Part 32: Arata's Sasuke Impersonation; Battlefield Odaiba

We continue exploring the parallel world Shinjuku Digital Shift with Rina and defeat a Gigadramon to unlock the path to Barbamon.

Confrontation time. We take on Barbamon. But not before Rina actually physically attacks Barbamon with a jump kick.

Was it ridiculous? Actually... no. Not really. It was actually relatively simple. I win somewhat easily.

Veemon gets its power back and becomes UlforceVeedramon. This duo is quite the hilarious combo honestly.

Either way we explain the situation and UlforceVeedramon agrees to help and it and Rina have a tearful farewell...

Or... not? When we return to our world Rina apparently came with us because where Veevee goes she goes. Well then...

With UlforceVeedramon's help we confront Kentaurosmon. Whose instinct keeps telling him to destroy and break things and he claims this is coming from humans. I fail to see your proof here. Either way Rina tries to do her best to calm him down to little avail so the fight begins.

It was a harsh battle but I was able to come out victorious.

Afterwards, Rina tries to get Kentaurosmon to come with her so he can see the good side of humans because it seems like he's seen nothing but the bad side. He can clear up his mind and possibly the misunderstanding. Okay?

Meh. This Kentaurosmon seems to be a jerk anyway. We don't need him. Either way we've gotten some Royal Knight help at least. We get a call from Date stating that another Eater/monster has appeared in Asakusa so we go there to get rid of it. We still have to use Stealth Hide though to get past the Defense Forces.

We also explore the newly reformed, I guess, Asakusa Digital Shift. As we explore it we have to defeat a Panjyamon and a Chirinmon to be able to unlock more of the area. Luckily those fights were relatively simple and we're able to do so.

Further in we find... Sasuke. I mean Arata. He helps us out as we take on another Humanoid Eater. I tried to prepare accordingly and bring my better Digimon/Ultimates.

The Eater was a jerk so I had to restart and equip Dot-preventing equipment but I did so and came out victorious. That's when... Arata... absorbed the Eater and obtained an Eater arm and claimed that this was his new 'power' that Suedou gave him. Do I really need to say anything else now? He's LITERALLY Sasuke Uchiha now.

Except the difference is that he becomes a freak and keeps ranting about needing to 'eat' more and more. Gallantmon then shows up to confront Arata and what he's become. We try to stop him but he says our emotions are getting the better of us as Arata continues to fall into darkness. More Kingdom Hearts material eh?

So... Gallantmon fights Arata. I'm not joking here. He actually fights him. Like... the human... whatever Arata is now. Which ends as quickly as it begins with Arata stating that he's not strong enough to defeat Gallantmon even though in the fight Gallantmon kept missing. Either way Arata runs away. Saddening...

Nokia needs to talk with us but quickly realizes something is wrong. Either way the chapter comes to an end and the next one starts in K-Cafe with what is basically a 'strategy' meeting.

We've managed to convince some Royal Knights to help us out (though I still feel that's a little shaky at best) but the rest will not be convinced according to Omnimon. Those being, of course, Leopardmon, Examon, Dynasmon, Crusadermon and Craniamon.

Examon is going wild in Odaiba and is the strongest of the Royal Knights in terms of pure strength. Yuuko seems to think that Crusadermon is there as well because she detected Rie's presence in Odaiba. Looks like what we have to do is pretty clear. We have to go to Odaiba and stop Crusadermon from doing... whatever it is she's going to do... with Examon. Odaiba is going to become a large battlefield basically. Oh goodie.

We also inform everyone the situation with Arata which shocks everyone to say the least. Nokia seems to think that if we all punch him though, he'll come to. I don't think that'll work Nokia, but I appreciate you trying to lighten the mood. Her plan for Examon is just another 'spur of the moment whatever we feel like doing' plan as well. I suppose trying to think up a plan isn't exactly her forte but it's better than trying to come up with something and having it all ruined by the Royal Knight jerks.

Either way we do some side stuff first as de-facto 'preparation.' We hear about some kind of festival for Digimon from a Biyomon and Bukamon in Kowloon. This is apparently another DLC case. However, the first case we do involves a young girl wanting to give a blanket to a blue MetalGreymon that looked cold. So we help her out of course.

We 'barter' with the quilt merchant until his mother shows up and practically gives it to us for free.

We deliver to the blanket to the blue MetalGreymon who gives a music box to us to give to the girl as thanks and we deliver that to the girl as well. Simple case really and kind of sweet.

The next case is slightly more serious. Sort of. Apparently a BanchoLeomon (a different one I'm assuming) is going around bragging and a Betamon wants us to stop it. So we explore another dungeon to do so.

But I didn't do so well against the last BanchoLeomon. Will this go differently? We'll find out I suppose...

Next time:

Will I do better against this BanchoLeomon? What's this about a Digimon festival? What other side cases will we end up coming across? Answers to these questions and possibly more will come soon.