New Ultraman: Monster Training Master

"Please have some tea." Chidori placed the teacup on the table in front of Hoshikawa.

"Thank you." Hoshikawa picked up his teacup, took a sip, and then said, "Ms. Chidori, I've heard that Dr. Koizumi has a research notebook documenting the subterranean people. May I take a look?"

Chidori Koizumi: "Sorry, that notebook isn't here."

Hoshikawa frowned. How could the notebook not be here?

In the original storyline, after the underground research institute was destroyed by King Togeki, Dr. Koizumi, knowing that his death was imminent, entrusted his research notes on the underground people to Chidori Koizumi.

But now Chidori Koizumi is saying she doesn't have any notes.

If he's not lying, then it means Dr. Koizumi put the notes in a place he felt was safer.

Hoshikawa: "Ms. Chidori, where do you think your father keeps his research notes?"

Chidori Koizumi thought for a moment: "It might be placed in the underground research institute beneath Lake Pearl."

At that moment, the communicator on my waist rang. After I turned it on, Yuka's voice came through: "Team Member Hoshikawa, there is an emergency. Please return to base immediately."

"Received." Hoshikawa put away the communicator, said sorry to Koizumi Chidori, and got up to leave.

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Yuka: "Just now, we intercepted a frequency, and after recovering the content, we found that it was a subterranean person claiming to be a true Earthling who wanted to launch a satellite to block out the sun."

Ryu Aihara: "I'm very curious why these subterranean people who call themselves Earthlings would want to block out the sun."

Yuka: "Based on our speculation, the subterranean people have lived underground for a long time without sunlight, which has led to their eyesight deterioration and inability to see light."

Hoshikawa was completely bewildered. He was still trying to figure out how to deal with the subterranean Pok King when another group of subterranean people suddenly appeared in another place.

The underground of this planet is quite lively.

Masaki Keigo, who had been deep in thought, suddenly spoke up: "Hoshikawa, what do you think of these subterranean people who call themselves Earthlings?"

"I don't really care," Hoshikawa said, shrugging his shoulders to indicate he had no opinion.

Subterranean beings have appeared in many works; the subterranean being who launches a satellite appears in episode 22 of "Ultraman 80".

But he can't necessarily guarantee that the subterranean people launching satellites here are the same group of people from "Eddie".

Kishida: "This is really troublesome. Apart from knowing that the underground people are going to launch a satellite to block out the sun, we know nothing else."

In a battle, the worst thing you can do is lack of intelligence.

They have no information about the subterranean people, but the subterranean people might have information about them.

The enemy is now in the shadows, while they are in the light.

Speaking of subterranean people, Kishida recalled the underground city project in Aoba City, so he turned to Hoshikawa and asked:

"Didn't you go and stop New Territory Corporation's underground city project this morning? How did it go?"

Hoshikawa sighed: "President Tachibana of New Territory Company is adamant about not shutting down the PW wave, and even said that if the monster appears, he will ask the defense force to eliminate it."

In the original storyline, after Hideki Go and Ueno of MAT obtained Dr. Koizumi's notes, Poco King immediately appeared and tried to kill them.

Therefore, Dr. Koizumi's notebook is the key prop in order to bring out King Poco.

Aihara Ryu: "What a joke! How many people will be killed if a monster appears? Are those lives less important than his underground city project?"

Aihara Ryu is feeling a really itchy hand right now, and he thinks that President Tachibana's face is just the right cure for the itchy hand.

Meanwhile, Dan Moroboshi and Chief of Staff Gondo finally persuaded President Tachibana to postpone the underground city project.

President Tachibana: "Alright, I agree to suspend the construction of the underground city, but not for too long."

"You must promise me that you will eliminate the monster attracted by the PW wave within a week."

Staff Officer Gondo first said some nice things, and then finally said, "Don't worry, the duty of the Horror Squad is to eliminate monsters. We will definitely eliminate this monster within a week," and so on.

President Tachibana's expression softened a bit, but then he remembered the scene of Hoshikawa scolding him and told Moroboshi Dan to go back and manage the team members.

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The next day, early in the morning.

A news story that shocked the entire nation of Japan made headlines.

Hoshikawa, who was initially a little sleepy, instantly perked up when she saw this trending topic.

[A person committed suicide by drowning in Lake Zhenzhu; suspected to be Dr. Koizumi from the Underground Research Institute]

Is it true that Dr. Koizumi committed suicide by drowning himself in a lake?

Without hesitation, Xingchuan went straight to the garage and drove towards the research institute next to Zhenzhu Lake.

When he arrived at the research institute, he happened to see Chidori Koizumi there as well.

Hoshikawa: "Ms. Chidori, what are you doing here?"

Chidori Koizumi turned around and saw Hoshikawa. She said sadly, "I don't believe my father would commit suicide by drowning, so I came here to find out the truth."

Hoshikawa: "I also don't believe Dr. Koizumi would commit suicide."

The two then walked together toward the underground research institute.

Chidori Koizumi found a former colleague of Dr. Koizumi at the research institute.

According to Dr. Koizumi's colleagues, the doctor, who had been chatting and laughing, suddenly became as if possessed and walked straight towards the center of the smoking lake.

Finally, it disappeared into the smoke.

Whether Dr. Koizumi actually drowned himself in the lake or not, he didn't know.

Even now, the red mist over Pearl Lake has not dissipated.

Although Dr. Koizumi's colleague did not explicitly say that Dr. Koizumi was dead, his tone was full of regret, as if he had never imagined that such a great person would commit suicide.

Upon hearing from her father's colleague that the smoke had not yet dissipated, Chidori Koizumi abandoned her plan to go to the lake.

After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Hoshikawa and Koizumi Chidori decided to set off for their return journey.

Before leaving, Dr. Koizumi's colleague stopped Koizumi Chidori and handed her a notebook.

As the two were driving back, the mountain suddenly collapsed, and countless rocks fell down.

Seeing this, Hoshikawa quickly poked his head out and shouted, "Ms. Chidori, don't stop, just rush over there!"

They were now in the middle of the boulder's fall, and there was no time to reverse. To survive, they had to speed forward.

Upon hearing this, Chidori Koizumi floored the accelerator and managed to escape the danger zone just as the boulder was about to fall.

Once it was safe, Hoshikawa got out of the car to check the situation and saw a person wearing a white mask flash by.

"Poco King!" Hoshikawa was absolutely certain that the person wearing the white mask just now was Poco King.

It seems that killing Dr. Koizumi alone is not enough for it; now it also wants to kill Chidori Koizumi to completely eliminate any potential threats.

Thinking of this, Hoshikawa took out his communicator and reported the situation to Dan Moroboshi.

Dan Moroboshi: "I understand. Continue to protect Dr. Koizumi's daughter. Make sure the underground people don't succeed."

On the other side, Chidori Koizumi, still shaken, looked back at the pile of rubble.

Hoshikawa: "Let's go, Miss Chidori, I'll escort you back."