King Etemon

"Welcome~"

"Welcome!"

"This is the Bukamon village~"

Under the children's suspicious gazes, the Bukamon all began playing dumb.

"They ran away~"

With things having come this far, how could Sora not understand what was going on?

"They tricked us!"

Tai watched the Bukamon flee, but had no intention of chasing them. DemiDevimon and Agumon were what mattered most right now.

Bang!

Agumon was knocked to the ground again...

"Agumon!"

Locked in an iron cage, DemiDevimon was so anxious he was on the verge of digivolving on the spot~

"Prepare yourself! You're going to die here today!"

Seeing Agumon lying on the ground, unable to get up, Gazimon swung his claws straight at Agumon's head!

Tai...

Too exhausted to fight back, Agumon could only silently call Tai's name in his heart!

"Agumon!"

Just then, Tai's voice really did ring out from outside.

"Tai!!!"

Hearing Tai call him, Agumon instantly perked up despite being sprawled on the ground.

"Agumon!"

With Agumon answering him, Tai ran even faster. He could already hear the exhaustion in Agumon's voice.

"Agumon, are you okay?!"

A moment later, Tai entered the cave.

"Tai~"

Seeing that Tai had really come, Agumon finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"A DigiDestined?"

The two Gazimon weren't particularly worried by Tai's sudden appearance. He was just a human child, after all. If the other children and their Digimon partners had all come, they might have been concerned. But this little brat alone would only add another corpse.

"Digivolve, Agumon!"

Seeing Agumon lying on the ground covered in wounds, Tai angrily pulled out his Digivice without hesitation.

"Tai!"

Agumon digivolve to...!

&...

Greymon!

As Agumon finished digivolving, Greymon's massive body split the waterfall's curtain of water in two.

"Let me repay you for everything!"

After taking a beating for so long, Greymon was seething with anger as he glared viciously at the two small fry at his feet.

The two Gazimon, who had dismissed Agumon and Tai just moments earlier, were now utterly stunned.

They could have racked their brains forever and still never imagined things would take such an absurd turn. Digivolving was supposed to be difficult for everyone, wasn't it? Yet these two had managed it just by shouting??

"Super Flame!"

Having digivolved into Greymon, Agumon couldn't care less what the two Gazimon were thinking. He fired his finishing move, Super Flame, straight at them!

"Aaahhh~~~"

The shock wave from Super Flame instantly blasted both Gazimon into the river. As they struggled, the current swept them far away.

This showed that the Digital World in the first series still had some standards. Those on the side of justice or in the neutral camp rarely exterminated their enemies.

Even reducing someone to a Digi-Egg was rare, let alone leaving them without even a Digi-Egg. (Wouldn't you agree, Beelzemon~?)

Just then, the other children arrived one after another.

"DemiDevimon, thank goodness you're okay!"

T.K. immediately spotted DemiDevimon locked in the iron cage!

"T.K., sorry for making you worry."

DemiDevimon was overjoyed to see T.K. again.

"The Bukamon have all run away. Everything's okay now!"

Meanwhile, Mimi helped open the iron cage holding the Koromon.

"Hello, hello, hello~ The signal's a little weak~ Hello, hello, hello!"

Just then, a voice boomed from outside through a massive sound system.

"Huh? What's going on?"

Had they stumbled across something else as strange as those telephone booths on the beach?

The sudden sound from the speakers piqued the children's curiosity.

"DigiDestined, can you hear me?"

Looking through the waterfall's curtain of water, they saw a certain bizarre Digimon outside holding a guitar and microphone.

After all, Etemon had even brought projection equipment. With a projection that huge, they couldn't have missed him if they tried.

"It's Etemon!"

Agumon and the others immediately recognized the newcomer.

"DigiDestined, you dared to ruin my plans! I'm going to destroy this village!"

As rousing rock music played, Etemon announced why he had come.

"Did you say you're going to destroy the village?"

Tai was somewhat dumbfounded by Etemon's declaration.

"You can't do that!"

Even after seeing Wisemon effortlessly kill Drimogemon in an instant, Izzy and the others were still somewhat bewildered by Etemon's threat to destroy the village.

After all, they had never seen a Perfect Digimon unleash its full power, so they couldn't picture what that would look like.

"Dark Spirit Ball!"

Etemon couldn't care less. He opened with his ultimate move, leaving no room for mercy.

Vast amounts of black energy gathered into lightning and spheres that struck the ground. Both the Koromon village and the waterfall where Tai stood were subjected to Etemon's indiscriminate bombardment.

"Aaahhh~~"

Only now, enduring the relentless bombardment, did the children truly grasp the offensive power of a Perfect Digimon!

"Everyone, digivolve, quickly!"

Panicking, Sora hurriedly called out to Matt and the others.

"..."

Seriously, was my presence that easy to overlook? Or was I so unpopular that people like Sora and Matt were deliberately ignoring me?

Could you not see this great big Perfect Digimon, Wisemon? Did you think your Champion Digimon could beat Etemon?

Phew~ In the end, I still had to step in. I wondered which one was stronger, Etemon or Wisemon.

After digesting everything over the past several days, Wisemon's own data had nearly reached eighty thousand. With that volume of data, as long as his finishing move could unleash its full power, defeating Etemon should have been more than manageable.

"Gabumon digivolve to...!

&...

Garurumon!

"I won't let you get your way! Love Beam!"

Dun-dun-dun~~~

Seeing Garurumon finish digivolving, Etemon immediately unleashed his own finishing move.

As a burst of rousing guitar music rang out, cracks flashed across the sky. With their appearance, Garurumon and Greymon reverted to Rookie Digimon!

"Huh? Another love-based attack? Finishing moves with 'love' in their names have powerful control effects, as always! But come to think of it, could Monzaemon and Etemon be part of some group like the Bancho? Not only are they both Perfect Digimon with the same body color, even their finishing moves sound like they came out of the same factory..."

Watching Etemon make a complete spectacle of himself, Zhou Zhu suddenly recalled Monzaemon on File Island.

Back then... I was still so weak~