Dark Tiga, what are you doing?

Chapter 140 Dark Ruler Suzuki Ame
Three days passed in a flash.

The death of Gatanothor, the ruler of darkness, brought a long period of peace to the world of Ultraman Tiga. Leaving aside the events of the theatrical version, this world will enjoy eight years of peace, allowing humanity to develop freely, until the arrival of the Dyna TV timeline, at which point it will once again enter a period of monster warfare.

When Dyna's era ends, this world will usher in true peace.

Daigo learns about the existence of the Shining World from the others and is invited to go there, but he refuses.

Having gone through so much, Daigo no longer wants to fight. Now, possessing superhuman strength, he just wants to live a simple, ordinary life.

Especially after the Dark Ruler incident, Daigo became increasingly aware of how hard-won peace is. Even the simplest, most ordinary days are worth cherishing.

Meanwhile, Masaki Keigo, who was rescued from the converter by Tenryukai, is still in the hospital. He is physically fine, but it will take several days for him to wake up. This underwater rescue operation was not only a test of his physical strength, but also a test of his mental and willpower.

Masaki Keigo is very tired now.

"By the way, you all said you were summoned here, and it seems to be related to something called the Wishing Red Ball," Daigo said.

“Not bad.” Fujimiya Hiroya nodded.

Takayama Gamu scratched his head: "I came here because I made a wish, but as for Fujimiya, I really don't know what's going on."

Suzuki Yu blinked: "It seems that my senior and I have nothing to do with the wishing red ball. We just came here inexplicably."

Could it be related to Gatanothor, the ruler of darkness?

Because she can transform into the Dark Ruler, and Gatanothor, the Dark Ruler, has appeared in this world, a connection has been established between different worlds, which is why she was transported here.

Suzuki Ume was preoccupied with worries.

Tian Liuhai, however, remained completely unconcerned, assuming it was most likely the work of Earth's consciousness. He was an old fan of AoE; how could he not know?

Fujimiya Hiroya speculated, "I suspect there might be something in this world that's connected to that wishing red ball. After all, before that wishing red ball came to our world, it was constantly traveling and wandering around the universe. It's very possible that the wishing red ball reached your planet during its journey."

Daigo was taken aback: "Will this have any impact?"

“At first, there won’t be any impact, but as one wish after another is made, it could very well lead to disaster,” Takayama Gamu said.

Daigo pondered for a moment and said, "In that case, during the time you are still here, I will assist you in investigating the Wishing Red Ball."

"Yes." Fujimiya Hiroya nodded.

The two worlds are very similar on a large scale, and if we investigate using TPC energy, we might make some discoveries soon.

Tenryukai rested his chin on his hand, thinking the chances of getting two wishing red orbs were slim. Could it be that Fujimiya Hiroya and the others were transported to this world because humanity at that time felt despair about the current situation, and their inner hopes, though not manifesting as the light of human hearts to enter Tiga's body and allow him to transform into Shining Tiga to fight?

Instead, it was the wishing red ball that sensed a wish made across time and space?

Although the chances are slim, they are not nonexistent.

After some conversation, the group followed Daigo to the TPC location.

As for Daigo's identity as Ultraman Tiga, although it was exposed during the Dark Ruler battle, everyone in TPC knew that Daigo was the director's henchman.

In response, Daigo's involvement with Ultraman Tiga was sealed as a top-secret document.

Almost no one can access it. And the idea that Shin Asuka was captured and experimented on during the Dyna era is almost impossible for Daigo to have done that. With the entire TPC in charge protecting Daigo, who would dare to say no? Moreover, as of now, only a group of people in the central command room know that Daigo is Ultraman Tiga. Everyone else is completely unaware.

Those people in the central command room were basically Daigo's closest confidants.

How could they possibly expose this secret? They would naturally help Daigo keep it a secret to the death. They also knew how dangerous it would be if others knew that Ultraman was human.

……

Shining Earth.

Led by Keigo Masaki, the time machine to Earth in Ultraman Tiga TV has been completed. The combination of science and superpowers has accelerated the process far beyond initial plans.

They managed to create it in about three days. Even Masaki Keigo was quite surprised by this. After all, according to his original calculations, it would have taken at least a week.

Inside the Alchemy Star Base.

Keigo Masaki, Makio Kirino, Hideki Go, Seiji Hokuto, Dan Moroboshi... Except for Mirai Hibino and Daigo, who were working at the TPC base, almost everyone who could come was there.

Dan Moroboshi adopted the demeanor he once had as the captain of the defense force, saying, "Just me, Hokuto, Go, Hayata, Zero, Cosmos, and Dyna will go. The rest of you will stay on Earth to guard against any external attacks."

"Yes." Those who were called on did not object and nodded in agreement.

However, after further analysis, Masaki Keigo said, "No, we can't go that many. The energy required for a single time travel is too enormous. We need to reduce it by two."

Upon hearing this, Dan Moroboshi frowned, looked at Zero, Dyna, and Cosmos, and then his brows relaxed. Two fewer people are fine, as long as the three of them can go.

“Then Hayata and Go will stay,” said Dan Moroboshi.

“No problem, you can leave this to us.” Hayata Susumu and Go Hideki exchanged a glance and nodded.

"That's about right." Masaki Keigo nodded.

He glanced at Kirino Makio.

Kirino Makio immediately pulled out his Flash Sword, preparing to transform into Dyna and switch to his superpower state.

"Because we're pressed for time, we'll need to use his superpowers for location tracking," Masaki Keigo explained as he approached the supercomputer's control panel.

Hokuto Seiji touched the Ultra Ring on his hand, his heart filled with doubt. For the past few days, he had transformed into Ace and searched almost the entire Earth, but he couldn't find any trace of Tenryukai and Suzuki Ame. This made him wonder if they were no longer on Earth?

Otherwise, if their abilities originated from the same source, why couldn't he sense their location for so long?

Although he harbored some doubts, Hokuto Seiji chose not to voice them, keeping the matter to himself. He would wait and see; if things truly became unavoidable, he would have no choice but to seek help from others. At that point, he wouldn't care about Dark Ace's hidden predicament.

The group entered the time machine. After Masaki Keigo completed all the adjustments, and with Kirino Makio using his Dyna powers for location tracking, the time machine was quickly activated, and the group disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Can you defeat the evil god from another world?" Little Bird blinked.

“Of course it can work. Don’t forget, they can fuse and combine to become Saga,” Haruno Musashi said. “Saga’s strength is no less than Legend’s, but it’s hard to say who is stronger.”

“That makes sense,” the little bird nodded.

……

Ultraman Tiga TV: Earth Time and Space.

With the help of Daigo and TPC in this world, the group investigated the matter of the wishing red ball and concluded that the red ball they mentioned had appeared once decades ago when director Eiji Tsuburaya directed an Ultraman series, but it never appeared again after that one appearance.

Where the wishing red ball ended up, and what wish director Eiji Tsuburaya made, remains unknown.

In response, Daigo recalled that he had traveled back in time to several decades ago when director Eiji Tsuburaya was still alive. At that time, he encountered a very unique guy who claimed to be a buyer of space monsters and purchased monsters from director Eiji Tsuburaya. This was before the appearance of another Ultraman.

Daigo did indeed seem to see that director Eiji Tsuburaya was holding a red ball.

However, he didn't pay attention to it at the time.

Most of his attention was focused on the new Ultraman, after all, it was the first time he had seen an Ultraman other than himself.

Those who received this answer speculated that the reason they had arrived in the Ultraman Tiga TV timeline was because director Eiji Tsuburaya had made some kind of wish.

Only Tian Liuhai raised an eyebrow.

In the original story, there is no wishing red ball. Even if there is a red ball, it is only the red ball of the first incarnation and has no effect on granting wishes.

It seems that the butterflies' flapping wings had already changed long ago, which is why they appeared here.

As the group gathered to discuss director Eiji Tsuburaya from decades ago and sought more details from Daigo, the time-travel machine triggered by Shining Universe successfully arrived in the film's world.

They came directly to Fujimiya Hiroya and the others.

Therefore, after arriving in this world, Kirino Makio's superpowers immediately located Fujimiya Hiroya and the others. A huge time-travel machine then appeared before them.

With a "click" sound and the rising of white smoke, Dan Moroboshi and the others calmly walked out, their eyes filled with determination. No matter how strong their opponent was, they would not back down. This time, they were determined to completely save the people of the Ultraman Tiga TV world from the hands of the world-destroying evil god.

"Hey, timing is everything, you've arrived at the perfect time." Tian Liuhai glanced at the newcomers, just as they finished discussing the wishing red ball.

"You guys... are alright?" Asuka Shin asked in surprise, glancing at everyone present.

"The enemy has been dealt with, though it was rather inexplicable," Fujimiya Hiroya said.

"Oh?" Hokuto Seiji wasn't interested in the evil gods here, but his eyes lit up when he saw Tenryukai and Suzuki Ame. He had searched the entire Earth but couldn't find any trace of the two, and thought they had been taken away by Dark Ace and were probably in trouble.

Unexpectedly, I saw the two of them in the Ultraman Tiga TV timeline.

Could it be that he's mistaken?
"How did the enemy disappear so inexplicably?" Dan Moroboshi looked around at his surroundings. The sun was shining brightly, and there was no sign that the world was being targeted by a dark god. On the contrary, he would believe that this world was more peaceful than ever before and that no catastrophe had ever occurred.

Takayama Gamu recounted how they were defeated and turned into stone statues, but it's unclear who dealt with the enemy after that.

"It's like this again?" Dan Moroboshi frowned.

This has happened more than once on Shining Earth.

Now, this has happened on Earth, even in Ultraman Tiga TV.

He scanned everyone present but couldn't figure it out. His final conclusion was the same as theirs: there was likely a powerful being secretly protecting the peace of this universe, and the events on Earth had attracted that being's attention, just like the likes of Delacion. The Dark Ruler was likely destroyed by that being.

Suzuki Ame and Tenryukai reacted differently under Moroboshi Dan's scrutiny. Tenryukai appeared quite relaxed, seemingly unaffected.

Let them scan it; it won't make a difference. It doesn't matter.

Suzuki Yu looked slightly embarrassed.

After all, she believed that the disappearance of the Dark Ruler was related to her; it was because she transformed into the Dark Ruler that she defeated him. If she hadn't transformed into the Dark Ruler, the final outcome would have been uncertain.

It's possible that we'll truly need support from Shining Earth to defeat the Dark Ruler, but her transformation into the Dark Ruler is a different story. She doesn't even know how she transformed back into a human. She searched through Ace's database for a very long time without finding a detailed answer, and could only combine Ace's data with her own deductions, making guesses on her own.

However, she felt that her conjecture was unreliable, since she didn't know when she had made contact with the Dark Ruler; it seemed that the connection had already begun on Shining Earth. But it was in this world that she truly became the Dark Ruler.

Difficult to handle.

Surely there can't be a dark ruler ruling over the Earth, right?
And then it just so happens to be related to her, or even to her personally.

Ha ha.

When this outrageous idea popped into her mind, Suzuki Yu couldn't help but feel that her idea was a bit too shocking.

If she is the ruler of darkness, then it means that the ruler of darkness became the human form of the giant of light, Ace.

This whole thing seems impossible and ridiculous no matter how you look at it.

It seems she can only investigate this matter secretly to find out what really happened. She doesn't dare to tell anyone, since the team consists entirely of giants of light. How could they possibly accept their teammates turning into darkness?

She might even face betrayal from her own family by her teammates. Such an ending is unacceptable to Suzuki Ame, and she doesn't want to be seen as a figure of darkness.

She needs to find a way to eliminate this possibility.

We need to help her become a real human again.

She wants to live on Earth as Ultraman Ace's human form, not as the Dark Ruler, because she doesn't want to transform into the Dark Ruler again next time.

Moreover, since the end of the last war and the absorption of the Dark Ruler's soul, she felt as if something had appeared inside her body, to the point that she often felt something was inside her. This struck her as very strange.

Often when I'm sleeping at night, I seem to hear some kind of whisper in my ear, but if I listen carefully, it's not a meaningful whisper at all, but rather a roar similar to that of a wild beast.

It's just not the kind of scream that's used to warn someone when they pose a threat.

Instead, it was a roar that seemed to want to communicate with her. But upon hearing this sound, Suzuki Yu couldn't help but recall the sound the Dark Ruler had made when they fought it.

Because upon closer listening, this low growl was remarkably similar to the cry of the Dark Ruler, a sound that resembled both a whale's roar and an elephant's call. This instinctively made her resistant, unwilling to listen carefully.

She was afraid that if she took the initiative to make contact, she would transform into the Dark Ruler again. If she transformed into the Dark Ruler in public, things would be difficult to handle.

So the matter was left unresolved. But as time went on, Suzuki Yu felt that the voice would become clearer and clearer, eventually filling her entire brain, unless she was willing to actively accept and communicate with it.

However, I don't want to get involved in anything related to the ruler of darkness. At least not at this stage.

The many thoughts that arose in Suzuki Ame's mind would only last a few seconds to the outside world.

After learning about the specifics of this world from Tenryukai, Dan Moroboshi and the others nodded slightly, seemingly unsure of what to investigate. However, at least the crisis posed by the Dark Ruler, the God of Destruction, had been resolved, and Daigo, a native Ultraman Tiga, was protecting them.

In that case, they don't need to worry too much.

If problems do arise again, then they can simply mark this spacetime with coordinates and monitor its energy after they return.

They can detect any abnormal energy fluctuations at any time and once again use the time-space travel machine to provide support.

They certainly couldn't have done it before, but even a time-travel machine has been built and successfully used. If it's just about monitoring the energy values ​​in another world, the difficulty is much less.

"Looks like we're late. Let's go home." Dan Moroboshi waved his hand, and the group that had just disembarked boarded the time-travel machine again. However, this time they also needed to exert their strength; with more people, the energy required was also greater.

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(End of this chapter)