Part 31: A New Royal Knight, Jesmon; Welcome to the Parallel World

We explore all of the Ueno Digital Shift and move to confront BanchoLeomon who seems to be beating up Hackmon pretty severely. Yikes.

Hackmon is on the verge of giving up. Until we rush in of course. Which Hackmon is shocked when it told us not to follow it. You didn't really expect us to listen did you?

BanchoLeomon says something about Hackmon still not understanding while viewing our back and Hackmon, all of a sudden, becomes determined to protect us and all of it's other friends which seems to invigorate it to continue. Either way BanchoLeomon is fought.

It was somewhat easy at first. Until it became another RIDICULOUS fight. It kept killing my Digimon and I kept reviving them and this just repeated ad-nauseam.

*sighs* Somehow it didn't matter though because I came out victorious anyway. BanchoLeomon praised Hackmon for his strength and disappeared. Gankoomon comes in afterwards also saying that Hackmon's determination to protect that which he cares for and to protect his friends is the true strength that he was searching for. Then... Hackmon digivolves into Jesmon.

A new Royal Knight is born apparently. Either way Gankoomon states he has nothing left to teach Jesmon and Jesmon agrees to help us out. As for Gankoomon... apparently all he likes to do is train as it turns out that BanchoLeomon was a friend of Gankoomon that assisted in Hackmon/Jesmon's training and wants to become stronger as well so Gankoomon and BanchoLeomon began training with each other. Well... I guess at least we have some kind of help? Hard to tell Jesmon's loyalties with just this though.

Either way we move on and talk with Mirei who reveals that the only way to go to a parallel world is through the creation of a special Digimon using Harmonious Will and Steel Will. Which we ironically just obtained from Magnamon and Hackmon/Jesmon. But the process will take time so we should go do other cases until the Digimon is ready. Little choice I suppose.

We hear rumors of Yuugo being seen again as we roam looking for cases. That... shouldn't be possible...

Either way Yuuko wants to talk with us so we go to her brothers room again and it turns out she wanted a witness for her deleting the Yuugo avatar. As she wanted to remove it because of all the bad things that happened to her and how it reminded her of Rie using her to control the hackers. However... when she tries to delete it. She can't. Which makes her think that the account has been hacked. We inform her of the rumors we heard and she becomes determined to find out who's using her Yuugo avatar and we go searching for it.

We eventually get an invitation from the Yuugo avatar itself to come to the Avalon Server and... hi... Yuugo?

We find out that apparently the one controlling it isn't even human. Apparently it's a human-like AI that was apparently with Yuuko the entire time and was her de-facto 'partner' that allowed her to be Yuugo and basically be a different person altogether. Well then...

But everything that happened during the Under Zero incident still reminds Yuuko of her failures and what Rie did with the Yuugo avatar. Plus, she wants to be able to rely on her own strength and not the avatar's strength anymore. Probably for the best honestly. Either way Yuuko is still determined but the Yuugo AI was created to protect EDEN which was basically the same thing Yuuko wanted to accomplish. We end up getting nowhere with all of this but the Yuugo AI realizes that it and Yuuko are completely different people and we're forced to fight the Yuugo AI.

Even though it was a somewhat annoying battle it wasn't as ridiculous as the BanchoLeomon fight and we eventually come out victorious.

But Yuuko wavers in wanting to delete the avatar and decides to split herself into two in order to protect EDEN so her and the AI can both protect EDEN. With that the Yuugo AI disappears. Sad but... Yuuko has to be her own person. Not her brother after all.

With this out of the way the case is complete and the Digimon is complete. We get a CG scene where an Angewoman and a LadyDevimon... fuse or something? Mastemon is created and the door to the parallel world opens.

In the parallel world... we meet a hyper energetic girl named Rina Shinomiya who is troubled with her partner Veevee (a Veemon) having it's power's stolen and Veemon wants to go back to get it back. However, Rina tells it to do it itself. Que us coming in through the parallel world portal. This shocks and strangely excites Rina.

Either way Mirei tells us who Rina is and that she can help us in what we want to do. I'm not sure how but we try to explain the situation to Rina. She doesn't seem to understand but at least gets that we want to meet UlforceVeedramon. But, informs us that in order to do that we have to help her get Veemon's power back from a Digimon named BarBar (which is apparently a Digimon named Barbamon and is also apparently a strong Mega Digimon). Rina is expecting us to do most of the work though. Wow. She's really helpful...

Unfortunately there seems to be little choice and we go into the Shinjuku Digital Shift in this parallel world to do so and make our way through it. We take on some Meteormon and defeat them as well.

That's all I did this time though.

Next time:

We try to defeat Barbamon to get Veemon's power back. But what exactly will this accomplish? Will it really get us help from UlforceVeedramon? Will it be another RIDICULOUS battle? I have a bad feeling honestly.

Well... I guess all I can do is try my best... and hopefully I'll survive...