[Digimon DA] Parallel Lines

After the Haneda family lost her mother, Haneda Chika took over almost all the housework.In the past few years, she felt that she was becoming more and more like a housewife, and for a while she had some fun as a housewife, so she taught herself to weave for a while.

As a result, she gave up halfway through the scarf she knitted for her father because her knitting skills were too bad.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help holding her forehead, and sighed helplessly.

She does not sew and patch on weekdays, and knows that her fingers are not that clumsy, but only knitting, her fingers are not so dexterous, and she was busy with other things later, so she didn't study any more.She took out the yarn balls and knitting needles that she had bought in the early years. There were quite a few left over at that time, and she was not willing to throw them away because they were not cheap.

It's really fortunate that I didn't want to lose it.

She picked a color that matched Yagami Taichi from the paper bag, and a smile unconsciously rose from the corner of her mouth.

This time she read the book and studied with special care. She didn't know if the recipient of the gift was different or her mood was different.

During the time before going to bed, she learned to weave from the book, and sometimes there was a gap somewhere, and she had to dismantle the previous weave and start over again.Maybe it was because of her competitive spirit, she didn't even notice it until the wee hours of the morning.

"It's...it's late."

The black big-eared beast, which fell asleep early because it was too tired, saw the desk lamp on dimly, and then realized that its partner was still awake.

She looked at the clock, it was already this time.

She put the semi-finished products with some progress into the bag, and placed the bag in the wardrobe.This gift should be treated as a surprise.

After she turned off the light, there was still a faint smile on her face.

It was the first time I received such a girly gift from her, what kind of expression would that boy have?

***

The result of staying up all night knitting scarves is: Chika Haneda went out the next day with an expression of not getting enough sleep.

Coincidentally, as soon as she went out, she met the Yagami brothers and sisters.

"Qianhua, good morning."

"Well..." She rubbed her eyes and said, "Good morning."

"Sister Qian didn't sleep well last night?"

Chika Haneda looked at her caring "sister" Hikami Yagami, smiled and touched her head and said, "It's okay, it's just a little late to weave the scarf..." After that, she was stunned, she just didn't get enough sleep, How did you say the most unspeakable thing?

"Knitting a scarf?" Yagami Taichi recalled that one year she happily wanted to give her father a hand-knitted scarf, so she asked doubtfully, "Are you going to weave it for your uncle?"

"Uh...um." Chika Haneda could only admit along the topic, she didn't want him to know in advance that she was going to give him a scarf, and there was still about a month to weave, that is, there was still a month to go to hide.

Hikaru Yagami looked at Chika Haneda with a strange expression, smiled and said, "I thought Sister Chi was going to weave a scarf for my brother."

"No!"

"how is this possible!"

Chika Haneda and Taichi Yagami said two different words almost at the same time, but both of them had suspicious reddish faces.After she reacted, she looked at him with a little dissatisfaction: "Are you disliking what I wove? If it was for you, this is your response?"

"No...that's not what I meant." Yagami Taichi sensed something was wrong with Haneda Chika's words, but he only wanted to appease her, and he didn't have time to think about what she meant.

"Because, you just gave me some simple things before... Wouldn't it be strange if you suddenly put so much effort into knitting my scarf?"

Seeing his usual smile, she almost walked away angrily.

In fact, she was planning to do just that.

very strange?

This reason seems to be not the first time I have heard it.

It turned out that the many thoughts she had hidden and the only one she wanted to reveal secretly were just a "strange behavior" in his eyes.Thinking of this, not only anger but also bitterness welled up in her heart.

"You're right...that's right." She didn't know whether she should smile sadly or sneer angrily, so she turned her back to him, unwilling to see his face. "It's very strange."

"Don't worry, I don't want to give you a scarf."

She quickened her pace, ignored his shout behind her, and went back to middle school alone.Yagami Taiyi looked puzzled, and still didn't understand why he angered her.

"Maybe Elder Sister Qian really wants to give my brother the scarf she wove herself." Hikaru Yagami looked at his brother worriedly, and sighed silently. "Brother, if you say that, of course Elder Sister Qian will be angry."

"But..." Yagami Taiichi didn't think that much, after all, Chika Haneda has always been precocious in her thinking, she has a lot more thoughts than her peers, and she doesn't think as straightforwardly as he does. "If you want to give it to me, just be honest."

He knew that Chika Haneda was always duplicity.

He said so in his mouth, but he knew in his heart that she used that way of speaking to hide the matter of giving gifts, which was just her usual style.

"She...could it be that she wanted to surprise me?"

He looked in the direction where Chika Haneda was leaving, and the girl's figure had disappeared, but he still seemed to see her back leaving in a rage.

Yagami Hikaru looked at his brother with strange eyes for a long time.

It turned out that her brother was not as dull as she had imagined.

***

"So you came back so angry this morning?" Sakamoto Qianxia couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing for a long time, before giving Chika Haneda "smooth hair" to Haneda Chika who no longer wanted to speak.

"Actually, Senior Yagami's words don't mean anything else. Do you think it's strange for him to receive your gift, or is he extremely happy?"

Haneda Chika thought for a while, and the picture of the boy smiling shyly when he put on the scarf she knitted almost clearly appeared in his mind.

According to his character, he must be happy.

He dared to give it a try.

Sakamoto Chinatsu is smiling on the surface, but her heart is full of helplessness. Recently, her friend's "tsundere" level seems to have increased a lot.

When she met a certain boy, her best friend always looked like this, which made her feel a little funny.

"Then you are not angry?"

"It's strange."

She said something sullenly, but the expression on her face was no longer as cold and terrifying as the ice she saw this morning.

She thought she was rational enough, but she felt extremely aggrieved and angry because of his unintentional sentence, as if she was about to burst out the emotions hidden in the past like a storm, but she tried her best to suppress them back.

The emotions of girls in love are always capricious.

Maybe as long as the other party says "Apologize", she will readily forgive him, but maybe she will continue to be angry until one day she opens her knot for no reason.

The premise to prove all this is that Yagami Taichi found an opportunity to apologize.

He wanted to have a good talk with Haneda Chika, but also felt that something was wrong with him, at least he wanted to say "I'm sorry".

However, the other party was obviously avoiding her, and even asked his good friend Sakamoto Chinatsu to stop him who wanted to find her during lunch and small breaks.

"Senior Iori, I'm sorry." Sakamoto Chinatsu smiled apologetically, as if she had agreed with Haneda Chika. "Qianhua is absent, but... I can't tell where she went."

"You better let her calm down, otherwise no one will be able to help you if you step on Qianhua Meow's tail again."

Wait, he seems to have heard a very cute address just now.

"Qianhua... Meow?"

"That's right." Sakamoto Chinatsu smiled softer than usual, but he felt that there was something deep in her smile. "Senior Yagami, don't you think Chika's attitude is like a cat?"

Yagami Taichi thought about it, but couldn't refute it.

"Qian Hua Meow" comes close to you when he likes it, but because of some small things, he is sensitive and no longer approaches him, and sometimes he will strongly resist, but he will not catch him, but just run away like a kitten with fur up.

For some reason, when he thought that Chika Haneda would stay by his side obediently sometimes, his face felt a little hot.

"Well... thank you, but I will not give up, I will still find a chance to have a good talk with Qianhua."

After Yagami Taichi left, Sakamoto Chinatsu retreated into the classroom, looked at Haneda Chika who was staying in a corner behind the classroom door, and smiled.

"He said he wouldn't give up... Qianhua, what do you think?"

"I did not see anything."

Haneda Chika turned her head away, she clearly had a smile on her face before, but now she deliberately tried to look like she was still angry.

Sakamoto Chinatsu sighed, what a dishonest child.

But, that's what she likes about her friend.

***

After school, Haneda Chika was delayed for a while while on duty, so she had to join the elementary school group later.As soon as she got home, she saw the black big-eared beast opened the Kyoto dim sum raw Yatsuhashi cake that Jing Shangjing had given her before, and ate it with great relish.

It opened the snack without her consent, afraid that she would blame it, and put the half-eaten snack behind it, but forgot to cover up the opened box on the table.Chika Haneda laughed, pinched its face and said to it, "I planned to give you something to eat, but I have to save some for Dad."

"I'll only eat one!" The black big-eared beast was reluctant to eat in a hurry, and ate the snack bite by bite, with an expression of enjoyment. "You're going to the digital world, aren't you?"

After Haneda Chika asked her to wipe her hands clean, she put away the box of snacks, carried it into the room, and changed her uniform.When she opened the closet and saw the bag of the woven scarf, she suddenly thought, Yagami Taichi clearly said that he wanted to talk to her, and he just stopped her in front of the school gate, but he disappeared. I wonder if he simply forgot about her. Play football.

Then, another thought appeared in her mind, maybe he was really busy with something, and she avoided him repeatedly, she has no right to blame him, right?

She shook her head, thinking about it, it would be even more confusing.At this time, she received an email from Mitsuko Izumi asking her to go to the elementary school.After she set off in a hurry, she realized that Mikoko Izumi had researched a new technology that allowed them to display deviations and distortions in the digital world on the digital terminal.She stared at him for a long time, until he asked her what's wrong with the whole body uncomfortably, she hecked twice, and said: "As expected, you are indeed our military advisor."

Sure enough, it is worthy of being our "Technology Emperor".

Quan Guangzilang didn't know the version in her heart, but thanked him gently while sweating.

After they entered the digital world, they followed the instructions on the digital terminal and entered the digital world.

Ichijoji Xian met in the middle of their hasty journey, but they still couldn't stop the Dark Battle Greymon, and the third sacred stone was destroyed.After seeing the lingering smoke of the explosion in the distance, they already had a bad feeling, but Wutumon, who was carrying Chika Haneda, suddenly looked towards a certain direction in the sky and stared intently.

"What's wrong?"

Wutumon shook his head, and said to her in his usual calm tone:

"Nothing at all."

For some reason, she felt a different feeling from that sentence without any obvious changes.

However, another person who reacted wrongly at the scene distracted her attention, preventing her from getting a chance to delve into the matter of her partner.

Gao Shiwu's feelings were stronger than theirs.

The sacred stone was destroyed, they came late, if this happens in the future, will the sacred stone be destroyed?

No, Chika Haneda felt that this was not what Gao Shiwu cared about most.

"It's not going to work."

"The Digimon born in the Tower of Darkness actually use the power of darkness to distort the digital world. I will never allow such a thing to happen!"

Hida Iori felt that this scene seemed to have happened before. In the base of the tyrannosaurus reformer, Gao Shiwu, who had always been calm, was completely different from the usual, and had a fierce resistance to the power of darkness.He looked at Chika Haneda with a calm face beside him, feeling like he wanted to ask her something, but he didn't know how to ask her.

When Gao Shi Wuzhi found the sacred stone before the Dark Battle Tyrannosaurus, he seemed extremely calm and rational.

Chika Haneda probably understands the question under Iori Hida's hesitant expression. Speaking of which, except for her who can use the power of the badge to make her partner evolve, the remaining two boys are likely to be the next pair." Partner of Fusion Evolution.

She thinks that "combined evolution" may be a way for the chosen children to be opened up by the forces who hope for peace in the digital world, so that the partner Digimon who cannot easily fully evolve have the power to protect the digital world.Then, she with the badge in her hand is probably not included, and the others should be divided into groups according to their personality.

Gao Shiwu, who is usually a good boy, has the same sensitivity to dark forces as Hikaru Yagami, but has a different fierce reaction from her; the serious and serious Hida Iori has a bit stubborn personality, and has shown obvious anger and resistance to evil forces. .

These two children are quite similar.

"Iori, I don't know exactly what you want to know, but I won't say anything."

"……Eh?"

"If you want to know, go find out for yourself."

Hida Iori felt that today, this senior still carries a sense of mystery.

Naturally, Chika Haneda didn't know what was going on in his mind, nor did she know how much she had become a powerful "master" in his heart.She stepped forward and said to the people who were discussing:

"Actually, I think that even if a sacred stone is protected, it may still be destroyed by Dark War Greymon while we are away. In that case, why not..."

"Sister Qianhua." As she expected, Gao Shiwu would not agree to her proposal. "Until the last moment, I still don't want to easily take away a conscious individual."

"I know." Chika Haneda sighed, and if they really wanted to fight each other, their partner was actually sure of winning. "I'm just saying, can you find a space to trap it. Of course, I agree with the suggestion that you find the sacred stone one step earlier than it does."

"You are my companions, even if the values ​​are different, I will respect your decision."

They didn't expect Haneda Chika to be so frank, and even admitted that they were companions, and they felt a little happy.

What they didn't know was that behind her, she sighed silently.

If she faced Yagami Taichi, it would be great if she had this frankness.

As a result, they still haven't found the rest of the sacred stones.

Of course, this is not the time to be dejected. After all, they have been fighting for a long time, and they still have this patience.

"Come on tomorrow!"

As Daisuke Motomiya said, they have to work hard tomorrow, and they have no time to be depressed.

After returning home, she closed the door, but she didn't know that she happened to miss the time when Yagami Taichi came back.No, even if she knew about it, she would only think it was a good thing.After she calmed down, she felt that she must have been mentally younger this morning due to lack of sleep.

Even if his words made her sad, she didn't have to act like a child to "hide and seek" with him.In order not to repeat the same mistakes, after dinner, she only knitted for a while, and went to bed early, so that Yagami Taichi, who was looking at Haneda Chika's room from the balcony, saw that the lights in the room had been turned off, and could only go back to herself in disappointment. room up.

***

The next day, something big happened.

Gabumon, who was protecting the area, found them at Beetlemon's request, and told Agumon that Dark War Greymon might have a soul.

"Have a heart?"

"Isn't it changed by the Dark Tower?"

"It seems to be troubled by this, and I don't understand why it has a heart when it has no life."

"Really? Why did Dark War Greymon fight against us? And why did it destroy the sacred stone?"

When Gabumon saw Chika Haneda, he remembered what Agumon said, and said, "Actually, I don't know too well... By the way, it is said that Chika and Black Big Earmon were next to Agumon at that time, would you have any? what idea?"

Yagami immediately reacted, approached her and said, "Sister Qian, have you met Dark War Greymon? Why didn't you tell us?"

Haneda Chika was stunned.

To be honest, there is nothing to hide about this matter, she simply forgot because too many things happened recently.

"I forgot, sorry."

"...Sister Qian, how could you forget such a thing?"

Knowing that Iori Yagami would not question her further, she expressed her opinion with a wry smile.

"As Gabumon conveyed, that guy seems to be confused. It wasn't born from a digital egg. Why does it have a soul when it is lifeless? What is the meaning of its own existence? ... In short, this kind of dialogue with strong philosophical meaning, In the end, Agumon had no choice. At that time, it seemed to sense the fluctuation of the sacred stone, and it went mad to destroy it. Maybe it took destroying the sacred stone as the meaning of its existence.”

"How can..." Iori Hida looked embarrassed, and said, "To defeat a Digimon with a soul, I can't do this kind of thing..."

Gao Shiwu insisted: "No, we must defeat it, otherwise the dark forces will definitely become more terrifying and powerful than they are now."

"...The determination to defeat it is one thing, but whether you have the strength to defeat it is another matter." Haneda Chika unceremoniously poured cold water on everyone, wanting everyone to recognize and seriously consider the reality Case. "Now we have three full-body Digimon in terms of combat power, but the strength of Dark War Greymon is already the ultimate body, and it was born from the Dark Tower, so its power is terrifying."

"Sister Qianhua means...do you want us not to fight it?"

Haneda Chika felt that he was too excited when he mentioned the dark power, although she would have a strange physical resistance reaction, she was not qualified to talk about others. "Calm down, I just think that we may not be able to fight against it... Maybe we need some soft tactics."

Later, except for Iori Hida, Chika Haneda and Takeshi Takashi, everyone set off on their own.In fact, she didn't mean to hinder the communication between the two children. It's just that her Digimon only has an armor-evolved form to fly, but in this high-mountain terrain, it may be dangerous if you don't pay attention.In addition, the remaining four people who set off can fight against the enemy through combined evolution, and she stayed so that the two children would not even have time to call for help when they encountered the sinister Akiri beasts.

They chose the land route and walked up the mountain road.

"Iori, are you alright?"

"Yes, it's fine."

"By the way, I forgot that you were training in kendo."

Hida Iori nodded, looked at Haneda Chika who was walking in front of him and behind Takashi Takeshi, and honestly expressed his thoughts.

"What I didn't expect was that Chika-san's physical strength is also good."

"Because I have specially trained myself." Chika Haneda walked with the black big-eared beast in her arms. She looked at the partner in her arms. It seems to be heavy recently. Could it be that she often carries it and walks away? reason?However, after looking at the terrain here, she was afraid that it would step on the air and fall from the edge of the cliff, so she still had to hug it.

"That...for what training?"

"Inspired by a poignant experience."

Seeing that she was unwilling to elaborate, Hida Iori didn't ask.Of course he didn't know that ever since she and the injured wizard beast were the sufferers who couldn't even run up the stairs in the blood-sucking monster incident, she was determined to exercise her strength.

He looked at Gao Shiwu who was walking in the front, and couldn't help muttering to himself: "He...does he have a dual personality?"

"Huh?" Chika Haneda caught this sentence sensitively, and asked him, "Are you referring to Wu?"

"That's right... Takesan who takes good care of me on weekdays, and Takesan who is determined to defeat the Dark War Greymon with a heart, it seems like two people."

Judging from the address, Hida Iori has a certain respect for Gao Shiwu, although he also uses honorific names for other people.

She smiled lightly and asked him, "You want to know?"

"Eh?...Yes."

"But I won't tell you." She saw the other party's tangled expression, and the depression caused by the stalemate in the relationship with Yagami Taichi was somewhat relieved, and her steps were a little more cheerful. "As I said, if you want to know, go find it yourself."

"Getting to know a person is different from knowing an event. No matter how many people and objects are involved in an event, the most basic "facts" still exist. But when you get to know a person, you will find that the person There are many different faces, but those are the basic facts of that person, and they are all necessary existences to construct the "him" we know."

"...Although I don't understand it very well, I will try my best to understand it."

She smiled and stopped talking.

Although it somewhat reminded him, she didn't dare to think that she knew Gao Shiwu very well. What she knew was only the faces of the people who had experienced things together.

She spoke so profoundly, but she was just fooling a child.

Well, I feel much better.

***

After discovering the sacred stone, Dark Battle Greymon really came.The full-bodied Digimon immediately stepped forward to block it. It was once able to stop it from advancing, but Akirimon and Mummymon came to hinder them, making them unable to focus on dealing with Dark War Greymon.

The Gryphon and Mechadramon were held back by them, unable to stop the Dark Battle Greymon.

However, the other full-strength Jade Rabbit... was not there.

That's right, the three people walking from the mountain road did not find the sacred stone as quickly as the group on the empty road. When Gao Shiwu heard the shout of Iori Yagami, they found that it was already a hard fight.Haneda Chika let her partner evolve into Jade Rabbitmon, and fought side by side with the other two mature Digimon.

The Angel Beast was beaten by the Dark Battle Tyrannosaurus and couldn't fight back. The Jade Rabbit rushed forward and knocked the enemy away, and hit the opponent far away with the move "Shangguang Lightning Strike".However, before the Jade Rabbit could help the Angel Beast, the Dark Battle Tyrannosaurus rushed back and hit it from behind.Jade Rabbitmon knows that it can't dodge, otherwise Angelmon, who is struggling to stand up, will bump into the opponent's "Dark Battle Tornado".

Jade Rabbit Beast endured the attack and still fought tenaciously, but it really couldn't last long against the Dark Battle Tyrannosaurus alone.When Haneda Chika looked at a broken puppet lying in the distance, her heart almost stopped, and she rushed over without thinking.The Jade Rabbit wanted to protect the little girl who ran towards it no matter what, but was trampled on by the Dark Battle Tyrannosaurus.Chika Haneda ran up to it, staring at this existence composed of dark forces without fear.

She will not beg it to let her partner go.

But she couldn't back down and watch her partner suffer and just stand by.

To Dark War Greymon, she is nothing more than a girl who can be easily killed with one hand.

Just like the little flowers on the battlefield that day, they are all things that can be easily destroyed.

Facing the girl who was glaring at him angrily, it unexpectedly hesitated.

Can't kill her.

No, everything that stops it from destroying that stone will be destroyed.

"Go away, I'm going to destroy this stone."

"Even if you destroy all the stones, you still won't get anything." Haneda Chika hugged her partner who still had strength but had degenerated into a black big-eared beast, and stood in front of the sacred stone.

"As long as you haven't understood your own heart and the meaning of having a soul, no matter how much you destroy the sacred stone, you still won't understand the meaning of your own existence."

"Enough, if you don't go away, I'll kill you too."

Seeing that his partner and Jade Rabbitmon were seriously injured, and Haneda Chika was about to be attacked by Dark Battle Greymon, Gao Shiwu's anger had reached its peak.He remembered the dream last night, in which the angel beast was defeated, and he couldn't protect everyone well.

Everything is going to be defeated by the dark forces?

There can be no such thing!

Horror, hatred, trembling, darkness... the dark forces want to change the world, and even attempt to control the world. Such things... are absolutely unforgivable!

Gao Shiwu's determination, coupled with the power of the sacred stone, made the angel beast miraculously evolve into a full body without a badge.

It's not a fusion evolution, but a true complete body super evolution.

"Angel Beast Super Evolution──Holy Angel Beast."

Chika Haneda saw that the holy angel beast was surrounded by the holy light and stepped forward to block it. Considering that her position was really awkward, she might be caught by the aftermath of the war zone if she was not careful, but she didn't dare to move.

The holy angel beast stood in front of her and said, "It's very dangerous here, you should hurry back to everyone."

Haneda Chika knew that it was setting a retreat for herself, she nodded slightly to thank it, and said, "I'll leave it to you." After that, she ran towards Hikari Yagami and the others, and anxiously noticed the wound on the black big eared beast.Although it didn't degenerate into a juvenile due to exhaustion of power as usual, as a growing black big-eared beast, it also suffered a lot of injuries.

However, the "Heaven's Gate" used by Holy Angelmon was unable to send Dark WarGreymon out of the Digital World, and it destroyed another sacred stone.

"I will never leave the digital world like this!"

"I must fight it to the death!"

it?

After the sacred stone was shattered, a holy light appeared, and a figure writhing in pain appeared in the light.Haneda Chika thought, is it the one in the Dark Battle Greymon talk?

Is it a Digimon too?

The black big-eared beast in her arms was a little fuzzy, and it called softly: "...Master Beast." She didn't hear what it said clearly, and when she looked into her arms in confusion, she saw that it had passed out .

***

The things in the digital world were enough to worry her, and the black big-eared beast was injured again, so she finally fell asleep peacefully.

She really doesn't have the heart to avoid Yagami Taichi anymore, so let's have a good talk with him.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered something.

When I was on duty yesterday, the student who was also on duty was a teenager.

Seeing that she was looking at him, the other party explained that he and his original classmate had changed their duty time, so they were on duty with her.

She just nodded and didn't want to talk anymore.After all, she didn't even know the classmate who was on duty before, so it didn't matter much to her to change someone else.While she was sweeping the floor silently, the other party asked her a question abruptly.

"Haneda, what kind of relationship do you have with that Yagami-senpai...?" He started talking to himself, even though she didn't want to pay attention to him.She sized him up a few times, and he didn't look like a gossip, and her face was somewhat calm. "I saw that you were hiding from him. Could it be that he did something to you?"

"It's none of your business." Haneda Chika replied coldly, then packed her equipment, and the part she was responsible for had already been packed.She was naturally not very happy when asked about private affairs, or private affairs that she was worrying about.

Before leaving the classroom, she glanced at the last name of the day student on the blackboard.

This guy who disgusted her is "Sasaki".

After the memories were over, Haneda Chika was a little upset.

Could it be that the matter between her and Yagami Taiichi has been silently paid attention to by the people around her?

Still can't knit a scarf today.

After she turned off the light, she touched the sleeping black big-eared beast's head and sighed.

The author has something to say: Sunday's update, I looked at the time, hehe.

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There have been a lot of small theater memes recently, but I am too tired to write next time_(:3」∠)_

☆, Tanabata Extra Knight, Witch and Hero

There is such a place, just like the world in RPG games, where there is such a profession as "brave".

And Taichi is a brave man.

In fact, his family is not a family of "braves" for generations, but an ordinary small family.It's just that one day the prime minister of another country selected eight children in their country as communication envoys, and people at that time called them "chosen children".Since returning from exchanges in that country where "Digimon" is the mainstream nation, he feels that the world is so big that he still has to take an adventure.

Thus, Taichi became a trainee "brave".

In the era when there was no big devil, the brave just existed to fight monsters to gain experience. As for why such a boring profession still exists in this country... please regard it as a manifestation of Guotai Minan.

In order to make himself step from "apprentice" to "formal", he got a task from the Brave Guild as an exam.

──『Subjugate the witches in the western forest for a period of one month. 』

One month.

Probably that witch was really dangerous, that's why he let him, a young brave trainee, go and set such a long period of time.He remembered that before joining the guild, he had helped them restore their mad companions to their original state in the digital country. Even though it felt like a long time, it was only a day's work.

The western forest is a place close to the border between his country and the Digital Kingdom. In the early years, some criminals often smuggled products through this vicinity to evade customs duties. It is said that some of them were transporting some bad "drugs".In recent years, there have been more rumors in this forest, that a witch has occupied this forest and drove all the perpetrators back, which also makes it a bit inconvenient for those who usually use the western forest as a passage.

Today, under rumors, Westside Forest is also known as "Witch's Forest".

Regarding the rumors, it was said by Takashi-san, who used to have a good relationship with his younger sister and was one of the "chosen children".As for the perpetrator, it was information obtained from his sister's classmate, who was said to be the son of an official's family.

It seems that the surname is Ben Gong.

The younger sister seems to be very busy, so Tai set off alone, and did not let the brave man test disturb the younger sister.

He walked to the gate of the forest on the west side. He and his sister used to go here to play. At that time, the forest was not as scary and gloomy as it is now.

He swallowed, and walked into the depths of the forest.

First, he had to find the Witch's House.

For a moment, he felt that there would be a little girl with blond hair and green eyes and a girl with purple hair who had lost her lower body waiting for him. It must be just an illusion.

***

After walking into the forest, Taiyi felt that the forest was not as scary as imagined.

Although there are wild animals howling from time to time, the fog in the forest is not as strong as the rumors say, it just obscures the scenery in front of it a little.

After all, the witch is just a fantasy existence in fairy tales.

Thinking about it this way, in fact, the profession of the brave is as unreliable as a fairy tale creature.

He thought for a while, and it was better not to delve into it.

After walking for a while, he realized that something was wrong with this forest.

It's almost summer, and the weather is gradually getting hotter. Even if the wind is a bit chilly today, it won't be so chillingly cold.He walked a little further into the forest, judging by his sense of adventure in the past, there was probably a house over there.

When he thought of the mansion in the forest, he remembered the bad experience he had in the past when he was adventuring in the digital country.He took a deep breath, summoned up the courage to take a step forward, but was startled by the meowing of a cat.

"Cat?..." He saw a small yellow eye that was particularly bright in the dark tree shadow on the right, just like the eyes of a demon.Then, a black cat slowly came out of the darkness.It was obviously just a kitten, but there was a haughty expression on that little face, as if it was the master of this forest.

No... the... master of this forest?

Could it be that its real body is... a witch?

The little black cat walked slowly to his footsteps, grabbed his shoes like a baby, and was hugged by him with a smile.

How could this cute little creature be a fearsome witch?

He smiled wryly, as if mocking himself for being overwhelmed.

What he didn't see was that the black cat in his arms blinked and showed a sly smile.

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Apprentice brave Taichi followed his intuition and walked into the forest where few people can usually go into.