It’ll probably be expensive, but he wants a Digivice.

“A Digivice?”

“Something that helps you raise a Digimon, they started as a Tamagotchi clone, after all. In the show the Digivice let you command or support your Digimon. Like, in Tamers they could swipe cards to power them up, among other things.” Leonard explained, powering up the DS and starting the game for a visual aide. “In this one, it’s basically the menu, I think. Your character just has one that they probably use for various things in cutscenes.”

“Oh, okay.” Erica said, nodding in recognition. “I knew about the Tamagotchi thing, but I could never catch the show on TV. Was it cool?”

He answered “I think so, maybe we could try watching it sometime. Anyways, if I have a Digivice, I figure I can at least use a Digimon. And we’ve been worried about people like Ms. Prift noticing something weird with cameras or other surveillance, so maybe a ‘digital monster’ would be able to jam or do interference?”

His roommate chuckled “That’s a nice idea, I didn’t think of that.”

“… also I’ve wanted a little Digimon buddy ever since I was a kid.” Lenny admitted.

“Hey, no judgement.”

“Thanks. Now, my first thought when you said the currency was ‘bits’, oddly enough, wasn’t that it was ‘bits of data’.” he explained. He got up while putting forkfuls of pasta in his mouth, looking around the apartment as he elaborated “I’m guessing it might be ‘bits of space’.”

Erica once again nodded. “I getcha… oh, is this it?” she asks, as she dashed to a random flash drive on a bookshelf. The printed capacity was 32 gigabytes.

“Sure, thanks.” Lenny popped in the USB, shoveling the rest of the leftovers in his mouth as it loaded onto the laptop screen. His eye twitched as he registered the contents: a series of zip files named “Homework” separated into about 25 numbered parts. He said “… okay, now I’ll swap these over to empty the drive and trade in the storage space.” with a purposefully blank expression, dragging and dropping the necessary files as he did.

Erica asked “Wait, what if it is data though? Try and leave it half-full, see which option gives more Bits.” as she shrugged experimentally.

Leonard was hoping it didn’t turn out that way, because the zipped files weren’t “homework”. It was his collection of pornographic content that he was too embarrassed to keep on his computer. Videos and PDFs of some incredibly niche scenarios that were baffling when paired. A lot of it was already scrubbed from online repositories, or locked behind paywalls he couldn’t pay the toll for.

And because of their purposefully misleading labels, there would be hefty mental gymnastics required to explain to his roommate why they shouldn’t be exchanged for his odd power. He really didn’t want to give up the files, holders of such hits as “Hot Co-ed Comes Out As Bisexual To Step-MILF And Step-DILF, Who Love And Support Her (Sexually) No Matter What” and “Baking Cookies With Grandma (Gone Sexual)” which had a very good recipe that they used in-video. You could tell it was accurate, since after they put the cookies in the oven they had sex for the duration of the bake in an uninterrupted shot.

Still, the question remains.