Digimon Ghost Game: Spiritual Digi-lemma

🌄 December 23, 20XX: Secret Santa 🌄

"That.... Is because he was once a Sorcerimon. One that had cared for Seraphimon in our time. He... Passed on to protect our team from the corrupted Legendary Warriors," He sighed. "As a result, I presume his data would most probably be able to access Slide Evolution as well."

Dia looked surprised at that. "You took him in because of that?"

"Half due to the debt, but... Also half due to the fact that I was feeling lonely," He admitted. "I left Heriss with Nee to protect him, but Bakumon... I had a weird feeling I would need to pass my knowledge onto someone. Plus, Bakamon would never have allowed me to take Heriss."

"Just call him your husband."

"He is an idiot! He's a Bakamon!"

"You married him."

"I...!" He pouted hard. "Ugh!"

"Ah, I see that you have your own old married couple," Robinhoodmon said with an amused look on his face.

"Bokomon is Bokomon," I answered with a laugh.

"That being said, did you guys prepare for the rest of us?" Uju asked.

"The letters helped us figure out what to do, if it makes you feel any better. The letters from Jang made Aoi decide to fight against him. For you and Akira, I was going to fight you guys either way, so that left Pandora and Amato."

"You'll get to see who's fighting them later on. We wanna surprise y'all who came later on," Dan said.

Uju and Jang shared an exasperated look, which made me laugh a bit before Uju and I made eye contact.

Then we both looked away right away. This was... Going to take some time.

"You're all a bit idiotic, you know that?" Shin Tamamo shook his head. "If you love, you love."

W-What was that supposed to mean?! "I-I don't- I-"

"You two are such messes," Ichita said while shaking his head. "Get over it, kids. You're soulmates."

"Two parts of a soul," Duri-san solemnly agreed.

"I hate you all."

The others just roared in laughter as a reply, while Pumpmon giggled, climbing onto my shoulders. "We try solving one case then! We go with Perfectio and friends to build rapport!"

"Aww, that's a good word! Where did you learn that from?"

"From Boko's class!" Pumpmon giggled. "Wish... I could go again..."

I gave him a pat, and Uju blinked. "Hang on, is there something I'm missing here?"

We all shared a glance, but Hiro sighed. "Pump could die by Christmas, and Boko by the end of the year."

Robinhoodmon froze. "P-Pardon?"

"Pump has leftover data from Project Sleepy Hollow, and the Codes you implanted into Bokomon... Apparently, without something that you guys have that our Digivices don't, Boko can't take the Codes like you guys can," Shiramon answered while scowling. "He's gonna die by the end of the year."

"W-WHAT!?" Uju gasped. "But... But I was told that it would protect Bokomon! That as long as... As long as... Eos had Pumpmon... It would protect him! That's why I went ahead with it!"

"Whoever told you that was lying! Pump was in so much pain! Bokomon was too!" Angoramon scowled. "You may not have known but your actions are killing-"

"Guys, chill out! We need to stop the animosity!" I cut in. "Uju didn't mean it!"