New Ultraman: Monster Training Master

"Yusaku Himuro, a pitcher who joined the New York Knights in Major League Baseball, has suddenly returned to Japan. This player, who once won fifteen games and was known as 'The Magician Himuro,' has not won a game since May 1st of this year."

While watching the news, Aihara Ryu caught a glimpse of Hoshikawa walking into the command room with a few leaves on his head.

"You didn't go hunting rabbits in the woods, did you?"

"No." Hoshikawa took the leaf off his head and sat back down in his chair.

Aihara Ryu turned his attention back to the news on his phone, his tone full of regret: "What a pity, I wanted to keep watching Himuro play."

"Himuro?" Kishida's interest was piqued. "You're not talking about Yusaku Himuro, are you?"

Ryu Aihara: "Yeah, it's him. I'm a big fan of his."

Kishida quietly pointed at Masaki Keigo and whispered, "As a fan, you probably don't know that Masaki Keigo and Himuro were classmates in high school, right?"

Upon hearing this, Hoshikawa paused in the movement of his right hand.

Yusaku Himuro...

How could he remember that this person was a character from "Dyna" and a teammate from Asuka High School?

Unexpectedly, in this world, Himuro became Masaki Keigo's classmate.

As if he had heard Kishida's words, Masaki Keigo, while fiddling with the parts in his hands, said, "Although I am Himuro's classmate, I am not close to him."

While others were still learning high school material, he had already completed university studies and dropped out to start a business.

He accomplished in two years what other businessmen took decades to achieve.

At that moment, the command center phone rang. After answering it, Yuka told Dan Moroboshi that it was a missing person incident.

Ryu Aihara: "Shouldn't the police handle missing persons cases? Our Horror Squad is responsible for dealing with monsters."

"Our duty is to protect the citizens. How can disappearances have nothing to do with us?" Dan Moroboshi asked Yuka where the missing people were.

Jiehua pulled up a map, and the red dots on it marked the locations where the people had gone missing.

"They all went missing in the S2 area, and most of them were students at St. Nan's Girls' School."

Aihara Ryu: "They were all students from girls' schools."

Kishida: "I remember Masaki Keigo's high school was also in the S2 area, right?"

"Of course, the S2 area is also known as the university town, and that area is almost entirely schools." Yuka projected the list of missing persons onto the screen.

"What's really amazing is that all these people disappeared within a circle."

A circle appeared on the screen, and all the red dots were inside the circle. The center of the circle was St. Nan Women's College.

Hoshikawa rubbed his chin, already picturing the killer's face in his mind.

The Great Beast [Bischoffel]!

A monster that seduces underage girls and uses them as hostages to threaten Dyna.

This monster has quite a few skills; if possible, he'd like to capture it and put it in the warehouse.

"Alright, Hoshikawa, you and Yuka will go out on this mission this time." After thinking it over, Dan Moroboshi decided that sending Yuka and Hoshikawa would be the best option.

After all, the mission location this time is St. Nan Girls' Academy, and it feels like it would be inappropriate to send two grown men.

"knew..."

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Saint Nan Women's College.

A car bearing the logo of the "Huowei Team" drove into the school.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding students stopped in their tracks and began to whisper among themselves.

"Look, it's the Chaos Team."

"Wow, that male team member is so handsome."

As soon as Hoshikawa opened the car door, a group of students surrounded him, clamoring for his autograph.

Yuka leaned against the car door and said, "Hoshikawa, it seems you're quite popular with the girls."

"There's nothing I can do about it. I only have one flaw: I'm too perfect." Hoshikawa took a notebook and signed his name in it.

After signing a few documents, Hoshikawa realized that continuing was not a good idea, so he came up with a way to get out of the situation.

Hoshikawa and Yuka walked toward the principal's office at the girls' academy, where they encountered a girl named Erika.

Her gaze toward the two of them was hostile.

"I think that girl from earlier seemed to really dislike us."

Yuka stopped and turned to look at the girl's back.

"Your feeling is right, she really hates us." Hoshikawa looked at Erika with a pitying gaze.

A group of girls who have been discriminated against since childhood, under the influence of Bischmer, draw a magic circle to summon demons.

"Let's go, let's go and meet the principal of this school."

Hoshikawa pushed open the door to the principal's office and saw that the decorations inside were not the black magic props that were everywhere in the original drama, but various books about education.

When the principal, who was sitting at his desk, saw Hoshikawa and his companion arrive, he quickly stood up and invited them to sit down.

"You've come about the missing persons case, haven't you? Ask away, I'll tell you everything I know."

Hoshikawa didn't mince words and went straight to the point, asking, "According to our investigation, most of the missing persons are students from St. Nan Academy, so we'd like to ask what these students have in common."

"For example, they all like to eat the same food, and they all like to do the same thing."

The principal thought for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, I really don't know much about this. After all, there are too many missing people, and I don't have enough time to investigate them one by one."

"If we had to pinpoint a common thread, it would probably be that some of these students have a history of bullying other students."

The case has been solved; it turns out the bully dropped out of school without reporting it.

The principal added, "Another group of students has no history of bullying, but they generally have good grades, and some even excel in sports."

Hoshikawa immediately guessed that Erika was jealous, which was why she had Bishumel kidnap the good students.

"This is such a hassle..." Hoshikawa scratched his head.

The Erika in this world is more extreme than the Erika in the original story.

Most importantly, in the original story, the principal of Saint Nan College was possessed by Bischoffelt, but the principal here is not.

This means he has to find a way to locate the human being possessed by Bishomer.

Thinking of this, Hoshikawa asked, "Principal, I'd like to know if there are any students in the school who are obsessed with black magic."

The principal shook his head: "No, our school cracks down on books with theological content."

"Is that so? Then we have no further questions. Thank you for your help." Hoshikawa got up and walked outside.

Back in the patrol car, Yuka suggested going to the location where the missing person disappeared, hoping to find some useful clues.

"Okay." Hoshikawa inserted the key and turned the ignition switch.

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Erika and two girls knelt in the dimly lit room, in the center of which was a five-pointed star array.

"Should we really take action against the Huowei team? I feel the risk is a bit too high. Maybe we should just forget about it."

"Yeah, the news of the missing members of the Huowei team will definitely trend on social media."

"We must take action. We must eliminate any unforeseen circumstances." Erika suppressed her disapproval and said that Bischofmel was about to arrive, and they absolutely could not fail at this time.

The other two girls, upon hearing this, also felt that Erika's words made sense.