"The Light Virus? What's that?"
Ultraman Taro asked in confusion.
"Chaos Header, an advanced life-form from outer space.
Or you could call him a compulsory order program.
His ultimate goal is to link the minds of all living beings and eliminate individual differences.
No hatred, no war, no killing, because all life would be contained within a single collective will."
Masaki Keigo explained.
"What does he want to do? Force humans to become mindless puppets?"
Ultraman Taro sucked in a sharp breath.
"If I'm not mistaken..."
Masaki Keigo turned the terminal screen around, displaying the Light Virus's waveform data. "The Bakugon that Ginga blew apart just now was actually a fusion of Bakugon and Chaos Header.
It's just that Chaos has no fixed outward appearance, so it didn't show-"
Masaki Keigo paused and looked at the gradually fading motes of light filling the sky before continuing, "And a virus's defining trait is reproduction."
"You mean reproduction-"
Ultraman Taro's expression changed.
Despite the sweltering summer night, a chill crept through him.
"Then we have to stop those motes of light right away!"
Ultraman Taro took a deep breath, calmed himself, and hurriedly spoke.
"It's too late."
"Why?"
"Look at the time. Three thirty in the morning."
Masaki Keigo pointed to the bottom-right corner of the screen. "At this hour, everyone in town is dreaming-"
As though to prove Masaki Keigo's words true.
The night sky suddenly warped in the direction of the mountain behind town.
The air rippled like boiling water.
One, two, three-
More Bakugon appeared out of thin air.
The sight made Ultraman Taro's scalp prickle.
Kill one of these monsters born through dream-based infection, and two more would split off in the dreams.
How were they supposed to fight that?
Before he could devise a countermeasure, the scene