Chihaya Aine is a member of the team Zero

Now, with Chihaya Aine and I nearby,

, the battle between her and the half-ape soldier Digon is the best whetstone for the blue-haired girl.

"Aine, you can take action in an emergency, right? Don't be too nervous. I will also use Ultraman's telekinesis to control that half-ape soldier, Digon."

In the consciousness space, Ultraman Zero also spoke to give Chihaya Aine a reassurance.

After hearing what Ultraman Zero said, Chihaya Aine finally got rid of the tension that the blue-haired girl had just felt if she wasn't careful. After all, it was the first time for Chihaya Aine to do such a thing, and it was impossible for her to say that she didn't care when human life was at stake.

"Well, with my current speed and explosive power, I can reach this short distance in less than a breath or a blink of an eye. But I still need to trouble you, Zero, to pay more attention to the battle situation. After all, it was you who taught me the principle of how battles change rapidly."

After Chihaya Aine finished speaking, she focused her attention on the battle between the half-ape soldier Digon and the blue-haired girl.

As for Shoko Toyokawa, who was fighting with the half-ape soldier Digon in the field, she was not so at ease. Because the vacuum shock wave of the energy blaster in her hand could not hit the half-ape soldier Digon, she couldn't help feeling a little anxious at this time.

"call out!"

Vacuum shock waves continuously shot out from the energy blaster in Toyokawa Shoko's hand, but in the end they were easily avoided by the half-ape soldier Digon.

The main reason for Shoko Toyokawa's anxiety was the original purpose of her coming here, which was to find out the whereabouts of the alien beast that the evolution truster warned her about.

Shoko Toyokawa was afraid that while she was entangled with the ape-man monster in front of her, the alien beast that had alarmed the Evolution Trusters would cause casualties elsewhere, and Absolut Tartarus had not spoken since that day.

Being distracted during a battle is a big taboo. The half-ape soldier Digon immediately noticed that the enemy's attention was no longer on him. After being suppressed by Toyokawa Shoko with an energy blaster for such a long time, the half-ape soldier Digon was full of anger and had nowhere to vent it. Naturally, the half-ape soldier Digon would not let go of this fighter plane that could reverse the current situation.

The half-ape soldier Digon took a big step forward and used his speed advantage to rush forward towards Toyokawa Shoko.

The fishy wind blowing in her face suddenly brought Toyokawa Shoko's attention back to reality. Facing the half-ape soldier Digon who had already pounced in front of her, Toyokawa Shoko could only barely move the energy blaster in her hand and fired a vacuum shock wave at the half-ape soldier Digon.

"Roar!"

The half-ape soldier Digon was completely reckless and wanted to exchange injuries with the enemy in front of him. After moving his body slightly to take on the vacuum shock wave with his left arm, he bared his teeth and had a ferocious face as he stabbed Toyokawa Shoko with the black and sharp nails of his right hand.

The moment the half-ape soldier Digon's left arm was hit by the vacuum shock wave, it turned into dust that dissipated with the light, but the half-ape soldier Digon's hideous and terrifying face was full of laughter, because he could already see the scene of his right hand nails piercing through the enemy in front of him.

After completing the emergency turn and shooting, Toyokawa Shoko no longer had the energy to deal with the attack from the half-ape soldier Digon. What she was most grateful for now was that she did not let Wakaba Mu follow her into the foggy grove.

"I hope Xiaomu can realize that something is wrong and leave this dangerous place."

Shoko Toyokawa closed her amber eyes, but the pain she had imagined never came.

Puzzled by this, Shoko Toyokawa opened her eyes again and saw a scene she had never expected.

He saw a figure with long pink hair standing in front of him. The ape-man monster's long-haired face, which was originally full of a ferocious smile, was now replaced by an expression of surprise and confusion.

"Hey, I was thinking of watching for a while longer, but I didn't expect our lovely junior classmate to be killed in the blink of an eye."

Chihaya Aine tightly grasped the half-ape soldier Digon's right wrist, making it impossible for him to make a successful attack.

"Roar!"

The half-ape soldier Digon could only roar to give himself courage after feeling the bloody scent of the petite human who suddenly appeared in front of him, as well as the unmatched strength displayed by the other party grabbing his wrist.

"Wow, your breath stinks!"

Chihaya Aine was so irritated by the half-ape soldier Digon's roar as his hand touched her face that she immediately pulled and tugged at the half-ape soldier Digon, causing him to lose his balance.

The half-ape soldier Digon lost his balance and fell to the ground in front of him with a body that was much stronger than that of an average adult human.

Chihaya Aine naturally wouldn't let the half-ape soldier Digon fall to the ground like this. She tensed her fair and slender calves, and a beautiful arc suddenly formed on her calves.

Chihaya Aine swung her right leg in a semicircle and hit the head of the half-ape soldier Digon, who had lost his balance.

Perhaps it was because Chihaya Aine was intentionally controlling it, the half-ape soldier Digon's head did not explode like a watermelon after this kick, but was kicked out from the brown-haired neck like a football.

The half-ape soldier Digon's head, which still had a ferocious expression and hadn't reacted yet, was kicked hard by Chihaya Aine and flew onto a tree trunk. After making a snapping sound, it turned into a ball of red and white dye that was unevenly smeared on the trunk of the tree.

After the half-ape soldier Digon's head exploded into red and white dye on the tree trunk, the huge body without the head finally fell to the ground with a loud bang.

“Good shot~”

Chihaya Aine wiped the non-existent sweat from her forehead, then put her hands on her hips as if to say, "I've worked so hard."

The situation on the field changed too quickly. Shoko Toyokawa, who had already prepared herself for death, was a little confused for a moment.

Chihaya Aine, who had waited for a long time with her back to Toyokawa Shoko but didn't get the praise or questions she wanted, had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​showing off in front of others and turned around to see what Toyokawa Shoko was doing.

"Hello, Moses Moses? Can you hear me?"

Chihaya Aine came close to Toyokawa Shoko, waving her slender jade fingers left and right in front of the amber eyes similar to Takamatsu Touma's, trying to make the blue-haired girl in front of her come back to her senses.

"Um, who are you?"

Under the dual attack of Chihaya Aine's voice and actions, Toyokawa Shoko finally came to her senses and immediately sorted out her thoughts and asked.

"Actually, we've met before, but let's introduce ourselves again~"

"I'm Chihaya Aine, a freshman at Haneda Academy. We've met in the music room at school."

Chihaya Aine stretched out her right hand with a smile, looking at the first "Bunkomon" she wanted to catch. Now she has the idea of ​​forming a band for her whole life. For a moment, she felt mixed emotions.

"Thank you, Chihaya-kun. Sorry, I'm Toyokawa Shoko, and I'm a freshman at Hanaoka Academy..."

The first word of thanks was from Chihaya Aine for saving him just now, and the next word of apology was because he had almost forgotten that he had met the pink-haired girl in front of him in the music room.

Chihaya Aine and Toyokawa Shoko held hands tightly and then immediately separated.

"that……"

Toyokawa Shoko was a little confused about how to explain what happened to her to Chihaya Aine in front of her.

Although Chihaya Aine had just easily dealt with the ape-man monster, she was still not sure what the other party was like, and Toyokawa Shoko was still a little conflicted about revealing her identity.

“We are the same!”

"Hey?!"

Faced with the hesitant Toyokawa Shoko, Chihaya Aine chose the fastest way to deal with it, which was to play the straight ball.

"Toyokawa-san and I are both humans who have gained light, which means we are both warriors of light."

Chihaya Aine's smile at this moment was like the warm sunshine in spring.

"Is Chihaya-san also an Ultraman?"

Ever since she gained the light, Toyokawa Shoko still felt vaguely uneasy, uneasy about whether she could shoulder this responsibility.

At this moment, when Shoko Toyokawa heard the words of the pink-haired girl who saved her, she felt that the burden on her shoulders seemed to be lightened a lot.

"Emmmm, this doesn't seem very realistic. Zero, could you please connect Toyokawa-san to us~"

Chihaya Aine felt that for this kind of situation, it would be better to let Ultraman Zero directly pull everyone into his own consciousness space chat room, which would be more convenient for Toyokawa Shoko to understand some things.

"Ok, I got it."

In the consciousness space, Ultraman Zero answered aloud.

"What is this voice?!"

Before Shoko Toyokawa could recover from the young man's voice that suddenly appeared in her mind, her eyes were suddenly filled with white light.

When the white light in Toyokawa Shoko's sight faded and she was able to see again, the first thing that caught her eye was a magnificent figure composed of red, blue and silver.

"This is?!"

When Shoko Toyokawa saw Ultraman Zero's unique body of red, blue and silver, she instantly matched it with the figure in the intelligence she and Wakaba Mutsu had collected during this period.

"So Chihaya-kun, you're the one who lost Ultraman Zero's stockings?!"

Toyokawa Shoko excitedly stepped forward and firmly grasped Chihaya Aine's shoulders with both hands.

"Chihaya-kun, did you also walk out of that dark forest and gain light in the ruins to become an Ultraman?!"

After Toyokawa Shoko confirmed that Chihaya Aine was a warrior of light like herself, all the words that had been accumulated in her heart for a while burst out.

"Wait, wait, I'm sorry to disappoint you, Toyokawa-san. Although we are both Ultramen, our situations are still somewhat different."

Chihaya Aine was grabbed by the shoulders by Toyokawa Shoko and was forced to retreat repeatedly. She immediately raised her hands to let Toyokawa Shoko calm down first.

"Chihaya-san, I'm sorry for dropping my stockings... I was a little too excited just now."

After the initial excitement, Toyokawa Shoko calmed down, released her hands that were tightly gripping Chihaya Aine's shoulders, and expressed her apologies to her.

"It's okay, it's okay. I understand your excitement when you met your kind just now, Toyokawa-san. I also thought for a while that I was the only one who was both Earthling and alien."

Chihaya Aine waved her hand with a smile. She could fully understand how Toyokawa Shoko felt at the moment.

"Cero, stop standing there and watch the show. Come and say hello to Toyokawa-san!"

After making sure that Toyokawa Shoko had calmed down, Chihaya Aine raised her head and shouted to Ultraman Zero.

"?"

After hearing what Chihaya Aine said, Toyokawa Shoko looked in the direction Chihaya Aine was looking at with some confusion.

"Sorry, sorry. Watching the interaction between you two just now, I don't know whether I should speak or not."

Ultraman Zero touched the back of his head. He didn't intend to reveal the fact that he was just watching a show.

When the same young man's voice as before rang in her mind again, Toyokawa Shoko, who had realized something, looked up at the huge body of Ultraman Zero, then looked down at Chihaya Aine who was smiling foolishly in front of her.

Volume 1: Chapter 154: Where does your light come from?!

"Ah! This... Chihaya-san, you..."

Shoko Toyokawa felt her clever head buzzing. When she was pulled into this strange space and saw the huge figure of Ultraman Zero, she thought that Chihaya Aine was just like herself, who could transform into Ultraman after gaining the power of light.

But now, the giant of light in red, blue and silver colors in front of him suddenly spoke!

"Um, Chihaya-san, what's going on..."

For a moment, Shoko Toyokawa's speech began to stutter.

If it were Shoko Toyokawa, who always emphasized maintaining her style, she would never dare to think about stuttering.

"Cero, look~ didn't you scare Toyokawa-san?!"

Chihaya Aine raised her head, her cute little face full of teasing towards Ultraman Zero.

"I'm sorry, Toyokawa-san. I'm deeply sorry for scaring you by speaking so suddenly."

Ultraman Zero's apology was truly transmitted to Toyokawa Shoko's heart through Ultra Telekinesis.

"No, no, no, I'm the one who should be apologizing. I was disrespectful just now and dropped my stockings!"

After feeling the sense of apology flowing into her heart, Shoko Toyokawa suddenly came to her senses.

"Okay, okay, stop pulling each other like that, or this self-introduction will go on forever."

Seeing this, Chihaya Aine quickly spoke up to interrupt the argument between Toyokawa Shoko and Ultraman Zero.

"Mr. Toyokawa, as you can see, this guy in front of you is Ultraman Zero, the Warrior of Light, who is one with me. You can just call him Zero."

Chihaya Aine first pointed at herself, then pointed upwards at the tall Ultraman Zero.

"It seems that your situation is somewhat different from mine, Chihaya-kun..."

Shoko Toyokawa, who had not expected such a situation, couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

"Well, in essence, we are all Earthlings who are now living in the Land of Light. As for Ultraman Zero from the Ultra Space Guard, who comes from another universe, the M78 Nebula Land of Light, let him decide for himself."

Chihaya Aine changed the subject and gave the stage to her good partner Ultraman Zero.

"Ahem, hello Toyokawa-san. Like Aine said, I'm Ultraman Zero from another universe, the Land of Light, in the M78 Nebula. I'm from the Ultra Space Guard. You can just call me Zero."

Ultraman Zero still used Ultra Telekinesis to transmit his words into Toyokawa Shoko's mind.

"Hello Mr. Zero, I am Toyokawa Shoko. As for the origin of the light in my body, I am not very clear. The only thing I know is that my transformed form is called Nexus.

Terman."

Shoko Toyokawa bowed slightly to Ultraman Zero and performed a standard skirt-lifting salute.

"Ultraman Nexus?!"

Ultraman Zero, who had already experienced the conspiracy of the little golden man Absolute Tartarus in the ruins of the planet Babil, naturally knew the state of the relationship between Ultraman Nexus and Ultraman Noa.

Although he was already shocked by the news, after thinking that Ultraman Noa might have his own considerations, Ultraman Zero did not speak to explain to Shoko Toyokawa the true nature of the light in her body.

As for Chihaya Aion, who is one with Ultraman Zero, she could naturally feel the constantly churning thoughts in the heart of her good partner Ultraman Zero at this time, but out of absolute trust in her partner, Chihaya Aion did not say anything.

However, although Chihaya Aine didn't want to delve too deeply into the topic, Ultraman Zero's memories of that part came flooding back like a tide.