Ryutaro Williams

Ryutaro Williams (リュウタロー・ウィリアムズ)
General information
Appears in:	Digimon Liberator (web novel)
Partner(s):	Tyrannomon
Digivice(s):	D-STORAGE
Profile
Age	27
Date of birth	October 11
Gender	Male
Height	190cm
Weight	92kg

Ryutaro Williams (リュウタロー・ウィリアムズ, Ryutaro Williams^?) is one of the main characters of the Digimon Liberator web novel. His partner is Tyrannomon, and he plays a Dinosaur Stompy deck.

Description

Ryutaro is professional gym trainer who harbors the dream of becoming a real-life hero, which has led him to become deeply involved in bodybuilding. He finds joy in helping beginners and tirelessly travels across LACUNA to assist various players. His sense of justice only intensifies after meeting the hot-blooded Tyrannomon. With a geeky nature and extensive knowledge to boot, Ryutaro is also surprisingly the brains of the debug team.

Etymologies

Ryutaro Williams (リュウタロー・ウィリアムズ)

Official name and romanization used on the Digimon Liberator website.

• Ja: Ryutaro, a Japanese forename.
• En: Williams, an English surname.

Fiction

Ryutaro is part of the De-bug team for Digimon Liberator, helping to deal with any internal issues that arise within the game.

Ryutaro and Tyrannomon used to hang out in File Island picking mushrooms. DEBUG.10 Attack

One day, Ryutaro, Yuuki, and Winr, under the orders of Altea, were given a mission to deal with some cheaters — taking the place of the GMs as they were too busy to deal with it themselves. The cheaters 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 of 30 hackers had affected so many tournaments, the fear of being hacked had caused entry numbers to drop drastically. Learning this information riled up the Digimon, and their discussions bring to light that there isn't even evidence of the hacking as it left no trace and in addition to that — the higher ups have no clue how they even managed to do it in the first place, as other cheating attempts would be stopped buy the game itself due to the hackers modifying their systems. Though the task seems impossible, Ryutaro reveals he has a plan and brings up how the winner of the previous weeks tournament had fallen victim to this scam. He goes through what the hackers do again, then says he had actually agreed with the hackers to buy said stolen prize and had a meeting with them at Lapis Marine to get the stolen item.

They send out Winr to make first contact with Winr's plan being to lower their guards as he was a kid instead of the giant Ryutaro. Espimon had sent a message via Tyrannomon with it telling them not to allow the hackers to run towards Lapis Stadium Tower as the debugging team were testing a player who had taken out an NPC there to see if he was a good fit as a new member of the team. Winr sends a message to Ryutaro just as he was about to check the map for escape routes with it saying that more than 10 hackers had shown up and 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 were aware of the fact they were dubuggers undercover, and were not 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. Dokuson Aruba, leader of the hackers, 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 group 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. He leaves on Tyrannomon, and takes the dinosaur to coast to swim. Before they can swim though, Winr contacts him and tells him the group had been summoned by the GMs as they were unhappy with how they had dealt with the investigation. DEBUG.3-2 WE CAN BE HEROES

Ryutaro attends the debug team meeting that had been set up to induct Shoto Kazama and Arisa Kinosaki as the newest members of the debug team. SELECT FEW (Part 1)

Yuuki and Impmon see a wild Wormmon (and didn't know what species it was) 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. Suzune goes with Ryutaro. They're unable to find it, though do see other debug members duelling NPCs so figure something must've been going on in the desert. The duo eventually come across Yuuki and Winr, with Ryutaro praising the duo for their work. Stopping for a break and a chat, they learn Yuuki and Winr hadn't found the Digimon either. Not wanting to doubt Yuuki and Impmon, Suzune says that with no one having been able to find the wild Digimon — it must've already died. Yuuki becomes visibly sad, though quickly puts on a fake smile to try and hide the pain. With the mission "complete", Ryutaro, Suzune, and their partners leave. DEBUG.6-1 OASIS

After Shoto Kazama, Close, and Owen Dreadnought (the debuggers who were duelling the NPCs) return from defeating the NPCs, Shoto and Close tell some of the other debug team members about what happened — one of which was a shocked Ryutaro.

One day, a large amount of black holes open up in Jewel. Unchained tells Cool Boy that they predicted said issue could cause LACUNA to be destroyed. The admins log out all regular players — though allow staff and debug team members to remain logged in. Ryutaro was logged in at the time, with the admins sending a notification for logged in debug members to go to the Garden. Once there, they were all told to go look for NPC Sam the Clown as it was controlling the Digimon inside the black holes. RAID ON THE WORLD (Part 2)

With no one able to find him despite searching the entire City, Arisa Kinosaki eventually figures that they couldn't find the NPC as the wild Digimon possessing him must've digivolved to BlackImperialdramon and as such was no longer an NPC. Arisa texts everyone her theory, with this putting a stop to the search, the entire group now focused on taking down the fifty BlackImperialdramon. RAID ON THE WORLD (Part 2)

A few weeks after the BlackImperialdramon rampage is dealt with, Yao Qinglan requests Suzune, Ryutaro, Winr, Yuuki, and Altea meet her in Avalon. She tells them that Cool Boy had been trapped inside Cross Connectia and that she was giving them a special mission to save him. She also tells them that they had since learned that Zenith's data that had gotten corrupted during the BlackImperialdramon incident had also ended up in Cross Connectia. Ryutaro says that he had heard about Zenith's corrupted data, but had also heard Zenith himself was fine — with Yao saying that Zenith had actually gone missing shortly after the incident. Map data damaged by the Imperialdramon had also ended up in the game as well. Suzune brings up how the "Alice glitch" that traps players within virtual worlds had been dealt with more than a decade before, and asks Yao where Cool Boy's real body was — with Suzune pressing her more and more as Yao doesn't answer. Yuuki cuts Suzune off and says that the group will just go to Cross Connectia to save Cool Boy and Zenith's data, with Winr's shocked reaction that Yuuki knows the term "killing two birds with one stone" turning the mood from serious to silly. With the mood change calming Yao down, she apologizes to Suzune and says she will tell her soon, though Suzune says she should be the one apologizing and that she was just worried about the possibility that the Alice glitch had returned. The group accept the mission, with Yao giving them all access to Cross Connectia. The group quickly log into the game, though Yuuki winds up cancelling her transfer in the middle of it causing the other four to arrive without her. THE SKY FALL (Part 2)

Shortly after arriving, Ryutaro loudly reminisces about the days he spent with Tyrannomon on File Island, whilst Suzune Kazuki tells everyone she had just been told Yao that time passes differently in this world compared to LACUNA. 30 minutes there is equal to around 12 hours inside Cross Connectia. Ryutaro figures out that as they were given a time limit of 4–5 hours, it meant they had 4–5 days to complete their mission — though Suzune says Yao expressed how important rest was as their brains still run on regular time and so will be processing things much faster than they're used to. Winr joins the conversation, and says that their need for rest is why it was having ForgeBeemon create a base. Since ForgeBeemon was skilled at making bases, it makes them one very fast. Since they needed to find Cool Boy and Zenith's data fast, Winr suggests splitting up — which everyone agrees to. Ryutaro points out that they have no idea where to start, and posits that Cool Boy likely knew someone could come for him and as such would have done something for that. Altea shows up and says that's an insightful point, and says that it and Oblivimon hadn't been able to find any traces of the duo during the short time they had spent looking around. Though they worry over the fact Altea hadn't found anything, some of them joke that they would need the help of Yuuki to find them as she was talented at getting lost and so would probably find them in the middle of being lost. As they laugh over this, they hear Oblivimon scream out that everyone needs to get away.

Ryutaro, Winr, and Suzune digivolve their partners to the Ultimate level — who defend their partners from the attacks that were about to hit them. Mistymon reveals itself, and says that they are capable Digimon. Winr recognizes Mistymon from a card he had seen before, and as he says Mistymon's name — Mistymon figures he knew who Mistymon was as they were invading and planning to kill everyone inside Cross Connectia. They try to say that isn't the case, but Mistymon cuts them off and says it knows all about the humans who use trading cards and that it wont allow them to carry out their plan. Altea calls out to his allies, who turn around and notice he had been taken hostage by a large group of Ultimate level Digimon. Betsumon tells Mistymon that their hostage wasn't human — which has Mistymon decide they would keep Altea since he wasn't a human. Just as Ryutaro was about to have MasterTyrannomon digivolve to Mega — Suzune stops him and points out it'd be a bad idea as doing so could result in their Mega Digimon killing the Ultimates and that that would prove them right that they were "invaders wanting to kill everyone". As Mistymon and the others leave with their hostage, Mistymon tells them that they haven't been spared, the "Guardians" would kill them, have them surrounded from all sides, and that humans weren't welcome in Cross Connectia.

Now "alone", the humans and their partners discuss how they were going to deal with the situation. Suzune sends a message to Yuuki about what had happened, and then says they can no longer wait for Yuuki as they now have to deal with the Guardians and free Altea. They realize that Yuuki was in danger as Mistymon and the others now know the human spawn point, though Ryutaro says they can split off at the same time in multiple directions and hope doing so will confuse them and have them forget where the spawn point is. The trio split up, and agree to reconvene should any of them figure out where Cool Boy/Zenith's data are. DEBUG.10 Attack