Digivice
To that, Maria laughed out loud. “Please. You sound like we haven’t seen each other in weeks. You’re practically attached to my hip.” She put on more bags. While sliding one down, Ren noticed the device on her wrist. She caught them staring at it. “What?”
“That there on your wrist, what does it do?”
“What? The Digivice?” She held it up for them to see. The rounded hunk of technology featured a small screen and a slot for card reading. “Did you hit your head or something? I’ve had it ever since we bonded.”
Ren felt the weight of their lack of Digi-knowledge most sincerely. “I know, I just… I was thinking about how we were… bonded.” That felt incredibly weird saying to someone who was their sister in other realms. “I was just wondering… what it was like from your perspective. What do you remember?”
“Oh, well, you know. I was always a huge fan of Digimon, ever since I was a little girl. Played the games nonstop, collected all the cards, played the games, you know.”
This was from someone who, in the normal world, stayed away from all things anime. “Yes, I do.”
Maria resumed loading more bags onto Ren. “I woke up one morning and found your blue card. I had no idea what it was, but I slid it on my toy Digivice, which turned it into a real one! It was crazy. I was a little kid, you know, with a crazy imagination and stuff, and I didn't even believe what was happening. Thought I was losing my mind. The thing showed me your egg, where you were hiding in that big building where all the other Digimon started spawning. You remember that place?”
No. “Of course.” This was quite the yarn Maria was spinning. Ren pictured her when she was a girl doing all of this, and themself coming in as a part of it.
“Right, and like, I didn’t know what to do with myself! It was crazy. My own Digimon. A real Digimon.” She’d gone into full story mode, recounting the tale as the life altering event that it was. “And you were so cool. I swear, I couldn’t have come up with a cooler friend if I tried.”
Ren gave a flattered smile. “I wasn’t that cool.”
Written by TheGreatJaceyGee on 15 December 2025
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