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[Choco's grinning face could be seen as soon as the screen lights up.]

Hi everyone! I'm back! It's been a long time, huh? Things have been really crazy...

Oh, but I wanna show you guys something. It's really important...

[He digs around off to the side for a moment before pulling back up, holding a golden tag with a pink crest.]

Tadah! Fluttershy finally got her crest! Isn't it neat? Kindness really does suit her the best...

Choco, what are you doing?

[He pouts at the Floramon.] I'm just showing everyone Fluttershy's new crest...

[She rolls her eyes.] Would you stop goofing around? Gimme that...

[She starts to take the D-Terminal from him, but Choco holds on, and there's a shaky view of the ceiling as the two start tugging at the device.]

No, leggo! This is what I do - !

[Please excuse as the feed cuts out.]

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Um... to put it in magic terms...

I think that your kindness is the energy that powers your magical artifact, that crest. So, when it gets powered up by your kindness, the kindness sort of bursts, and then the crest actually lights up. When that happens, you can guide the energy from your Digivice through it, and it sort of... [How to put it without going into CRAZY MAHOTAKU MODE...]

It acts like a prism and focuses it so Choco would be able to digivolve further!

Ooooh...

[That actually makes a lot of sense.]

Okay. I-I'll...do my best...

That's all anyone can ask of you.

...So, uh.

Did you ever get a chance to talk with Beastboy about that stuff he did when he was crazy?

N...N-Not, not...n-not yet...With everything that's been going on, I...I haven't really been able to...

O-oh.

...

You probably shouldn't actually kick someone if they do that. A 'no' will probably be fine.

O-Oh...really...?

[Actually, she seems rather relieved by that.]

B-But...you said I should...? And you made me promise you that I would...

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Yeah I was also kind of a little crazy...

I'm not going to say that there isn't a time and a place for it, but if you can avoid hurting people you should.

Oh...[She hadnn't really noticed, other than that.]

Y-Yes, I...I'd rather not hurt anyone...

[Well lbr I was a terrible bad guy.]

Me too... [Sigh] But sometimes you don't get the option. The key is the wisdom to know when you have to act.

...

I'd love some of that.

[Compared to some others, you weren't really that bad Ed.]

Y-Yeah...me too...

[Exactly. I was better at being a bad guy when I'm a good guy! MY BAD GUY SELF IS BETTER AT BEING THE GOOD GUY THAN MY GOOD GUY SELF!! I AM A TERRIBLE VILLAIN! orz]

W-well, wisdom comes with experience, so for that...

I guess you have to go out into the world and learn, huh.

[Eheh...don't think too much about it too much.]

Th-That's true...I guess we've been kind of learning some of that while we've been here, huh?

...yeah, but...

Hum...

[Scuze me I'm just going to fall silent and think about things.]

Hey... Fluttershy? How much do you know about this world?

H-Huh...? N-Not...too much...

Why?

Nothing, I was just wondering...

I realized something recently.

We don't really leave this place much. We don't know much about what's going on except what other people tell us.

How can we say for certain that the path we're walking is right? We don't know what this world's balance is... only what our worlds' balances are--and they could be different.

Hmm...that's true. But those other Chosen...the one who have been helping us since we got here. They would know, wouldn't they? They would help us figure it out...

Maybe...

And I don't think they're necessarily lying either, but we've been way too reactionary... and there's no telling if they really can explain everything clearly either. They came from other worlds too, so their perception might be weird... like telling a secret to someone that you only overheard yourself. Something might get lost in translation.

Um... I'm not sure if I ever told you this, but one time I would up trapped in another dimension for a while. There were a lot of differences between their societies and the ones where I'm from.

Hmm...that is true. But if we were doing something wrong, wouldn't most of the Digimon tell us that?

N-No, I don't think you ever did. What was it like?

...Our digimon until recently were clones... and the other ones were in a prison or something, I guess? A-anyways, I don't think they'd know. [Nodnod.]

Anyways... it was really a lot of fun. I had a friend with me, and I'm pretty strong so we didn't have a lot of trouble--but I also learned a lot about a lot of views that weren't mine. I had made a lot of assumptions, like that most dragons were scary and mean or that wizards were all smart but not very good in a fistfight. That's... not how it works for real, though.

But I mean, the other Digimon around the city. They don't seem to mind what we've been doing so far.

There have been people who have been working to uncover the truth. I wonder if they found anything...

I see...So things were different than how you imagined them?

Way different. And while there are people working to uncover the truth... I don't know anyone who's made any effort to leave the city. We haven't been exploring, we've just kind of been huddling here.

And they were. Way different. I met a mage who could punch out my martial artist friend with no problem at all.... demons who were really nice, and dragons who were noble. I also met angels who were kind of jerks... A-anyways, the point is that I think maybe I should take a look outside myself. You know, to see what's... there?

Hmm, that is true...What do you think we should do?

B-But...it could be dangerous, couldn't it? W-Would you go by yourself?

I'm exploring because it's what I think we should do... and even if it's dangerous, I'm going.

I was thinking of going by myself... to get closer to Ryudamon and to master Taomon's power. Like a training mission.

B-But...wh-what if something happens?

It won't. So long as I'm using my head, everything will turn out alright.

[Please don't point out the obvious contradiction in this statement.]

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