Chapter 14: Dark Legend (HM) 6 HM

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K's Server

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Player...?!

PlayerThis is...K-Cafe in Nakano? It doesn't even feel like cyberspace.

WormmonYeah, it looks just like the real world. But it's just a simulation. We're still on K's server.

K...That's horrible. Simulating our special place like this.

Player...!

K...You get it now?

Player!!!

Yu...I'm K. The one who stole your account was your best friend, Yu.

Yu...At first all I wanted was your avatar.

Player...?!

YuA simulation was fine. I just wanted to be near something that looked like you.

YuBut after a while, it wasn't enough... I started to feel I needed the real thing.

Player...

YuSo I created "enemies." Akira Hosaka, and then "K"...

Yu...If I could save you from them, and if we could beat them together, I thought you'd start depending on me.

YuI thought you'd be my best friend...my ally... my "Vanguard"...!

WormmonSo then...everything up until now... It's all been just a performance on your part...?

Yu...Do you think it was foolish? You do, don't you?!

YuBut how could I tell you the truth? How could I tell you how I really felt?

YuThat I was no longer satisfied with just being your close friend!

Player...

Yu...But then I finally understood. The "voice" told me.

Yu...You'd never really stand by my side, would you?

YuAfter all, the truth is that even you were making fun of me! Just like them...!

Player...?!

YuThat's why you didn't go with me, right? You only go with them, don't you?!

YuYou're just like them...like those lowlife creeps that looked down on me! The only difference is that instead of violence, for you it's pity!

YuSo the only thing I could do was to become so strong that no one would make fun of me again!

Yu...And then a miracle happened!

YuI was able to use K's power even in the real world! By using your account, I became you!

YuThe most ideal version of you...! The you that's the strongest hacker in EDEN...! Finally you would be with me!

YuNow no one can beat me! Through you...I became...the Vanguard!

Something Resembling Yu...! ... ...!

Player...?!

Yu...Get back!
"I" speak for "you" now, remember?

YuThis is all the "I" you wanted, right? This is the "I" you wanted to become!

YuRejoice...! Now "I" have become "me"!

Player!!!

WormmonYeeeek...! His face... It's gone?!

MatadormonForget him.

MatadormonHe's nothing more than a worm who lost his mind between self-loathing and hero-worship!

Matadormon...His talk of friendship sickened me. But he was the perfect "exhibit" in my side show!

MatadormonHe swallowed everything I told him, and gradually I broke his will!

MatadormonWithout confidence, his dreams of equality were fruitless...! He wanted recognition, but lacked the courage to speak his mind!

MatadormonThat's why he searched so desperately for ways to gain your attention!

MatadormonBut it backfired, and instead it was Hudie that earned all the glory!

MatadormonHa! Ha ha ha! It makes me laugh! The human heart is so weak and pathetic! Ha ha! Bwah ha ha ha ha...!!!

Player...!

MatadormonRelax.... I want to thank you for the non-stop amusement you gave me.

Matadormon"I" will fulfill the hopes of "me"! I will become the you that you wished to be!

MatadormonIf you won't be my possession, I have no need of you... Is that not so?

MatadormonWell then, what shall we play? I've got it...! Let's play "Hero"!

MatadormonWe used to play it all the time, yes? I will play the "Dark Legend Vanguard K" and--

MatadormonYou will be...what was it, the "Space Rescue Ranger"? That was so much fun...

MatadormonBut I was always the one who lost in the end. It used to infuriate me...!

MatadormonAfter all...I was the "Dark Legend Vanguard K"! I was supposed to be an invincible hero...!

MatadormonI wasn't supposed to lose!

MatadormonThat's right...! I cannot lose!

MatadormonI refuse to lose! Why must I lose to the likes of you?!

MatadormonIt cannot be! It cannot be!!! It cannot BEEEEEEE!!!

Player...!!!

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