Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

“The alien beasts have been eliminated,” Samuel said.

"Huh?" The report said that the location where the alien beast appeared was at least several kilometers away from the airport, almost half a city away.

Before Sakuma Jun could ask further, Samuel continued, "So there were Ultra Warriors here too?"

"What, what warrior?"

"Ultraman, M78 is here."

"...?"

"Hey—Sakuma! What are you daydreaming about?" his colleague called out. "If you want to see the sunset, you should go into the mountains with Commander Shudo, not stay at this airport!"

……

“Hey, Samuel, I don’t want to see the sunset, but that doesn’t mean I want to see the stars.”

The pale moonlight streamed into the mountains and forests, creating streaks of light and shadow. After confirming that Kaori was asleep, Samuel drove towards the area that was under lockdown that day.

Jun Sakuma protested vehemently within his consciousness: "Even though I work overtime all year round, I still need rest. You can't treat my body like this!"

“So I drove into the mountains, and to sustain your life energy,” Samuel said, stopping a little further away to avoid suspicion and deciding to hike in. “Don’t worry,”

I remember you died and just came back to life.

“No…” Jun Sakuma stammered, finally deciding to give up trying to correct his choice of words.

The man in black walked through the silent mountains.

Occasionally, a few crows would be startled into flight, their wings flapping and scattering a few fallen leaves, their eerie cries echoing coldly through the deep forest.

At first, Jun Sakuma would complain a bit, saying things like be careful not to scratch his feet, not to attract troublesome mosquitoes, and what to do if they encountered wild animals.

He gradually fell silent, because he realized that Samuel was like a silent hunter, intently searching for his target.

At one point, Samuel suddenly stopped.

He crouched down, hiding himself in the bushes, his eyes gleaming with silver light.

Jun Sakuma was surprised to find that his vision was being strangely stretched, as if he were riding on the back of an eagle, passing through grass, trees, rocks, forests, mist, and streams.

He can clearly see the fibers in the plant stems and count the number of annual rings encased in the bark.

A beetle crawled out from the damp rock bottom, and a sleeping bird buried its head in its wings to breathe.

He saw them, white-clad figures scattered throughout the deep forest, searching for something.

Anti-Biological and Chemical Weapons Disposal Department (ABWD).

A battle with the alien beasts took place here during the day, and they are currently cleaning up and collecting the remains of the alien beasts.

The "white-clad cleaners," who were completely covered up, were scattered in twos and threes. Some of them were collecting the body tissues of the alien beasts with containers, while others were carrying instruments and exploring around.

“That’s not something easy to study,” he heard Samuel say. “Now that you share my senses, you should be able to understand that, right?”

"A repulsive and dangerous aura."

"If we don't study them, we won't know how to defeat them," Jun Sakuma muttered, his nerves on edge.

He had never experienced this feeling before—as if a shadow in the darkness was silently watching him from behind, and a chill, like a snake, was slowly moving up his spine, hissing and flicking its tongue at his neck.

"Ah! It's gone!" Jun Sakuma exclaimed.

Within sight, a lump of flesh suddenly emitted wisps of black smoke, disappeared into the soil, and only the pale moonlight remained in place, as if from the very beginning, there had been nothing there.

The moment the black smoke appeared, Samuel squinted.

He was certain that this was another world he had never been to before, but when that wisp of black smoke appeared, he almost lost control and was about to attack.

He vaguely remembered that the aura that had drawn him out of the spatial turbulence was extremely similar to his own.

Alien beast?

Where...did you meet him before?

Chapter 5 The Second Giant

"Dad, I'm going to go play with Rina now?"

The little girl in the white dress carried her beloved cloth bag, adorned with clusters of blooming cherry blossoms.

“Have fun, Karin,” Samuel leaned down and, amidst Jun Sakuma’s loud protests, smoothed her unruly hair. “Call Daddy when you’re done playing, and I’ll come pick you up.”

"Mmm." Huali skipped away, clearly in a good mood.

Having witnessed her father's death and having her memories erased, Karin's condition has been off, and Jun Sakuma is afraid that she will remain silent and withdrawn.

Now that she's willing to go out and visit her close friends, her worried father can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

But one thing made him feel a little uneasy.

"Don't call my daughter that so affectionately!" the worried old father warned.

"If you want to expose something unusual, I can distance myself."

The elderly father was speechless.

Ahhhh, this cunning "alien beast"!

A few hours later.

Beside the abandoned factory, two young men were playing with graffiti and skateboards, while another young man was filming them.

Karin Sakuma and Rina Sugiyama huddled together, whispering to each other in a corner of the factory.

"Are you really going to take it back?" Huali stretched out her finger and gently poked the fur of the puppy in front of her. Seeing that the puppy did not bare its teeth at her, she mustered up her courage and stroked its fur gently.

"Purr..." The puppy shook its body and relaxed in the cardboard box.

“Hmm,” Sugiyama Rina nodded, stroking its fluffy ears that were turning around with reluctance. “I haven’t had a chance to name it yet, my mom won’t let me keep it.”

“That’s a shame,” Huali pursed her lips, then her eyes lit up. “Then you can send it to my house. My dad works overtime every day. He comes home to cook dinner and then leaves in a hurry. I’ve wanted a pet for a long time.”

"Is it okay? If your dad doesn't agree..."

“Then I’ll keep it secretly. Dad doesn’t spend much time at home anyway,” Karin said to Rina with a smile. “You can come to my house to see it later!”

A gentle breeze ruffled the puppy's still-growing fur. It squinted its eyes, rolled over, and revealed its soft white belly.

Rina rubbed its belly while laughing, and Karin gently pressed its little paws out of curiosity.

"Ah! Ughhhhhh—!"

A series of shouts interrupted the conversation between the two little girls. "Woof?" The puppy shrank into the cardboard box.

"Help!!!"

Hearing the cries for help, Rina and Karin exchanged a glance. Karin rushed over first, and Rina picked up the puppy and followed closely behind.

……

"Chun, if you haven't rested yet, head over there immediately."

Area 9, coordinates 550: A huge tubular unidentified object has been sighted; it is a mutant beast. Execute memory erasure!

"I've sent you the target information. Also, don't go near the factory at coordinates 531, there are alien beasts there."

"Yes, Commander Shudo."

Samuel grabbed his work badge and a wide-brimmed hat and headed out immediately. Jun Sakuma said anxiously, "District 9, 550, that's near Rina's house. Karin hasn't come back yet, I'm really worried!"

Samuel pressed the accelerator to the floor without a word, his silvery pupils gazing at an area a kilometer away.

When Jun Sakuma saw what was stuck in the ground, his scalp tingled: "A monster! Half the factory is on top of it! That's... How did Karin get there!"

Within sight, two little girls were huddled together, one holding a puppy and the other holding her arm, their eyes fixed intently on the “trajectory” of the depression in the ground—the trajectory of Baigbazun’s tongue.

"Think of a reason for delaying your return to report."

With that, Samuel sped off, driving at a speed that would have prompted a chorus of horns as he reached location 550.

Quickly locate the target's house, scan his memory, move him to the sofa, then go around to the back of the target's house. The man in black presses down on his wide-brimmed hat and disappears into the end of the street at a speed fast enough to make the surveillance cameras drop frames.

Meanwhile, at the factory at coordinates 531, Komon Kazuki, a member of the Night Raid Team A, ventured deep into the factory and found two children in danger.

He temporarily repelled Baigbazun's predation with cooling grenades and led his two children to a relatively safe location.

"Have you named it yet?" The thoughtful team member tried to ease the children's panic by steer the conversation towards the puppy, hoping to distract them.

"Not yet, Mom won't let me keep it. I'm planning to give it to Karin," Rina said. "Karin, have you thought of a name for it yet?"

Huali shook her head: "I haven't thought about it yet."

"Hmm... how about 'Swift Wind'? It's the name of a character from an anime I watched before. He was a very brave dog who would protect the princess from being captured by demons—so don't be afraid."

"Really?" The two little girls, who longed to be princesses, moved closer to the patient older brother. "Big brother, are you here to rescue us?"

Komon Kazuki lowered his head and smiled, "That's right, I will definitely get you home safely."

Underground, Baigbazun, smelling the scent of its prey, stuck out its tongue everywhere, while using the sharp mouthparts at the end of its tail to bite through the concrete, trying to break through the walls and swallow its prey.

The long, tubular tongue meanders beneath the soil surface, only sprang out when it sensed its approach to its prey, intending to catch it off guard.

"boom--!"

The walls shook. Kazuki Komon shielded the two children beneath his body, as dust fell in a flurry. He raised a hand, warily pointing Bereg towards the source of the sound.

"Hiss!" Baigbazun painfully curled up his charred tongue, trying to retreat back into the ground.