Chapter 275: Molecule Beast's Three Strategies

After activating the communication device, the projected screen that rose up was completely blank; Gennai did not appear on the other side.

The Fairy Digimon scratched its head, and when Broly asked what was going on, it replied: "The person I'm looking for seems to be temporarily absent."

Gennai was indeed not there; his communication device had connected to File Island, where he was currently giving new guidance to the seven Chosen Children.

"Please, children, go to the Server Continent and resolve the new crisis; as long as this world's crisis is resolved, you can return home."

Gennai in the projection bowed and requested this to Taichi Yagami and the other Chosen Children.

And in reality, the children like Taichi Yagami who had been summoned to the Digital World had no other choice if they wanted to return to the Real World.

"No problem, leave it to us."

A group of Chosen elementary school students were deceived and agreed to Gennai's request to save the world.

At the same time, inside the Inverted Pyramid main unit on the Server Continent, the Molecule Beast sealed within the barrier as the control system finally detected the Fairy Digimon Sage Mountain's external communication signal.

"Let's call back in a while."

Just as the Fairy Digimon was preparing to close the communication device, the blank projection suddenly distorted, and a new image appeared.

"Finally got in touch with you, Gluttony Beast."

A Mechanical Digimon resembling a capsule appeared on the projection screen.

"Are you the Molecule Beast?"

Broly felt the voice on the other end sounded somewhat familiar, recalled hearing it earlier in the convenience store phone, and so asked.

"It's me."

The Molecule Beast admitted it.

"You want to contact me, is there something?"

Broly asked.

"I want to ask you to help me lift the seal."

The Molecule Beast said directly.

"Seal?"

"Pikachumon sealed me in its network main unit over here; without external help I am powerless to break my own seal, I need your help."

The Molecule Beast requested; it wasn't that it hadn't thought of asking other Digimon for help, but most other Digimon are cautious.

Even if it ran into one or two enthusiastic, helpful Digimon, because the Inverted Pyramid's main unit is too remote, and because it used to be Pikachumon's territory, no Digimon was willing to come over.

With no other way, the Molecule Beast wanted to find the Gluttony Beast that had eliminated Pikachumon for help, but unfortunately when it wanted to search for the Gluttony Beast to help, Broly had already left with Hagurumon following the Fairy Digimon.

Although, in the end, through the Dark Cable, the Molecule Beast still found the Fairy Digimon's hidden base, but because of the barrier the Fairy Digimon had laid out externally, it couldn't get in.

Until this busy communication signal was discovered by it, the Molecule Beast immediately connected to this communication network, letting its own call go through into the Sage Mountain.

"You want my help?"

Broly glanced at Hagurumon beside him.

"Sorry, Molecule Beast, I have no time right now."

"Lifting my seal isn't a complicated matter; you only need to come over to my side according to the map I give, help me press a button inside the room, and pull down a hand-pull device."

"Sorry, Hagurumon's condition is not too good, I have to stay with it, no time to go help you."

For Broly, staying with Hagurumon was a more important matter than going to help the Molecule Beast.

Molecule Beast: "..."

After a moment of silence, the Fairy Digimon looked at the two silent parties and asked: "Do you have anything else to say? If not, I'm closing the communication device.

Running this thing consumes quite a bit of my reserve power here."

"Wait a moment."

The Molecule Beast couldn't maintain its silence any longer and inquired: "Hagurumon, what happened to it?"

Broly didn't conceal anything either, and told the Molecule Beast about Hagurumon's situation.

"Just a data conflict problem? Then I should have a way to solve it."

After hearing it out, the Molecule Beast spoke like this.

Hagurumon went "Eh?", and Broly was somewhat surprised and delighted, asking: "Really?"

"Really, but you have to come over first and help me lift my seal."

The Molecule Beast said.

"A problem I couldn't solve, you have a way to solve; it wouldn't be a lie just to get the Gluttony Beast to help you, would it?"

The Fairy Digimon was somewhat suspicious of the Molecule Beast's words.

"I was originally a treatment-purpose Mechanical Digimon; handling data problems is my proper job, Fairy Digimon, please don't use your narrow perspective to question my professional level."

"But aren't you already invaded by a virus? You should be a Virus-species Mechanical Digimon now; compared to treatment, you should be better at destruction."

"That is indeed so, but this hasn't made me lose the ability to handle data; on the contrary, this ability has instead increased."

"Alright, don't say these useless things; Hagurumon needs treatment, Molecule Beast, where are you now?"

Broly interrupted the Fairy Digimon and the Molecule Beast's argument; to him, as long as it could help Hagurumon, he didn't care whether the other party was a Virus-species Digimon.

"This is your current location, and this is the location of the Inverted Pyramid main unit where I am."

The Molecule Beast displayed a map.

"There are many firewalls inside the Inverted Pyramid; when the time comes I'll tell you how to get in."

The Molecule Beast continued.

"Fairy Digimon, are you coming with us?"

Broly had already picked up Hagurumon and asked the pink ball beside him.

"Of course."

The Fairy Digimon nodded; it wasn't at ease letting a Virus-species Mechanical Digimon handle the conflicting data inside its disciple's body, so it had to follow along to watch, in case the Molecule Beast acted recklessly.

"Then, come on up."

Broly extended his hand toward the Fairy Beast.

"No need, my flight speed is also very fast."

The Fairy Beast spoke thus.

After they went out, it only realized what fast flight speed meant when it was flung away hard by Broly.

"Ah, wait for me, I can't catch up!"

"Come on up, you."

Broly circled around, then grabbed the airborne pink blob with one hand, taking the Fairy Beast along as he flew off.

Huddled in the boy's arms, the BlackDillamon had expected to be buffeted by gale-force winds, but the result was that there was no sensation of flight at all.

It curiously poked its head out from the boy's embrace, only to see the scenery below peel away like a fast rewind.

Just a slow flight of thirty-odd seconds, and Broly had brought the BlackDillamon and the Fairy Beast to the airspace above the pyramid the Molecule Beast spoke of.

"Bang~"

The Molecule Beast was just preparing to generate a route map avoiding the pyramid's internal traps when it heard this commotion from overhead.

The steel ceiling of the control system room was kicked to pieces directly; less than a minute after the communication ended, the Gluttony Beast arrived before it.

Molecule Beast: "..."

Even a supersonic fighter jet arriving might not be this fast, right? "How to release your seal?"

Broly asked directly.

"Hmm, Gluttony Beast, you first have the BlackDillamon press that red button over there, then go to the other side and pull down..."

The Molecule Beast's words stopped unfinished, simply because the control system barrier confining it before it had already been crushed bare-handed by the Gluttony Beast who had come to its side, seemingly somewhat impatient.

Good, power surpassing the Perfect level — the other party can just take a shortcut, no need for any so-called normal unsealing procedure at all. "Molecule Beast, you look at the BlackDillamon's condition, do you have a way to solve it?"

Once unsealed, the Molecule Beast's task was to examine the data situation inside the BlackDillamon's body; Broly watched as the other party operated at a detection device.

When the Molecule Beast finished operating and the detection device's screen began scrolling with a mass of strange symbolic code, Broly consulted the contemplative Molecule Beast.

"Virus data exceeds Vaccine data by too much; this situation will be somewhat difficult to handle."

The Molecule Beast said.

"Put that way, you actually have no way?"

Broly clenched his fist; if the Molecule Beast answered poorly, it would definitely be in for a world of hurt.

"No, I have a way, and not just one."

The Molecule Beast turned around, its right electronic eye flashing.

"Just don't know which way you and the BlackDillamon plan to use to solve this problem."

Worthy of a Digimon specializing in data processing; for a situation the Fairy Beast found somewhat hard to solve, it here had multiple solutions.

And the safest, zero-hazard method among them is to use the transfer device beneath this pyramid to conduct the Virus-species data off the BlackDillamon's body and out of the body.

"But this method has a problem: once the Dark Data is exported, it would also cause the evolved BlackDillamon to devolve back into a Puppy Beast."

Natural evolution of Digimon is comparatively difficult, and devolving after evolving is something many Digimon cannot accept.

"Then what about the other methods?"

The BlackDillamon asked; if possible, it didn't want to devolve.

The matter of the Son Goku Beast's attack made it realize the importance of power.

"The second method is to replicate your Digimon Core data, then create a new Digimon Core.

Then, through the connection of identical Digimon Cores, transfer the uncontrollable Dark Data inside you over to the new Digimon Core, thereby achieving the result of purifying your main body's Digimon Core.

At that time, you'll be able to become a normal Dillamon."

This sounds like a good method, but the Fairy Beast realized something was off and asked directly: "Then what about the new Digimon Core that receives the Dark Data transfer, what will happen to it?"

"Naturally, under sufficient data filling, it will form a new Digimon individual."

The Molecule Beast explained.

"Judging by the amount of Dark Data the BlackDillamon possesses, it should constitute a brand new BlackDillamon."

"Ah, Tenjin?"

Hearing this operation, Broly subconsciously spoke up.

"What?"

The Molecule Beast didn't understand his meaning.

"Uh, let me ask — when the time comes, will the newly born BlackDillamon spit out an egg?"

Some strange information surfaced in his mind, and Broly pursued the question.

"Spit out an egg?"

The Molecule Beast's electronic eye flashed a moment before replying: "The BlackDillamon has no egg-spitting trick; Digimon with that kind of trick are those capable of self-replicating their internal data."

"Then, what will happen to that BlackDillamon after it's born?"

The BlackDillamon was rather concerned about this and also pursued the question.

"Hmm, if you don't need it, I can destroy it for you."

Hearing this, the BlackDillamon's eyes widened.

"Of course, if you want to keep a copy of your dark side, that's also possible; only its personality, because its body lacks Vaccine-species data to balance it, would exhibit a normal BlackDillamon's nature — cunning and ferocious."

The Molecule Beast added.

And in its view, this was also a relatively secure method able to solve the data conflict existing in the BlackDillamon.

The only thing needing to be sacrificed was just an irrelevant copy; for a mechanical Digimon like it that has no emotions, it was a completely acceptable matter.

However, for the BlackDillamon, this was not very acceptable.

Because this isn't much different from shifting one's own problems onto other Digimon.

Even if it's a new Digimon formed by copying its data, it's the same.

Choosing to deal with the other party would weigh on one's conscience, but choosing not to deal with them, the newly born BlackDiaboromon would be a purely evil Digimon, and leaving it alone might become another big problem.

"Is there any other better way?"

BlackDiaboromon would rather choose the first method of devolving into a Puppymon than choose the second method of pushing its own dark data onto an innocent newly born copy Digimon, but if possible, it hopes Molemon on This Side can come up with a better idea.

"There is, but this last method carries danger."

Molemon said.

"I'm not afraid of danger."

After training, BlackDiaboromon's will had been tempered, and it was braver, daring to face danger head-on.

"Have you all heard of Armor Evolution?"

Molemon nodded and asked.

"What is that?"

Broly and BlackDiaboromon were confused.

"It is a special evolution method different from normal Digimon evolution, applicable to Ancient Species Digimon evolution."

Pixiemon happened to know Armor Evolution.

"That's right, and Diaboromon itself is a Digimon possessing Ancient Species data fragments, which means it can also use Armor Evolution."

"But do you have Armor Evolution items?"

Pixiemon frowned; Molemon indeed had proposed a good idea—they could use Armor Evolution items to guide new data into BlackDiaboromon's body to balance the massive dark data within BlackDiaboromon.

"I don't have Armor Evolution items."

"None, then what are you saying?"

"But we can manufacture Armor Evolution items using the dark data within BlackDiaboromon's body."

"Huh?"

Pixiemon was somewhat surprised; Molemon was indeed a genius Digimon, proposing a method to use the dark data within BlackDiaboromon's body to manufacture Dark Evolution Armor items.

This way, it could solve BlackDiaboromon's current problem while retaining its current power.

"But can you manufacture this kind of Armor item for Ancient Species Digimon's special evolution?"

Pixiemon asked.

"I was once a member of the Ancient Steel Empire; although Son Gokumon once destroyed me, causing me to lose the data memory of breaking away from the Steel Empire, in my remaining data records, there are materials about manufacturing Evolution Armor, and replication should be no problem."

Extracting dark data, but not making a scapegoat copy Digimon, instead compressing the data to make Dark Evolution Armor.

This is a very perfect solution, retaining power and also solving BlackDiaboromon's dilemma.

However, this perfect solution is also dangerous.

And the danger is that making Dark Evolution Armor requires massive dark data.

But the dark data currently within BlackDiaboromon's body is not enough to make Dark Evolution Armor.

"You need to absorb more dark data, and this will bring you greater load."

"If you can't withstand it, you will directly become a Fallen Digimon."

"After knowing this, BlackDiaboromon, do you still choose this very dangerous but possibly perfect solution to solve your problem?"

Molemon asked; if asking for its opinion, it definitely wanted to conduct various research experiments on BlackDiaboromon.

But the existence of Gluttonymon made it restrain its thoughts toward such mad scientist Digimon; it did not want to be eliminated by Gluttonymon like Son Gokumon.

(Chapter End)