Marvel: Saint Seiya Starting with the Reality Stone.

Just as Mike was replaying Aiolia's words from years ago, which he thought were empty promises, the golden-red lion staring at him suddenly roared and pounced on Mike.

Mike stood still.

next second.

He then saw the golden-red lion in front of him pounce, and just as it was about to touch his body, it instantly merged into his body.

in reality.

Mike, who was standing on Kelso Hill, suddenly stiffened as a tremendous force surged into his body.

At this moment.

He felt as if something was reviving inside his body.

The heart that was ignited first.

If the moment his inner universe was awakened, his heart beat like a brand new engine, then this time, his heart was like it had been filled with brand new fuel, surging powerfully in his chest.

Then there's the spine.

The newly replaced heart unleashed its newfound power like magma, flowing upwards from the tailbone, scorching his spine segment by segment.

As this force began to extend along his spine and down to his limbs, the faint, golden-red lion's silhouette appeared behind Mike.

It seemed to be right behind Mike, yet it also seemed to blend perfectly with Mike.

Mike felt the new energy flowing to his brow, perfectly merging with his inner universe. He slowly closed his eyes, letting the energy flow into them.

But this didn't last long.

It only lasted a moment.

Mike then opened his eyes again.

into the eye.

At this moment, Mike's original deep blue complexion, like the deep sea, was still there, but his original black pupils were gone.

Instead, he had a pair of golden-red pupils that were now the same color as his inner universe.

If you don't look closely...

At this moment, Mike's eyes looked like two golden-red suns rising from the deep blue sea, much like the sun rising at seven or eight in the morning.

Showing off—

Endless majesty!

……

35. The Bronze Saint of Leo!

On the Kelso Hill, where the horizon was already beginning to lighten.

Mike stood there quietly, his eyes lowered, his golden-red pupils shimmering slightly.

next second.

As Mike extended his right hand and placed it on his chest, his golden-red eyes also looked up at the starry sky above.

His gaze swept across the endless starry sky at that moment, finally settling on the constellation Leo, which is eighty light-years away from Earth.

Just as Mike's gaze traversed eighty light-years and landed on the constellation Leo.

In a daze.

He seemed to see a golden-red lion.

One head—

At this very moment, a golden-red lion is beating in sync with his heart.

quite a while!

Mike blinked, and with each blink, his golden-red pupils gradually returned to their original black color.

But it didn't completely revert back.

If you look closely, you might notice a golden-red hue deep within Mike's black pupils.

It resembled a flame, burning slowly beneath his black pupils in a subtle rhythm that beat in sync with Mike's heartbeat.

"so--"

"I did not become the Phoenix Saint."

"But am I qualified to become the Leo Gold Saint of the Zodiac?"

"..."

After missing out on the Phoenix sign, Mike suddenly gained the approval of the Leo sign. Feeling a mix of highs and lows, Mike couldn't quite describe his current mood.

But one thing is certain.

He was happy.

This time, although he did not become the Phoenix Saint as originally planned, he became the Leo Saint of the Zodiac.

Mike had never thought of this before.

Although he is the only Saint Seiya in the Marvel Universe, he did not consider the twelve zodiac signs when choosing his constellations.

He hadn't even considered the 24 constellations, let alone the 12 zodiac signs.

Because thinking about it is useless.

He didn't even feel the gaze of the twenty-four silver constellations at the time, let alone the twelve zodiac signs.

Even with the forty-eight Bronze Constellations he sensed, he had to resort to trickery, using the Reality Stone to imprint the Phoenix constellation in his cosmos beforehand, acting first and asking questions later, hoping to transform himself into a Phoenix Saint through a forceful and domineering approach.

So Mike had considered the zodiac before.

If you haven't even felt it, how can you consider it?

But this time there was a slight mishap.

It's still because of the Phoenix constellation.

Because at the moment when Phoenix in the real universe sensed the phoenix phantom in his microcosm, his microcosm was also reflected in Phoenix at that moment.

From an Earth-scale perspective, the distance between Leo and Phoenix is ​​not that far.

and so--

At that moment, Leo felt his own universe, then chose his own universe and merged with it.

Even a Saint who hasn't awakened their Sixth Sense can become a Saint of the Zodiac.

This is normal.

one more time.

The essence of Saint Seiya lies in one's own cosmos, not in the constellations.

However, all the Saints who have become members of the Zodiac have the potential to awaken the Seventh Sense, and even the Eighth Sense.

It's quite normal for this to happen.

Phoenix can be understood as a relay station.

As the only Saint Seiya in the Marvel Universe, Michael could theoretically become a Saint Seiya of any constellation.

However, when Michael was on Earth, his cosmos, which only truly existed because of the Reality Stone, could only be perceived by the 48 Bronze Constellations.

Or perhaps he only sensed the perception of the forty-eight bronze constellations, since he hadn't even grasped the sixth sense.

In reality, all the constellations, including the twelve zodiac signs, sensed him the moment his microcosm was born.

When his inner universe was reflected in the constellation Phoenix because of Phoenix, although the time it stayed was only for a moment, it was enough to complete the fusion with Leo.

Is defeat a phoenix rising from the ashes?

Success is achieved through the phoenix?

"one way or another."

I owe you a favor.

Mike withdrew his gaze from Leo, eighty light-years away and whose heartbeat was in sync with his own, and looked back towards Phoenix, thinking to himself.

Because that's just how it is.

If the Phoenix Force had reacted more violently, he wouldn't have been able to use Phoenix as a relay station; he might have been severely injured by the Phoenix Force, which was so enraged that it thought it coveted his power.

If that were the case, he wouldn't have been able to turn his luck around and become the Leo Saint of the Zodiac instead of the Phoenix Saint.

Although he, the Leo Saint, is still only at the Bronze level.

But it is not important.

The potential of the Zodiac is there, so sooner or later, Mike will awaken his sixth sense, and then his seventh sense, becoming a true Leo Gold Saint.

Just then.

The pattering sound coming from below Kelso Hill reached Mike's ears at that moment.

next second.

Bang!

A gunshot suddenly rang out deep in the Mojave Desert, which was gradually beginning to recover over time.

"Success?"

He's gone.

"what?"

"He disappeared."

"This is impossible."

A Centipede soldier, hearing his comrade's words as he tried to shoot a cold bullet into Mike's body with a sniper rifle, and seeing the look of horror on his comrade's face, subconsciously said something and then raised his binoculars to look at Mike, who should have been standing on Kelso Hill.

into the eye.