"Who are you...?"
Ultraman Leo asked in confusion.
"Ginga. Ultraman Ginga."
Ultraman Leo nodded.
He swept his cape up and tossed it behind him.
Then, to Xiao Che's surprise, he took up a fighting stance.
Xiao Che didn't dare let his guard down and assumed a stance of his own.
They attacked and exchanged blows. After a few rounds, Ultraman Leo decided
that this man's talent was absolutely no weaker than Ultraman Zero's.
"Good! Excellent! You came to learn the Cosmic Fist Technique, right? I'll teach you from here on!"
Xiao Che bowed to thank him.
Training began, and the process was grueling.
But Xiao Che had top-notch talent and extraordinary perseverance, so he learned quickly.
Before long, he had reached the threshold of a grandmaster.
In the end, he became a grandmaster.
However, the Sky Screen only showed scenes that proved Xiao Che's hard work and talent.
So, to the people of Douluo Continent, it had lasted only the time it took to burn a stick of incense.
Xiao Che had mastered the Cosmic Fist Technique and become a grandmaster.
The instance illusion then faded away, and Xiao Che returned to the Worship Hall.
Qian Renxue and Bibi Dong hurried over to congratulate him.
"Congratulations on becoming a grandmaster of the Cosmic Fist Technique."
Xiao Che returned to his seat. He looked composed, but showed no sign of joy.
To him, years had passed during his training, and he had gained profound insights over that time.
Even his temperament had grown much steadier.
All his former roguishness had vanished, as if he'd been purified and all impurities stripped away.
Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue returned to their original seats.
The Sky Screen changed again and began taking stock of the next Ultraman.
[Ultraman Seven]
[Identity: Stellar Observer No. 340; former civil servant who charted interstellar orbits]
"A civil servant?"
Dai Mubai and Tang San, who had just suffered a setback in the instance, immediately acted as though they'd found an easy target.
They had heard earlier, when the Sky Screen introduced Ultraman Leo, that Ultraman Seven was Leo's master.
Yet Ultraman Seven had apparently only been a civil servant.
They simply hadn't noticed that this was only Seven's former identity.
"It seems Ultraman Seven only became Ultraman Leo's master in some other capacity. How could a mere civil servant train someone into a King of Fighting?"
But as soon as Tang San finished speaking, the Sky Screen slapped him right in the face.
[Appearance: Seven has no Color Timer on his chest. Instead, a jade-green beam lamp on his head indicates his energy level and when he is in danger. His head is equipped with an iconic controllable weapon: the Eye Slugger.]
[Skills: Telekinesis (a power possessed by almost all Ultramen, allowing them to control objects from a distance or interfere with enemies). Seven has the strongest telekinetic abilities among the Ultra Brothers and can control his Eye Slugger with ease for ranged attacks.]
[Beams: Emerium Beam; Wide Shot]
[Special abilities: Can shrink himself and use Capsule Monsters to assist in battle.]
[Combat skills: Possesses superb fighting techniques and excels at finding an opponent's weaknesses.]
[Titles: Jeep Monster (unofficial); Cane Alien (unofficial)]
Seeing these titles, the people of Douluo Continent were baffled.
Wasn't Seven an Ultraman? What on earth were "Jeep Monster" and "Cane Alien"?
The titles displayed by the Sky Screen must have been judged according to some criteria.
Perhaps they had spread throughout the universe and won the public's approval.
That would explain why the Sky Screen displayed some less-than-flattering titles.
But these two were clearly worse than Ultraman Ace's "Dismemberment Maniac."
Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue were just as confused.
They might have understood the earlier titles, but surely these weren't titles befitting an Ultraman?
So the two of them looked at Xiao Che in unison.
As before, Xiao Che explained their confusion.
"These have to do with the history between Ultraman Seven and Ultraman Leo. You'll understand later."
Seeing Xiao Che end with "You'll understand later" again, Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue were both exasperated.
They'd come so close to finding out, only to be left hanging every time.
But there was nothing they could do. Xiao Che was an Ultra Warrior, after all.
Whatever Xiao Che said, they had no choice but to accept.
Inside the Worship Hall.
Golden Crocodile Douluo and the other worshippers were just as puzzled.
These clearly weren't titles one would give an Ultraman. How had they become so widely accepted?
Unlike Ultraman Ace's "Dismemberment Maniac,"
which described his fighting style.
They couldn't imagine what Jeep Monster and Cane Alien had to do with anything.
What... did they have to do with cars and canes?
In a lounge in the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's palace.
Yu Xiaogang was also watching the Sky Screen.
He had only recently woken up, but the humiliation he'd suffered earlier would stay with him for the rest of his life.
"Ultraman Ace is a monster! Ultraman Leo is a monster too!"
He slammed the table, blaming the Ultramen for the humiliation he had just endured.
Then the Sky Screen suddenly changed.
A line of text appeared in the blurry image.
[Precious archival footage of Ultraman Seven training Ultraman Leo]
Yu Xiaogang's interest was piqued.
As someone who had also taught an outstanding disciple, he really wanted to see how Ultraman Seven had trained Ultraman Leo to become such a King of Fighting.
["What do you think you're doing?!"]
After those words, everyone saw no special training method.
Instead, they saw Seven beating Leo with a cane.
Whether Leo was training at a waterfall or being chased by a jeep, that cane never failed to make intimate contact with him.
[On the jeep, Seven shouted from inside: "Leo, don't run! Charge straight at the car!!!"]
[Faced with the oncoming jeep, Leo's first reaction was to dodge and refuse. He shouted, "I don't understand, Captain!"]
Even after Ultraman Leo suffered defeat after defeat, and was injured so badly that he was wrapped up like a mummy, the training still didn't stop.
At last, the Sky Screen finished playing the footage.
A few more lines of text appeared at the end.
[The fear and resistance caused by this training, along with the lasting "psychological trauma" afterward, became one of Ultraman Leo's most unforgettable memories.]
Everyone across Douluo Continent who saw the Sky Screen was speechless.
How was this training anything like what they'd imagined?
They were surely just out of their depth. Ultramen were on a much higher level, so it made sense that their training methods would be different.
"Different, my foot!"
Qian Renxue stood up.
She had thought she might learn something, but this was what she'd ended up seeing!
Bibi Dong finally understood what Xiao Che had meant by "the history between Seven and Leo."
So that was it!
Now she understood why Ultraman Seven was called Jeep Monster and Cane Alien.
Anyone who had been trained like that would end up with psychological trauma, wouldn't they?!
She even seriously suspected that Ultraman Leo's "harshness" when training Ultraman Zero had involved a bit of settling old scores.
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