My youth story cannot be a knight war

[“Damn it! Why at this time?”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke punched the hood of the police car and said angrily that the 21st had appeared just when the news came that the gathering place of the unconfirmed life form had just been found. He was deliberately making trouble for the police.]

[He is now full of entanglement, because the unidentified life form that appeared this time is probably a special individual like the previous two times. If Zaimokuza fights alone without his own support, it will definitely be very dangerous, and the possibility of serious injury or even death is very high. ]

[But it is also very important to lead troops to encircle and suppress the gathering places of unconfirmed life forms. If we miss this opportunity, we don’t know when we will find the next opportunity to catch them all in one fell swoop. Kousaka Kyosuke also attaches great importance to this, so he is not at ease to hand this task over to others. ]

[This puts Kousaka Kyosuke in a dilemma. He wants to help Zaimokuza, but he also wants to annihilate the unconfirmed life forms. He is so entangled that he almost suffers from decision-making difficulty. ]

【boom--】

[Just when Kousaka Kyosuke was still holding his forehead and frowning in thought, the sound of an engine behind him made him open his eyes wide and turn around. He saw Zaimokuza, who was wearing a helmet and riding a Triangle Chaser 2000, giving him a thumbs up. The eyes under the windshield of the helmet were narrowed, and it was obvious that he was smiling.]

[“Mr. Kosaka, you can go with the Metropolitan Police Department to deal with those unidentified life forms. They will probably need you. I will handle number 21!”]

[“Don’t worry, I’ll be fine. I’ll come find you as soon as I take care of number 21!”]

[“Wait! Zaimokuza——”]

[Before Kousaka Kyosuke could finish what he was about to say, Zaimokuza immediately turned the handlebars, and the Triangle Chaser 2000 rushed towards the lower reaches of the Sumida River where No. appeared with a sharp roar, and soon disappeared from his sight. ]

[“That idiot… But, please!”]

【Watching Zaimokuza's back disappearing from sight on his motorcycle, Kousaka Kyousuke sighed helplessly, then his expression immediately turned serious as he got into the police car and sped off in the opposite direction of Zaimokuza.】

……

【Tokyo, downstream of the Sumida River, quarry. 】

01:05 PM

[This quarry, which was always deserted before work began and bustling with activity after work began, is now completely different from the past. Several police cars engulfed in flames are burning fiercely, and black smoke is constantly produced like natural fireballs. The temperature in the quarry has also risen because of these burning police cars. The black smoke is like a steamer, and the scorching air seems to burn the entire lungs after inhaling it, making it a forbidden area for the living.]

[In addition to the police car, there were many guns scattered all over the ground in the quarry, as well as many bodies that were burning. From the clothes on some of the bodies that were not completely burned, it can be inferred that all of them were police officers.]

[Bang, bang, bang!!!]

The muzzle of the police's standard-issue revolver continuously fired bullets amidst the burst of flames. Each bullet accurately hit the chest of the slowly walking Giiga, but it had no effect at all. It couldn't even penetrate the chests of the unidentified life forms as before. The bullets were all lodged in the muscular chest muscles, forming a discus, then falling down and being crushed by the unstoppable foot.

[“Damn it! Why hasn’t support from headquarters arrived yet!?”]

[The last policeman who was still alive desperately pulled the trigger, but he had no effect until the bullets in his pistol were almost exhausted. The high-powered firearms approved by their superiors had already been used up before, and the firearms that could only be used as sticks were thrown directly to the ground.]

Giiga's footsteps never faltered until the last bullet dropped from its chest. The helpless police could only watch in despair as Unidentified Lifeform No. 21, which had nearly wiped out all of their colleagues in the previous few minutes of fighting, continued to approach. Their legs trembled uncontrollably in fear of impending death.

[“No, don’t come over here! Don’t come over here!!!!!!!”]

The young police officer, who had been on the job for less than a year, futilely pulled the trigger on his now-empty pistol while backing away. He accidentally stepped on a protruding rock and fell backwards. Even so, driven by the desire to survive, he used all fours to push himself back. He watched in fear as Giiga gradually raised his right hand to cover his mouth. This familiar movement made him feel suffocated.

[Thinking of his colleague not far away who was blown to pieces along with the police car by the black ball ejected from the opponent's mouth after the opponent made this move, the young policeman thought that he would also die in this cruel killing method. His legs suddenly trembled as if he was having the hiccups. A dark color spread from his pants between his legs and he screamed in despair.]

[“Hehehe… Go and accompany your companions, the warriors of Lindo——”]

Giiga looked at the young policeman, completely overcome by fear, and sneered, announcing his imminent death in the language of the Gurongi. It wasn't that he couldn't speak Japanese, but he simply disdained to use it. Giiga felt that a race that could only become his prey was unworthy of him speaking their language.

【boom--! ! ! 】

[“Puwa——!???”]

Just as the Giiga was about to spit out that terrifying black ball from its mouth, reducing the policeman to ash, a high-pitched engine roar came from behind. Alerted, it immediately turned around and saw a black wheel with its wheels raised high in front of it!

The wheel of the Triangle Tracker 2000 struck its chest, its speed and potential energy transformed into energy and transferred to the wheel. Giiga felt a tremendous force radiating from his chest, as if even his soul had been shattered by the blow.

Without even time to react, the tall, silver-white figure was sent flying nearly twenty meters into a pile of sandbags in the delivery room. The sandbags collapsed under the blow, sending dust and sand flying from the bags, completely obscuring Giiga's fallen form.

【“You are… Number 4!?”】

[The policeman who had escaped death stared blankly at the red figure riding the Triangle Tracker 2000 in front of him. The other party's huge red compound eyes were also looking at him. He could naturally recognize that the figure in front of him was the first unconfirmed life form confirmed by their police as a collaborator, and the fourth one that dominated all the news headlines in recent months.]

[Even though I have heard of the opponent's reputation for a long time, when I really saw the opponent's true form, I was still confused. There really is an unconfirmed life form fighting to protect humans? And the target of the battle is one of its own kind? ]

[“Run away if you can still move. Get out of here!”]

After confirming the young police officer was alright, Zaimokuza immediately turned his gaze towards the direction where Giiga had been knocked away. Even though the air was filled with dust and the victim's fate remained unknown, he never believed that a sneak attack of this magnitude would be enough to eliminate this newly emerged Gurongi. The sense of crisis within him, which had not diminished in the slightest, but was instead growing stronger, was the best proof of this. He immediately shouted, his gaze fixed on the delivery room, which was completely filled with sand from the sandbags.

[“Ah? Oh, oh! Yes!”]

Although the young policeman was shocked by Zaimokuza's authentic Japanese accent, his good manners helped him to react immediately. He pounded his weakened legs, stood up, and stumbled to his feet as he ran past Zaimokuza.

【“!?”】

【Om—】

[But just as he ran away, a strong sense of danger came from Zaimokuza's heart. Under the stimulation of this sense of crisis, the spirit stone on Zaimokuza's waist turned blue at an extremely fast speed. He immediately jumped up from the Triangle Chaser 2000. At the same time, the red armor on his body turned into a blue flat-bottomed armor in the form of a blue dragon. The motorcycle under him fell to the left because he lost control.]

【call out--】

[The next moment, a black ball flew through the dust in the bankrupt room and shot towards Zaimokuza, passing by the position where Triangle Tracker 2000 was located just one second after he fell.]

【Oops! 】

[Zaimokuza, who had just landed next to a burning police car with the superior jumping ability of the Blue Dragon form, suddenly reacted and turned back in horror.]

[He suddenly remembered—there was someone behind him! He shouldn’t have hidden!]

【boom--! ! ! 】

[Just as he turned around in a hurry and tried to rush back, what he saw in his blue compound eyes was an explosion in the distance. The policeman he had asked to leave quickly was hit by the attack from behind, and the sudden burst of flames completely engulfed his entire body.]

[Patter. 】

[A broken pistol handle fell on the sand, spinning and rubbing for a long distance until it touched a black foot, and white smoke rose from the gun.]

【“…”】

[Zaimokuza slowly lowered his head to look at the pistol wreckage at his feet that was still steaming. He felt as if a cold poisonous snake was crawling up along his tailbone, and every inch of his skin that it crawled over was chilling.]

[The policeman was completely unaware of the attack coming from behind, because he did not turn around at the last moment before the attack.]

[Perhaps it was because... he believed that the "person" behind him who had saved him before could help him once again stop the demon who wanted to take his life, so he trusted his back with confidence.]

[But Zaimokuza betrayed his trust in him, and made an unforgivable mistake, watching him die. ]

【Since then, the first batch of police officers who encountered the unidentified life form No. 21, a total of 17 people, all died on the job. 】

[Ga ga ga ga——]

【Zaimokuza's open palms slowly clenched, and the bones of his five fingers made a harsh and dull friction sound. His side profile flickered in the light and darkness under the flames of the burning vehicle next to him. His pair of blue compound eyes had an inorganic texture similar to that of insects, making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.】

"Long time no see, KUUGA."

[Until that joyful voice came from behind, Zaimokuza turned around silently and looked. The silver-white figure of the killer who walked out of the foggy delivery room also came into his sight. ]

Giiga looked at Zaimokuza who turned around, smiled, opened his arms, and spoke in fluent Japanese.

"No, the previous KUUGA seems to be dead. Should I call you the KUUGA of this era?"

[Zaimokuza had no intention of responding to the words spoken by the monster in front of him. There was only one thing he wanted to do now.]

[He leaned over and picked up a sniper rifle that was lying on the ground. He grabbed the gun with both hands and used his knee to push against the connection between the gun handle and the barrel, breaking it in two. He then threw away the gun handle with his left hand and held the barrel, which was about one meter long, with his right hand.]

[Under the light of the blue pearls on his wrist, the gun barrel quickly became transparent and elongated, reshaped into the shape of a Qinglong stick.]

[clang——]

The two halves of the Azure Dragon Staff, retracted in the middle, stretched out, a blue gemstone on one end reflecting Giiga's ferocious face and scarlet eyes.

【Then Zaimokuza spoke softly.】

【“——Go to hell.”】

[He always gave people a cheerful impression, but at this moment his voice was calmer than ever before.]

[At the same time, he also has a coldness that subverts the impression of everyone who knows him. ]

"Well……"

After hearing that cold voice from "himself" in the video on the mobile phone, which was hard to imagine that he could make, Zaimokuza felt a sudden sharp pain in his brain, and he groaned and covered his head with his other hand.

An image with mosaics on the edges suddenly flashed through my mind. That image was exactly the dream that "myself" had in the previous video about the super ancient warrior, that is, the dream when the previous Kuuga sealed all the Gurongi.

The red warrior placed his hands on the spirit stone between his eyes. The color of the spirit stone changed rapidly, from red to blue, then to green, and finally to purple, changing in sequence. This sequence constitutes a cycle, and the speed of change is getting faster and faster. The color of the spirit stone is also gradually changing to a color that has never appeared before in the interweaving colors.

Originally, the previous dream should have come to an end here. Whether in the video or in reality, Zaimokuza had never seen what color the spirit stone turned into in the end, because every image of this section was covered by a layer of hazy color.

To put it in a more idealistic way, it is as if even the dream itself does not want to know about it.

But this time, Zaimokuza saw the final color of the spirit stone completely in this video.

At the end of the ever-changing color of the spirit stone, what appeared was an extremely pure color in the world that could not accommodate any other color.

That is the boundless darkness that best illustrates the color "black".

The warrior stopped all his movements after the spirit stone on his waist turned into this color. All the enemies that were rushing towards him turned into black smoke and disappeared, leaving only one person standing on the ground. The warrior covered in red had an aura that was completely different from the tenacity and bravery he had in previous battles. The darkness around him also faded away again, but this was definitely not the result of the burning torches stuck in the ground.

To put it in a metaphor, it is as if even the darkness around them is afraid of the warrior at this moment.

Then, the warrior slowly raised his head, and his eyes were "looking" straight at Zaimokuza who was looking at him.

Zaimokuza clearly "saw" that the warrior's eyes, which were originally as red as burning fire, had long disappeared.

——What he saw was a pair of black eyes that seemed to represent the word "darkness".

"——————"

When he saw those black eyes, Zaimokuza's brain seemed to be hit by a sledgehammer, and it went blank in an instant, and his consciousness quickly faded away.

pat!

The mobile phone held in his left hand fell from between his five loosened fingers, hit the ground and created several clear cracks on the screen. Those cracks divided the blue compound eyes of Kuuga in the form of a blue dragon in the video into five boundaries, and each boundary was extremely ominous and pitch black.

The next moment, Zaimokuza's fat body fell to the side with a loud bang, attracting the attention of everyone in the service club.

"Zaimokuza!?"

"Zaimokuza-san!"

"Hey! Are you okay?"

The screams of a man and a woman rang in his ears, and before his consciousness completely sank into confusion, Zaimokuza saw Hikigaya Hachiman kneeling in front of him. His solemn face was swallowed up by the darkness that spread from all sides of his vision. The darkness continued to gather around the pair of anxious eyes in the center of his field of vision, trying to bury him completely.

"Hachi...hata?"

Zaimokuza tried his best to open his eyes and see Hikigaya Hachiman's face clearly, but in the end he couldn't resist and fell into a coma.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the last time Zaimokuza saw Hikigaya Hachiman’s eyes, they were replaced by a pair of black eyes that were similar to his, but full of coldness and indifference.

Those eyes just looked at him falling down, as if they were looking at a stranger who had nothing to do with them, without a trace of emotion in the depths of their eyes.

"Hurry! Take him to the infirmary!"

While everyone in the Service Club opened the door, and Hayama Hayato and Hikigaya Hachiman each worked together to support one side of the unconscious Zaimokuza's body, squeezed through all the onlookers and ran to the infirmary, Zaimokuza's cell phone that was left there was still playing the video, even though no one was watching it.

[“Taku!”]

Zaimokuza leaps down from above, and with a roar, he strikes the Blue Dragon Staff towards Giiga's head, but Giiga quickly reaches out and grabs it.

【"snort!"】

Giiga gripped the Blue Dragon Staff with one hand and covered his mouth with the other. Seeing this, Zaimokuza immediately tilted his head to the left.

The next moment, a black ball shot out from Giiga's mouth, brushing Zaimokuza's left cheek and shooting toward his back, hitting a mud mixer in the distance. The mixer exploded and shattered, each piece burning with crimson flames.

【“!”】

Zaimokuza dodged the close-range attack and raised his right foot to kick Giiga in the stomach. When Giiga loosened his grip on the Blue Dragon Staff and quickly retreated, he dropped the staff and retreated as well.

[Zaimokuza took a few steps back and immediately stopped, then stepped forward and charged forward, then jumped with both feet and did a somersault in mid-air! ]

【Buzz.】

With a humming sound echoing from his waist, Zaimokuza flipped from his blue Azure Dragon form back to his red All Might form. His right foot kicked towards Giiga, who raised his head below, and crimson flames flashed from the bottom of his foot!

[“Hey!”]

[“Hmm!”]

Zaimokuza roared in anger, and this newly trained, all-around flying kick struck Giiga directly in the chest. A transparent white shockwave spread from the spot where his right foot had struck. The explosive force sent Giiga flying backwards with a muffled grunt. His flying form, still carrying the remaining force, broke a pillar. The simple delivery tent, having lost one of its pillars, collapsed, completely burying the silver-white figure below.

[“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”]

[Amid the sound of the building collapsing and the flying dust, Zaimokuza landed on one foot and stretched out his right hand to maintain balance, panting heavily, and white smoke rose from the sole of his right foot.]

[As his breathing rhythm slowed down, Zaimokuza felt that the anger that seemed to burn his heart out was finally extinguished, and his rationality began to return. ]

[He stood up silently, looking at the collapsed building in front of him, and his clenched fists slowly loosened.]

[Zaimokuza knows very well how powerful his specially trained all-around kick is. At least none of the Gurongi who were hit by this kick before could survive. Unless they activate elemental awakening, this move can definitely be said to be his strongest ultimate move. ]