Ultraman Legend of the Light Chaser

"Woof woof woof!" The husky pounced on its unconscious owner, licking its face with its tongue, trying to wake him up.

Outside the door, Shintaro Hirata put down the memory erasure device and said to Jun Sakuma, "There's only one person living in this house, right?"

“Hmm,” Jun Sakuma nodded, his eyelids drooping as he flipped through the data sent by Saya Shudo, then yawned widely. “Let’s go, next one.”

After basically securing the target, it was nearly dawn. Overly sleepy, Jun Sakuma looked on with melancholy as the sparrow Qiuqiu woke up and hopped around on the power line.

Samuel fell completely silent. Several times he asked, "What should we do about Riko? Should we tell Komon?" but there was no reply. He was probably already half asleep.

The head is still nodding little by little... Hehe.

Like the way Huali makes herself sleepy while doing her homework.

I want to poke him, but I feel like I might get beaten up.

"Sigh..." he sighed again.

"Why do you seem unhappy, senior?" Hirata Shintaro was driving them back to the MP office building when he heard Sakuma Jun sigh twice in a few minutes. He couldn't help but ask, "Did we miss our target? Should we turn back?"

"Ah, no, I'm just... worried that Karin would go to school alone." Jun Sakuma quickly came up with a reason.

“Haha,” Shintaro Hirata chuckled, “Speaking of Karin, how is she? Did the memory erasure she suffered any aftereffects after you encountered the alien beast near the cemetery?”

“She was a bit quiet for a few days, but she’s slowly returning to normal,” Jun Sakuma said, his tone softening considerably as he spoke of his daughter. “She has exams at school next week, and she’s worried about them.”

"I should have spent more time tutoring her, but... if Sakura were still here."

Realizing he had brought up a topic that had upset his senior, Shintaro Hirata quickly said, "I'm sorry, Sakuma-senpai, I shouldn't have brought this up."

“I said it myself, why are you apologizing?” Jun Sakuma said helplessly, “You’re being too respectful. Even though you’re my junior, there’s no need to be so reserved. We’re colleagues, after all.”

"Ah, yes! Thank you, Sakuma-senpai."

"You... sigh..."

"Why are you sighing again, senior?"

……

Similarly, the night raid team, which was working overtime, lost track of its target and returned to base.

Kazuki Komon found Riko unconscious by the stream.

The white dress floated in the stream, and the light green top and cardigan were stained red. Kazuki Komon saw the faint red bloodstains flowing down with the water, hurriedly ran over, put the Devastatt gun aside, and gently helped Riko up.

"How... how did I get injured?" Riko's right arm looked as if it had been scratched by the claws of some ferocious beast. The gruesome wound stretched from her forearm all the way to her midsection, and it had turned white from being soaked in the stream water, just like Riko's pale face at that moment.

"Clap."

A piece of iron fell into the mud.

But Kazuki Komon didn't have time to pay attention to it. He took off Riko's cardigan, wrung out the water, and tied it to the upper part of Riko's arm to stop the bleeding.

“Team member Komon, you’ve found…” Saijo Nagi walked through the bushes, but was interrupted halfway through her sentence by the scene before her: “How come there are wounded people in the mission area?”

She hurried forward, calling for medical assistance through Berreg.

When she looked away from the screen, she noticed the small piece of metal that had fallen next to Riko's hand.

Some familiar...

"Komon-kun?" Riko slowly woke up, and then, the pain from her right arm made her furrow her brows.

"Riko, hang in there a little longer. We've called the medical team," Kazuki Komon said, finally relieved to see her awake. He then looked at Nagi Saijo and asked, "Vice-Captain, the medical team... Vice-Captain?"

He noticed that Saijo Nagi was holding a piece of iron and looked very unpleasant.

Saijo Nagi's gaze was sharp as a knife as she asked Riko, "Where did you get it?"

Riko had clearly just woken up and was bewildered by her situation. Kazuki Komon hugged her tightly and reminded the unusually agitated Nagi Saijo, "Lieutenant! She's awake!"

I said—! You

Where did you get it?!

Riko flinched, having completely lost her memory of last night. She didn't even know why she had fainted in the woods, so how could she possibly answer Saijo Nagi's question?

Kazuki Komon gently brushed the hair off Riko's face, then confronted Nagi Saijo without any politeness: "Vice-Captain, are you going to interrogate an injured person now?"

Saijo Nagi ignored his questioning, staring only at the bewildered Riko, and said, word by word:

"You saw Gou Lümu, didn't you?"

……

The next day, after dinner, Jun Sakuma, who had finished explaining the exercises to Karin, finally heard Samuel's voice.

"Why make dolls..."

He hadn't expected Samuel's first words to be like this. Could it be that he was still thinking about the Dark Giant from last night while he was resting?

“There’s no need to go to such lengths to exploit dead civilians just to collect fear.” Samuel’s voice still sounded listless, like he was still half asleep to Jun Sakuma.

"You're still confused, so don't think about such troublesome things."

"Looking at it from another angle, hmm... his actions were definitely aimed at another Ultra Warrior, probably the one he called 'Nexus'."

After a long pause, just when Jun Sakuma almost thought he was about to fall asleep again, Samuel suddenly mentioned another name: "Kadokura Kazuki."

"Hmm?" Mentioning the young night raid team member who was kept in the dark, Jun Sakuma hurriedly said, "Should we tell him? I don't know if he can handle it..."

“Kazuki Komon, perhaps he has some connection with Nexus?” Samuel yawned.

The cunning and treacherous often use this tactic: starting with those closest to them, giving them everything wonderful, then shattering it before their very eyes, throwing their passionate hearts into the trash heap, and dragging their souls into hell.

During the battle that day, when Nexus appeared, Kazuki Komon was still safely in Chrome Chester. According to Samuel's reasoning, Kazuki Komon must be someone with a close connection to the Ultra Warriors; otherwise, there would be no need to deliberately disturb his mind.

"Jun, check who Komon has been in contact with recently. If you don't have the clearance to see the Night Raid's report, call me when Shuto Saya is accessing the database and get her password."

"Uh... are we going to steal Commander Shudo's password?"

“I should have gotten it a long time ago. Not just Nexus, I also want to see... information about TLT.”

Over time, Samuel realized that the so-called "alien beasts" were not the same as the "monsters" of the previous world; at least their origins were quite unique.

Moreover, the technology tree in this place is also confusing. GUYS's black technology can be traced back to its source, but where did TLT's technology come from?

Putting aside the Night Raid Team's equipment, the memory erasure machine used by the Memory Police is already baffling. Targeted erasure of fragments of human memories—is this technology really feasible now?

Just as GUYS has to deal with invading aliens from time to time, perhaps there are also aliens lurking in the shadows on Earth.

Perhaps they are hiding inside the TLT, observing everything that is happening on this planet.

Chapter Eleven Cemetery

"Huali, Huali?"

A gentle female voice that seemed both near and far.

"Mother?"

In a world where everything is blurred and only shadows remain, a little girl in a white dress looks around in the woods.

“Yes, it’s Mom,” the woman’s voice said. “Karin, Mom misses you so much.”

"Kari misses her mother too!"

"Ah... Karin, come here then."

A pair of hands reach out from the blurry world.

The ring on her mother's hands shone brightly.

The owner of the hand did not appear, only a silhouette remained. She was still wearing winter clothes, and Karin saw the familiar shape of the coat.

Huali stepped forward, her hands slightly open, as if anticipating a hug from her daughter.

But the little brown leather shoes didn't go any further.

"pat".

Huali stood with her feet together and bowed deeply to those hands.

"What's wrong? Why aren't you coming over? Didn't Karin really want to see me?"

"Mom is dead."

Huali straightened her small body: "This is a fact that Huali has come to realize after many, many days. I'm sorry, Mom. Maybe Huali missed you too much, so I disturbed you in my dream."

"It's okay, Mom just wants to see you now." The hands were still stubbornly outstretched, the calloused palms a testament to the hard work their owner had put into the family.

Huali shook her head: "Mom, I'm not a little child who needs to be held in your arms anymore..."

"Hua Li! Hua Li!"

It's Dad's voice.

The blurry world shook violently, and the owner of those hands sighed in despair, disappearing into nothingness along with the world.

Sakuma Karin opened her eyes and breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing her anxious father.

"Did you have a nightmare? I... I heard you calling for your mother."

“I dreamt of my mother. She asked me to hug her,” Huali said. “But Dad, you said, ‘Don’t cry. If you keep crying, Mom will worry and it will disturb her sleep.’”

"If I go and hug her, I'll probably disturb her even more... Hmm? Dad?"

Jun Sakuma suddenly embraced the little child, gently stroking her head with one hand.