Chapter 274: Data Conflict, Hammer-Forging Will!

"How strange, this is the first time I've seen a BlackGatomon that still has its Holy Ring after evolving from Salamon."

The Fairy Digimon quickly discovered the situation existing on the other party, on BlackGatomon's tail.

"Is there a problem with this?"

Broly was confused.

"Generally speaking, Gatomon are Holy Beast-type Digimon; they only have a chance to evolve into Virus-type Dark Beast-type BlackGatomon if they lost the Holy Ring on their neck during their Salamon period.

But now, on its tail, which has already evolved into BlackGatomon, the Holy Ring is still preserved; this is where the problem lies."

The Fairy Digimon covered BlackGatomon's body with its Fairy Power, and sure enough discovered light and dark powers conflicting with each other inside BlackGatomon's body — Vaccine-type and Virus-type data confronting each other.

"Is BlackGatomon like this now because of this ring on its tail? Then I'll take it off right now."

As Broly spoke, he prepared to act, wanting to help BlackGatomon free itself from the pain.

"No no no, the Holy Ring must not be removed."

Seeing this, the Fairy Digimon hurriedly stopped him.

"Why?"

Broly was a bit doubtful, but because he didn't understand, he was stopped by the Fairy Digimon and didn't continue to act rashly.

"This is the hope for BlackGatomon to return to the light."

The Fairy Digimon explained.

"Generally speaking, once it has evolved into BlackGatomon, it is an irretrievable matter; BlackGatomon will completely fall toward the Dark Faction.

However, right now there is still a Holy Ring representing the Light Faction on BlackGatomon's tail, which let the Fairy Digimon see the hope of letting the other party return to the light."

"Light and darkness, I don't care about that; BlackGatomon looks like it's in a lot of pain right now, I just want it to recover."

Broly was not interested in the Digital World's light and darkness; he only cared about BlackGatomon's current situation.

Fairy Digimon: "..."

Indeed, not every Digimon cares about faction, especially for some powerful Digimon.

Perhaps the Dark Faction is the faction they prefer more.

After all, in a world of the weak being meat and the strong being food, for powerful Digimon, perhaps that is a paradise of freedom.

"Alright, if you can accept that BlackGatomon's personality will become completely different from its Salamon period afterwards, then you can just directly remove the Holy Ring on its tail."

The Fairy Digimon did not force Digimon to choose their own faction leaning, merely reminded them with this one sentence.

"What do you mean?"

Broly's action of removing the ring stopped again.

"Our Digimon's personalities are influenced by the data inside their bodies.

And BlackGatomon, also known as the Child of Evil, has a perverse and violent personality.

If you remove the Holy Ring on its tail now, BlackGatomon will fall into darkness.

Its personality will gradually evolve toward a normal BlackGatomon's personality."

The Fairy Digimon looked at BlackGatomon, curled up in a ball and deeply mired in pain, paused, then continued: "Salamon evolved into BlackGatomon to protect its companions; it shouldn't be that kind of evil-personality Digimon.

I think this is also the reason why the Holy Ring on its tail still exists after evolution.

The dark power, when there was a concrete hostile target, temporarily did not affect BlackGatomon.

However, after Son Goku Digimon, this concrete hostile Digimon, was resolved, and there was no longer a concrete target to pour onto, it began to change BlackGatomon's personality.

But it obviously isn't willing to be changed, so that caused the current situation."

Broly frowned; the Fairy Digimon's words were well-founded, leaving him not knowing what to do for a moment.

Whether to respect BlackGatomon's wish and not change its personality.

Or directly remove the Holy Ring on its tail for it, relieving the pain it is currently suffering.

"Then can you make it feel better?"

Broly thought for a while, then asked the Fairy Digimon.

If the Fairy Digimon had no way, then he would directly remove the ring for BlackGatomon; anyway, no matter how the other party changes, it's still his wife.

"With my power, I can only temporarily isolate the conflict of light and dark powers inside its body."

The Fairy Digimon replied.

"Then what are you still waiting for?"

Hearing it had a way, Broly immediately urged it on.

"This isolation carries risk; my power is ultimately an external power, and if there's the slightest carelessness, it might detonate the power of light-dark conflict inside BlackGatomon's body; once the conflict power inside its body explodes, BlackGatomon's Digimon Core might be destroyed because of it."

The Fairy Digimon took out its staff, explained the isolation risk, and without waiting for the troubled boy to make a new reply, directly acted.

Broly was startled, but more worried he would disturb the Fairy Digimon, he instantly held his breath, staring at the staff the other party pointed at BlackGatomon.

Ring after ring of Fairy Power entered BlackGatomon's body; the dark side's data was compressed back into the Holy Ring on the tail.

As the already somewhat damaged Holy Ring once again emitted a dangerous creak sound, the Fairy Digimon finally let out a long exhale.

"Did it succeed?"

Broly asked.

"Mission accomplished."

The Fairy Digimon nodded, a large amount of cold sweat emerging on its forehead.

Just now it almost exploded; luckily the Holy Ring on BlackGatomon's tail was sturdy enough.

Now it only has a few more cracks, letting it seal the dark data inside.

And this also counts as simulating the situation of Salamon's Holy Ring on its neck.

On the ground, BlackGatomon woke up slowly.

"What happened to me?"

BlackDramon was unclear about what had happened.

"The situation is like this......"

Piximon spoke up a step before Broly, explaining BlackDramon's condition to the Digimon in question.

"Now, it depends on whether you choose to embrace darkness, or return to light."

Piximon handed the right to choose to BlackDramon.

"You can think it over properly, but the isolation state my Fairy Power can maintain is not permanent.

You must give me an exact answer before the Holy Ring on your tail can no longer support it and continues sealing the Dark Data inside your Body."

"Abu......"

BlackDramon looked somewhat bewildered, looking toward the boy at its Side.

"No matter whether you choose darkness or light, no matter what you become, you are my Digimon."

Broly reached out and patted BlackDramon's head, giving it unconditional support.

"I don't want to become brutal, you......"

BlackDramon did not ponder for Unknown Time, after all Data Conflict already represented its inner heart.

It merely suddenly Reacted, realizing it did not know the identity of this strange Digimon before it.

"I am Piximon, you can also call me Sage Beast."

Piximon introduced itself again. "Piximon, what should I do to return to light?"

BlackDramon asked.

"This relies on your inner heart, as long as you can firm your inner heart's will of light, you will certainly be able to overcome the Dark Data inside your Body."

Piximon answered, but its answer was practically the same as a Doctor telling a Patient with a terminal illness 'man can conquer nature' Chicken Soup talk, except it changed from relying on medicine to cure illness, to attempting to rely on metaphysics to heal.

"But, specifically how to do it?"

BlackDramon was somewhat bewildered.

"Very simple, follow me in cultivation, strengthen your inner heart."

Piximon answered.

"Cactimon, the Jungle This Side is left to you, I'm going to accompany BlackDramon to get treated."

"Gluttony Beast King, puppy, oh no, Lord BlackDramon, is it alright?"

Cactimon, evolved from Floramon, was somewhat Worried, and Pursued Ask.

"It will be alright."

Broly believed this, at worst BlackDramon's personality changes a bit, that's also Nothing Big.

Broly left the Jungle that could be called his Home in this Digital World, and took BlackDramon following Piximon to cultivate.

And the so-called cultivation, was ascetic practice.

Of Course, this was only ascetic practice for BlackDramon.

BlackDramon began on Piximon's Sage Mountain, doing daily water-carrying up the mountain, cleaning Dojo hygiene, Sitting Meditation and such things.

"Digimon can only feel their own weakness when they are Weak, carrying water and cleaning Dojo hygiene are just appearances, the purpose is to make BlackDramon's body and mind feel fatigue, only when both body and mind are fatigued and Weak to conduct Sitting Meditation training, can it effectively temper its spirit......"

Broly, because of helping BlackDramon do odd jobs, was Pulled by Piximon to hold a small meeting.

"If you want what's good for BlackDramon, don't interfere with the cultivation I arranged for it."

Regarding this, Broly was somewhat helpless, could only watch BlackDramon suffer.

"Pa~"

And during Sitting Meditation, if BlackDramon got Distracted, it would be heavily struck with a Shakujo by Piximon.

"What can I do for it?"

BlackDramon was cultivating, Broly was also cultivating, he felt anxious watching BlackDramon suffer, but could not interfere Haphazardly, could only ask Piximon.

"What can you do?"

Piximon Pondered for a bit, then gave an answer.

"As BlackDramon's important Partner, you can give it spiritual support, encourage it with words, and also during the time it can rest and sleep every day, try to Relieve its bodily fatigue, constant pressure is also Not Work, must have tension and relaxation to work."

Broly understood, every night massaging BlackDramon, relaxing its fatigued Body, became his required course.

Time passed day by day, yet in this process he learned a startlingly brilliant Petting technique.

The originally stagnant, even Decreasing Angewomon Happiness Value, rose again because of his technique.

And it was a significant rise, and for BlackDramon, every night in the boy's embrace was the gentle harbor where its fatigued body and mind rested.

As cultivation days deepened, Sitting Meditation also changed from initial Dojo Sitting Meditation, to Sitting Meditation cultivation on a swaying flat stone at the mountain peak.

From possibly getting hit by Shakujo at any time, to if not Paying Attention, falling off the incomparably dangerous cliff.

The flat stone swayed with Environmental changes, the sense of fear from danger invaded BlackDramon's inner heart at all times.

BlackDramon must maintain a heart like Shisui, and also constantly adjust its Sitting Meditation Pose, to avoid the flat stone it sat on losing Balance.

Its inner heart, however, gradually became strong in the confrontation with fear.

Of Course, Due To BlackDramon knowing Broly was there, this Sitting Meditation effect was somewhat Subtle.

Although some results were achieved, it was not as good as Piximon thought.

Piximon was somewhat Troubled, BlackDramon's reliance on the boy somewhat far exceeded its imagination.

But also cannot say it's bad, at least in Piximon's view, BlackDramon being able to persist until now, Broly had great merit.

"Teacher Piximon, can I now resist the Dark Data inside my Body?"

This day, BlackDramon suddenly asked.

"I Don't Know."

"Eh?"

"I truly don't know. The Dark Data inside your body is far too massive; that's simply not something an ordinary BlackDramon could possess. Placed on other Dark Alignment Digimon, it might be enough to let those Digimon evolve into the Perfect level. No idea where it came from."

BlackDramon: "..."

It did know where the Dark Data inside its body came from, but it couldn't say; otherwise Abur would blame himself.

But this fundamentally isn't Abur's fault; it's all because it said it would only eat bad Digimon.

And the root cause: originally, as long as it gradually raised its Holy Power during the Puppymon stage, there would have been no problem.

But Son Gokumon just had to attack them, and it had to respond on its own.

So, this should be Son Gokumon's fault, and also the fault of its own desire to be strong.

"However, you can try. I can help you open some of the seals on the Holy Ring on your tail, release some Dark Data, and see if you can resist it."

"Okay."

BlackDramon thought for a moment, then nodded.

Calling Broly over to witness the situation together, Piccolomon then acted to open the isolation seal on its own Fairy Power; BlackDramon thereby felt pain, but unlike a month ago when it hurt so much it fainted, it was now able to stay conscious.

"I blocked it. I can feel that I absorbed that portion of Dark Data."

BlackDramon was very happy.

"Excellent. As long as there's enough time, you should be able to slowly master the Dark Data inside the Holy Ring, thereby becoming a kind BlackDramon without changing your own nature."

Piccolomon was equally happy.

"Wonderful, BlackDramon."

Broly was also happy.

Only, they were all a bit too happy too early. The Dark Data inside the Holy Ring was far too massive; before BlackDramon could completely digest and master these Dark Virus-species Data, the Holy Ring on its tail gave out a step ahead.

"What to do?"

Looking at the Holy Ring which had cracked a few more lines, BlackDramon was a little panicked.

"Hmm~"

Piccolomon's face showed a troubled look, yet it likewise didn't know what to do.

"I need to go ask someone else."

However, Piccolomon suddenly thought of Homeostasis, thought of Gennai, and felt they would have a way.

So, bringing BlackDramon and Broly along, it arrived at the innermost room inside the Dojo, and began contacting Gennai...

At the same time, over at Folder Island, Patamon successfully evolved into Angemon, unleashing Heaven's Knuckle which has outstanding effect against Demon-type Digimon, piercing through Devimon's chest.

However, due to Energy Depletion, it itself reverted back to a Digimental.

(Chapter End)