Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

"Yes, yes, yes!" Estend quickly took it and stuffed it into his large equipment bag.

"You threw it on the bookshelf."

"He must have been looking through the manual last night and then just left it lying around because it was in the way," Estand pulled up the zipper of his equipment bag, picked it up, and headed for the door. "Hurry up, we can't hold anyone back on our first mission!"

I could have left much earlier; didn't you call me at the door to help you find something...?

Samuel tilted his head and walked out of Estend's dormitory.

When they arrived at the assembly area, they found several vehicles waiting to pick them up. Keita Kobayashi was waving to them from the driver's seat of the first vehicle, which looked the heaviest: "Newbies, you're not too late!"

Hasegawa Hayato looked down at the message sent by his superior from the passenger seat.

Several people filed in and slammed the back of the truck shut. The heavy rescue vehicle roared and sped toward a mountainous area near the base camp.

"You should know the destination by now, it's Mount Kirifuki," Hayato Hasegawa's voice came through the communicator. "As of now, seven people are missing there: a family of three, a couple, and two hikers who were hiking together. According to reports, strong electromagnetic interference has been detected at Mount Kirifuki. Be careful not to get separated and put up reflective markers along the way. It might be... a monster. GUYS has been deployed. Be careful not to approach the battlefield unless you find the people calling for help there."

"Yes!"

"Once we enter the fog area, there's a possibility that the positioning will fail. Visibility will be very low. Sora, get your loudspeaker out. Keita, you and Mao stay in the car. If other teams need it, you'll be responsible for providing heavy equipment support."

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The name "Mist-blown Mountain" is truly fitting; at this moment, the entire mountain is shrouded in an abnormal fog, and the faint roars of giant beasts can be heard.

As soon as Hasegawa Hayato and his four-member team entered the foggy area, they heard a piercing buzzing sound coming from their communicators. They exchanged a glance and then turned off their communicators.

Due to the dense fog, even from just a few meters away, Hasegawa Hayato's silhouette was not very clear in Yamashita Rikuto's eyes; only the bright green reflective strip reminded him that there was a rescuer there.

The rumbling sound on the horizon grew closer, and they looked up in confusion, but could see nothing.

"That's the sound of an engine... GUYS' plane?" Rikuto Yamashita turned toward the direction from which the sound came.

“They sound really close,” Yonahara Sora said, taking a few steps forward while covering his ear with his hand. “…Hey, the engine sound seems to have quieted down, but it’s still very close…Are they landing?”

Estend noticed that Samuel suddenly tensed up.

"what happened?"

A flash of silver light appeared in Samuel's eyes, and he said in a low voice, "It's the scent I caught on the bridge that day, near the plane that GUYS landed."

A creature that can scare monsters away is extremely dangerous.

Estend nodded and shouted, "Captain! I request permission to go with Yu to the GUYS plane's landing site to check. They may have found the trapped people, or they may have been damaged and forced to land. They need our help!"

This area was relatively far from the designated combat zone. After a moment's thought, Hasegawa Hayato agreed to his suggestion, while also letting Yonahara Sora go with them. He was still a little worried about letting the two newcomers explore the foggy area.

The three agreed, and Samuel took off running towards the location of that repulsive aura. Estend followed closely behind him, and Yuan Kong hung the megaphone on his waist and followed as well.

On the other side, deep in the dense forest shrouded in thick fog.

A curly-haired woman in a white coat strolled leisurely through the territory of what appeared to be an extremely dangerous monster to outsiders.

"Slurp, slurp," she licked her lips with her strangely long tongue, her eyes filled with the excitement of discovering her prey.

Further away, the Wing, which had landed on a rocky outcrop, was empty. Two young men in GUYS uniforms walked one after the other through the smoke-shrouded forest.

"Hey—Mirai! Where are you trying to crawl into?!"

Aihara Ryu was completely bewildered, but he had no choice but to follow the guy who had suddenly run out in front of him, lest he get lost.

Finding someone in this thick fog is really troublesome!

"Hey, slow down!"

……

"You are too slow."

Samuel glanced back at Estend and Yu Yuankong. He could already smell the faint scent of blood and hear the sound of teeth scraping against bones.

That aura was indeed that of a monster predator.

[Fourth Mission: Protect the Guide]

The monster predator is extremely dangerous. It's safer to take it down while you can still detect its presence.

Samuel's pupils were completely covered in silver, and because he was facing away from Yu Nayuankong, they were not noticed.

"It's right ahead. I'll go first. Remember to use signal flares if you encounter any problems." After quickly saying this, Samuel sped off and plunged into the vast sea of ​​fog ahead.

"Hey, with that commanding tone, who's the senior here, you or me!"

"Yu Nayuan Kong couldn't stop him, and clicked his tongue in annoyance: "He usually seems so steady, but turns out he's this reckless!"

Estend could only force a laugh and said, "His hearing is better than mine. If he says it's directly in front of us, then he's definitely right. Let's run in that direction."

As he spoke, Samuel, enveloped in silver light, rushed to an open space—or rather, an open space created by the monster.

A woman in a white coat stood in the center of an open space. Around her were fallen trees and splattered blood that stained a large area of ​​bare rocks.

She was licking her hand with her tongue when she turned around and saw a silver light rushing towards her.

"Boom--!"

The ground trembled, and a few drops of still-wet blood fell from the rocks to the ground. The thick fog dispersed, replaced by scattered dust.

The woman in the white coat was already standing at the edge of the open space when she suddenly raised her hand and released a purple beam of light towards the center of the dust.

"Whoosh—crack!" The beam of light flew easily, snapping a nearby tree in half.

The dust was scattered by the impact, revealing a figure wearing a blue rescue team uniform and a pair of cold eyes shining with a bright silver light.

"Hmph." The woman's voice was chilling.

Samuel abruptly stopped, a blue crystal phantom appearing on his forehead. He turned and swept a pale blue light across his left rear.

The woman in the white coat had already teleported there, smiling sinisterly. Samuel was a step too slow, and the woman teleported to other locations in quick succession.

No, it wasn't that he was a step too slow, but rather...

"Psychic power."

The woman was clever; she managed to use her telekinesis to slow his movements just before he activated his teleportation, causing the crystal beam on his forehead to be delayed by half a beat.

Samuel bowed slightly, holding one hand outstretched in a loose fist, and an invisible force erupted from him.

The woman in the white coat let out a sharp hiss, and the ground between the two collapsed with a crash. Grass and leaves flew everywhere and were torn into countless pieces. The already fallen tree trunks were covered with knife-like marks.

Upon the impact, Samuel felt a sudden heaviness in his head, his vision blurred for a moment, and then immediately returned to clarity.

He looked again and saw only a dark vortex closing.

"Escaped pretty fast."

Samuel relaxed his body, and a wave of dizziness hit him, causing him to stagger back half a step.

The sound of a branch being broken by footsteps.

It wasn't Samuel, but someone from several dozen meters away.

Samuel took a deep breath, and when he opened his eyes again, the silver light had disappeared.

"Are you...from the rescue team?"

A young voice. Samuel turned his head and saw a person wearing a GUYS uniform, exuding a warm aura.

The man did not question Samuel, but immediately focused his attention on the scene of Bogaru's monster preying on the monster: large splatters of blood everywhere, wounds on the trees, collapsed ground, and a chilling, pungent stench.

"Finally stopped! Where are you going to run off to in the future?"

A straightforward complaint came from afar, and Aihara Ryu walked through the trees that blocked his view. The scene before him made him swallow his next words.

"Hey, hey, what is this...?"

Hibino Mirai stepped across the blood-stained ground and approached the rescue team members who had clearly arrived earlier, asking, "Did you see anything?"

Samuel stared at the two men, Estend's instructions echoing in his mind.

"You shouldn't have been so reckless."

"Humans are not monsters that your teacher uses to test you; you can't attack them at will."

"Now you have this task!"

"Get along well with Earthlings."

The one closer to me, who looked younger, had a strange aura, like Ultraman Mebius, but I couldn't be completely sure. The one further away was definitely an Earthling.

Yes, Earthlings, let's get along well.

Then Samuel spoke up: "I saw her, a woman in a white coat, and then she disappeared."

"A white coat..." Hibino Mirai thought of the strange woman she had seen in another place a while ago: "Was she curly-haired? She looked a bit odd..."

“Hmm,” Samuel nodded, “it’s curly hair and a long tongue.”

"Thank you!" Hibino Mirai was certain it was the same person. She thanked him while examining the bloody open area.

"Such a terrifying amount of bleeding can't possibly be human..." Aihara Ryu muttered to himself, enduring the stench of blood. "I remember the monster simply vanished into the fog. Our beams didn't hurt it, and after it disappeared, I didn't hear any more sounds of monsters fighting. What on earth happened?"

While the two members of GUYS were wondering what was going on, another team finally arrived.

"Wow... Yu, you ran way too far." Estend was out of breath.

Yohara Sora also pushed through the bushes and ran over, the loudspeaker on his waist still playing a message about searching for missing persons. The thick fog was really obstructing the view, and if the missing persons were nearby, they could just make some noise in response to the sound from the loudspeaker.