Rooftop Rumble (Kei)

Further into the Darkness

Wild digimon just couldn’t put up a fight like tamed ones could. His digimon got more experience and the general experience of fighting other people was worth more than simply fighting random digimon in the field despite how ill-willed or dark minded they may have been. Real experience came from overcome enemies with strategy, people and digimon alike who could honestly give him a decent challenge or run for his money. And at some point over the course of his play time Kei and all three of his digimon realized that. Thus they decided to leave the outer world and actually make it to his least favorite place in the game, the city.

He hated the city because there were only two in the entire game, and due to that both were always crowded, people were always loud and it was generally just an annoying place to be. The only upside to the dreaded area was that it actually had decent food that he didn’t have to harvest and cook himself and even then it wasn’t really worth the trouble of it all. After an hour or so of strolling through the two cities he needed a place to breathe, as he found no tamer's really willing to battle. A place of calm where he could hopefully hear himself think, a place that seemed impossible to find in the heart of this aggravating place. Eventually he found himself taking sanctuary in the academy, a place he dared not to step foot in since he first entered the game as he was a man, and as such needed no tutorial. This world was pretty straight forward for the most part anyway and questioning the topic further, who played video games to go to school? This wasn’t some shoddy ass eroge, or dating simulator he came for fun, silent fun, but fun nonetheless.

Not so surprisingly even the academy turned out to be loud or still loud enough for him to not want to deal with it. While traversing the various halls and floors he did come make note of the amount of people in the academy. Apparently many people felt the same as he did on the whole ‘tutorial’ matter. Who would have thought? After another 20 or so minutes of traversing randomly through the building and one instance where he actually lost Xia to a small group of tamers eventually the lone main character resembling player made his way to the roof.

This was no anime or drama, nor did he expect it to be. At normal schools kids did not chill on the roof lest they wished to be expelled, shat upon by birds or if one was really unlucky both. The options obviously undesirable weren’t really to be worried about in the digital world thankfully as normal birds didn’t exist and even if flying digimon had to go about their private business they all had enough sense not to partake in it on another’s head thankfully. It was due to all of this that Kei had the right to assume no normal human being, or digimon would make their way to the roof of a tutorial building on a good day in an mmo.

However even here people, or rather a single person had already hogged this place, and just as coincidence would have it Kei of course knew this person. Kei might have traveled with this person on a single occasion and Kei may have realized they weren’t entirely bad, but that didn’t change the fact the tamer did not feel like talking in the slightest. The tamer had two things in his mind, and only two things. The first was finding peace, the second was he’d come to look for a battle, and seeing as the first didn’t seem like it’d be happening today or really anytime soon, he’d continue with the latter. Aeon and Ven both sensing his motives stepped up Xia was a bit more wary but still willing to fight.

The tamer wouldn’t introduce himself again he’d just call the boy out it was faster that way. “Hey Koa right? Fight me.” No explanation behind his challenge either there was the invitation out in the open. Whether the bunny hooded adolescent would agree to the challenge or not, he had no idea.

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