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Human Side: Noguchi Ryouta 14 years old (born April 4th 2036) 155 cm / 48 kg / O Crest: Justice

A fourteen years old boy with great distaste toward injustice, but unfortunately, as a teen, can only react in way that he thought is the best... by making himself a villain.

Ryouta was born to a patissier father and a teacher mother. His family consists of his two parents, himself, a younger brother (by a year), and twin younger sisters (by nearly seven years). Ryouta's life until past his sixth birthday was normal, but suddenly it was all ruined when his father's business partner backstabbed him and ran away with the shop's capital at the very crucial moment. All that Ryouta heard was that it was a deliberate and planned action, all from a disagreement, most likely from franchising. From that point on it was life of poverty for them. Ryouta's father tried to bounce back, but doing so is pretty hard. He tried to ask around for a job, only to be turned away, most likely due to his business partner's underhanded action. Having no other choice, the family decided to sell their house and move out to a much smaller apartment on another town, hoping for a new start, no matter how humble.

Ryouta's life was quite a whirlwind. Even when his parents tried their best to feed the family, it was hard to bounce back, especially when the twin was born. They were planned, but it was before the change in lifestyle. Ryouta often have to take babysitting role for his younger siblings, and ended up not having much time for himself unless it's weekend.

"Having no resentment for that kind of a life would be a lie," Ryouta admitted. "It's not that I hate my siblings. i love them to death, and it's not like a kid like me couldn't see how hard my parents worked... but I still hate those time." And thus he began acting out. Not as a way to ask for attention, no. He simply dislikes what he perceived as injustice. When he saw anyone bullied, his fist would shot out before his words can. This has led to multiple suspensions, all which unfortunately fell on deaf ears. His mother tried to ask him to not act that way, but honestly, she couldn't say much either. She knew why he acted this way, and all her discipline would only make it even worse... because he would feel as if there's no one in his corner.

That feeling changed however, when one day, a red haired boy approached him and told him something unexpected. "You looked as if you have a lot of rage. Why don't you use it for better purpose?" All that he remembered was he told the boy to mind his own business, but then in one way or another, they ended up fighting, and he for the first time tasted defeat. He had strength, but had no technique. The red haired boy then told him something even more outrageous: "I won, and so you'll hear me out, right? I'm going to bring you to our family dojo!"

And that was the first time he and Tatsumi met, a start of strong friendship. For the first time, Ryouta had outlet for his fury, and his mannerism changed. While he still haven't stopped meddling with unfair fights, he now simply disarm rather than actually fighting. His punishment getting lesser and lesser. But if he have to say the actual time where that change kicked fully into gear is when he and Itou Yuuki shared the same class for the first time in the second grade.

"You got one heck of a serious game face!" was the first impression that he gave Ryouta. It was a declaration that gave the older boy slightly complicated feelings. But either way, Yuuki ended up becoming his second friend in that new city. Tatsumi is meddlesome, but Yuuki is more like a gentle nudge. Always ask what he wanted, and helps in roundabout way. For example, it was Yuuki who told Ryouta to have his father sell cookies in his mother's DIY shop. The change steadily improved his life.

When Yuuki formed PZ, Ryouta pulled two people: His neighbor Koharu and his best friend Tatsumi. When question of leadership was raised, Koharu suggested Ryouta, who refused because he believes a leader shouldn't be an impulsive wild gun like him. The other candidate, Koutarou, pointed out his own distaste for indirect communication and tendency to speak in barbed way, and therefore unsuited for the role. In the end, the candidacy was split between Yuuki and Tatsumi. Yuuki has three votes and Tatsumi has two back then. Everyone believed that Ryouta would pick Tatsumi, who was his best friend... but to their surprise, Ryouta picked Yuuki, saying "Tatsumi is like the sun. He's bright but too intense sometimes. Yuuki on the other hand feels like a star."

After the incident that broke the group, Ryouta dropped all limiter that he vowed as a martial artist and sent the responsible people (bar the leader) to hospital. Due to this explosive action, he ended up having to move school. Admittedly, it was Tatsumi who stopped him and the two fought, which this time was won by Ryouta.

Now fourteen years old and is in second grade in middle school, Ryouta still had this attitude of a bully hunter, fighting only bullies, and oftentimes ended up injured himself. He sort of gained a reputation as a school banchou or sort, only a lone one.

When he was asked about his wish when heading to digital world, he answered "Were the path I took so far right? Or is it wrong? I'd like to know the answer."

Ryouta's digisoul leakpoint is his right upper arm, coating it with crackling elecricity effect. His combat style revolves around super aggressive close range combat with focus of dealing as much damage as possible with several gap closers and projectiles. If there's a buff, it's a self buff or buff for Valt. His shinki weapon of choice is a pair of gauntlets.

Digimon side: Valt (Vergesmon)

An amnesiac dragon with terrible power. Valt views himself as midway between cultured (as in, more open to cooperation and creating civilization) and feral (he still believes there should be a clear respect given to Digimons with power). He speaks as if he was someone with high amount of wisdom, but personally, he think it might be related to his past life that he couldn't recall. All that he knew was that he had a great regret.

As a dragon type Digimon, he is proud, and admitted that he have high standard of his own species. While he doesn't believe that other Digimon species isn't worthy of leading or'is below dragons'. He simply believes that dragons must have higher standard than the rest. They should be the noblest in action and behavior.

To the lost Ryouta he views the boy as a charge or sort, or perhaps, like a lost dragon whelp. He sensed the boy have a strength of character, but is in conflict with himself. Feeling similarly, he decided to partner up with him.

Human Side: Itou Yuuki 13 years old (Born September 9th 2036) 149 cm / 39 kg / B Crest: Faith

Leader of his group, Parallel Zero, often abbreviated as PZ. About four years ago, back when the world is still in state of recovering from the catastrophic technological disaster, young Yuuki often wonders what is within abandoned building complexes that seems to be abandoned. Sometimes, he often daydreamed about finding rare finds there, perhaps like lost artifacts or something. He voiced this to his older sister (by seven years) who ended up feeding his curiosity. But she insists that he does not explore alone... which led him to pull his friends in.

Yuuki never thought of being a leader, just a founder. In fact, he simply just want to share the fun of adventure with his friends. That's all he thought about. That tomorrow is another fun day. PZ started with just three members: Him, Koutarou and Ryouta. The trio's first venture was to an abandoned building which turned out to be an abandoned deattached classroom building from the 80ies. They found various dusty books which, while not exactly rare, helped to study curriculum of those times.

Their trio soon expanded into four, then six, then seven and finally eight. With each day, they explore abandoned buildings that have been overtaken by natures. Yuuki described those days as "kinda stupidly irresponsible, considering who knows what elements are there", but also "very fun". But eventually, one adventure caused the group to fracture and eventually broke.

It was an incident at an abandoned shopping mall complex that led them to get trapped there for a night, with Yuuki himself being battered and wounded, and ended up passing out in what he describes as "the most crucial moment". Everyone was tired, everyone was panicking, and unfortunately, he was badly wounded and couldn't keep his eyes open and properly instruct his friends. They only managed to get out because his sister found his notes about his adventure that day and asked a search team to help locating him and the rest.

When he came to, about three days has passed. In those three days, most of his friends has moved away. Ryouta had to transfer because he beats up the kids involved in the trapping of their group. All of them ended up being sent to the hospital, all but the ringleader, who mercifully was spared from too much damage after the boy was stopped from his rampage. The damage was already done... and the group is forever gone, or at least... if he himself stopped. Yuuki ended up spending the past three years keeping up with his friends. Visiting them as often as he could; making sure that they know he still cares about them a lot.

Despite obviously being a caring friend, with penchant of getting snarky and a bit fed up with the more quirky people, inside, Yuuki had trauma of not being a good leader, and ended up hating standing in limelight, or decide for the team. He doesn't want to fail the team once more, is what he thinks. Therefore, he often tries to not impose his will upon the other.

When asked for his desire when coming to digital world he asked "Can I return to those days again?"

In combat, Yuuki uses a single longsword shinki, combining western swordsmanship with his already well honed judo techniques. His digisoul leakpoint is his ponytail, where it leaks golden lightspheres. Yuuki's techniques focuses on tricky moves such as exploding lightballs and stance breakers, with addition of healing and support.

Digimon Side: Hikaru (Viatormon)

Once a king of Wisengle Tower, a city state with a massive tower on its center, which host multiple, even hundreds level of knowledge. He have forgotten his origin before he was a king because admittedly "it has been way too long". It's rumored however that he had ties with chosen of olden times back then. Wisengle Tower has opened its gates to anyone, even allowing copying informations... and in its final days, become bastion of resistance for the cataclysm. Countless researchers and programmers bands together in this city to create the Ark Program that would allow interdimensional travel. Unfortunately, time was against them and the program remained incomplete.

Hikaru, who back then was an Alphamon, was forced by his people to escape. They, in act of desperation and belief that the king would eventually reestablish their country, stabbed the program into the king's Digicore; forcing a change that reformated him to Viatormon, which unfortunately made him completely lose his evolution forms in turn.

As a Viatormon, Hikaru believed, like Yuuki, that he has failed his people. He thought he was ineffective as a leader as he was unable to save his people. While it has been countless of years since, even as the world turned into a hellscape, the wound still felt fresh to the former king, who now unfortunately adopts a more somber and slightly depressive personality. Feeling sense of camaraderie with the young teen, however, he decided to partner with the boy with hope that eventually, both of them could be guiding stars, even if it's only for each other.

The second treat of today's Digimon Advent Special: