Digital Hackers' Memories

Snapped!

It was a white leather belt, the color of which was somewhat similar to that of the Snowball Beast's body, but it appeared even more bleak and pale.

It looks as if some uncontrollable accident occurred during the process of making Agumon's fur into leather, resulting in it being stained with this unhealthy, pale white color.

Fortunately, Chen Ze didn't care about these things, because compared to the completely destroyed Agumon data, it was already a stroke of luck that this data was preserved.

"Aya!"

More than the color difference, Chen Ze is now concerned about how he, who has no hands or feet and only a round head, should deal with this leather belt.

Wrapped around the body?

Wear it on your head?

Or perhaps it's controlled by some more mystical mental power?

At this moment, Chen Ze missed the days when he still had hands and feet, when he would never have had such unnecessary worries.

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"Meimei, Daddy's leaving now."

After finishing breakfast, Mr. Tachikawa picked up his briefcase and waved to Mimi, who was still eating, under the gentle gaze of his wife.

"Okay, Dad, take care!"

Politely putting down her bowl and chopsticks, Mimi waved to Mr. Tachikawa, who had already walked out the door.

As the little princess of the family, Meimei is a bit spoiled and willful, but she is not the kind of unruly devil.

The terms "little devil" and "little witch" were mostly just nicknames and expressions of affection that the Tachikawa couple used for their daughter.

"See you tonight, darling."

After giving Ms. Tachikawa a warm hug at the door, Mr. Tachikawa finally stepped out of the house.

"Safe travels."

Ms. Tachikawa smiled as she watched Mr. Tachikawa leave, but her expression changed the moment she turned around.

"Meimei, let's calculate who secretly watched TV last night..."

Seeing Ms. Tachikawa's face suddenly change, Mimi took advantage of the moment before the other woman could finish speaking, decisively picked up the plate in front of her and started shouting loudly.

"Mom, the eggs you made today are so delicious! I want another serving!"

Looking at the serious-looking Mimi with a wry smile, Ms. Tachikawa could only sigh helplessly.

"Don't stay up so late next time."

Seeing Ms. Tachikawa turn and walk towards the kitchen, Mimi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, looking as if she had narrowly escaped death.

In this family, although Meimei can completely control her father, the one who truly stands at the top of the food chain is Ms. Tachikawa.

"By the way, Meimei, why don't you go to the flower shop with your mom to learn flower arranging today?"

As if she had eyes in the back of her head, Ms. Tachikawa, who was busy in the kitchen, suddenly spoke again, making Mimi, who had just relaxed, jump her heart into her throat again.

"No, I don't want to learn flower arranging!"

Meimei decisively shook her head and rejected Ms. Tachikawa's itinerary. She preferred to stay at home alone rather than go to the shop with her mother to learn flower arranging.

"You promised Dad that you wouldn't let me learn any other random things this summer vacation."

Mimi didn't realize Ms. Tachikawa's good intentions; she simply didn't want to study those boring courses.

"Sigh, Qingyou spoils you too much, which is why you have developed such an unruly personality."

There was no intention to force Mimi any further. After all, Ms. Tachikawa had only mentioned it casually and didn't expect the other woman to actually go to the store with her.

"If you don't want to go, then don't go. Let's stick to the three rules this time."

"Don't open the door to strangers, don't sneak out alone..."

"besides……"

Before Ms. Tachikawa could finish speaking, Mimi had already picked up where she left off, speaking in a mature tone.

"Also, if you encounter any problems, call your parents immediately."

"I'm all grown up now, and I know how to protect myself."

Faced with Mimi's interruption, Ms. Tachikawa, who came out of the kitchen, simply walked slowly to her, then reached out and poked her head, giving her some advice.

"Good to know. Mom will be back at noon. If she finds that you haven't kept your promise, you'll have to go to the store with Mom to help out in the afternoon."

Meimei nodded knowingly; she was already used to Ms. Tachikawa's rhetoric.

As the only daughter in her family, and with her parents' financial resources far exceeding those of ordinary families, Meimei's willfulness was built on a financial foundation that other children her age did not have.

Of course, Mr. Tachikawa's "free-range" approach to getting along with his children also played a part in this.

As long as Mimi doesn't want to, the Tachikawa couple rarely force each other; they mostly just cultivate her interests and hobbies.

"If you get hungry, there's some bread and fruit in the fridge that you can eat."

After confirming that everything was alright, Ms. Tachikawa did not linger and walked towards the door after putting on her huge white trench coat.

Unlike Mr. Tachikawa, Ms. Tachikawa does not work for any company. Instead, she opened a flower shop according to her own preferences, and the specific opening time is entirely determined by her mood.

In a sense, Meimei's spoiled and princess-like behavior is inherited from her mother.

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Chosen Children

"Mom, take care on your journey."

Only after making sure Ms. Tachikawa had closed the door tightly did Mimi hurriedly throw the plate she had finished eating into the dishwasher.

She hadn't forgotten the mysteriously disappeared digital egg, and she was determined to prove to her father that she wasn't lying and that a huge egg had indeed crawled out of his computer.

Therefore, Meimei even decided to temporarily give up her favorite TV and play a game of "hide-and-seek" with the missing digital egg.

Where did that thing go?

With that in mind, Meimei pressed the dishwasher switch and ran to her room without any hesitation.

Just as she was about to push open the door, Meimei suddenly stopped and muttered to herself in an innocent tone.

"No, we definitely won't find the egg this way; it must be hiding."

Thinking this through, Meimei deliberately stopped walking and tiptoed to the door, listening intently to any sounds that might come from inside the room.

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Are kids these days so cunning?

Curled up tightly in the corner under the bed, Chen Ze carefully tried not to make any noise.

It must be said that although Snowballmon was weak as a baby Digimon, its talents as a Digimon were already fully revealed.

Putting everything else aside, the ability to hear murmurs several meters away even through a door is already beyond the capabilities of ordinary humans.

Moreover, not only has the sensitivity of hearing been improved, but the range of sounds that Snowball Beast can hear is also much wider than Chen Ze's during his human era.

As is well known, the range of human hearing is 20Hz to 20000Hz, and the effective range is between 200Hz and 8000Hz.

Once the sound exceeds this frequency, humans can no longer receive it effectively.

But Chen Ze is different now. In addition to the sounds that humans can normally hear, he can even hear the tiny sounds of dust falling to the ground and the ground rubbing against each other.

It was because of this that Chen Ze not only overheard the conversation of the Takakawa family, but also learned that the little girl who found him was named "Meimei".

Chen Ze wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that the pronunciation of the name sounded somewhat familiar.

[Light? Jia'er? Curry? This is clearly not the correct pronunciation? And the age doesn't match either?]

The first thing that came to Chen Ze's mind was the absolute protagonist who opened the door to the Digital World and enabled the two worlds to communicate for the first time—Kiji Yagami.

In every version of the story, the god of the Digital World, Homeostasis, witnessed how Kari Yagami nurtured a newly hatched Digimon egg into a powerful Greymon capable of rivaling a Perfect-level Digimon in just one day, which led to the series of events that followed.

Human children are chosen to go to the Digital World...

The digital world is progressing at an astonishing pace...

A variety of powerful Digimon emerge, traversing between two worlds in pursuit of their beliefs and justice...

This is arguably the real reason why Chen Ze considers the "Hikaru Incident" that might happen tonight as the origin of the Digital World and the beginning of all stories.

If the real world really developed like the anime, that powerful Greymon should have been born by now, right?

After confirming that he did not know "Meimei", Chen Ze now wanted to complain about how big the family's heart was to leave a six or seven-year-old girl alone at home.

Of course, Chen Ze does not deny that Meimei's choice to stay at home did disrupt his subsequent plans.

If the family of three goes to work or school, Chen Ze will have enough time to find food, explore all the functions of his own body, and then leave the house before they find him.

However, plans can't keep up with changes. The fact that the child was left alone at home made all of Chen Ze's prior preparations come to naught.

In addition, Chen Ze now has to carefully hide his whereabouts to avoid being discovered by the little girl.

There was no sound.

From Chen Ze's current perspective, after eavesdropping on the door for a while, Mei Mei finally cautiously pushed open the door and dragged her rabbit doll inside.

"It really did hide."

The tiny feet lingered for a moment in front of the digital egg, then moved to the window, seemingly searching for the peculiar egg.

Any place where the digital criminal might be hidden is within Mimi's search range.

Chen Ze could only pray that the little girl wouldn't look under the bed, otherwise he would be completely exposed.

Every time this happens, Chen Ze feels a deep regret again, wondering why he didn't become the Black Ball Beast.

Otherwise, given the black ball beast's dark appearance, even if the little girl looked under the bed, she most likely wouldn't be able to see her.

Unlike now, with Snowballmon's conspicuous appearance, it would have given away its true form in no time.

"Did he escape?"

Those tiny feet wandered aimlessly around the room, sometimes swaying, sometimes pausing, keeping Chen Ze's heart in his throat, afraid to relax.

"They must have escaped, right?"

Her tone revealed obvious disappointment; Meimei was clearly unable to accept this fact.

The disappearance of the digital egg meant that there was no solid evidence for his story, and he could not convince his father that he was not lying.

Although Mei Mei doesn't seem to care about the "excuse" her father came up with on the spot, deep down she still really wants to prove to Mr. Tachikawa that she didn't lie.

"I'm clearly very pretty, why are you avoiding me? You're such a bad guy."

Listening to Mei Mei's murmurs with a mix of amusement and exasperation, Chen Ze suddenly felt a sense of shared misery with Ms. Taichikawa.

I really don't know what's going on in the minds of young girls these days. Is there any necessary connection between being pretty and being a bad guy?

"Could it have run away outside?"

Meimei continued to mutter softly, her disappointment evident in her voice.

Yes, that's it. Hurry up and get out of here to find me!

Watching those hesitant little feet slowly move towards the door, Chen Ze finally felt relieved—the girl hadn't found her hiding place after all.

However, Chen Ze's heart had barely settled down for a second when a pair of dark, shiny eyes, gleaming with a sharp light, suddenly appeared directly in front of him.

"Haha, I found you! You bad guy!"

Chapter Twenty-Eight: First Kiss

The small bedroom of the Yagami family in the Hikarigaoka residential building in Nerima Ward.

How could you lose to a cat?

Covering his own face with cat claw marks, Taiichi looked at Koromon, who was also scratched, his face full of helplessness.

Despite being significantly larger than a cat, it couldn't even defeat a single cat, leading Tai to seriously question the origins of this "little monster."

When this "little monster" first hatched from its egg, it was clearly a black ball of fur, but now it has turned into a pink and unidentified creature.

More importantly, this "little monster" has an unusually large appetite.

After devouring all the snacks the siblings had saved up, it even started eating cat food, making itself a food-stealing enemy for its own kitten.

Here, Taichi selectively ignores the fact that Kari brought the cat bowl.

If this little monster hadn't been such a big eater, my sister wouldn't have gone to get cat food to feed it. So, in the end, it's still the little monster's fault.