Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn Chapter 6

"I can't stand it, this stubborn guy, he thinks too highly of himself!"

"I think he's just putting on a brave face because he can't back down after boasting earlier. I want to see how long he can keep this up. Will he be able to lure out the monster?"

"But why does the captain always side with him? Just because he has some strength?"

Nagi Saijo appeared more composed. "Perhaps the captain is considering that untrained new members might experience side effects during battle. He might be saying that to accommodate his feelings."

Kishida scoffed. "That makes sense, but the Defense Team isn't a welfare institution. We can't always indulge someone this reckless."

Nagi Saijo stated, "After this incident is resolved, I will formally submit a request to Captain Moroboshi and Staff Officer Gondo to transfer member Qi Ming to another department."

After advancing a few hundred meters westward, Qi Ming heard muffled thuds.

"Three short, three long, three short... It's SOS, someone's asking for help!" Qi Ming's spirits lifted.

He moved a large rock blocking the cave entrance. Inside was a male university student banging a stone against the wall.

He looked disheveled and dazed, clearly having suffered greatly.

Upon seeing Qi Ming standing in the faint light, the university student's cloudy eyes gained a spark. "Are you an angel sent by God to pick me up?"

Qi Ming poked the "GUTS" insignia on his uniform. "The person who sent me didn't have holes in his palms, just a broken leg."

He wouldn't scold the student for "causing trouble when in distress" because before coming to this world, he himself was an unruly individual, often "challenging his limits."

The male university student realized this wasn't a hallucination he saw before starving to death. "You're from the Defense Team!"

"Do you have a companion?" Qi Ming took out emergency food and water from his backpack and handed them to him.

"Yes, but we got separated while lost." The male student eagerly took the supplies and began to devour them.

Qi Ming asked, "Can you find him?"

"I know the direction he fled, but I can't wander around here." A flicker of panic crossed the student's face. "Whatever I say next, please don't be scared."

Qi Ming asked, "Did you encounter a monster?"

"That's right!" The male student nodded frantically.

The monster that emerged from the fog had pursued him relentlessly. He had hidden in this cave, and a falling boulder had sealed the entrance.

If Qi Ming had arrived any later, he would have been trapped to die inside.

Qi Ming asked, "What did the monster look like?"

"It... it looked like that!" The student's eyes were filled with immense terror, his trembling right index finger pointing behind Qi Ming.

Qi Ming also immediately sensed the killing intent behind him. He spun around sharply and saw the massive head emerging from the fog.

A sharp, protruding head, pincer-like hands, and a brown body covered in ring-like structures...

It was definitely the rock monster [Sadola].

"Quick... run!" Seeing that the monster had spotted him, the male university student quickly grabbed Qi Ming, but his legs had gone weak, and he couldn't move.

"You go. After you find your companion, press the button three times, and a rescue team will pinpoint your location." Qi Ming handed the emergency locator to the male university student.

He himself took out the Victory Hyper Gun and moved towards Sadola.

"Hmm?" Sadola let out a confused roar, not understanding why this tiny human wasn't fleeing in terror but was instead walking towards it.

It swung a large rock nearby, hurling it at Qi Ming.

With extremely fast reflexes and a strong body, Qi Ming leaped three meters high, easily evading the attack.

Good, I've reached the effective firing range of the Victory Hyper Gun!

Qi Ming found the right angle and pulled the trigger. A red laser shot out from the barrel, hitting Sadola's right eye.

He had perfectly inherited his father's shooting talent and surpassed him, being able to hit a target at a hundred paces before coming to this world.

"Roar!" Its vital spot hit, Sadola roared in fury and lunged at Qi Ming.

"Impatient?" Qi Ming said, then looked at the stunned university student behind him. "Don't be afraid, I'm here. Do what you need to do!"

After speaking, he fired his weapon while using a movement technique that, in the student's eyes, was like scaling walls and soaring through clouds, shifting the battlefield further away.

He wanted to create a bigger commotion to draw out Taitan as well.

This way, not only would it ensure the safety of others, but it would also allow him to gather monsters and transform, taking them all down in one go, and accumulating ten Star Gifts as soon as possible.

Although the village was at the foot of Mt. Kirifuki, reaching it required flying to the other side of the mountain range.

The thick fog gradually dissipated, replaced by snowflakes blowing in their faces. Two Victory Swallows were swallowed by the silver-white world, with only vast emptiness in sight.

"A mountain range, with half shrouded in fog and the other half covered in heavy snow. What a spectacle," Yamanaka marveled.

Kishida remarked, "It's probably due to the steep terrain or special air currents. I've heard that this area is still covered in snow even in the summer, and meteorologists can't explain it."

However, their Defense Team uniforms had excellent heat resistance, cold resistance, and impact resistance, so this low temperature was not a problem at all.

Since Qi Ming had withdrawn, Mamoru Shirogane had Emi fill in as a substitute.

She had already arrived at this snowy village where a monster had just appeared, waiting for her seniors.

"The monster is gone. These are photos taken by witnesses." Emi was top-notch when it came to gathering intel.

Kishida and the others crowded around. They saw a colossal creature with fluffy white hair standing in the snow, its face appearing quite terrifying.

Nagi Saijo: "What's the extent of the damage?"

"That's the strangest part," Emi said. "No houses were destroyed, and no one was killed. The monster appeared out of nowhere and then vanished just as suddenly. The local villagers call it the 'Witch'."

Nagi Saijo: "The Witch?"

"Help, help!" Just then, a girl's urgent cries for help came from ahead, accompanied by the roar of motorcycles.

The four looked up and saw a girl, about sixteen years old, wearing a tattered red padded jacket, desperately fleeing.

Behind her, five men riding motorcycles, looking like thugs, laughed heartily. "Haha, did you think a mere monster could scare us off!"

After speaking, they revved their engines and were about to ram her with their motorcycles!