Tokyo. Inside the Classified Operations Archive Room at TLT's Japan branch.
Under dim, cold lights, dense streams of data and geological energy maps raced across the central holographic display.
From the reconstructed trajectory of the kilometer-wide meteorite intercepted in outer space, to the source of the spatial disturbance on a Chiba Prefecture beach, to the energy traces left when a Space Beast was completely vaporized in the Okutama Mountains...
TLT's Central Supercomputer used the sites of several supernatural incidents as centers to plot enormous Concentric Spatial Circles.
It then drew on traffic cameras, cell-tower records, and immigration data from across the Kanto Region, running round after round of cross-references.
After ruling out tens of millions of ordinary people with alibis, it narrowed the field to a handful.
At last, every overlapping lead pointed unmistakably to one personal file.
Administrator Matsunaga Yoichiro stared expressionlessly at the results on the screen and fell silent for a long time.
[Name: Lin Xiao] [Age: 17] [Identity: Class 2-F student at Sobu High School; president of the All-Heavens Rescue Club] [Current address: Apartment 702, an upscale building in Chiba Prefecture]
"..."
For a full two minutes, Administrator Matsunaga wondered if the supercomputer had caught a virus.
They had deployed Japan's best reconnaissance satellites and burned through immense computing power to sift through the data.
And the result... their target hadn't even tried to hide. He had put "All-Heavens Rescue" right there in his club's name!
"This Ultraman... can't even be bothered to hide?"
Administrator Matsunaga slowly rubbed his temples, anger at the slight hardening his gaze.
"He's operating in human society without even bothering to forge an identity. He just walks around among ordinary people like this? How does that make any sense?
Does he think godlike power puts him above the laws