Chihaya Aine is a member of the team Zero

"Mr. Seven, are you healed?"

In the space of consciousness, Goto Ichiri still remembered that Ultra Seven was unable to transform due to his injuries.

"Thanks to you, Yili, for relying on your courage to overcome the darkness in your heart. The light in your heart has completely healed my injuries!"

The light in people's hearts is the best tonic for Ultra Warriors.

Standing opposite the red giant is a strange creature that looks like a combination of plants and animals, with dark green and dark brown colors. It is the brainwashed alien Viel, the mastermind behind this incident.

The brainwashed aliens from Veyer possess characteristics of both plants and animals, and can assimilate carbonic acid dozens to hundreds of times more effectively than other plants.

Facing his foe, Ultraman Seven leans sideways in a slight crouch, his left arm extended in a defensive stance, his right fist tucked at his waist to gather power. His feet adopt a forward-and-back stance, facilitating quick advances and evasions. Compared to the original Ultraman's bold and aggressive style, Seven's stance is more similar to that of a human fighter, reflecting his affinity for Earth culture.

The brainwashed alien Viel, who had lost his greatest means, took the lead in attacking Ultra Seven. Green destructive rays shot out from his palms, which looked like half-bloomed flowers.

Facing the green destructive rays emitted from the pair of petal-shaped three-petal giant pincers of the brainwashed alien Viel, Ultra Seven simply raised his red arms gently.

The green destructive ray from the brainwashed alien, the Vier, was like hitting an insurmountable wall of steel. Not even a single bit of green could infect the red.

Ultra Seven waved and turned his right hand to dissolve the green destructive ray that brainwashed the alien Viel. Then Ultra Seven placed his right fist on his waist and his left palm flat on his chest, and the emerald-colored Amerim ray shot out from the beam lamp in the center of his forehead.

Facing Ultra Seven's Emerim Ray, the brainwashed alien Veyel not only did not dodge but chose to resist with his body covered with bark-like skin.

The dark green skin had turned red, and the brainwashed alien Viel did not retreat even a single step.

"Mr. Seven, is the brainwashed alien, Viel, protecting the hill behind him?"

In the consciousness space, Goto Ichiri also discovered that something was wrong with the brainwashed alien Viel.

Facing Ultra Seven's attack, the Emerim Ray could obviously be dodged, but the brainwashed alien Viel still chose to take it head-on.

This abnormal phenomenon only means one thing, that is, the brainwashed alien Viel does not want Ultra Seven's Amerim light to fall on the hill behind him.

"That is?!"

Two rays of light radiated from Ultra Seven's eyes. As a battle-hardened star observer from the Kingdom of Light, Ultra Seven quickly recognized the plants on the hill behind the brainwashed alien Viel.

"That's the Vielle plant! No wonder you suddenly fell into hallucinations. It turns out the brainwashed aliens, the Vielles, had already planted that hill with Vielle plants. The pollen and special gases from the Vielle plants were carried by the breeze into the city, and people who inhaled them fell into hallucinations."

After discovering the secret of the hill behind the brainwashed alien Viel, Ultra Seven has made up his mind to destroy it.

"Wait! Ultra Seven! I don't actually mean to fight you!"

The voice of the brainwashed alien Viel was transmitted to the minds of Ultra Seven and Goto Ichiri through a strange frequency.

"what?"

Ultra Seven looked at the brainwashed alien Viel in front of him with caution.

"I just want this beautiful planet to return to its former green state."

The brainwashed alien Viel told Ultra Seven his purpose.

"Then why do you plant so many Veyelle plants and spread their pollen and gas to make the people in the surrounding cities fall into hallucinations?"

Ultra Seven will not let down his guard against the alien Viel until his purpose of brainwashing him is completely confirmed.

"In fact, I came to this beautiful planet Earth a long, long time ago. At that time, I fell deeply in love with the beautiful green environment of ancient Earth."

"But many years later, when I visited Earth again, the green vegetation I once loved had been destroyed by the foolish Earthlings. The former beauty of this planet had been destroyed by the Earthlings themselves."

When the brainwashed alien Viel mentioned that the earth's environment had been destroyed by humans, his tone was filled with unparalleled anger.

"So you want to take revenge on humans for the sake of your beloved Earth's environment?"

Ultra Seven clenched his fists.

"Revenge? Although I do hate these Earthlings who destroyed Earth's vegetation, I'm not ready to kill them yet."

"Those Earthlings who inhaled the pollen and gas from the Veyère plant have simply had their brain nerves paralyzed by the radiation from the chemical decomposition, causing them to fall into hallucinations."

The brainwashed alien Viel rolled his eyes, as if he didn't expect Ultra Seven to ask this.

"The reason I planted the Vier plant on a large scale to spread pollen is to instill in Earthlings the need to protect the Earth's environment after they have fallen into delusion. This way, this beautiful planet can be covered in its green coat again!"

When the brainwashed alien Viel talked about his purpose, there was no fluctuation in his tone, as if he just treated the earthlings as ants that could be trampled on at will.

“Everyone will be forced to do something they don’t want to do. Even if it is a good thing, it is definitely not right!”

"Perhaps after my memory is modified, I will become someone like Kita-san, sunny and cheerful like a little sun, but will that still be me? Will that still be Goto Ichiri?!"

In the space of consciousness, Goto Ichiri expressed for the first time so loudly his desire to reject something.

"Yili, you're right. Even if your intention is good, arbitrarily distorting other people's thoughts is ultimately wrong."

Ultra Seven also agreed with Goto Ichiri.

"Brainwashed alien, Veyer, I understand your pain at seeing your beloved greenery destroyed by Earthlings, but I cannot allow you to arbitrarily trample on and modify the minds of others. Even though Earthlings don't have the same power as us, they are individuals with independent minds."

"Therefore, I will not let you trample on the thoughts of Earthlings like this!"

Ultra Seven once again took a fighting stance with his left arm extended forward in defense and his right fist tucked at his waist to gather strength.

"Haha, it's just as they said. Ultraman Seven is an avid supporter of Earthlings. Even if Earthlings do something wrong, you will choose to stand on their side."

The brainwashed alien Viel laughed at himself, and then expressed his disdain for Ultra Seven's indiscriminate standing on the side of the Earthlings.

Volume 1: Chapter 211: Waking Up

The brainwashed alien, the Viel, suddenly contracted its three-lobed claws, transforming into vine-like tentacles that pierced the ground. Instantly, the entire hill shook violently, and the Viel plants covering it wriggled like living creatures. Dark green fluorescence surged from its roots to the summit, eventually converging into a pillar of light that shot straight into the sky.

"You don't understand at all!" The brainwashed alien, Viel, spoke with a high-frequency tremor, causing Goto Ichiri to feel a stinging pain in his eardrums. "These plants aren't tools of destruction; they're the evolution of Earth's native vegetation! As long as we use pollen to reshape human consciousness, they'll spontaneously protect the ecosystem—"

Ultra Seven suddenly lowered his center of gravity, his foot sparks plowing two scorch marks on the rocky ground. His crimson body charged forward like an arrow, his right arm swinging horizontally, trailing a crimson streak of light.

This is a heavy blow in which Ultra Seven converts the mass of his entire body into kinetic energy.

"boom!"

The iron fist that was powerful enough to smash the meteorite was dissolved layer by layer by the vine network woven by the Vier plants.

Goto Ichiri stumbled back in the space of consciousness, and the shared pain made her fingertips slightly numb.

The surface of those vines has a metallic luster, and each fiber is vibrating precisely, as if... like the vibration frequency of a guitar string?

"Did you see?" the brainwashed alien, Viel, retreated to the center of the beam, his tree-like form blending seamlessly with the plant life. "This mountain has been transformed into a bioresonance device. The energy from your attacks has been completely transformed into hypnotic sound waves. Now, the entire human population of the nearby city is unconsciously playing my symphony of redemption!"

As if to confirm his words, a translucent pattern of musical staff appeared in the sky, and countless golden notes drifted from the city toward the mountaintop. Goto Ichiri suddenly clutched her chest. She heard it. Those notes carried the rhythm of Hongxia's drums, the low-pitched vibrations of Ryou's bass, and Kita's clear singing voice—the sound of the band ending!

"Stop!" Goto Ichiri's cry coincided with the eruption of Ultra Seven's Emerium Light. As the emerald green beam shattered the brainwashed alien, Viel,'s left shoulder, she clearly saw pink particles of light emanating from the enemy's wound—their energy being absorbed by the band's resonance.

The brainwashed alien, Viel, stroked his festering wound, his tone fluctuating for the first time: "Why resist? Your companions have clearly infused such a strong desire into the music." He waved his hand.

He unfolded the holographic projection with his hand, and in the picture, Hong Xia was beating the beat repeatedly in front of the empty recording studio, Liang was wrinkling the music score that was covered with "Pochi's solo should be here", Kita was squatting in the corridor of the Monster Tavern with a guitar in his arms, and the phone screen was frozen with 99+ unsent text messages of concern.

Goto Ichiri's breath hitched. She had never seen her teammates like this before—those companions who always shone so brightly, now like insects trapped in amber, struggling in vain in the sticky cage called "expectation."

"How fragile are human bonds." The brainwashed alien, Viel's branch, tapped the projection, and the scene switched to a concert scene shrouded in golden pollen. The audience waved their glow sticks in unison, like puppets on strings. On stage, the band members, with vacant eyes, mechanically repeated their flawless performance. "Behold, this is eternal harmony. No mistakes, no stage fright, no loneliness—"

"But that's not music at all!" Goto Ichiri's scream tore through the space of consciousness, and the translucent outline of a guitar emerged from her trembling fingertips. "Music is... it's the courage to keep moving forward even if you hit the wrong note! It's the heartbeat that you want to convey even if you're hiding in a cardboard box!" A rainbow light suddenly burst out from the huge body of the red giant, and the sonic cage constructed by the Vier plants was torn open by the concrete sound waves of the guitar strumming.

For the first time, the brainwashed alien, Viel, showed a look of astonishment. The band's energy, having been absorbed, was flowing back through Ultra Seven's body. Pink light particles condensed into a materialized headdart in the giant's palm—no, it was a strange weapon wrapped in strings, the melody of "If I Could Become a Constellation" pulsing on its blade.

"Thank you for showing me the truth." Goto Ichiri gripped the virtual pick, and the Crimson Giant synchronized with the same starting position she had used when playing in the cabinet. "True change isn't about tampering with thoughts, but about awakening the light in people's hearts through music!"

The beam light on Ultra Seven's forehead suddenly blazed brightly, its emerald glow undergoing a further transformation within a ten-thousandth of a second. Goto Ichiri suddenly recalled observing leaf vein specimens in biology class—the energy circuits that brainwashed the aliens, the Veyers, were now as clearly visible to her. The Crimson Giant charged forward in an Iai Slash stance, its headdart blade radiating the characteristic blue-white glow of plasma, ionizing the air in its path, leaving a kilometer-long neon trail.

As the Viel vines burst from the ground, Ultra Seven's feet suddenly stepped out of the Mach Loop. The shockwave instantly vitrified the rock within a 300-meter radius. The giant seized the two main vines and launched a 100,000-ton shoulder throw. Goto Ichiri synchronized her movements in her mind, performing an elbow-tuck and hip-swing movement, a curtain call pose she had practiced countless times in front of the bathroom mirror to overcome her stage fright. The moment the brainwashed alien Viel's body collided with the mountain, Ultra Seven's right knee activated the Ultra Tornado, a spiral of energy that peeled away layer upon layer of the enemy's armor.

Sensing that the brainwashed alien Viel had begun to absorb geothermal heat, the Ultraman chest armor suddenly began to absorb the surrounding energy wantonly, and the dark green vines instinctively pounced on the higher purity energy.

Ultra Seven leaped high into the air, his eyes shining like light bulbs emitting a light that seemed to be able to see through everything.

Through this ray of light that could penetrate everything, Goto Ichiri and Ultra Seven clearly saw the purple core deepest in the enemy's root system - that was exactly the shape of the rain cloud she observed through the air vent when she was hiding in the corner of the school.

The red giant curled its body into a perfect arc like the equatorial circulation, diving vertically with an orange-red crown produced by atmospheric friction.

As the master of Ultraman Leo, Ultraman Seven naturally also has a kick technique that drops from the sky. The energy of light gathers on his legs and turns into a raging fire.

The brainwashed alien Viel, who had no time to dodge, was hit hard by the flying kick of Ultra Seven. This was the biggest damage the brainwashed alien Viel had suffered today.

Using the recoil of the flying kick, Ultra Seven once again leaped high into the air, legs together, curled up in the fetal position. The moment the brainwashed alien, Veyel, instinctively looked up, the Crimson Giant, already a flaming comet, plummeted down. This move also came from Ultraman Leo, the Taijutsu Master of Planet L77. Goto Ichiri had seen it in Leo's training memories—but what she felt now was like the spring rainstorm she had witnessed through the skylight while hiding in the gymnasium's equipment room. The moment the dark green pincers made contact with Ultra Seven's sole, the ground within a kilometer radius rippled.

When the brainwashed alien Viel tried to fight back by wrapping vines around Ultra Seven's neck, the Red Giant suddenly grabbed the two main vines with his backhand.

Goto Ichiri subconsciously made the movement of his wrists, like strumming a guitar string, and Ultra Seven's arms immediately erupted with circular shockwaves. The plant fibers that could have crushed a warship now broke apart like damp hemp rope.

Ultra Seven's forehead beam suddenly shot a ray of emerald light straight into the face of the brainwashed alien, Veyel. The Crimson Giant seized this 0.3-second window and, with his hands, condensed a hundred-meter-diameter, eight-pointed light wheel, the hallmark of his brothers' signature technique. But this time, the edge of the light wheel was covered in jagged energy protrusions, like the sweat-soaked teeth of Goto Ichiri's first stage performance. As the spinning light wheel sliced ​​through the mountain, a pale golden liquid oozed from the cross-section of the Veyel plant, like the orange soda spilled on the floor at the Starry Livehouse that night.

Facing the barrage of poisonous spores pouring out from the severed mountain, Ultra Seven suddenly spun rapidly with his left foot as the axis.

The energy of light, ignited by the crimson leg sweep, unleashed a storm of plasma fire. In Goto Ichiri's mind, she heard a shredding sound like fabric tearing—the lingering trembling of her strings as she completed her first full performance of "Turning the Rock, Morning Light Falls on You." Dark green spores refracted within the flame tornado, creating an eerie aurora, like the flickering halo of a desk lamp in the eyes of all the Pochi-chans practicing piano in their closets in thousands of parallel worlds.

When the core of the brainwashed alien Viel was finally exposed, Ultra Seven's right fist ignited with incandescent flames.

When the Crimson Giant's fist pierced through the chest of the brainwashed alien Veyer, a phantom emerged in the burst of light - as if all the loneliness that had accumulated in the darkness for so many years was now transformed into a penetrating destructive pulse.

When Ultra Seven charged forward, he left seven physical afterimages in space, each of which captured a different attack posture: the first afterimage was preparing for a left hook, with the scattered cloak fragments reflecting the setting sun; the second afterimage was in the final stage of a side kick, with light particles from the toes pouring out like an hourglass; the seventh afterimage had already appeared behind the brainwashed alien Veyer, completing an elegant spin to bring the ice axe back to his head.

Then, opening the gap, Ultra Seven captured the brainwashed alien, Veyel, and suddenly leaped into the stratosphere. As he plummeted, a golden halo of light emanated from his elbow, drawing the outline of the Earth in the air. The acceleration Goto Ichiri felt at that moment perfectly overlapped with her stumble as Kita dragged her down the corridor. When his elbow struck its mark, Veyel's skin, as thin as dead wood, cracked.

The sonic boom from Ultra Seven's attack hadn't dissipated yet when the brainwashed aliens, the subterranean roots of the Viel Star, erupted in violence. Countless reinforced vines pierced the rock formations, each tip flashing a dangerous green light.

Ultra Seven used Leo's flying kick technique on his legs, and relying on the explosive power of fire transformed from light energy, he was able to complete a difficult dodge at the critical moment, but the sharp tip of the vine still left scars on Ultra Seven's strong body.

"Aimerim Ray!" Ultra Seven's forehead beam lamp shot out an emerald beam to restrain the brainwashed alien Vielstar. At the same time, Ultra's telekinesis controlled the ice axe on his head to cut off all the surrounding vines.

The brainwashed aliens, the Veyer star people, were determined to kill them.

It missed, and the red afterimage flashed in front of the brainwashed alien Viel at an extremely fast speed. In its hand, it had already grasped the ice axe that was controlled by Ultra's telekinesis and flew back to its hand, and it accurately chopped into the body of the brainwashed alien Viel.

Green biological tissue leaped at the wound, and the brainwashed alien, the Veyel, let out a high-pitched hiss. The remaining Veyel plants throughout the mountain range activated simultaneously, forming a green cage that enveloped everything. Ultra Seven's energy erupted, enveloping him in flames, forcing his way through the remaining green cage.

After quickly analyzing the situation, Ultra Seven suddenly abandoned his defensive stance, raising his palms to condense a kilometer-diameter Ultra Telekinesis field. The moment the vines of the Veyel plant touched the barrier, Ultra Seven abruptly reversed the properties of his Ultra Telekinesis, converting all absorbed impact force into rotational potential energy. This unique technique, honed from training in the unique gravity wells of a special planet, was unleashed with a perfect spinning kick, sending a circular shockwave blasting the green cage apart.

When the brainwashed alien Viel was forced to reveal his true form, Ultra Seven's eyes shone brighter than ever before.

Ultra's perspective ray penetrated the seventeen layers of biological armor on the brainwashed alien Viel, and accurately saw the beating weakness deep in the core.

The red giant held the ice axe tightly in his hand and rushed out as a figure that surpassed the dynamic vision limit of the brainwashed alien Viel.

The two figures fought at an extremely fast speed. With the seventh deep bone-deep scar on the brainwashed alien Viel's body at the 9th second, the brainwashed alien Viel finally exposed a fatal flaw.

Ultra Seven flashed and distanced himself from the brainwashed alien Viel who had been severely injured. After putting away the ice axe, Ultra Seven raised his hands and used the energy armor plates covering his chest and shoulders to absorb a large amount of energy.

Then Ultra Seven guided the huge amount of accumulated energy through his fists and fired a green high-energy light bullet at the brainwashed alien Viel in front of him.

Ultra Seven's stray bullet hit the brainwashed alien Viel hard.

Before the cries of the brainwashed alien Viel could spread across the battlefield, his proud biological armor had already begun to dissolve.

Ultra Seven ended the battle at the last second before his energy overloaded, and witnessed the brainwashed alien Viel's body disintegrating in the high temperature of stray bullets.

Before he was about to cancel his transformation, Ultra Seven waved his hand, and the golden light slowly merged into every person in the city who was in hallucination due to inhaling the pollen of the Vier plant.

People who had no idea what had just happened were stretching and waking up in the warmth brought by the light, as if they had just had an incomparable good dream.

Volume 1: Chapter 212 Aine VS Ichiri Zaikai

Time returns to the present.

"That's the way it is..."

There was a hint of helplessness in Ultra Seven's tone.

"So, Dad, you still have to thank that brainwashed alien, Viel?"

Ultraman Zero teased his old father.

"Don't make trouble. No matter what the purpose is, brainwashing the aliens from Veyer is a shameful invader."

Ultra Seven's words carried a seriousness that had not been seen in Ultraman Zero for a long time.

“But when you and Ichiri were fighting the brainwashed alien, Viel, Aine and I didn’t even notice.”

Ultraman Zero was a little curious about this.

"You're right... Perhaps there's something else hidden behind this incident that we don't know about yet."

Ultra Seven was actually quite confused about this matter.

"Aine-chan...I want to continue fighting with you."

To the surprise of everyone present, Goto Ichiri took the initiative to propose to continue the competition with Chihaya Aine.