Part 28: Stolen Memories; RIDICULOUS BATTLES

We move on to random cases first. A Numemon is tired of being laughed at so it wants us to gather Syakomon shells by defeating them so it can digivolve. Okay?

Either way we do so and it digivolves into ShellNumemon before attacking us claiming it has to kill us because they were just using us. HOW NICE OF YOU.

Not that it mattered because we defeat it relatively easily. It promises to not deceive others anymore and the case is complete.

The next one also ends up being really simple. A couch potato Nanimon tells us to go buy a newspaper and we do so and bring it back. It seems to always fall asleep and says our reward for the case is good enough despite the fact that we had to buy the newspaper for him. Laziness much? Either way this one is done rather quickly as well.

We go to the hospital and find Yuuko there so we talk with her. Yuuko takes us to her brothers room so we can meet him. Yuuko wanted to hear from her brother so much that it made her happy when she found out that her brother had spoken to us. She really cares about him...

She asks us why we're there and we inform her that we're looking for Mr. Yamashina and Yuuko says she'll help out and will ask at the lobby for his room number. However, when we do that the hospital is so busy (likely due to the current craziness) that they've lost track of him. SERIOUSLY?! This must be a bad hospital...

Well either way we find out, from a child of all people, of a strange moaning sound coming from a room in the General Ward and we go there and the moaning of course is Mr. Yamashina. He rambles on and on about getting close to remembering something and actually freaks out when he tries to remember something important. Yuuko calms him down and tells him who she is and she can help him. He insists on us taking him to the Roppongi Underground Laboratory that we found Yuuko at with Rie. When we arrive there from the Nakano Underpass he remembers that the device that Yuuko was hooked up to can also be used to unlock his memories and insists on us doing so.

When we try however, Yuuko discovers some sort of 'block' and it causes a Digital Shift. Well then...

But since it's a Digital Shift we realize we can Connect Jump into it and do us. If we remove whatever the 'block' is Mr. Yamashina's memory should be restored. When did this become Kingdom Hearts? Either way we head through a weird dungeon to do so and find a Digimon at the end of it. An Ebemon to be exact. We have to defeat it to restore his memories.

FORGET WHAT I SAID BEFORE. WORST FIGHT IN THE GAME.

THIS JERKASS KEPT INFLICTING BUG ON MY DIGIMON AND ITSELF.

Item abuse, persistency, and a few re-tries had to be used to achieve victory. MY GOD.

But we get quite the shocking information once Mr. Yamashina's memories are restored. He was a part of the team involved with the early beta test with EDEN when he worked for the Nile Corporation. It's also finally revealed that the first EDEN Syndrome case was indeed Yuugo, Yuuko's brother. CALLED IT.

However other children were involved as well but they regained consciousness rather quickly. It turns out Akemi Suedou was the one that locked away Yamashina's memories. The children involved apparently talked about something that Yamashina described as 'something out of a fairy tale' but it was viewed as 'mass hysteria and extraneous stress' by most of the team. Except for Suedou who insisted on hearing about all of it from the children and it excited him as if he were a child. FREAK ALERT.

But Yamashina doesn't remember who the other children were because he just doesn't know. But seeking them out would do no good because their memories were 'locked away' by Suedou as well. WHO DOES THIS *squee!* THINK HE IS?! MARLUXIA?!

But Suedou would likely have more information. Yeah looks like we need to track this jerkass down. Which we were going to do anyway. But Yamashina requests his memories to be locked away again. Because before he only focused on his work and spent no time with his family and his 'locked away memories' self was able to be the father his family needed. He continued to insist, so Yuuko felt like she had no choice and did as he wished. Did she make the right choice? You decide.

But Date and Matayoshi appear to be in danger so we run off to help them and come across an Eater as we do so.

OH. MY. GOD. WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THESE RIDICULOUS FIGHTS?! THIS ONE WAS ALMOST WORSE THAN THE EBEMON FIGHT. THE ONLY REASON I WON WAS BECAUSE MY BLACKKINGNUMEMON BAILED ME OUT AGAIN.

This is starting to get ridiculous. Seriously. When did the game difficulty turn to RIDICULOUS?

*sighs* Either way I won. Matayoshi and Date inform us they saw Arata go into the subway as another Eater is within and requests that we get rid of it as well. Well... I'll try. With how the fights are going I'm sure how well I'll do...

So when we go in Arata has his hood up and thinks he's the main character of Devil Survivor 2. Dude... just because you look like him doesn't mean you are him.

He doesn't want us involved but realizes we wouldn't listen to him anyway. OF COURSE WE WOULDN'T. He offers to fight with us for old time sakes. So now we're getting help from someone who's technically a wanted fugitive. Oh goodie?

That's all I did this time.

Next time:

I'm going to just assume the rest of the game is RIDICULOUS. Can I survive the next Eater battle? Honestly... I have no idea...