List of characters in Digimon Liberator

This page is a list of characters from the Digimon Liberator web comic and the Digimon Liberator web novel.

GMs

Chitose Horaiji and Gazimon

Chitose Horaiji (蓬来寺チトセ, Horaiji Chitose^?) is one of Digimon Liberator's GMs. He is 26 years old, was born on August 29, is 171 cm tall, and weighs 63 kg. His partner is a Gazimon, that was originally a Kimeramon. He plays a Composite Control deck.

Chitose was the first person to deal with a rampaging Ultimate level Digimon, Kimeramon. After defeating it, it de-digivolved to the Rookie level Gazimon and became his partner Digimon.

When loads of Maquinamon flood LACUNA, the other GMs decide to ask Chitose's advice since he had so much experience with Composite type Digimon (the GMs under the impression that Maquinamon was one). Cool Boy tells Chitose to come to the virtual recreation of Shinjuku, so that he could tell Altea everything he knew about Composite type Digimon. After Chitose arrives, Cool Boy leaves. DEBUG.5-1 Altea Chitose and Altea duel so that Altea can learn more about Composite type Digimon, with Altea winning. Chitose apologizes for insulting Altea just because he's an AI, which Altea quickly forgives. Altea says what he learned from the duel, and that he thinks Maquinamon probably isn't a Composite type Digimon. Chitose asks why, with Altea saying that it learned from the duel that a Composite type Digimon needs to be at a certain level to be be able to properly control itself — and whilst Kimeramon and Machinedramon were Ultimate and Mega Digimon respectively, Deltamon was only a Champion and was not in full control of itself. Seeing this, he figured it would be impossible for the Rookie level Maquinamon to control itself if it were a Composite. Chitose wonders instead if it came about as a result of a mutation, though Altea doubts this hypothesis since there are so many of them and that it is, instead, a Digimon who intrinsically embodies the opposing notions of nature and civilization. Altea says that if they intend to protect the Maquinamon, they needed to research it more — with Chitose agreeing. DEBUG.5-2 SHINJUKU GIANT

Partner

• Gazimon

Antagonists

Dokuson Aruba

Dokuson Aruba (或馬 読尊, Aruba Dokuson^?), originally translated as Aruba Dokuson, is a 28 year old bank employee; who is 174 cm tall, weighs 65 kg, and was born on February 17. He is the leader of 30 strong hacking group who all play Digimon Liberator. He plays a Lucemon control deck focused on Lucemon and its digivolved forms.

He has been interested in Digimon since his student days, way before the game's release, and was even a regular player at card shop events.

He previously worked at a megabank until a colleague's blunder caused him to be transferred to a provincial partner branch. Although usually serious and sincere, he has been acting maliciously in Digimon Liberator as a means of relieving work stress.

He is perceptive and articulate, and it was these abilities that allowed him to gather together the hacking group.

The hackers would hack the tournament winners, preventing them from logging out or even communicating with other players, and would agree to restore their accounts in exchange for their tournament prizes. They would then sell the prizes to make large amounts of money. The group had affected so many tournaments, the fear of being hacked had caused entry numbers to drop drastically. The GMs were too busy to deal with it themselves and so got the debugging teams to deal with it in their stead.

Ryutaro Williams, one of the debuggers, agreed with the hackers to buy a recent stolen prize and had a meeting with them at Lapis Marine to get the stolen item. Though little did Ryutaro know, Aruba and the others knew who he was and so planned to ambush them at the "exchange".

Ryutaro sent fellow debug team member Winr to make first contact with Winr's plan being to lower their guards as he was a kid instead of the giant Ryutaro. Instead of one hacker, 10 of them show up. This leads Winr to sends a message to Ryutaro as he was scared they were going to take advantage of him since a kid would be unable to stop them. This angers Ryutaro, since he had allowed Winr to go alone, and he leaves alongside Tyrannomon to try and save his young friend from harm. He gets there in time, with Yuuki also having joined in the rescue attempt. The three of them were now surrounded by the large number of hackers. The hackers reveal how they were aware of the fact they were debuggers undercover, and weren't intimidated by their jobs as they just considered them the same as regular players. They laugh at the fact there's no evidence, with Winr telling them that this is still an official trade and if they went against their word and didn't give them the stolen item they could report them and get them banned. Aruba points out they had yet to receive the payment and that they have the blackmail of the fact that debuggers were pretending to be regular players. Ryutaro then proceeds to challenge Aruba to a duel. DEBUG.3-1 Ryutaro

Aruba agrees, and states they'll stop their scams if Ryutaro is able to win. Meanwhile if he wins, he will post online about how the debug team had been going undercover as regular players with the shame supposedly being enough that it'd cause them to never be able to play again. Though at first worried that Aruba would lose, his minions quickly change to mocking the debuggers confident that their leader would never lose. Aruba gives Ryutaro the chance to back out, but Ryutaro refuses and accepts the duel request.

Ryutaro wins the duel, and informs the hackers that they're going to freeze their accounts as punishment and that the various members would either receive warnings or tournament bans. The debugging team arrest all the hackers, though Ryutaro gives Aruba his spare account telling him to play the game using it as he wants a rematch. DEBUG.3-2 WE CAN BE HEROES

Wormmon, BlackImperialdramon, and Sam the Clown

• Wormmon
• Dragon Mode
• Fighter Mode

Yuuki and Impmon see a wild Wormmon whilst in the Obsidian Desert, and leave to tell the others. This causes a widespread search of the Desert with multiple debug team members sent out to find it. DEBUG.6-1 OASIS Unchained sends a Maquinamon to get it. When Unchained summons their group of Maquinamon, the one that had captured Wormmon was also summoned and brought the unconscious Wormmon with it. Unchained asks Wormmon if it was tough to live in LACUNA, though since it wasn't awake it also couldn't answer. Unchained laughs at how ironic it is that Digimon can't survive in LACUNA, since they were born there, and becomes determined to change the World so that Digimon could live in peace. They take one of the Maquinamon and turn it back into data — putting it inside Wormmon. This awoke Wormmon, with Unchained's next plan being to put Wormmon inside of an NPC. They open up a portal and send Wormmon out to LACUNA, who would go find an NPC to possess so that it could force the NPC to duel a player. DEBUG.6-2 Unchained Unchained hadn't told anyone about this, causing the debug team to pointlessly search for Wormmon. Since no one could find it, they assume it died. DEBUG.6-1 OASIS

Wormmon eventually comes across and possess Sam the Clown (道化のサム, Dōke no Samu^?), overwriting his deck with a new deck focused on BlackImperidramon. It also gives Sam the ability to cheat and overwrite its cards with different cards. Sam/Wormmon take control of a fifty strong BlackImperialdramon army (49 BlackImperialdramon Dragon Mode and 1 BlackImperialdramon Fighter Mode, 49 of them being clones, with Unchained stating that defeating original would take the remaining clones out with it), and send them out to destroy LACUNA — with Sam/Wormmon hiding under the ground from which it commanded the army. Unchained tells the debug team they had figured out Sam was behind the attack (though in reality, it was Unchained) and that leads the debug team to search for Sam to put a stop to his actions. Many members of the debug team are able to defeat Imperialdramon in duels, thinning out their numbers (Sam/Wormmon seemingly in control of each of these duels) with it eventually dropping all the way to just the Fighter Mode. Violet "Vi" Inboots duels it, with Sam/Wormmon coming out of the ground to duel in person half way into the duel — revealing to the debug team the fact Sam had been the one duelling all along. Just as Violet was about to win — Sam cheats and changes the cards in his hand, the new cards allowing him to win. Shoto Kazama arrives and uses his debug powers to force Sam to duel him — and despite Sam cheating constantly, Shoto is able to win as he manages to use the power himself and changes his own cards. Shoto's win destroys Wormmon, Sam, and the final Imperialdramon — saving LACUNA. RAID ON THE WORLD (Part 1) RAID ON THE WORLD (Part 2) OVERWRITE BLACK (Part 1) OVERWRITE BLACK (Part 2) SHOW ME YOUR BRAVE HEART (Part 1) SHOW ME YOUR BRAVE HEART (Part 2)

When Arisa and Violet find the seemingly brainwashed Close, they see the figure of BlackImperialdramon Fighter Mode overlap with Close. STAND BY ME (Part 1)

Other characters

Bulucomon

Bulucomon is one of the few real Digimon that roam LACUNA. When it teams up with someone, it gives them access to itself and other Bulucomon related cards.

Most wild Digimon can only survive a few days at most inside LACUNA, as LACUNA's environment isn't conducive for Digimon to survive. One way for them to survive is to possess an NPC, though this comes with side effect of making the NPC lose control and go rogue. REAL (Part 2) Bulucomon is able to possess Frozen Knight, and though this allows it to survive — Frozen Knight starts its rampage, with Bulucomon joining in.

During the rampage, they travel from its location all the way to the Emerald Coast and at some point this had them chasing Shoemon and possibly Close. One of them blow up a wall, with the duo emerging through the opening. They see Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki and trap Shoto in a barrier to force him into a duel. Shoto is startled by the involuntary duel and wonders if it's a bug, but Shoemon pleads for the their help and explains that Frozen Knight had been chasing it, perplexing the humans further. Unfortunately for Shoto, the situation gets worse as he draws his opening hand to notice his cards are now blank. A guide NPC identifies this as a "Situation Battle", a special event match with abnormal rules in order to test the skill of Digimon Liberator players—however, Shoemon points out that this itself is abnormal, as Situation Battle NPCs aren't meant to be in this region of the game.

Bulucomon immediately attacks Shoto's Security Cards using its Rush ability, then ends its turn by digivolving to EX7-020: Paledramon. Feeling completely powerless with his blank cards, Shoto prepares to surrender, but is interrupted when Pteromon jumps in to defend Shoto and rebuke the rule-breaking Frozen Knight. Shocked, Shoto looks back at his hand and finds that two of the blank cards have now become actual cards. DigitalGate Open Pteromon enters Shoto's D-STORAGE so it could take part in the duel Out of Control (Part 1) and though the duel becomes even harder when Frozen Knight gives itself free Digimon, Shoto is eventually able to win. This causes Frozen Knight to be destroyed, though Bulucomon escapes. Out of Control (Part 2)

The admins and another mysterious person find out about Bulucomon, with that person sending Reina Oumi a quest offer with a hefty reward of Alt-Art chips to capture Bulucomon — with Reina assuming it came from the admins. DEBUG.4-2 GODDESS FROM THE ICE AGE The admins meanwhile, send Suzune Kazuki after it — with her goal being to turn it into a trading card so that she could take it to the Garden. DEBUG.4-1 Suzune Kazuki

Having learned that possessing an NPC would cause it to go rogue, Bulucomon instead decides to hack/posses inanimate objects as it would still survive even though it would just be sat there doing nothing whilst inside the object (though this only give Digimon a few months of extra life span). It travels from object to object, and eventually passes out in the dense vegetation of the Emerald Coast after failing to possess its most recent item target. Suzune follows eye witness reports from those who had duelled Frozen Knight/seen Bulucomon, and eventually finds the passed out Bulucomon. Suzune captures it and turns it into a card, at which point Reina arrives on the scene. She confronts Suzune for capturing Bulucomon before she could. Since the quest for Bulucomon wasn't public, she figures Suzune was here by coincidence and offers her a deal though Suzune is more interested in learning who gave Reina the Bulucomon capture quest. Reina shows her blank card and quest information, showing that she would receive a large amount of Alt-Art chips if she succeeded in the mission. Still wanting to complete it, she offers half the reward to Suzune if she gives up Bulucomon — though rather than accept this deal — Suzune challenges Reina to a duel. If Reina wins, she gets the Bulucomon card. If Suzune wins, Reina has to drink tea with her. DEBUG.4-1 Suzune Kazuki The stipulation confuses Reina, though Suzune just says she wants to spend time with Reina. Reina accepts, and jokes about how Suzune wont get to spend that time with her as she will win.

During said conversation, Bulucomon talks to Frigimon, Suzune's partner who was inside her D-STORAGE, and says it wants to help Suzune in the duel. Knowing Suzune would accept, Frigimon modifies her deck to include Bulucomon and its related cards. Suzune wins the duel, thanks to the combined effects of her existing cards and the new cards she gained from Bulucomon. DEBUG.4-2 GODDESS FROM THE ICE AGE

Suzune greeted Shoto Kazama after he was inducted into the debug team, though she didn't get to do it long as she felt she had to leave when Bulucomon started being hostile to Pteromon. DEBUG.6-1 OASIS

Reina Oumi and DemiDevimon

Reina Oumi (近江 黎七, Ōmi Reina^?) is a 14 year old second year middle school girl. She is 149 cm tall, weighs 45 kg, and was born on March 10. She plays Digimon Liberator with a Nightmare Soldiers Beatdown deck and a DemiDevimon partner.

She has a bright and energetic personality. She has been out of sorts recently because a close friend transferred to another school. However, the two of them have stayed in touch through Digimon Liberator, and while in the virtual world, she has been acting her usual self and having a great time. Although only vaguely aware of Digimon before, she now plays regularly even when her friends are offline, largely in part to the friendship she has struck up with DemiDevimon.

One day, she received a quest offer with a hefty reward of Alt-Art chips to capture a wild Bulucomon, and assumed it came from the admins. DEBUG.4-2 GODDESS FROM THE ICE AGE

While tracking the Digimon she runs into Suzune Kazuki, who was apprehending it to take it to the Garden. She quickly assumes Suzune is a competitor for the quest reward and pouts, then tries to negotiate a share of the reward, which she explains to an inquisitive Suzune, and accepts her counteroffer of a duel. If Reina wins, she gets Bulucomon, but if Suzune wins, Reina has to drink tea with her. DEBUG.4-1 Suzune Kazuki. Reina is somewhat confused by the stipulation, but is confident about the match, in which she seems about to win with her powerful EX8-064: Boltboutamon. However, Suzune seizes victory with her own EX8-028: Skadimon and the detained EX7-023: Hexeblaumon. Defeated, Reina answers Suzune's questions about the quest, and in gratitude she's gifted a copy of EX8-066: Suzune Kazuki. Realizing to her shock that Suzune was part of the game's staff, she is confused about the source of the quest, but Suzune asks her to keep the events quiet for now, and departs. DEBUG.4-2 GODDESS FROM THE ICE AGE

Partner

• DemiDevimon

Huckmon

• Huckmon
• BaoHuckmon
• SaviorHuckmon
• Jesmon
• Jesmon GX

Huckmon originally lived Cross Connectia DEBUG.9 Departure which was world created by Cool Boy. DEBUG.8-1 COOL WHITE SAVIOR After ending up in LACUNA, it plays a deck focused around Jesmon GX and the Sistermon. During its duel with Yuuki, it digivolves to BaoHuckmon, SaviorHuckmon, Jesmon, and Jesmon GX. As it was shown as Huckmon in the Breeding Area, that means it had digivolved from an unspecified In-Training Digimon. For the actions taken by each form in the duel, see the battle notes page.

During its time in Cross Connectia, it met a beast Digimon named Dalphomon. Huckmon took it upon itself to protect it as it realized Dalphomon was the one responsible for maintaining Cross Connectia's world and as such as basically a God. DEBUG.9 Departure

When Cool Boy met Huckmon, he told it that he created Cross Connectia as it was able to save the lives of the Digimon who would stray from the Digital World. As they spent time together, Huckmon and the other local Digimon grew to trust Cool Boy — though he began visiting less and less. One day, Dalphomon was attacked by an unknown mechanical Digimon, and though Jesmon was able to defeat it and protect Dalphomon — its usage of Aus Generics caused them to end up in LACUNA. As it travelled LACUNA, it learned Cool Boy had been creating this even bigger game World for the same purpose. It wondered if Cool Boy intended to move the ones in Cross Connectia to this one some day, or if he had been creating it so that the Digimon within this one would attack and destroy Cross Connectia as it was no longer needed. This fear caused it and its friends to hide inside the glitched map, with Huckmon swearing to protect them.

One day, Yuuki and Impmon wind up finding their way into Huckmon's glitched map. Wanting to protect its friends from humans, it attacks her — though its attack narrowly misses her. It tells her not to get any closer, and that if she does — it will have to deal with her. Huckmon tells them that this was a sanctuary, with the Digimon living there able to live without human intervention. Not wanting any humans to know about the location, it prepares to attack Yuuki — saying it knows she works for the debug team and so has to kill her as she works for Cool Boy. It summons an NPC, and despite Yuuki saying she has no clue about Cool Boy's — it says it will never forgive humans and wants to kill them all. It tries to convince Impmon to join its side, figuring it was being tricked by Yuuki, but an angry Impmon stands by its partners side. Yuuki tries to calm them both down, but Huckmon refuses to listen and says the only way it will do so if she proves herself in battle. To their surprise, Huckmon gives Yuuki a new card and tells her that if she is able to use that card successfully — it will consider her to have proven her strength and will listen to her. They then agree to the duel. DEBUG.8-1 COOL WHITE SAVIOR

As they duel, Yuuki says how she wants to become friends with it and the Digimon it was protecting, with Huckmon admiring her warrior attitude. As it looks like Huckmon was going to win, Jesmon GX tells them to surrender and if they do it may consider sparing their lives. It continues to say that humans aren't needed, its insults angering HeavyMetaldramon even further. It brings up that despite humans being from a different World to the Digimon, alongside the fact they can log out whenever they want, they had no reason to help the Digimon — yet they do. It says that though it may be arrogant for humans to want to be friends with Digimon, that's fine, they have managed to build a bond together, and Yuuki can prove to Huckmon that human and Digimon bonds are real. This speech spurs Yuuki back into the duel, which she eventually wins thanks to the very card Huckmon gave her.

Having proven herself, she and Huckmon talk. She learns about its and Cool Boy's past. It asks her if Cool Boy would do something like that, with Yuuki insisting that he would never do such a thing. This pleases Huckmon, who apologizes for what it had done. It says they can do whatever they want to it for having attacked them, but asks them to leave its friends out of it as it does not want them to come to harm. Yuuki though, says she will not report what had happened to anyone, and that she just wants it to come visit her and Cool Boy when it feels like it's able to trust humans. Huckmon is surprised to be let off the hook, and agrees to Yuuki's request for her to come visit it from time to time. Amazed at what Yuuki had managed to achieve, Impmon says she really may be able to become friends with every single Digimon. Yuuki's D-STORAGE sends her an emergency notification, and they learn that an army of BlackImperialdramon were attacking LACUNA. As Huckmon assures them it can protect its friends from harm, Yuuki and Impmon leave to help quell the Imperialdramon. DEBUG.8-2 THROUGH THE FIRE AND METAL

A few weeks after the Imperialdramon rampage, Yuuki and Impmon visit Huckmon again. An arriving Yuuki hugs an "annoyed" Huckmon, as a seemingly jealous Impmon watches. Though it pretended it was annoyed, it actually enjoyed being hugged. Yuuki asks if it was really okay for the debug team to use Sanctuary as a base of operations, with Huckmon once again saying it was fine as the local Digimon had wanted a way to thank Yuuki for all her help. In addition, it figured that a knight would be dishonoring itself by not helping those in need.

Impmon and Yuuki ask about the world Huckmon came from, with Huckmon saying it came from Cross Connectia. Yuuki tells Huckmon that she had been told Cool Boy had been trapped inside that world and, having learned there was a game in development before Digimon Liberator, had thought of Huckmon's world — and had correctly deduced they were one in the same. Yuuki says she learned the Liberator staff had planned to remove the poison from LACUNA and then move all the Digimon from Cross Connectia to it so that they would have a new place to live. This relieves Huckmon, whilst Yuuki figures they hadn't told anyone in Cross Connectia as it would get their hopes up since it could've ended up being an impossible plan. Having learned all this, Huckmon agrees to finally put its suspicions over Cool Boy to rest. It then asks who the unknown machine Digimon that attacked them was, wondering why it had attacked them if it hadn't been sent by Cool Boy. They wonder if it had been sent by Unchained, though can't come up with a reason as to why Unchained would send a Digimon to attack Cross Connectia. Impmon brings up how it mentioned Huckmon had protecting a beast Digimon, and hypothesize that it may have shown up with the goal of attacking the beast Digimon. Huckmon says that would make sense, since the beast Digimon was pretty much the God of Cross Connectia — this surprising Yuuki and Impmon. Huckmon then tells them about Dalphomon.

Since Unchained had taken over LACUNA, Huckmon was now worried that Unchained may decide to attack Dalphomon again. Yuuki yells out about how they need to help defend Dalphomon, though Impmon points out they don't have time to do that as they need to prioritize saving Cool Boy and Zenith's data (which had also been trapped in the game). Despite that, Yuuki says she still wants to help — Impmon knowing she would say that and Huckmon happy at seeing just how much she wanted to help Dalphomon. Huckmon warns the duo that it hadn't protected Dalphomon alone, and that its allies may hate humans even more than it originally had. It tells them that time passes differently in Cross Connectia and that even though her friends had travelled there only 30 minutes ago, that was equal to 12 hours there. Yao Qinglan arrives, and having overheard the end of the conversation, says she had actually shown up as she had planned to tell Yuuki about the time difference as she had told everyone else but had forgotten to tell Yuuki. Yuuki worries about her friends, though Yao says they're super tough so she shouldn't worry too much so they'll probably be fine. Yuuki tells Yao about her history with Huckmon and the Sanctuary, then says although something feels ominous about these events they'll probably be fine. Impmon reminds her that failure means the end of LACUNA, which Yuuki assures it she knows. They argue over the fact she doesn't seem serious enough, with Impmon secretly agreeing with her that going to a new World and meeting new Digimon would be fun. Yuuki and Impmon leave, and log into Cross Connectia — now striving to save Dalphomon as well. DEBUG.9 Departure

NPCs

Alongside the real players, Digimon Liberator has a large amount of NPCs which all have varying roles, for example some "work" as police, and some work as nurses. Most of them resemble Mr. Navit. Each area of LACUNA has its NPCs focus on a specific deck color, for example those in Emerald Coast use Green decks. Most of them lack names, with only the important ones being given names such as Makina and Frozen Knight.

The Tutorial NPC explains the rules of the game, and the rules of the Digimon Card Game. Although it is the tutorial NPC, it will send players to the GMs if it doesn't know the answer or thinks the question is too complex to answer itself. Some players like to troll it by asking it silly and pointless questions. Players that have annoyed it too much have been banned. It can explains each of LACUNA's areas. Its AI is specialized in game information, and it responds to questions in a friendly manner. It has a meticulous nature, though it is very biased and will give out large amounts of information about the Seven Great Demon Lords — especially Beelzemon and Lilithmon. Though no one knows why it is so obsessed with them, players theorize it is because players keep asking it about them.

Battle NPCs can be duelled, with wins against them providing rewards and experience points. Some of them are known as Conditional Battle NPCs, which come with their own unique duel rules. Defeating them does not reward items, though does give a large amount of experience points.

Most shops are ran by Shopping NPCs. Some are instead considered Merchant NPCs, and can sometimes be found wandering around LACUNA. These ones sell rare and exclusive items.

Quiz NPCs are found only in the Emerald Coast.

Transport NPCs have vehicles such as cars, motorcycles, and planes, and can be paid to take players to other parts of the same area.

Makina

Makina (マキナ, Makina^?) is an NPC that is part of Digimon Liberator single player storyline.

Makina was given a mission — to give the last person it speaks to some Digimon trading cards. It finds itself in the Emerald Coast, where it comes across a human, the player. Finally able to achieve its goal, it gives the player the trading cards and then shuts down.

Chained

Chained (チェイン, Chein^?) is an NPC that is part of Digimon Liberator single player storyline.

Chained is one of the androids that live in LACUNA. Chain approaches the player seconds after they get Digimon cards from Makina. It had been watching the entire events. It claims it is the final researcher left in Jewel, and believes that societies progress hinges on finding out what happened in the past and why Digimon no longer existed. It knows how to play the Digimon Card Game, and teaches the player how to play. After learning how to play, Chained asks the player to travel LACUNA and and collect six relics. It claims that if the player gets these relics, it will be able to use them to get access to E.G.G and that they will then be able to get access to its data to find out what happened in the past. The player agrees to look for the relics, as their goal is the same as Chained's.

After Unchained forcibly takes over Liberator, they lie and say they are the "real" form of Chained and do a fake quest that was supposedly part of the game's main storyline. PRELUDE OF DESTRUCTION (Part 1)

Frozen Knight

Frozen Knight (氷結騎士, Freezing Knight^?) is a powerful Situation Battle NPC. It uses an Ice-Snow deck, though it is unknown if it used this deck before it was taken over by Bulucomon.

At some point it was possessed by the wild Digimon Bulucomon, who did so as that was one of the only ways wild Digimon were able to survive in LACUNA. This came with the side effect of making Frozen Knight lose control and go rogue. REAL (Part 2) Bulucomon joined it on this rampage.

During the rampage, they travel from its location all the way to the Emerald Coast and at some point this had them chasing Shoemon and possibly Close. One of them blow up a wall, with the duo emerging through the opening. They see Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki and trap Shoto in a barrier to force him into a duel. Shoto is startled by the involuntary duel and wonders if it's a bug, but Shoemon pleads for the their help and explains that Frozen Knight had been chasing it, perplexing the humans further. Unfortunately for Shoto, the situation gets worse as he draws his opening hand to notice his cards are now blank. A guide NPC identifies this as a "Situation Battle", a special event match with abnormal rules in order to test the skill of Digimon Liberator players—however, Shoemon points out that this itself is abnormal, as Situation Battle NPCs aren't meant to be in this region of the game.

Bulucomon immediately attacks Shoto's Security Cards using its Rush ability, then ends its turn by digivolving to EX7-020: Paledramon. Feeling completely powerless with his blank cards, Shoto prepares to surrender, but is interrupted when Pteromon jumps in to defend Shoto and rebuke the rule-breaking Frozen Knight. Shocked, Shoto looks back at his hand and finds that two of the blank cards have now become actual cards. DigitalGate Open Pteromon enters Shoto's D-STORAGE so it could take part in the duel Out of Control (Part 1) and though the duel becomes even harder when Frozen Knight gives itself free Digimon, Shoto is eventually able to win. This causes Frozen Knight to be destroyed, though Bulucomon escapes. Out of Control (Part 2)