Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 668 Impending Doom

"call!"

The distortion of spacetime was smoothed out.

Cool air flowed back into the huge hole in the TV station building, so calm that even Fujimiya Hiroshi was a little taken aback.

He seemed to understand why Xia Chuan's arrival had elicited such a strong reaction from the Earth's will.

It was so intense that even he, someone abandoned by the earth, could feel fear.

Walking through the broken pieces of the building to the windswept hole in the structure, I saw the last of the lightning bolts recede.

Several fighter jets flew slowly by outside, seemingly intending to launch bombs, but the wormhole in the sky had collapsed and disappeared, leaving XIG bewildered and forced to return.

Aside from its initial arrival on Earth, Lypia has always acted in a rather unusual way, remaining largely out of the public eye.

If he hadn't happened to be there today, he wouldn't even have known that Lipia had fought, let alone that Lipia possessed such fighting power.

The aura that erupted in the middle was roughly equivalent to that of Gaia Supreme, but it was clearly much stronger than my dream, and that final golden light...

"etc!"

Noticing a streak of light falling from the sky, Fujimiya Hiroya snapped out of his daze and chased after me like a whirlwind downstairs.

"Lypia!"

The foreign teachers from the TV station hadn't completely dispersed yet, and it took Fujimiya Hiroya quite a while to find Natsukawa by a fountain.

He rushed back to Japan because of Phantom Agul, but he never expected it to be just a hoax by the Root of Destruction, and he almost fell into it.

"I'm at my wit's end, that child needs help! He's deep in the Pacific Ocean!"

Fujimiya Hiroya called out to Natsukawa in a hoarse voice.

"There's nothing I can do right now, so please help them, if it were you..."

"The Root of Destruction: Gakuzom, the Sea God."

"What?"

"It's that sleeping monster in the sea."

Xia Chuan stopped in his tracks, the information about the monsters in the database flashing through his mind.

The Root of Destruction, which has been dormant since the ancient times, lies hidden in the unknown realm of the Narriana Trench in a state of darkness, capable of devouring light energy and converting it into its own power.

An A+ rank monster, appearing in "Gaia Reappears" after the end of Gaia TV.

The real problem is its global network of vassal retinues—the Destroyer Flying Fish Baikuh.

Although I've never actually witnessed it, the fact that these flying fish monsters can fuse with and strengthen the Destruction Sea God in large numbers, providing a continuous source of power, is quite troublesome.

"The ancient civilization of Rinnar is asking for your help, but you'd better not disturb those things on the seabed right now."

"Destroyer of the Sea...you know everything? What exactly happened at the bottom of the sea?" Fujimiya Hiroya asked in a deep voice.

"Come find me again after you've regained your power."

Natsukawa glanced up at the clear sky, and before Fujimiya Hiroya could ask any further questions, he vanished from the scene.

Even the roots of the ancient past are beginning to revive ahead of schedule.

He had assumed that the two waves of invaders were not from the same force.

I don't know if it was because of his arrival, or if this world was destined for a bad ending.

My current dream is basically impossible to handle.

There's a real sense of impending doom.

……

Cheap apartments.

Kondo Isami once again appeared out of nowhere and fell into a basin of water filled with smelly socks, coughing repeatedly and almost choking on the water.

That's going too far. Last time, it was definitely Kaminari who brought him back.

They're obsessed with socks!

"Pooh!"

Looking at the familiar surroundings, Kondo Isami took a deep breath, leaned back, and collapsed, his chest heaving as he tried to calm himself down.

I was rescued without even realizing it.

It really is Kaminari, isn't it?

After I was out of danger, my recent experiences kept replaying in my mind.

It's good that she died, especially in front of Kaminari, whom she least wanted to be seen.

Suddenly I don't really want to ask Kaminari for help anymore.

Old friends, arch-rivals... whoever falls behind will be embarrassed.

But it seems he can't stay in this world either.

Why did you come to the instance world in the first place?

"That guy will regret this," a terrifying woman's face suddenly emerged from the ceiling. "The Lord will not forgive him, and you too will be destroyed along with this planet! Your doom will come soon!"

"What is that?!"

Kondo Isami was startled and knocked over the basin of water. He scrambled to his feet, rubbed his eyes, but saw no woman's face at all.

It seems to be just his hallucination.

The apartment looked just as familiar, but Kondo Isami felt a cold sweat break out on his back.

That's so weird.

This trip to the TV station was extremely strange.

"Could we be cursed?"

Kondo Isami, feeling uneasy, wiped his face and pulled a magazine from under the bed to calm his nerves. However, the magazine cover, which should have featured a beautiful teacher, once again revealed Queen Mezadeh's terrifying smiling face.

This time, Kondo Isami completely lost his composure. He shuddered again, threw the magazine aside, and scrambled out of the apartment.

There's no doubt about it, they've definitely been cursed!

He couldn't shake the image of Queen Mezad from his mind, and even the women he saw outside all looked like monsters.

Kondo Isami's face showed despair, and even when he tried to take off his glasses, nothing changed.

The monster's face became much more obvious.

"Mr. Kondo?" The female neighbor, dressed scantily, deliberately winked at Kondo Isami. "Didn't find a job again today?"

"Yes, yes."

Kondo Isami, his face stiff, slowly backed away.

Aside from looking scary, it wasn't dangerous, but he couldn't accept it.

Oh, right, go find Kaminari!

Kondo Isamu reluctantly went inside, picked up his phone, and dialed the TV station again.

You should be able to find them by contacting XIG through the TV station. Last time, I heard that seemingly weak XIG player call out to his senior.

……

A few days later, at a Chinese restaurant in Tsumura-cho.

Tadano Kei dragged Natsukawa inside, and from the window, they could see Captain Yoneda of the Falcon Team, who was sitting there with a stiff face and looking restless.

"Why do we have to meet here?" Xia Chuan asked curiously.

"I'm sorry, I was just visiting someone in the hospital..."

Yoneda stood up nervously, and the moment he saw Natsukawa, he immediately recalled the powerful giant body of Lypia.

He was actually in a lot of pain during this time, constantly wondering whether he should tell Tadano Kei.

I was thinking how much better it would have been if I hadn't known in the first place.

"What's wrong, Captain Yoneda?" Tadano looked at Yoneda's unusual reaction with suspicion. "Have you met your brother before?"

"I guess so."

Mi Tian drank a few sips of plain water, appearing very reserved, as if he were meeting the parents.

His age certainly made him feel a little awkward.

But in reality, it was just a casual meeting, and his relationship with Xiaohui was not fully confirmed.

"Do you have any plans to get married?" Xia Chuan asked casually.

"Huh?" Yoneda glanced at Tadano Kei, whose eyes were darting away, startled. "Well... I'm not thinking about relationships right now, at least not until the crisis is over, so..."

Natsukawa also glanced at Tadano Kei.

Is this what you call establishing a relationship?

"Ahem, you two chat first, I'll go order." Tadano Kei said with a sly look on her face, her eyes darting around as she skipped away.

After being alone, Yoneda breathed a sigh of relief and, no longer considering matters of the heart, asked Natsukawa: "Did you come here because of the underground penetrating bomb project the day after tomorrow? This operation is being handled by the Rim of the Pacific Forces, and we at XIG aren't entirely in favor of it."

"No, I was just pulled here by Xiaohui."

Natsukawa calmly looked out at Lake Tsumura.

Indeed, a monster slumbers underground here.

It is a monster native to Earth.

He had no intention of collecting the power of these monsters, nor was he interested in any actions taken by XIG.

He had only come with Fujimiya Hiroya, and his younger sister happened to catch him when he showed up at the snack shop.

I've been secretly observing Fujimiya Hiroya for the past few days, but I haven't seen any signs that he's regained his strength.

Fujimiya went into the sea again, and then ran to Lake Tsumura.

"Time is running out."

"Huh?" Yoneda didn't understand, and looked out the window, asking, "Are there any problems with this operation? The underground penetrating bomb is indeed the best weapon to eliminate underground monsters right now, and this has been proven all over the world."

"Don't worry too much about me," Natsukawa said, closing his eyes and locking onto Fujimiya Hiroya. "I won't interfere in the conflict between humans and native monsters."

(End of this chapter)