Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

If he could see further, he could see Gaia fighting outside the protective shield. The fire pillars spewed by Zolim were weakened by him before reaching the city. Only with such tiered defense could the giant beast's attack be contained.

But the giant beast's head had fully emerged from the wormhole, and its front claws had climbed out halfway. Its neck twisted flexibly, launching attacks on Gaia from all angles.

“I feel… a little,” Hitomi Onodera gasped, “a little short of breath.”

“It seems they haven’t dealt with Kadan,” Kinoshita Kei turned to the muscular man who had been silent all along, clutching his long sword tightly, and asked, “Pito, what’s the situation outside? Where are the enemies?”

“At sea,” Pito said in a muffled voice, “Xiao Jing, I told you before that I wasn’t feeling well, right?”

Kinoshita Kei quickly focused his attention.

"But just now, what made me..."

The discomfort was gone. Pito looked down at him, and for the first time, Kinoshita Kei saw fear on his face, something that the protagonist of "The Swordsman" would never have. But Kinoshita Kei had no mind to complain that Pito had ruined the shining image in his heart again.

Pito continued, "I can't sense Samuel anymore."

"Has your fellow villager eloped with another monster?" Kinoshita Kei laughed, but Pito didn't, so his laughter became dry.

"What exactly happened?"

Chapter 113 The Invalid Answer

Heaven and earth merged, like a stroke of crimson spreading across a whole patch. People remained silent. The three giants had vanished without a trace, and even Gaia, who provided the greatest sense of security, had disappeared without a trace behind the curtain of fire—as if there were a black hole behind the blazing barrier.

The one fighting the monster in front of everyone now... is also a monster, no, a dragon.

The black dragon stomped the gray monster into the river. The water, as if suspended by something, twisted itself into a rope and wrapped itself around the gray monster, which struggled incessantly inside.

The dragon looked a little tired. Well, he always had to focus his energy on the barrier in the air. Kinoshita Kei saw the steam rising from his nose.

Kinoshita Kei turned to look at Onodera Hitomi: "Have you finished reading your letter?"

Hitomi Onodera, panting heavily, said, "I finished reading it a long time ago, and I even told you what I secretly wrote later!"

Although not as severe as Hitomi Onodera's reaction, Kei Kinoshita could also feel the difficulty in breathing, as if running any further would cause him to suffocate and die.

“Um… Uranus?” he said to the blue storm swirling around him, “Show some oxygen?”

The storm swept like a pre-programmed machine, its trajectory clearly defined.

"A lot of people are going to suffocate, why don't you do something about it! Do you see the sky? The sky! The sky! Someone's burning your nest!" Kinoshita Kei said to the wind. If someone were to pass by at this moment, they would probably think he was crazy.

Perhaps even the storms see him as insane; they silently swirl around, dutifully waiting for the next "defense assessment."

"Hey, bro, big shot, boss! This isn't fair! A burning city, rampant enemies, escaping with a girl, and then some touching flashbacks—isn't this the perfect awakening condition?! If you can just be a little bit moved, like when you decided to go 'back' to deliver a message, you can cross the time rift and wake up, right? Huh?!"

A blue wind flowed past him as he created all the conditions for the awakening of important characters from the comics, novels, and scripts he had ever read. He wasn't sure if it would work, but he believed he could at least get some response.

But apart from his increasingly sophisticated staged accidents, nothing changed along the way. The storm still silently surrounded him, like a pre-written program that starts running as soon as you press enter. It would never go west if you told it to go east, but don't expect any "self-evolving" machine except for error messages.

Pito watched him jump up and down as if his voice had been muted, and finally whispered, "I told you before, your method of getting answers won't work. The problem isn't with Uranus, it's with yourself."

Hitomi Onodera couldn't see or hear Pito, but watched Kinoshita Kei jump around like a clown the whole time. He didn't remove the black garbage bag disguise, so it looked like something out of a horror movie.

"Kinoshita..."

"What else can I do? The actors have already gathered all their buffs and used them all, and you're telling me I can't use my ultimate because my energy isn't full? Do I really have to find someone who's about to die and beg them to save me, like last time when they responded to me?"

"Kinoshita!"

"But this city is dying! It will either be burned through by the fire from the sky—Amaterasu is really good at burning Tokyo when she's drunk! Or everyone will suffocate when the oxygen runs out! Those flames have accelerated the consumption of oxygen and cut off external support. Even a special supply of oxygen by the canister can isn't enough!"

"Kinoshita Kei!"

Upon being called by name, the talkative person paused, then said, "What? Ah, no one's blocking our way outside now. I guess the Lizard's too busy. But nowhere in the city is safe. You can go to the nearest hospital; they have oxygen there, and maybe a kind nurse will give you some..."

"I don't want to run away! I don't want to die!" Onodera Hitomi interrupted him: "What have you been speculating about since just now? Escaping with a girl, are you saying that bringing me out is a condition for Lord Uranus to awaken? Am I some kind of quest item?!"

Kinoshita Kei stammered, "N-no, I just thought... I thought..."

Hitomi Onodera focused her gaze on the blue wind, looking at it with reverence and longing. When her gaze returned to Kei Kinoshita, she raised her eyebrows, as if anger was rising from within.

“You know so much about Lord Uranus, and you’ve been involved in all this… I know you might be one of the humans Lord Uranus cares about, like the legendary heroes who fight alongside him,” Onodera Hitomi shouted, “but heroes aren’t like you!”

"I was never a hero, just someone who inexplicably received so-called 'favor'!" Kinoshita Kei was suddenly confronted with a barrage of criticism, especially from someone he had just rescued. Even a clay figure has some temper, and his tone became a bit sharp: "Tell me what a hero is? Righteous and awe-inspiring or magnanimous and generous? Sorry, I'm very narrow-minded! My arms are almost broken from crawling up from underground, I don't have time to listen to your complaints, I need to think of other ways!"

"You're the one complaining!"

"Don't you want to think about what you're saying? What conditions need to be met to awaken Lord Uranus? Find someone who's about to die and have them save him, then get his response? I'm telling you—stop insulting me!"

Hitomi Onodera brushed the bangs that were stuck to her face in the hot wind behind her ear and said angrily, "Do you know how I felt when I was recalling those letters? You were just thinking, 'It can awaken Uranus'? Like playing a game and progressing through levels? An NPC pours their heart out to you, and you say, 'Why is this plot so long?' Is that how it is?!"

"Of course I really want to save you! If I really treated you like an NPC, I could just go through the motions of sacrificing a girl to grant boundless power, right?!" Kinoshita Kei blew on the plastic bag near his mouth, making a rustling sound. "Stop talking and let me have some peace and quiet. I need to go to a more dangerous place to check things out..."

"Let's see if there's anyone dying who can 'activate' Lord Uranus?" Onodera Hitomi's cursing was so scathing and forceful that nothing could stop her. She gritted her teeth, one hand on her hip, the other waving in the air.

"My gratitude has been completely wasted! What kind of girl are you trying to sacrifice to the heavens? Tell me! If I died on the way, would you feel even a little bit sad? Would you feel sad because a familiar customer died and the business dropped? Or would you feel sad just like that and Lord Uranus wouldn't even pay attention to you? Weren't you very eloquent when you said things like 'Your teacher didn't lie to you'?"

"Shut up, I'm thinking of a way!" Kinoshita Kei simply turned away, ignoring her nagging, and lowered his head to sort out his thoughts: "What else can a human host do... fly planes, crash planes, rescue people, fight monsters, yes, encountering danger is also a way to activate, just like 'faking an accident', should I... get out of here?"

He raised his head and gazed at the city outside, where flames raged.

The flames there had merged into a vast sea, surging like flowing clouds, reflecting a bright, scorching red.

He still has another option, doesn't he?

When the human host encounters mortal danger, his potential is always unleashed. Even if the transformation device is left aside, it will respond to him. When in distress, a new form will come to him on its own.

Perhaps if he just rushed into the sea of ​​fire, everything would be solved!

Chapter 114 A Feeling of Longing

coastline.

The sea, now restored to its original color, was tranquil and deep, as still as if asleep. The sea, ablaze with fire, stretched for miles. Zolim no longer needed the energy from the giants' battle to open the wormhole; its claws emerged, their heavy bone claws casting shadows on the coastline, seemingly capable of tearing the white sand beach apart.

A figure emerged from the sea, coughing up seawater mixed with blood. His hair was stuck together in clumps, and his clothes were soaked with water. His face was reflected in the firelight on the sea, but he did not look disheveled.

He looked up at the giant beast emerging from the wormhole, its head, half-sloping shoulders, and two claws, like a focused researcher staring at a crucial object, forgetting everything else.

"Why did you come out so quickly..."

"Because you've let its claws out," the ethereal voice kindly explained, "Mezard's gifts over the past few days, the energy generated during the battle between the two giants—in fact, all the energy that went astray could have helped it tear open the wormhole—you're all doomed, so do something good before you die, and give me your bodies?"

“Dream on.” Aiba Yu said succinctly.

"Is that all you can say?!" the pitch-black slime roared. "Then how about letting me out? Anyway, even if you die, I can still get out. Doing some good deeds and accumulating good karma might make me remember your kindness and decide to save you after I get out."

"wishful thinking."

"...Thank you so much for those two extra words, you heartless vessel! You scum landlord who forced me to buy and sell! This is illegal detention! I'm going to sue you in the cosmic court!!!"

Aiba Yuu kept staring at Zolim, his eyes burning with intense fire, but his voice was very soft as he replied, "Then go ahead and sue."

The slime churned and shrunk repeatedly, as if it were about to explode.

A biased and ruthless giant of light who helps Earthlings, the garbage of space! Rumor has it that the one named Uranus is powerful but reasonable, and he will judge the subjective malice of the aliens who come to Earth. Some will be sent back by him, and only the real invaders will be killed.

They were equally steadfast, never easily changing their ways. The aggregate of "resentment" knew he was probably going to be trapped in this container, bathing alongside him in Zolim's pillar of fire.

Before He could continue his tirade, the view suddenly shifted from close to the sea surface to a higher altitude, until it settled at a fixed height. The sea of ​​fire in the sky was much closer, and the silver giant reappeared.

He stood in knee-deep water, the firelight spilling onto the sea and illuminating his body. Fine cracks covered his body, faintly revealing a grayish-black color, like the crackle glaze called "golden thread and iron wire" specially made by craftsmen.

"Hurry up and deliver it, I'll be able to get out once you're finished!" "Resentment" cursed.

Samuel ignored him. He had a good habit, honed by the gossipy "Gen" back then, which allowed him to automatically filter out trash talk when needed. The slime inside him simply didn't have a rich enough vocabulary. If "Gen" were present, he could go on and on about everything from "My unfilial son is imprisoning his father, is he trying to usurp the throne?" all the way to the goddess's waist.

Samuel's gaze swept around and landed on the figures on the edge of the city.

The figure was too close to the edge of the barrier that Renlong had created when he activated the earth veins. It took Samuel a while to see him clearly. He said, "It's dangerous here. Go back quickly."

Kinoshita Kei also saw him. The fire at the edge of the barrier wasn't as terrifying as the one above. It burned without leaving any gaps, and he could see outside through the flames.

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The villager stood in the sea, said a few words to him, and then flew away. Judging from the direction, she was probably going to fight something incredibly huge, but...

Kinoshita Kei stared blankly at the light particles that were still swirling in place, slowly scattering like stars falling onto the sea, affectionately kissing the waves.

“My fellow villager… he’ll be alright, right?” he asked Pito.

Pito looked down at him, and he suddenly remembered that Pito had said something about "not being able to sense it".

Kinoshita Kei looked up at the wall formed by the storm. Uranus was such a kind and gentle person. Even in this situation, he still didn't give up on him. If it were someone else, they might have already gone into overdrive to save someone and smashed that giant beast's head like a rice cake.

Pito paused for a moment, then said, "Do you always feel that with Gaia, Agul, and your fellow countrymen around, we can defeat any enemy?"

Kinoshita Kei hesitated when answering: "I've been working overtime for many days, and Alchemy Star easily took over the work. The enemy we've been searching for for so long has now surfaced. I guess Gaia and the others discovered it... At first, I thought that even if I didn't work overtime, they could still find it and defeat it. One more of me wouldn't make a difference."

He felt like he had been forcibly dragged into a high-end hotel banquet by his successful classmates. He felt out of place among the big shots around him who talked about projects worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Compared to them, the work he was doing was something that anyone on the street could do.

He charged headlong into the elevator shaft to save Hitomi Onodera and climbed out with a touch of heroic spirit. After doing something far beyond what ordinary people could do, shouldn't the next part of the story be that he walked forward, fire and flames rushed towards him, he was reborn from the ashes, the garbage bags were burned to ashes, and he became a giant in the blue wind?

But all his plans came to naught.

So what if you chat and laugh with a billionaire? So what if the billionaire takes you on a private jet trip? When you step out into the world, it doesn't change the fact that you're just a useless nobody.

"Then why did you want to leave the city? Why did you say 'I should do something'? Why did you imitate the behavior of so-called 'excellent human beings'? If you believed they could win, you could have just stayed in the base dormitory and watched the live stream without having to worry," Pito said quietly.

"You are unwilling."

Kinoshita Kei lowered his head, his heart pounding wildly.

Some things are just a matter of a thin veil; once someone points it out, they become as simple as eating and drinking.

Kinoshita Kei really lacked confidence. Even though he had participated in a lot of amazing research over the years, he always felt that "it was all cheated." This feeling intensified after witnessing the genius of the Alchemy Star.