Zero absolutely did not expect this.
The DigiCore had been shattered, the data absorbed down to the last fragment. By every possible measure, Devimon should’ve been dead—utterly and irrevocably dead—and yet, against all logic, the damn thing still came back as a ghost!
This is too much!
Its resentment ran deep—far, far too deep. Once an angel, a devout messenger of God, he fought to expel the darkness with unwavering faith. Even when the holy guidance ceased, he and his companions had continued fighting desperately, struggling to preserve an already collapsing world order.
Yet despite that resolve, he’d been effortlessly crushed by the ruler of the Dark Area, who brutally slaughtered all his comrades, mocking their ideals and beliefs without mercy.
At last, in the pits of despair, the Dark Ocean consumed him—completely corrupting him into his current demonic form.
Something in this world…must be broken.
Yet despite everything, that supposedly omnipotent God remained silent—maybe never existing in the first place.
Then, after losing faith, what was left to believe in?
The ruler of the Dark Area had given him the answer: Only strength mattered. Only absolute power granted you the right to reshape the world as a god or burn it as a demon.
That choice belonged solely to the strong. The weak had no right to choose.
And so he’d sought strength—by any means, at any cost.
The weak were merely nourishment, stepping-stones toward the peak, all for the day he could stand before that monster—no, that god—and demand his answer:
In your eyes… just what should this world become?
He arrived at File Island, gathered his power step by step, created Black Gears, established his Devimon Legion, conquered the island—and planned to expand into Server Continent.
Everything should have gone according to his calculations, but his very first step was cruelly crushed.
He’d abandoned faith, thrown away everything, just to grasp this one opportunity to rise again. Yet fate saw fit to play yet another twisted joke!
Refusing to accept his destiny as merely some capricious joke, Devimon’s resentment lingered fiercely—until finally manifesting like this.
Zero, having absorbed Devimon’s data, felt echoes of that resentment; yet apart from seeing a hyper-realistic 3D movie in his head, he didn’t feel significantly affected.
But Hajime’s reaction was much worse. Devimon’s furious will overwhelmed her, its raging resentment far surpassing what her consciousness could withstand.
Thus, this bitterness invaded, hijacking Hajime’s body to return to this world. As the black fog entirely merged into her being, two forces began intertwining—
Devimon, Garurumon—
—JOGRESS DIGIVOLUTION!!!
Hajime’s body rapidly swelled, growing to an abnormal, monstrous size, almost matching Devimon’s original giant form. Countless data fragments poured madly into her DigiCore. Besides Garurumon’s and Devimon’s data, other Digimon data mixed chaotically as well.
Zero’s DigiCore screamed urgent warnings at an unprecedented level. Without even a second thought, he turned to Rina:
“Rina—this is gonna be really, really bad!”
“?!”
Though Rina couldn’t understand exactly what Hajime’s current appearance meant, she clearly sensed that the supposedly dead Devimon was behind this. Worse, Hajime had obviously lost control.
Amidst this twisted fusion of beast and demon, distorted alien-like wings rapidly sprouted. Long, terrifying claws emerged. A dinosaur-like torso, an insectoid head…
Rina clenched her fist tightly, DigiSoul code rapidly flowing between her fingers:
“Zero, we absolutely must save Hajime-chan!”
“Of course!”
With a thunderous roar, Zero immediately evolved into GeoGreymon. Though he no longer had the Trident Revolver, his strength—after absorbing Devimon’s immense data—had now approached Ultimate level. Even in his base form, he was practically scraping the edge of that boundary.
“Hajime-chan! Snap out of it!”
Zero roared desperately, trying to pull Hajime free from that monstrosity—but the moment he drew close, the monster’s blood-red eyes locked onto him.
The next second, Zero had no clue what even happened—he couldn’t follow its movements at all. Before he knew it, he’d been flung violently backward.
And at that moment, the nightmarish creature finally revealed its full, terrifying form:
Devimon’s claw, Kuwagamon’s claw, SkullGreymon’s claw, Greymon’s body, Kabuterimon’s head, MetalGreymon’s hair, Angemon’s wings, Airdramon’s wings, Garurumon’s legs, Monochromon’s tail—
All the exact traits of the abomination Zero remembered.
That instant, a name flashed vividly across Zero’s mind—
A synthetic Digimon, Ultimate-level…
—KIMERAMON!!!
A twisted Digimon created artificially by the Digimon Kaiser from Digimon Adventure 02, composed of numerous powerful Digimon’s data!
Eventually slain by Magnamon using the Crest of Kindness’s power, Kimeramon’s scattered data drifted into a temporal rift, foreshadowing the birth of something even more terrifying…
Despite officially being an Ultimate, its destructive capabilities unquestionably rivaled Mega-level Digimon!
The core data composing Kimeramon—Garurumon’s and Devimon’s—naturally originated from Hajime herself and Devimon’s remains. Devimon, originally angel-type, also provided Angemon’s data.
Additionally, Kuwagamon, Kabuterimon, Airdramon, Monochromon—were all Digimon Zero and Hajime had encountered on their journey, native inhabitants of File Island. It was no surprise Devimon had absorbed their data while conquering the island.
The remaining two Ultimates—MetalGreymon and SkullGreymon—could’ve had their data sourced from the Unmanned Mechanical Factory.
While it wasn’t the complete data of these Ultimates, the factory naturally retained partial samples used for weapons manufacturing. When Devimon seized the factory, he must’ve obtained these samples.
All the data needed for Kimeramon’s creation had thus been gathered, but—where on earth did the immense dark energy necessary for fusion come from?
Ah…right.
Devimon had been an angel-type Digimon corrupted by the Dark Ocean; it naturally retained traces of that ocean’s immense darkness within.
Counting it all together—every condition had neatly aligned.
Thus, that nightmarish monstrosity, Kimeramon—was born!
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