Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

"You guys..."

Tong Li said, "I migrated to Earth. None of my companions were able to reach this place. For me, Earth is my second home."

Just moments ago, Yamashita Rikuto was full of vigilance, but his expression changed, and the distrust in his eyes faded somewhat.

"Shouldn't we ask what's going on with the monster first?!"

Yonahara Sora finally managed to finish her sentence: "We're a rescue team! A rescue team! There's a monster here? We're going to rescue people from under the monster's feet?"

Marina Kazama turned around and glanced at him.

"Ah, there's a combat unit here." Yonahara clicked his tongue, then hugged his head tightly.

Yamashita Rikudou lightly kicked him: "Are you scared? If you're scared, squat here and wait for us to bring the captain back."

Yu Yuan Kong jumped to the side, patting his legs at non-existent footprints, and said, "N-no, I'm just excited! Before, we always dug people out after the monsters left, or evacuated them far away. Now we're going to rescue people right under the monsters' feet! I'm so... so excited!"

Keita Kobayashi smirked.

Tong Li's narration interrupted their conversation. He continued, "The missing people must be somewhere here. Let's split up and search!"

Everyone split into groups and went their separate ways.

"How was it, Samuel? Did you sense the captain's presence?" Estend asked after they had all gone their separate ways.

“No,” Samuel shook his head and said, “but… it seems like Mebius came in too.”

"Mebius?" Just when Estend was wondering how to meet him and tell him his request, Estend's eyes darted around as he thought about how to get Samuel out of the way later.

"Where is he?" Estend pressed.

Samuel's eyes shimmered with a silvery light. After confirming the location, he said, "In the village, he... is with that alien named Tong Li."

Meanwhile, Hibino Mirai, who had stumbled into the distorted spacetime, found Kirito Lee, an Anhailu alien.

"Is the monster targeting Marina?"

"Ah, Chronom dragged her into this past timeline in order to awaken her lost memories. If I'm not mistaken, this should be the summer seven years ago in Marina's memories. The monster did this to eliminate the troublemaker who could detect its dwelling place, which is Marina."

"Eliminate them? Wouldn't that put the missing people in danger!"

"

Mebius, Chronom wants to destroy her from seven years ago! If she were destroyed as a child at this point in time, then she wouldn't exist in the future! Many others drawn to the past are in the same situation; the monsters cause spacetime chaos because of this, and my home planet… was destroyed because of it!

After learning the truth, Hibino Mirai and Kirito immediately separated to search for Kazama Marina.

He ran past several houses and circled almost half the village when he saw a little girl running along a path. Her soft hair shimmered slightly in the moonlight, and then she disappeared into the night.

Looking in the direction the little girl came from, standing at the gate of the courtyard was none other than Kazama Marina!

Hibino Mirai rushed over: "Maria, are you alright?"

"The future!" Kazama Marina seemed to see something unbelievable, especially when she realized that this mansion was her childhood home.

Her mind was filled with the image of the little girl who had just run past, an image so familiar it terrified her: "Future, that was... me when I was little!"

As a child, she was the monster's target!

Hibino Mirai quickly said, "Maria, think quickly, where did you go alone in the middle of the night?"

On the other side, they ran with Nahara Sora and Yamashita Rikuto to a wide meadow in the forest.

Their original route was to detour to other places, but Yamashita Rikuto spotted a fleeting red image in a gap in the forest through the thermal imager used for search and rescue.

After passing through the dense forest, the two saw...

White paper airplanes littered the ground, and a little girl stood blankly in the center, still folding paper airplanes.

"Hey, little girl!" Yonahara Sora called out, "It's not safe in the forest at night, hurry home!"

He seemed unaware of the abnormal phenomenon of "children appearing in the distorted spacetime of the monster" and "children flying paper airplanes all over the ground in the middle of the night," and instead, out of professional habit, he ran up to take the child, who was in a dangerous place in the middle of the night, home.

Yamashita Rikuto wanted him to wait, but his teammate's IQ was so low that he could only click his tongue and follow.

The little girl looked to be about 11 or 12 years old, wearing pajamas, her big eyes staring blankly at them.

Yu Yuankong took off his coat and wrapped it around the little girl who was wearing only a thin nightgown: "Although it's summer, it's still quite cold in the forest at night. Be careful not to catch a cold or get scolded by your parents when you get home."

"Parents?" the little girl murmured, "Grandpa."

"grandfather?"

"Grandpa abandoned me..."

The little girl, wrapped in the rescue team's coat, trembled slightly. She gripped the coat tightly and slowly squatted down.

Yu Nagato also squatted down to the side. When coaxing the child, he was always very patient: "What's wrong? Did something upset you?"

"If Grandpa were here, he would catch my paper airplane."

Yu Na Yuan Kong was stunned. He turned his head and looked around. The ground was covered with white paper airplanes, which looked like white flowers scattered around the little girl. Yamashita Rikudou stepped forward and picked one up casually, looking at it with a complicated expression.

Is this little girl mourning her grandfather?

Upon hearing this, Yuan Kong's tone softened even more: "Grandpa wouldn't want you to risk coming to the forest at night, and he also doesn't want you to catch a cold from the night wind. You should go home as soon as possible. Where do you live? We'll take you home."

The little girl just stood there sniffing, her head buried in her arms.

Rikuto Yamashita gently put down the paper airplane and said coldly, "Sora, this is a monster-distorted spacetime."

He looked up at Yuan Kong.

“The captain’s whereabouts are still unknown, and there are other missing people,” Yamashita Rikuto glanced at the little girl who was immersed in grief over the loss of her loved ones, and said, “Let’s hurry up and go, we don’t have time to waste.”

The things in the distorted spacetime of the monster, this little girl may not even be human, maybe it's just an illusion about the past, what are you concerned about?

But it was clear that Yuan Kong did not understand the meaning behind Yamashita Rikuto's words. Even if he had, he could not leave a little girl squatting outside in the middle of the night unattended.

“Go and keep looking, I’ll take her back,” Yu Nayuan Kong said.

Yamashita Rikuto frowned and immediately wanted to speak his mind.

I heard a series of hurried footsteps.

The two turned their heads and saw the alien Kirito rushing towards them.

Yu Yuankong grinned and wanted to call him over to help persuade the little girl to go back. Tong Li also cooperated and ran straight to the little girl's side.

"Marina."

Tong Li called out, and the little girl finally lifted her head from her arms.

These three words caused Nahara Sora and Yamashita Rikuto to exchange a startled glance and simultaneously choose to shut their mouths.

I hadn't noticed it before, but this girl... looks a bit like the GUYS member who came with her...

"Hey, what's going on? So it turned from a monster theater into a supernatural theater?!" Yonahara Sora muttered to himself, "What kind of place is this? Where are we supposed to find the captain?"

Kirito conjured a small purple flower in his hand and handed it to Marina, saying, "Marina, the most important person to you hasn't abandoned you. He's always been by your side. But it will take everyone a long time, a lot of sadness, before they understand this."

It's not weakness, so you can cry your heart out now.

Before he could finish speaking, almost at the very last half sentence, Marina could barely contain her emotions. She huddled up and sobbed softly, tears streaming down her cheeks and dripping onto her clothes.

"I made a promise with Grandpa that I would become a strong person." The little girl sobbed, and Tong Li comforted her by stroking her soft hair.

Now, Rikuto Yamashita no longer harbored strong suspicions towards this alien, because his behavior was completely unlike those brutal aliens who were full of aggression.

An alien who would hand flowers to a crying little girl...

If every alien visitor to Earth had this kind of habit, their rescue team's work could be reduced by more than half.

Although he didn't understand how Kiri knew that this little girl was Marina, or why he came to find her, his intuition told him that perhaps little Marina was the key to solving the problem of the monster Chronom's distortion of spacetime.

Chapter Forty-Nine: A Reunion Across Time

"Tori-ri!" In the courtyard, Kazama Marina finally remembered what happened that day.

Many years ago, on this night, she was in the forest, on the grass where she often played with her grandfather and brothers, flying paper airplanes and missing her grandfather.

She hoped that her grandfather's passing was just a dream, and that at the end of the paper airplane, her grandfather would appear, catching her paper airplane with a kind smile on his face.

She saw a white peacock, purple flowers, a warm blue uniform jacket, and... the man in black who came to comfort her, Tong Li!

That night, Tong Li transformed into a white peacock, with red flames blooming behind him.

"Monster!"

Almost as soon as Marina finished speaking, rocks tumbled down from the distant mountain, and a golden light enveloped the area, revealing a monster that resembled a snail appearing in the mountain.

Marina Kazama recalled things from her childhood.

The monster could no longer wait for the right moment; it had to rush out and kill the little girl before Mebius arrived.

Estend, who was on his way to find Mebius, stopped in his tracks and looked at the monster with a conflicted expression.

The monster is there, and Mebius will definitely go there. It's quite far from here, and Samuel certainly won't take him to such a dangerous place near the monster. If he wants to see Mebius, he'll probably have to hurry over there himself...

And what about the monster...? The captain is right under its feet! We have to take it down before it starts causing chaos!

Forget it, human life is more important. Estend steeled his heart and said to Samuel, "Go, that should be the alien that was talking about, Chronom."

Samuel nodded, and the silver-black light flew towards the monster.

The light traced a long arc under the moon.

Estend sprinted wildly under the arc of light: "Aaaaaah—I have to catch up!"