PseudoRaijinmon (Aurum Mode) vs. Meicoomon, FIGHT! [Manami]

    Now that everyone who was potentially in the murderlist had left the scene, Mana proceeded to plop on the floor and stare lazily at the panorama. Considering the active volcano, the panorama managed to look fairly harsh, yet also pretty nonetheless; after all, a volcano eruption wasn’t a disaster in itself, was it? Once everything was said and done, the earth would be revitalized and the panorama would probably be better than it has ever been. Well, at least if you didn’t take into account what could happen to this place’s inhabitants.

    But that was a moot point at the moment. Poetry wasn’t Mana’s strong suit, and the fact that she was beginning to get bored out of her mind wasn’t helping that much, either. She didn’t look like she was readying herself to battle in the slightest, but that was a direct result of her sour mood. Nevertheless, one thing was obvious at a glance; her offer was still in effect. As long as the digimon remained here and didn’t attempt anything fishy, the Meicoomon remained non-combative. That’s what admiring the scenery entailed, right?

    Only then, another question was directed at her. Once again, the digimon’s eyes focused on the only other nearby living being. “Huh?” She seemed genuinely confused at it. Was it really that hard to comprehend? “I already told you. That situation was fun to me! Imagine, two useless humans and their equally useless digimons about to get sacrificed, but just in time, our heroines swoop in and save the day! And then they discover there’s a greater threat looming that everyone needs to defeat together! If you told that to anyone, they’d surely be envious! It’d also be a sick bedtime story to tell your kids while tucking them in, don’t you think?”

    It was genuinely hard to discern whether Mana’s excitement was genuine or not. Maybe both? “But then you appeared and tried to turn the tale into your run-of-the-mill mass murder story. Those are a dime a dozen, you know? Not to say, they’re also quite tacky and aren’t all that fitting for children. You could’ve traumatized those two human girls for life and made them even more useless than what humans usually are. That’d have been a true pity, so I’m here to stop you! And, as long as Nami-chan is successful at stopping the volcano, that means I can claim credit for the story as well. Not to say, that’s what the main heroine would do, anyway. Or the older sister!”

    Maybe she had been too detailed; oh well. The cat just shrugged before addressing Raijin again. “That’s it. Doubt that’s gonna be good enough to convince you to stop. But, venting feels good, man. Even if it’s to the cause of why you’re venting in the first place. Funny, ain’t it?”

    The situation was working more or less in Mana’s favor wasn’t it? Sure, talking instead of heading into the action was ultimately a fairly boring fate, but it was certainly preferred over the less than savory alternatives. As it stood, she would only have to deal with a very confused robot that clearly was, at least on a very small degree, questioning the directives given to him. Was that a good or a bad thing? In all honesty, Mana didn’t care all that much.

    It didn't take long for Meicoomon to shake her head at the first attempt to rebuff her arguments. “See, that’s where you are mistaken. You judged a situation at face value when it had a lot of nuance to it; without a shadow of doubt, there’s simply no way for the humans to have died there, but plenty for them to be rendered into further uselessness. With that in mind, why would anyone tell a boring story over an interesting one? Nobody ever had time for subpar tales, you know? Those aren’t really worth living.”

    She didn’t expect for somebody as stubborn to understand, but in the off-chance he did, that was a start. She let out a sigh before speaking once again. “Okay, let’s say that what you say is potentially correct, that despite the raging volcano that’s about to erupt at any moment now, the goblinoids were waiting in ambush, even considering that going to the volcano was the humans’ idea. In that very unlikely context and extremely minuscule possibility, you just subdue them all and keep on with the previous plan. Unforeseen turns are the meat of any worthwhile story, aren’t they? Nami-chan is a big girl, and she can handle herself; I’d be disappointed if she fell to weaklings like what we just fought, especially if they resorted to that cheap tactic! That just ain’t happening, man.”

    As it stood, the situation was indeed an odd standstill, but ultimately one Mana didn’t care about in the slightest. Her goal here was to burn time and to prevent Raijin from going through a murderous rampage, and thus far, she was being more than successful.

    A tough nut to crack, wasn’t he? Well, more like, Raijin pretty much only listened to what he wanted to do, and completely eschewed any form of reasonable counter-argument in favor of his tiresome rhetoric. Not the greatest, honestly!

    By now, it was fairly obvious that Mana was losing her patience pretty quickly, but thankfully that wouldn’t be an issue for long. “Subdue. Kill. Picking on minutiae now, are we?” The Meicoomon answered, fairly bluntly. “Those terms can be used interchangeably depending on the winner’s disposition. It doesn’t take much for one to become the other, in any case.”

    That wasn’t as bad to answer, or at least it wasn’t until Raijin decided to underrate her sister’s prowess. That managed to notably irk the feline. “You know? Blind assumptions like that one are going to end up with you dead at some point. If these digimons can’t handle a little volcano erupting, their chances of beating Nami-chan in combat are as slim as your intellect is deep. I’m surprised at how you’re so willing to overestimate the goblinoids to the point of paranoia, but think that my sister is some two-bit weakling like you seem to be. It’s insulting.”

    Did he really want for it to be spelt out on his face? What a weird individual; Mana sighed before following. “You keep on talking about risks or whatever, but that’s only your own limited view of the situation you’re trying to impose on others. For my sister, the risks posed here are none; we’re here just for the entertainment value of observing how two little humans attain a state of slightly less uselessness and because Nami-chan was after something that only existed in this place; something that she probably is on her way to find, mind you. None of us signed up to have some blood knight wannabe try to shove his views on us, so please save yourself the effort, mostly because your view is so limited that watching you trying to apply it to me or my sister is getting less and less fun by the second.”

    The best part about that rant was that she didn’t even need to be listened, as the volcano behind them began to erupt, albeit on a fairly subdued form, shortly afterward. Thankfully, that was likely her call to abandon the scene. “For what’s worth, I don’t really care if you kill every goblinoid on this island, just as long as you don’t do it near the humans we decided to follow on a whim for this short period of time. Knock yourself out.” After a small pause, she added. “Now, unless you need something else from me, I’ll take my leave. Have a nice life, or something.”

    With that said, the cat turned her back and began walking in the direction of the volcano.