Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 539 Factions

Community apartments.

Sakurai Keikazu, who was awakened, was still a little confused and was assigned the task of looking after the little boy Haruki.

"Huh? Why me?"

Seeing Natsukawa and Watsuki Michinaga acting as if they were doing nothing, Sakurai Kageka snapped out of his daze.

"I will fight too..."

"Who told you to be the weakest here?"

My wife, the Taoist priest, glanced at me and sneered.

"If there had been any real danger, you would have been dead just now."

"I……"

Sakurai Keikazu, his face flushed, was speechless and could only stammer as he turned to Natsukawa.

He really didn't expect to get infected in a place like this.

"Da da!"

A series of footsteps sounded outside. Just as Sakurai Keikazu was about to change the subject, he got up alertly, only to find that Natsukawa and Watsuki Michinaga had not moved.

"How..."

"Click!"

Master Gasai opened the door, and the figures of Ryota Murai and Hiroko Asami came into view first, followed by a quiet young man.

Superpowered Knight Agito, Tsugami Taro.

"call!"

Sakurai Kagekazu breathed a sigh of relief and greeted Murai Ryota: "I thought you weren't coming back, and it was just the rest of us?"

"We can't contact anyone else," Murai Ryota said, his brow furrowed with worry. "Onoe and Watari are probably..."

"If we can't contact them, we can't contact them," Xia Chuan interjected. "I can sense their presence, so they should be fine."

He was used to going it alone and didn't need the help of others.

If it weren't for the fact that going directly around him would seem strange, he would have already taken action instead of running back to wait for someone.

"Kaminaga," Hiroko Asami said, her gaze fixed on Natsukawa as soon as she entered the room, her expression serious. She approached him while the others were exchanging information, "Could we talk alone?"

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became quiet, and everyone turned to look at Natsukawa. Sakurai Keikazu felt a tightness in his heart, and even the waki-san Michinaga, who was about to speak, opened his mouth but turned around and walked back to the bedroom.

"Um."

Xia Chuan nodded and walked out of the apartment.

There was a children's playground in the community's lawn area, which was naturally deserted at night. As Natsukawa walked past the swing, memories of Shinji Kaminaga and Lipia resurfaced.

This world seems to have been to this place before, together with the Mefilas aliens.

"You seem to have become hope once again."

Hiroko Asami followed behind Natsukawa.

"Is there some truth about this instance that no one knows? Ever since Lipia left, you've been like a different person, always bearing everything on your own, as if no one else is trustworthy."

"I just felt there was no need to make trouble, not that I don't trust you."

Xia Chuan paused slightly.

When Zoffy arrived, Lipia chose to tell the Foughty team everything, and he has yet to reveal the inside story of the league or the truth about the trial of the Star of Light.

However, the circumstances are different. Lipia's revelation of the truth is more out of necessity, and he would not hide it if necessary.

"And I'm no longer Ultraman." Xia Chuan gathered his thoughts and shut out all prying eyes.

"Does it matter if you're Ultraman or not? At least you're Shinji Kaminaga."

Hiroko Asami quickly caught up and stopped Natsukawa.

"I know you too well, Kaminari! The calmer you seem at times like these, the greater the risk. Are you worried about us?"

You're overthinking it.

Xia Chuan's eyes twitched slightly.

He is not only not Ultraman, but he is not even the real Shinji Kaminari.

Perhaps this is why he is used to being alone.

"There might be another tough battle tomorrow, so get some rest."

Before Hiroko Asami could ask any more questions, Natsukawa gently hugged his old friend of 10 years.

Perhaps due to the shared power of the two riders, Hiroko Asami seemed to be influenced by his spirit and developed some kind of premonition of danger.

"I will handle everything."

"Huh?"

Hiroko Asami's eyes were glazed over, her body tense, and her thoughts briefly went blank. By the time she came to her senses, Natsukawa had already turned around and returned to the apartment building with a slight effort.

"Kaminaga..."

"Click!"

At the entrance to the building, Tsugami Taro stood quietly observing Natsukawa in the entryway, a faint white light flashing in his eyes, giving him an air of divinity.

Xia Chuan lowered his head to meet the white light, and a superimposed figure of a white-clad youth came into view.

Agito, the source of power, the White God.

His power now far surpasses that of the White God and the Black God, and even the Agito dungeon is now completely his. The two of them should have disappeared along with the dungeon.

Did Agito materialize and revive because this world has Agito?

However, a god who has lost his authority is not much of a threat; pure power is just that of an ordinary knight.

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan lightly touched the boy's brow with his finger, and a burst of white light erupted, instantly waking Tsugami Taro.

The remaining figure of the white-clad youth gradually dissipated in astonishment.

"teacher?"

After a moment of confusion, Tsugami Taro looked at Natsukawa with a puzzled expression.

"How did I get here?"

"This is a dungeon world. You can talk to Sakurai if you have any questions." Natsukawa pointed to Sakurai Kagekazu, who was peeking from inside the room.

Whether it's the White God or the Black God, they can be resurrected however they want, but they shouldn't be looking for his students.

"Well……"

Sakurai Keikazu awkwardly shrank his neck.

He just wanted to go to the toilet, but he didn't expect to get himself into trouble again.

"Master Kaminari, have you... become a god?"

"They are merely gods of this world," Xia Chuan waved his hand, "their power is borrowed."

"Is he really a god?"

Sakurai Keikazu looked on with envy.

What good is borrowed power?

Why couldn't he bind to the Extreme Fox system back then?

Perhaps we can also borrow the power of Hidetoshi Ukiyo.

Even if he only becomes a god in the "Extreme Fox" instance, it would still be enough for him to stand ahead of everyone else, and he might even have the chance to obtain great power.

Thankfully, if it's a mentor, their wish would probably also be world peace.

"What's your knight rank, Master?" Sakurai Kagekazu asked curiously. "Level 9?"

My wife, who was sleeping on a makeshift bed on the bedroom floor, turned over, perked up her ears, and her breathing became a little more rapid.

How could it be a level 9 knight?

Impossible. How could borrowed power directly push someone to level 9?

There wasn't even an adjustment period?

He should only be able to barely control level 9 power at level 6.

"Level 9?"

Hiroko Asami, who returned later, had a strange look in her eyes.

She knows a lot of inside information.

It is said that Decade may have broken the limit and become a level 10 knight. There were even monsters that infiltrated the knight dungeon that were destroyed by Decade, which made her suspect that it was really Lipia.

However, the existence of Decade is clearly related to Kaminari, and it is even possible that he is Kaminari himself.

The only problem is probably the ranking of the knights; Kaminari is listed after Decade alongside her.

"So you're the god of this dungeon now?" Hiroko Asami seemed to have forgotten their earlier interaction, asking thoughtfully, "Even as the god of the dungeon, you haven't cleared it yet?"

"This instance is different; it starts as a challenge tournament."

Master Gasai couldn't help but get up and, avoiding Natsukawa's gaze, explained in a deep voice.

"It's unrelated to the dungeon's storyline. It seems that clearing the dungeon requires completing a faction conflict. I didn't originally want to ask you guys for help, but the upcoming battles can't be completed alone."

(End of this chapter)