Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 269 Shotaro Sakai

Citizens' Park.

A young couple walked side by side, their relationship becoming increasingly intimate. Finally, the man hesitantly mustered the courage to take her hand.

"Eri, don't worry... I... I will always love you and be good to you."

"Really?"

The woman blushed and lowered her head.

"What if I became an old woman? Would you still like me?"

"Of course, even if... ah—!"

"hehe."

Behind the bushes in the park, the aging admixture, with a twisted sense of humor, released a red shock from his palm and laughed as he watched the man push his girlfriend away and run away.

"What do you mean, 'I'd still like it even if she became an old woman'? That's totally fake!"

"This guy..."

Shotaro Sato entered the park with a cane, watching the aging hybrid wreaking havoc from afar. He wanted to transform and fight as he used to, but felt powerless. His fingers touched the dual driver, but quickly loosened.

As the person involved, he understands better than anyone else.

w requires a high degree of compatibility between the two transformants.

They were already gradually falling behind Philip's strength, and now things are only going to get worse.

He didn't want to be a burden.

I don't want my personal issues to affect the battle.

Regardless of their long-standing familial relationship or his master's dying wish, he did not want anything to happen to Philip.

"Perhaps that woman was right," Shotaro said with a hint of dejection. "Terui Ryu is the one who is truly suitable for Philip's partner. The fact that I was able to transform with Philip was just a coincidence in a crisis..."

"Shoutaro?"

A young girl ran into the park, but after failing to find the aging impurities, she hesitantly called out.

"What are you doing here? Why aren't you transforming? By the way... isn't that Shotaro?"

"Akiko," Shotaro said with a forced smile, "Do you know where Terui is? I need his help with something."

"dragon?"

The young girl blinked, her face inexplicably flushing red, and she fidgeted as she picked up her fingers.

"It seems Philip called me to the office... Why are you two suddenly interested in Long? Do you also think Long and I are a good match?"

"Well."

Shotaro chuckled awkwardly, leaned on his cane, and quickly left the scene, leaving the young girl alone, swooning over him.

"She's the older man... my master's daughter, Akiko Narumi. She's our landlady now and also helps us with our work."

"I'm not interested in these things."

Natsukawa was researching how to access the books in the Earth Library and didn't pay attention to Shotaro Satoshi for the time being.

Although they can move freely in the white space, they cannot touch anything.

Perhaps the only way to search and read it is through that Philip.

"Speaking of which, I still don't know who you are," Shotaro asked with difficulty, unable to contain his curiosity, "How did you do that? Why do you also have the Hayate Memory?"

Who knows?

Xia Chuan looked around at the endless bookshelves.

He wouldn't be foolish enough to expose himself before he knew whether the Fujiwara Foundation had the ability to access the data.

"It's better for you to get back to normal as soon as possible."

"That's true," Shotaro Satoh said, panting after only a few steps. "There's something I absolutely have to do..."

"Do you want that Terui Ryu to replace you?" Natsukawa stopped what he was doing in surprise.

"There's no way around it. No matter how much I don't want to admit it, Terui is indeed better than me," Shotaro said with a wry smile. "Philip is probably in a difficult position now, isn't he?"

That guy is quite rational, but that's precisely why it's even more painful, so I might as well just quit.

Natsukawa began to observe Shotaro Sasaki again.

He seems to have never had such a partner; he has always acted alone.

It's not that there aren't trustworthy people, it's just that it's easy to attract unnecessary trouble.

When you lack the strength to control everything, this is also the best way to protect those around you.

I do feel lonely sometimes.

"What's wrong?" Shotaro called out. "You suddenly stopped talking..."

"It's nothing, I just think you two have a really good relationship."

"Of course, we are now Philip's new family."

With a nostalgic and sentimental expression, Shotaro stood hunched over outside the secret base of the agency. As soon as he pushed it open a crack, he heard Philip and Terui Ryu talking inside.

A brand new dual-drive system came into view.

"Has Philip... already chosen Terui Ryu?"

Shotaro sniffed and didn't dare to go inside.

Although I was mentally prepared, giving up on myself and being given up on by my partner are two completely different things.

Especially since Xia Chuan just said that they have a good relationship.

Suddenly I feel a little unwilling.

Regardless, he still couldn't accept that he was no longer W.

This power that protects Fuuto is the well-known Kamen Rider, W, born from the will of his master, Narumi Sokichi.

Is this really how we have to say goodbye?

"It's happened again!"

Akiko Narumi rushed into the office, clutching her slippers, and shouted impatiently before even seeing anyone.

"Shotaro, Philip, Ryu! That aging dopant seems to be planning to make money off his abilities; he's even aging up kids! Let's take care of him!"

"What an idiot!"

Shotaro Zuo snapped out of his daze and, enduring the discomfort in his lower back, quickly caught up.

The incident occurred in a nearby square, where a pair of aging hybrids, with their front and back sides, playfully aged a passerby by 50 years.

"I'm in a good mood today, so I'm offering a free meal, haha!"

"call!"

Shotaro Zuo staggered into the scene, glaring angrily at the aging dopant that had caused the commotion.

Just then, Terui Ryu transformed into a police rider and began fighting. However, as before, Terui Ryu was only immune to mental attacks, not physical damage. In order to protect the surrounding refugees, he was attacked by red wave attacks twice in a row.

"Hurry up and transform, Shotaro!" Narumi Akiko, unaware of the situation, urged him anxiously. "Shotaro?"

Shotaro did not respond. Due to the effects of aging, he could not even hold onto the Dual Driver and the Ace Memory. His aged face trembled incessantly, and his eyes gradually reddened.

"That woman is right, compared to Terui Ryu, I am indeed a piece of trash, but..."

After closing his eyes for a while, Shotaro couldn't control his trembling hands as he put on the dual driver. What he used to do easily suddenly became an obstacle, and it took him a long time to successfully activate the ace memory.

He was completely incapable of fighting in this state.

"Hey, did you keep your word? Did you think lending me your body would solve this hybrid problem?" Shotaro asked breathlessly.

"Of course, W's power is sufficient."

As Xia Chuan stepped out of the Earth Library bookshelf, the moment he received permission, his consciousness blurred and merged with Zuo Xiangtaro's body.

His aged face remained unchanged, and he still had a head of silver hair, but his spirit was refreshed as his eyes lit up with a faint light, instantly shedding his old-fashioned appearance.

"what?"

Akiko Narumi rubbed her eyes in confusion, and before she could say anything, she saw the Hayate Memory appear as an additional component of the Dual Driver.

"Cyclone!" Gale.

"Joker!" The ace.

"Transform!"

The W-suit, half green and half black, was completed amidst a whirlwind. Even before entering combat mode, a gale was already sweeping into the sky, vaguely stirring the clouds.

Gale Ace Form.

"It's happening again!"

Philip gasped and gripped his Gale Memory tightly.

Although he was supposed to be the one transforming, it was actually another Gale Memory that was activated.

(End of this chapter)