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"Really Keiwa? You're fighting without me?" A green humanoid insect caught Keiwa as he fell from the hole Michinaga just threw him in.
"Stingmon."
"I thought we were a team?"
"The thing is, Stingmon, I'm not fighting Digimon this time around," Keiwa admitted. "I couldn't use you to fight non-Digimon."
"You know, you always could."
"You know why I won't do that."
"Because it wouldn't be fair, I know." Stingmon shook its head.
"Since you're here, help me save the people from falling." Keiwa asked his partner.
"With pleasure."
Stingmon placed his partner on his shoulder before they began flying below the floating city, catching all the people that were falling from the said floating city.
"Keiwa!" Sara rushed to her brother as soon as he dismounted from his partner and detransformed out of his suit. "Thank you for saving Keiwa, Stingmon."
"I will always be there to save Keiwa, Sara-chan." Stingmon stated before he glowed blue and turned into a green worm that lazed on Keiwa's shoulders.
"Keiwa, I thought I lost you!" Sara hugged her brother as tight as she could as if she remembered something horrible.
"It's okay nee-chan," Keiwa assured his sister. "Please don't hold it against Michinaga-san, he's lost a lot in this tournament."
"We too, have lost a lot too, and you don't see us killing people left and right." Sara scoffed. "Who gave him the right to kill who he likes?"
"No one, just… let me handle him, okay nee-chan?"
"What if…"
"I'll be with him this time, Sara-chan."
"Wormmon… please."
"Tycoon."
"Ace."
"Buffa said…"
"He did eliminate me so to speak, but I have my own savior." Keiwa petted the oversized worm on his shoulders.
"How…"
"You're not the only one who has saved this world from time to time, Geats."
Keiwa retrieved a small red and green device from his person. It glowed red and green for a bit before the worm on his shoulders glowed blue and changed into an oversized humanoid insect.
"You were one of those…"
"To be fair, time travel was involved and all of us came from different worlds." Keiwa smiled. "It didn't occur to me until it was revealed that you have memories of your past life."
"But, I remember telling only one of you when you visited that time."
"True, you didn't tell me that fact, and that Ace wasn't part of the Grand Prix," Keiwa nodded. "Being one of the decision makers of the group made me privy to that fact."
"I'm guessing you weren't Sakurai Keiwa back then?"
"We all swapped first and last names, one of us was a kidnapped princess after all," Keiwa leaned on one of the cylindrical pillars of the building. "For everyone's safety, we all suggested to swap names and the eldest of us gave us a different kanji for our new name."
"Clever."
"Not to brag, but it was the princess who suggested the different kanji."
"Oh? A first crush?"
"Shut up!"
"Still what are you going to do?"
"What I do best, gate crash." Keiwa smirked.
"Your group was always good at gate-crashing events."
"Can I join?" Keiwa jumped from the roof and landed in the spot between Michinaga and Ace.
"Tycoon, you fell."
"But I was saved," Keiwa countered.
"So this is it, I thought you abhorred cheating, Tycoon."
"I told you I won't give up on trying to get the world's happiness back, Michinaga-san, and I won't start now," He caressed a red and green device. "You can have your fight with Ace, I'll continue to save the people from this ridiculous game you've come up with."
"Haaa? Save? You'd only be saving a small number, you're only just one person."
"That's why I'm here." A flying humanoid insect landed behind Keiwa and towered over the three men.
"You're colluding with a monster now?" Michinaga scoffed.
"Think whatever you like, Michinaga-san." Keiwa shook his head. "Let's go, Stingmon." He stepped onto his partner's hands before they flew off.
"I've met him in one of my past lives," Ace shared. "He was part of a group and claims to be one of the decision makers of the group, but his friends tell me otherwise." He equipped his driver with the Magnum buckle. "He was the leader in their group of friends and his decisions have saved all of them countless times."
"So he's not as naïve as we all thought," Michinaga scoffed. "What difference does it make?
"It makes sense why he's able to ask for our help the first time around."
"You're not making any sense, Geats." Michinaga scoffed at the idea. "Regardless, after I deal with you, I'm making sure Tycoon is eliminated."
"Let's see about that."
And so the round ended inconclusively, before anyone knew it, the statue crumbled into piles of dust.
"Wha-"
"Oh-ho, He went in big." Ace stopped his attacks to look at the crumbling statue.
"How."
"Simple, Tycoon has the firepower to spare, especially with Stingmon by his side."
"Heh, I thought it was Tycoon who destroyed the statue, it was just his monster."
"That monster is a part of him so technically it's Tycoon who destroyed the statue."
Michinaga simply scoffed before leaving the premises.
"You live up to the name of your group "Chosen Children" Kurama Takeshi, no, Sakurai Keiwa.