Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

In the underground parking lot, Teppei Kuze, clutching a memory display device that played sounds with a special wavelength, walked cautiously down the corridor leading to the machine room.

At first, Marina Kazama could clearly pinpoint the location of the monster Insectas, but not long after, due to the underground air conditioning...

The noise rendered her super hearing useless.

This led to an error in Teppei Kuze's report.

The GUYS team members raised their guns in the expected direction, only to find nothing but emptiness; there wasn't even a trace of an insect, let alone a monster.

When the group turned a corner during their search, they found a wall with a large hole in it, with disgusting slime hanging from the edge of the hole.

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Inside the hospital building.

"Hey, you're pushing too fast! I'm scared!" A patient in a hospital gown gripped the armrest of his wheelchair tightly.

Yu Nayuan Kong was pushing him as fast as he could: "If we don't hurry, we'll be doomed when the monster comes! Bear with it, I have a steady hand, nothing will happen, I'll get you to your destination right away."

"I'm so scared!" The patient wished he could stick to the wheelchair, his face contorted in a grimace.

Rikuto Yamashita was carrying a patient with a cast on his leg downstairs, with the head nurse watching over him. The head nurse was also holding the hand of a child, the patient's nephew, who had come to visit him but unfortunately encountered a monster warning.

Hasegawa Hayato and Kobayashi Keita pushed open a door.

The room was packed with critically ill patients, and a doctor was looking up at them from the window.

"Kanto Disaster Relief Team," Hasegawa Hayato stated his purpose.

The doctor shook his head: "These are all critically ill patients who cannot be moved. I must stay with them. You should go and transfer the other patients who have not yet been evacuated."

Behind the rescue team, a middle-aged woman in a kimono hurriedly came running with small, quick steps. Keita Kobayashi immediately stepped forward to stop her: "Madam, it is not safe in the building during the monster warning period. Please evacuate immediately."

“My husband is inside,” the woman in the kimono said loudly, her gaze passing over Keita Kobayashi’s arm. “Come with me and leave!”

The doctor shook his head again: "My patient is here."

The woman in the kimono gasped, and despite her worried expression, she stood still, just like the doctor.

Hasegawa Hayato looked around at the critically ill patients who were almost filling the entire room, and suddenly said, "Keita, go and evacuate the patients who are stuck in other places."

"And what about you, Captain?"

Hayato Hasegawa answered calmly, as if stating something obvious: "When people cannot be evacuated, ensuring their safety on the spot is also the job of the rescue team."

The situation is different from previous rescues; there are monsters! If a monster's claws strike, everyone in this building will be buried underneath.

But knowing he couldn't convince his captain, Keita Kobayashi gritted his teeth and obeyed orders to go to other wards: "Please be careful."

Meanwhile, Estend and Samuel each handed over a patient with limited mobility to a nurse and returned to the hospital building. As soon as they reached the lobby, they saw Sugiyama Mao rushing out with a thin patient in a wheelchair. Before she could even say hello, they suddenly felt the ground shake. Sugiyama Mao instinctively stepped forward and bent down to protect the patient in her arms.

"The building is alright!" Estend rushed over, took the wheelchair, and helped Sugiyama Mao up: "Get out of here quickly!"

“A monster,” Samuel said.

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Sugiyama Mao looked around unconsciously as soon as she ran out of the building. Then, she was startled by Insectas, who was baring its teeth and claws not far away. She cried out "Ah!" and trembled as she quickly ran forward a couple of steps to shield the patient behind her.

But something grabbed her clothes.

A force was pulling her clothes to the side.

Mao Sugiyama turned her head and saw the patient, who had been looking somewhat listless, trying to pull her aside. Because he was in a wheelchair, he could only grab the hem of her clothes.

The patient's expression was strange: "It's a monster...it's a monster! Monster, monster, monster!"

The patient tried to stand up, but almost fell because there was nothing below her calves. Estend quickly grabbed her.

Her name is Kumiko. Because Higashi Tama New Town Hospital was too crowded and her recovery was not going well at the time, she was transferred here... a famous hospital in the Kanto region.

The rescue team member who dug her out lied to her.

There were no family members at the hospital; they were all buried in the rubble... their faces were so unrecognizable that she could hardly tell them apart.

The more she anticipated what that teammate said, the more pain she felt now. The wound was painful during the recovery process after the amputation—but at least she could feel the pain; her grandparents and parents couldn't.

It's all because of the monster!

The family was happily eating dinner at the table when her mother advised her to eat less at night, or to continue exercising on the treadmill later, so as not to regret not taking her figure seriously the next day. Under her mother's dangerous gaze, her father moved the dishes that his daughter liked closer to her.

Now she doesn't have to worry about maintaining her figure anymore. She's so thin now that she doesn't even want to look in the mirror, because she'd definitely look horribly ugly.

Estend didn't recognize her; no one would connect her current gaunt appearance with the chubby-cheeked girl she once was.

Moreover... due to the dramatic changes, she gradually became somewhat hysterical, to the point that she became a troublesome patient requiring close monitoring.

She did indeed cause them trouble.

Mao Sugiyama and Estend tried to pull her back into the wheelchair from either side, but she kept struggling to climb down, letting out sharp screams: "Aaaaaaahhhhhh—! Monster—! Die! Die!"

"Die—ah—!"

A "ribbon" of buzzing black insects approached them. Sugiyama Mao heard the buzzing getting closer and closer, and his hair stood on end: "The insects are coming. We can't get to the shelter in time. Let's go back inside!"

With great effort, Estend held onto Kumiko, who was surprisingly strong at the moment, with one hand and steadied the wheelchair with the other, while nodding repeatedly.

Samuel glanced at the massive cloud of insects.

The insect cloud, which was originally heading towards the hospital, suddenly fluctuated and abruptly changed direction, narrowly missing the hospital.

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Our Work

M78 Nebula, the Kingdom of Light.

“There is no such Ultraman in the records of the Land of Light,” a Blue Clan staff member reported.

“But… we found this in the observation data of other planets…” The staff member clicked on an image from many years ago, and an ancient rock painting appeared on the screen.

From a drawing perspective, the brushwork is quite naive, but it is enough to express enough characteristics: the outline is undoubtedly Ultraman, the eye shape is somewhat sharp, but the face as a whole looks gentle, there is a round crystal on the forehead, he should be wearing a breastplate, and the forearms and calves are covered with armor plates, and most importantly - a round timer held in a flame-shaped border.

Mother of Ultra recognized it at a glance; the timer looked exactly like the silver-black unknown Ultraman she had seen on Earth.

However, if she wasn't mistaken, the Blue Clan staff member had retrieved this rock art image from a database dating back 2 years.

"This painting is a record of a civilization that Kolbi discovered on a planet in another star system 21000 years ago. Ah, this is the information about life on that planet."

The rock painting shrank to the upper left corner, and most of the screen was occupied by a new image: a bluish-gray humanoid creature that should have already developed a primitive civilization.

However, they do not appear to have been the owners of the rock paintings. In later records, after discovering the cave with the painting, they regarded the cave as a new habitat, cleaned the painting, and carved other things on it.

"And this, 15000 years ago, Palak discovered a crashed spacecraft on an asteroid." As he spoke, the Blue Clan staff pulled up an image. The spacecraft in the image was twisted and broken, scattered all over the ground. On the relatively large parts of the outer shell, you could see blurry markings.

Even though part of the symbol was distorted and charred, they could still make out that it was a pattern of flames supporting a round crystal.

"However, since it was not a particularly valuable research object, Palak made a brief record and left after taking a picture of it. He did not bring it back. Otherwise, it would have been possible to analyze the year it existed."

Mother of Ultra pondered, "Ultraman from 2 years ago..." The Ultraman in the rock painting looks very similar to the silver-black unknown Ultraman on Earth. Could it be the same one? What's with those black patterns? And she sensed an ominous dark aura on him back then.

In any case, one thing is certain.

“Ken, Mebius’s situation is more dangerous than we anticipated.” Mother of Ultra turned around and said to Father of Ultra, who was still staring at the light screen.

Before Father of Ultra could answer, Taro, worried about his disciple, couldn't hold back any longer. He stepped forward to request permission to go to Earth, but Father of Ultra suddenly reached out and blocked him.

"You should have more confidence in your disciples."

"But……"

“Send this information to Ultraman Mebius,” Father of Ultra said. “Birds sheltered in a greenhouse will never learn to face the storm. Moreover, compared to the dangers that have already been exposed, what we need to be more vigilant about are the enemies lurking in the shadows.”

During the period when monsters frequently appeared, some aliens also became much more active.

After a moment's hesitation, Taro finally withdrew his foot, which had already taken half a step: "If things don't go well, I'll head to Earth immediately."

"Hmm." Father of Ultra nodded slightly, which was considered a concession.

……

We don't know how much confidence the Land of Light has in Mebius, but GUYS' confidence in him is even stronger—Mebius performed exceptionally well in resolving the battle against Insectas, and with Teppei Kuze's analysis, they also used meteor technology to destroy the monster's organ that emits special sound waves to summon swarms, thus helping Mebius.

Most importantly, Teppei Kuze no longer needs to hide things from his mother and can now work at GUYS with peace of mind.

Previously, Teppei Kuze's mother had always hoped that her son would inherit her husband's hospital, and even though her son was still studying at school, she never expected that her son would join the extremely dangerous GUYS behind her back.

But now, her son and his teammates are protecting her husband's hospital from the threat of monsters, and he earnestly tells her, "Whether you're a doctor or a gym worker, it's all about protecting people's lives. I'll become a doctor someday, but for now..."

My honest son, now that I've seen your determination and your growth, how could I disregard your thoughts and still stop you?

On the other side, Kumiko, who saw the caring scene between Tetsuo Kuze and his mother through the window, went from hysteria to an even more frantic hysteria. Sugiyama Mao's hand was accidentally bitten and bled. In the end, Samuel found a bandage at the nurses' station and tied her to the wheelchair before the hysteria stopped.

Estendra drew the curtains, embraced his wife downstairs who was dressed in a kimono, and stood beside her, smiling as he saw her off.

The doctor's back, separated from his son, remained outside.

Kumiko's hysteria turned into sobbing, and she kept murmuring "Dad, Mom" ​​over and over again, with a few strands of her messy hair stuck to her face with tears.

Sugiyama Mao couldn't bear it and helped her brush her hair aside, then wiped away her tears. Finally, unable to hold back any longer, she said, "I'll go find a nurse," and hurriedly ran out with red eyes.

By the time the patient was transferred back and everything was finished, the sun had already set.

On the way back, Samuel suddenly said, "That person... is from East Tama New Town. He was the first one I dug up."

Estend suddenly realized: "Is it the female student who shouted at you?"

How could things have turned out like this in such a short time? Yes, Samuel only found two survivors; the other was an even younger boy. Apparently, her family hadn't survived, and she had also had a limb amputated…

"What message are you shouting?" Yonahara Sora asked casually after overhearing their conversation.