Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 39 Porcupine

"Whoosh!"

Along the Arakawa River.

The porcupine Gurongi darted through the bushes and weeds, constantly looking back as it fled.

With a head full of long, white bristles and a slick, bluish-black body, it resembled an Indian chief. Its movements were exceptionally agile and swift, and it went unnoticed by humans along the way.

"Kuuga!"

Stopping beneath a railway bridge, the porcupine Gurongi felt as if the whole world was reverberating with a piercing buzzing sound, and the blurry image of Kuuga in his mind just wouldn't go away.

Where?!

Realizing that he had been deliberately driven out of the city, the porcupine Gurongi angrily looked around repeatedly.

"come out!"

"Buzz!"

Natsukawa, now in his Azure Dragon form, stood atop the railway bridge, looking down at the ground against the sunlight. Only after the train rattled away behind him did he leap down amidst the roar of a porcupine.

"Clang!"

As Xia Chuan landed, he casually transformed a withered branch into the Azure Dragon Staff, while simultaneously dodging a swarm of white needles thrown by the porcupine Gurongi.

When it comes to methods of killing, the mental torture inflicted by the porcupine Gurongi is undoubtedly the most cruel.

However, in terms of combat strength, the porcupine is at the bottom of the Ge-level.

They have very poor close-combat skills, and their fighting relies mainly on their unpredictable speed. They are also very good at long-range sneak attacks.

This kind of opponent is much easier to deal with than the tortoise-shaped Gurongi.

"call!"

Xia Chuan swung his Ascended Azure Dragon Staff, dodging the white-haired needle attacks once again, and suddenly accelerated to rush towards the porcupine.

Swish!

Two afterimages moved synchronously and at high speed around the Arakawa River. However, just a few seconds later, the porcupine screamed and flew backward. Its chest was marked with sealing characters by the Sublimated Azure Dragon Staff. After rolling a few times, it exploded into a sea of ​​fire.

"Bang--!"

Xia Chuan stepped out of the sea of ​​fire, holding the Sublimated Azure Dragon Staff, and the golden power subsided, returning to its normal form.

The blast radius was smaller than expected.

Using the sublimated Azure Dragon to deal with this guy was the right thing to do.

"Whoosh!"

The flames quickly dissipated in the wind, leaving Xia Chuan standing alone on the riverbank in the cold wind.

Looking at the slowly flowing river, Xia Chuan was slightly lost in thought.

"What's wrong with you?"

The golem hummed as it flew down and hovered above Xia Chuan's head.

Are you unhappy?

"It's alright," Xia Chuan said, turning around and grabbing Golem's foot. "Let's go back."

At the same time.

The funeral of a high school student in Mitaka City is underway. Many students at the school witnessed the coffin being moved, their expressions ranging from numbness and grief to fear.

"We just received a message from the Kanto Hospital saying that Tomoya..."

"How could this happen? I don't want to die!"

"It's all that guy's fault, everyone's going to die..."

At the funeral, Fujiwara Ichi led a team to lie in wait. After waiting for a long time without finding anything unusual, he couldn't help but frown deeply.

Ignoring the student's emotional outburst, Fujiwara Daiichi sternly summoned Takahashi Kazumi from the support team.

"What's going on? Wasn't it said that the suspicious young man would show up at the victim's funeral?"

"Yes, that's right."

Kazumi Takahashi was a little nervous.

Although her senior would often bully her when he was around, he made her feel at ease most of the time.

It's much better than being alone.

"Based on the testimony of the student named Azhi, it is inferred that the mysterious youth contacted them at the funeral and threatened that they would die in four days. Now these students have all been confirmed dead."

"So what's going on now?"

Fujiwara no Ichi's face was grim.

As the farewell ceremony came to an end, the students prepared to leave one after another, but the mysterious young man was nowhere to be seen.

"Wasting time, retreat!"

"Huh? Captain Fujiwara..."

Kazumi Takahashi watched helplessly as Fujiwara led the team away, stamped her foot, and could only hurriedly notify Hiroko Asami, who was still investigating at the hospital.

"These people are so irresponsible!"

"You mean you didn't see that mysterious young man?"

When she received the call from her partner, Hiroko Asami had just stepped out of the dissection room and was slightly dazed after learning what had happened.

"Why didn't they go this time of all? More than ten of the 90 high school sophomores are still alive. If it really was those guys, it wouldn't have ended so easily. That guy seems to enjoy the suffering of his victims..."

Is it because it's no longer necessary for you to be there, or... is it because you can no longer be there?

Hiroko Asami walked to the hospital window and looked down at the pedestrians and vehicles below.

"Can't be there? What do you mean?" Takahashi Kazumi asked, confused. "Did they find Captain Fujiwara and the others?"

……

The city is bustling with traffic and pedestrians hurrying by, as if there is no end in sight.

After visiting the funeral, Xia Chuan unexpectedly spotted a beautiful woman dressed as a rose near a pedestrian overpass.

She was still so radiant, easily recognizable in a crowd.

"You killed Gagira?"

Rose Girl looked at Xia Chuan across the street, her lips slightly parted, her face still bearing a calm smile.

"Are you sure you're okay? Daguba will soon face ultimate darkness. What will happen to you then?"

Who knows?

Amidst the noise, Xia Chuan clearly discerned Rose's words.

I must say, this woman is really charming, she doesn't look like a Gurongi at all.

However, he is not as foolish as Fujiwara no Seimei; he doesn't have much feeling for Rose Girl and won't be deceived by her appearance.

No matter how detached they are, the essence of the Gurongi will not change.

The higher the level of the Gurongi, the less likely they are to be kind; otherwise, they would have been eliminated long ago.

Rose Woman is also a biological weapon, but she is more rational and better at controlling her killing instincts than ordinary Gurongi.

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, the image of the white-clad human Daguba flashed through Xia Chuan's mind. He glanced calmly at the Rose Woman, then turned and left, leaving a message.

"Let me meet the other members of Ge next time. I don't want to wait for them one by one."

"who is he?"

The middle-aged man in military uniform, known as "General," walked up to Rose and scrutinized Xia Chuan as he left.

"You seem quite interested in this human?"

The Rose Woman smiled again: "You will meet soon."

"Um?"

The "general" narrowed his eyes slightly, but didn't seem to care much.

As the strongest Gurongi in the Ge Group, he only has eyes for Daguba.

Aside from advancing to the finals and defeating Daguba, few other things interested him.

"Interesting. I'd like to see what's so special about this human."

Amusement park.

A staff member dressed as a frog mascot is surrounded by children handing out balloons.

Finally, it was break time. The staff removed the frog doll's head, revealing a slightly delicate young man's face with a black frog mark on his neck.

Watching the children run to play on the lawn with balloons, the young man smiled and drank water, as if his soul had been healed.

"very nice……"

"What's making you so happy?"

Daguba's white-clad figure appeared at the amusement park entrance, smiling as he looked at the young man. Everything around him seemed to dim, as if Daguba was the only person left in the world.

"Da...Daguba?!"

The water bottle slipped from the young man's hand, his fingers trembled unnaturally, and his face turned deathly pale.

The newspapers on the bench next to me were being flipped through, and they were news reports about Daguba's rampage in Nagano.

"I just don't want to kill anyone, and I don't want to participate in the game, is that not allowed?"

Daguba smiled silently, his gaze pure and without a trace of ulterior motive, yet a murderous intent spontaneously enveloped the entire area.

The frog-like youth felt as if a giant mountain was pressing down on him, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud, only able to watch helplessly as Daguba approached.

but.

After walking only a few steps, Daguba suddenly stopped, and the deathly aura of the entire area receded like a tide.

"You've arrived?"

Daguba, as if meeting an old friend, happily turned to another blurry figure emerging from the edge of the lawn.

"But now is not the time to meet. Let's save our battle for last."

"call!"

Xia Chuan silently watched Dagu disappear from sight, then turned his gaze to the frog youth.

There are other Gurongi...

It just seems to be a very low level.

(End of this chapter)