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this is Digimon Chronicles where I am starting off my coverage of Digimon by reading to you bringing you an audiobook if you will of
Digimon Seekers the web novel that is part of the
mmm
anniversary celebration for Digimon
So this is
Continuing on with chapter 1 AG wolf of the 9th Avenue
This is chapter 1 part 12. It is
14
hundred eighty eight words and it could take about nine minutes to read so I'm going to
Go ahead and get into it without further ado
This is the digital world words won't do AG's ability to describe it simply wouldn't do it all
It's a cliched expression, but it would be more like a colony type city built on an exoplanet in the world of science fiction movies
The sky is a sea of networks. The city is densely packed with buildings covering a small mountain
Radiating out from the peak the buildings range in height and quality from those reminiscent of the latest planned cities such as
Denrin and the slums of the Middle East on
The other hand there is absolutely nothing outside of the city in the surrounding area
Nothing of significance seems to exist. It's like a sand sea of noise
Covered in sand gas and clouds. It's like a thin stream of junk data
So unexpected what do they call that sort of thing cyberpunk? That's the best way to describe this
What's that supposed to mean? Lugamon poses the question to AG
I thought the digital world would look more natural
The image of the digital world that I saw in the lobby of DDL
Which was apparently an AI's imaginary map reminded me of beautiful nature in each of the four seasons
This place is called wall slum
Lugamon speaks matter-of-factly wall slum
It is a city of security walls protecting the digital world and a hive of junk data clinging to the outer walls of those walls
security walls
another word he has never heard before
If you look carefully the city wall slum sits on a round surface. Ah, I see it now
Looking carefully he can see that the horizon separating the sea of networks
That is the sky and the shell of the security wall is round
It is clearer than say looking down at the earth from an airplane
The digital world is protected by a security wall. It's a city stuck on an egg shell
So the interior is underground
On earth it would be underground but this is the digital world
The areas are divided and protected from each other
The security wall or the ground you can see from here is the data processing logical and conceptual
Boundary between the real world and the digital world
If you try to go from the human
If you try to go from your human real world to the digital world via the network you will be blocked by the security wall
Wait, then when we code crackers were controlling digimon with tools. What we thought was the digital world. It was just wall slum
Yes, the digimon that code crackers grab are just those running around wall slum
Most code crackers don't even mind link so they'll never even see this view
Lugamon's answer leaves ag speechless
For example, are you just around him on and his friends chasing umidoki betamon somewhere in here?
Have any has anyone gone beyond the security wall?
Have they visited or observed the digital world humans? I doubt it though. I bet that Ryusenji is researching a means to do so
Unprecedented the digital world has never been visited by any human being with the exception being wall slum
Beyond the wall so to speak the deep digital world
anyway
All knowledge and preconceptions about the digital world are turned upside down in ag when he borrows lugamon's vision through a mind link
To see what's at the bottom of the network ocean
It's easy to understand
Why the leaders of the international community are so reluctant to refer to the digital world as anything other than mankind's secret
The digital world can do anything to the real world and to mankind itself
Digimon are alive and the world that harbors life
Wherever it may be is filled with an energy that makes no sense
Wow
Lugamon takes a deep breath a heads up virtual monitor appears in the background
Aji's conscious mind which was up until now only a thinking eye
It looks like the cockpit of a state-of-the-art fighter jet. It's like the cockpit from a robot anime. What's wrong lugamon?
aji
You do remember why you came here. Don't you?
Oh, sorry, I forgot that you're a pathetic codecracker
Operation wolf appears
on the virtual monitor
Sons of chaos the soc job the shared briefing materials are displayed according to the file at these coordinates
I am to be briefed on the mission in detail by a local member of the soc
And i'm two minutes late
A digimon cloaked in rags is looking down at aji from the antenna facility on the roof of the building
Stage type name unknown
No data is just no data is displayed on the virtual monitor
It's blocking the search the only thing aji knows about it is that its size is about the same as that of lugamon
You're late
It was indeed two minutes past the time specified in the operation data our leader tartarus likes people to be punctual
We had some trouble surely you can give us a pass this time the lugamon replies
Hey lugamon
aji and interjects what aji oh lugamon has taken
a back a bit
Before it knows what happened aji is standing next to it
Oh look at that aji looked at his palms and tried to move his arms and legs his clothes are the same as he was wearing before
aji where did you come from so suddenly
Huh? I mean when you mind link you can control a lot of things on the virtual monitor just by thinking about them, right?
And there's a hololise command too since the digital world since this is the digital world. I thought I could maybe hololise
So i'd give it a try
and it worked
So you weren't scared that something might go wrong?
Hmm, you're pretty stupid or maybe brave is a better way to put it lugamon seems to have stopped thinking deeply
aji extends his hand and pets its forehead grr
Huh, did you growl at me don't touch me
Forehead lugamon bears its fangs. Whoa, sorry, but how can I touch you? You're a hololization
aji is surprised that he can touch it lugamon rubs its head with its paws like a cat
If a digimon hololizes in the real world, it's just data
But if it hololizes in the digital world, the data is an actual entity in our world
Oh, wow a real hololization aji manages to make sense of it
In case you're wondering you can't get too far away from the digital world
In case you're wondering you can't get too far away from the mindlink digimon in this case me
Well, whatever as long as it's easy standing next to lugamon aji turns toward the ragged cloth digimon again
Like I said, i'm code cracker fang
I thought it was aji
The ragged cloth digimon coldly rebukes him
No need to focus on the details. So what's the job?
According to the information I was given by the interviewer i'm supposed to uh ask for the details here
I'm sure the interviewer also told you that this request is a test to determine whether you code cracker fang
Will be allowed to join the soc
You've already been deducted two points for showing up late a virtual monitor opens above the ragged cloth digimon
A rough map of wall slum is displayed the city is basically circular
The city was divided into districts as if it were a pizza cut in rectangular shapes
The center of the city is a hollowed out area that looks like a volcanic crater
This is sixth avenue the chuman mentioned it earlier
What I would like you to do is to survey and map this area that is painted in this color as you know
Wall slum is undergoing a lot of redevelopment
this is a place where information from the real world is constantly flowing in and
Not a day goes by that everything is the same as it was mapping. So you want me to make a map sounds fun
Wall slum is very important to the soc
We always want to keep our map data up to date the digimon tosses him a memory card type file
Ag accepts it a line of code appears on the virtual monitor in his hand a mapping tool, huh?
Lugamon understands the contents in less than a second. He is indeed a digimon in this respect
All you have to do is walk around the area while running the tool and it will auto map it for you
We want you to investigate ninth avenue
Lugamon laughs perfect
What do you mean?
I've got some business to attend to the lugamon turns its head lugamon. Are we good?
I mean in terms of explanation ag hurries after lugamon
The ragged clothed digimon quietly sees them off
I pray that you will pass for tartar's sake. I hope the day will come
When I can call you a member of soc
And that is the end of it
So I stumbled and fumbled a little bit in my reading of it overall, which is not great and I do apologize for that
Uh this ragged cloth digimon. This must be ragged clothed digimon or digimon clothed in rags
That's that must be what that means. We have that image of it looked like a person to me
But I guess it was digimon in clothes
That were like rags or you know tattered torn rags and it's a little bit of a
tattered torn rags and that seems to be what the
Uh, what the proper translation should be, uh, but that's not how they have it here
this one at the end is the closest to it and um
Yeah, that's uh, that's too bad, uh, you know, this was okay i'm getting more and more impatient
um, I wish we would have gotten to this a lot faster and
Just had a different narrative flow narrative style narrative structure
And I really hope I don't get to the point where it's a chore to read this
Because i'm still interested in these little snippets that we're getting
um
But yeah, I don't really have much to say because I liked it
A bit and there were a couple key things that were okay
I like how much like lugumon is his own like he's you know, he's alive digimon are alive, which they said again
Um, see he's got his own thoughts about things. He has his own thoughts on Ryu Senji. He
Uh keeps like knocking ag a little bit because ag is kind of
I don't know out of the loop or not with it or a little slow on the uptake
it seems like and lugumon already knows what's going on and it's funny because he has so much information and
It seems odd to me that
Lugumon would have this information ag wouldn't have been briefed better on this to have more clarity
And it also seems odd that you can have a digimon and a human who can have a mind link without actually
sharing
Information like they're compatible with each other somehow, but they don't know each other well
How does that work or does lugumon have a good understanding of ag and ag just doesn't have a good understanding of lugumon?
Because that could be the case which is kind of interesting
And I find it interesting that if this is a different person than the interviewer this soc contact
Said that he'd be praying for him
Is that just an expression or is that literally that they'll be praying for him or is it that guy's quirk and that's it's him again
the interviewer
Uh being in here or is that an soc thing that we'll see come up again. I don't know
Tartarus is not a religious thing strictly. It's a
I think it's a tower from
Greek mythology from roman or greek mythology connected with you know, I know this from like persona 3
um
I was just a connect with orpheus, but I don't even know if that's true. I don't think that's true actually. Um
um
So and like is he tartarus or tartarus? Uh, and what's the difference between those things? I think tartarus is actually the correct
Uh translation here and previously in the auto translations it but it's a tartarus
Um, which made me think of momotaro. So that kind of confused me
I think it's cool that when ag hololizes in the digital world
He can make contact with lugumon that makes sense because you know data is real there in that world
And he's also a you know data being or in a data state
Uh in the digital world, so that's pretty cool
Um, I wonder if that could lead him to getting into some sort of danger and I like that lugumon was like
Hey, you're really an idiot or you're super brave
Um, you know, there's a fine line between those two
Because you didn't think give a second thought about what would happen to you if you hololized here and that was kind of funny
So anyway, i'm going to be working on pretty soon
uh getting the
keikun
Translations done and read and in a file that I update as I add chapter by chapter of the you know better human translation
Uh that he's working on
Uh for seekers because I'd like to have a refresher
I'd like to have it read through in something that's more
Intelligible and much better for understanding
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