Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

Takayama Gamu nodded repeatedly, the only one in the entire command room who understood. Chiba Tatsumi, finally unable to tolerate the observation department's tendency to forget everything once they started reading the data, interrupted, "Get to the point, tell me the results."

“Hmm…” The orange-clad observer from the observation department flipped through the thick report to the last page: “Simply put, we have detected an unusual signaling focus within a 300-meter radius of the shopping district near the Statue of Liberty in Tokyo, with an error margin of no more than 84 meters.”

"Abnormal message transmission?" Ishimuro Akio asked.

They were puzzled and awaited his further explanation.

“Actually, we’ve been keeping an eye on that place ever since the ‘Celestial Realm’ appeared. The abnormal signaling started from then on. In the default logic of our equipment, everyone actually has a signaling device on them, such as a telephone, and even everyone is a source of constantly radiating heat.” The orange-clad man looked around, picked up a glass of water and gestured to everyone: “Most of these signals are like water waves, slowly spreading and weakening in the air.”

“But, ‘abnormal transmission’,” he slammed his water glass on the table, the ripples spreading out before being contained within the glass, “just like the water in this glass, it appears suddenly and disappears without warning, as if it’s been blocked by something or ‘swallowed’ by something.”

"The 'water ripples' suddenly disappeared as if they had been swallowed up?"

"That's the idea. Normally, when you hit an obstacle, there will be a reflection. But the reason why an 'abnormal' is 'abnormal' is that it has absolutely no trace of reflection. We can only capture a part of it. The part that is swallowed up is like falling into an abyss out of thin air."

"Then what swallowed it?"

"Either there is some special material around it that we don't know about, which can completely erase the signal, or—don't you think it's very similar to Gobu, which also appeared suddenly? Only the result is reversed."

Takayama Gamu was the first to react: "You guys guessed it was a cross-dimensional message?! And it was swallowed by another dimension?"

The guy from the observation department gave a thumbs up: "As expected of a genius from the Alchemy Star, you quickly came up with a conclusion even though we are from different professions. I'm here firstly to report on the progress of the work, and secondly to ask you for a favor."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Of course, we'll use our connections on Alchemy Star to find traces of the alternate dimension," the orange-clad man said, carefully folding up his scattered reports one by one. He then gave Ishimuro Akio a solemn pledge: "We will continue to monitor the source of that message. As long as he dares to make any further moves, we can pinpoint the location to within ten meters immediately!"

Chapter 71 The Guest of M91

“Since it was I who requested your request, we will certainly do our best,” said Daniel McAfee, the chairman of Alchemy Star, tapping the rumbling machine behind him as he faced the screen. “And we are doing just that.”

The machine behind him had a jet-black casing, its surface smooth and still, like a calm lake at night. I dreamt that he deliberately moved the camera, turning it to a different angle so he could see the whole thing.

“This is it, the improved Sky Surveyor, but instead of capturing stars, it captures life signals,” Daniel McFee said. “The Guard searches for suspicious signals on Earth, and we go into space to find the source of those monsters.”

……

"This is your home?"

An unfamiliar planet, with towering mountains and white trees, and three suns hanging in the sky—one white, one blue, and one red—it's truly fantastical.

However, for the monsters living on this planet, perhaps the most fantastical thing is that a vortex appears in the sky and a silver giant falls from it.

The ruby ​​sparkled on his chest, and Samuel looked up to make sure there was plenty of light before he felt a little more comfortable.

He escorted Bats far away to its own herd before putting down the white Gob, who had just woken up.

The white Gobu was still somewhat weak. When it landed, its limbs wouldn't obey its commands, and it sat down on the ground with a thud. Two newly hatched Gobu chicks climbed onto its feet and waded over to lick its face. The white Gobu let out a long hiss.

That day, after stabilizing Batz and Gob's injuries, Samuel took the two monsters and Gob's larva and tore open the previous spatial passage again. The creator of it obviously did not want him to complete the journey smoothly. After he sealed the exit to Earth, the passage was no longer there when he turned back, and what replaced it was a turbulent flow.

Bats and the white Gob were quite well-behaved; they passed out after a life-or-death battle, so Samuel didn't need to worry about them fighting again. Along the way, only the two little Gobs hopped up and down on him, poking him left and right with their tiny beaks like young birds, showing no sense of tension in their perilous situation. It made one wonder if they were really not free-range chickens from Earth.

Finding a way through the turbulent waters with these behemoths was no easy task. Samuel finally sensed the remnants of an exit, crashed through, and found himself in a desolate mountainside.

The Bats tribe lived in the distance. Samuel abandoned the Thunder Beast, which was snoring and still spewing lightning from its nose, and went to find a home for Gob.

It is clear that the enemy sent Gob and Bats through two separate routes. Samuel found the one that led Bats to Earth, while Gob's route was on the other side of this planet.

Now that Gob has returned home, the silver giant sits down in relaxation, light particles rise into the sky, he de-gigantifies, and returns to the form of Aiba Yu.

He looked around and saw that under the clear blue sky was Gobu's true incubation ground.

The egg cases covered the mountain hollows, resembling hard stones. The planet's main color was gray, perhaps due to its azure sun. The trees... or rather, the trees, were gnarled and twisted with rough fibers, their outer shells almost cement gray, so Gobu's egg cases used gray as camouflage.

"Is this your home?" Aiba Yu asked, looking up at the white Gobu who was now dozens of times taller than him. Gobu moved his newly grown arm and proudly showed him the location of the wound he had cut himself.

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"Yes, yes," Aiba Yu said, "you're all better now."

White Gobu blinked its bright yellow eyes, reflecting Aiba Yu's image.

The blue human clothes were slowly stained with deep red bloodstains, a "gift" from the spatial turbulence.

It moved closer, and the breath it exhaled from its nose almost hit the other person.

"Chiliu——"

In Gobu's mind, if you get hurt, you can just lick it and it will be fine. So it stretched out its tongue, which could cover the whole person, and unexpectedly smeared the other person's arm. It was only because Xiangye You dodged that it was not just a matter of sacrificing an arm.

"It will heal on its own!" Aiba Yu stared at his clothes, which were covered in saliva, with a conflicted expression. For the first time in many years, he felt the urge to "not want to wear this uniform," "just throw it away," and "burn it clean if I throw it away."

Gob was puzzled by his behavior and tried to lean forward with his head, which was taller than a person with one eye, but Aiba Yu pressed down on the tip of his nose.

The little Gobu had just climbed down from the mountain called Big Gobu. They reached the "mountain's" shoulder and looked down to see the giant had turned into a dwarf. They opened their mouths and cried out a few times, then jumped off the white Gobu with a "whoosh".

Aiba Yu caught them with his other hand as they fell like lead balls. In the hollow around him, which was full of egg cases, besides the sound of spring rain hitting the ground, there were also some hissing sounds belonging to the larvae.

Little Gobu blinked just like Big Gobu, and hopped along Xiangye You's arm all the way forward.

"Chiliu——"

Yes, that's definitely the smell of a giant.

"..."

There's no water here; I want to wash my face and hands.

Yuu Aiba suddenly understood how Kei Kinoshita felt when he discovered that his clean bed had been invaded by the seafood smell of salted fish.

If it were a cute little animal trying to get close to you, I could tolerate it, but Gobu's appearance is anything but cute! He can scare children to tears without hesitation!

No, I can't stand it no matter how cute it is!

Aiba Yu removed the two Gobu larvae from his body and decided...

Decide……

Its eyes were quite clear, and the cub's golden eyes blinked.

No! We can't let this distract us!

"Woo-quack~"

Even if your voice wasn't so fierce, I still...

"Gulu?"

They seemed to find Aiba Yu's body warm, and seeing that he didn't move for a long time, they climbed onto his legs and curled themselves into two balls.

...I'm also very sleepy and want to sleep right now. You're lying here, I need to move you so I can...

Aiba Yu withdrew his hands, crossed them to his chest, and adopted the same way he had rested in Sakuma Jun's consciousness space, which consisted of only a white floor.

The strange and unusual skills that are accidentally activated always end up being used in strange and unusual places.

"Sigh..." Aiba Yu sighed, took off his coat and covered the two Gobu balls with it.

You can cover yourselves up with clothes stained with your own saliva, okay?

Although this planet is not as colorful as Earth, what is most commendable about it for Aiba Yu is that it has three suns.

This temperature would make people on Earth want to spend all their time in water, but Aiba Yu thought it was just right.

The white Gobu glanced at the cubs, hissed softly, and moved its massive, mountain-like body to the human's side. It used its nose to pull Aiba Yu closer to itself, acting as a not-so-soft cushion.

“Jun’s place only has hard floors.” Aiba Yu thought of the rough, unfinished consciousness space that had made his whole body ache.

Although they're not very good at communicating, the monsters don't seem so bad.

The warm sunlight made Aiba Yu feel drowsy.

The white goblin retracted its sickle claws and quietly stood guard beside them. In the distance, life in the hatchery rustled and broke through its shell, letting out its first cry.

Chapter Seventy-Two: Gratitude and Fear

Kinoshita Kei's short vacation ended in chaos.

After Samuel tore open a spatial passage with the monster on his back, he disappeared without a trace. Kinoshita Kei and Pito waited and waited for him, but he didn't come back. Pito punched his palm and said, "Then I'll take on the heavy responsibility of special training myself!"

So, on his last two days off, Kinoshita Kei spent his time in the remote suburbs. When he returned to the café in the evening, his grandmother looked closely at the swollen bumps on his face. Before she could ask him anything, Kinoshita Kei answered, "I saw some thugs bullying students on the street, and I stood up for them!"

"Oh, then you should be careful too," Grandma said, unsuspecting.

Kinoshita Maho is really easy to fool, or rather, her trust in Kinoshita Kei makes her never doubt anything he says. For example, on the day the "meteorite" fell, he came back covered in so much dust that his own mother wouldn't recognize him, and his reason was that he "encountered a construction vehicle while jogging at night." His grandmother only said, "Go take a shower," and everything was fine. None of the ten thousand excuses that Kinoshita Kei had thought of were used.

Back in his room, Kinoshita Kei touched the swelling on his face that had been exposed by the leather strap, and gasped in pain.

"Why isn't Uranus showing up again this time!" He was full of confidence when he sparred with Pito, embodying the spirit of "I'm not afraid of being hit by a hammer," and charged at the muscular hero's blade.

Only Pitu changed the back of the knife, otherwise he felt he might have been split open.

Pitot had his own explanation for this: "Maybe it's because I'm Earth's father. When a father beats his son, Uranus knows he won't kill him, so he didn't come out."

"Hiss—you call this not killing me?"

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"I changed the back of the blade, huh? It'll only knock you unconscious for a while," the muscular man scratched the scar on his face. "Speaking of which, you're really no good. My physical condition is only slightly better than average. I beat you up entirely with my crude swordsmanship. Your physical condition is actually much better than mine now… yet you managed to get beaten so badly you were eating sand."

"Bullshit! My stats are high, but I'm basically a blank slate now. Your stats are low, but you have skills!"

"Oh, so when Musa... Samuel comes back, let him teach you how to fight?"

"You can't teach me? Don't you know swordsmanship?"

Pito rubbed his chin: "It's a copied move. I just instinctively know how to slash. As for why... why don't you buy some kendo books or something, and let my high-IQ, successful-planet-smart brain finish reading them?"