21Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or Sekirei
Author's Note: The longest chapter so far in this story, but I really don't want to drag Green Girl Arc any further plus there won't be enough content if I break this chapter down. One Missing Number shows what its capable of doing in this chapter, although not every Missing No is just as strong. Their meddling will certainly makes the Sekirei plotline more eventful and gives Minato much more obstacle in his life.
The story will move into Tsukiumi's Arc before the last member of main cast shows up. And from that point the story will start to have some deviation with Sekirei's cannon plot. (Although the main story will still be the similar since it still follows the different steps of Sekirei Plan) Daisuke definitely will play a large part in the Sekirei plotline even though he refuses to become an Ashikabi due to spite towards Minaka and Karasuba.
The invisible vacuum blade slide through tree branches and bushes as it silently flies toward its target: the neck of the damnable creature known to Yomi as Flamedramon. She can hear her breath starts to grow heavier as the armoured dragon man continuing his talk with the insolent girl completely oblivious to her attack. When it connects, it surely will deal a lot of damage to the lizard; if not flat out knock him down to his smaller form…
Just as Kamai Tachi is about to hit its target, Flamedramon raises his right arm and swat the vacuum blade away. Yomi's face contorts at the sight. What makes her getting furious all over again is not as much as Flamedramon manage to deflect her attack, but he does it with the care of shooing away an annoyance like it's a mere afterthought while still chatting with that girl.
"Oh? What were you doing Veemon?" The insolent girl tilts her head as she watches the lizard's strange behaviour. She's obviously unaware a sneak attack just took place in front of her very eyes.
"Swatting a fly, it's a bit annoying." Flamedramon gives a shrug before point toward his back. "To answer your earlier question… Minato went further into the forest behind us."
"Ok! Thank you very much Veemon, I'll go find Minato-Sama now. See you guys later." The insolent girl turns around towards the direction where Yomi falls and waves her hand. "Good bye scary Onee-Chan with scythe, sorry Musabi landed on your head…"
And with this last infuriating remark ringing in Yomi's ear the insolent girl runs deeper into the forest like a gust of wind.
"Just so you know… even if that vacuum blade is invisible to the eyes there are a plenty of warning." Flamedramon fold his arms in front of his chest in a rather arrogant gesture as he turns around to look at Yomi in her hiding place. "The movement it makes when it cuts the branches and bushes, as well as the piercing shriek sound if I listen carefully are kind of dead give away you are using some kind of vacuum blade technique."
Once again Yomi is furious, both for laid back attitude of the blue lizard and the fact she lets the lizard gets under her skin so easily. Realizing a sneak attack is not effective, she decide to abandon this ineffective method and just go for a full frontal assault. She burst out of the green shade as she raises her trusty weapon above her head. "…I'll just overpower you! Can you block them all?!"
She brings her scythe down as she launches a storm of vacuum blade at the blue lizard. He let out a shrug before bringing his right arm up and waves it in front of his chest from left to right. Yomi's eye twitch again as branches start to fall from trees, bushes gets split in half, and deep mark forms in the ground… but none of her Kamai Tachi hurts the blue lizard. He really does block them all!
"…This is boring~…" Flamedramon lets out a yarn as he says with a children's song like melody in his voice.
"I'll show you something boring, you insufferable lizard~!" Yomi screeches at the top of her lung as she fires her Kamai Tachi at both Flamedramon and Daisuke before dashing towards Flamedramon with her scythe.
"Isn't it breaking the rule to attack human directly?" Flamedramon says with a frown as he jumps in front of Daisuke and blocks the vacuum blade aiming at his human partner. Yomi takes the opportunity to bring her scythe out and gives a horizontal swipe at Flamedramon's unprotected Abdomen. Flamedramon raises one of his knees up and deflect her scythe with his knee armour.
"Do I look like I care?" Yomi spits on the ground as she brings back her scythe to ready for another attack. But Flamedramon catches her scythe halfway before she can bring it to down to the armoured Digimon. She tries to pull her own weapon free, but Flamedramon is surprisingly strong for a Digimon with such a slim build. Yomi ends up having a face as red as traffic light yet her scythe won't budge. "Let go!"
"Do I look like I care? Oh, wait, I do! Here you go." Flamedramon says with a mischievous smile on his face as he twist his claw and 'gives' Yomi back the scythe. Unfortunately for Yomi, he times the action when she's pulling with all her strength so she ends up rolls back on the ground for several meters.
Yomi stands up from ground once again using her own scythe as a crutch. She glares at the blue lizard that seems to make her a complete fool with no effort. "I am No. 43 Yomi! You will not make a fool of me like this! Stop making fun of me and fight seriously you damn lizard!"
"You know… she's right Flamedramon. I think we are being too mean to her." The man wearing blue T-shirt shakes his head and turns to look at the blue lizard. "She's a warrior; we should treat her with some respect."
"Yeah… I guess you two are right. Sorry about how I behaved No. 43 Yomi." Flamedramon scratches the back of his head with his right gauntlet before brandishing both of his claws and lowers his body into a serious fighting stance. "I am Flamedramon, Fire of Courage, partner to the Digidestined of Miracle Motomiya, Daisuke! Prepare yourself!"
Yomi tries to steady her breath for one more attack. She recovers enough to stand on her own feet and brings back her scythe again to launch her Kamai Tachi attack at the lizard that deflects the attack with clawed gauntlet again. But Yomi approaches him and brings her scythe toward his neck.
Flamedramon catches her scythe again with his right claw. The Sekirei of scythe desperately tries to get free but before she can even think about giving up her weapon the fire of courage shoulder ram into her body. For a second Yomi think she's hit by a fully loaded truck instead of a lizard man with a slim build as she's hurled across the open area of the botanical park they fight in and right into a tree.
For a brief moment Yomi feels like she is having a black out. She loses both her vision and hearing as she lays in the shade of the tree she flies into. Her hearing comes back first, but all she can make out are echoes of ringing in her head before blurred image enters her eyes. The Sekirei of scythe realize she is no longer holding her trusty weapon in her head. Than she sees some thing flashing in her eyes like someone is shaking an oil painting in front of her. She can barely make out two human shaped figures but she can't tell who they are.
Yomi wonders if her master has come to take her back home. But then she realizes the two figures are the lizard in armour and his human master. "That's a nasty collide…"
"Well… she did tell me to fight seriously. I still hold back, or else she would be roasted by now." Yomi's vision slowly comes back to her as she begins to see the two clearer. Although it still look like there's a white, semi transparent veil in front of her eyes.
"And that would go against our no termination principle but she's quite persistent. Hey, you ok here Miss Yomi? Need a hand?" The man shakes his head as head as he let out a sigh. He seems to notice Yomi slowly coming back as he crouches down and extend his hand out.
"Don't touch me!" Yomi smacks the man's hand away as she puts one of her hand in the ground. She slowly rises up using and start to search her surrounding. "My scythe… where's my scythe."
"Here you go. We promise we won't hurt you anymore if you just turn around and…" Yomi's eyes narrow as she takes her weapon back from the man. She suddenly brings her scythe toward the man's neck as he rambles on without any suspension. Yomi doesn't realize it right away but she sees something in the corner of her eyes. The lizard man who's been making a fool of her times and times again has a strange look in his eyes when she attacks the man.
And it's pity instead of something like fear or anger.
"…leave." Daisuke catches Yomi's scythe in his right hand before it can fall on his neck. His arm is even slimmer than the lizard man, but to Yomi's dismay it feels like a steel shackle around her weapon. Once again, before she can do anything she's shoulder charged right into the tree trunk again by the man. She slowly sinks down to the bottom as the man looks at her with "Oppsey?"
"Ok… we can't just give her that weapon again. She'll try to attack and kill you and you'll end up slamming her into that tree over and over." Flamedramon shakes his head as he takes a step to stand right besides the man and stares down at Yomi.
"I guess you are right." The man looks like he's thinking for a moment before turning to face Yomi again. "You know what will happen next right?"
"My termination…" Yomi murmurs under her breath to no one in particular. She has failed her master to get the green girl without even seeing the Sekirei. Even more, she has been defeated twice by the same technique. Her second defeat suffers at the hand of a human, who she tries to kill in her rage and frustration.
There's no other outcome, the man will terminate her on the spot. She shuts her eyes tight as he raises the scythe in his hand and ready to bring it down. Yomi's last thought is on her master, the rich young boy who inherits vast amount of wealth from his parents. His parents who are never around and nobody tries to be his friends without some ulterior motive…
How she thinks she can be the boy's wings, and takes him to the higher sky…
Master… Yomi doesn't want to leave you…
She feels pain on her head, but it's different than being cut or pierced by the tip of her scythe. She doesn't get cut by her weapon often, but there is one time her master gets interested in her weapon and ends up cutting her arm in accident. It feels different then that time; it feels like someone bonks her head with a staff. Yomi holds her head in pain as she opens her eyes and look at the man with a disapproving look on his face.
She realizes something: Instead of gutting her like a fish, the man settles with bonking her head with the blunt side of her scythe like a disappointed father disciplining his child. "Now you know how a Sekirei feels when she's about to be separated with her Ashikabi. Play nice next time you see one."
The man – Yomi remembers now he's called Daisuke by Flamedramon – walks away with his digimon further into the wood. For a while Yomi just sits under the shade of the tree having no thoughts in her head. She first thought is wondering the possibility of a near termination experience will do that to all Sekireis. Then she thinks about the possibility of following Daisuke and Flamedramon into the woods and grab green girl for master. She's not terminated, so she can still fight.
She shakes her head and decides against it. She's obvious no match for the Digidestined and his Digimon. Plus the fact his companion has left for the green girl a very long time ago… one of them has surely give her wings already. What is there left to do for Yomi once she catches up? Try to murder them? That clearly doesn't work given what just happened.
She picks up her scythe yet doesn't try to stand up. The only thing left to do is go back to master with defeat and shame. She can imagine the others in the flock laughs at her incompetence and how disappointed her master will look.
What will she do next? She always prides herself being one of the strongest Sekireis. Okay, definitely no where near the fabled No. 1 strong. No way can she compare to the head of discipline squad who's rumoured to be as strong as No. 1 either. And… can't compare with the single digit…
The humiliating defeat she just suffers from makes Yomi faces the fact how weak she truly is. She is not as interested in this so called Digimon as her master. She still learns enough because her master likes to talk about it all the time. From his description, this armour type digimon is actually very low in the ladder of Digimon hierarchy. If Yomi gets walked all over by Flamedramon, just imagine what will happen if one of those really strong ones show up?
The sudden realization chills Yomi to her bones. It's not often the really strong ones come to this world. But it has happened multiple times in the past according to his master. What if it happens now, or in the near future? She doubt even the strongest in the flock will be able to protect her master in that case. She stands up from the ground and makes the decision to train hard and become stronger. She may never reach the raw power of a single digit, but with enough training she able to make up her lack of power with better skill.
Yomi doesn't know how long it takes her to walk back to the entrance of Botanical Park. She hears a series of loud explosion even before all the green starts to part in her eyes. The Sekirei of scythe blocks sunlight shining in her eyes with her hand before marvelling at the sight of No. 7 Akitsu fighting with Homura as they throw ice and fire at each other.
Yomi fights the urge to snort as she sees how badly the two single digits miss each other. But then a loud rumble makes her realize something: Akitsu and Homura are not fighting with each other, they are fighting someone together.
The idea of those two join force against a third Sekirei makes Yomi raises one of her eyebrow. Who is the Sekirei that's strong enough to make two opposing single digit team up? Is it the head of Discipline Squad Karasuba? Or can it be… a Digimon? As the steam and smoke start to clear Yomi has to fight the urge to laugh. Their opponent seems to be dressing in a banana tree costume. Even more hilarious it weapon of choice seems to be a gigantic banana. The being looks like some rejected monster man from Super Sentai show her master likes to watch when he's not talking about Digimon.
A clap of the giant banana on the ground generates a large shockwave. It knocks Akitsu and Homura away, as well as making Yomi falls on her ass. She's no longer smiling when she sees the banana tree monster chases Akitsu as she desperately tries to skate away with an ice track she creates with her power.
Yomi wonders if she should jump in and help Akitsu but realize this fight is way beyond her level. If she tries to attack the banana tree monster she'll get instantly destroyed by that banana club. Consider Yomi already has one near termination experience in less than an hour ago… it's not hard to understand why she decides not to push her luck.
Homura comes to Akitsu's rescue as he fires a barrage of fireballs towards the banana tree monster. They impact the monster's back and burst into small explosion. But other than tinting her brown tree trunk like armour in a few shades darker doesn't seems to have much effect. The banana tree monster gives up trying to catch up to Akitsu and chases after Homura instead and this time Akitsu start to pump icicles into its back.
Attack it together you idiots…
Yomi shakes her head thinking about what bad co-operation those two single digit are having. Then something clicks in her head. The two single digits are attacking in a perfect rhythm with alteration between fire and ice. If they attack in unison, their fire and ice will end up cancelling each other. But when they work into a rhythm like how they fight right now their attacks are utilized in maximum efficiency. In addition, one gets to rescue the other so they won't get terminated by the banana tree monster.
Yomi realizes she's never given Akitsu enough credit, and she can indeed learn a lot from those single digits. For a brief moment she seems to see a flash of soft leaf green in her vision. Yomi wonders if she's simply too tired for the day and seeing things until she realizes the fight has stopped between the two single digits and the banana tree monster.
"The green girl… she has been winged!" The monster's voice booms with a mixture of anger and malice as it suddenly launches itself against Homura. The Sekirei of fire jumps out of the way as far as he can to avoid the club swing and shockwave. But perhaps to his surprise the monster throws itself further into the wood instead of chasing him.
Yomi let out a gasp as the monster seems to charge straight at her. She throws herself into the bushes as she hears the sound of charging rhino run right pass her. The Sekirei of scythe looks up from her hiding location and sees trees fall down in the distance. She can't help but feel a little sorry for green girl and her Ashikabi now.
Oh well… not my problem anymore. Maybe its better Master doesn't get to wing the green girl…
Yomi makes an inner excuse to dress up her failure as she walks out of the foliage and towards Akitsu.
"You are back No. 43… without the green girl." Akitsu looks at Yomi without emotion in her eyes or tone. "Should we chase after it?"
"There's no point, it says the green girl has been winged." Yomi grumbles under her breath as she walks past Akitsu with head hang low in shame. Akitsu doesn't seem to care as she follows Yomi along to the street where a car awaits them. Yomi feels her mouth grows dry as she sees the boy dressed in fancy cloth in the car.
"Master… I failed…"
"Tsk… useless…" Yomi's head hangs even lower. The car door opens to both Sekireis. "Get in, we are leaving."
Before the car takes off Yomi manages to throw a glance at the Sekirei of fire. He has a completely dumbfounded expression on his face, as if asking: What the hell just happened?
"We lost them… for now." Minato hears the sound of Seo over his head. No doubt the gruff looking Ashikabi is checking to see if they are still being chased by the mob of angry looking Woodmon. Minato on the other hand feels the noodle he eats from lunch is working its way up from his stomach. He makes a mental note to himself: Never try to go on a Sekirei hunting right after lunch. There's bound to be lots of running around and that's never healthy after a meal.
Resisting the urge to puke, Minato manage to crawl back up to his feet as he looks at Seo. "…How…? How the heck… did you send that monster flying?"
"Delta charge. Did you know if you slam into someone with your head, fist and shoulder your force gets tripled?" Seo start to go into a stance and Minato can't help but think it looks familiar. It takes a short while but finally the light bulb flashes in his mind.
"You used an American Football technique to fight Digimon?!" Minato's eyes open wide as he points his shaking finger at the pure absurdity.
"Ha~!" Seo let out an arrogant laughter before pointing to himself with his thumb. "…And why not? You are looking at Toutei's best lineman in history, bar none! Why do you think Toutei let me stay for six years… or why did they accept me in the first place."
"You… are in Toutei…" Minato feels the world around him twirling and shattering as he falls on all four again. He thinks about how he fails to get into College twice in a row, yet Seo manages to stay in the most esteemed college in Japan for six years and making it sounds like it's not a big deal. This completely mortifies the poor repeater. "Couch Kaoru… I want to play football…"
"What's the twerp doing prostrate himself on the ground? Can't he tell this is no time to mop?" Minato hears the irritated growl of Hikari. Both of the lightening twins are dashing around the area to make sure the Woodmons doesn't manage to creep up on their rag tag group.
"Revering in my awesomeness, thank you very much..." Seo answers with an arrogant tone as a yelp escapes Hikari's mouth. Minato doesn't need to break his trance to know Seo is doing something perverted to the frustrated Sekirei.
"Get off me you lazy bum! I swear I'll electrocute you if we aren't running for our lives!"
"Hm… Hikari…?" Hibiki's voice sounds a little shaky as she backs into Minato's limited vision.
"WHAT!"
"We are surrounded…" Minato raises his head up to realize they are indeed surrounded by the group of extremely pissed looking tree monster once again. He uses every fibre of his being to resist the urge of uttering some impolite word at their situation.
"Than I'll just electrocute THEM! Come over here you useless Ashikabi!" Hikari suddenly pulls Seo's face up from her chest to give the gruff man a kiss on the mouth. Wing of lights appear on the angry S&M Onee-Chan's back as lightening dances on her free hand like an energetic little snake. She releases a wave of golden coloured light storm on top of the Woodmons. Some grunting sounds escapes the mouth of those tree stomp monster, but other than turns a few shapes black they don't appear to be done for the count.
"Hikari… I don't think trying to electrocute woods is a good idea." Hibiki let out a sigh as Seo turns to also give him a kiss on her lips. Minato watches in shock at Seo making out with his two Sekireis at a time like this.
"What you looking at me for kid? Don't tell me you didn't know this is how to power up a Sekirei." Seo shots Minato a rather annoyed look. The gruff looking Ashikabi would definitely look more convincing if he's not trying to grope his Sekireis at the same time.
"Our enemies are strong, green rangers~!" The Woodmon with tree branch moustache waves his arm like branch around as he rallies his follower between the thunderstorms. "Form the Megazoid!"
The group of Woodmons start to climb on top of each other with the moustached leader on the top. Even a Digimon newbie like Minato can tell what they are doing is bad news. But before the Woodmons can finish a figure suddenly lands on top of the Woodmon and causes them to all top over like an over stacked pile of cards.
"Oh no… did Musabi lands on someone's head again…?" Minato's face lights up as he hears the confused yet innocent voice coming from the group of grunting Woodmons.
"…Musabi! You are here!" The two time repeater manages to leap to his feet and frantically waves at Musabi. "Get over here quickly!"
"…Minato-Sama, Musabi misses you very much, and… Musabi brought your phone to you." Musabi nearly tackles Minato into the ground as she runs at her Ashikabi with full speed. It's a good thing she suddenly skit to a stop and takes out Minato's smart phone since Minato is not a fan of being knocked into a tree.
"Thank you very much Musabi… Look out!" Minato takes his phone back as he rubs his hair due to habit. He suddenly realize an imposing figure emerge behind Musabi and instinctively yanks Musabi away behind a tree. His instinct proves useful as explosive cherry fruit start to rain down like a storm.
"Cherry Blast!" The huge tree with glowing yellow eye screeches as he shakes explosive fruit down from his afro like leaves. Minato slowly inch his head out of the tree trunk he uses as cover and sees Seo's group is also hiding from the monstrous tree.
"What is that tree monster Seo?" Minato yells at the veteran Digidestined as he hides behind the tree again when an explosive fruit almost land at his feet.
"It's Cherrymon, most common evolution form of a Woodmon." Seo takes a peek at the giant tree just like Minato. "Those Woodmon must merged together to form their Ultimate form!"
"Mister Tree is a Digimon like Veemon?" Musabi looks at Cherrymon with fascination in her eyes. "...Although Mister Tree doesn't look as cute as Veemon when he's young."
Minato shakes his head at Musabi's comment. Parts of him want to scold Musabi for thinking such irrelevant thought in a time like this. On the other hand the other part of Minato does find it pretty amusing. "Can you take it down Seo-San?"
"If Noir-Chan is conscious… yes…" Seo takes a look at Sistermon Noir who he picks up again after Minato is too exhausted at carrying. "Without her… Cherrymon's wood body is highly resistant to electricity. I think we can only stun him for a short time even with full power."
Minato steals another peek at the furious looking cherry tree. He thinks about the dream he has, about how terrified for her life the green girl Ku is and makes a decision. He also thinks how Ku's image begins to merge with his sister Yukari when she is lost in the wood when she's young… It'll be very risky, but Minato is going to protect Ku even if he ends up losing his own life.
"Please do that Seo-San, Musabi and I will break through his defence and get Ku."
"Well… aren't you suddenly motivated." A smirk creeps up on the gruff Ashikabi's face as he turns towards the lightening twins. "You girls heard our boss, let's put on a good show."
Minato turns towards his Sekirei with a serious look on his face as Seo starts giving his twins a kiss each. "Musabi, we are trying to rescue a girl being chased by a monster trying to harm her… I'll need your help to get to the girl…"
Minato wants to say more, but Musabi holds his hand tight before he continues. "So no more Minato-Sama. You are my Ashikabi. I'll do anything for you to make you happy."
Minato feels like he's lost himself while looking into Musabi's innocent yet determined eyes. The girl who believes in him with all her faith despite him being utterly average. He wants to be better and become someone worthy of Musabi's trust. But before he can follow that thought further his rather intimate moment with Musabi is broken by Seo's shouting. "You two love birds ready?"
"I, I'm ready when you are Seo-San!" Minato can feel his face burning up. Turning to face Cherrymon, he gives Seo an affirmative nod.
"Do it girls!" the lightening twins jump out of their hiding place and waves a blinding thunderstorm on top of the giant cherry tree. Cherrymon let out a pained hiss as his wooden body becomes limb as golden sparks dance on the surface like thousand of coiling snakes. Taking the opportunity, Musabi holds onto Minato's shoulder and dash out and around Cherrymon until she leaves the tree monster behind her dust…
…Only to be caught by wooden roots bursting out of the ground.
"What did all of you punks think we been doing this whole time?" Cherrymon's voice sounds like a dozen of different voice echoing together. No doubt a result of all the Woodmons fusing together to form him. "I been digging our roots all over the ground just in case one of you punks try to get pass us and harm our goddess. We won't let anyone harm our goddess!"
Minato turns his head back to see the cherry tree monster throws many green vines at the lightening twins like slashing whip to keep them busy. He hears Musabi let out a whimper sound as the roots start to coil around her tighter and tighter. "Strange… Musabi is feeling a little light headed…"
"Those roots… they must be sapping your strength!" Minato suddenly remembers the Sekirei who lost her consciousness before they are interrupted by the woman with scythe. "You need to break free Musabi!"
"Sorry Minato-Sama… Musabi doesn't think she can carry you to your goal… Please brace yourself…" Musabi gives Minato an apologetic look as she looks toward their destination. She moves her hand backward like a track and field athlete before throwing Minato with all her strength.
This is not how I imagine I'll spend my afternoon…
The two times repeater thinks to himself sarcastically as he glides through the air like a human shaped javelin. He sees a huge green ball of leaves in the distance and quickly moves his arms in front of his face and closes his eyes.
This will hurt like hell…
He feels his arm being cut by the tree branches and his cloth tearing apart before finally stops in a puffy bundle of mosses. The two times repeater tries his best to ignore all the pain surging in his body as he spit out all the green in his mouth.
He slowly rises up and looks around the green cradle. Rays of bright afternoon light shines down through all the green leaves and waving shadow. Minato is once again filled with the peaceful serene feeling of nostalgia…
Like he's back in the mountain village with his grand parents.
The two times repeater looks ahead, and sees the little girl regarding her with an innocent smile on her face. "Big brother, you are here for Ku…"
"I'm here, and I'll protect you from the monster with all my friends." Minato nods at Ku with a determined look on his face. Even if both Daisuke and Seo can be a little crazy, Minato still knows they are good people inside. They definitely help him if the monster from his dream shows up to try and hurt Ku.
"Ku knows…" The green girl throws herself into Minato's arm as she leans in and pecks her lips at Minato's. For a second blinding soft green light emits from the leaf cradle and makes Minato close his eyes. The next thing he notices, the tree they are in has moved its branch to gently lower both Ku and himself on the ground like a kindly old man.
"Oh dear! Musabi and Seo-San are still fighting for their lives!" Minato suddenly remembers the battle they are having with Cherrymon as he hears explosion ringing in the distance. He quickly scoops up Kusano in his arm and runs toward the battle as fast as his legs can carry him. He quickly starts to run out of breath and start to feel the noodles working their way up. But fear for Musabi's well being keeps the two times repeater moving forward despite all his physical limitation.
Finally he moves into the small clearing and sees Musabi lying on ground like the Sekirei with hammers. Unconscious, but hopefully still alive. Cherrymon on the other hand looks to be in a sorry state as his afro like leaves has been completely burned off. The repeater looks further and sees Flamedramon standing in a fighting stance with his Digidestined Daisuke. He realizes Izumo's caretaker manages to defeat the woman with scythe and has come to Seo and Musabi's rescue.
"Please, stop fighting!" Ku jumps out of Minato's arm and runs besides Cherrymon and leans onto his trunk. "Mr. Tree is Ku's friend; Mr. Tree is only trying to protect Ku."
"You are alright, our goddess!" Cherrymon gives Ku a warm smile despite being badly hurt by Flamedramon. He turns around raises his eyes at Minato with a suspicious look in his eyes. "The punk didn't hurt you? Our goddess?"
"No, big brother was the one Ku was waiting for all this time." Ku start to rub her hand on Cherrymon's trunk as her eyes tear up. Minato can tell she's obviously sad her friend and protector are hurt. Green light seems to shine from the place Ku place her hands on. Before Minato's eyes, Cherrymon's afro like leaves start to grow back due to Ku's power.
"We are glad our goddess is happy. What is our goddess' will?"
"Ku will stay with big brother… but Ku will miss Mr. Tree. Come to visit Ku?"
"We will. As long as our goddess can hear the sound of leaves dancing in the wind… the green rangers will silently stand vigil." Cherrymon gives Ku one last smile before he devolves into the group of Woodmons. They start to walk away, further into the forest and disappear from everyone's view.
"Well… I'll be… A group of rogue Digimon in real world who are friendly." Daisuke takes a step toward Minato with his goofy grin. "You ok there Minato boy?"
"Yeah… I had a few cut in my arms. But it's nothing serious… Like you said, just rub some dirt in it right?" Minato gives Daisuke a weary smile as he quickly walks to Musabi's side. Her moving chest and gentle snore indicate she is indeed alive, just exhausted by having her strength draw away. The repeater lets out a deep breath as he carries Musabi up.
"That's the spirit." Daisuke gives Minato a nod as he walks in front of Kusano and knees down before her with the friendliest smile he can muster. "And how is little miss Ku?"
"Ku is alright…" Ku's eyes begins to tear up again as a loud growl emits from her stomach. "… but hungry."
Daisuke let out a hearty laugh at Ku's comment. "I can take care of that. Come on guys, let's go back to Izumo. I'll cook some fresh ramen for everyone to enjoy."
"Damnit it's always ramen with you! Aren't you supposed to be sticking rich where you can buy the entire Izumo Inn or two? Stop being a cheap skate and treat me to some luxury sushi next time." Seo complains with an undignified snort. Hibiki place her hand on her face in shame as Hikari slaps Seo's back head.
"You have no right to complain Mr. Never feed his Digimon and Sekirei. You are just lucky I always give them food in your place because I can't stand seeing good women being mistreated by scumbag like you." Daisuke snorts at Seo back as they all start to walk away from the botanical garden.
So… the green girl is winged by that monkey of an Ashikabi… there's no way he'll stand up to my might. I'll just crash both the green girl and her Ashikabi like bugs they are…
The banana tree monster feels a faint vibration inside the armour and fish out the phone. On the phone displace a message:
Return to MBI Tower immediately, do not disturb Sekirei Plan or face the wrath of Lucuha.
The banana tree monster spits on the ground before complies with the phone's message.
Green girl… You shall live… for now.