Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 520 Kindred Spirits, Prey

"The Great Tree of Haidong!"

White Woz's furious figure suddenly appeared outside the classroom, his eyes icy cold, as if he wanted to devour the giant tree of the East Sea.

"You bastard, you're like a persistent ghost! Give me back my future notebook!"

"What future notebook?" Kaito Daiki shrugged, hands in his pockets, showing no sign of backing down. "Shouldn't you be the one returning my Final Knight powers? Don't think I don't know what you're up to, eyeing the savior's identity..."

"Shut up!"

White Woz's neck veins bulged, he glared at Hai Dong Da Shu, and then cautiously turned to Gates.

"My savior, please be very careful of this dimensional thief! This guy is disguised as a transfer student; he's definitely up to no good!"

"What are they all talking about?"

Gates' brow furrowed even more.

Lately, people have been calling him a savior, which feels like a mockery.

How can someone be a savior in this state?

"you……"

Gates lifted his injured right foot, about to grumble impatiently, when he turned around and found that White Woz and Haidong Daiki had both disappeared.

"What's going on?"

"Bang! Bang!"

Teruji knocked on the window from the outside, holding Gates's unfinished college application form in his hand.

"Can we talk? Your teacher, Kaminaga, asked me to."

"what?"

Gates was puzzled, but after seeing the blank space on the application form, he silently nodded and left the classroom.

"I don't really want to be a policeman, Mr. Terui..."

"I know," Terujiro explained, "I just wanted to give you some options. The police can be a transition. It's not too late to do it once you know what you want to do."

"I……"

Gates was about to say something when he suddenly noticed that Tokiwa Sougo and Tsukuyomi had also come out.

"Why are you all here too?"

"Because we're good friends."

Tokiwa Shogo carefully examined Terui Ryu from behind.

"Actually, being a police officer isn't bad. Doesn't Ola's dad know the Metropolitan Police Department Commissioner? Just say the word, and she'll definitely help you..."

"roll!"

Gates looked a little embarrassed and pretended not to recognize Tokiwa Sougo, quickly walking out of the school.

Just then, Terujiro arrived on only one motorcycle, which was just enough to give him a ride.

"us……"

"It's near the school," said Terui Ryu, who had no intention of riding a bike. "There's a coffee shop over there."

"Well."

The school rooftop.

After glancing at Gates and his group, Xia Chuan opened the rather simple lunchbox on the spot.

Due to limited resources, we can only make do with what we have for now.

Besides Gates and his group, several other auras simultaneously entered their senses.

White Woz pursues Hai Dong Daiki as if he were seeking revenge for his father's death, seemingly deliberately avoiding the school and moving away from it.

In addition, there's the Time Jacker duo.

Xia Chuan's gaze swept helplessly across the shadows.

Aura and Ur.

The two little ones, who looked like siblings, seemed to realize that Swartz's disappearance was related to him.

Is it really necessary to care so much about something like this?

If it weren't for him, Swartz would probably have taken control of those two again.

"Um?"

Xia Chuan's telekinetic energy swept past the whispering Time Jackers, then he suddenly looked up at the sky.

A dazzling bright spot flashed across the high sky above the clouds, then magnified like the sun and filled the field of vision.

"Boom—!"

Near the school, at a cat cafe, Gates and his friends had just crossed the road when they were enveloped in a blinding light. Amidst a deafening explosion, they turned back in horror, only to see the school completely melted away by the beam of light.

"What...?"

"call!"

The shockwave from the expanding fireball swept through the street, smashing up shop debris, streetlights, trees, and cars passing by at the intersection.

The glass display window shattered, and shards grazed Gates' face, leaving several streaks of bright red blood.

"The school...the school was..."

"Bang--!"

A huge lava crater appeared at the site of the old school, and the surrounding road surface collapsed further under the impact, and the crystals formed on the surface were quickly shattered and torn apart.

The bento box clattered and fell outside the pit. Xia Chuan landed on the spot, teleported away the two terrified Time Jackers, and then looked at the black figure floating in the lava heat with a stern face.

"What's wrong, Lipia?"

A black figure slowly floated out through the distorted space caused by the high temperature, its emotionless laughter echoing repeatedly.

"You should have more power than this, or have you sunk so low that you can only rely on Kamen Rider?"

"Oma Zi-O!"

Xia Chuan's eyes trembled, and his abdominal shuttle belt reflexively condensed, but he did not feel safe at all when facing the blackened King Armor figure in front of him.

No data or information can be obtained at all.

Are you kidding me?

Even the world's ruler, Oma Zi-O, has been possessed!

"Sizzle!"

Xia Chuan pushed the belt driver horizontally with both hands, temporarily using the transformation mechanism to block the impact of the aura.

He considered many possibilities, but he never imagined Oma Zi-O.

This guy wasn't restricted by the dungeon; instead, he was automatically matched with a level 10 or higher knight, breaking the limits of the knight world first.

"What's so surprising?"

Black Zi-O descended.

"After all this time, and after clearing more than ten dungeons, haven't you seen the truth yet? Dungeons are just artificially constructed fictional story worlds, and clearing them is just a way of controlling the script."

Black Zi-O chuckled and glanced at Tokiwa Sougo and the others who had rushed back.

"These natives are just characters in the story, fictitious beings. The power you seek in these illusory worlds is all based on the divine mirror. There is no knight world at all from beginning to end."

"Kamen Rider? It's just a game, meaningless to those of us who already possess power! Only ignorant humans would see the Kamen Rider era as hope..."

"Story? Game?"

Tokiwa Sougo felt his mind go blank, as if he had been hit hard with a stick. Looking at Natsukawa and Black Zi-O facing off in the arena, all his memories suddenly came flooding back, and he remembered his identity as Zi-O.

"We're just characters in a story... How could that be?"

"Nothing is impossible. Your lives and destinies are all scripted, merely tools to please the real world!"

Black Zi-O grabbed an energy book with his bare hands, materialized it, and, with a mischievous grin, threw it directly at Tokiwa Sougo.

"The teacher you think you know is only here because the game needs to take your power!"

"Mr. Kaminaga..."

Tokiwa Sougo took the script with a heavy heart. After a quick glance at the contents, he felt shocked and his gaze toward Natsukawa became unusually complicated.

He remembered.

The teacher was not an ordinary person from the beginning, and it seems that he also stole the power of 01 and Ark in the 01 world.

Why is this happening?

Tokiwa Sougo, his voice trembling, threw down the script, clutching his head and backing away in disbelief, his worldview collapsing completely.

Unlike Wozniak's biography, this is a real script.

It goes down to every single person, every single sentence, and even their character profile.

"It's all fake, we're just characters in a story?"

"So what if there are characters in the story? Does it really matter if it's fictional or real?"

Xia Chuan calmly raised his hand to grab the script, gently squeezing it into countless points of light.

"No one can deny your existence. Even if it's a story, it's a true story. There's no need to worry unnecessarily."

"You're still the same as ever, Lipia. You care so much about your prey. Is it because they're human too?"

Black Time King's body was enveloped in surging black mist, making the surrounding air seem heavy.

"Give up. No matter what you're expecting, humanity can't have any hope. The so-called world of knights shouldn't have existed in the first place; it's just given humanity some unrealistic fantasies."

"Lippia, we higher life forms are your kind..."

"I will not be like a monster."

Xia Chuan lightly pressed his fingers on the shuttle belt, unleashing his full power, and donned the Sacred Blade Suit amidst a circle of Knight Card mirror images.

The opponent possessed Oma Zi-O through some unknown means, so he could only use the power of Saber, which represents the future, to fight back.

Level 10 Oma Zi-O...

This time, we'll probably have to use all our trump cards.

When was the last time you fought someone of a higher level?

"Saber draws his sword!"

Xia Chuan lightly tapped his fingers and drew out the Ten Holy Blades with a clang.

Colorful streaks of light descended from the sky, and sword beams, like a meteor shower, formed a giant mirror image of the Book of Control amidst the raging flames.

The Book of Creation rose up with a thunderous roar.

"Omniscient and omnipotent!!"

"So this is your answer, Lipia."

Black Zi-O indifferently unleashed the power of Oma Zi-O, transforming the entire world into a battlefield, with magic circles simultaneously covering the sky and the earth.

"Since we can't cooperate, we'll have to erase your existence and collect some interest from the Star of Light first!"

(End of this chapter)