At the base behind the lines, the researchers saw the scene through their surveillance equipment as well, and a heavy silence settled over the entire research base. Ivan's failure had invalidated everything they had worked toward for so long.
"Thomas, you tampered with it, didn't you?" the young woman standing beside Thomas asked quietly.
"Nanami, do you think Kurata would let me get involved in something this important?" Thomas shrugged, neither admitting nor denying it.
Nanami stared at Thomas for a long time, then suddenly smiled. "I almost forgot. Whether humans can fuse with Digimon determines whether your sister can recover. There's no way you could stay calm."
Thomas lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "I only offered a suggestion."
"Then that settles it." Nanami clapped her hands. "I handled the entire process myself, and we ran the calculations repeatedly before using an Ultimate Digimon and a Mega Digimon to counterbalance each other. But something still went wrong, so you must have more information than I do." Her eyes burned with competitive spirit, and she completely missed the helplessness in Thomas's eyes.
Nanami and Thomas were both geniuses with extraordinary IQs, and they had once attended the same school. Nanami was fiercely competitive and even more gifted than Thomas. But Nanami had no connections, while Thomas came from an immensely wealthy family. As a result, every good opportunity went to Thomas.
After leaving school, Thomas relied on his family to take charge of a world-class international laboratory straight away. Although his research was widely considered implausible, he still received support from around the world. Nanami, who was conducting similar research, was dismissed as a crank and could barely keep her work going. Then she met that man.
Akihiro Kurata, the pioneer of data life research and Gate