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You briefly recall the story he told you about the Agumon Flood.
"After. We were already a team back then, and I was teaching him all kinds of things related to hacking. He was my first friend, y'know. I don't think I'd even spoken another person for a couple years before meeting him."
"What were you doing back then?"
"Learning from my book. I picked it up early, and everything just kinda... clicked. I spent ages learning the ins and outs of software and hardware. I guess I was hungry for it, because I ignored everything else. The moment I learnt it was an option, I dismissed my nanny servitor."
Right. Her 'Fruit of Knowledge'. You did that too, but you're guessing she cast off her chains even earlier than you did.
"Sorry. I don't wanna change the subject. But did they show you the-"
"They did! Now that I'm older, it's pretty funny how they did that, actually..."
Children are able to send their bots away and end the parenting protocols that ferry them around into playgroups. However, there's a soft limitation on doing such a thing. In order to prevent wayward or rowdy kids from disabling their entire nanny program after a tantrum, the bots have an inelegant, yet shockingly effective contingency.
Before going through with the severance of the program, children have to watch a terrifying video depicting life without a bot nanny. You can still recall key frames from it. Stray kids wandering the streets, with fog streaking in, howling Digimon in the background, crying youths lost in the middle of urban sprawls, all kinds of imagery that would terrify a child unexposed to any kind of horror media. When you cast your bot aside, you were determined enough to sit through it, but it still messed with you for months after, until you got used to being by yourself. Plenty of other kids must have been traumatized into keeping theirs.
