Part 5: Digital Monstrosity Revealed... Confront the "Eater"

So... everyone is gawking at something in Shinjuku. We go to investigate. Before I do that though, I go back and do some digivolving since apparently this game already wants you to have Champions even though I still feel like it's early game. Well... I guess I'd better considering my recent struggles.

It looks like... some sort of 'glitch' or something. Kind of like the areas we've been 'jumping' into. Before we can investigate further though... we run into Arata. This guy shows up at the weirdest times...

Either way... we get confronted by the police woman that tried to arrest us back at the beginning of the game when we showed up in our weird cyber-form. Not only that... she seems to recognize Arata. Who identifies him as being apart of a hacking team. Uh oh... I hope it's not Zaxon... although, if I recall correctly, I believe I remember there being another hacking team besides Zaxon. Can't remember their name though. Perhaps their the 'good' hacking team? Though then again... there were two teams in Ruby/Sapphire and they were both bad. I guess we'll find out eventually.

Either way... we run from the police and enter the glitched area. Yep. Totally not suspicious at all.

This area... is all glitched out. Kind of reminds me of .hack. Arata theorizes that it's the Digital World somehow merged with the human world. Perhaps? Also... he shows us the Digimon he has and joins us as a 'guest' character. Yay? Well... more help is always better...

As we continue... we explain to Arata our job as a Cyber Sleuth. He tried to make it seem like he's not interested... but then... barrages us with questions wanting to know more about it. Well... I guess even Arata has his funny side.

But then... we get another weird flashback and we see the ghost image again. Which Arata believes since we wouldn't joke around with stuff like that. Then... Arata informs us that we're being followed by someone. Wow. We're so great at our job...

Either way... the one following us is quite the weird one. Named Akemi Suedou who apparently works for the Kamishiro company. He was following us because he wanted our help apparently. He answers some questions for us to make up for him following us. First off, it turns out the area we're in is some sort of 'Digital Wave' that is a collection of human memories in cyberspace. Not only that... but... Kamishiro knew about the monstrosity that attacked us in the early game, which ticks off Arata. They knew all along and said nothing and stonewalled him. They like to keep their secrets it seems. This isn't exactly the best 'secret' though. Because we are told by Akemi that the monstrosity that attacked us isn't a Digimon at all and just a monster that eats data. Simply called an 'Eater.' That's to the point I guess.

He wants our help in defeating it. Which apparently Digimon are the best at because they are resilient to their data being damaged or 'eaten' in this case. Ironically, it is sort of why we are here as well. For 'revenge' as Arata puts it. So we agree. However... this guy is way too suspicious. I don't trust him. Well... whatever... I'll try to keep an eye on him the best I can.

We explore the area and eventually make are way past a gate to a lower area. Unfortunately this was all I was able to accomplish. Right before a true fight with this so-called 'Eater.'

Next time:

We take on the 'Eater.' Will things go better this time than they did last time? Well... I certainly hope so. I have a group of Champions so hopefully I'll be okay. Hopefully.