"Aw, you have to leave already?" Eiko pouted, the ChibiBakemon floating closer to the floor of her mother's living room.
"Well, yes," Kai explained. "I told your mother I could only stay for four hours... I have very urgent business I have to take care of... You know, your big sister will come home soon, right? Maybe you can play with her instead of me..."
Eiko huffed. "Yeah, but she's not nearly as fun as you are... and she sucks at Smash Bros. Melee."
Kai laughed as he patted her round head. "Sorry about that, kiddo, it really has been a fun day. But see, I promised some friends I would do something for them."
"Do what?" Eiko suddenly asked with interest.
"Um, well... I'm kinda designing this game for them, at the computer, back at my cousin's home..."
"Oh, a computer game?" Eiko asked excitedly. "Can I come? I always wanted to see how that's done!"
Kai suddenly felt very nervous for some reason. "Uh, that's a tempting offer, Eiko, but... I don't know what your mother would say to that. I don't think she would like to see you out of the house this late."
Eiko looked as if she wanted to protest, but suddenly, her attention got drawn off by the ringing of the phone.
"I'LL GET IT!!" she shouted and quickly floated over to the phone. "Hello?" she asked as she picked up. Right after that, her face brightened. "Mommy! Oh, you're coming later...? That's okay, sis will be home soon... What, she's staying with a friend this evening? Aw, bummer... Well, he said he had to prepare something for his friends at his computer... OF COURSE I would like that, Mommy! I can? Thank you, Mommy, I love you! Sure, I can ask him, hold on..."
She put down the phone for a while and grinned widely. "Mommy says she and sis won't be back for a while and she wonders if you could watch me for a little longer. She knows that you have something to do, but maybe I can come with you? She also said she would pay you more for that."
Ken groaned. "Eiko, I really don't think this is a good idea..."
Eiko pouted cutely as she gave him her best impression of the puppy-dog-eyes. "Oh, pleeeeeeeze?"
Kai groaned. "All right, all right, but we can't play the whole time, got it? And I still have to ask my aunt and uncle if it's okay."
"YAY!" the ChibiBakemon cheered as she got on the phone again. "Mommy? He said yes, he said yes!"
"Why does that happen to me?" Kai winced.
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Mie Compsomon Matsuki shrugged. "Sure, no problem! I can understand Eiko's mother, I had similar problems when I was still working as a bounty hunter in the Digital World." She smiled. "Your uncle and I always had to look for a babysitter while I was away battling rogue Digimon, and he had to care for the customers."
Eiko jumped up and down... Um, kinda... Actually, she was more floating. "Isn't that great, Kai? I can stay!"
"Yay me..." Kai grumbled.
Mie knelt down in front of the little girl. "Why, aren't you the cutest little Digimon I've ever seen? You remind me of my Guilmon, back when he still was a Gigimon..."
Eiko smiled up at her. "Thanks! You have a pretty tail!"
"Why, thank you!" Mie gushed. "If only all small children were as polite as you..."
Later, Eiko and her reluctant babysitter were in Takato's room.
"Okay, please be careful with anything in this room, Eiko," Kai said. "It belongs to my cousin Takato, and I don't think he would be too happy if anything breaks..."
"Okee dokee, I'll be careful," she said. "Oh, is that the computer? Lemme see, lemme see, lemme see..."
"Not so fast," Kai chuckled. "I have to boot him up first."
"You have to give him the boot?" Eiko wondered. "My Mom always tells me violence doesn't solve anything..."
"Not like that, Eiko," Kai smirked as he switched the computer on.
When the computer was finished with booting up, Kai opened the drive and put in the CD of the RPG Maker.
"Well, this is the program I'm using to design the game for my friends..."
"What does it do?" Eiko asked with excitement. "How does it work? Is it like Zelda?"
"Um, no, actually... do you know Final Fantasy?"
"Sure!" Eiko nodded. "Cloud is the best!"
"Okay, it's just like that, only with Digimon characters. See, these are my fr... the characters my friends are gonna use."
"Oh, is it an Online Game?"
"Um... kinda," Kai chuckled weakly. "Well, anyways, with this program I can design the levels the heroes are going to walk through." He clicked through a few menus. "See, this fortress is the first level, and at that point they fought the boss. Now I'm going to have to create a second dungeon for them..."
"How, how? Show me how!" Eiko bounced up and down in mid-air again. This was much more fun than Smash Bros. Melee.
"Just a moment..." Kai murmured. "Just let me see here..."
"Hurry, hurry, huuurryyyyyyy!"
"Now calm down! I have to... huh?" He frowned. "Now that's strange..."
"What, what, what? What's going on?"
He pointed at the screen. "Look, there already is a second dungeon... and I could have sworn I didn't start on it before..."
"Aw, maybe you just forgot," Eiko shrugged. "Besides, does it matter? This should save you some work, right?"
Kai shrugged. She had a point. "Well, let's see, this is a hidden laboratory level, with wild Digimon crawling through the abandoned corridors..."
"What kind of Digimon?" Eiko asked.
"According to this list, mainly Numemon," Kai said. "Well, I should put a few chests in there, and maybe make a cutscene or two..."
"Wait, is that the point where your heroes enter the dungeon?"
"Actually, this seems to be the place where they are assaulted by the Numemon for the first time..."
'Uh-oh,' Kai thought to himself. 'I''ll so be in trouble when they come back...'
All of a sudden, Eikos eyes started sparkling mischievously. "Wait, I have an idea... I know how to make this dungeon more interesting. Let me just take the mousie for a while..."
"Wha...?" Kai was so surprised that he couldn't stop his young charge from snatching the mouse from his hand. "Eiko, no..."
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