Digital Hackers' Memories

In particular, MetalBeanmon's final attack was deeply etched into Agumon's mind, making it unforgettable for a long time.

Why did you arrest me?

However, after a moment of silence, Agumon surprisingly showed no signs of panic.

He was just staring intently at the fully formed creature on the other side of the glass, which was clearly "mentally unstable," through the glass that was so close to him.

Because Agumon has remembered the origins of Molecularmon.

Or more precisely, it reminded me of the role and performance of Molecularmon in the Digimon anime series.

Molecular Beast, a brief but significant mid-game boss in the first season of the Digimon series.

However, Agumon's impression of it was more profound than that of some later final bosses.

Because in the entire Digimon Adventure, Molemon was the first and only Digimon to crack the evolution program.

After that, Molemon even controlled Biyomon, one of the main characters, and used its own evolution program to successfully evolve Biyomon into Champion-level Birdramon.

Even the Dark Four, who appeared later, never achieved such a glorious record.

In a sense, Molemon's behavior has crossed the line of "Digimon" and almost made the "Chosen Children" lose their meaning of existence.

Furthermore, according to some official additions that Agumon heard, Molemon, this short-lived mid-term boss, was actually the catalyst for the appearance of the Dark Masters.

It was because Molemon wrote the original program for "Genesis Spiral Mountain" that the Dark Masters were able to reorganize the order of the Digital World and establish the Dark Spiral Mountain that ruled the entire world.

So Agumon is very curious whether the Moleculesmon in front of him also has a similar ability.

Why are you being arrested?

Seemingly surprised by Agumon's calmness, Molemon paused for a moment before regaining its composure and continuing to speak.

"Does the Steel Empire need a reason to capture a Digimon?"

Just as Molecularmon said, in this Digital World, in this timeline where the Steel Empire still exists, they don't need any reason to capture Digimon.

"Compared to that, there are more suspicious points about you."

Even before Agumon awakened, Molecularmon had already scanned and analyzed the composition of its data using various devices from the Steel Empire.

To Molecular Beast's surprise, it discovered many unknown and mysterious codes on Agumon.

Those codes possess a more advanced and regular structure, and the digital cores constructed from these codes therefore have superior performance.

Putting aside everything else, the analysis and testing of the molecular beast alone show that this Agumon has a lifespan far exceeding that of normal Digimon of this era.

In addition, these advanced codes also allow Agumon's digital core to adapt to more complex and brutal data environments.

If it didn't know that Agumon was just a Rookie-level Digimon, it would have even suspected that the other party might be some kind of undiscovered Ultimate-level Digimon.

However, advanced code has its advantages and disadvantages.

While Molecular Beast's discovery of Agumon's digital nature granted it a longer lifespan, it also suppressed the replacement of data to some extent, causing it to lose some of its potential.

The most obvious point is that, as a dinosaur-type subspecies that is different from reptiles, this Agumon does not have the strong physique that a typical dragon beast should have.

This only shows that the dragon factor in Agumon's body is extremely rare, so rare that it cannot even give it true "dragon beast power".

"Advanced code far exceeding the capabilities of this era, rare dragon factor data..."

Molecular Beast stared intently at Agumon without blinking, and the madness on its lips became increasingly pronounced.

"You're not a Digimon from this era, are you?!"

Although it is a question, the molecular beast uses an affirmative tone here.

"In your time, was the dragon factor actually considered a kind of 'genetic data' that needed to be eliminated?"

Molecular Beast continued talking to itself, not expecting to get any useful information from Agumon; it was simply stating its own guesses.

"Or is it that you didn't inherit much of the 'dragon factor'?"

Compared to the former hypothesis, the molecular beast is more inclined to believe the latter.

This explains the complex data model within Agumon's body—the anomaly of a digital core that is a mixture of various different data, seemingly pieced together on the spot.

Dragon Factor, Overload Program, Pure Data, Corruptor Code...

Agumon's experiences resulted in an extremely complex composition of his digital core, so complex that even Molecularmons could not fully discern its effective components.

"..."

On the other side, Agumon stared blankly at the still chattering Molemon, finally revealing a look of surprise on its face.

Because he never imagined that the molecular beast in front of him could roughly guess his origin and abilities simply by analyzing his data composition.

"What...what do you want to do?"

Startled, Agumon asked his question again.

The molecular beast I'm currently dealing with is definitely not just an ordinary molecular beast.

Combined with the words Diablomon uttered before its death, Agumon was now certain that it had traveled to a parallel universe where the Iron Empire was still at its peak.

"What do I want to do?"

Upon hearing Agumon's renewed questioning, Molemon finally stopped his chaotic logic and answered in an unprecedentedly serious tone.

"I want to know the 'truth' about this world."

Chapter Ten: The Agent Gennai

"I want to know the 'truth' about this world."

Completely disregarding whether Agumon could understand his answer, Molemon, after giving a baffling answer, countered with a question.

"On the contrary, you, Agumon who doesn't belong to this era, what brings you here this time?"

Hearing Molecular Beast's charlatan-like questions and answers, Agumon had no choice but to give up on continuing to entangle with this "lunatic".

He realized that the two were not on the same wavelength at all, and continuing to ask would be futile.

"call!"

Thinking of this, Agumon decisively took a deep breath and then slammed his head against the glass in front of him.

boom!

However, to Agumon's surprise, the seemingly fragile glass remained completely still, without even the slightest sign of trembling.

"It's no use, this is specially made glass that can imprison a complete body..."

Molemon noticed Agumon's actions in time, but Molemon wasn't worried at all about whether Agumon would break the glass.

If the Steel Empire's special equipment were so easily destroyed, then the Steel Empire wouldn't deserve to be called the Steel Empire.

After all, most of the Digimon that became "experiments" of the Steel Empire were forced into it, so the incubation chambers used to modify and repair them naturally had a hardness that surpassed that of ordinary Digimon alloys.

"Who said I can't break this glass?"

With a mocking smile playing on his lips, Agumon, his head pressed against the glass, spoke with such arrogance.

tumultuous!

The next instant, white flames erupted from his body.

That was Agumon's unique Overload Flame, a terrifying flame that could disrupt and destroy the structure of data through continuous rewriting, thereby destroying everything.

For such overloaded flames, unless they encounter a defense system of the same level, destroying anything in the Digital World is simply a matter of how much energy they consume.

However, to Agumon's utter surprise, the Overload Flame, which was theoretically capable of destroying everything, suddenly went out without warning after appearing for less than a second.

"Ha, do you think I wouldn't be on guard after seeing those flames?"

Not at all surprised by the sudden extinguishing of the overload flame, the molecular beast pointed to a corner of the laboratory and said in a noncommittal tone, "..."

"Little Bick?"

Following the direction pointed out by Molemon, Agumon then discovered that in that corner sat a battered and bruised Piccolo.

"Little Bick? So that's what you call this 'digital armor'?"

Nodding thoughtfully, Molecular Beast felt that it might be able to obtain the manufacturing technology for this special "digital armor" from this Agumon.

Having witnessed the White Flame Beast firsthand, Molecular Beast deeply understands the value of this "Digital Armor," which combines an artificial digital core, digital armor, evolutionary program, and even some unknown code.

Even compared to the mature technology of the Steel Empire, the technology used to manufacture this "digital armor" appears quite immature.

However, its design concepts and data code are ahead of this era; it is the "correct path" that only Digimon living in the "future" can see.

"Digital Armor?"

Upon hearing Molecular Beast's statement, Agumon was initially taken aback, but then realized that Molecular Beast had "misunderstanding" him.

As a "new addition" to the second part of the Digimon series, DigiGear does indeed have many similarities to Piccolo in a certain sense.

However, compared to true digital armor, Little Bick's applicability is far too limited.

According to the plot summary of the second season, the Digi-Armor was a special evolution device developed to compensate for the low evolution level of Ancient Digimon.

Because ancient Digimon undergo data replacement far too frequently compared to modern Digimon, many Digimon are limited by their lifespan and cannot evolve to the Rookie or Champion stages or beyond.

Until the ancient species gradually disappeared in modern times, even Ultimate and Perfect level Digimon were considered to be fictional.

In this context, digital armor was created to enable ancient species to evolve in a short period of time.

In theory, ancient species (descendants), or some modern Digimon whose bodies retain genetic data of ancient species, can evolve into powerful armored forms with the help of Digi-Armor.

Furthermore, depending on the compatibility between Digimon and Digivice, the power that each Digimon can unleash varies.

Some powerful Digimon, if paired with the right Digimon, can even unleash Ultimate-level power.

As one of the Royal Knights, Magnamon is an Armored Digimon that evolved successfully using a Digi-Armor called "Miracle".

In comparison, the Little Bick is far less practical.

Aside from its power ceiling, Piccolo's biggest drawback is that its data comes from Agumon, so there's almost no possibility of it being used by a second Digimon other than Agumon itself.

[Did Molecular Beast analyze Little Bik's data composition?]

However, thanks to Molecularmon's reminder, Agumon finally understood how the opponent had managed to defend against his Overload Flame.

It is likely that after Whiteflamemon degenerated into Agumon and Piccolo, Molemon had already analyzed and deciphered the composition of the "artificial digital core" through special means.

Just like analyzing Agumon's original Digicore, but this analysis and cracking should be more thorough and destructive than analyzing his original Digicore.

Little Bick's current battered and bruised appearance is the best proof—it is clearly the result of the internal code being cracked and the data structure being disordered.

"That's not a digital armor."

A thousand thoughts flashed through Agumon's mind in that brief moment, but on the surface he remained calm and composed.

"Still trying to escape?"

Molecularmon saw right through Agumon's thoughts and simply shook its head with a regretful expression.

"I'm afraid you no longer have a chance..."

Before Molecular Beast could finish speaking, a thick liquid began to be poured into the previously empty petri dish, which quickly engulfed the still-astonished Agumon.

"Sweet dreams, Agumon from the future."

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In the heart of this magnificent industrial city lies a database containing all the records of the steel empire.

“Molecular Beast, it really is 'His' pawn.”

An agent shrouded in a white robe, who was investigating data through a central computer, muttered something under his breath.

Even though Molemon has deleted all of its exercise records, it has also deleted the memory data related to Motormon, Gearmon, and Guardianmon.

However, in the eyes of the agents who were already suspicious, both the Motorbeast's inexplicable loss of communication for a period of time and the resources consumed to repair the Steel Beanmon meant that the Molemon had done something in secret.

In fact, the agent didn't want to pay attention to the molecular beast at first, because he had more important things to do than a strangely behaving perfect beast.

To this end, the agents had long since developed many "comrades" within the Steel Empire, solely to stop the Empire's insane plans that were capable of self-destruction.

But at this crucial juncture, the molecular beast caused another mishap, and the agent couldn't possibly believe it was just a coincidence.

"Did 'He'... notice it?"

The agent, still harboring some doubts deep down, pondered this.

If the molecular beast really was a pawn planted by "He" in advance, the agent felt it necessary to eliminate this unexpected factor before taking formal action.

After all, the digital world only needs one ruler, one god; His appearance would only make the world more chaotic.