Mo Yan watched impassively as Guilmon and the others returned to the Digital World, and as Takato Matsuki and the others knelt on the ground, crying and unwilling to part.
Only then did Mo Yan reveal the cold, rational nature that belonged to him.
Perhaps Mo Yan had revealed his nature long ago.
He had merely concealed it through other means.
For example, the Twelve Digicores.
For example, splitting his consciousness into twelve subsidiary consciousnesses.
For example, treating himself as an actor on a stage?
SageMon might have known, or might not have.
But SageMon had still taken Mo Yan as his student.
The mages of Witchelny did not know why SageMon had made such a choice, but they had never voiced any opposition.
Because they believed SageMon had his own considerations.
So they neither shunned Mo Yan nor deliberately curried favor with him, but simply treated him normally.
It was precisely because of this that Mo Yan had spent a pleasant stretch of time in Witchelny.
Although, for many of Witchelny's mages, that time had not been particularly pleasant.
For Digimon like Qinglongmon and the others, who stood at the pinnacle of the Digital World, Mo Yan's nature had never been a bad thing.
If Mo Yan truly let his emotions dictate his actions like some reckless youngster, Qinglongmon and the others would not have dared employ him.
A cold, rational Digimon was always a little easier to use than a Digimon who acted on emotion.
Mo Yan had understood this long ago.
However, sometimes, to better complete the tasks Qinglongmon and the others assigned him-
That was why Mo Yan allowed his Twelve Digicores to develop their own personalities, and allowed them to keep fighting among themselves, just like the Royal Knights.
Watching the last Digimon return to