HPDBC Chapter 393 Chaos's Series of Traps and the Fallen Light!
Chapter 393 Chaos's Series of Traps and the Fallen Light!
The screen slowly went black amidst Musashi's unwilling roar.
Then, it turned into a ring of white mist.
The center was a chaotic and oppressive darkness.
This is Haru Musashi's dream.
In the dream, the blue giant of light, the moon god Gauss, is engaged in a fierce battle.
And as an opponent.
It's Gauss too!
The difference is that the Gauss opposite him has a crimson body; that is Corona Gauss.
Incredibly, the Luna form, which is known for its gentle defense, was fighting exceptionally fiercely at this moment, even going toe-to-toe with the opposing Corona Gauss.
Finally, during the clash of their energies, a burst of intense light caused the image to abruptly cut off...
"What should I do...?"
Musashi's voice echoed in the darkness, filled with pain and confusion.
"I crave power so that I can protect you!"
He jolted awake, gasping for breath. His forehead was covered in a fine layer of cold sweat, and his pajamas were soaked through.
Musashi stared blankly at his hands, which trembled slightly in the darkness. These hands had just unleashed the full power of Corona Extraction not long ago, indirectly causing the tragic death of the innocent monster, Erigar.
Will power... truly replace gentleness?
Musashi muttered to himself, his eyes filled with an overwhelming sense of guilt. An unprecedented feeling of defeat washed over him like a tidal wave.
[A Gaia vs. Agul vibe]
[One is persuasion, the other is cremation (doge)]
[However, the Moon Goddess in the dream managed to draw? It seems that Musashi subconsciously still hopes to win without switching forms.]
[A fight between the sun and moon gods? Why would I have such a dream?]
This is post-traumatic stress disorder; Musashi has become withdrawn.
Anyone would be confused in that situation. They intended to save someone, but ended up killing them with a strong medicine.
The scene then shifts to the canteen at the youth elite team's training base.
Bright sunlight streamed through the glass onto the dining tables, but the atmosphere in the cafeteria felt unusually somber.
Rena sat at the dining table, holding a fork, aimlessly poking at the food on her plate, her brows furrowed, occasionally letting out a long sigh.
Musashi came over with a tray and sat down opposite her.
"What's wrong? You don't seem to have much of an appetite," Musashi asked softly.
"Even I have all sorts of worries," Rena said, putting down her fork and resting her chin on her hand.
Musashi forced a smile: "I see, it's the troubles of being in love, isn't it?"
"You're too naive!"
Rena rolled her eyes at him, then her expression turned unusually serious. "I'm thinking... is protecting monsters a bit too much of a stretch?"
Musashi paused slightly in the hand holding the spoon.
Reina lowered her head, her voice muffled: "Ever since that incident, I've been thinking a lot. Even Ultraman Cosmos couldn't save Erigar..."
"Even Ultraman Cosmos couldn't do it, can our elite youth team really do it?"
These words were like a sharp knife, precisely piercing Musashi's most painful spot.
He opened his mouth, only to find himself speechless.
Not only Rena, but the morale of the entire elite youth team plummeted. The ideal of protecting monsters seemed to have become an unattainable joke in the face of harsh reality.
Even the most optimistic Rena is starting to waver.
Faith can crumble in an instant.
Even Ultraman couldn't save him, so what can humanity do? Power it with love?
[At times like this, the defense forces should be online!]
After lunch, in the command room.
Tu Jing is reporting his latest research findings to everyone in front of the big screen.
"Although it's just a hypothesis at the moment, I think that the last Eligar likely had antibodies against the Chaos virus in its body." Tsuchikage pushed up his glasses, his expression serious.
"Antibodies?" Musashi asked, somewhat puzzled.
"In other words, if bacteria or viruses have ever invaded the human body and caused illness, the body will produce protein molecules that fight them; these are antibodies."
Tu Jing pulled up a cell simulation diagram, explaining, "Once antibodies are formed, even if the same bacteria invade again, the antibodies will immediately take effect, making it less likely to get the same disease."
"Just like if there's a flu outbreak, you need to get vaccinated to prevent infection."
"Because Eligar has antibodies in its body, it was able to suppress the full-scale outbreak of the Chaos virus on its own."
Tu Jing sighed, "Unfortunately, we didn't realize this in time."
……
That evening, Musashi returned to his dormitory still feeling heavy-hearted.
Just then, his communicator rang. It was an email from his childhood friend, Shoji, asking him to meet the next day.
Upon seeing his old friend's name, Musashi finally broke into a long-lost smile, his face which had been tense.
The next day, Musashi changed into casual clothes and went to the agreed location.
However, he did not notice that a sneaky tail was following behind him.
Rena hid behind a telephone pole, peeking out half her head, her eyes full of gossip and wariness.
"You're on vacation, don't you have anywhere to go? Why are you following me?" Musashi had already noticed her and turned around helplessly.
"What does it matter!" Rena walked out confidently. "Didn't you say you were going to see your childhood friend? I think his name is... Shoji?"
"Yes, it's Shoji."
"You used to say he was really handsome! I'm really interested!"
Rena's eyes lit up.
Actually, she was secretly jealous and wanted to see just how charming this so-called childhood sweetheart really was.
"I see." Musashi gave a wry smile.
"Wait for me, hey!"
When the two finally saw Shoji in person, Rena's expression froze instantly.
The man in front of me, Shoji, wore thick glasses and a plaid shirt. He was not only quite ordinary-looking, but his smile was also a bit crooked.
"What... he's not that handsome at all." Rena muttered in disappointment.
This is what STEM guys are like.
Not necessarily, look how handsome I am in my dream~
But the emotional intelligence I dreamed of, I can only say I've achieved it in this lifetime.
Just as the three were catching up...
The scene then shifts to the SRC Space Development Center.
On the huge observation screen, all sorts of complex astronomical data are scrolling wildly.
"A once-in-millennia-long total solar eclipse lasting over 7 minutes is tomorrow!"
A researcher excitedly reported to the leader, "Everyone, get busy preparing to collect data! We never imagined we'd see such a spectacle in Xia Country!"
"Yes, I'm eagerly awaiting tomorrow."
"That's strange... what's wrong?"
Another operator suddenly pointed to a corner of the screen, his expression changing drastically.
"Look! Point P87 in the solar system's cosmic coordinates clearly shows a gravitational field anomaly! This... this energy waveform is..."
Things seem to have taken a subtle turn.
……
the other side.
Musashi followed Shoji to the hospital's rehabilitation area.
"I read your email. Has Yuki recovered?"
Musashi asked with concern.
"Yes, the surgery was a success, and he's already jumping around. That's wonderful, that's wonderful." Shoji nodded with a smile.
"Hey, who's Yuuki?" Rena chimed in curiously from the side.
"Ah, it's my younger brother." Shoji sighed. "He's been in a wheelchair all day because of a leg injury. He knows that surgery can cure him, but he just can't muster the courage."
To encourage Yuki, Musashi brought a treasured old item from his home.
He walked up to Yuki, a little boy sitting in a wheelchair with a sullen face, and took out a somewhat antique-looking toy robot from his bag.
"Its name is Cleragon. Now, I'm giving it to you." Musashi handed the robot over.
"Although Bagon is a robot, it was my best friend when I was a child." Musashi squatted down, looked Yuuki straight in the eyes, and his gaze became deep and gentle.
"When I was a child, there was a time when everyone thought I was a liar, and no one believed the truth I told. At that time, the only person who listened to me seriously was Bagon."
"As long as Bagong is here, I can muster up the courage. No matter what others say, I can endure it."
Musashi placed the robot's hand in Yuuki's: "Yuuki, as long as Bagon is here, you'll definitely be able to muster the courage. Be brave, okay?"
Looking into Musashi's sincere eyes, Yuuki finally nodded heavily and gripped the robot in his hand tightly.
On a bench not far away, Rena and Shoji sat side by side.
"Everyone treats him like a fraud... What did that sentence mean?" Rena couldn't help but ask.
Shoji smiled and looked at Musashi, who was talking to his younger brother: "Is that so? Nobody believed him. Back then, Musashi said he... met Ultraman Cosmos."
"Give light to Gauss, who has lost his energy, so that he may be revived and they may soar together in the sky. Everyone says that such a fantastical tale is just boasting."
Rena was stunned, her eyes filled with disbelief.
"However, he never gave up on his dreams. Whether as a child or as an adult, he kept pursuing them. As long as you have the courage to make your dreams come true, there is no need to give up on them."
"To hold onto your dreams... requires courage." Rena watched Musashi's retreating figure, a ripple of emotion stirring within her.
This isn't the plot of the theatrical version!
Musashi was treated as an outsider from a young age, which explains his strong desire to protect monsters—he was also one of those who were misunderstood.
[Clebbagon! Isn't that the toy that helped Musashi fight the Baltan aliens in the prequel movie?!]
[The old leather case was dug out and reused!]
[In my memory, there's only the image of this monster frantically eating cars.]
Warm moments are always fleeting.
Musashi's communicator suddenly rang; it was an emergency call from headquarters.
"I am Musashi."
Musashi's expression changed immediately after the call connected. He bid farewell to Shoji and Rena and rushed to the SRC Space Development Center.
At this time, Tu Jing had already arrived there first.
"This waveform is indeed a Chaos virus reaction!"
Tsuchikage stared at the data on the screen, his expression grave. "It came from space. Although it was only for a moment, it originated from an abnormal gravitational field within the solar system!"
"An abnormal gravitational field?" Everyone frowned.
"We learned last time on Planet Juran that the Chaos virus also exists in space," Feng Chui said, not finding it strange.
"But this time is different."
Tu Jing typed rapidly on the keyboard, "They detected that energy reaction from the distorted space outside the solar system at the cosmic coordinate point P87!"
"What do you mean?"
"I think that might be a conduit for the Chaos virus!"
Tsuchikage reached a startling conclusion: "A passage connecting to some distant corner of the universe. In other words, the Chaos virus is continuously flowing in from there!"
This deduction caused everyone present to gasp in shock.
Before everyone could process this terrible news, the highest-level alarm at the Youth Elite Team headquarters blared.
"Captain! A monster has appeared in the K9 region!" Reina's urgent voice came through the communication channel.
The live footage was immediately displayed on the big screen.
When they finally saw the monster wreaking havoc in the city, everyone was stunned.
"It's Eligar?!" Rena exclaimed in shock.
"It is indeed Eligar!"
"What exactly happened? Wasn't it already..." Vice Captain Mizuha was shocked.
That's right, the monster on the screen is none other than Eligar, the poison gas monster that died tragically in the sunset after Musashi forcibly separated the virus from it.
But at this moment, it was radiating an ominous light, and its appearance was the same as the clones created by the Chaos Virus before, with its arms transformed into scythes.
The monster was heading straight for a small town 15 kilometers ahead.
The group piloted their fighter jets to intercept them.
"The wind's blowing, use a scare grenades to stop it!"
Captain Qingguang decisively gave the order.
"Captain, it's impossible to capture Eligar, who's possessed by the Chaos virus!" Feng Chui piloted the fighter jet, this time with a cold rationality.
"Let's transition to the red level!"
"Wind Blows!" Vice-captain Mizuha tried to stop them.
"If we defeat Eligar again this time, we'll have failed to save that monster three times already! Even Ultraman Cosmos couldn't save it; there's a limit to how much we can protect it!"
Feng Chui gritted his teeth and dodged a cloud of poisonous gas spewed by the monster.
Listening to the argument over the communicator, Musashi could no longer contain himself.
He rushed out of the SRC center, his eyes reddening as he watched the thick smoke rising in the distance.
"Erigar... is suffering because he's possessed by the Chaos Virus." Musashi gripped the Sun and Moon Harmony in her hand, trembling all over. "Gauss, I don't know what I can do now. But I want to save the tormented Erigar!"
"This time, I'm determined to save it!"
"Gauss, please, give me another chance!"
With a roar that pierced the sky, a dazzling blue pillar of light shot up from the ground.
Ultraman Cosmos has arrived!
Upon his arrival, Gauss in his Luna form immediately blocked the fighter jet's attack.
Then they were confronted by the berserk Eligar.
Despite Erigar's continuous spraying of corrosive gas, Gauss continued to roll and dodge, without making any offensive moves.
Then, they seized the opportunity.
Gauss gathered a soft light in front of his chest with both hands and released the Luna Extraction.
A soft light shone continuously on Eligar.
"Ultraman Cosmos... knew that the Moon Goddess's purification wouldn't work."
Watching this scene from inside the fighter jet, Feng Chui frowned, wondering, "Is Ultraman Cosmos also confused?"
As expected, the Moon Goddess's extraction was still useless.
But Gauss was still not satisfied.
He gathered his strength again and used the full moon light wave with even greater purifying power!
Tiny, twinkling lights danced and covered Eligar.
"The full moon's light is longer than ever... He wanted to save Eligar no matter what," Vice Captain Mizuha said softly.
Under the continuous illumination of the full moon's light, Eligar's movements gradually slowed down, and he seemed to have truly become docile.
"Did it work?"
Musashi ignited a glimmer of hope within the space of light.
At this moment, the massive energy consumption had caused the red light on Gauss's chest to flash.
However, in the next second.
"No...that's not right!"
Suddenly, Tu Jing, standing in front of the large screen, let out a terrified scream.
Suddenly, a strange, colorful ripple appeared on the surface of Eligar's body, which had been docile.
Immediately afterwards, the monster's appearance began to twist and deform violently, emitting a chilling hiss.
Amidst the trembling gazes of everyone, Eligar's disguise was completely stripped away.
A monster nearly seventy meters tall, with a ferocious and terrifying appearance and exuding a pure evil aura, stood in front of Gauss!
"A physical Chaos virus?!"
"Is the physical Chaos virus disguised as Eligar?!"
This is the new materialized form that the Chaos Virus evolved after absorbing a large amount of combat data—Chaos Mebit!
It not only possesses greater strength than Ibris, but also cunning wisdom.
Everyone instantly understood everything.
"This is a trap set by the Chaos Virus! He disguised himself as Eligar just to waste Ultraman Cosmos's energy!"
"What do you mean?"
"The Chaos Virus... weakened Ultraman Cosmos, who couldn't save Eligar, forcing him to exhaust his energy!"
Feng Chui gritted his teeth, his anger reaching its peak, "How despicable!"
Are there more experts out there?
[Didn't this monster just appear in the last episode? It can evolve?]
[Wow, it seems Chaos's strength is quite something!]
This virus has become intelligent; it even understands psychological warfare!
[Targeting Musashi's weaknesses, first use a fake Eligar to trick Gauss into unleashing an extremely long full moon beam that drains his mana.]
[It's over, Master Gao is really going to be in trouble this time.]
Gauss, realizing he had been tricked, wanted to retaliate.
Musashi immediately focused his mind and switched to Corona Mode!
However, the extremely long full moon light wave had already exhausted the light energy within Gauss's body.
The corona form had only been red for less than a second when its light faded to blue...
He doesn't even have the energy to switch forms now!
Why can't it transform into Corona Mode...?
Musashi looked at his weak hands in despair.
On the other side, Chaos Mebit was clearly not going to let this golden opportunity slip by.
It let out a mocking screech and swung its hands out suddenly.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Several terrifyingly powerful dark red destructive beams were unleashed without reservation on Gauss, who was powerless to fight back.
The muffled explosions echoed throughout the city.
Sparks flew as Gauss's massive body was struck.
The enormous body was blasted directly into the sky!
Each time Gauss was hit, he would let out a painful groan.
Mebit relentlessly pursued Gauss, not only physically torturing him but also trampling on his newly ignited hope for redemption.
Finally, under the bombardment of a heavy beam of fully charged energy.
"Bang--!!!"
Gauss was blasted away and crashed heavily into the mountain behind him, triggering a violent landslide.
Amidst the billowing dust and smoke, the red light on Gauss's chest flashed at its maximum frequency.
Finally, in his final, desperate charge, Gauss let out a defiant battle cry and vanished into countless shattered points of light in the air.
"Ultraman Cosmos has disappeared!"
"Ultraman Cosmos...did he lose?!"
The people in the command room stared at the empty screen, falling into a deathly silence.
On the other side, at the edge of the ruins.
Covered in mud and covered in wounds, Musashi struggled to get up from the ground.
He looked at Gauss, who had lost his power and was now semi-transparent, just like in the movie, and reached out as if trying to grasp the dissipated light.
"Gauss...why do you want me to leave?"
Musashi's voice trembled, and tears streamed down his dust-covered cheeks.
"Gauss..."
At this moment, even the transformation device reverted to its original form as a luminous stone in the dim light.
"Does this mean... they no longer need me?"
Before losing consciousness, Musashi was plunged into endless darkness.
Meanwhile, at the Earth Defense Force headquarters.
Faced with Chaos Mabit, who easily defeated Ultraman Cosmos, the high command of the defense force held an emergency meeting.
"Ultraman Cosmos has been defeated. The threat level of the Entity Chaos Virus has reached its highest level."
"In preparation for the next attack, the defense force has decided to formally invite the elite youth team to launch a joint operation."
"We must destroy this demon at all costs!"