A certain famous law prodigy from London once said:
"The more carefully a person schemes, the more they'll end up trapped in dilemmas they never saw coming."
Narumi Akira had plenty of contempt for that gentleman's character—but he'd also learned, firsthand, just how expensive that line really was.
From the day he realized he'd gone from a twenty-first-century wage slave to a late–twentieth-century corporate-slave-in-training, he'd already drawn up a meticulous plan for this sudden second life:
First, build a "child genius" persona and secure the "right to advise" on family finances. Then, when the banks inevitably buckled under an economic downturn and began cutting deposit interest rates—pushing the household's money-managing housewives toward other investments—he'd suggest that his biological mother try foreign exchange trading.
If she did well, he'd smoothly upgrade that "right to advise" into actual decision-making power. From there, he'd carve out his own separate fund from the family treasury. After that, he could use his memories of the past to make money independently, without the family holding his leash.
He'd also considered the possibility that this new household might be entirely controlled by his biological father—and he'd prepared a countermeasure for that too.
After all, he'd heard old Torenako explain the real-life stories behind the Racehorse Girls. Horse racing in Japan was a national-scale, government-sanctioned gambling—ahem, "public welfare"—industry. So persuading his biological father to buy a racehorse and earn a little profit was perfectly reasonable, wasn't it?
Not only that, he planned to systematically study Japanese law, to see what the child protection statutes required for a minor to legally sever ties with their parents—just in case he ended up reenacting a legendary modern tragedy: a prodigy whose ancestors' graves smoked three times over with good fortune, only for their parents to stomp the smoke out cold, leaving him powerless to stop the script.
In short: if it meant finishing a lifetime's worth of work in childhood, retiring early, living a wholesome, health-conscious life, and enjoying the decadent upper-class comfort of the world's third-largest economy, Narumi Akira would do anything.
And yet—
No matter how much he calculated, he never once considered that his family would be neither a traditional East Asian patriarchal household nor a "Japan's early-release feminism" model…
…but an abstract Western-style "happy education" family.
No. "Happy education" didn't even begin to cover it.
Because…
"Oh my God, Molly—our child isn't just a genius, he can make money too!"
"That's wonderful, Leon! From now on, the family finances are in our little genius's hands!"
"Akira, starting today, you're our Minister of Finance! Go get 'em—Molly and I believe in you!"
He was only four. He'd merely tried to display a hint of "genius-level" sensitivity to economics, and his biological parents were already ready to become hands-off managers.
No matter how you looked at it, parents who could treat their kid like a grown adult were beyond "open-minded"—they were on an entirely different plane of existence.
Back then, Akira had only one thought:
With my parents this unhinged… do I have a hardboiled uncle running a detective agency in Futo City, and a cousin named Akiko who loves smacking people with a green slipper?
Still, thanks to this pair of "transcendent beings," he skipped the whole fight for a voice in the household and went straight to the real prize: unrestricted internet access—permission to learn how the world worked.
Through the internet, he finally gained a solid understanding of his new reality:
There was no Futo City, no Narumi City, no Third Tokyo, no Academy City, no Fuyuki, no Morioh, no Beika. No TAC, no GUTS, no Great Shocker, no ZECT, no Mithril. No Second Impact, no Spatial Quakes—no bizarre historical anomalies at all. Even the economic development matched his previous life almost perfectly, meaning he still had opportunities to leverage foreknowledge.
He was a little disappointed once he confirmed there were no superpowers, black tech, or secret organizations—but it also made him far more confident about getting rich. He began investing early, living his best pre-retirement life.
Then—
At the tender age of five, with one full year of investment experience already under his belt, he suffered a massive, worldview-shattering upheaval he never saw coming:
In 1995, Hikarigaoka—an area belonging to Odaiba, Tokyo—was rocked by a sudden "explosion incident" so absurd it might as well have been an urban legend.
No one knew the cause. No one knew the culprit. There were no credible eyewitnesses, and no injured victims. Yet the streets and residential buildings undeniably showed signs of explosive damage.
Only some children, when talking about it, described it with wide-eyed certainty and overflowing imagination:
A dinosaur as big as a mountain that spat fireballs had fought a giant bird that shot lightning—because the dinosaur was protecting children.
Adults didn't believe a word of it. They dismissed it as proof that kids couldn't tell dreams from reality.
And so this baffling, unexplained incident became known as the Hikarigaoka Incident, one of Tokyo's many urban legends.
Fortunately—or unfortunately—Narumi Akira was one of the eyewitnesses.
He'd become an "eyewitness" for one simple reason: after confirming he'd transmigrated into an ordinary world, he'd gone on a pilgrimage to the classic childhood landmarks of his previous life.
That's right.
Narumi Akira was a Digimon fan.
And the world he'd transmigrated into was the world of the original Digimon anime.
Shock. Fear. Doubt. Ecstatic joy…
He couldn't describe what he'd felt, seeing Digimon appear with his own eyes—watching them wage war in a world shackled by hateful gravity.
Even though four years had passed since the Hikarigaoka Incident, he still dreamed about it from time to time—the event that symbolized the moment humans and Digimon, the real world and the Digital World, had begun to overlap. Some days he even wondered whether he'd been dreaming all along.
But one thing he could be certain of was this:
What he'd felt then was more moved than afraid.
Because he had transmigrated into the world he loved most—and it wasn't some hopeless, filthy nightmare of a setting.
Of course, the world of Digimon wasn't exactly gentle either.
But from that day on, Narumi Akira revised his life plan.
My priority now is to become one of the chosen.
Sure, becoming upper-class in Japan wasn't bad at all—but for Akira, the Digital World promised a far wider sky.
With a new plan in place, Akira immediately drafted a new strategy:
First, infiltrate the DigiDestined's inner circle to secure an internal information channel. Next, find other people tied to Digimon, ensuring that even if he wasn't chosen, he'd still have a chance to obtain a partner Digimon. Only after that would he focus on "cultivating the soul"—increasing his odds of passing Homeostasis' eternal, unspoken background check.
Once he had the plan, Akira acted at once—and achieved his goals quickly.
Only… the process didn't unfold quite the way he imagined.
For example: after giving up on Tateban-chō and choosing Odaiba Elementary instead, he'd assumed the first person he'd meet would be Taichi Yagami—outgoing, friendly, a social magnet.
Or maybe Koshiro Izumi—his same-age peer whose programming talent was practically a cheat code.
But reality was…
Before he'd even properly met his classmates, his transcendent parents had already become friends with Mimi Tachikawa's parents—who were just as famously romance-brained and airheaded.
And that wasn't even the hardest part to process.
Because while searching for other Digimon-related people, he didn't just find Yukio Oikawa—the future villain of the second generation, still uncorrupted—
He also found Menoa Bellucci from Last Evolution Kizuna, and Meiko Mochizuki from Tri…
The moment Akira realized just how many "transcendent beings" existed in this world, his vision went dark. He genuinely didn't know what to say.
Fortunately, as a former office drone, he had excellent emotional regulation.
After forcibly suppressing the urge to think "There are too many lunatics—maybe I should just give up and lie flat," he continued his containment work, quietly waiting for the day of Choosing to arrive.
Until tonight.
July 31.
On the eve of the summer camp that no Digimon fan could ever forget, the scheming Narumi Akira finally met the last straw that would crush even an office drone.
It appeared when he couldn't sleep, tossed and turned, and finally decided to take out his phone and play a few rounds of Tetris to pass the time—
And there, in the center of the screen, it manifested without a sound, announcing its arrival.
A baby Digimon, ashen gray all over.
Its body writhing with countless tentacles.
A single golden eye, mesmerizing and predatory.
An aura so ominous it made the air feel wrong.
Narumi Akira recognized it.
A Digimon that could bring the Digital World to its end and force it into the next cycle.
A Digimon that drew the most power from humanity's internet—
And one that could only be defeated by something absurdly spiritual and idealistic: an Omnimon so radiant it might as well have been Digimon's version of Shining Tiga.
The very incarnation of the Great Destruction.
And yet this being had nothing to do with the original anime timeline at all—
it belonged to the reboot timeline, where it reigned as the ultimate final boss.
Its crimes included:
Manipulating Deathmon to ignite a (Digital) world war.
Twisting the two great angels into a demon and a dark knight.
Doxxing the DigiDestined's home addresses and sending cruise missiles their way.
Reviving Millenniummon in an attempt to obliterate the Digital World itself…
A true fountainhead of evil—scum among scum—the kind of Paradox grand-strategy player that made even villains sigh in disgust.
Its name was…
Negamon.
Staring at the ultimate antagonist Digimon that had crossed timelines to appear before him, Narumi Akira couldn't help asking:
"I've walked on thin ice my whole life. So tell me… can I be chosen?"
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