Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

Yes, the monster must have had a target before. Matsunaga Hazuki saw blood on its head, probably near its mouth.

If her eyesight were better, she could see the wreckage that was dripping and trailing all over the road in the distance. The monster looked like a glutton with terrible eating habits, frantically stuffing things into its mouth while scraps kept spilling out.

It is now staring at the student who fell earlier.

It began to eat.

Perhaps it shouldn't be called eating; it's just playing with food.

For example, when children eat cake, the most common way is to neatly cut a piece with a fork and put it in their mouths. They often like to pick out the cream sprinkled on top first, followed by chocolate chips, fruit, or small pieces of nuts. Then, if they stab the cake with a fork and their hand is unsteady, the cake will be cut crookedly. But that's okay; the child will eat what they can pick out and then move on to the next piece.

Matsunaga Hazuki was breathing rapidly, but she felt like she couldn't catch her breath at all.

The fork banged loudly on the plate, roughly cutting the cake into pieces. The child wasn't very satisfied; he used the fork to poke at some small pieces and slowly put them into his mouth.

Matsunaga Hazuki heard a chilling scraping sound.

It's lucky that she was still conscious and able to escape despite the terror. If she had encountered something truly beyond her imagination, she would probably be like her now—her brain completely shut down, unable to issue any commands.

She should close her eyes and not look, but all the muscles in her face were stiff, and she couldn't even open her mouth. She wanted to scream, but she had forgotten how to make a sound; the scream inside her was a raging storm, while her vocal cords outside were as hard as stone.

She should use her limbs to get up quickly, anything, even crawl, to escape. But... how could she escape? Or rather, how could she stand up? Where were her hands? Where were her legs? What muscles did she need to use to lift herself up?

"I have summoned demons and monsters; whoever reveals themselves before them, they will devour their heart..."

Suddenly, a nursery rhyme I had heard before popped into my head.

While she was looking for a clothing store in the shopping street, she heard three children circling around a child who was covering his ears, singing with mischievous smiles: "The poor man who has not escaped, let his relatives forget him."

Barnibu...it's the Barnibu monster!

Her rusted brain finally regained its function, and just as she was trying to figure out what she had seen, her blood rushed to her head and everything went black.

The tall, spider-like monster crunched and chewed the bones. It stretched out its long tongue, circled around, and licked the crumbs clean from its mouth. Its black eyes wandered aimlessly. When it saw Matsunaga Hazuki lying not far away, its eyes narrowed in a human-like manner, and it moved closer.

The opening in its mouth widened again, eventually resembling a chasm across its head. When it opened its mouth, its upper and lower teeth could almost form a straight line.

Not far away, the fleeing students felt like they were about to die from running. Everyone involuntarily slowed down, and hot air spurted from their lungs.

They looked at each other, their minds a complete blank, filled with neither fear nor despair.

"run."

That was the only word on their minds.

They heard running footsteps, which were getting closer and closer.

But it didn't chase after us from behind; instead, it rushed in from the front.

An orange shadow came into view.

"Run back! There's a monster!" a student shouted, then, afraid his words might sound like he was just acting, added, "There really is a monster!"

The orange figure moved incredibly fast, startling the students who were caught off guard as he appeared beside them in the blink of an eye. They heard the person in the orange jacket say:

"Run away."

……

She had no external injuries.

He should wake up in a while.

The male voice was muffled and sounded very young.

"But looking at it... sweating so much, it must have been quite frightened."

It was a different person, someone who sounded older. Then something covered me, making my forehead itchy, and my sweaty hair stuck to my face was brushed aside.

Is it a palm?

A warm touch came from my forehead, something soft and warm seeped into my skin, making my groggy head feel more comfortable, and my breathing gradually returned to normal.

"That's good, ah, Samuel? What have you discovered?"

“There are at least four victims,” a similarly younger voice, cooler than the previous one, said, “That small alien beast was somewhat…”

She couldn't hear what came after that. The unknown thing coming from that palm was so captivating, reminding her of the home where her mother was still alive. She was asleep in the warm ocean, the fear brought by the Banib monster was kept at bay, and finally stopped raging in her dreams.

When she regained consciousness, she was at home. Matsunaga Hazuki vaguely remembered waking up once in the middle of the night, but she didn't know if it was a hallucination or a dream.

A noise came from outside, and a figure that hadn't been seen for many days came to the bedside: "Drink your medicine."

Her father, Matsunaga Yoichiro, was doing something mysterious, sometimes not returning home for days on end, to the point that Matsunaga Hazuki suspected he had forgotten about his daughter.

He gently placed the cup on the bedside table, and the brown liquid inside rippled in tiny circles.

"I'm not sick," Matsunaga Hazuki said, finding her voice sound like two dry porcelain shards rubbing together.

"You had a cold, and you went to the park in too little clothing, and someone found you collapsed there... You're such a grown man, really..."

“I’d like to,” the daughter hesitated for a moment, then finally picked up the cup. The medicine was warm, making her palms slightly hot. “I’m going to see the apricot blossoms.”

"It's not the season for flowers to bloom now."

"I know, I'm willing!" Matsunaga Hazuki's resentment, which she had managed to suppress, surged up again. She sullenly gulped down the medicine in one go and lay down again: "I'm sleepy, thank you, Father."

Matsunaga Yoichiro was already used to her unfamiliarity. He put away the cup and slowly walked out, closing the door and leaving the room dark and quiet again.

Outside the room, Matsunaga Yoichiro answered Shuto Saya's call.

"It's all over now. The memory erasure didn't have a big impact." She had time to sulk with herself, thinking that the incident of the small alien beast attack must have been completely erased from her memory, otherwise a person who was frightened into unconsciousness wouldn't behave so normally when they woke up.

Inside the room, Matsunaga Hazuki buried herself under the covers.

An unknown warmth still enveloped her. She remembered waking up halfway through the night, and a person in a black suit shining a white light on her, saying, "You didn't see anything."

Then, as if her brain had been struck by a heavy hammer, she fell into a deep sleep again. The warm energy from before was still circulating, but it had weakened considerably—even so, it still gave her a sense of security.

Those people...who are those three voices?

The Baniboo Monster is real, the nursery rhyme is real.

Did they manage to survive, and were the Banib monsters destroyed?

Chapter 117 You've Come Back to Life

"boom--!"

Qian Shulian held the shockwave gun horizontally in one hand and grabbed the person who had been tumbling down the stairs in fright and shock with the other.

"Every day, every day, something's weird..."

“Alright, it’s alright, Uncle,” Qian Shulian walked out of the old apartment building, put him down, and straightened his position: “A doctor will be here soon.”

Upstairs, to be precise, on the 5th floor, is the fire escape.

The cement walls were cracked, the stair railings were twisted and widened, and there were pits on the ground spewing out stone chips. Some of them had even pierced through the floor slab, allowing a view downstairs.

The entire passageway was a terrible sight, as if it had been run over by a dump truck, enough to give even the most skilled craftsman a major headache.

A real and an illusory figure stood in the damaged stairwell.

"How many small alien beast attacks are there now?" The person speaking was fiddling with a stone in his hand, opening and closing it, and golden threads were fading from his body.

The illusory figure stood with his arms crossed, eyes closed, and head bowed. If you looked closely, you could see that his toes were slightly off the ground—he was floating!

“I’ve found you,” Aiba Yu said.

As the last note faded, a semi-transparent shadow appeared above the stairwell. He reached one hand into the void, but half of his forearm didn't go in. Then he pulled back with a sudden burst of strength!

There was indeed a "truck" collision in the stairwell, and Aiba Yu grabbed the tail of a small alien beast that was about the size of the truck.

It also presents a state of being both real and illusory. Aiba Yu has seen a similar situation before—the invisible alien beast in the hot spring town is good at stuffing itself into other phases, which made it take the Night Raid Team a lot of effort to set a trap to capture it.

The alien beast in front of him did have some similarities to it, but it did not have a bony shell on its skin, its defense was weak, it was weaker, and its ability to hide itself was poor, so much so that it revealed its aura. Aiba Yu was able to follow the obvious clues and drag it out of its nest.

"Crack, hiss—"

The alien beast pinned its claws to the ground, trying to stop itself from being pulled away, but its tail felt like it was being scorched by something, and then the same burning sensation spread throughout its body.

"Hey, if we get it out, this stairwell will be a disaster again, the building..."

"The ladder will collapse!" Jun Sakuma warned Yu Aiba, who twisted his wrist, and the flames that were merely meant to restrain him suddenly rose several meters high. The intense heat began to carbonize the alien beast inside from the outer shell, starting from the weakest point. The truck-sized monster was forever trapped in the other phases.

Aiba Yu turned around, half puzzled, and said, "The Order of the Light Chaser will provide energy. You can go to other places to investigate."

"You're making me even more panicked! What if I run far away and encounter a monster, and it runs out of energy and you're not here? Then I'll be..." Sakuma Jun's face turned green at the thought of Karin crying: "Tell me how long it can last?"

Aiba Yu's expression remained unchanged, but he answered a little slowly: "Well... as long as your heart is turned towards the light..."

Jun Sakuma looked at him as if he were a charlatan who was talking nonsense and trying to fool people.

If someone like you had fallen into my hands back then, you would have been handcuffed with a custom-made silver bracelet, you know that!

Aiba Yu's next words interrupted his thoughts that were drifting towards the wandering swindler: "I thought you had already discovered that you had recovered, Jun."

"Huh?" Jun Sakuma looked at his hand, which had returned to normal after the gold thread was removed, and then looked up at Yu Aiba, that ghost-like young man.

"It doesn't matter if you break away from me. Right now, whether it's me or it, giving you energy is only to deal with the alien beasts."

In other words... the phenomenon of a corpse turning into a living person, which Aiba Yu knows, is generally referred to as...

"You've come back to life."

The person, still basking in surprise, suddenly felt goosebumps erupt all over their body: "Watch your words!"

Sooner or later I'll drag you and Huali together to have a proper Chinese language lesson with Genrai Shinzo!