The Shining Digisoul!

"Holy Bubble!"

Mo Si unleashed her new move.

In an instant, rainbow light enveloped the peace conference hall.

Everyone felt as though they were in a dream, warm and utterly comfortable.

This was Holy Bubble's healing effect at work.

At the source of the rainbow light, directly above Mo Si's head, hovered a golden ring. It resembled the halo above an angel's head in myths and legends, only more than ten times larger.

This halo could not only release healing light, but also absorb and concentrate power.

Standing beneath the halo, Mo Si looked even more like a legendary angel.

"Give me your Digisoul."

Mo Si reached toward the camera.

All around the world, people who had awakened their Digisoul reached toward their screens.

Take it.

Take it all.

My Digisoul, go to Angewomon and become her strength!

Their Digisoul flowed into the screens, traveling through artificial satellites, undersea cables, and other channels to gather in the peace conference hall.

Meanwhile, a red figure streaked across the sky above the Pacific Ocean.

It was Sleipmon!

"Hang in there, Angewomon!"

Upon learning of Belphemon's appearance, Kudamon had immediately evolved into Sleipmon and raced toward New York at top speed.

Ten minutes!

That was all Sleipmon needed!

Angewomon, can you hold out for ten minutes?

The more Sleipmon thought about it, the more anxious Sleipmon became. How could Angewomon possibly last ten minutes against Belphemon?

Damn it! Why did it have to be a demon lord like Belphemon?!

Given New York City's population... even if only one person in a hundred can awaken their Digisoul, there should still be thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of them. Collecting their Digisoul should let me hold out until Sleipmon arrives.

That was what Mo Si thought.

Because of the distances involved, gathering Digisoul from around the world was hardly realistic. She had only expected to collect it from within New York.

Whoosh!

Wind. A wind had risen.

There should not have been any wind inside this hall.

What kind of wind was it?

It was a wind carried by Digisoul.

The cameras throughout the hall poured out endless streams of Digisoul like running faucets. Red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, violet... Digisoul in every color flowed into Holy Bubble's halo.

So much!

Mo Si thought, This seems like more than New York alone could provide. Could it be coming from the whole world?

How many people were there in the world?

Even at one in a hundred, tens of millions should have been able to awaken their Digisoul. Subtract those who might be resting or not watching television, and call it ten million.

Ten million streams of Digisoul!

Even if their average strength was only somewhere between Rookie and Adult level, quantity could bring about a qualitative change. Besides, all this Digisoul had come to support Mo Si.

United in purpose, it fused and transcended!

It was just like in the first series' movie, "Our War Game!" When WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon received the wishes of children around the world, they evolved into Omnimon...

The same principle applied to the multicolored Digisoul now. As it flowed into the halo, it transformed into a dazzling gold.

That was light!

That was hope!

Mo Si was deeply awed, but also relieved. Thank goodness it can fuse on its own. Otherwise, my Holy Bubble would never be able to control such immense energy.

Meanwhile, deep within the Digital World-

"Impossible! Humans can release this much energy?!"

Yggdrasil found it inconceivable.

This power was greater than Yggdrasil's own!

Be vigilant. I must be vigilant!

"Establish a contingency plan for dealing with humans."

This Angewomon could acquire such power with ease. She, too, warranted vigilance.

"Establish a contingency plan for dealing with Angewomon."

Looking at the two contingency plans so effortlessly created, Yggdrasil felt satisfied with such talent, yet also afraid. What if Yggdrasil, possessing this divine talent, began acting recklessly?

"...Establish a contingency plan for dealing with Yggdrasil."

Yggdrasil had to guard not only against others, but against Yggdrasil as well.

"Shining Digisoul..."

If possible, Mo Si would have loved to experience what it felt like to become "Glitter Tiga."

But her intuition told her it was impossible.

First, she most likely could not contain such vast energy. It would burst her apart.

Second, this shining Digisoul was filled with expectations for "Angewomon, who had taken over the Venusmon Soul." Even if her body could withstand it, her sense of self might be submerged beneath those expectations, transforming her inside and out into exactly what everyone hoped she would be.

"I've received all your Digisoul."

Mo Si smiled, her beauty incomparable, and spoke gently to the camera. "Come on. Let's go sweep away the enemy blocking our path to a bright future."

She left the conference hall and went up to the building's roof.

Belphemon was only about a kilometer away.

He noticed Mo Si. After all, the point of light above her head was so dazzling that anyone with eyes could not possibly miss it.

"Angewomon? Why does she look different?... Did she evolve?"

Inside Belphemon, Kurata held the control levers and sneered in disdain.

So what if she evolved?

What could that frail body possibly do?

Die!

Kurata made Belphemon thrust both hands forward. Black flames erupted from his claws, spreading straight toward Mo Si like an enormous black pillar.

If it struck, the entire building and a vast stretch of the area behind it would be reduced to rubble in an instant.

This move was called "Midday Flower"!

A flower from within the sun, appearing here on Earth, meant destruction.

Kurata had originally intended to capture this Angewomon for in-depth research. But now that he had become Belphemon in rage mode, that rage seemed to be affecting him, eroding his reason.

Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!

Destroy everything!

"..."

Facing that terrifying power, Mo Si drew her great bow.

An arrow formed from shining Digisoul would be enormous. Her two hands probably could not handle it.

Then...

A little hero flashed through Mo Si's mind.

Xuanyuan Arrow, draw the bow to its fullest!

She kept her right leg planted and raised her left leg high.

The wing-shaped relief on her left leg armor emitted white light, which solidified and spread outward, forming a great bow made of wings.

Mo Si pulled the bowstring with both hands. The shining Digisoul transformed into an enormous arrow of light between the bow and its string, its shaft gleaming gold and its tip aimed straight at Belphemon.

"Glittering Arrow!"

She released the string, and the arrow of light shot forth.

Like a golden meteor streaking across the night sky, it crossed a thousand meters in an instant, pierced the dark flames, and plunged into Belphemon's chest.

Bang!

The energy within the arrow erupted. Its destructive power raced through every part of Belphemon's body like an electric current, pulverizing his muscles, bones, and internal organs...

An instant later, the towering body of the Demon Lord of Sloth collapsed.

Only a Digi-Egg and Kurata himself remained.

"How is that possible..." Disbelief covered Kurata's face.

One move. One arrow!

To resurrect Belphemon, he had developed Gizumon and bio-Digimon technology, invaded the Digital World time and again, hunted countless Digimon, and absorbed untold amounts of life energy...

Five years? Ten?

All those years of effort had vanished in a single instant.

"It's not over yet!"

Kurata took out his last Space-Time Shock Bomb. He would enter the Digital World. Even if he had to lie low for another ten or twenty years, he would rise again.

Whoosh!

Just then, another arrow of light came flying toward him.

This arrow was white, an ordinary Holy Arrow fired with Mo Si's own power.

"Huh?"

Kurata suddenly felt an emptiness at his right side. He turned to look, and his right arm was gone.

Pain immediately flooded his brain like a tidal wave.

"Aaargh!"

"Tch. Missed again."

Compared with Belphemon, whose body rivaled a building in size, Kurata was far too small a target.

But that was fine. She only needed to get a little closer and fire another arrow.

Mo Si spread her eight wings and hovered a short distance from Kurata. She had already canceled her Take Over Magic and returned to her normal Angewomon form.

Sweating profusely from the pain, Kurata gritted his teeth and forced himself to remain calm. "Wait. You know about Space-Time Shock Bombs, don't you? I've already planted plenty of them. If I don't deactivate them on schedule, they'll shatter the space-time barrier, and the human world and Digital World will collide!"

"Oh? I didn't think you had that much foresight!" Mo Si was mildly surprised, and at the same time, understanding dawned on her.

No wonder Kurata had escaped Suguru Daimon. So that was how.

Thinking he had a chance, Kurata planned to threaten Angewomon just as he had threatened Suguru Daimon before. He smiled. "Angewomon, you don't want the worlds destroyed either, do you?"

"Heavenly Purple Light!"

A finger-thick beam of purple light pierced Kurata between the brows like an arrow.

"You... you..."

As death approached, Kurata stared fixedly at Mo Si.

He could not believe this Angewomon was so decisive.

Wasn't she supposed to be kind?

Kind people get pushed around. Wasn't she supposed to let me bully her, deceive her, and manipulate her with guilt?

Why? Why...

Kurata's thoughts grew increasingly confused, then finally stopped as he breathed his last.