Ultraman Any Key: Qiming

Chapter 534, 530. The Victory Team is truly wicked—ha, they can get even wicked.

In the original "Mebius" series, the highly sophisticated King Meflas, whose abilities required the GUYS members to overcome his limitations through sheer willpower, is unable to maintain his elegance and composure in this world.

You can put on a show in a regular game, but you can't do that in a complex, high-level game like this.

He suddenly felt a bit of admiration for Yapool. This guy had persisted on Earth for so long; maybe he was the strongest of the Four Heavenly Kings.

After a while, Mephras, the Heavenly King, regained his composure and decided to find Zheng Yi first.

On the other side, Mefras had just awakened the cicada monster when the commotion it caused immediately caught the attention of the Victory Team.

Huimei: "A monster has appeared in Tokyo New Town!"

Qi Ming: "Is it Mefras?"

Huimei: "It's a cicada-like monster. I put the image on the home screen."

Suddenly, the earth split open, and with a deafening roar, a gigantic cicada-shaped monster burst forth from the ground.

With a piercing shriek, its thick, segmented legs easily crushed the reinforced concrete buildings, and several nearby residential buildings collapsed like building blocks, raising clouds of dust.

Broken glass and fragments of building materials rained down, and panicked crowds cried out as they fled in all directions.

Qi Ming looked at the cicada-like monster on the main screen and immediately recognized it.

This thing is also a monster from "Taro", originating from King Zemira in episode 21, "The Sinking of Tokyo New Town".

In the mountains: "This monster doesn't seem very friendly; it started causing destruction right away. Team member Qi Ming, it's probably not on our side, is it?"

Qi Ming: "Yeah, let's take them down."

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On the other side, the hospital.

After being stung on the thigh by a datura plant, Zheng Yi completely lost strength in his legs and had to be hospitalized for observation.

At this moment, in his hospital room, a cage containing cicadas was placed on the table, and a nurse reminded him that this might disturb his rest.

But Zheng Yi said it didn't matter, seeing cicadas would make him feel better.

Even though he couldn't use his legs, he wasn't sad. Instead, he was preoccupied with the cicada monster that the Heavenly King Mephras had promised to find for him.

"Boom!" The next moment, the ward shook violently, the earth in the distance cracked open, and the cicada monster emerged from the ground.

"Cicada monster! There really is a cicada-like monster!" Zheng Yi completely ignored the collapsed houses and the fleeing crowds; at this moment, all he could see was the cicada monster.

"Whoosh!" In the next moment, the Flying Swallow No. 1, piloted by Hui Mei, arrived from the distant mountains and launched an attack on the Cicada Monster.

Zheng Yi immediately panicked: "No, stop right now!"

Ignoring his injuries, he sat in his wheelchair and desperately rushed outside, blocking the way for Gen and Dan Moroboshi who had come from the ground to provide support.

"Stop! Stop right now! It's just a cicada!"

Dan Moroboshi, sitting in the driver's seat of the Sherlock car, looked at Shoichi, who was in a wheelchair, blocking the car with a shocked expression.

Feng Yuan got out of the car: "Child, what are you talking about? How could such a huge monster be a cicada?"

He spread his arms wide to prevent Charlotte from attacking the cicada monster: "It has six legs, four wings, and those eyes, it must be a cicada! Let it go!"

Feng Yuan: "?"

Let it go?
Could we ask it to leave the residential buildings alone for now and stop the damage?
Dan Moroboshi: "This won't do, it's destroying the city."

Zheng Yi shouted anxiously, "Its lifespan is only one week, and it will die in a week. You know this, yet you still want to kill it... The Victory Team is so annoying!"

Feng Yuan: "?"

A week?

It has already demolished so many buildings since it was just revived. If it were allowed to live for another week, wouldn't it demolish an entire city?

Dan Moroboshi also looked troubled: "Even if it really is a cicada, it can't be judged by common sense after it turns into a monster. It may not only have a lifespan of one week. Besides, it has already started to cause destruction, so we must stop it."

Zheng Yi, watching Swallow No. 1 and Swallow No. 2 unleash their firepower on the cicada monster, was sweating profusely with anxiety: "It's all your fault, that's why the cicada is resisting! Stop it now!"

"Make us stop? Why don't you make that monster stop? Is it because the monster isn't as easy to talk to as the captain?" Qi Ming's voice came from behind.

Drum's car stopped next to Charlotte's car, and Qi Ming and Carmilla jumped out of the car.

He looked at Zheng Yi, who was desperately blocking his way, and thought to himself, "This guy really did show up."

In the episode "The Sinking of Tokyo New City", it was actually this child who left the deepest impression on Qi Ming.

He's both wicked and stupid; it's hard to describe in a few words.

Like some extreme cat and dog lovers, he values ​​cats and dogs more than human lives. For Zhengyi, who is obsessed with cicadas, cicadas are the most important thing.

In the original series, the cicada monster destroyed his home, but he didn't care at all.

He pretended not to see when the cicada monster affected the residents and burned down the city, but as soon as the attack on the cicada monster began, he became anxious and jumped around, causing trouble everywhere...

Of course, the most incredible thing is that after the child made a fuss, the Seth team agreed with his statement and chose not to kill the monster. In the end, Kotaro, who turned into Taro, only sent the monster away.

The innocent tooth-toothed monster, Silta, suffered a toothache due to the water rocket from the Seto team. After Kotaro's tooth extraction failed, it went berserk due to the excruciating pain. The responsibility lay entirely with the humans, yet Kotaro still managed to transform and destroy it.

In contrast, this cicada monster survives by deliberately destroying the city after a mischievous child pleads for it… This comparison makes it difficult to judge the Seto Team and Taro. ①
But Qi Ming wouldn't indulge that brat.

"I'll go test the upgraded combat device. This thing is yours." Qi Ming looked at Carmilla.

“No problem. Even if you hadn’t told me, I wouldn’t have let this idiot get away with it. It’s so stupid it’s driving me crazy.” Carmilla pulled out the brass-headed leather belt from Qi Ming’s pants again and sneered. Qi Ming nodded, pulled up his pants, and went to a secluded spot. He told Hui Mei to stop there for a moment, then took out his battle device to summon his weapon.

"Come out, Silver Dragon, I've chosen you!"

Seeing that the Flying Swallow No. 1 and the Dyna Wing had stopped attacking the Cicada Monster, Zheng Yi, who was in a wheelchair, breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

The next moment, a card-shaped beam of light enveloped the silver dragon Hilbargon.

"Go, Silver Dragon, smash it!"

Upon receiving the order, the silver dragon roared and charged towards the cicada monster.

As the cicada monster that was completely overwhelmed by Taro throughout the original series, it was no match for the Silver Dragon, which was able to overwhelm Tiga.

The silver dragon, relying on its powerful defense, withstood the flames spewed out by the cicada monster, rushed close to it, and unleashed a powerful punch, causing the cicada monster to scream in agony.

This made Zheng Yi's heart, which had just been at ease, jump again. He pointed at the silver dragon and shouted, "The GUTS team fights monsters, right? Aren't you guys fighting that monster?"

Feng Yuan: "?"

So you knew the GUTS team was going to fight monsters?
What did you mean by stopping us from attacking and destroying the cicadas earlier?
"That's my cicada! I asked Mefras to find it for me! Please help me!" Zhengyi cried out in desperation.

Gen and Dan Moroboshi: "!"

What? This thing sprouted from the ground ahead of schedule because of your wish?
Carmilla sneered, and after she said that, even the kind-hearted Gen and Dan Moroboshi fell silent, leaving Shoichi anxious and helpless.

On the other side, Qi Ming activated the [Amplification] function, and the 10 Star Blessings in the table temporarily transformed into a 10% all-round improvement for the Silver Dragon.

"Silver Dragon, I just enhanced you, can you feel it?" Qi Ming asked.

A 10% increase is quite significant. The silver dragon felt the surge in power and nodded frantically.

The simple-minded creature suddenly realized that since it could enhance its power, listening to this person might not be a bad idea.

Qi Ming: "Alright, let's take it down!"

Silver Dragon immediately mustered all his strength and unleashed a barrage of punches.

"No, no, Zhi Liao!" With Zheng Yi's desperate cry, the cicada monster's breath grew weaker and weaker until it finally died.

A green dot of light floated out from its corpse.

"Cicada... my cicada." Masakazu was heartbroken and cried out, "Why didn't you protect it? The GUTS team are bad guys!"

Carmilla laughed: "So, not listening to you makes you a bad guy... Well, I can be even worse then."

After saying that, she suddenly lashed out with her whip, striking Zheng Yi on the back.

"Snapped!"

The immense impact flung him off his wheelchair like a broken sack, sending him crashing heavily onto the cold, muddy ground.

A sharp pain exploded there, and just as everything went black, he couldn't help but howl in agony.

Moroboshi Dan and Ougen wanted to stop them, but Qi Ming, who had retrieved the silver dragon, reached out to stop them: "Remember what I said before? The harder you hit him, the better."

"If you're so reluctant to part with your cicada monster, then I'll send you down to keep it company!" Carmilla continued to whip, striking Zheng Yi hard.

The latter screamed incessantly, like a black slave being whipped by a plantation owner.

Any unruly child will be whipped!

Meanwhile, Mephras, the king of the gods, also found Shoichi.

Looking at Zheng Yi, who was screaming in agony after being whipped, and then at Carmilla and the other three, Mefras felt a tightness in his chest.

Why... why is it you guys again!

Why do you always seem to appear next to the children I find?
But Mefulas was also a man of flexibility, and in this situation, he had no choice but to abandon Zheng Yi and teleport away again.

The spaceship was destroyed, and all the ground was dug up for nothing!

But faced with a life-or-death crisis, he had no choice but to disregard these sunk costs.

I just hope the next child will make more normal wishes.

Mephras thought this so naively.

At that moment, he had no idea that what awaited him was the real hell.

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① Before writing this book, I reread all of Ultraman, from Ultraman Blaze to Ultraman Blaze.

It was very difficult to stay focused when rewatching Taro's performance.

Episode 21, "The Sinking of Tokyo New Town," portrays this mischievous child.

Episode 22, "The Fury of the Monster with the Kids," portrays a brainless, irritable husband who attacks members of the defense force.

Episode 23, "The Gentle Monster Father," portrays the extraordinary wife.

Three episodes in a row were absolutely outrageous. I didn't notice it when I was a kid, but now that I'm older, I don't know what to say.

(End of this chapter)