"Palmon, don't cause trouble. There are Ultimate Digimon here. You can't beat them." Mimi Tachikawa pried Palmon's vines apart with all her strength and gave an awkward smile.
"Mimi, is this flower what you've been keeping from us all these days?" Mimi's parents hadn't escaped the ordeal either.
"Uh, Mom, I didn't mean to hide it." As she spoke, Mimi pulled Palmon out and introduced Palmon to everyone.
"Wow, Palmon, you're so adorable!" Mimi's mother excitedly scooped Palmon into her arms and squealed, looking nothing like a mother ought to.
"Oh, Mimi, honestly! Why didn't you introduce Palmon to me sooner?" Mimi's mother scolded her while carefully brushing the dust off Palmon's head.
"Mom, I didn't know. I didn't know you'd like Palmon." Seeing her mother's reaction, Mimi had completely lost the ability to think.
"Mimi, help!" Palmon's frantic cry finally brought smiles back to the adults' faces.
The docks were just as packed, but the chaos there was more than a hundred times worse than at the stadium.
The dock's loudspeakers blared themselves hoarse, but they had no effect whatsoever on the crowded masses.
"Attention, passengers. Due to heavy fog, ferry services to Odaiba have been temporarily suspended." Hearing the announcement, a blond woman irritably covered her ears with both hands. Only afterward did she remember that her son was beside her.
"Mom, don't worry. Dad and Matt will definitely be all right," T.K. Takaishi reassured her.
"Hmph." T.K.'s mother stamped her foot and raised her chin. "I only need to go to Odaiba for work. It has nothing to do with that man."
As soon as T.K.'s mother finished speaking, a bald man squeezed into the crowd ahead suddenly turned his head and said gruffly, "Woman, you stepped on my foot."
T.K. looked down and saw his mother's