In a pocket world made entirely of Ultimate Light.
Uesugi Eri's eyelashes trembled as she slowly opened her eyes, her rose-deep crimson pupils listlessly taking in her surroundings.
She seemed to have turned back into that doll-like girl.
There was no life in her at all, only cold indifference without any excess emotion.
She looked at the world before her.
Pure light washed over her. It had no color, yet it was incomparably gentle.
Looking ahead, there was endless white. Above, below, left, and right were all pure white formed from light.
Eri had the illusion that she had ascended to heaven.
Yet she slowly curled up, clutching her toys tighter, like a red kitten caught in the jaws of a great black bear that dared not resist.
—She was sitting in the palm of the gigantic Ultraman Legend.
Eri knew Legend.
The movies said he was an omnipotent god born from the will of the universe.
Why would an Ultraman like that come to kill her?
Eri thought she must have done something terribly, terribly bad.
She buried her cheeks in her knees, leaving only her eyes exposed as she secretly watched Legend like a little cat.
Leon realized something was wrong.
Why was Eri curled up and trembling like a frightened little animal?
Hadn't Eri bought the "trial," which was why he had come?
Why did it look as though he had come here to rob and murder her?
Leon instinctively assumed his enormous size was too intimidating.
But when he used causality to trace things backward, he immediately discovered the reason.
For a moment, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Uesugi Eri, you chose my trial. Are you ready to begin?" Leon took the initiative to ask.
Eri slightly raised her forehead, and her red