Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn Chapter 5

At this moment, the stern-faced, seemingly unapproachable Deputy Captain Nagi Saijo spoke:

"Captain, you are severely injured and cannot sortie easily from now on."

"The selection for your replacement on the front lines must be made carefully. The Defense Team is heading to a battlefield of blood and sacrifice; we don't need pretty boys."

Mamoru Shirogane initially wanted to say, "You can trust him as a comrade you can have his back," but after a moment's thought, he decided he couldn't judge based on intuition alone. He changed his mind and said, "Let time give us the answer."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened and team member Emi walked in.

Her face was still etched with shock: "I think I just saw the team member Qi Ming you mentioned, the one who's 'only good-looking.' He was running in the gymnasium, and a crowd had gathered to watch him."

"Running?" Kishida scoffed. "What kind of training is that? Trying to run faster when you need to escape in battle?"

"That's not the point," Emi raised her voice. "The point is, he's not just ordinarily handsome. Can he evacuate civilians during an earthquake? Normal girls would have trouble moving when they see him."

Yamanaka asked, "Does that include you?"

Emi immediately denied it, "It doesn't."

Nagi Saijo thought cautiously and rationally for a moment, then said, "This is indeed a problem."

"I'll go talk to him." Mamoru Shirogane, leaning on his crutches, headed to the gymnasium. Qi Ming's daily training had just ended.

Mamoru Shirogane asked, "How are you feeling? Are you getting used to living here?"

Qi Ming sighed, "Actually, I really want to numb myself with the mindset of 'this is a dreamlike journey, and when I wake up, I'll find myself back at the starting point,' but the changes in my body tell me that everything is real."

Mamoru Shirogane: "Changes?"

Qi Ming said, "That was my twenty-fifth lap just now, but I'm not tired at all, and my speed is much faster than before."

Mamoru Shirogane was startled. One lap in the gymnasium is four hundred meters. Twenty-five laps meant he had just run ten kilometers!

Qi Ming said that in the past, he emulated an anime character and performed one hundred pull-ups, one hundred push-ups, one hundred sit-ups, and ran ten kilometers every day with scientific, standard form.

Unless there were special circumstances, he would stick to it. Although he was exhausted, he felt a sense of satisfaction after completing it.

But now, he felt not tired at all and sensed inexhaustible strength surging through his meridians.

He looked at the Arbitrary Key on his right wrist and couldn't help but recall Hideki Go's words from "Jack Ultraman"—"Ultraman's power is working through me."

"This is a good thing," Mamoru Shirogane said happily. He told Qi Ming that it was time to join the team for flight training.

Qi Ming: "Flight training? Piloting the Falcon 1?"

He had flown a relatively simple water rescue aircraft in Britain before, but fighter jets were obviously more complex and required more time investment. He felt it was unnecessary.

"Can we simplify the process of a monster appearing—me intercepting it in a fighter jet—the fighter jet being shot down—and me transforming into Ultraman in an emergency, and just go straight to the final step?" Qi Ming planned to join the ground forces, as it would be more convenient for him to transform.

Mamoru Shirogane looked troubled. "But the other team members will think you're shirking, and they'll have opinions."

Qi Ming: "Their opinions don't matter. If they truly want to maintain peace, they should focus their energy on more important matters."

He asked, "Captain, since you're injured and can't transform, why can't you have your brothers from the Land of Light come help?"

In "Mebius Ultraman," Taro came to relieve Mebius, who "currently lacked sufficient ability."

In "Taro Ultraman," your Ultra Six Brothers even had time to come to Earth for a barbecue.

You're incapacitated and can't fight anymore, so why not send an Ultra Brother to rotate or provide support?

Mamoru Shirogane looked troubled. "My companions from my home are also fighting for justice elsewhere. Moreover, I came to Earth as a 'planetary observer,' and some of the things I do here are difficult to explain to them."

Are the other Ultra Brothers busy elsewhere? But I saw you guys chilling out when you gathered on Earth for a barbecue in "Taro Ultraman," didn't I?

However, Qi Ming could understand. After all, this world was full of demons and monsters, and perhaps the Land of Light was also busy fighting dangers in space.

Qi Ming had many questions he wanted to discuss with Mamoru Shirogane, such as, where are your capsule monsters? Did they get flushed down the toilet with Zi-O's rabbit?

And there are too many bugs in our team, should we give them a thorough cleaning? What's the progress on assembling the Tiga statue...

The next moment, an alarm sounded, indicating an emergency. All Defense Team members immediately headed to the command center to assemble.