Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

“The monster has disappeared, but Miss Misa’s condition hasn’t improved at all,” Teppei Kuze said. “During last night’s battle, the monster absorbed a lot of flames, and Miss Misa keeps dreaming of blue flames… I’m afraid that if she absorbs enough flames, Miss Misa will…”

"Hmm, so what idea have you come up with?" Estend stopped and asked him.

Teppei Kuze paused for a moment, then immediately replied, "I am indeed researching and developing a tool that can separate monsters from the possessed humans. Yesterday, the monster turned back into Ms. Misa, and we discovered that it seems that Mebius's beam was responsible for the separation."

Estend nodded: "So, you've found a way to separate them? Then why are you here to see me?"

"No, no, no!" Teppei Kuze explained rapidly, "We can separate for now, but we can't guarantee that Misa will survive! Protecting our human parts from being wiped out in that kind of environment is really, really..."

"Mebius almost killed me yesterday, but I stopped him."

"But it caused him to get injured," Teppei Kuze said, full of self-blame. "I can't waste any more time. The captain told me, 'No matter the outcome, you must not give up, you must do your best until the very last moment'..."

"That's why I came to you. Your research topic was monster modification, specifically how to separate Ms. Misa from the monster intact. I wanted to ask for your thoughts!"

As Estend listened, he walked to his workbench, scanning through Misa's medical records one by one, and slowly analyzed, "Mebius's beam can cause great damage to monsters, so the monster had to retreat back into Misa's body."

"This also means that if Mebius's beam can destroy the 'monster part,' then the tools we develop should be able to identify and protect the 'Miss Misa part'..."

"The bioelectrical signals of humans and monsters are different. From this perspective, we can first identify Ms. Misa's connection to the monster—as for how to protect the extremely fragile human body so that it can survive under Mebius's beam of light..."

As Estend analyzed, Teppei Kuze's expression shifted from grave to sudden realization: "Protect... Meteor Technology, Capture Strike!"

“Well then, let’s begin. Combining the capture moment with bioelectric signal recognition,” Estend laughed. “From simple area protection to intelligent protection against a specific target, it seems simple, but it’s not easy to experiment with.”

……

Hibino Mirai felt like she had promised something incredible.

"Please let me help too!"

That's what he said, and then he was pulled into the research institute by Teppei Kuze. The researcher opposite him, Estend—no, now it's Kanade Aiba—was looking at him with shining eyes.

Needless to say, he did odd jobs like moving and assembling equipment and reporting data. After Estend finished setting up the equipment, he asked him, "Are the human host afraid of bombs?"

Hibino Mirai paused for a moment, then replied seriously, "The human form is much weaker in defense than the original body, as for bombs..."

“Well, then I won’t let you in. We’ll use the robotic arms instead.” Estend said, fiddling with the joysticks of the two robotic arms in the experimental chamber, seemingly quite disgusted by their bulkiness.

Go in? Stay with that pile of bombs? Hibino Mirai glanced at the pile of explosives on the monitor screen, then bent down and stuffed a small white mouse into a cage.

“Ideally, we would have used Mebius’s beam for the experiment, but… I remember your transformations have an energy limit? And there aren’t any specially developed energy cubes here,” Estend said. “We’ll have to use high-energy explosives to simulate it. The energy is a bit low, but it’s not a bad option after some data calculation.”

Then, Hibino Mirai's day was spent amidst constant explosions.

"Soul Separator," is the name Teppei Kuze gave this tool, a name that has absolutely nothing to do with how it works.

Sometimes the separator would detect the problem and successfully cover the mouse with a shield, but Eistend would just look at the data and scoff: "This little bit of explosive can break the shield? If it were a light-flow impact, it would probably be reduced to ashes."

Sometimes the separator fails to recognize the device, trapping the entire cage inside. Tetsuo Kuze simply removes his hand from the detonator, sighs, and begins preparations for the next experiment.

“I will control the power of the light,” Hibino Mirai said, “so that it won’t break the protection and hurt Ms. Misa.”

“It’s not just this…” Estend said without looking up, “On the other hand, we might be developing something amazing.”

Tetsuhira Kuze turned his head and asked curiously, "What extraordinary thing?"

"The combination of capture moment and bioelectric signal recognition inspired me. The missile department could consider trying to develop a new model that combines capture moment with the Specium warhead."

"Perhaps if the capture moment is strong enough, we can leave an opening to guide the direction of the shock wave's damage. This would be a better option than simply focusing on the strength of the materials."

"The development of armor-piercing warheads has been hampered because no material has been found that can match the strength of the mechanical armor developed by Omarment. Substitutes can only be described as barely adequate; they are ultimately just substitutes."

"No need to worry now. Who says we have to have the same material strength? It's the same if we just blow it up."

Chapter Seventy-One: The Chase

"Who said we were going to expose it? I'm going to blow it up! Not even ashes left!!"

The new core member of the GUYS Research Institute slammed his hands on the table, making the coffee cups shake.

Shingo Sakami silently picked up the coffee cup and held it tightly in his palm.

"A cheap counterfeit! A counterfeit!!"

The person wearing a researcher's white lab coat was still roaring, his hair was messy, and there was some machine oil on the edge of the lab coat, probably just came out of the research institute.

"It must have been those blond-haired monsters from the Babar aliens who did this. They never do anything right and just do crooked things!" The researcher raised his forearm, revealing the micro-terminal attached to it: "If it was Samuel, I'd break this thing off and feed it to Raven Sky!"

"Achoo!" Yonahara rubbed his nose and continued digging for people in the rubble.

“That’s not Hikari either,” Hibino Mirai stood up and said, “That guy is wearing a knight’s bracer on his arm, so he must be someone in disguise.”

The screen was showing footage of "Sword" and "Samuel" wreaking havoc in the city, with the sounds of collapsing buildings mixed with the panicked shouts of people.

Faced with overwhelming public opinion, Toriyama's aide had no choice but to go to

He was trying to calm himself down at the press conference, but now he's being surrounded by reporters and is sweating profusely.

After the monster that possessed humans was defeated, and Teppei Kuze's nascent romance ended when Misa lost her memories of coexisting with the monster, the peaceful days did not last long before the city, which had barely recovered its vitality, was once again shrouded in shadow.

During this period, Mebius was active on the front line of fighting monsters. Taro fought alongside him to defeat Impreza. In addition, it is said that Leo also appeared.

As for Hikari and Samuel, who had been seen before, they have both disappeared without a trace, leading to a flurry of strange and supernatural stories.

Before people could come up with any more interesting stories, two figures shattered all previous fantasies.

"Boom boom boom—" On the screen, "Sword" and "Samuel" released beams of light that plowed through several streets, causing buildings along the way to collapse and burst into flames.

Shingo Sakamizu's eyes reflected the ruins on the screen: "This is a trick to frame them."

“Yes,” Hibino Mirai turned around and said seriously, “Whether he is a Babar alien or not, he must want us Ultra Warriors to lose people’s trust.”

“The Yapools are probably watching Earth’s movements from somewhere. If they become divided and disunited, it will be troublesome,” Kazama Marina said, then suddenly realized she had misspoke and looked at Estend, who was a Yapool.

The latter did not react to her words, but stared at "Samuel" on the screen with disgust, muttering, "Barbar, who only knows how to cheat and swindle."

“Barbar? Ah, I remember it was from MAC…” Teppei Kuze suddenly remembered something and began to look up the files.

Aihara Ryu crossed his arms and said, "I will never forgive the guy who framed Captain Serizawa!"

"I will absolutely not let him get away with this!"

Aihara Ryu looked up and saw Hibino Mirai's eyes burning with rage.

"Yes, we can't let him get away with this!"

Eistend gave the innocent table another hard blow, then glared at the fake on the screen before turning and running back to the research institute.

"Aiba? You're still not resting so late?" In the research institute, Arai Aoi had just finished washing her coffee cup and was yawning, preparing to go back, when she saw Eistard storm in angrily, looking like he was about to roll up his sleeves and continue working.

"I'm not sleeping anymore. I need to speed up the modification of the Specium missile and blow that infuriating fake to smithereens!"

The metal door opened, revealing several gleaming heads, equally engrossed in their work.

Arai Aoi shrugged and took out the freshly washed coffee cup again: "Hmm... let's make it strong, to wake us up."

……

Headquarters of the Kanto Disaster Relief Team.

After cleaning up the ruins, the team members rubbed their sore arms and legs and went back to their rooms. The garage and the dormitory were some distance apart, so they naturally chatted and exchanged pleasantries during their time there.

“The industrial zone has really suffered a lot,” a team member said, almost dragging his feet as he walked. “The First United Company finally managed to repair and resume operations, but then Yonezu Industries’ factory was bombed.”

“They can’t fight on Earth,” another team member said angrily. “No matter how well the evacuation is done, casualties are inevitable. Among those who died this time was a core designer from Yonezu Industries, a young man with a bright future…”

"Damn demons, blue ones or silver-black ones, even the Ultra Warriors are invading Earth. Seriously, I used to love listening to their stories when I was a kid."

"That's not a demon!"

A voice interrupted their conversation, and they turned to look at the source of the sound.

Yu Nagato stepped forward, his face still covered in dust from the ruins: "Although I don't know why, Ultra Warrior, at least the silver one isn't the demon you're talking about!"

The other person looked at him as if he were an idiot: "Are you blind? Everyone knows those two giants who wreak havoc all over the city. They're the same two that appeared before. They have a history of such behavior."

"That's... no, that's not something he would do!"

The other person didn't even bother to give an expression: "So you weren't digging people out of the rubble just now? 'That's not something he can do,' you said as if you knew it all too well."

Without thinking, Yu Nayuan Kong said those words. Before he could retort, Yamashita Rikuto covered his mouth, then hooked his arm around his neck and pulled him along, saying, "He watched too many Ultraman stories when he was little, he's too tired right now and a little out of it, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"We're not close, but we at least know each other!" Yonahara Sora stammered under his palm.

He didn't recognize the one in blue, but he remembered the one in silver calling his name in the memory of that GUYS female member, Marina Kazama.

The monster spat a fiery red energy ball at them, and he thought he was going to die. The silver Ultraman rushed over, calling out his and Lu Dou's names, trying to save them.

He also wondered how the Ultraman knew his name.

...Although we don't know why now, it at least shows that Ultraman recognized him, and besides, his voice was full of anxiety at the time.

Since they were so eager to save them before, how could they possibly be causing destruction everywhere without any hesitation now?

"You two know each other?" Yamashita Rikuto understood the logic behind Nahara Kujo's ideas and guessed that he probably thought "meeting someone means you know them."

“He called you too, so he should know you,” Yu Nahara muttered to himself, “Anyway… I…”

I sensed something was wrong.

“He’s being stubborn again,” Yamashita Rikuto shook his head. “Whether he’s right or wrong isn’t important. The important thing is that they don’t come again. I don’t want to be this tired every day.”

……

Samuel is indeed not coming back anytime soon.

universe.