1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,780 This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm an analyzer find all my work at MJMUNOZ.COM 2 00:00:05,980 --> 00:00:13,580 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 3 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,700 Digimon Seekers the web novel that is part of the 4 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,080 mmm 5 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:21,080 anniversary celebration for Digimon 6 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:26,560 So this is 7 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,560 Continuing on with chapter 1 AG wolf of the 9th Avenue 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:33,680 This is chapter 1 part 12. It is 9 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,600 14 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,360 hundred eighty eight words and it could take about nine minutes to read so I'm going to 11 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:42,640 Go ahead and get into it without further ado 12 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:50,600 This is the digital world words won't do AG's ability to describe it simply wouldn't do it all 13 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:58,880 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 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:05,800 The sky is a sea of networks. The city is densely packed with buildings covering a small mountain 15 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:13,800 Radiating out from the peak the buildings range in height and quality from those reminiscent of the latest planned cities such as 16 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,520 Denrin and the slums of the Middle East on 17 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,440 The other hand there is absolutely nothing outside of the city in the surrounding area 18 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,480 Nothing of significance seems to exist. It's like a sand sea of noise 19 00:01:29,320 --> 00:01:33,900 Covered in sand gas and clouds. It's like a thin stream of junk data 20 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:39,060 So unexpected what do they call that sort of thing cyberpunk? That's the best way to describe this 21 00:01:39,060 --> 00:01:42,380 What's that supposed to mean? Lugamon poses the question to AG 22 00:01:42,380 --> 00:01:45,180 I thought the digital world would look more natural 23 00:01:45,500 --> 00:01:49,340 The image of the digital world that I saw in the lobby of DDL 24 00:01:49,340 --> 00:01:55,820 Which was apparently an AI's imaginary map reminded me of beautiful nature in each of the four seasons 25 00:01:56,860 --> 00:01:58,860 This place is called wall slum 26 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:02,220 Lugamon speaks matter-of-factly wall slum 27 00:02:02,220 --> 00:02:09,500 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 28 00:02:10,220 --> 00:02:11,740 security walls 29 00:02:11,740 --> 00:02:14,780 another word he has never heard before 30 00:02:15,740 --> 00:02:21,740 If you look carefully the city wall slum sits on a round surface. Ah, I see it now 31 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:25,660 Looking carefully he can see that the horizon separating the sea of networks 32 00:02:25,660 --> 00:02:29,500 That is the sky and the shell of the security wall is round 33 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:32,940 It is clearer than say looking down at the earth from an airplane 34 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:37,980 The digital world is protected by a security wall. It's a city stuck on an egg shell 35 00:02:38,860 --> 00:02:40,860 So the interior is underground 36 00:02:43,100 --> 00:02:47,340 On earth it would be underground but this is the digital world 37 00:02:48,140 --> 00:02:50,460 The areas are divided and protected from each other 38 00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:56,940 The security wall or the ground you can see from here is the data processing logical and conceptual 39 00:02:56,940 --> 00:02:59,980 Boundary between the real world and the digital world 40 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:03,500 If you try to go from the human 41 00:03:04,700 --> 00:03:10,300 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 42 00:03:11,020 --> 00:03:18,220 Wait, then when we code crackers were controlling digimon with tools. What we thought was the digital world. It was just wall slum 43 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:22,540 Yes, the digimon that code crackers grab are just those running around wall slum 44 00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:27,020 Most code crackers don't even mind link so they'll never even see this view 45 00:03:27,580 --> 00:03:29,580 Lugamon's answer leaves ag speechless 46 00:03:30,380 --> 00:03:35,420 For example, are you just around him on and his friends chasing umidoki betamon somewhere in here? 47 00:03:36,940 --> 00:03:39,660 Have any has anyone gone beyond the security wall? 48 00:03:40,300 --> 00:03:47,980 Have they visited or observed the digital world humans? I doubt it though. I bet that Ryusenji is researching a means to do so 49 00:03:47,980 --> 00:03:54,940 Unprecedented the digital world has never been visited by any human being with the exception being wall slum 50 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,460 Beyond the wall so to speak the deep digital world 51 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:02,460 anyway 52 00:04:02,460 --> 00:04:09,420 All knowledge and preconceptions about the digital world are turned upside down in ag when he borrows lugamon's vision through a mind link 53 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:12,140 To see what's at the bottom of the network ocean 54 00:04:13,340 --> 00:04:15,340 It's easy to understand 55 00:04:15,340 --> 00:04:21,900 Why the leaders of the international community are so reluctant to refer to the digital world as anything other than mankind's secret 56 00:04:22,780 --> 00:04:27,580 The digital world can do anything to the real world and to mankind itself 57 00:04:28,780 --> 00:04:32,700 Digimon are alive and the world that harbors life 58 00:04:33,260 --> 00:04:36,780 Wherever it may be is filled with an energy that makes no sense 59 00:04:37,980 --> 00:04:38,940 Wow 60 00:04:38,940 --> 00:04:42,860 Lugamon takes a deep breath a heads up virtual monitor appears in the background 61 00:04:42,860 --> 00:04:47,260 Aji's conscious mind which was up until now only a thinking eye 62 00:04:47,980 --> 00:04:54,300 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? 63 00:04:55,020 --> 00:04:56,140 aji 64 00:04:56,140 --> 00:04:58,860 You do remember why you came here. Don't you? 65 00:05:01,180 --> 00:05:04,140 Oh, sorry, I forgot that you're a pathetic codecracker 66 00:05:08,460 --> 00:05:10,460 Operation wolf appears 67 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:12,460 on the virtual monitor 68 00:05:13,740 --> 00:05:20,140 Sons of chaos the soc job the shared briefing materials are displayed according to the file at these coordinates 69 00:05:20,460 --> 00:05:24,300 I am to be briefed on the mission in detail by a local member of the soc 70 00:05:25,260 --> 00:05:27,260 And i'm two minutes late 71 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:33,420 A digimon cloaked in rags is looking down at aji from the antenna facility on the roof of the building 72 00:05:35,260 --> 00:05:37,260 Stage type name unknown 73 00:05:37,260 --> 00:05:41,980 No data is just no data is displayed on the virtual monitor 74 00:05:42,380 --> 00:05:50,060 It's blocking the search the only thing aji knows about it is that its size is about the same as that of lugamon 75 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:51,900 You're late 76 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:57,900 It was indeed two minutes past the time specified in the operation data our leader tartarus likes people to be punctual 77 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:03,500 We had some trouble surely you can give us a pass this time the lugamon replies 78 00:06:04,060 --> 00:06:05,580 Hey lugamon 79 00:06:05,580 --> 00:06:09,100 aji and interjects what aji oh lugamon has taken 80 00:06:09,740 --> 00:06:11,420 a back a bit 81 00:06:11,420 --> 00:06:13,980 Before it knows what happened aji is standing next to it 82 00:06:14,940 --> 00:06:21,580 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 83 00:06:22,380 --> 00:06:24,380 aji where did you come from so suddenly 84 00:06:24,940 --> 00:06:30,300 Huh? I mean when you mind link you can control a lot of things on the virtual monitor just by thinking about them, right? 85 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:36,300 And there's a hololise command too since the digital world since this is the digital world. I thought I could maybe hololise 86 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:38,300 So i'd give it a try 87 00:06:38,860 --> 00:06:40,860 and it worked 88 00:06:41,340 --> 00:06:43,580 So you weren't scared that something might go wrong? 89 00:06:43,580 --> 00:06:49,820 Hmm, you're pretty stupid or maybe brave is a better way to put it lugamon seems to have stopped thinking deeply 90 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:53,340 aji extends his hand and pets its forehead grr 91 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,340 Huh, did you growl at me don't touch me 92 00:06:57,340 --> 00:07:02,060 Forehead lugamon bears its fangs. Whoa, sorry, but how can I touch you? You're a hololization 93 00:07:02,620 --> 00:07:07,900 aji is surprised that he can touch it lugamon rubs its head with its paws like a cat 94 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:11,260 If a digimon hololizes in the real world, it's just data 95 00:07:11,340 --> 00:07:15,900 But if it hololizes in the digital world, the data is an actual entity in our world 96 00:07:17,180 --> 00:07:20,860 Oh, wow a real hololization aji manages to make sense of it 97 00:07:21,660 --> 00:07:24,460 In case you're wondering you can't get too far away from the digital world 98 00:07:24,460 --> 00:07:29,500 In case you're wondering you can't get too far away from the mindlink digimon in this case me 99 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:36,940 Well, whatever as long as it's easy standing next to lugamon aji turns toward the ragged cloth digimon again 100 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:40,460 Like I said, i'm code cracker fang 101 00:07:40,940 --> 00:07:42,700 I thought it was aji 102 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:45,260 The ragged cloth digimon coldly rebukes him 103 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:48,460 No need to focus on the details. So what's the job? 104 00:07:48,460 --> 00:07:54,380 According to the information I was given by the interviewer i'm supposed to uh ask for the details here 105 00:07:55,340 --> 00:08:01,580 I'm sure the interviewer also told you that this request is a test to determine whether you code cracker fang 106 00:08:02,060 --> 00:08:04,060 Will be allowed to join the soc 107 00:08:04,460 --> 00:08:10,060 You've already been deducted two points for showing up late a virtual monitor opens above the ragged cloth digimon 108 00:08:11,820 --> 00:08:15,500 A rough map of wall slum is displayed the city is basically circular 109 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:20,460 The city was divided into districts as if it were a pizza cut in rectangular shapes 110 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:24,540 The center of the city is a hollowed out area that looks like a volcanic crater 111 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:28,300 This is sixth avenue the chuman mentioned it earlier 112 00:08:29,020 --> 00:08:34,620 What I would like you to do is to survey and map this area that is painted in this color as you know 113 00:08:34,780 --> 00:08:37,020 Wall slum is undergoing a lot of redevelopment 114 00:08:37,820 --> 00:08:41,820 this is a place where information from the real world is constantly flowing in and 115 00:08:41,820 --> 00:08:47,900 Not a day goes by that everything is the same as it was mapping. So you want me to make a map sounds fun 116 00:08:48,620 --> 00:08:50,620 Wall slum is very important to the soc 117 00:08:50,780 --> 00:08:56,140 We always want to keep our map data up to date the digimon tosses him a memory card type file 118 00:08:56,780 --> 00:09:01,820 Ag accepts it a line of code appears on the virtual monitor in his hand a mapping tool, huh? 119 00:09:02,460 --> 00:09:07,420 Lugamon understands the contents in less than a second. He is indeed a digimon in this respect 120 00:09:07,420 --> 00:09:11,340 All you have to do is walk around the area while running the tool and it will auto map it for you 121 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:13,500 We want you to investigate ninth avenue 122 00:09:14,140 --> 00:09:16,140 Lugamon laughs perfect 123 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:17,980 What do you mean? 124 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:22,380 I've got some business to attend to the lugamon turns its head lugamon. Are we good? 125 00:09:22,380 --> 00:09:25,740 I mean in terms of explanation ag hurries after lugamon 126 00:09:26,780 --> 00:09:30,060 The ragged clothed digimon quietly sees them off 127 00:09:30,860 --> 00:09:35,100 I pray that you will pass for tartar's sake. I hope the day will come 128 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:37,260 When I can call you a member of soc 129 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:40,300 And that is the end of it 130 00:09:40,300 --> 00:09:46,300 So I stumbled and fumbled a little bit in my reading of it overall, which is not great and I do apologize for that 131 00:09:47,180 --> 00:09:52,780 Uh this ragged cloth digimon. This must be ragged clothed digimon or digimon clothed in rags 132 00:09:52,780 --> 00:09:57,260 That's that must be what that means. We have that image of it looked like a person to me 133 00:09:57,260 --> 00:09:59,260 But I guess it was digimon in clothes 134 00:09:59,580 --> 00:10:03,500 That were like rags or you know tattered torn rags and it's a little bit of a 135 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,620 tattered torn rags and that seems to be what the 136 00:10:08,780 --> 00:10:12,220 Uh, what the proper translation should be, uh, but that's not how they have it here 137 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:15,900 this one at the end is the closest to it and um 138 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:23,980 Yeah, that's uh, that's too bad, uh, you know, this was okay i'm getting more and more impatient 139 00:10:24,460 --> 00:10:27,820 um, I wish we would have gotten to this a lot faster and 140 00:10:28,380 --> 00:10:31,660 Just had a different narrative flow narrative style narrative structure 141 00:10:31,660 --> 00:10:35,340 And I really hope I don't get to the point where it's a chore to read this 142 00:10:35,740 --> 00:10:38,220 Because i'm still interested in these little snippets that we're getting 143 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:40,300 um 144 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:43,100 But yeah, I don't really have much to say because I liked it 145 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:46,860 A bit and there were a couple key things that were okay 146 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:53,180 I like how much like lugumon is his own like he's you know, he's alive digimon are alive, which they said again 147 00:10:53,660 --> 00:10:57,340 Um, see he's got his own thoughts about things. He has his own thoughts on Ryu Senji. He 148 00:10:57,340 --> 00:11:01,580 Uh keeps like knocking ag a little bit because ag is kind of 149 00:11:02,220 --> 00:11:05,580 I don't know out of the loop or not with it or a little slow on the uptake 150 00:11:05,580 --> 00:11:10,140 it seems like and lugumon already knows what's going on and it's funny because he has so much information and 151 00:11:11,340 --> 00:11:13,340 It seems odd to me that 152 00:11:13,820 --> 00:11:18,460 Lugumon would have this information ag wouldn't have been briefed better on this to have more clarity 153 00:11:19,020 --> 00:11:25,820 And it also seems odd that you can have a digimon and a human who can have a mind link without actually 154 00:11:25,820 --> 00:11:27,820 sharing 155 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:34,940 Information like they're compatible with each other somehow, but they don't know each other well 156 00:11:36,140 --> 00:11:41,500 How does that work or does lugumon have a good understanding of ag and ag just doesn't have a good understanding of lugumon? 157 00:11:41,500 --> 00:11:43,740 Because that could be the case which is kind of interesting 158 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:49,100 And I find it interesting that if this is a different person than the interviewer this soc contact 159 00:11:49,820 --> 00:11:51,180 Said that he'd be praying for him 160 00:11:51,180 --> 00:11:57,180 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 161 00:11:57,180 --> 00:11:58,460 the interviewer 162 00:11:58,460 --> 00:12:03,020 Uh being in here or is that an soc thing that we'll see come up again. I don't know 163 00:12:03,820 --> 00:12:06,380 Tartarus is not a religious thing strictly. It's a 164 00:12:07,580 --> 00:12:09,420 I think it's a tower from 165 00:12:09,420 --> 00:12:13,900 Greek mythology from roman or greek mythology connected with you know, I know this from like persona 3 166 00:12:14,940 --> 00:12:16,460 um 167 00:12:16,460 --> 00:12:19,900 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 168 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:21,100 um 169 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:27,260 So and like is he tartarus or tartarus? Uh, and what's the difference between those things? I think tartarus is actually the correct 170 00:12:27,740 --> 00:12:32,540 Uh translation here and previously in the auto translations it but it's a tartarus 171 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:35,340 Um, which made me think of momotaro. So that kind of confused me 172 00:12:35,340 --> 00:12:38,220 I think it's cool that when ag hololizes in the digital world 173 00:12:38,300 --> 00:12:42,940 He can make contact with lugumon that makes sense because you know data is real there in that world 174 00:12:43,340 --> 00:12:46,300 And he's also a you know data being or in a data state 175 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:48,940 Uh in the digital world, so that's pretty cool 176 00:12:48,940 --> 00:12:53,740 Um, I wonder if that could lead him to getting into some sort of danger and I like that lugumon was like 177 00:12:53,740 --> 00:12:55,740 Hey, you're really an idiot or you're super brave 178 00:12:56,060 --> 00:12:58,060 Um, you know, there's a fine line between those two 179 00:12:58,460 --> 00:13:03,340 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 180 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:05,900 So anyway, i'm going to be working on pretty soon 181 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:07,820 uh getting the 182 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:09,160 keikun 183 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:15,900 Translations done and read and in a file that I update as I add chapter by chapter of the you know better human translation 184 00:13:16,300 --> 00:13:18,300 Uh that he's working on 185 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:21,580 Uh for seekers because I'd like to have a refresher 186 00:13:21,580 --> 00:13:23,660 I'd like to have it read through in something that's more 187 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,300 Intelligible and much better for understanding 188 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:31,420 So that's it until next time check out all my stuff on the website that you can find links to in the show notes 189 00:13:32,540 --> 00:13:39,980 I hope you enjoyed that go to mjmunoz.com to leave any questions comments or other feedback you might have 190 00:13:40,780 --> 00:13:43,820 There you can find all of my analysis art and fiction 191 00:13:43,820 --> 00:13:48,060 I cover books tokusatsu comic books anime and more 192 00:13:48,860 --> 00:13:51,660 Look around you're sure to find something else that you'll enjoy as well 193 00:13:51,660 --> 00:14:14,220 This has been a story over everything production