Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

"Mr. Himeya must be chasing it! This is something I've always wanted to film—these 'truths'!"

Suddenly, Bao Lucao burst out with strength, broke free from Qi Xia's grasp, turned back to face the giant beast, and continued searching for a good shooting position.

Runping held onto his other hand, so he simply grabbed the camera with one hand and tried to raise the lens: "Don't get in my way! Runping! Aren't you tired of this boring job too?"

"Look up! That's the 'truth' that's been hidden!"

Runping looked up as instructed, only to see a suddenly enlarged black shadow!

"call--!"

The sound of the wind whistling past, and the back of my head aching from the strong gusts of air.

"thump."

The sound of a person falling to the ground, and the solid impact of the hard stones against the skin, stinging painfully.

"Snap..."

Runping turned his head, which was practically touching the ground, and saw a camera that had hit a rock, with two startling cracks visible in the lens.

Qi Xia released her companion's hand, and golden light particles drifted down around her.

Enraged by Samuel's counterattack, Gruglem rolled to his feet and swung his tubular mouth at the "food" that dared to appear in front of him.

Qi Xia saw the black shadow rushing towards her, mustered all her strength, and pushed her two companions to the ground, trying to dodge the slanted "whip" by lying on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the "whip" that should have been a straight line coming from the front suddenly bent in mid-air, turning from a slanted swing into a straight thrust!

Something with fangs lunged at her, the wind force blowing her bangs away. Before she could even scream, she was too terrified to find her own voice!

Bao Lucao's head hit the ground, and his first look was at his camera.

The half-broken lens reflected the light; the black paint was scratched and dented around the lens.

But this did not attract photographers who always cherished their lenses as if they were their own lives.

Baolucao stared blankly at the thing falling in front of the camera—

Golden glints of light.

Like snowflakes, they fluttered down, and upon touching the ground, they exploded into even smaller fragments with a "bang," disappearing into the frost-covered soil under the moonlight.

He looked up against the source of the light and saw the silver giant holding a tubular "worm" in one hand and bracing the head of a giant beast with the other.

Run!

Runping was so frightened that he shrank back, only to see the giant's eyes staring at them as if they were being glared at.

Encountering someone on the battlefield who was still recklessly taking photos infuriated Samuel.

He now deeply misses his teammates from the previous world who would grab someone near the battlefield and drive away; they were much more clear-headed than these hot-blooded guys!

"Drink!"

Although I dislike it, I can't ignore it!

Samuel stepped aside, standing between Gruglem and the trio of photographers, and with a burst of strength, pushed the alien beast aside. Gruglem's claws dug deep into the ground, leaving several extremely deep furrows.

The tubular mouth stretched out, wrapped around Samuel's arm, and bit his back. The skin was torn apart by the sharp teeth, and the tubular mouth clung to it like a leech, trying to steal his energy.

Samuel snapped, "Is it tasty?"

Gruglem used the same trick again, pushing off the ground with his strong hind legs and lunging forward.

But this time Samuel did not immediately prepare the timer beam. The crystal on his forehead flashed, and the rapidly activated laser struck Grugram's eyes, causing the latter's powerful force to dissipate.

He kicked the howling beast away, his fist and palm met, and the instantaneous stream of Peleriti light reached directly to Gruglem's raised chin.

The wounds inflicted by the exploding light blades had not yet healed. As the light stream rushed into its soft interior, golden cracks began to appear visibly beneath the behemoth's rock-like skin—just like the surface of the ground that could not contain the eruption of magma.

The chrome Chester beam once again destroyed the transphase shift control organ that was being repaired, extinguishing Gruglem's last hope of survival.

That was perhaps the grandest fireworks display in Baolucao's life.

The sound of the explosion made his eardrums ring, but he didn't bother to cover his ears. The three of them stared blankly as the "fireworks" shot straight into the clouds.

The ash obscured the moon, the mountains and forests were as bright as day, the stars were hidden in such brilliance, everything was illuminated, except for the long shadow cast behind the giant.

Bao Lucao and his two companions stood within that shadow. The air was abnormally heated due to the energy annihilation, and the hot wind made them drenched in sweat. With such a massive creature blocking their path, they should have been afraid.

But none of the three had any intention of escaping.

The giant turned his head slightly, as if glancing at them again.

The next moment, everything was like a soap bubble in a dream: the fireworks cooled, the giant disappeared, the fighter jet circled once, and merged into the desolate night that had returned to silence.

……

A figure wearing a wide-brimmed hat stepped into the Yamato-ya.

He grabbed the Evolution Trustee, which was glowing faintly, and walked to the unconscious man with a furrowed brow.

Now I'm going to take him to a safe place to recuperate. You don't have any objections, do you?

Samuel tried to communicate with the guy who wouldn't respond to him.

"What safe place?" Jun Sakuma asked.

Samuel reached out and grabbed the patient's shoulder, and silver flames enveloped the two of them.

Jun Sakuma regained control of his body, while Samuel dragged them through the blockade at an imperceptible speed, heading in an unknown direction.

When he felt his feet touch the ground again, Jun Sakuma hugged the pillar in front of his house and almost fainted and vomited.

"You brought him to my house?!"

Samuel ignored Sakuma Jun's question, only instructing, "Move him inside before anyone sees him," before shrinking into his consciousness space and falling into hibernation.

"Ugh..." Jun Sakuma held his still dizzy head.

Snap, squeak—

The door opened, and a pair of eyes peeked out from behind it.

"dad?"

Karin saw Sakuma Jun clinging to a pillar as if he was about to vomit, and Himeya Jun lying to the side.

Are you drunk?

The young girl walked out, hands on her hips, her voice unusually stern: "You can't lie about working overtime at an izakaya!"

Chapter Thirty-Six: At Home, Just Picked Up a Teammate

Genrai Jinzo felt that this was the moment he was closest to the truth.

He learned from a conversation in the ramen shop that there had been disappearances in the mountains near the hot spring town. Driven by his journalistic instincts, he didn't even bother to eat and quickly paid the bill to head to the scene.

Thus, like Bao Lücao and the other two, he also witnessed the "lightning and thunder" that night.

Because of the distance, he couldn't see clearly, but he could definitely hear the roar of the strange beast.

"Terrifying giant creatures do exist"—this is what certain organizations are deliberately covering up.

He was certain that this was what Jiya Jun had been investigating, so he chose the only way down the mountain, found a place where he could rest, and planned to stay there all night to stop Jiya Jun and ask him for more details.

But instead of seeing Jun Himeya, he was met by three people carrying cameras.

"What did you film?" he asked instinctively.

The man in the floral shirt at the head of the group nodded. He scrutinized Nemoto Jinzo closely, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "Ah! You're the editor-in-chief of the newspaper that Mr. Himeya works for!"

Having been out all night, the four people present were somewhat disheveled. Upon discovering that the other recognized them, Genrai Shinzo was clearly much more relaxed.

The group quickly reached a consensus on releasing the photos on the way back to the Yamato-ya.

"Are you looking for Mr. Himeya?" Nana finally tidied her messy hair as they walked and said, "Mr. Himeya is sick and is resting in his room right now. We can take you there..."

He opened the door as he spoke.

The empty room made her swallow her next words.

"You said he's sick?" Genrai Shinzo grasped the key point.

"Ah, the fever is very high," Qi Xia said with great concern. She opened another door, only to find it empty as well: "They're gone..."

On one side are important photos, and on the other side are...

My important friends.

Genrai Shinzo was caught in a dilemma. In the end, he left a business card for Baolu Cao and told him to come to his newspaper office: "They have been blocking the news for a long time. Only my newspaper dares to publish them in their entirety!"

Then he went out to look for the sick guy who was still running around.

While the three of them, including Horokusa, were resting at the Yamato-ya, they couldn't help but worry about Jun Himeya, but they managed to take some important photos, which greatly excited the photography team.

The three decided to first go to a hot spring to relax, then finish taking photos of the brochure and hand in their task, before heading to Negoro Shinzo's newspaper office.

……

A few hours later, Qixia returned to the house with her half-dry hair and found that Baolucao and Runping had not come out yet.

"Oh, he moves slower than a girl when soaking in a hot spring. Could he have fallen asleep in there?"

On the other side, several people wrapped in yukatas were lying on lounge chairs by the hot spring.

He wasn't asleep, he had passed out.