"Soldiers? If they are doing bad things then I guess... Yeah. Kind of like how bad ninjas count as monsters." Mikey thought briefly about it before smiling a little bit at Duo.

"But.... if you are used to fighting monsters, you must know that you got to have the right thing to fight with, right? Around here, that's your partner. They digivolve and get stronger so that you can fight more monsters." He couldn't say he wasn't worried about how Duo didn't want his partner, but he was going to try h is best to explain it to the boy.