His sense of how old Takato is must really be off, he'd assumed the far smaller being had been a child. But a child wouldn't have fought major battles and competed with REAL challenges.. would they?

"Well there you go. Sounds to me like this place knows what it's doing. Maybe digimon alone can't figure it out or stop it, and maybe we couldn't either. But together, we've got something that Alias can't break." It's the right idea, surely! "We'll just have to find out. ..But what's a D-Reaper?"