Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 385 Another Armored Warrior

The world of "Gaim" is Earth.

The atmosphere in the square was lively, with upbeat music playing. A dance troupe of young men and women danced to the beat, and the audience cheered and shouted along.

No one noticed the young extra with his eyes closed and brown-gray hair standing in the crowd.

The young man's blue jacket had the "Gaim" dance team logo printed on the back.

Hiroya Kakui, leader of the "Gaim" dance troupe.

"Is this possession?"

Xia Chuan calmly opened her eyes and quickly accepted her new identity.

It turned out to be the extra whose life he had saved before.

The scene before me is not Heim Forest, but the real world of Gaim.

The only way to reach Heim Forest is through the occasional spacetime rifts or the Knight System.

After regaining his composure, Xia Chuan looked directly at the young men and women dancing on the stage.

The previously cheerful atmosphere was suddenly shattered by a spatial rift that unfolded like a zipper. A strange alien figure squeezed through the rift and stomped the dance troupe's sound system to pieces.

The audience, immersed in revelry, and the men and women dancing simultaneously stopped their movements, their laughter freezing, until the aliens completely jumped out of the rift before they finally reacted.

"Monster!"

"Run!"

The crowded square quickly dispersed amidst gasps of surprise, but the alien monster showed no sign of letting the crowd go, and the nearest dance troupe was the first to be attacked.

After all the equipment was destroyed, a girl who had been fleeing in a hurry and tripped was exposed to the claws of the alien monster.

Green, hardened skin; large, bladed claws on the right arm...

It was originally the White Tiger Alien that Yuya Kakuju transformed into after eating the fruit.

Natsukawa looked around but didn't see Gaim or any other knights appear.

Is it because he changed the beginning of the plot?

Although he meant well, if Hiroshi Kakui hadn't gotten into trouble, then the main character, Kouta Kazuha, wouldn't have been involved.

"Bang!"

Amidst the cries and screams around him, Xia Chuan strode forward and kicked the White Tiger alien away before its claws could fall.

Despite not being fully adapted to his body, he still managed to kick the White Tiger alien away in a surprise attack. The walls of the plaza stage shattered from the violent impact, raising clouds of dust.

"roar!"

Ordinary aliens have almost no rationality; their minds are only focused on the Heim Forest, and they will actively attack anything that does not belong to the Heim Forest.

Upon returning to the stage, the White Tiger alien roared and shifted its attack target to Xia Chuan.

As he instinctively sensed a great threat from the humans before him, his aggressive instincts intensified, causing him to growl and crouch down in a charging stance.

"Yuya?"

The girl struggled to her feet, dragging her sprained leg, and exclaimed in surprise when she saw the young man possessed by Xia Chuan.

"Don't worry about me, Yuya, run!"

"You go away first."

Xia Chuan moved his feet in front of the White Tiger alien, drawing all its attention to himself.

He didn't know if the other party was originally in the Forest of Heim or if some unlucky soul had wandered into the forest and swallowed the fruit.

It doesn't matter anyway.

From the moment he ate the fruit and lost consciousness, the White Tiger Alien was already a slave puppet of the Heim Forest.

"roar!"

The White Tiger alien attacked again, but before its claws could reach Xia Chuan, it grabbed his wrist first, interrupting the source of the monstrous power it had gathered.

With the initial break-in period over, Xia Chuan's physical strength increased rapidly, and the gripping parts of his fingers emitted a cracking sound that made one's teeth ache.

After a brief stalemate, Xia Chuan suddenly released his grip and rolled away to avoid the falling blades and claws. He tried to retaliate but found that he could not break through the opponent's thick green armor.

"Yuya!"

The girl reunited with her teammates and hid behind the overpass to watch Xia Chuan engage in a thrilling battle with the monster alien.

"What should we do? We need to think of something quickly!"

"What...what can we do?"

The rest of the dance troupe swallowed hard, watching Xia Chuan fight with bewilderment.

Although it seemed perilous, the White Tiger aliens couldn't actually hit Xia Chuan.

"That monster must be an alien, right? Could it have been summoned by Lockhead?"

"Quick, look for it!"

"Bang--!"

Xia Chuan heard the shouts of the dance troupe members. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at an orange-colored lock seed that had been kicked into a corner by the fleeing crowd. His fingers inadvertently touched the Sengoku Driver that had already been bound to his waist.

Is it Yuya Kakui who becomes Gaim?

"Whoosh!"

After dodging the claw attack once again and kicking away the White Tiger Alien, Xia Chuan quickly rolled and grabbed the Orange Lock Seed.

With the current strength of this body, it seems difficult to kill this monster without transforming.

Even ordinary aliens above the level of grunts still have a very high initial level, almost comparable to a level four monster.

"roar!"

The White Tiger alien, with its thick leather armor, was completely unharmed. It merely swayed its body before continuing its thrust towards Xia Chuan.

This time, before it could even get close, it was blasted away by an invisible psychic force. In extreme rage, the White Tiger alien swayed and jumped into the air like a zombie. The green patterns on its upper leather armor lit up instantly, shooting out ribbon-like beams of light in all directions.

"Bang bang bang!"

Like laser cutting, wherever the ribbon beam swept across, whether it was the plaza ground, walls, or overpass, lava trenches appeared. A bird vaporized, leaving only a black outline, and several cars parked on the roadside were cut in half and exploded into countless charred fragments.

"Transform!"

With no way to avoid it, Xia Chuan decided to face the attack head-on. He used his psychic barrier to block the randomly fired green beams of light, and at the same time, he activated the Orange Lock Seed in his hand and embedded it into the Sengoku Driver on his waist.

"LOCK ON!"

As the fruit knife trigger was pressed, the Lockseed's light unfolded, and a giant armored orange descended from the sky, covering Xia Chuan's head and instantly completing the armor's donning.

He wore orange-yellow chest and shoulder guards, and two swords automatically materialized in his hands.

The straight-bladed Musou Saber and the Orange Curved Saber, Ootengu.

"call!"

A ring of orange flames spread out from Xia Chuan's body.

Kamen Rider Gaim.

At this moment, the data clone finally merged completely with Yuya Kakui, thoroughly taking over the body of the original extra.

"That is..."

The dance troupe members, who were taking cover from the explosion, looked up one after another, only to see a dazzling flash of light. The Peerless Military Blade and the Great Orange Pill were combined, and after being infused with the energy of the Lock Seed, the White Tiger Alien was annihilated in one fell swoop.

Like cutting fruit, the orange phantom was split in two amidst the exploding flames and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Only the armored knight, wielding his combined weapon, remained standing in the same spot.

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan pulled out the orange seed lock and closed it again, his armor turning into orange light spots that scattered.

Things seem to be getting complicated.

He has no interest in being Gaim in this world.

Where did Kouta Kuzuha go?

Is it...

Xia Chuan turned around sharply to look at the remaining flames after the White Tiger alien's demise.

It's unlikely to be Kōta Kuzuha.

As one of the chosen ones, Kouta Kazuha's fate was predetermined to some extent. In Gaim, he is one of only two humans who ate the Heim Forest Devil Fruit and were still able to maintain their self-awareness.

"Who exactly are you? Why did you become Yuya?"

The silver-clad figure of the Daughter of Origin appeared at the edge of the collapsed stage, and as Xia Chuan looked over, the sound of the wind that followed seemed to become somewhat sorrowful.

"Can fate truly be changed in the future?"

(End of this chapter)