Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

What is fear?

To the subterranean monster Gil, it was probably an empty lava nest.

It's not a giant creature that likes to go out and expand its territory or search for fresh food. For it, the greatest happiness is probably... eating and sleeping, waking up to slurp up some lava that suits its taste, and sleeping peacefully without being disturbed.

Naturally, it has a bad temper when it wakes up.

Yesterday, some alien bastard was dancing on its roof with a megaphone, yelling "Get up!" Just as it was thinking about whether to chase him away, he stomped on it without any restraint, landing with a loud "thud," which completely woke it up with the deafening roar of an earthquake and the sound of lava.

Kiru woke up.

It spent the whole day mentally preparing itself and finally convinced itself to go out and see the world.

If that bastard is still around, beat him up and make him reflect on his actions.

If that bastard isn't around, just find something to vent your anger on and teach him a lesson.

We can't let our morale falter before the fight begins!

Heading towards the uncharted territory, towards the subterranean monster Gil, they decide to charge!

This is the anger from the earth; embrace the surge of "passion"!

The flames in Gil's heart blazed fiercely!

"Roar——!"

The upward-rushing heat source suddenly came to a halt overhead.

"...Hoo hoo?"

Something... is staring at me.

The moment it was locked onto by an unknown aura, the subterranean monster Gil felt a new kind of fear.

Second only to waking up to find the lava nest completely solidified and the monster milkshake turned into an old brick.

The source of the aura was on the ground, and it was very small. Kiru felt that if he took a bite, it wouldn't even be enough to fill a tooth gap.

But as that aura swept across the skin, it was like a cold, indestructible knife. It effortlessly sliced ​​through the outer shell of the skin and pierced into the flesh like a needle. In that instant, a chill swept over, and the heart stopped.

Unable to see outside from its underground location, it seemed to "see" a ferocious, jet-black beast covered in scales, its golden eyes as dazzling as the sun, so intense and radiant that one dared not look directly at it. It was so powerful and majestic. If that were all, Gil wouldn't be afraid; it was confident it could fight, for even a subterranean monster possessed its own formidable power and majesty.

But that guy also had a familiar, faint scent of "Earth's Father" that was present on the surrounding rocks.

"You're sleepy, go back to sleep," said the owner of that aura.

"Awoo~" Giloo whimpered and retreated.

In XIG's monitoring, this is reflected as the heat source markers returning to the underground.

"Operation terminated." Atsuko Sasaki's communication device stopped Seiichiro Tsutsumi and Gamu Takayama, who were about to board the Peace Ship.

They exchanged a glance with Atsushi Kamiyama, who had already fastened his seatbelt. The latter took off his sunglasses, looked up at the hangar monitor, and Atsuko Sasaki read a sense of bewilderment in his calm expression on the monitor.

The heat sources that later appeared on the ground also disappeared. Akio Ishimuro gave new instructions to Gamu Takayama, who was confused about the situation in the video: "Two abnormal heat sources. Confirm their identities. The on-site data will be delivered to you by a special person."

……

Upstairs from the café, in Kinoshita Kei's room.

As the transmigrator was exchanging text messages with Xianyu face-to-face, he felt a cool breeze blow from behind. When he turned around, he found that the window was open and a blurry shadow was coming in from there.

"Where did you go, Brother Shadow?"

Aiba Yu's gaze swept over Kinoshita Kei and Pito beside him.

Pito has gone from being a lazy bum to a doll "wife," and is now diligently writing on a whiteboard.

With her white twin ponytails, slender waist, and little red dress, the picture is quite nice, if you ignore the fact that she occasionally "breaks bones" or dislocates joints, only to be corrected by the person opposite her.

Since the salted fish's body couldn't write, it could only roll around. The short-haired cat was good at pressing a plum blossom with one paw, but it wasn't good at writing either. This kind of thing really had to be done by a human. The salted fish, full of anticipation, transformed into the form that the obedient little Jing liked the most.

“Girl, you’ve lost another finger,” Kinoshita Keishin said calmly. “Writing doesn’t require so much force to grip the pen; you need to use your wrist, your wrist… ah!”

With a "crack," the "wife" who used wrist strength went from a fingerless Xuanyuan to a handless Xuanyuan.

Kinoshita Kei laughed without a trace of sympathy: "Tragic news! The Salted Fish King lost its 'Kingly Power' in its battle with the marker, bokuno, o~no qikala, da—!"

Aiba Yu understood every word, but he couldn't understand the joke at all when they were put together. He saw this human form of Uranus, the predetermined mastermind behind the scenes, laughing so hard he was rolling on the floor, while Pito knelt on the ground like a lady, completely at a loss.

Indeed at a loss, he tried to use his other, intact hand to fix his loose joint, but the result was that he hurt himself more than he hurt the enemy. His great effort did not produce a miracle; instead, it sent his intact arm flying, and his delicate, white jade-like hand rolled to his feet.

Pito tried to stand up, but with two crisp cracking sounds, he collapsed to the ground. Kinoshita Kei couldn't help but think of the first "crunch" between his teeth when biting into the cartilage connecting the meat and bone.

sound.

"I quit!" The doll "wife" turned back into a salted fish in a ball of white light, tears streaming down her face as she rolled on the ground: "I haven't been able to write a complete sentence all morning! I'll never praise 'the children's language is so beautiful' again! Musar, you write it!"

After laughing enough, Kinoshita Kei pointed to his "wives" protected by an acrylic cover. These were tiny plastic figures, much smaller than ball-jointed dolls: "Don't cry, Salty Fish King. My 'Rose Wish' is prone to losing parts. It's a shady factory, all they care about is good looks... You can pick from these figures; they definitely won't lose joints."

The salted fish didn't understand Kinoshita Kei's obsession with seeing the paper figures come to life. It carefully moved over and observed these little guys. Only by collecting complete information could it transform into the form of its target.

"Where did you go? I think I just heard a silly kid who just woke up shouting 'Daddy, don't hit me!'" Salty Fish asked, rolling his dead fish eyes.

“I’ll let it go back to sleep.” Aiba Yu walked to the whiteboard, materialized it, and prepared to pick up the marker.

Kinoshita Kei jumped up with a "Holy crap!"

"Who are you, boss?!" he yelled at the person who suddenly appeared so close to him. "Shadow... Brother Shadow?"

Aiba Yu's hand froze in mid-air.

Time stood still at that moment.

The loud roar reminded him that he seemed to have been in a "power-saving" ghost mode in front of Kinoshita Kei, never forming a physical form. The fact that he could see a slight outline was already a sign of talent, or rather, the power of Uranus was indeed merging with him.

However, there is still a problem: Aiba Yu is used to using consciousness dialogue in "power saving" mode, which can be clearly heard even by the Seagull Team members who are ordinary people, while Kinoshita Kei can only "intercept" the blurry sound.

Putting aside why Kinoshita Kei couldn't hear the consciousness dialogue, Aiba Yu discovered that the "communication problem" that had been bothering him for days could actually be easily solved by simply increasing the energy consumption a little? Now that he had a physical body, he used his vocal cords instead of his thoughts when speaking, causing the air to vibrate. And since the other person wasn't deaf, they could naturally hear him.

This time, the salted fish was quick-witted. With a "whoosh," it sprang over and tried to deliver a series of slaps to Aiba Yu's face, but unfortunately, it was once again firmly caught by the other party's tail of fate.

"Idiot! Fool! You're such a moron, you're as stupid as can be!" The salted fish used its full strength to charge, desperately twisting its body in his palm: "How could a successful planet like mine, with billions of years of experience and high intelligence, not notice this... It must be your problem!"

Chapter Ten Doubts

"Ah... So, the Salted Fish King, no, Pito, is Earth's consciousness? Star, Star Voice?"

Kinoshita Kei stroked his chin and leaned closer to the lazy face, who bounced around and shouted, "@＃＆!*＃..."

Kinoshita Kei's eyes and nose twisted together again, and Pito's voice sounded like a thousand erhu and suona horns and violins playing and singing like sawing wood.

"Could it be that they're trying to seduce me...? Isn't Voices of a Distant Star a high-class organization? How could they have such an oddball?" Kinoshita Kei thought about it more and more and more uneasy: "But what's the point of them seduce me? I don't have anything of value on me."

Kinoshita Kei considers himself to have average intelligence, no special physical abilities, and an ordinary family background, like a drop in the ocean. The only things he's ever been robbed of are the small amount he earns from his coffee shop. But if there's one secret about him—it's his identity as a time traveler.

"Brother, let me tell you, you're a character in a tokusatsu drama, living in someone else's script. Your life is just a story someone else made up." After hearing this, Kinoshita Kei felt like either his memories were being stolen and his script was being taken, or the other person had gone insane and smashed his small body into mud.

Kinoshita Kei felt that he was making the most of every day he lived. He still had unfulfilled wishes, such as getting an authentic autograph from a genuine human, or watching the king of cool act. This world was more exciting than when he first arrived, and there were still many things he wanted to see.

So, he needs to get past this hurdle first. Regardless of why the other party has been bothering him for so many days—whether sincerely or with ulterior motives—Kinoshita Kei has only one thing to do: remain still. He can't win by taking action anyway; he'll just have to see what his two older brothers want from him. The etiquette of a transmigrator: when you're still a fledgling, you must play it safe and wait until you've developed before harassing the enemy jungle.

Kinoshita Kei didn't recall anyone saying that there was a physical projection of Earth's consciousness in Gaia TV, nor did he recall anyone mentioning the light of the sky in addition to the earth and ocean. If what the Salted Fish King said was true, then he would probably have to change his understanding again and be convinced that there were some strange Gaia worlds in his timeline.

"I've seen too many plots like Earthlings being tricked by aliens into doing weird things and causing trouble for Ultraman!" Kinoshita Kei thought, "Don't be stupid enough to think that the light of the sky is a windfall and that the protagonist template has been activated. Pah, I don't believe your nonsense."

With this thought in mind, Kinoshita Kei roused himself and looked at the shadowy figure that had suddenly appeared: "Ham... Pito is Earth, what about you?"

The shadowy figure was dressed in what appeared to be a uniform, but it wasn't the uniform of any defense force or organization he knew. The face was unfamiliar, and it wasn't any tokusatsu actor he recognized.

“Aiba Yu,” the other person said, “or you can call me Samuel. I have received a request for help from Earth in this world, that is, from Pito, to deal with the ‘crisis that could lead to our destruction’.”

Kinoshita Kei was taken aback; this explanation sounded pretty impressive...

“Wait, ‘this world’?” Kinoshita Kei realized the key point: “You’re not from here.”

people? "

Aiba Yu didn't think there was anything he couldn't say. The other party was recognized by the Earth's consciousness as the human form of Uranus, and sooner or later he would find out who was fighting alongside him.

So he replied, "I come from Earth in another universe."

"!!!" Kinoshita Kei held back for a long time before finally swallowing the coded messages "odd changes, even remains the same" and "Heavenly King covers the Earth Tiger". He stammered as he opened his mouth and asked the question asked by the locals: "...Were there also giants and monsters like those that appeared yesterday?"

Aiba Yu nodded.

……

After a brief exchange, Kinoshita Kei went to help out at the coffee shop.

Pito stared at the empty whiteboard for a while, then suddenly said, "He still doesn't believe us."

Yu Aiba could understand. If it were him, before he had ever encountered any extraordinary power, if someone jumped out and said, "You, you, you have something special about you. Let's get moving and save the world," he would probably think the person was crazy or a liar.

Pito had been in contact with Kinoshita Kei for quite some time, but they couldn't communicate because of the language barrier, and Uranus hadn't woken up for many years. Perhaps Kinoshita Kei just thought of himself as an unlucky person who could see monsters or ghosts.

“As long as Uranus can awaken, this doubt is not a problem.” Aiba Yu found a rag that Kinoshita Kei had draped over the windowsill to wipe the mess left by the Salted Fish King, but the Salted Fish King was still immersed in the sadness of his good son not believing him. No matter how much Aiba Yu wiped away, his tears would overflow.

"Snapped!"

"Ugh? What are you doing?" Pito's vision went black as the rag was draped over his face, covering his large, constantly drooling dead fish eyes.

He heard that hateful foreign light say, "Pyto, you still haven't told me why Uranus became like this?"

……

"Sigh, all the materials I painstakingly collected have turned out like this." Inoue Rinbun slumped in front of the control panel, several large and small screens above his head displaying footage he had collected from various locations when the monster appeared yesterday.