Chapter 58: The Most Meaningless Chapter

Digitamamon, who was currently in the kitchen, heard the commotion outside.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

Feeling a bad premonition in his heart, Digitamamon extended his mysterious black true body out of his eggshell, pushed open the kitchen door, and walked out.

When he saw the completely wrecked restaurant before him, Digitamamon instantly hardened.

His eggshell hardened.

"Vegetamon, what is the meaning of this!"

The spirit and imposing aura belonging to a Perfect-level Digimon transformed into a deep purple field spreading through the air.

Vegetamon, serving as the clerk, explained everything that had happened in detail. Learning that the uproar had been caused by LadyDevimon, who was sitting at the same table, Digitamamon immediately turned his triangular, vertically slit eyes toward Zeromaru and Gazimon inside the shop.

"How dare you cause havoc in my shop! You are far too impudent!"

Gazimon frantically shook his head back and forth, his twin tails practically tangling together: "Wait, wait, this has nothing to do with us! LadyDevimon attacked first!"

Completely consumed by anger, Digitamamon naturally could not listen to Gazimon's words. He closed the gap on his eggshell, retracted his feet into the shell, and transformed completely into a white Digiegg over a meter tall, charging straight at Gazimon.

Although Digitamamon looked rather cute, this guy was certainly not a Perfect-level like Pandamon who was unaccustomed to fighting.

In fact, he could evolve into a frighteningly powerful Ultimate-level. That seemingly fragile eggshell possessed a hardness comparable to the steel armor of a cyborg-type Perfect-level, meaning the old adage of an egg hitting a stone simply did not apply to him.

However, the target Digitamamon was facing this time was not a stone, but Zeromaru's flesh.

Digitamamon aimed the tip of his eggshell straight at Zeromaru. Under tension, Zeromaru's sturdy and powerful muscles also displayed astonishing hardness.

Digitamamon knitted his brows: "Hmph?"

Outrageous! How dare he try to match hardness with me?!

A flash of metallic luster swept across Digitamamon's body, and the hardness of his eggshell instantly surged, skyrocketed, and exploded upward!

He could accept having short legs; he could accept others calling him ridiculous-looking; but he absolutely refused to allow any Digimon to be harder than him!

Zeromaru refused to yield in the slightest either. Since Digitamamon had hardened, he would become even harder!

"Waah—I am so hard!"

Zeromaru roared explosively, his body instantly expanding a size larger. After evolving, Zeromaru's overloaded expansion had become even more terrifying. At this moment, he even abandoned speed, channeling all of his overload entirely into muscle growth.

In actual combat, this kind of overload lacked much practical significance—after all, no matter how strong one's power became, missing the enemy meant nothing. Yet in this contest of "hardness," things like speed were merely impure obstacles preventing Zeromaru from claiming victory!

This purity of Zeromaru's flashed a strange light in Digitamamon's eyes. He felt a sense of mutual appreciation for Zeromaru; nonetheless, even so, he could not forgive the ones who had damaged his restaurant.

"Watch me harden even further!"

At the same time, he called upon the other customers to launch an attack on Zeromaru.

The Digimon dining here were almost all regulars of Digitamamon's restaurant, sharing deep bonds of friendship with him.

If Digitamamon asked them to borrow money, they might not necessarily lend it; but if he asked them to hack someone to pieces, the brothers would rush in shoulder to shoulder.

"Absolute Zero Fist!"

"Love Strike!"

"Petrified Flame!"

These Champion and Perfect-level Digimon unleashed their respective signature moves, striking toward Zeromaru. The multicolored energy fluctuations converged and ultimately resulted in a violent explosion.

Yet how could these Digimon, completely unsuited for combat, possibly injure Zeromaru's DEF+6 physique?

As the smoke cleared, two Digimon radiating a metallic luster continued to stand facing one another. Aside from heating up the restaurant's atmosphere, the aggregated power of several signature moves could not even leave a scratch on them.

Meanwhile, outside the restaurant, Tai was confronting LadyDevimon.

As a Fallen Angel-type Perfect-level Digimon, LadyDevimon naturally possessed the ability to fly. To avoid coming into contact with Tai's sun-like scorching Digisoul, LadyDevimon naturally refused close-quarters combat. She hovered in midair, clasping her hands together, aiming the empty space between them at Tai, and unleashed her signature move.

"Dark Wing Shroud!"

This time it was not a sneak attack with suppressed power to avoid detection, but a full-power signature move.

Flight-capable objects formed from dark energy swarmed toward Tai in flocks, enveloping him within the black tide in the blink of an eye.

Tai felt as though he had stepped into a pitch-black cave, accompanied by the constant sound of flapping wings echoing around him, maximizing the terrifying atmosphere.

Controlled by LadyDevimon, the dark bats swirled like a black tornado, closing in toward Tai at the center. Within moments, it would be enough to tear that fragile human body to shreds.

At least, that was what she believed.

Sensing the dark energy drawing closer and closer to him, Tai's Digisoul erupted from every pore. Propelled by the surging energy, his body spun in the opposite direction of the dark tornado's rotation.

How could LadyDevimon possibly resist this anti-spiral force exerted by Tai? The azure Digisoul forcefully tore the dark wave to pieces.

LadyDevimon froze in shock. Although Millenniummon from this world had instructed her never to underestimate Tai, and she had raised Tai's strength as high as possible in her mind, the opponent's actual performance far exceeded the upper limits of LadyDevimon's imagination.

Tai, however, would not let go of this momentary distraction.

Stomping his feet fiercely against the ground, the Digisoul erupted from the soles of Tai's feet, generating immense propulsion.

Ever since he became able to envelop his entire body in the Digisoul, Tai had wanted to try this.

Utilizing the propulsion, Tai achieved short-range gliding comparable to flight, bursting forward directly in front of LadyDevimon. Disregarding her feminine appearance entirely, he delivered a fierce punch straight to her face.

"Gwah—!"

Coming into direct, zero-distance contact with the Digisoul nearly melted LadyDevimon's face, while the solid impact of the punch sent her screaming as she blasted backward through the air.

Returning to the ground, Tai watched as LadyDevimon plummeted into a forest hundreds of meters away. He waited for a long time, yet never saw her figure fly back up.

A sense of incongruity welled up in Tai's heart. Checking the locator on his Digivice, sure enough, the other red dot had vanished alongside LadyDevimon's disappearance.

It seemed that the target the Digivice instructed him to find was undoubtedly LadyDevimon, but where had this creature run off to now? Mind you, just moments ago the Digivice could detect LadyDevimon from halfway across the desert.

Could she have traveled to an even more distant place in that mere fraction of a second?

Tai originally intended to chase into the forest to search for LadyDevimon's tracks, only to remember that Zeromaru and Gazimon were still inside the restaurant.

Just as he was about to call out to Zeromaru to follow, he discovered that the latter was hugging a giant egg, rolling back and forth across the floor while occasionally letting out very New Niihama-style shouts.

"Ugh, aaah!"

"Stand at attention and behave!"

Tai: ?

On the other side, LadyDevimon, who had been blasted away by Tai into the forest, currently found herself inside a pitch-black, gloomy mountain.

Even though it was broad daylight outside, with the scorching sun warping the air, this place remained eerie, occasionally swept by cold winds that made one shiver.

Yet for LadyDevimon, this environment surrounded by darkness was the most fitting imaginable. Even so, she had no idea how she had ended up in this place.

She only remembered that her consciousness had grown hazy from Tai's punch. Upon falling into the forest, she happened to plunge straight into a spatial portal, and when she opened her eyes once more, she had arrived here.

"Hehehehe, LadyDevimon, my Great King has been waiting here for quite some time."

Just as she was feeling perplexed, a small, bat-like Digimon fluttered its wings and landed before her.

"You are... DemiDevimon?" LadyDevimon was no stranger to this Digimon, which was as common as stray dogs in the Dark Area. However, she had not seen a single one during her two months in the relatively rustic Server Continent.

Yet before arriving on the Server Continent from the Ultimate-level forces of the Dark Area's daemon army, LadyDevimon had thoroughly studied the dark factions of this region.

Therefore, the moment she laid eyes on DemiDevimon, a figure immediately flashed through her mind.

At that moment, a portal suddenly tore open before LadyDevimon, and a blonde-haired, masked man wearing medieval aristocratic robes stepped out from the other side.

"LadyDevimon, I have come to terms with you."