The Chosen Ones Also Want a Youth Romance Story

"So I asked you to investigate. Don't you have nothing to do anyway?"

"Okay, then I'll go take a look." Kanda sighed, turned around and opened the door of the office.

……

Shinjuku streets.

Arriving at the subway entrance mentioned in the commission, Kanda noticed that quite a few people had gathered there.

Citizens gathered around the isolated subway entrance. Faced with the obviously strange subway station, many adults looked nervous, while young students quickly took out their mobile phones to capture this spectacle.

"What's this……?"

Completely different from what was described in the client's email, the purple data pixels had completely enveloped the subway entrance, blocking the view of the people outside.

This phenomenon is somewhat similar to the data channels in the digital world.

Kanda Osamu took out his cell phone and dialed the number to call Nishijima Daigo.

"…Kanda? What's going on?"

"Has DATS detected any digital gates opening at Shinjuku underground stations in the past two days?"

"Shinjuku Underground Station? There's no activity on the detector."

After hearing Nishijima's answer, Kanda Osamu hung up the phone silently, put on the DATS execution uniform in his backpack, took out a certificate and walked to the front of the crowd.

"I'm an investigator from DATS. Can you cordon off this area first?"

"Little..." Detective Makiko Date was scolding the kid who came forward, but when she noticed the ID he took out, she swallowed her words and said, "Okay, we just want to notify DATS as well."

"sorry to bother you."

Kanda nodded, turned and walked into the subway entrance.

Taking the elevator to the underground station, he was surprised by the scene inside.

"Is this... the real world? Or the computer world?"

Frequently flashing red and black data erode part of the side wall. Mosaic-like steel columns are half-inserted into the ground. The digitized building warns of danger with unstable orange light. Red text is constantly floating on the display screen in front of the ticket machine. The interior of this platform is as strange as two intertwined worlds.

DATS really needs to fix their crappy detectors.

Without caring that he hadn't actually bought a ticket at the ticket machine, Kanda Osamu put on his goggles and ran through the ticket gate into the depths of the underground station.

The long and narrow corridor soon came to an end.

Kanda, who was standing at the top of the stairs, suddenly remembered that he had not yet reported the situation to DATS. He took out his mobile phone from his bag, but found that there was no communication signal on the screen at this time.

Can't contact DATS?

"At this point, we have no choice but to bite the bullet." Kanda laughed stiffly. At this moment, he could only rely on himself. Although he was 90% sure that this strange space was related to Digimon, he could not rule out the possibility of a supernatural story.

He quickly jumped down the stairs and came to the waiting area below the platform.

The waiting area was not very large, and the corridors on both sides were already crowded with people who had not had time to escape. Fortunately, the train had stopped running, otherwise it would be quite dangerous for so many people to stand on the side of the track. Many citizens were making a lot of noise, and some sharp-eyed people had already noticed Kanda Osamu who had just got off.

"DATS people?"

"Why are you here now?"

"Have you guys embezzled all the taxpayers' money?"

This was the first time that Kanda Osamu was condemned so strongly.

"Everyone, please remain calm..." He raised his hands to calm the restless people.

"Oh my, this outfit, is it the backbone of DATS?"

Just as the citizens were briefly agitated, a middle-aged man in a black coat and with a hunched back slowly came up to Kanda Osamu.

"Hi, hello, how are you?" He greeted Kanda with his pupils wide open.

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Suedou Akimi, and I'm a researcher at Kamishiro Enterprises."

"Kamiyo Enterprises..."

"Yes, yes." Suedou Akihiro nodded, and then changed the topic to this strange space. "I guess DATS sent you here to solve this strange space, right?"

"Sure, you know what?"

"Ah, before I answer your question, I want to ask you something."

Raising his left hand exaggeratedly and then lowering it, Suedou Akihito stared at Kanda's face. "Excuse me, have you ever encountered a [Devourer]?"

"What it is?"

"It means predation and erosion. I call it the Devourer." Moto turned his hunched body and pointed to the deepest part of the corridor. "Inside, there is a Devourer. It is the culprit that caused the flow of the digital wave."

Kanda Osamu looked at the man who was talking in front of him, and he already understood what he meant.

"Can I ask you a favor, Mr. Suedo?"

"Oh, please just speak up."

"Would you mind taking these citizens back this way? I have already confirmed whether it is safe."

"No problem, no problem."

He forced a smile at Kanda Osamu, and after telling others that he was a researcher at Kamishiro Enterprises, Suedou Akitoki gained people's temporary trust.

"Oh, by the way, please be very careful."

When arranging for the others to leave, the strange researcher seemed to remember something, raised his finger and turned around, "Please don't get entangled by the [Devourer]. Its attack seems to be able to devour all data."

Many citizens passed by him. Kanda nodded and did not speak again. Instead, he hid his eyes under the goggles he had just put on and carefully observed the situation around him.

One after another.

It was obvious that the citizens did not want to stay in this place any longer. Although they were trying to maintain order under the command of Suedou Akemi, everyone deliberately quickened their pace. The oppressive space urged everyone to leave.

At this moment, Kanda suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"Kanda-kun?"

"……minister?"

The two were standing at the stairs. Kanda Osamu's goggles perfectly hid his face, but when Yukinoshita Yukino got closer, she still recognized the goggles that Kanda had hung around his neck not long ago.

Just like that, the two people from the Service Department unexpectedly met in this dangerous incident.

"Kanda-kun, why are you wearing..."

Before Yukinoshita could finish her words, Kanda Osamu in front of her grabbed her sleeve and pulled her in front of him.

"Why are you here, Minister?"

Kanda looked at Yukinoshita Yukino in front of him with a somewhat panicked expression, then turned his head to look at the deep corridor behind him.

"...Go to Shinjuku to buy some things." She raised her hand and rubbed her forehead. Yukinoshita never expected that she would encounter such a thing.

"Shall I take you away first, Minister?"

Without much hesitation, Kanda made the decision.

For a moment, he felt that his heartbeat might not be any better.

"You have more important things to do, don't you?"

After the surprise of meeting an acquaintance when trapped in a strange space and the panic of being pulled by Kanda, Yukinoshita Yukino realized that their current position was not a good one.

The combat uniform on Kanda Osamu is quite conspicuous. The abnormal phenomenon here must be related to DATS.

"It's okay. Didn't Kanda-kun just come from the entrance?"

She pulled out her sleeves that he was holding, looked at Kanda Osamu and said simply, "I believe you."

After saying this, Yukinoshita Yukino looked at Kanda Osamu and waited for his response.

"……it is good."

Kanda hid his worried look, pursed his lips and said nothing more.

Chapter 15 The Predator

Kanda Osamu finally saw the so-called [Eater] at the deepest part of this corridor.

He didn't know how to describe this monster of unknown identity. It wasn't very large in size. The [Devourer] in front of him was waving its tentacles like an octopus tentacle monster.

Is this thing really a Digimon?

He couldn't tell which type of Digimon the thing in front of him belonged to, but Digimon could usually speak, so he cleared his throat and asked:

"Hello, can you hear me?"

Kanda's voice was heard from the empty underground. The amoeba-like [Eater] noticed his location.

The entangled tentacles suddenly opened, and the [Devourer], completely unprepared to answer the question, rushed towards him at high speed.

"Omegamon!" Kanda Osamu did not hesitate and took out the Tyrannosaurus Rex when the opponent started to accelerate.

The raised Tyrannosaurus Rex flashed white light, and the noble Paladin appeared again.

However, the digital singularity that should have been activated at the same time did not appear. Fortunately, the underground space of the station was large enough, and Omegamon could barely see the invader not far away by bending his body.

"Don't let it get close. Use the Garuru Cannon."

With a raise of his right hand, the muzzle of the Steel Wolf suddenly extended underground, aiming at the [Devourer] in front, and light purple high-pressure energy cannon poured out.

The bombardment attracted the attention of [Devourer], which dodged left and right to avoid the first few shots and accelerated to close the distance between itself and Omegamon.

"Switch to freezing output mode."

Omegamon nodded after receiving the order, and raised his right arm again to accumulate energy. This time, it fired not intermittent energy cannons, but ice-blue laser beams.

Linear lasers filled the corridor, heading straight for the Devourer. The narrow space did not allow it to dodge the sweeping lasers, and the freezing air hit it, freezing it instantly as it waved its tentacles. Once again switching to cannon mode, in this quiet underground, the White Paladin's right arm emitted a lavender fiery energy, and the unreserved Garuru Cannon hit the frozen Devourer directly.

The sound created was like thunder falling from the sky, and a hot energy wave spread out from the center.

Protecting Kanda Osamu well behind his cloak, Omegamon's sight seemed to penetrate the center of the dust stirred up by the aftermath.

When the gray fog completely dissipated, Omegamon and Kanda Osamu's vigilance also eased.

The tentacle monster was no longer visible in the center of the bombardment, and the [Devourer] was confirmed to have been destroyed.

Fortunately, no law occurred.

Kanda Shu stepped out from behind Omegamon, looked at the center of the bombardment, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The strange data space was dissipating, and soon the post-war waiting station was restored to its original state, and everything was normal.

"Does this thing feel like a threat?"

After taking Omegamon back into the Tyrannosaurus, Kanda analyzed this [Devourer] whose species he couldn't identify.

The battle did not last long. This [Devourer] was very powerful according to Mingshi Motodou's description, but it had basically no resistance to Omegamon and lost the chance of turning the tables after being frozen by the freezing air.

"Suedo Akihiro..."

This man should know something else, Kanda concluded.

"I'm telling you, can't you explain it clearly over the phone?"

At the Shinjuku underground station exit, Kanda just stepped out and saw Nishijima Daigo who had arrived early.

"Ahahaha, I'll definitely do it next time, teacher."

"I knew you would say that." Nishijima Daigo rolled his eyes in annoyance and pointed to the underground station entrance nearby.

"So, that thing down there was caused by a Digimon?"

"It doesn't seem so, but it is probably related to the Digital World."

"Okay, but it was definitely DATS's fault that it failed to detect the gate this time. Fortunately, you happened to be here."

“It’s not like I happened to be here…” Kanda took out the agency’s commission document, “I was commissioned to come here to investigate this matter.”

"Okay, okay, what's the catch?"