Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

What? He didn't sense the resurgence of Uranus's will. Could it be the will of this Earth...?

"Get the hell out of here thinking you can use my wind to sweep away the protagonist? Keep dreaming!" In the sea of ​​consciousness, a slightly larger cyan light ball bounced up: "I can't control you from hitting people, but can't I at least stop my little brother from taking action?"

Inside the atmosphere, Kinoshita Kei seemed to be in better spirits. He felt better and stopped blindly crashing into the water, silently dispelling the force that wanted to destroy Uranus.

His half-awake mind cleared up, and although he still forgot many things, he at least remembered what Lucifer wanted to see: the "script."

He finally had the energy to rant, unleashing his best talent for trash talk—the kind that could rival Gaia, Agul, and Samuel together: "I told you, if a plan goes off track once, it'll go off track a second time, a third time, and then your 'New Era' table replacement will all collapse!"

"Who gave you the guts to mess with two Earths at once? Do you know that one Earth isn't even enough to bury all the aliens from TV shows? The corpses piled up could circle the equator several times over! And you want to beat up a group of Ultraman... Even if the Old Buddha declared war on the world, this wouldn't be anything more than this!"

"Shut up!" Lucifer focused his attention on dealing with the relentless attacks, retreating step by step.

Gaia kicked him from thousands of meters away into the sea. Behind him, the tide surged like a mountain. Agul was ready to take advantage of his home ground.

Samuel stared coldly at him, and Lucifer tried to open spatial passages several times, but they were all instantly smoothed out by him.

"You think I'll shut up just because you tell me to? I'm your father!" Kinoshita Kei cursed, "Get out of my body!"

Lucifer laughed in exasperation: "Then why don't you come and get rid of me?"

"Pah! You're just taking advantage of the fact that I can't get rid of you!" Kinoshita Kei raised his voice and shouted, "Have you ever heard of a sword technique called 'Heaven and Earth Live Together'? Or 'Total Destruction', 'Together We Perish'... 'Through Thick and Thin', 'Together We Live and Die'?"

Lucifer suddenly had a bad feeling.

The boss was crying his eyes out in misfortune, while Kinoshita Kei was grinning from ear to ear: "If I die, I might be able to go home, but if you die, you're really done for!"

"You think you can be invincible by taking hostages? Let me tell you, I am the real winner! I am the human form of Uranus, I am the man who sits atop the atmosphere!"

Lucifer didn't really understand what he was saying, only vaguely grasping the meaning of "winner" and similar terms.

Meanwhile, Kinoshita Kei was already making a fuss about it outside.

"The heroes who sacrificed themselves to blow up the bunker and fired at me are awesome. I'm not qualified to say those lines. I'll just say the simplest ones!" Kinoshita Kei's voice drifted in the wind, seemingly close yet distant.

His shouting had that familiar flavor, occasionally interspersed with words that others couldn't quite understand; the main point could only be grasped in spirit:

"You guys—hurry up! If you have a chance to capture and defeat the Boss alive, get to it! Kill this body, burn it, and don't keep the ashes. Whatever items drop, throw them into the Time Storm! If you don't cut the weeds at the root, they'll grow back in the spring!"

"Don't be like Uranus, this idiot is squatting right next to me, and he can't even say 'baba'! Damn it, I don't know if I've mistaken him for someone else again..."

Lucifer wished he could strangle this rambling idiot right now. Originally, Gao Shan and the others were still hesitant. What if they really decided to kill him after he said such a "generous sacrifice"?

The "kind" who had burned him to a blazing brilliance was still looking down at him. Lucifer didn't think he could take the opportunity to run away—he knew how to travel through space and could find any usable body to run very fast, but the other party also knew about space! And its perception was ridiculously high; it could detect the slightest abnormality.

Samuel seemed to be tempted. The giant who posed the greatest threat to him was right in front of him in the blink of an eye, and even put his hand on his shoulder!

The fingers were like iron clamps, impossible to break free from!

"Hey, fellow countryman!" Kinoshita Kei greeted him, and Samuel wanted to confirm whether the voice was coming from the "Uranus" timer.

"Fellow villager, can you do me a favor and take me home?" Kinoshita Kei said, "The law of time travelers: after dying, they usually wake up from a dream, and when they open their eyes, they are either in the hospital or in their own bed."

“You will die,” Samuel said.

Kinoshita Kei laughed and said, "No way, I can transform into a baby in the blink of an eye. Who knows who I'll possess!"

Fearing that Samuel might actually believe his nonsense, Lucifer interrupted, "You were clearly dragged in here along with your body from the spacetime turbulence, because of the resonance of your counterpart from another dimension! Where do you think you'll go after you die? Your so-called 'home' has no body waiting for you!"

"Go to hell! Everyone talks about quantum mechanics now! How do you know if my 'body' is real or fake, an illusion, or something created by particle disturbance? Even if it's real, do you know what a Russian-style rescue is?!"

Kinoshita Kei felt his emotions were genuine, almost to the point of kneeling down and crying to his fellow villager: "Please, I've never told anyone this in all these years, but I miss home so much! I dream about it! I think about home while holding a salted fish. My mom's steamed, braised, and sweet and sour dishes are absolutely amazing. The food in Honzakura isn't too bad, but it doesn't taste like home!"

Samuel didn't answer again. He moved closer in silence, as if trying to see something out of "Uranus." Lucifer knew that he was confirming Kinoshita Kei's location.

Kinoshita Kei thought his tearful outburst had worked, and he couldn't wait for his teammates to take action and eliminate the people on the west, east, south, and north roads, even though he knew the result would be the same as what the bastard controlling his body had said: there was no sleeping body waiting for him in "home".

The wishing ball, along with his body and his counterpart from another dimension, was shattered and reassembled, resulting in the Kinoshita Kei we know today.

I knew time travel wasn't such a simple thing!

I knew Uranus's power wasn't obtained for nothing!

Even if a pie fell from the sky, it would never be his turn!

Now that things have come to this, Kinoshita Kei can only try his best not to be a burden and let his teammates take down the boss with him. That way, he can die with some value, right? If someone were to comment, he could probably earn the title of "hero."

It's a pity he still wants many human autographs...

I also want to see what the real Land of Light looks like.

He had many fun ideas that he didn't realize, such as having Zero say the line "I am Gundam", hearing Jugglus Juggler say to Gai Kurenai "I will not help you anymore", or being a scumbag senior who drives a jeep and trains newbies.

There's one thing he wasn't lying about.

He really wanted to go home.

The thought of filling a notebook with everything about "Mu Xiajing" and sealing it in a cabinet, not daring to even glance at it, is unbearable.

It would be strange if someone from Japan cried upon hearing Chinese.

So Kinoshita Kei made himself live a more and more unconventional life. As long as he got silly, any sad thing could make him laugh out loud. Silly days were always easy and simple.

……

“Aren’t you looking forward to ‘assimilation’?” he heard Samuel suddenly say to Lucifer.

As Samuel finished speaking, the wind whipped up a thick fog, and the sound of frost and snow crystallizing rustled through the air.

The world has changed color. The ocean is still the ocean, but it is filled with floating ice, surrounded by white glaciers, their bottoms reflecting a deep blue, like cold fires burning.

This is the complete opposite of the scorching heat of the "sun" in front of us, but perhaps many things are just like that, and it only takes a moment to go from one extreme to the other.

The howling wind echoed across the frosty sea.

Samuel's voice seemed to come through a veil: "Kinoshita Kei can still talk to me, he saw Uranus, and since you're using this as leverage... then they must still be alive, right here in this timer."

Lucifer discovered that the wind here no longer obeyed his commands, a feeling completely different from when he was disturbed by Kinoshita Kei; he could not sense the existence of his "soldiers" at all.

“Do you know how the clone I encountered died?” Samuel asked.

Before Lucifer could even think, a hand, seemingly flowing with molten lava, reached out and pierced his skin like claws tearing through metal. He grabbed the timer, and only then did the excruciating pain assault Lucifer's brain.

"How dare you—!" Lucy

Phil exclaimed in anger: "Great! Killing them in this area will go unnoticed, what a brilliant plan!"

Kinoshita Kei felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, unsure if it was because the timer had been covered by the other person's hand. Apart from himself, all that remained around him was the dazed and confused orb of Uranus.

He heard the explosive sound of water splashing, like stones with diameters measured in kilometers crashing into the sea. The glacier cracked and broke apart, and the waves roared as ice blocks collided and squeezed, and the ice shelf slid into the sea with a rumble.

Kinoshita Kei imagined the end of the world, such as the "future people" Enzan not being stopped, and them rowing an ark in the rain to stage a scene from "2012".

This was followed by Lucifer's roar and the tearing sound of a sharp weapon slicing through leather.

"Hahahaha—" It was Lucifer's laughter: "You will eventually be 'assimilated' by me. Want to see if you die or I live?"

“Of course, it’s your death and my life,” Samuel replied. “I will reclaim the avatars of Dark Lucifer, starting with you.”

Kinoshita Kei swallowed a non-existent saliva. The ball of light from Uranus trembled and moved closer, the two blue orbs rubbing together.

He didn't know if he was hallucinating, but the roar of the strange beast was deafening, and the entire sea seemed to boil into the air in the midst of such a violent roar.

"Are there monsters here?" Kinoshita Kei wondered. "Did their fight turn into a summoner war?"

The sound of claws tearing through flesh and blood, and the clanging of scales opening and closing, were like swords striking jagged rocks, their sharp aura sending shivers down one's spine.

Kinoshita Kei felt as if he were rolling in a raging sea, surrounded by tsunamis. The water was filled with metallic sounds from who-knows-where, like the humming of a wind chime, but without any regularity, making it extremely jarring to the ear.

Occasionally, a ray of light would shine through, and he would see a pair of golden eyes, hot and molten, as if about to overflow.

Those enormous eyes appeared for only a moment, followed by the long tail of some kind of animal—it must have been a long tail—its tip was slender, with sharp, jagged bony spikes growing outwards. It slapped the seawater, swimming past like a black snake.

Kinoshita Kei discovered that the metallic clanging sound came from its scales, which were edged with a golden sheen. As they opened and closed, they emitted snow-white bubbles and a roar loud enough to stir up the mud and sand on the seabed.

Lucifer's voice grew lower and lower until it was still laughing maniacally at the end, a chilling sound that echoed through the surrounding undercurrents: "My proposal has been faithfully carried out after all, very good. Devour, devour! Let the Son of Dawn see... who is the real one?"

“What you’re chasing isn’t my goal,” Samuel’s voice mingled with the roar of the beast.

Kinoshita Kei had no idea where he was, or if some monster had gone to beat up Lucifer, while he was being held tightly in Samuel's palm.

Given all the evil Lucifer has committed, it's only natural that he would have a vengeful monster, right?

Occasionally, a blue shadow would flash before his eyes, along with the gleaming scales of a black snake, but he always remembered those golden eyes.

In this cold darkness, it shines like an ever-burning candle.

They were probably continuing downhill, as the deafening roar of the colliding glaciers grew distant and muffled.

After a while, the surroundings became both bright and cold, as if soaking in ice water. If he still had a human form, his breath would now be able to float into white mist.

"Don't be afraid, you won't die, and neither will Uranus." The voice was gentle, and Kinoshita Kei gradually calmed down.

When he looked around again, he realized he was still in the water.

But it is not Lucifer's sea of ​​consciousness; rather, it is more like the ocean in nature. Due to the extremely low temperature, the bottom of the water is a deep, grayish-blue color, as thick as velvet.

He could see nothing but the light emanating from the giant. Samuel held him in one hand and gently brought him to his chest.

Kinoshita Kei's ball of light stretched out slightly, forming an oval shape. He saw Samuel with one arm behind his back and wondered what a cool new pose that was.

He seemed to catch a glimpse of the black snake, but the giant slightly turned his body, blocking his view. He could only pull back and look up at the other's face with his non-existent head.

“I don’t know how to reshape your bodies, but your life form should have already been altered,” a semi-circular light shield descended, obscuring Kinoshita Kei’s vision as he looked at the other person. He heard Samuel say, “I’m going to find Renlong and my dream, perhaps…”

"Maybe what?" Kinoshita Kei had not yet truly realized that he was still alive.

His mind was filled with images of eyes burning with golden flames, eyes that should be majestic and ferocious, like a predator standing at the top, whose roar would leave any creature trembling in fear. But the moment he met its gaze, Kinoshita Kei felt no fear whatsoever. He didn't know if it was because his courage had grown, or... it wasn't actually that scary; the golden flames were both brilliant and gentle.