A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

With a heart-wrenching scream, Asagi Aya, drawing strength from who-knows-where, suddenly swung her arm and slapped the thug hard across the face.

The blond thug was stunned by the beating. He staggered back two steps, covering his face in shock.

Immediately afterward, taking advantage of the opening, Asagi Aya broke through the encirclement like a madwoman and stumbled into Chiyu's arms.

She looked up, tears streaming down her face, into Qianyu's eyes.

"I want power! Give me power! I don't want to live like this anymore! I've had enough!"

"Please... help me! Chiyu-kun!"

The thugs behind him came to their senses and charged forward with a roar.

"You bitch! You dare hit me?!"

However, Qianyu acted as if she didn't see the group of scumbags rushing towards her.

He looked at the face that was finally contorted, finally no longer cowardly, and smiled from the bottom of his heart.

"Very good, that's right. You want power, right? Then I'll give it to you."

He bent down, pulled out a stack of cards from his pocket, and skillfully unfolded them into a perfect fan shape in his hand, like a casino dealer.

All the card backs face Asagiri Aya.

"Since you've made your choice, I won't go back on my word. Here, draw a card."

"Your destiny is in your own hands."

Asagiri Aya reached out her hand with trembling hands, hesitated for a moment among those identical cards, and finally drew the middle one based on her intuition.

Turn it over.

The background of the card is a pitch-black universe.

In the center of the image is a terrifying creature with an extremely bizarre appearance, black and white in color, with a glowing organ on its chest and a head like a longhorn beetle.

A line of text is printed in gold lettering at the bottom of the card:

【Space Dinosaur - Zetton】

"What's this?"

Asagiri Aya stared blankly at the card in her hand, completely bewildered as to what it had to do with "power".

"Oh? It's Zetton."

"You're lucky! This is a major villain in the tokusatsu world, the first monster to defeat Ultraman."

Chiyu then casually stuffed the [Substitute] card into Asagiri Aya's hand.

"Take this too."

"Asagiri-kun, have you seen Ultraman Orb?"

"Huh?"

Asagiri Aya held the two cards, tears still glistening in her eyes, completely stunned.

"No... I haven't seen it."

"That's a real shame. That was a great anime that taught you how to borrow money... no, how to borrow power."

Qianyu shook her head regretfully, then pointed to the two cards in her hand.

"But it's okay, the principle is very simple."

"Now, treat this [Substitute] card as a transformation device, and that [Zetton] card as a senior who lends us power."

"Silently say to yourself: 'Space Dinosaur Zetton-san, please lend me your power!' Then put the two cards together and see if you can transform."

"Transform...transform?"

Asagiri Aya's eyes widened, her expression as if she had swallowed a whole live frog.

"Yes, transform. Become Zetton."

Chiba patted Asagiri Aya on the shoulder, then took a step back and gestured for her to begin her performance.

Asagiri Aya held the two cards, standing in the cold wind.

She looked at the ferocious space dinosaur in her hand, then at the group of thugs opposite her who had recovered from their shock and were cursing as they prepared to charge forward.

"Um... transform... transform? I... I really don't know how."

"Since you don't know how, I'll teach you step by step."

Qianyu snapped her fingers.

Just as Wu Cai was about to ask what to do, she suddenly felt a strange wriggling sensation on the ground beneath her feet.

She looked down and saw that her shadow had come to life.

It's not a metaphor; it means literally "come alive."

The black silhouette that should have been lying quietly on the ground was now twisting and bulging in a way that defied the laws of physics, as if something was struggling to squeeze from the two-dimensional plane into the three-dimensional world.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of pitch-black arms emerged from the depths of the shadows, grabbing Asagiri Aya's ankles and calves tightly, and then began to drag her down.

"Aaaaaahh ...

Terrified by the scene, Asagiri Aya screamed for the umpteenth time that day. She struggled frantically, trying to shake off the persistent black hands, but the hands were incredibly strong, gripping her calves tightly and dragging her body toward the ground.

"Don't be afraid."

Chiyu's voice came from above.

"This is a necessary step in the transformation. Relax, don't struggle, it'll be over in a bit."

Relax?! Relax my foot!

Asagiri Aya's mind was filled with overwhelming fear.

She opened her mouth wide to call for help, but the next second, darkness completely engulfed her.

Light, sound, air—all senses related to "reality" were severed in that instant.

This is where?

Asagiri Aya had no idea where she was.

All around was endless nothingness, with no distinction between up, down, left, or right, no reference points, only suffocating darkness.

Her body floated in this void, like a specimen soaked in formaldehyde, unable to move.

"Relax."

Qianyu's voice rang out again, but this time, it seemed to come from all directions at the same time.

"From now on, I will temporarily take over your body; you just need to cooperate."

What...what does that mean?

Before Asagiri Aya could finish speaking, her right arm started moving on its own.

It wasn't under her control; she could clearly feel that the arm no longer belonged to her.

It was as if another person had entered her body and was using her body to perform some kind of ritual.

Asagiri Aya raised her arm high, palm facing up, and the card printed with "Space Dinosaur Zetton" lay quietly on it.

「——Identification Complete.」

A majestic mechanical voice suddenly rang out in the void.

"—Zetton, the Space Dinosaur!"

boom--!

The dark space trembled violently, as if something was being summoned.

Asagiri Aya's eyes widened as she watched the void before her begin to twist and tear, with torrents of energy, interwoven with gold and black, surging wildly in the void.

Then, it appeared.

A huge monster with its entire body completely black.

Its body was covered in yellow stripes, and its chest and shoulders were adorned with eerie glowing organs that emitted an unsettling orange-red light. Its eyeless face looked down at her, who was as small as an ant.

Even just passively meeting its gaze, Aya Asagiri could feel the fear rising from the depths of her bones—a fear of overwhelming power etched into her biological instincts.

Chapter 147 Chiba's Version of Dark Materialization

Cosmic Dinosaurs.

Jaden.

Killer of the original Ultraman.

The first monster in history to defeat and kill Ultraman.

Even people who don't watch tokusatsu dramas have heard of this name to some extent, because it's so famous.

It represents the embodiment of despair, an insurmountable shadow in Ultraman.

And now, this legendary monster is staring at Asagiri Aya, so close that she can even smell the strange odor emanating from it.

"Wait, wait a minute—! What's going on—!"

Asagiri Aya's voice had completely changed; fear had left her mind blank.

But her body still wouldn't obey her commands; her other hand was automatically raised, and in her palm lay the substitute card.

"—The Substitute Clow Card!"

The mechanical voice sounded again, and at the same time, golden light burst forth from the surface of the substitute card, as if some ancient ritual was being initiated.

The light enveloped Asagiri Aya and Zetton, binding them tightly together.

Then came the third voice.

The space trembled violently again, this time even more violently than before.

Asagiri Aya felt her consciousness being forcibly pulled out of her body by some force, as if her soul was being forcibly dragged out of her body.

"—Darkness materializes!"