When Takato Matsuki's palm touched Megidramon's fearsome dragon head, the DigiSoul blazing around him covered it at tremendous speed.
In the blink of an eye, a pillar of golden-red data flames shot into the sky, piercing the clouds.
Within the pillar of fire formed from DigiSoul, Takato Matsuki and Megidramon both rose into the air.
Immediately afterward, the two became balls of light, one large and one small, and began revolving around each other.
At the same time, this enormous pillar of light shooting skyward drew attention from all sides.
The one that reacted most strongly was DigiDeath D-Reaper.
On the one hand, Mo Yan's concealment from DigiDeath D-Reaper meant that only now did she discover such an immense digital reaction right beside her.
On the other hand, Megidramon's aura had awakened "the original body's past memories" within DigiDeath D-Reaper.
Although this sounded incredible.
That was indeed what had happened.
Although the DigiDeath D-Reaper here was only part of her original body, and Mo Yan had cleansed her a second time.
Yet,
even though she was formed from only a portion of DigiDeath's data,
even though Mo Yan had cleansed that data,
DigiDeath's hatred for the Four Holy Beasts and their allies still lingered in every one of her programs, in every character of her data...
"Yggdrasill!
Four Holy Beasts!
Lucemon!
Goddramon! Holydramon! Megidramon!
..."
At her core, DigiDeath D-Reaper kept repeating, in a hollow electronic voice tinged with anger, the names of the Digimon that had obstructed him during the previous "Formatting" war,
and had even driven her back and sealed her away.
Those Digimon that had shouted slogans like "For survival" and "For freedom" were immensely powerful Digimon that had occupied over half the Digital World's data at the time.
Those Digimon that proclaimed themselves "just" were, in