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Saya stands in front of the freshly built warehouse that would serve as their factory. Above her, a freshly painted sign reads “Ryusenji Electronics.” She places a small bronze plaque with the company’s name over the mailbox. She takes a step back to examine her work before making her final adjustments. “Perfect!” she exclaims before walking into the warehouse.
Inside, she is greeted with the loud whirring of machinery. She’d gotten used to it by now and found the noise strangely comforting. Saya makes her way to the workshop where she finds the professor humming cheerfully surrounded by his chaotic collection of unfinished gadgets.
“You seem pretty happy these days,” she remarks.
Ryusenji turns to her, revealing an enormous grin. “How could I not be? I am proud business owner!”
“And a huge amount of debt!” Saya adds with a chuckle.
“You gotta spend money to make money,” Yulin adds as she enters the room. She looks exhausted but gives a warm familiar smile as she finds a seat near the pair. “The professor is the only one who knows anything about all this Digital World stuff anyways. The cash flow is in his hands.”
Some time goes by, and the founders find themselves in the workshop. The mess seems a bit more organized. The professor is busy tinkering at his station when he turns suddenly, “It’s done!”
Yuelin and Saya turn to the professor who proudly holds a small palm-sized gadget in his hands.
“What is it?” Yuelin asks as she walks over for a closer look.
“It’s an external storage device designed to house AI lifeforms. A prototype Digital Monster Dock System!” He almost shouts excitedly.
“Digital monsters huh? It looks like a toy,” Yuelin says, reaching for the small device. It was smaller than a deck of cards and housed a monochrome LCD display. There are three buttons down its face that serve as basic controls.
“The professor needs his hobbies,” Kosuke says with a shrug as he walks over from his station.
“That’s exactly it! Think about it for a moment. A device that allows people to feed and raise digital pets. It’s the next innovation in the toy business!” Ryusenji continues enthusiastically. “Until now, we weren’t able to keep these Digital Monsters alive for long. But with this! This changes everything!” His voice fills the room.
Yulin looks over the small device, trying to understand it, when something on the LCD screen catches her eye. “Is that…an egg?”
“Yep! Its a Digital tamago. Digitama for short. We thought it sounded cuter,” Saya adds with a grin.
“A Digitama…Okay…”Yulin says, trying to keep up.
“We found the data for this one while we were exploring the Net!” Saya continues enthusiastically. “And the dock allows us to see a virtual representation of its actual form, not just a series of numbers!”
“This is incredible!” Yulin shouts as the pieces come together. She gasps. “Did it just move?”
Kosuke nods cooly. “It’s about to hatch.”
The Digimon Dock put Ryusenji Technologies on the map. Soon, investors from all over wanted a piece of the device that would let people keep Digimon. It was obvious to anyone who was paying attention that these little AI creatures would shift the balance of power on the net for the decades to come.