Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

"A giant?" Tatsuhiko Yoneda breathed heavily as silver light poured in from outside the cockpit window, like an endless sea.

His fighter jet was struck in the wing by Bats' lightning, losing control of its flight attitude. Fighter, carrying its master, spiraled and crashed. Tatsuhiko Yoneda barely managed to stay conscious during the spin. He tried to recover, but the city lights rushed towards him at an unbelievable speed.

This reminded him of the starry sky he saw when he was pulling up at full speed.

Immediately afterward, the starry sky suddenly turned into daylight, and a cushioning force supported the fighter jet. "Captain, Captain! Are you alright?" Lin Xingshi's voice came and went, the communication equipment, with its extremely poor condition, only managing to send out fragmented syllables.

Tatsuhiko Yoneda lifted up, still immersed in the dizziness.

The head, spinning in the air, raised its hand across the cockpit to signal to the team members that it was still alive.

Samuel dropped off the Falcon team's lead plane and flew towards the direction that Bats and the Cool Dragons, who had come to their aid, were chasing.

"The key to beyond-visual-range combat lies in overcoming the instinct to 'trust what you see,'" Cool Dragon team member, Tadano Kei, silently repeated in her mind the combat tips her captain had told her: "In situations like this, instrument data is your eyes; trust your vehicle, it's your most loyal comrade-in-arms..."

An arc of electricity flashed across the cabin, briefly illuminating the night sky and clouds. Tadano Kei was able to see the raindrops that received that instant of light.

"Find the rhythm of the enemy's attack; that's the wheel that will carry you out of danger."

"Rhythm, rhythm..." Tadano Kei suddenly lowered the altitude, crescent-shaped arcs of electricity gleaming her helmet. She was still shaken: "This monster is so fierce!"

Bats doesn't speak human language. As cosmic thunder beasts, their speech is always like thunder, a roar that fills their mouths. Coupled with their ferocious appearance and the electric snakes that accompany them, even when they're just standing on the ground like a launch tower chasing the Cool Dragon team's fighter jets, they give the impression that they could pounce on them at any moment and smash those small planes in their perilous situations.

But Samuel could vaguely "hear" its voice, or rather, sense its current emotions.

This massive creature stretched out its neck and roared, with thunderstorms singing its song and wind and rain accompanying it. And in the dead of night, it was the perfect opportunity to sweep away the city with wind, rain, thunder, and lightning as easily as taking something out of a bag.

But it is fearful.

Fear of the pitch-black night, the icy rain, and human fighter jets.

It feared the roar of the engine, the sound of the machine gun firing, and the scorching shrapnel pouring down on it.

It even fears the thunderbolts that seem to echo its own power from afar.

For a moment, Samuel wondered if what he was seeing was not some monster tens of meters tall, but a fledgling that had fallen out of its nest. However, this "fledgling" was too powerful and its mind was as simple as that of an ordinary animal, so it was used by someone with ulterior motives as a tool to attack Earth.

Indeed, Samuel believed that the spatial portal was deliberately laid out by someone to drop Gob and Bats. Perhaps there were other hidden portals elsewhere, through which confused monsters stumbled and were all led to Earth.

"Don't be afraid." Samuel leaped up and landed in front of it. Bats instinctively flung the thunderstorm at him. At the same time, the Cool Dragons seized the fleeting opportunity and aimed their crosshairs at Bats's bent horns.

"Sizzle, boom, boom—!"

The explosion, mixed with the lightning that instantly illuminated the night, obscured people's vision. As the light cooled and the white mist evaporated from the high temperature, it returned to the sky. When the Cool Dragon team members could see the situation under their feet, they couldn't help but slightly open their jaws.

The giant shoved the monster aside, and bullets from the machine gun pelted him. The electric snakes that Batz controlled coiled around his armor, crackling and popping. Batz uneasily swung his thick tail, and trees fell one after another under its sweep, the rain-soaked soil drooping on the branches.

"What exactly is the giant planning?" The Falcon Team members, who had crash-landed outside the battlefield, looked puzzled. The giant's behavior had exceeded their expectations ever since Bokulagu attacked Chiba Prefecture.

First, he protected the sea monster covered in seaweed under the blue giant's command, and now he is protecting Gob and the monster that controls lightning.

If he's on the side of the monsters, then why did he fight against Mezad and just save me? But if he's on the side of humanity, then why is he protecting the monsters?

"Stop guessing, the imager still works." Lin Xingshi adjusted the recording parameters. They were powerless to even think about taking off for combat, so now they could only be excellent intelligence gatherers. They could use the remaining power in the fighter jets to record the actions of all parties during this rainy night.

Whether it's the silver giant or the red giant, their tendencies in their battles against monsters will become the basis for XIG to judge their danger.

Batss let out a low howl, twisted his body, and his tail whip came whistling through the air.

Samuel leaped into the air to dodge the attack, using a light shield as a suppressive weapon, banishing the urge to use a flying kick. He blocked Bats's advance, the light shield deflecting the lightning flashing from its horns, the armor parrying its teeth and charges, and Samuel simultaneously reaching out with his free hand to catch its claws as they slashed at him.

The best solution would be to put the frenzied Thunder Beast into Meta Realm and let it soak in ice water to calm it down. However, Gob is still outside. If Samuel enters Meta Realm, he cannot keep track of Gob's movements at all times. He cannot be sure if Gob will cause any more problems and turn its attention to the city.

His concerns were valid; Gobu had indeed shown unusual behavior.

Just as he had Batz under control, and Starshine and Liskarm were entangled, with Batz unable to break free, White Gob suddenly stretched out its head and let out the deepest, most resentful hiss since hatching.

“Crack—” Samuel heard a crisp cracking sound coming from the barrier he had set up.

The light curtain surrounds the Gob, protecting both the Gob larvae and the city outside.

The white Gobu, unwilling to be confined here, pushed its newly hatched larvae toward the brown Gobu whose skin had turned a deathly gray, hummed softly, and turned itself toward the barrier of aurora.

It brandished its scythe-like arms, and crisscrossing white arcs and scissor-like slits appeared on the light screen. Before the light screen disappeared, it forcefully crashed out.

The barriers that blocked it shattered like snowflakes.

"His!"

The white Gob moved like the wind and was as heavy as a mountain. Samuel was stunned to see it charging toward him!

Chapter Sixty-Eight: A Gift of Death

"Linwen, did you get the footage?! Oh, and pan the camera up a bit too. Those planes can't be broadcast, but we can collect the footage. We might need it someday. Pay attention to the shooting angle!"

“It’s not Linwen, it’s Lunwen…” Inoue Lunwen complained while staring at the camera: “If you keep making mistakes like Ms. Reiko, I will absolutely, absolutely not bring you takeout meals again.”

"Then I'll bring my own lunch." Kenji Tabata leaned against the back seat and looked to the side. The windshield wipers were already on the highest setting, but the downpour was more intense than expected. They had to stop near the entrance to the ring expressway, where there was a gas station. They could take shelter under the awning and avoid the miserable experience of eating rainwater and drinking cold wind.

Inoue Rinbun struggled to lift the camera and stick the lens out of the car window. Although it was waterproofed, the rain made him nervous about the lens's waterproof performance.

“Gaia is over there!” Reiko Yoshii pointed to the rear of the vehicle, where the red giant was battling the fleshy spikes that grew from the “meteorite” in the high-temperature steam.

"This, this..." Inoue Rinfumi hesitated, torn between the battle in the suburbs and the rescue in the city. The camera wasn't far away; if he didn't move it, he wouldn't be able to capture both Titans, but moving it would make the scene look chaotic. Unable to decide, he looked at the leader of the trio, Tabata Kenji.

"It would be great if we had two cameras, so we could shoot from multiple angles." Reiko Yoshii adjusted her hair in front of the rearview mirror, checking for any smudges on her lipstick.

"It's late at night, and with those yellowish streetlights shining on you, no one can tell if you're wearing makeup or not. That's enough," Inoue Rinfumi said.

Reiko Yoshii scoffed at the rough man's words: "I'm the one facing the camera, every single strand of my hair has to... huh?"

She moved her face closer to see the reflection in the rearview mirror. From her angle, she could just see Bats's thick tail, with occasional silver bodies bumping into the frame, as if a giant was trying to stop it.

Now another white shadow crashes in from behind, like a mud truck suddenly appearing on an empty road.

The white "mud truck" crashed headfirst into the dark, thunderous beast with a deafening roar.

"Ughhhhh!!!" Yoshii Reiko was instinctively horrified by what she saw and backed away, pressing herself against the seat cushion. If she hadn't realized that she was only seeing a reflection, she would have almost opened the car door and run away.

"What's going on?!" Inoue Rinbun turned his gaze away from the "meteorite" and Gaia.

"A monster, a monster..." Reiko Yoshii's trembling hand pointed towards the outskirts of the city: "A monster eats a monster!!!"

……

It's fortunate that Gob didn't attack the city or target XIG's fighters.

The rain poured down, and the night air felt as heavy and cold as if it were made of iron, stretching as far as the eye could see.

Tokyo is brightly lit, and even late at night, the city retains a great deal of vitality, like the Milky Way falling to earth through thick clouds.

The splendor behind me was scattered by the rain, the magnificent colors like an oil painting being smeared. The thunder in front of me was shrouded by a deeper, hoarse sound, "crack, crack," the twisting sounds of bones breaking and tendons tearing were played by the drumbeats of the rainstorm, hitting my heart again and again.

Gob turned his attention to his enemy, Bats, who had destroyed the egg case.

Samuel restricted Bats' movements, creating a perfect opportunity for Gob—it saw this, so it broke through the barrier, rushing headlong into the dazzling lightning with a sharp whistle and magma rolling in its throat!

Bats's flesh was ripped open by its sharp teeth, and its iron-scythe-like claws pierced deep into its body, causing blood and foam to gush out like a fountain.

Time seemed to slow down. Samuel could clearly see Gob's tiny, sharp teeth breaking due to his master's reckless actions and Batss's thick skin. But it didn't matter that they were broken; Gob wanted to tear open its flesh and bones, letting its contents, like its kin bursting from their egg cases, be submerged in the rain of this planet.

Mixed with fragments of flesh and blood was Gob's flesh. Bats once again unleashed the thunder, and Gob's white skin, as if branded with a hot iron, was covered with winding charcoal snakes.

Gob's sharp teeth and sickle ripped Batzs open, and Batzs's lightning scorched Gob's skin, turning it into parched, cracked earth. Samuel could sense their life force, rapidly withering and decaying.

Two monsters, suddenly thrown into an unfamiliar environment, desperately try to protect themselves out of fear, and inadvertently become enemies, fighting each other for life millions of light-years from their home.

The blood mingled with the spray of rain, and "death," like a gray snake, gracefully coiled itself around two monsters determined to fight to the death.

Samuel had seen similar scenes before. If you traced back along the timeline from now on, it was nothing more than a battle between monsters. He had seen Bogaru lick his hands contentedly after hunting, and he had also seen native monsters from some planets fighting for territory when he was on missions for the Yapool.

Even earlier, much earlier, he himself had almost become one of those monsters.

But things are completely different now. Back then, Samuel had not yet gained the power of "change," and faced with the passing of life and death...

Faced with the decree, he was like a fool trying to trap quicksand with his fingers.

If this is the method used by the Destruction Summoning Entity...

He rushed between the two monsters, his fingers dipping into the thick blood. Bats and Gob were already on the verge of death; perhaps if they continued fighting like this, their corpses would lie side by side.

The exposed tendons felt warm to the touch. He slowly channeled his energy into the deep, bone-revealing wound. The rain kept washing away the fresh blood, but thicker blood kept gushing out. His palm felt like it was blocking a pulsating spring.

Samuel did not give up despite the rapidly deteriorating situation; his gaze remained unwavering, fixed solely on the wounds inflicted by Bats and Gob.

Here is the skeleton, the missing part somehow thrown into the soil somewhere during the struggle; here is a piece of fascia, probably in Gobu's digestive tract; this is a blood vessel, it should be connected to the missing half of the internal organ from the gap in front.

The Yapool dissected countless experimental subjects, using various monsters as models to combine and assemble new "products." Samuel had seen many "materials" at that time, but he never expected that this useless knowledge would be effective in this situation, let alone that his power would one day be used to save monsters.

"Isn't that the monstrous bio-weapon of the Root Destruction Summoning Entity? Could we be trying to save it?" Lin Xingshi of the Falcon Team tapped his helmet. Due to Bats' weakness, communications had finally begun to recover. He said to his superior, "Shouldn't the first observer write a report on this kind of anomalous behavior?"

Tatsuhiko Yoneda watched him quietly.

Lin Xingshi clicked his tongue: "It's just my bad luck."

"Monster bio-weapon," Samuel overheard their conversation from afar, as if he were seeing Font standing in front of him again, calling himself a "light particle bio-weapon."

That was their research institute, its walls a uniform metallic gray, just like the night sky, seemingly eternally unchanging.

This is a small gift to mark our meeting.

Samuel looked up, and from the distorted waves of space above, came a faint sound, like the wind blowing and clouds churning.

Chapter Sixty-Nine: A Rescue That Was Staged for Extortion

"Hey, the noise outside has stopped." Kinoshita Kei squatted under the cement slab and used a move called "Overlord Lifting the Tripod" to try to lift the heavy thing.

Thanks to Uranus's enhanced hearing, the sounds of the giants fighting the monsters sounded to him like a passionate symphony of ten thousand suonas and gongs.