Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

He rushed over and grabbed Samuel's shoulder, about to say something to him, but the overwhelming smell of blood made him nauseous: "I said you... Ugh! What's going on here!"

Estend also covered his nose in disgust.

“It’s not clear yet, but what’s certain is that it’s related to monsters,” Hibino Mirai walked towards them and extended her hand: “G”

UYS member, Miku Hibino.

“GUYS member, Aihara Ryu.”

"Kanto Disaster Relief Team, and Nahara Sora".

"Kanto Disaster Relief Team, Aiba Kanade, this is Aiba Yu."

It seems the monster has indeed disappeared; the bloodstains and the gradually dissipating fog at this place prove that the monster has vanished, or rather, died.

The two teams exchanged a few pleasantries and then parted ways. The GUYS members needed to collect information from the scene, while the rescue team members needed to search for the missing persons.

Fortunately, the dense fog began to dissipate, and communication and electronic devices gradually returned to normal. With the assistance of drones and Samuel's stealthy "sight-seeking" ability, their search efficiency was much faster than searching for people in the fog with a megaphone.

While the three of them were rescuing two hikers who had panicked and fled after hearing the monster's roar, only to fall into a deep ditch and get injured, Hasegawa Hayato was already on his way down the mountain with a housewife who had become separated from her husband and daughter.

The Matsui team next door led the father and daughter, planning to meet them at the foot of the mountain.

Yu Yuankong and Samuel each supported one of the two wounded.

Along the way, the hiker that Yuan Kong was supporting kept wailing about his injuries.

Samuel was quite honest, except that one of his hands was wobbly and he couldn't exert any strength, and his elbow was swollen high.

Estend, on the other hand, had it easier, focusing on operating drones to search for the missing couple who had not yet been found.

As they were about to descend the mountain, a message came through the radio that the couple had gotten lost on a cliff with no cell phone signal. They were on the verge of collapse from the wind when they were found and rescued by a patrolling helicopter.

"Your car looks really impressive!"

The hikers were helped into ambulances. Although they appear to be unharmed at the moment, the possibility of internal bleeding cannot be ruled out, so it would be best to have them undergo a full medical check-up first.

But the hiker who had been making a ruckus along the way didn't seem worried about his own problems. Upon seeing the heavy rescue vehicle, he acted like a big kid seeing a favorite toy: "This vehicle is really awesome! Hey, I heard you also have special rescue aircraft, different from ordinary helicopters? Does it also have this kind of... really powerful lifting equipment?"

"Did you really fall from a height of several meters?! Who was that person who was yelling in pain just now?!" He retorted to Yuan Kong, then carefully stuffed the hiker into the ambulance, closed the door, and shut the hiker's incoherent voice inside the vehicle.

"Phew," Yonahara clapped his hands, turned around and smiled brightly, his wheat-colored skin gleaming in the sunset: "That's a wrap! Newbie, not bad for your first assignment!"

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Shadow That Came Bringing Light

knock off?

The members of Hasegawa's team returned to their dormitory, washed up, and had just put their heads down on their pillows when they were awakened by the piercing alarm.

Then there was another flurry of activity as everyone grabbed their gear and rushed to the playground.

A transport vehicle was dispatched to take the rescue team to the airport located near the headquarters.

“A monster has appeared in Higashi Tama New City. The branch there doesn’t have enough manpower to deal with it, so we need support from headquarters,” Hasegawa Hayato said quickly, his voice not particularly clear amidst the noisy roar of the transport plane’s engines. “It’s a Sadra that was discovered in Mount Kirigakure during the day. We don’t know yet how it disappeared in Mount Kirigakure and then suddenly reappeared hundreds of kilometers away.”

Yamashita Rikuto said, "Fog can interfere with electronic devices. Is Higashi-Tama New City now like Kirifuki Mountain?"

“Yes,” Hasegawa Hayato’s voice was somewhat low, “the electronic devices in the area where Sadra is located are all unusable, so the alarm we received… came too late.”

Sugiyama Mao's eyes widened: "Then that means there are a lot of people..."

“It sounds disheartening, but it’s true,” Yonahara Sora gritted his teeth, wishing the transport plane could teleport to the skies above Higashi Tama New City right now. “Hopefully GUYS can get there soon, at least to buy some time for the evacuation of people.”

"Ultraman and GUYS will defeat the monsters," Mao Sugiyama encouraged everyone. "Don't worry too much! They've been doing a great job lately! Mebius is working hard to protect everyone!"

Higashi-Tama New Town.

The girls in school uniforms stared blankly at the terrifying figures walking towards them.

monster.

Their legs trembled so badly they couldn't move. The moment the monster's claws reached for them, all they could do was futilely cling to each other and scream in terror.

The pincers are very powerful.

"Click, click."

The two girls were pulled into the clamps, and with a single snap of Sadra's fingers, their ribs were easily broken, and their screams ceased abruptly.

"Right, that is it."

The noisy crowd ran past beneath her feet. The woman in the white coat stood expressionless on the pedestrian overpass, watching Sadra struggling to feed herself.

"Eat more."

The strange, mixed voices, neither male nor female, were drowned out by the clamor of the fleeing crowd in this city filled with thick fog and fear.

……

When the headquarters support team from the Kanto Rescue Team arrived at the scene, it was already a scene of devastation.

Mebius and the newly appeared unknown blue giant defeated Sadra, and the three giant monster corpses, or more accurately, the scattered remains of the three monsters, were scattered throughout the city.

A construction site and a residential building collapsed during the battle between Ultra Warriors and Sadera; casualties are currently unknown. Two office buildings and three residential buildings suffered varying degrees of damage from Sadera.

People need to be evacuated urgently.

While some buildings have not yet collapsed, certain floors have been swept away by the monster's giant pincers and are now dangerous structures. Rescue efforts must proceed on the affected floors while evacuating people from other floors. The city's roads and infrastructure are severely damaged, requiring repair teams to temporarily create usable access routes for heavy rescue equipment to enter.

Hasegawa's squad was assigned to clean up the residential building that had been crushed during the battle.

That's right, cleaning.

Because it had collapsed to the point of collapse, and it seemed that even the supporting pillars no longer existed, Hasegawa Hayato still had Estend activate the life scanning device, clinging to a sliver of hope.

A dead silence.

The still, unmoving image on the screen made everyone's hearts sink.

Estend turned to look at Samuel.

Samuel had already concealed the silver glint in his eyes and shook his head at him.

Estend's hand trembled slightly as he gripped the scanner.

After scanning several times, Hasegawa Hayato finally walked away and turned on his communication device.

Although he had gone quite far, the team members could still hear his voice because of the silence of the area.

“…The rescue team isn’t a body-collecting team, Captain Miura. You should have assigned us to this more manpower-deficient area…Yes, we’ve already checked three times and found no signs of life…But the lifting equipment is still blocked three blocks away! You want my team to dig up the body with their bare hands?…Okay, yes!”

Hayato Hasegawa turned and walked back, and the silent team members all came forward to look at him.

"Go to the residential building 600 meters away from here, at a direction of 27 degrees west of north, and cooperate with the local branch in the rescue."

Hasegawa's team left in order, and the dark blue rescue suits followed suit.

Just a few hours ago, several families lived here, and the aroma of food had barely wafted out, but all of that stopped in an instant.

……

……

Compared to the lifeless ruins, another residential building was much more "lively".

Because it happened to be right in the path of Sadra's journey, the fifth and sixth floors of the residential building were destroyed and have now collapsed into a complete ruin.

Of the six entrances, one facing the street was half blocked by the remnants of a traffic light and street lamp that Sadra knocked down while passing through. Of the remaining five entrances, three were blocked by the collapsed office building next door, and one on the side had its roof damaged by rubble and completely collapsed, with twisted steel bars, leaving only a half-person opening for passage. In total, only one entrance was still relatively unobstructed.

Hasegawa's team's task was to use this only intact entrance to climb to the fifth and sixth floors to check for any survivors. The evacuation of the other floors would be handled by other teams.

According to data provided by the rescue team that arrived earlier, the fifth and sixth floors had actually collapsed together. Sadra's attack had directly breached the floor slabs of three units, leaving only the partition wall of one unit still standing. Since the only accessible passage did not belong to the uncollapsed unit, if they wanted to find out the situation inside, they could only walk on the roof ruins, crawl through the walls, or climb over the outer floors whose wall stability was unknown.

Kumiko lay in the cramped space, the solid wood dining table in her home offering her a small glimmer of hope for survival.

I wonder how my parents and grandparents, who used to eat at the same table with me, are doing.

The house collapsed so suddenly that she only saw a tall, terrifying black shadow appear at the window, followed by a pair of huge eyes.

In the chaos, she felt a push from behind, and she rolled under the table. Then there was a rumbling sound as the table wobbled and fell halfway down, forming a triangle. Her calves were trapped underneath and she could no longer feel them.

She silently recited the precautions she had learned during the school drills, and when she read "Conserve your energy while waiting for rescue," she finally couldn't help but cry.

She doesn't know what's happening to her family. What if they've all died? How can she possibly conserve her energy for rescue?

As she cried, the terrifying image she had seen through the window earlier kept replaying in her mind.

"Is it a monster?"

Are there any other things that are that tall and terrifying?

Then she thought of what she had seen on television and in newspapers: monsters appear, Ultra Warriors defeat them, and rescue people in danger.

She sobbed, her hands clasped together, unsure if it would help. She just kept thinking of the silver-red warriors from the cartoons she watched as a child, and kept murmuring, "Ultraman, if you can hear me, please come and save us!"

She didn't know how many times she had muttered it, but then she heard the sound of the stones moving.

Immediately afterwards, a ray of light shone in from the gap that had previously allowed only a little air to pass through.

Kumiko stopped praying. She stared blankly at the ray of light and almost instinctively reached out to grasp the precious light.

But the light, barely thicker than a finger's width, suddenly expanded, followed by a voice so calm it seemed devoid of any emotion: "Rescue team, my headlamp is too bright. Close your eyes to avoid damaging your vision."

Kumiko obediently nodded and closed her eyes, but she still wanted to see clearly who had saved her, so she secretly peeked out through a crack.

She couldn't see clearly, only vaguely seeing the beam of light shine on the support of the dining table for a moment before peering back.

She boldly opened her eyes and pressed her head close to the hole the rescue team had made. The rescue team member didn't shine a headlamp on her; instead, he turned his back and moved stones elsewhere. She could only see him through the hole.