Ultraman: I am really just a human.

Chapter 683 Teacher Kaminari

"Your wishes will come true, any wish will be granted."

The red ball in the dark corner continues to glow.

"Any wish can come true..."

……

A seaside town in Kanagawa Prefecture.

The elementary school, which had just started the new semester, was already noisy and chaotic as soon as the bell rang to signal the end of get out of class.

Xia Chuan walked down the corridor, heading towards the principal's office amidst the children chasing and playing.

"Boom!"

The clear sky suddenly changed color, and a downpour began without warning. The elementary school students who hadn't even run out of the school building quickly returned dejectedly, some of them getting completely soaked.

Xia Chuan frowned as he looked up at the gloomy sky.

This is so out of character for him, it makes him look like a villain.

Surely there's no self-awareness in this everyday world?

Could it be because he fused with Kondo Isami too many times and transformed?

Soon after, the school bell rang, and Xia Chuan, the new physical education teacher, walked into the classroom.

"Quiet down for a moment," the young female teacher said, successfully drawing the children's attention. "Mr. Kaminaga will be teaching PE for the next week, so please get along well!"

"The PE teacher?"

The children, still playing around, curiously looked at Xia Chuan.

My first impression wasn't good or bad, but he didn't seem like a physical education teacher; rather, he seemed like a police elite from a crime drama.

The students, who were not very well-behaved after class started, sat up straight.

It feels kind of cool, but also a little scary.

"How could someone like that come to our school?"

The children in the back row were whispering to each other.

"Are they here to catch bad guys?"

"We'd better arrest those upperclassmen!"

Xia Chuan followed and walked up to the podium, his gaze sweeping across the classroom.

Instead of finding the aura of the red-eyed, they discovered the protagonist of this world.

A primary school student named Shinseki Tsutomu, and a cute girl with bangs and a red headband, Nanase Risa—one of the personalities materialized from the Red Ball.

"call!"

Perhaps unaccustomed to Natsukawa's sharp gaze, Shinseki lowered her head uneasily, while only Nanase Risa continued to watch curiously.

……

The downpour only lasted for a short while, and soon it was time for afternoon PE class.

The sky continued to clear.

After letting the students roam freely, Xia Chuan began to observe the entire school.

Following the new star should lead to the red ball, but the hidden red-eyed creature is undoubtedly a big problem.

He didn't have a good solution for this enemy that wasn't in the Divine Mirror's database.

"Kamiyaga-sensei."

Wearing a red halter-neck dress, Nanase Risa lightly jumped down the steps, brushed aside her long, smooth hair, and tilted her head to ask Natsukawa a question.

"Have we met before?"

"no."

Xia Chuan glanced at Xin Xingmian, who was hiding in the corner and peeking.

"Are you with that child because you see a possibility of changing his destiny? Or is it simply because he's connected to that red ball?"

"Are you Ultraman?" The girl didn't respond, only continuing to stare at Xia Chuan. "Why did you come here? Did you want to save the world? But it's useless. Humanity itself is destroying the world; nothing can be changed..."

Natsukawa: "Just taking the red ball is fine, right?"

"Then you will also perish."

The girl followed Xia Chuan with her head down.

"Initially, it was just an ultimate device created by humans from other dimensions, who believed that the power of wishes would guide material civilization to its peak, but..."

"I don't know how much time has passed, but now it has collected the desire energy of countless worlds, and it will never stop in the future. It has completely lost control and deviated completely from the original plan."

"If we get too close, you'll end up like those destroyed worlds. I can feel your intense desire."

"Everyone has desires, but desires themselves are not a bad thing," Xia Chuan did not deny it. "I'm not asking you to fulfill my wish, and you can't anyway."

The red ball is not omnipotent; its ability to grant wishes is merely due to its access to world authority and its surreal ability to connect and travel through time and space.

"What was that wish?"

The girl blinked and followed Xia Chuan, but she didn't get a reply until school was over.

Even after all these years, because she was originally set up as a little girl, she was still stirred up by her emotions and chased after Xia Chuan like a ghost.

"So what do you want to achieve?"

"What stage is the red ball in now?" Xia Chuan replied, seemingly ignoring the question.

"The first stage," the girl said, still "is about integrating with this world."

This PE teacher seems to know far too much about the red ball.

"That's good."

Natsukawa strolled along behind Shinsei Tsutomu on his way home from school.

After absorbing a massive amount of desire energy, the red ball itself has become an evil entity due to the accumulation of desire.

Upon entering the second stage, it will actively deceive humanity, inciting the evil within them to destroy the world.

If it's just the first stage, you can take it with you directly.

"It's gone!"

Old factory buildings near the school.

Xinxing Mian and his classmates, carrying their schoolbags, cautiously opened the iron gate and entered the warehouse through the gap in the side door, exclaiming in surprise.

The warehouse was like a secret base, with toys and odds and ends scattered in the corners, and Gaia graffiti drawn on the floor with colored chalk, making it look like a pot-boiled chicken.

"That's strange, it was definitely here yesterday."

Shinsei Tsutomu searched everywhere but couldn't find the red ball. When he turned around and saw Natsukawa and Nanase Risa, he suddenly shrank back.

"Kami-sensei, what brings you here too?"

"I'm going to take that red ball you see away from this world." Natsukawa glanced at Nanase Risa.

"I don't know either," Nanase Risa shook her head repeatedly. "I am it, but it may not be me."

"Teachers, what are you talking about?"

Shinsei Tsutomu and the bespectacled boy next to him looked confused, obediently watching Natsukawa search the warehouse.

"The ball suddenly glowed last night, so I left it here... Could someone else have picked it up?" Shinseki explained, bewildered.

Xia Chuan frowned again.

I never expected that something so simple would suddenly encounter such a twist.

No matter what, the red ball represents the pinnacle of material civilization's technology, and it would become quite terrifying in the hands of that dark will.

"Find it quickly!"

"yes!"

Xin Xingmian felt a jolt of excitement, his scalp tingling. He instinctively stood at attention, straightening his legs, followed by a surge of excitement.

It's a bit like the feeling of saving the world in my dream.

"Teacher, is that red ball a monster?"

"You could say that to some extent." Natsukawa ignored Nanase Risa's angry little glare.

"So there really are monsters."

Shinseki Tsutomu felt as if he had entered a new world.

"What about Ultraman? If there are monsters, will there be Ultraman too?"

"Teacher," the bespectacled boy seemed a little confused, "Xiao Mian always likes to dream. Last time he even dreamed of monsters fighting. I think... Teacher, it's better not to take it to heart."

He prefers detective stories and thinks that Natsukawa is likely a police officer who was misled by his classmate Shinsei Tsutomu.

"How could there really be monsters in this world? I still have so many books to read, I can't play here anymore."

The bespectacled boy adjusted the heavy backpack straps, seemingly carrying the weight of the entire world on his shoulders at such a young age, his face etched with exhaustion.

"I'm going back now."

"call!"

Xia Chuan pressed his finger to the ground, and a sudden gust of wind and waves arose out of nowhere inside the warehouse.

The ground glowed under the astonished gaze of the new star, as if time had reversed and the past scene was reproduced, and the phantom of the red ball flickered at the edge of the chalk drawing.

"This is……"

Not only Shinsei Tsutomu, but the bespectacled boy also felt his worldview shattered, staring blankly at Natsukawa and wiping his eyes repeatedly.

"Is the teacher an alien?"

"That's it!" Xinxing exclaimed excitedly, pointing to the red sphere's phantom image. "It was here when I left! I'm not lying!"

"Whoosh!"

The timeline shifts backward, but there's a gap before the red ball disappears, resulting in the loss of a period of time.

Despite Natsukawa's repeated attempts to rewind, the image of the red ball disappearing remained blank.

"What's wrong?" Xinxing asked, bewildered.

"Someone is wary of me."

Xia Chuan shook his head and stood up, and the light and shadow on the ground also disappeared.

That's terrible.

The worst-case scenario is that the red ball is very likely to fall into the hands of that dark will.

Zog might be resurrected, or even more powerful monsters might materialize.

Although the destruction of this world will not affect him, since it is a past timeline, if the dark will is left unchecked, Gaia will eventually be affected.

Leave now...

Xia Chuan turned to meet the intelligent, clear eyes of the children.

Uh.

Come here.

We can't just watch the world perish.

(End of this chapter)