Watching Dokunemon break apart into data, Wormmon absorbed all of it into his DigiCore with a thought.
Beside him, Alice quietly watched Wormmon finish absorbing Dokunemon's data.
Then Alice walked behind Wormmon, reached out to stroke his head, and said:
"Wormmon, thank you for your hard work."
Sensing how Alice felt, Wormmon rubbed his head against her palm and said gently to her:
"It was the strength Alice gave Wormmon that let Wormmon defeat Dokunemon.
Alice is the one who worked hard."
At those words, Alice picked Wormmon up in both hands, a slight smile appearing on her lips as she said to him:
"Wormmon, let's go home."
Wormmon climbed onto Alice's shoulder, nuzzled her cheek, and said:
"Yes, let's go home."
Just then, Dr. Rob McCoy suddenly cried out:
"Why is it dispersing? I haven't figured out what's going on yet!"
Dr. Rob McCoy thrust both hands into his hair, staring at the steadily dissipating mist as though he had gone mad.
As it turned out, after Wormmon defeated Dokunemon and finished absorbing his data, the Digital Battle Arena enveloping the area rapidly disappeared.
The mist that had appeared along with the Digital Battle Arena naturally vanished with it.
Watching her grandfather cry out, looking somewhat crazed, Alice couldn't help asking:
"Grandpa, what's wrong? Did something happen?"
Hearing his granddaughter's voice, Rob McCoy calmed down a little and said:
"Alice, by analyzing it with the instruments I have here, I discovered that the thick fog enveloping this area was very closely connected to Digimon being able to appear in the Human World.
But just as I was preparing to investigate further.
That thick fog dis-ap-peared!"
With that, Dr. Rob McCoy dropped to his knees, looking utterly shattered.
Seeing her grandfather like this, Alice was speechless, unsure what to say