Arc 11Chapters 252–276
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Saori arrived to help the injured Tai and told Kari that Etemon had returned as a Mega Digimon. She revealed that a copied body of T.K. still existed, but recovering it would be difficult because Etemon guarded the path forward.
A powerful king discovered the Black Rings and attacked the Digi-Destined Emperor’s lair while Kari’s group searched a messy pyramid for a Mega Digimon. The Digi-Destined Emperor escaped to the Human World, but when Oura and the others returned to Digimon World the next day, they were caught red-handed.
Kari and Miyako persuaded Etemon to let them hear his music, then helped him recognize why his performance was bad. MetalEtemon asked to travel to the Human World to meet Doctor Xu and seek revenge over his favorite song being banned, offering T.K. Takaishi’s cloned body as payment.
T.K. and Kari were pulled into a hidden dimension while searching for spatial fragments, where they found Kiwimon weakened by a Black Spiral Ring. Kari’s light restored some of their strength, and T.K. learned the Digi-Destined Emperor had been behind their suffering.
T.K. and Kari encountered Kiwimon under attack by a Black Dark Ring-controlled Airdramon, and T.K. lured the enemy away to protect the others. Captured at the Digi-Destined Emperor’s underwater base, T.K. challenged the Emperor’s belief that their world was a game and explained its connection to the Human World.
T.K. escaped the Digi-Destined Emperor’s base when a drill broke through the wall and a flood destroyed his cell, then woke in the hospital with his arm restored. After recovering, he and Tai were discharged ahead of the Odaiba anniversary, while Hiroaki learned the Space-Time Administration Bureau had taken an interest in Kari and told his sons about strange hauntings at the TV station.
On Odaiba memorial day, Oura and the younger Chosen Children heard stories about the original group’s past and learned about the choices their predecessors had faced. Izzy opened a gate to the Digimon World from Tai’s upgraded computer, but Iori pointed out they could not leave without worrying their parents, so the group stayed behind.
The Chosen Children encountered Wizardmon’s ghost at the TV station, where he warned that Myotismon was still alive and repeated a line from the prophecy. After T.K. revealed that the stone tablet had foretold many of their hardships, Oura asked whether Zheng Fan appeared in it.
The Chosen Children prepared to infiltrate the Digi-Destined Emperor’s base beside the Abyssal Sea, while T.K. rushed ahead to confront Ken Ichijouji. Ken revealed that he had entered the Dark Ocean and gained its power, and a violent tremor shook the base as T.K. faced him.
T.K. and the Chosen Children fought the Digi-Destined Emperor and his powerful creation, Chimeramon, but were overwhelmed inside the emperor’s base. As T.K. and Patamon gathered everyone’s power for one last attempt, a thunderous voice spoke from above.
Marcus Damon arrived during the battle with Kimeramon and tried to understand the conflict, but Oura’s Armor Digi-Egg awakened Magnamon and drew Kimeramon into a fight. Kimeramon revealed his grudge against the Royal Knights before preparing to self-destruct, and Marcus led the others through a space passage to escape.
The group traveled from Korea into the Digimon World, where they learned a village had survived a recent typhoon and discussed the disasters caused when powerful beings crossed into other worlds. They discovered Marcus Damon shared a history with Zheng Fan, whose reputation for saving worlds deepened Marcus’s admiration.
Oura tried to bring Ken Ichijouji home, but Ken’s middle-aged brother attacked him and unleashed Mewtwo, triggering a battle against Veemon. With Calumon’s help, Veemon evolved into Magnamon, but Mewtwo defeated it before Zheng Fan stopped the fight and recalled it.
Oura explained Ken Ichijouji's crimes in the Digimon World, and Satoshi Ichijouji reunited with his brother before Zheng Fan restored Satoshi to his younger form. Zheng Fan then caught up with the older Chosen Children, offering help and instruction while finding himself unable to answer several of their questions.
Oura struggled to accept that his brick-hauling efforts were ineffective, while Zheng Fan and the others continued advancing against the Dark Towers. When Oura’s team encountered a Knightmon blocking their route, they restrained him and relied on Oura to bring down the nearby Dark Tower.
Oura and Veemon freed Eagle-Eye Beast from a Black Dark Ring and entered the Dark Tower area, where Arukenimon trapped them and revealed she controlled the Digi-Destined Emperor. Two days later, a Chosen Child named Zeng Xiao Xian rescued Oura and Veemon and flew away with his partner, Flymon.
Izzy inferred that Zeng Xiao Xian was connected to Zheng Fan after studying the footage, while Arukenimon and Mummymon learned that a powerful Mega-level fighter had appeared and were ordered to destroy the Holy Stones. Ken declared that Zeng Xiao Xian would not lose his way, and Arukenimon and Mummymon prepared to meet him while worrying that they needed a Mega to protect them.
Oura and his companions entered Titamon’s villa with Zeng Xiao Xian and discovered that Arukenimon had lured them there to confront him. Arukenimon exposed Zeng Xiao Xian as the former Digi-Destined Emperor, and he declared that he had come to learn who his enemy was and take revenge.
Arukenimon used her flute to control Stingmon and Armadillomon, then pressured Zeng Xiao Xian into halting the fighting and exposing why Ken Ichijouji had become the Digi-Destined Emperor. When Stingmon wounded Zeng Xiao Xian, he and Oura acknowledged their bond, allowing Veemon EX and Stingmon to fusion digivolve into Paildramon.
The Digi-Destined discovered that Arukenimon controlled insect-type Digimon with sound, and Cihangmon freed them by chanting. Paildramon overpowered Arukenimon while Miyako and the others tried to use a giant computer to play a spider-irritating melody, but they could not connect it.
Zeng Xiao Xian agreed to a hostage exchange that let Arukenimon and Mummymon escape, while Zheng Fan and Izzy Izumi investigated the Holy Stones and the Digimon World’s decline. Arukenimon created BlackWarGreymon, who acted on his own will and destroyed a Holy Stone before departing.
BlackWarGreymon struggled with the emptiness of being overwhelmingly powerful, then met Agumon, who helped him begin to understand his feelings. Meanwhile, Mummymon and Arukenimon located a Holy Stone beneath the ocean.
Miyako’s Kyoto shopping trip turned dangerous when Nakaue Takeshi and Brother Xi drugged her and tried to abduct her, but BlackWarGreymon heard her call and rescued her. Zheng Fan arrived after the Digimon World’s upheaval and took BlackWarGreymon into Anomalous Space to investigate, leaving him impressed and unsettled by Zheng Fan’s abilities.
Zheng Fan and BlackWarGreymon found Azulongmon, who revealed that BlackWarGreymon’s existence threatened the Digimon World and explained how another destructive Digimon had chosen a different path. Zheng Fan uncovered Azulongmon’s role in weakening the world to avoid dissolving into the Dao, while Azulongmon asked him to protect the Holy Stones to prevent a catastrophe.
The Chosen Children and their Digimon fought Digimon unleashed in the Human World by Dark Towers, destroying one tower and defeating its attackers. After learning Dark Towers had appeared worldwide, Matt confronted Zheng Fan, whose admission that he had misjudged the danger left the group facing the consequences of their plan to bring Digimon openly into the Human World.