Chapter 93: My Perfect Counter (Please Subscribe)

"Huh? Why do I feel like you're looking down on me?"

Zhao Jie eyed the Gatomon before him with suspicion.

As the evolution rune representing Gatomon condensed into being, a faint telepathic link arose between the two.

"I am not, I have not, don't talk nonsense."

At Zhao Jie's words, Gatomon shook her head rapidly in denial, denying it three times over in quick succession.

Yet inwardly, she could not help but marvel.

After humans and their Digimon formed a bond, the humans were actually able to sense fragments of their Digimon's thoughts. How astonishing was that?

"All right, for now we should figure out how to get you out of here."

Though he still felt something was off, Zhao Jie decisively set the matter aside. Agumon was still waiting outside for his rescue.

Now that he had a mature-level Gatomon to help him, there might yet be a chance to save Agumon.

"Simple. Without the Apocalymon's dark gene, my power can be used again. If we super-evolve, we can tear these chains apart."

Gatomon said this very casually, but her eyes were brimming with excitement.

She had no idea how long she had been trapped here. At last, she could finally see a way out.

Good grief.

Zhao Jie was dumbfounded when he heard her.

I've struck gold!

This Gatomon can actually super-evolve!

One had to know that even the chairman of the Wuling City Digimon Association only had a Perfect-level Tree Spirit Beast, whereas Zhao Jie had not even been a Digi-Tamer for a year, yet he had already raised a Gatomon capable of super-evolution.

Ahem...

Never mind the details. Though they had only just formed a contract, she could still count as his Digimon, couldn't she?

By that logic, it was perfectly fine to credit himself with the achievement of being able to super-evolve Gatomon, right?

"Hm?"

Gatomon frowned. She felt offended.

"No, no need to super-evolve. We can just DigiFuse."

Very quickly, Zhao Jie came back to himself and hurriedly looked at Gatomon as he spoke.

Fine steel should be used on the blade. When they returned, he and Gatomon would give Professor Zhou Jie a huge surprise.

"DigiFusion?"

Gatomon paused. Having been kept prisoner for too long, she had nearly forgotten that DigiFusion was still a thing.

"Then let's begin!"

Zhao Jie looked at the trapped Gatomon before him, and digital energy poured out from between his brows into her body.

Crackle!

Under DigiFusion, Gatomon's power surged. Though she was already a mature-level Digimon, her power was not especially great among Digimon of the same rank, but it was by no means weak.

Crack, crack!

As she struggled with all her might, many fissures appeared in the chains binding her, and the clangor of metal striking metal rang out continuously in all directions.

Outside the abandoned warehouse.

The Ghostmons, who had been unable to reason with the Minotaurmon no matter how hard they tried, had finally been forced to admit defeat and went to fetch Zhou Jie.

"Idiot!"

Zhou Jie shouted at the Minotaurmon. To think it had let that brat get inside. Inside was an important experimental specimen belonging to a certain lord.

If anything went wrong, he could not bear the responsibility.

Still, thinking about it carefully, it hardly mattered. He did not rely on that person for anything anyway.

So if there were problems, let there be problems.

After this thought, he no longer took it to heart. Besides, with that brat's level of power, he probably would not be able to rescue the experiment specimen anyway.

"All of you, go in. Bring that brat back to me. I want him alive. He still has use for me, so under no circumstances are you to kill him!"

Zhou Jie said this to the Minotaurmon.

He had always felt that this Minotaurmon's brain was a bit abnormal.

"Professor, I understand. I'll leave that brat with one breath left in him."

Seeing Zhou Jie's gaze turn toward him, the Minotaurmon thumped its chest in assurance.

"Hm."

Zhou Jie nodded with satisfaction. Yet before he could turn and leave, he heard the sound of clashing metal coming from within the abandoned warehouse.

That experimental specimen seemed to be struggling free of its chains.

"Quick, quick, go in and stop that Gatomon!"

"Roar!"

Under Zhou Jie's orders, the Ghostmons rushed in first, and then the Minotaurmon mixed in with them and headed deeper inside.

...

Crack!

At last, the chain on one of her arms was broken. Gatomon, now with one hand free, swung her arm quickly, the sharp claws on her hand slicing through the remaining chains on all four limbs with ease.

"I am free!"

With both feet planted on the ground, Gatomon's body trembled slightly. How hard-won this freedom was!

Boom!

Just as she was preparing to say a few words about regaining her freedom, she suddenly sensed a commotion from afar. Soon after, she saw one white Ghostmon after another floating toward her.

When Gatomon saw them, her eyes lit up. It was time to show her master her worth.

As a Digimon that had just escaped captivity, life was truly hard for her.

Cat Claw Fist!

Gatomon shot out like a streak of white lightning, the blades on her hands slashing constantly across the Ghostmons' bodies.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One Ghostmon after another was defeated by Gatomon. It looked rather cool.

Thud!

Thud!

The Minotaurmon came running from afar. The instant it saw Gatomon, its eyes lit up, and it unleashed its special move, Devil Shock.

Boom!

Bang!

Under Zhao Jie's watch, Gatomon was sent flying back like a cannonball and smashed a deep pit into the ground.

"Uh, are you really this fragile?"

Just as Gatomon was getting up from the pit, she heard Zhao Jie's words and felt a lump of frustration in her chest.

"It hard-counters me, hard-counters me. Do you get that?"

Mm-hm, mm-hm.

You're right, absolutely right.

Zhao Jie nodded repeatedly in agreement. After all, she was his Digimon partner, so he should still give her some face.

If Gatomon said she was hard-countered, then hard-countered it was.

He could tell, in any case, that this Gatomon had very poor combat experience.

Of course, that might also have something to do with how long she had been locked up.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Seeing Zhao Jie's utterly perfunctory attitude and his obvious refusal to believe her, Gatomon felt terribly vexed.

The other side was clearly a tank with six fully equipped items, while she was only an underdeveloped little fighter holding two iron swords.

This really is a hard counter. You have to believe me.

The Minotaurmon glared with its bovine eyes as it pressed closer and closer toward Zhao Jie and Gatomon.

"Hey, shorty on the other side, come on and keep playing with me!"

At those words, Gatomon nearly burst with rage.

I can't beat you in this form, but wait until my next form and I'll crush you. Who's playing in your rank with you, anyway?

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