Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 65 Back to the Past

"Wake up, Fever!"

"Ixa Ca-li-bu-r Ri-se Up!"

Two consecutive finishing moves landed on the Lion Fang Blood Demon, the explosive whirlwind passing over Kiva and Ixa and blowing up Natsukawa's hair before finally calming down after a long while.

At the last moment, ROOK seemed to revert to human form and glanced in Xia Chuan's direction.

If he hadn't been in such a hurry to escape, he wouldn't have died so easily.

"I wasn't wrong back then, you're definitely not human."

The Lion Fang Blood Demon knelt on the ground, gave a strange laugh, and then his body exploded into countless shards of colored glass.

"Bang--!"

"call!"

Keisuke Nago deactivated his transformation and, slightly out of breath, picked up his injured arm.

"Not human... what does that mean?"

"This guy is just talking nonsense."

Natsukawa took back the ixa fist gun and turned his gaze to the opposite side, where he had transformed back into the Demon Emperor KIVA.

"Xiao Du, there's something I need your help with..."

"No need, I know what you want to do."

A hoarse voice rang out from the future, and a figure in a suit appeared at the intersection. He glanced at Xia Chuan briefly and greeted him.

"Come with me."

Xia Chuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

It seems this wolf has been keeping an eye on this area.

But how could this guy possibly know his purpose?

"Wait, senior!"

Nago Keisuke watched Natsukawa's departing figure and suddenly called out after him.

He used to be extremely arrogant, and never even took his senior warriors seriously. He always thought he was the strongest ixa, until he was defeated by ROOK and suffered the cold treatment from the guild leader.

As an ixa wearer, he still has many shortcomings.

"Mr. Kaminaga," Keisuke Nago asked anxiously, "how can I become as strong as you, senpai? I don't want to disappoint the president again."

"Powerful, huh?"

Natsukawa turned around and met Nago Keisuke's eager gaze.

For some reason, I suddenly thought of Yuri Aso from the past timeline.

"You're just not confident enough. You're afraid of losing to your enemies, so you're holding yourself back. You'll understand later that failure is normal. As long as you can get back up, you can become stronger."

"I see," Keisuke Nago's eyes brightened, and he unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. "Is this the experience of your senior? Not caring about temporary wins or losses, never giving up?"

That's roughly the idea.

Xia Chuan paused, gripping the ixa fist.

If he manages to travel to the 1986 timeline successfully this time, he probably won't come back. How to return IXA is another problem.

Should it be left directly to the Blue Sky Association in 1986?

This can be considered a form of return.

"Bye now."

Xia Chuan put away his fist gun and continued following the wolf from last time.

Delanlong Castle was originally the residence of the high-ranking members of the Fangbloods, serving as a mobile battle base and a symbol of the Fangblood King's status.

The enormous dragon that carried it was the strongest monster of the Delan Dragon Clan, and it was subdued and transformed by the former King.

However, nowadays, Delan Dragon Castle has become a summoned monster of Red Cross. It usually takes the form of a building and other shapes, and relies on the second wolf and two other monsters to suppress its ferocity.

"roar!"

The wolf stood still in the park's open space, and after Delan Dragon emerged from the ground and roared to reveal the giant castle, he calmly led Xia Chuan inside.

"That's truly astonishing. Have you been staying in a place like this all this time?"

Xia Chuan followed Ci Lang through the castle corridor and stopped in front of a large door.

"We've arrived," Cilang said solemnly. "This is the Gate of Time and Space, which is not supposed to be opened casually..."

The second wolf squinted and turned to observe Xia Chuan.

"If I could, I would also like to change the past, but unfortunately I have no power to fight against fate... However, if it were you, perhaps there would be hope, because you are a person of the past."

"I don't know how you got here, but it shouldn't be a problem to take you back."

Xia Chuan's expression remained calm.

He only went back to rest for two days, but he didn't expect that the second time travel would span more than 20 years, which seems to be because the time travel is very random.

"Speaking of which," Xia Chuan asked, sizing up Ci Lang, "why are you willing to help me?"

To be precise, his relationship with the other party was not good at all; they could even be considered enemies.

"Changing the past...does it mean you want me to come and save you?"

"I am no longer the person I used to be."

The second wolf fell silent.

The image of myself being sealed away by the Dark Kiva and turned into props to decorate the castle flashed through my mind.

His memories are connected to the past, but he doesn't hold a grudge against Xia Chuan now. Instead, he feels a sense of nostalgia, like meeting an old friend.

"There's nothing wrong with things being the way they are now," Cilang sighed. "We made a promise with Yin that since we've done so many bad things in the past, we should do some good things occasionally. We'll help him take care of Hongdu."

Xia Chuan walked to the portal and asked, "Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

"If possible, I hope you can save Yuri," Cilang said in a deep voice. "She was severely injured in the past battle at Delan Dragon Castle, which caused her to suffer from chronic illnesses..."

"understood."

Xia Chuan stepped forward and pushed open the portal to time and space, and was instantly sucked into a blinding light.

Traveling through time and space in a dungeon world feels quite surreal.

"Whoosh!"

……

Kiva, 1986.

Quite some time has passed since Natsukawa disappeared, and Akane has finally gotten together with Maya, the Queen of the Fang Blood Demons, which has enraged King, the King of the Fang Blood Demons.

Initially, King disdained to take action, merely forcing Tsuro and two other monsters to deal with Akane. After realizing this was ineffective, the enraged King sealed Tsuro and the others away one by one, using them as the last remaining members of a rare race to decorate the castle.

Afterwards, witnessing the love between Akane and Maya, King, who was completely enraged by the fact that he could not stop Maya no matter what, stripped Maya of her Queen power and imprisoned her inside the Delan Dragon Castle.

Maya's sacrifice gave Akane a chance to survive.

but……

"call!"

The Enigmatic Forest is the only way to reach Delan Dragon Castle.

The dimly lit woods were filled with an eerie atmosphere, with the cawing of crows everywhere, yet no crows could be seen. It seemed that there was no other life besides plants, but dangerous eyes would occasionally appear in the shadows.

Xia Chuan's figure appeared among the treetops, as if he had always been standing on the tree, without the slightest incongruity.

"Are you back?"

Xia Chuan leaned against the tree trunk to observe his surroundings, but couldn't figure out his location for a moment.

There were no landmarks to indicate the time or location, and not even a single person could be seen.

"Whoosh!"

Xia Chuan bent down and jumped down from the treetop, looked at the large head stone statue that looked like a ruin by the fork in the road, and randomly chose a direction to walk.

Anyway, let's get out of this awful place first.

"Um?"

After walking a short distance, Xia Chuan suddenly stopped. It seemed that an unknown force was interfering with his vision, and the entire forest had turned into a maze.

"Who is it?"

Xia Chuan closed his eyes and listened for a moment before continuing through the woods. Soon he returned to the fork in the road.

The surrounding trees and landforms are exactly the same as before, even the large head stone statue is still there.

Without panicking, Xia Chuan kept his eyes fixed on the stone statue and reached into his pocket to take out the ixa punch.

"Should I knock you out, or will you come out on your own?"

"Wow, they found it so quickly!"

A strange female laugh echoed through the woods.

"You arrogant intruder, as long as I'm here, I won't allow you to take another step forward. Despair! Hahaha..."

"Bang!"

Xia Chuan pulled the trigger, and a shockwave from the punch shattered the stone statue. As the rubble and dust spread, a large number of blue light spots condensed into the shape of a silkworm moth-toothed blood demon.

"Vampire?"

Looking at the Blood Demon with the Moth Fang, who held a trident and seemed like a guardian of the forest, Xia Chuan suddenly realized his location.

The Enigmatic Forest is precisely where the Delan Dragon Castle rested during this era.

"Ready!"

Before the Blood Demon could reply, Xia Chuan pressed his palm against his fist and suddenly pressed down to fasten the ixa belt.

"Transformation."

"Fi-stOn!"

The half-cross shape rotated and expanded to form the ixa battle suit, covering Xia Chuan's entire body. It directly opened the face armor, and a high-energy electromagnetic shock exploded in all directions, blowing the Moth Fang Blood Demon away with screams.

"Bang bang bang!"

"asshole!"

The Blood Demon with the Moth Fang scrambled to its feet, cursing as it transformed, and a gigantic arm descended from the sky to grab Xia Chuan.

"Another hallucination?"

Xia Chuan tilted his head slightly, letting the giant hand pass through his body, while suddenly grabbing at the air and pulling the Silkworm Moth Blood Demon close by with his trident.

"You...you can see me?" The Moth Fang Blood Demon was completely thrown into confusion.

"I can't see it."

Xia Chuan inserted a fist into the whistle with one hand.

Amidst the terrified cries of the Blood Demon, he pulled out his fist gun and unleashed a deadly strike that tore the demon into countless shards of colored glass.

"Bang!"

"It's here!"

"Finally, I've made it through!"

Suddenly, a joyful shout came from the woods behind them, and Aso Yuri, leaving Akane behind, rushed out of the mist first.

"This is the Bewildering Forest that Maya mentioned. It's really dangerous... Huh?"

Upon seeing Natsukawa finish his attack at the crossroads, Aso Yuri and Akane both froze.

"i...ixa?"

Hongyin also looked pained.

"Oh my god, is the hallucination still not gone?"

"wrong……"

Yuri Aso's gaze flickered slightly as she stared intently at Natsukawa turning around.

It is ixa, yet it is not ixa.

The facial armor is activated!

"Burst... Burst Mode? Who...who are you?"

(End of this chapter)