Ultraman: Invincible from Saving Tiga.

Chapter 642 The Multiverse Trafficking King
Looking in the direction they left, Asuka Kazuma was filled with emotion.

"It's quite a unique feeling to suddenly have a son who is related to me by blood."

He shook his head, a bitter smile on his face.

"I really want Shin to see what it would be like to have an older brother."

“You can see it.” Lin Yu smiled and took a photo out of his pocket.

The photo shows a dark moment from the father's past when he beat his son.

Asuka Kazuma leaned closer to take a look, and the expression on his face instantly became incredibly strange.

"Sigh, it's best to make sure he doesn't see photos like this."

He coughed awkwardly twice.

Lin Yu laughed and put the photos away.

The world after a battle always carries the freshness of sunshine after the rain.

Kazuma Asuka stood to the side, watching the families embracing and weeping, a relieved smile on his face.

He turned to look at Lin Yu and found that the man who had just displayed great power and saved the world was now standing with his hands in his pockets, scrutinizing the Team-U members not far away.

The look in his eyes... how to put it... didn't seem like he was looking at a group of heroes reborn from the ashes, but rather like he was picking out the freshest cabbages at a market.

"Lin Yu, what are you looking at?" Asuka Kazuma asked, somewhat puzzled.

"It's about recognizing talent."

Lin Yu's answer was perfectly natural. He stroked his chin, lowered his voice, and said with barely concealed excitement, "Senior Yi Ma, don't you think they're all treasures?"

"Baby?" Asuka Kazuma was even more confused.

"Look."

Lin Yu began listing them off as if they were his own treasures: "Captain Anna, with her athleticism and reaction speed, she's more than qualified to be an assault soldier. Takayama Saki Kazuko, with that fearless spirit, she's practically a born berserker. Vice-Captain Misato, calm and collected, with extremely high tactical skills, she's absolutely qualified to be a chief of staff."

He paused, then turned his gaze to the other people.

"And then there are those twins, Nonoko Akahoshi and Maomi Osumi. One is an expert in mechanical repair, and the other is good at logistics support. They are a perfect logistics combination. Add to that the medic Risa and the communications officer Hina... Tsk tsk tsk, this team, although it is not fully equipped, everyone has honed their top professional skills in the apocalypse."

"And most importantly, although there are no enemies in the apocalypse, there are frequent attacks from monsters. The fact that they have survived to this day without Ultraman or fighter jet attacks shows that their qualities are no less than those of any defense team member."

Of course, if there's anything bad about it, it's that he's still too young.

They were all seventeen or eighteen years old, with only Captain Anna and Vice-Captain Misato being 22, but even they were younger than the average age of the Victory Team.

Lin Yu's eyes grew brighter and brighter, his expression like that of a gold mine owner who had discovered a gold mine.

"If we were to recruit them... cough, invite them back to my order, and with a little training, they would definitely be an elite team."

Asuka Kazuma's lips twitched.

He now seriously suspects that Lin Yu saved the world just for this final tremor, to conduct a census and recruit people on the side.

Your technique for taking pictures of flowers is far too skillful.

Just as Lin Yu was figuring out how to broach the subject in a way that wouldn't make him seem like a human trafficker, Captain Anna walked over with the girls. Their faces showed relief at surviving a close call, but also a hint of uncertainty about the future.

"Mr. Lin Yu, Mr. Fei Niao."

Anna, as their representative, bowed deeply to the two of them, saying, "I really don't know how to thank you this time."

"Easy to do."

Lin Yu waved his hand, a warm smile on his face, "Speaking of which, what are everyone's plans for the future? The world has returned to peace, so you should all be able to return to your normal lives, right?"

Upon hearing this question, the smiles on the girls' faces faded slightly. Anna hesitated for a moment, then shook her head with a wry smile: "Actually... there's something we've been keeping from everyone."

She took a deep breath, as if she had made a very difficult decision.

"We... are not actually an Earth Defense Force."

Upon hearing this, Asuka Kazuma, who was standing next to him, was stunned.

Lin Yu was also stunned for a moment. He had watched the Ultraman Legend movie when he was in junior high school, so he didn't pay attention to so much back then. He was only watching Saga vs. Hyper Zetton.

Are they all just ordinary people?
"We're just... a group of ordinary people barely surviving in the apocalypse," Vice Captain Misato added in a low voice, a hint of shame in her tone.

Sakiko Takayama scratched her head, somewhat embarrassed, and explained, "In the beginning, when the Baltan aliens first appeared, the world was in chaos. It took us a lot of effort to find this abandoned factory to hide in. At that time, everyone was desperate and felt that we were all doomed to die sooner or later."

"Until that rainy night..."

Anna's gaze drifted into the distance, as if she were back to that night that changed everything, "A group of cold and hungry children knocked on our door. They looked at our work clothes and asked us... were we uncles and aunts from the Earth Defense Force, and if we could protect them."

Her voice was choked up.

"At that moment... I nodded as if possessed. I said, 'Yes, we are the Earth Defense Force, we will protect you.'"

“From that day on, we were no longer Anna, Misato, and Sakiwako… We became captains, vice-captains, and combatants. We put on these uniforms, picked up weapons we didn’t know how to use, and pretended to be heroes, just to give those children a little bit of hope to live.”

Silence fell over the command center.

The smile on Lin Yu's face disappeared. He listened quietly without saying a word.

It turns out that what has sustained this camp to this day is not some unbreakable belief, but an extremely gentle lie.

They are not warriors; they are just a group of ordinary girls who use their frail shoulders to hold up a false sky for the children.

"Well... now that the crisis is over, you guys..." Kazuma Asuka's voice was a little hoarse.

"do not know."

Anna shook her head blankly. "Maybe... I should go back to being an athlete? But I've been out of practice for too long, and I'm no longer competitive on the field."

"What should I do..."

Kazuko Takayama held her head in her hands, looking distressed. "I haven't gone to school since graduating from junior high. I don't know how to fight. Do I really have to work at a convenience store?"

"I'll probably continue working as a nurse," said Risa, the medic, in a low voice, but her eyes were filled with uncertainty.

“My family runs a daycare center. Maybe… I’ll take care of the children for a few more years, and then I’ll get married.” Maomi Osumi lowered her head, her voice growing softer and softer.

“I want to be with the children. How about I go work at Maomi’s daycare?” the correspondent Hina suggested, but quickly lost interest.

The girls chatted amongst themselves, their future, which had just been illuminated by victory, was instantly shrouded in the shadows of reality.

Finally, everyone fell silent, and a sense of sadness called "parting" filled the air.

"I really don't want to... be separated from everyone."

Someone uttered a soft remark.

These words, like a pebble, have stirred ripples in the lake of everyone's heart.

They went through despair together, lied together, fought together, and protected those children together. They were no longer just colleagues, but family.

Seeing their dejected expressions, Lin Yu knew the time had come.

He cleared his throat, and his face once again displayed that harmless smile typical of a "pyramid scheme leader."

"Hey everyone, interested in... changing jobs?"

(End of this chapter)