"Boom—!"
When Trident Gaia struck Beelzemon in midair, a golden, sun-like sphere of energy instantly appeared in the sky.
The exploding energy storm swept through the surroundings in an instant, even causing shifts in the crust across the entire Vermilion Bird Sacred Domain.
Seiya's attack should originally have been enough to shatter Beelzemon into data and erase him completely.
Yet as the golden spherical radiance gradually faded, the badly wounded Impmon fell from the sky as well, only to be caught by Renamon.
This left Seiya, who had intended to finish him off, unable to continue attacking.
Honestly, if it had been any other Mega, taking Seiya's finishing move, "Trident Gaia," head-on would have meant certain death.
But Beelzemon had merely devolved into Impmon, a Rookie. All this could mean was that Digimon blessed with plot armor truly had tough fates!
What? You asked how Leomon died in the original story?
Seiya could only say that proved Leomon was not truly one of the main cast, so he had not been blessed with plot armor.
Besides, Leomon was an old veteran workhorse of the Digital World.
Though he bore the label of a righteous Digimon and had an incredibly high appearance rate throughout that generation of Digimon—
This guy never seemed to get a good ending. Every time, he either died or died.
Often used as fuel for the protagonist's sudden power-ups, calling him Leomon was less fitting than calling him Loyal Martyrmon.
After defeating both ChaosDramon and Beelzemon in succession, Seiya looked again toward Vermilion Bird Beast, who had been watching from the air like a spectator.
At that moment, Vermilion Bird Beast spread his wings and swept up massive flames, shooting them straight at Takato and the others.
Of course, just as the flames were about to engulf