"Guilmon, Takato, Terriermon, what should I do?" Lee Henry muttered helplessly, never even thinking to stop Jin Nanjiang. Only after leaving the detention room did Jin Nanjiang remember that Lee Henry was just a ten-year-old child who knew nothing about the finer points of negotiation.
"Officer Jin, what exactly is Guilmon?" Inspector Megure demanded, glaring at Jin Nanjiang.
As a national law enforcement agency, the police enjoyed many privileges when carrying out their duties. Yet those special powers also meant their work inevitably drew scrutiny from all sides. Most of the time, the surveillance equipment in the detention rooms was there to keep their own people in line.
Jin Nanjiang had never considered concealing the existence of Digimon. There were too many witnesses, and although human equipment could not capture their images, the destruction they left behind was very real. Still, while she could not hide everything, she had no intention of revealing everything either.
"Guilmon is a Digimon. You know, the Digimon from that battle card game that's so popular with children these days. You can think of them as aliens," Jin Nanjiang said.
"Aliens? Like E.T.? So Lee Henry was helping that alien? In that case, was the alien attacking buildings to collect materials to repair its spaceship?" Kogoro Mouri interjected.
"Officer Jin, may I ask where you learned this?" Inspector Megure's concerns were quite different from Kogoro Mouri's.
"Because Digimon have been active in the Celestial Empire too. But we caught the ones causing destruction right away." As she spoke, Jin Nanjiang opened a computer and pulled up a news report from several months earlier for the two men to read.
"The Great World Bar in Pearl Province! I used to go there all the time when I was studying at Double-Layer Egg Tart University in the