotion welled up from the bottom of her heart, gradually reaching Zi's throat.When the vacancies in the memory puzzle were filled, some unexplainable puzzles secretly hidden in her heart were finally answered.For her, it was a choice to pretend that nothing had happened, but with her personality, she couldn't continue to pretend that nothing had happened, and continue to accept everything he did for her with peace of mind.

"I have always known the mind of the siren beast."

The moment the words blurted out, not only Yuu, but even the Hualamon in her XrosLoader were greatly shocked.She suddenly stood up from the ground, looked up at the small screen where she could communicate with the outside world.But when a question full of shock rushed to her throat, Hualamon suddenly thought of something, she staggered back to her original position, and sat back again, but her eyes kept staring at the screen, waiting quietly Purple's next answer.

Speaking of this partner, Zi couldn't help but chuckled, "You know she has such a staunch temper, how could she suddenly switch sex because of me. It's hard for her to endure her temper for so long, just to wait for a counterattack time."

"So until the end of the layout, I was hesitating whether to use the power of the Siren Beast. After all, I have always only guessed about the Siren Beast's mind. Her forbearance did not let me find any substantial evidence, so I rashly Stop her actions, I am afraid that there will be a gap between her and me-you know, she is the first Digimon I met in the digital world, she saved me, and has been protecting me since then, she treats me It is the most special existence in the digital world."

"But," Zi said, there was a hint of sadness in Zi's smile, "I chose you."

"I don't care about justice and evil, I just know that at that time, I was standing by your side."

"When I was about to leave the castle, I met the Dark Knight Beast, and what happened after that is certainly not difficult to guess from your words."

The trust that was used by Dark Knightmon because of that moment of hesitation was the most fatal mistake she made.

After finishing speaking, Zi raised her eyes, and her eyes were trembling lips and cheeks that had faded from the blood.The increasingly suffocated heart urged her, making her eager to do something.So she stretched out her hands, held Yu's cheeks, and forced him to raise his averted gaze to meet hers.

"You Jun, I have to apologize. I should be the one who should feel guilty, and the result I encountered in the end was all my own fault." Zi took a breath, thinking that her voice would tremble, but in fact, Her tone and tone were calmer and more indifferent than she imagined, "So..."

"So, you don't need to risk your life to protect me again and again because of guilt."

A few days ago, she still didn't know anything about what she had done in the past. Although she was inexplicable at first, she finally accepted all the tenderness and consideration Yuu had shown her with a slightly vanity mind, and ignored the things he threw at her from time to time. sad eyes.

You must know that he is such a good boy, and she is not a piece of wood, so how could she not be tempted?

Now she finally remembered the cause and effect, and then realized with horror that those ambiguous and charming things she thought were self-righteous were really self-deceiving illusions.

"I'm not worth it for you."

Get over those unnecessary apologies and unreal feelings sooner rather than later.

After saying those words, Zi felt as if she had exhausted her last strength.

She wanted to let go of the hands holding Yu's cheek, but she didn't expect the other's hand to cover her at this moment, pressing down on the back of her hand a little bit forcefully, and holding the hand that was on her cheek firmly in the palm of her hand.He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief at the real, warm skin touch.

"It's not like this." You said in a low voice, "This is completely different from what you imagined."

During the speech, Yu once again avoided Zi's eyes, but this time he gained the courage to speak, "I did approach you because of guilt. I thought that since you are still alive, you have forgotten what happened in the digital world." Everything, then I will have enough time and opportunity to make up for the damage you have suffered. At least in the beginning."

Gradually, his eyes became a little confused, "I don't know when it started, I started to feel excited for such a reason that you don't know, but can stay by your side openly. Reason I understand that the best way to protect you is to let you never know the existence of Digimon, and never let you approach us again, so as not to get into endless troubles, but whenever I think that I am doing this to make up for you, I I will use such reasons to convince myself. Including what the beast said to me, I think I have persuaded myself to listen to his advice, but in fact I am secretly happy that I can prolong the time with you. I am really despicable when I say it , in order to escape from his own heart, he even took advantage of the tenderness and understanding of the beast."

"What 'guilt', what 'compensation'... those are all excuses I made for myself."

The heartbeat speed suddenly accelerated.It was clearly midsummer, but Zi trembled uncontrollably as if in midwinter.

"I mean, can you understand, Xiao Zi?"

Yuu raised her eyes, and there were sad ripples in her lavender eyes, which were similar in color to hers.He carefully studied her face for a while, and then turned his gaze elsewhere again.

"I like you."

His faint voice melted into the noisy chirping of cicadas in summer.

The author has something to say:

I always feel that this chapter should be released on Valentine's Day instead of the first day of the new year, and the effect will be better...

Happy New Year everyone~