Hero of Justice

Mo Si turned off the television.

"Huh? Why did you stop watching?" Angewomon asked in confusion.

Rather than answer, Mo Si asked, "Do you really like it?"

"Uh, no... I don't..." Angewomon calmed down, too embarrassed to explain.

I actually got hooked without even realizing it. I really shouldn't have.

Even Mo Si, my main self, could resist it, yet I'm an angel and got hooked without noticing. And right in front of Mo Si, too. This is just... so embarrassing.

"Thank you, Mo Si." Angewomon expressed her gratitude. If Mo Si hadn't turned off the television, she might have fallen without even realizing it.

After a moment of silence, Mo Si murmured, "I don't want you to become a bad girl."

Although those words somewhat contradicted her earlier behavior, she meant them sincerely. She really felt that one bad girl in this body was enough.

"Mo Si..."

"Angewomon..."

With the mood built up this far, they ought to have shared a hug, feeling each other's heartbeats through their burning hearts. Unfortunately, they were two minds sharing one body.

"Oh, right, Angewomon."

"What is it?"

"The reason we have the potential to evolve into LadyDevimon or Sanzang Beast might be you."

Given Mo Si's way of thinking, she was unlikely to evolve into a female Digimon.

There was only one answer: Angewomon.

"Is that so? It seems evolution is even more profound than I imagined," Angewomon said thoughtfully.

"Ahh... I'm going to sleep. I'll leave things to you." Once Mo Si settled down, she felt a little tired as well. She yawned and fell asleep.

After her consciousness went to sleep, control of the body passed to Angewomon.

Angewomon picked up the remote and looked at the television screen, thinking, I have to control myself!

With tremendous willpower, she put down the remote, then took several deep breaths and entered a state of deep meditation in time with her breathing.

Unlike the Fairy Tail world, this world's air was not rich in magic power, so meditation did far less to increase her magic power.

Although there was no magic power, she sensed another form of energy-digisoul.

Everyone in this world possessed digisoul, but drawing it out required talent. Those with great talent could punch Ultimate Digimon, while those with poor talent couldn't even release their digisoul.

However, while most people couldn't release digisoul, they could release emotions.

Pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, lust...

Just as fallen evolution was an extremely easy path of evolution, these negative emotions were extremely easy to generate.

Emotions were closely connected to digisoul. Or rather, emotions were one of the "raw materials" of digisoul.

Digimon that absorbed emotions could grow stronger and even evolve, just like Digimon that absorbed digisoul.

But if they absorbed negative emotions, the outcome was easy to imagine.

This was another reason Digimon that strayed into the human world had to be beaten back into Digi-Eggs. "Reverting them to Digi-Eggs" served as a form of formatting, removing the harmful influence of human emotions so they wouldn't become a scourge upon the Digital World.

The data in this body is already chaotic enough. I can't let outside emotional energy interfere with it any further. With that thought, Angewomon worked on regulating her body's condition while training her magic power.

The next day.

Mo Si's consciousness awoke.

"Huh? Why did the room shrink?"

She looked around and discovered that the walls and ceiling, originally two meters away from her, were now only a meter away. If the room's furnishings hadn't remained unchanged, she would have thought she'd been dragged into some secret chamber.

But even when her consciousness was asleep, Angewomon's remained awake. She would never have allowed anyone to take them into a secret chamber.

Angewomon laughed. "Surprised you, didn't it? But the room didn't shrink. We grew bigger."

"How did you do it?" Mo Si asked.

Angewomon explained, "It's a way of using digisoul. You temporarily increase your amount of data with digisoul, making your body bigger. I only meant to test evolution, but I accidentally discovered this application."

A Digimon's size was closely connected to its amount of data. Perhaps advances in network technology had generated more data and provided richer nourishment, because the Digimon in Digimon Savers were noticeably larger than those in the earlier series.

Gryphonmon, for example.

The Gryphonmon in the first series was smaller than an elephant.

But the Gryphonmon in the fifth series could probably swallow an elephant in one bite.

In fact, in the Digimon Adventure 02 movie Revenge of Diaboromon, Angewomon and Angemon had also grown gigantic. Normally only about the size of adult humans, they were comparable in size to Omnimon in that movie.

Under Angewomon's guidance, Mo Si learned to control the enlargement technique and returned to her original size. She muttered, "Growing gigantic, huh... Adjusting our size to match an opponent might have some unexpected uses."

Angewomon said, "That's just like you, immediately turning it into a combat application."

Mo Si was about to say something when she suddenly heard a tremendous crash.

Boom!

The entire DATS headquarters shook several times.

Mo Si quickly opened the door and headed to the DATS command room. "What happened?"

Megumi Shirakawa had worked the night shift and already returned to the dormitory to rest.

Miki Kurosaki was operating the computer now. She said, "Saint... that Digimon Hunter turned into BioThunderbirdmon and escaped!"

The main screen showed BioThunderbirdmon flying away.

Mo Si asked, "Wasn't your captain keeping him under guard?"

At that moment, a tall figure entered DATS Headquarters. It was Captain Satsuma.

He explained, "We were trying to extract the Digimon from Saint's body, but he suddenly evolved into BioThunderbirdmon, smashed through the headquarters wall, and escaped."

Kudamon nodded. That was exactly what had happened.

Mo Si asked Kudamon, "Then why didn't you go after him?"

Although BioThunderbirdmon flew very fast, Kudamon should have been even faster after evolving into Chirinmon.

Kudamon said, "It happened so suddenly, and I used up a lot of energy yesterday. I don't have the strength to evolve now."

-Like hell I believe you. You're a Royal Knight. How could your energy reserves be that low?

Fortunately, Mo Si had half her face covered, or everyone would have seen her roll her eyes.

She chuckled. "I see. I thought you'd deliberately let him escape so he could go undercover."

Captain Satsuma and Kudamon froze.

-She got it exactly right!

Captain Satsuma had once been a detective, so sending someone undercover to gather evidence was nothing new to him. He was simply returning to his old trade.

But the one going undercover wasn't him. It was Saint.

Saint was a lowlife through and through, despicable, shameless, and willing to use any means to win. In theory, someone like him could never become their undercover agent, much less gather evidence for them.

However, they had a clever trick up their sleeves.

Chirinmon, Kudamon's evolved form, had a special skill-Heart-Changing Wave.

This move released a spiritual aura that guided enemies toward the path of the saints.

In other words, it was a form of brainwashing!

Of course, there was a slight difference. The person being brainwashed didn't obey the brainwasher, but followed the guidance of the path of the saints.

Saint's will had been surprisingly firm. It had taken six hours to successfully brainwash him, transforming him from a scumbag thug and a blight on society into a fine young man who yearned for the path of the saints-a bright, cheerful young fellow.

When Captain Satsuma proposed sending Saint undercover, Saint agreed on the spot.

"To uphold the path of the saints, I will gladly do my duty!" Saint had declared, his gaze as resolute as a Hero of Justice's.

As the saying went, to fool your enemies, you first had to fool your own people.

That was why Captain Satsuma and Kudamon had worked together to stage a jailbreak.

They hadn't expected to be exposed the moment she saw them!

Had this Angewomon studied military strategy? Wasn't she a little too sharp?