Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 196 Mutated Kabuto

"What happened?"

The first phantom of Fujiwara stared intently at Natsukawa amidst the intense sealing lightning, an uncontrollable rage igniting in his eyes.

I can't understand it.

Why does this feeling of familiarity arise?

"What's your relationship with those knights on the list?"

Fujiwara looked directly at Natsukawa, who was beckoning and taking away the Black Armored Fighting Sea Worm. His form was downgraded, and waves of intense pain surged into his mind.

"ah--!"

In the dim light, the figures of all the knights, including Kuuga, seemed to overlap with those of Kaguya Natsukawa.

The Azure Dragon Rising Kuuga, Kalis, and Dark Kiva, who was suspected of launching an apocalyptic attack last time.

This unforgettable sense of humiliation and oppression keeps recurring, and it also exists in Hyper Kabuto.

It has been passed down through generations, or rather, it has never changed.

"Could it be... impossible!"

Fujiwara's expression twisted as he suddenly had an unbelievable thought, then abruptly stopped guessing.

These knights on the list cannot be the same person; it simply doesn't make sense.

What level of knight would that be? How ridiculously powerful would they have to be?

No one can do it, and Natsukawa once appeared at the same time as the knights on the list.

"elder brother!"

The Queen Bee belatedly realized what was happening and looked in shock at the Dark Armored Fighter, who was being tortured. She instinctively took a step forward before stopping.

"When are you going to stop?" Xia Chuan frowned slightly, his blue knight eyes glancing at the motionless Royal Bee as it took steps.

In this state, although he can use the sealing barrier, it is ultimately not as effective as transforming into Dark Kiva. It consumes a great deal of energy, and he doesn't have much time to waste.

At least in this world, the Hyperion, once it recognizes a master, is a loophole-like existence. Even without being equipped by a knight, it possesses time-space abilities and can travel from other timelines.

"Make a decision quickly: leave it alone or end it here... Listen to your heart, think about why you became a Kamen Rider!"

"I……"

Royal Bee silently watched as Dark Armored Fighter frantically fought against the binding barrier, his eyes quickly reddening beneath the knight's mask.

"I want to prove myself, I want to surpass my brother, but... not the brother I am now."

"roar!"

"I don't believe... I'm the strongest! You all deserve to die!"

Dark Armored Fighter roared and howled in a starfish shape, seemingly in a state of madness. Unable to operate the Rider System buttons, its form began to merge with its original Worm form.

The originally beautiful armored body gradually twisted, and the heads of the absorbed adult insects emerged, their painful cries mixed together, becoming ferocious and terrifying, yet their aura suddenly increased.

"My older brother is the captain of the Kabuto Team, the Kamen Rider who always stands at the forefront to protect humanity, Kabuto!"

"Bang--!"

Another loud bang echoed through the acceleration zone, and the mutated dark armored warrior's body suddenly expanded to twice its original size out of control, and the sealing barrier finally exploded with a thunderous roar.

The powerful shockwave swept away the suspended water mist, and the knights of this world were severely injured and deeply embedded in the ruins of the buildings. Only RX was unharmed, but he could not do anything either, only keenly sensing that something was happening.

"I'll kill you!"

The mutated armored vehicle had bloodshot eyes and a bizarre shape, yet its speed was anything but slow. The two swords on its arms slammed fiercely into Xia Chuan's psychic barrier.

However, the result remained unchanged; the attack still failed to reach Xia Chuan.

"Professor, please..."

The royal bee clenched its fist, lowered its head, and its voice choked and trembled.

"Let's help him get out of this predicament."

Xia Chuan raised his hand to strengthen the barrier, and upon hearing this, turned to look at the Queen Bee, whose trembling was gradually intensifying.

"My brother is a Kamen Rider," Queen Bee raised her head again, imprinting the image of the mutated Kamen Rider into her bee-shaped compound eyes, "not a Worm, and can't be a Worm!"

"call!"

Xia Chuan withdrew his gaze and faced the mutated armored vehicle that was crashing wildly.

Even now, he still doesn't know what Fujiwara no Daiichi is thinking.

If you call him a bad guy, he indirectly eliminated other alien protozoa; if you call him a good guy... well, that's not necessarily true either.

He didn't actually have a very good impression of Fujiwara no Daiichi; they had a significant conflict during the Gurongi incident.

Judging from its plans in this instance spacetime, a counterattack against this world seems to be a real possibility.

The unexpected factor might be Fujiwara's eccentricity.

Fujiwara noichi probably never imagined that his younger brother would be sent in by the league.

"Bang!"

Xia Chuan raised his arm forward, and the mutated armored vehicle that was attacking the barrier was knocked away by the psychic wave from a distance.

The psychic barrier is not without its weaknesses; in addition to brute force, energy attacks can also be quite effective.

After all, the psychic barrier is different from the real Ultra Barrier; it has no physical form and is just a force field.

But these alien insects, perhaps accustomed to physical attacks or perhaps with preconceived notions, did not pose much of a threat to him.

"Sizzle!"

Xia Chuan suddenly entered a hyper-time transformation state, watching the mutated Kabuto slowly fly backward in mid-air. After pressing down on the top corner of the Hypa Bug on his waist and injecting enhanced energy, he activated the Kabuto Insect Gear's ultimate attack switch in sequence.

"Hyper clock up!"

"Maximum Rider Power!"

"1, 2, 3..."

"Rider Kick!"

With superluminal particles surging forth, Xia Chuan, accompanied by a vortex of thunder, soared into the air and caught up with the mutated armored vehicle, all under the fixed gaze of the Royal Bee.

Kuuga, Dark Kiva, Kalis, Ryuki, Faiz... a series of knight cards mirrored each other, firmly fixed in front of the mutated armored warrior, their power far exceeding that of a level 6 knight, along with Hyper Kick Thunderstorm, devoured the entire space.

"Whoosh—!"

Lightning filled the accelerated field, and the whole world seemed to become a blank.

When the light disappeared, the mutated Kabuto had already reverted to its gray-white insect form.

"It really is the same person. The alliance has been completely deceived by you."

Fujiwara's weakened form appeared, calmly gazing at Natsukawa amidst the burning green flames.

"Are you really still human? Or... have you always been Ultraman? If you are Ultraman, then my defeat is not unjust."

In that instant, it felt as if we were back at the time of the Gurongi incident.

The only difference is that back then, Natsukawa was Kuuga, but now he's Kabuto.

"I should have known. The Knight System can be changed, but you are you, and my feelings are never wrong."

Fujiwara Ichiichi coughed and chuckled, his gaze shifting with a complex mix as he turned to the Royal Bee, which had been frozen in time under the effects of the Hyper-Time Transformation. Finally, his power erupted, and a meteorite core emitting a green glow underground was completely shattered.

"From now on, I'll have to trouble you with the most foolish thing. Without me, Father won't let him off the hook... Be careful, my father has a belt that can change the world, even you..."

"Hyper clock over!"

The green flames dissipated, the hyper-time transformation was downgraded again, and a flurry of white snow, ignoring space and time, suddenly drifted down in the ruins of Shibuya.

"elder brother……"

The royal bee snapped out of its daze.

The hyper-time transformation had exceeded the perception capabilities of the Rider System, but he still felt that he saw something.

It was as if I could hear my brother's voice.

(End of this chapter)