The evening breeze carried a chill, stirring up dust from the ground and bringing with it a faint, lingering smell of rust and concrete debris.

A few suppressed sobs occasionally drifted from afar, only to be quickly swallowed by the wind.

Kato Megumi was just looking at this view.

The girl beside him was very quiet. Li Qingyang glanced at her; her profile looked particularly soft in the sunset, and her light-colored hair swayed gently in the wind.

Unlike the pervasive negativity around her, she possessed a strange tranquility, like the only discordant warm color in this world of human despair.

The two sat side by side, silence spreading in the dim light.

The distant ruins became increasingly blurred in the twilight, leaving only a grotesque silhouette.

Main Text: Chapter Nineteen: Farewell to Kato Megumi and the Request of the Loli Planet's Will—4/4

"What will we do if we lose our home?"

Li Qingyang didn't look at her, but stared at the shattered city before breaking the silence with his voice.

Kato Megumi gently gathered her wind-blown hair, gazing into the distance with a hint of bewilderment.

"I don't know..."

Her voice was soft and gentle, like a sigh carried on the wind.

"My parents are contacting relatives in the distance, probably wanting to go there and stay for a while."

The girl's tone was calm, revealing little emotion, as if she were simply stating something unrelated to herself.

Li Qingyang hummed in agreement and did not ask any further questions.

Isn't that the case in every household?

Kato Megumi looked away, down at her hands resting on her knees, her fingertips unconsciously digging into the fabric of her skirt.

"Monsters are really scary..."

She said in a low voice, "Everyone's homes were destroyed, the schools were destroyed, and many people died."

She paused for a moment, as if she had remembered something.

"A classmate who was very famous at school also died."

"Who?"

"A boy named Aki Tomoya, who was my classmate, supposedly refused to go to the evacuation site and insisted on packing up all his collections to take with him. Then the monster... This story spread widely among the classmates. It was said to be very tragic, and everyone was terrified."

The girl's voice grew slightly heavier, and her usually calm demeanor was tinged with sadness and grief at the loss of her classmate.

The male protagonist who hooked up with several beautiful girls like fishing for a juicy fish, maintaining ambiguous relationships with them for a long time with an attitude of neither refusing nor taking responsibility, and using their talents to achieve his game-making goals... is dead?

Is he really dead?

Li Qingyang glanced at her sideways, somewhat taken aback.

After some thought, I realized that the male protagonist was dead. This world was definitely not a slice-of-life anime world.

Kato Megumi didn't notice his strangeness. She simply tilted her head slightly, gazing at the sky where the setting sun was turning red, the remaining light reflected in her clear pupils.

"The world has become so dangerous. Just a year ago, it was so peaceful. There were no spatial vortexes, no monsters, and no sudden deaths of so many people."

A year ago, the world was quite ordinary, and the most common anomalies were urban legends and man-made supernatural charlatans.

But a year later, the world has changed drastically. Spatial vortexes appear from time to time all over the world, unleashing terrifying monsters that wreak havoc on the earth and tear the sky apart.

Strangely, although other countries also have space vortexes, they do not appear as frequently, usually once a month or even once every two months.

However, Japan has been repeatedly subjected to monsters from the space vortex for unknown reasons. It is normal for this to happen three or even four times a month, and the intensity is gradually increasing. At the beginning, Japan was able to barely kill the monsters, but as the monsters gradually became stronger, until yesterday, Japan's military forces were no longer able to play an effective role.

Countless people were displaced and fled to other regions.

In just one year, the number of people visiting Tokyo plummeted by 60%.

Furthermore, with the defense team's defeats and the monsters' increasing strength, this number will likely increase even further in the future.

Rumors are already circulating that Tokyo, Japan, will become a battlefield for monsters and Ultraman; if you don't leave now, you're doomed.

“Yes.” Li Qingyang lowered his head with a complicated look in his eyes, fiddling with his fingernails, and casually agreed, “This world is not normal at all, but since Ultraman has come, there is still hope, right? Once he drives out the monsters and the space vortex, this world will become normal again.”

Since this world was just an ordinary slice-of-life anime world a year ago, the anomalies lie in the spatial vortex and the monsters. The planetary will that used great fortune to create him into this world might have captured him, this sucker, to solve this problem.

"Ultraman... I saw the video online this morning, and the number of views is frighteningly high. Everyone is very excited."

Kato Megumi exclaimed, then added with some regret, "But I've never watched an Ultraman TV series. I only know that he's a giant of light or something... I think it's Zoffy? The eldest of the Ultra Brothers, he's supposed to be very strong, no wonder he can defeat monsters so easily."

"Zoffy is incredibly powerful. His M87 beam is known as the strongest single beam, capable of easily blasting a planet apart," Li Qingyang explained simply.

Come to think of it, he hasn't used the M87 beam yet. If his light is used to enhance the M87 beam, will the already incredibly powerful M87 beam pierce through the galaxy?

Kato Megumi looked down at her feet, blinked, and made a soft sound, "Ooh... Sugoi..."

The air fell silent again, with only the mournful sound of the wind.

After a while, Kato Megumi turned her head and looked at Li Qingyang beside her.

"Speaking of which, we still don't know what Li Jun's plans are for the future. Will he continue to stay here?"

"What are you planning to do..."

Li Qingyang looked thoughtful.

Are you planning to?

What could he possibly be planning?

My first plan is definitely to go home. There's no place like home, no matter how good it is. As people get older (?), it's hard to leave their comfort zone. But the will of that loli planet probably won't let me go, so I'll probably have to stay in this world for a while longer.

So, as a second-best option, the next time I encounter that little girl planet's will, I'll have to ask her what it would take for her to let me go back.

The second plan is to find real Ultraman. There probably aren't any from the home world, but there must be some from other worlds. If there's a way to get them to come over, that would be great. After all, Zoffy's light will wear off every time it's used up, and there will eventually be a day when it runs out. What will we do then?

Is it just waiting to die? No, if we can successfully bridge with the Land of Light, then everything will be fine. The space vortex issue can be completely left to them to solve. With its special properties, it can't do anything without Ultraman's light.

As for his third plan... that's it. In short, he'll just stay in this shelter for now. He can pretend to be a refugee with a skill and work as a temporary medical worker to make a living. If he leaves here, he won't even be able to make a living as an undocumented immigrant.

"Let's take it one step at a time; things will work themselves out."

As soon as Li Qingyang finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of a familiar red color out of the corner of his eye.

That splash of red, like the only flickering flame in the morning mist, was vivid and bright, drawing a clear trajectory at the edge of the field of vision, making one's heart tremble.

He suddenly stood up from the mound, his movement so quick that it stirred a breeze and ruffled the hair on Kato Megumi's forehead.

"I have to go now."

Li Qingyang ran towards the outside of the shelter, his voice filled with urgency.

"Your hand is just healed. Remember to be careful and avoid touching it again."

"Huh? Wait a minute..."

Li Qingyang left his words behind and, without even waiting to see Kato Megumi's reaction, chased after the direction in which the red figure had disappeared.

That splash of red was like a shadow, deftly weaving between the corner of the intersection and the abandoned vehicles on the roadside.

Li Qingyang pursued relentlessly, his breathing slightly rapid.

Just when he thought he was about to get close, and turned a corner, that splash of red would appear at just the right moment at the far end of the next intersection, neither too close nor too far, always maintaining a subtle distance.

It was as if it was guiding him toward a predetermined place.

The surrounding scenery rushed past, and the noisy crowd gathered outside the shelter was long gone.

Finally, the red figure stopped at the entrance of a quiet, deserted park, and then drifted in.

Li Qingyang stopped to catch his breath, activated the light within his body to clear away fatigue, and then stepped into the park without hesitation.

Overgrown with weeds, the amusement facilities are rusty, and the air is filled with the smell of dust and weeds. It's unclear how long it has been neglected.

In a relatively open grassy area in the center of the park, he finally saw the figure clearly.

The little girl in the red dress had her back to him; her slender figure was bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun, creating a striking silhouette in the empty space.

Long, black hair cascaded down to her waist like a waterfall.

She was wearing that familiar red halter dress, her smooth shoulder blades rising and falling slightly beneath the fabric like butterfly wings.

Her exposed arms and calves had fair and delicate skin, like the finest mutton fat jade, still radiating a soft luster even in the dim light.

She slowly turned around, revealing her still delicate, exquisitely beautiful face, devoid of any extra expression, except for a pair of dark eyes that were so deep they seemed to absorb all light.

Those eyes gazed quietly at Li Qingyang, with a calmness and serenity beyond their years.

Li Qingyang took a deep breath, suppressing the surging thoughts in his mind, and strode towards her, speaking as he did so.

"You brought me into this world, didn't you?"

The little girl in the red dress didn't answer; she just kept watching him quietly until he came up to her.

Li Qingyang stopped about two meters in front of her. The afterglow of the setting sun cast his shadow long, almost touching the girl's small toes.

"I'll be blunt, just send me back. You can't ask me to fight monsters." Li Qingyang pointed to the orange-red sun that was about to sink below the horizon and said seriously, "You have to find Ultraman, preferably Ultraman King, or Noah, Legend or something like that. With their power, they can definitely solve your problem easily."

"It's no use looking for me. I'm just an ordinary human being. Although I'm a little different from ordinary people, I don't have the power of Ultraman."

The little girl in the red dress listened quietly. After she finished listening, she tilted her head slightly, and her long black hair slid like silk over her bare, smooth shoulders.

Then, she shook her head very slowly, but with unwavering determination.

"No."

Her voice was very soft, like a sigh, almost disappearing into the cool evening breeze of the park.

The little girl stretched out her slender fingers, the tips of which were so white they were almost transparent, and gently touched the red hem of her dress on her chest.

On that bright red fabric, the deep, swirling spots that Li Qingyang had seen before, resembling spatial vortexes, seemed to spread even more pervasively than before, exuding an ominous gloom, slowly and eerily writhing on the hem of the skirt.

The bright red skirt swayed gently in the breeze, and the spots on it swayed along with it, like countless desperate eyes of lives lost in a monster disaster, a sight that made one lose their nerve.

But despite the loss of her sanity, Li Qingyang keenly observed that, unlike what he had seen before, a small patch of spots on her abdomen had disappeared, revealing bright red fabric underneath.

Could those spots represent Golza and Melba from yesterday...?

It's so simple and straightforward, it's almost comical. With all those spots, how many monsters must be lurking on Earth right now?

The little girl in the red dress raised her head, her delicate, exquisite face still expressionless, only her unfathomable eyes staring at the boy before her, a glint of water seemingly flashing within them.

"Help."

The three words were spoken softly, without any change in tone, yet Li Qingyang sensed a pleading and heavy feeling in them, and his head immediately felt like it was about to explode.

"Wait, wait a minute..."

Li Qingyang covered his head with one hand and raised the other, making a pause gesture.

He felt a throbbing sensation in his temples.

"Do you really want me to help you get rid of all the monsters on this planet?"

The little girl in the red dress nodded, her dark eyes even carrying a hint of anticipation.

With so many monsters, Zoffy's light isn't enough!

Li Qingyang roared inwardly, but tried his best to maintain a calm expression.

"So... if you defeat all the monsters, you can send me back?"

He stared into the little girl's eyes, trying to find a definite answer in those deep, dark pupils.

The little girl in the red dress blinked her beautiful eyes, her gaze seemingly wandering unconsciously for a moment.

Then, he nodded his little head somewhat uncertainly.

You're actually unsure if you can even get me back the way I came?!

Main Text: Chapter Twenty: Fierce Battle Against Yudolinka! Shining Mode, Activated! Global Monster Annihilation War! 1/4

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