Chapter 762

NO. 131: It Can Also Be a Pokémon Master When Necessary

Tsuburaya Productions is famous for filming special effects works with sci-fi themes such as the Ultraman series, but in fact, aside from the Ultraman IP, they early on tried many other tokusatsu hero images.

For example, as the company's 10th-anniversary commemorative works, there were 'Janber A' and 'Flame Superman', as well as the 1971 work 'Mirror Superman', which was the senior of 'Red Superman'.

Aside from Red Superman, those three old tokusatsu works were reborn in a new form 29 years later.

That theatrical film is titled 'Super Decisive Battle! Belial Galactic Empire'.

Unlike previous Ultraman works that confined the stage to Earth, this one, with Sai Luo Ultraman as the protagonist, sets the main stage in space, on different planets, bringing a special space epic feel, opening multiple cosmic lines while also connecting the traces of ancient heroes—Mirror Knight, Crimson Flame, and Janbert.

These three evolved from the on-screen images of Mirror Superman, Flame Superman, and Janber A, essentially an ancestor‑descendant relationship.

And this temporal connection goes far beyond that.

Besides Belial Ultraman, who has already built an empire, its two main antagonists are Airon (also called Steel Dragon) and Dark Gatan.

They are likewise the evolution of the antagonists Aion from Mirror Superman and Enjigon from Janber A.

That is also why Aomo, when mentioning Dark Gatan, refers to the claim that it is a descendant of Enjigon.

From the perspective of the works, the only common point between Janber A and the Ultraman series is that their original owner is Tsuburaya; but when the world in that work becomes reality, the universe that Sai Luo once visited is well worth mentioning.

In a universe where the successors of the Showa-era tokusatsu heroes coexist, even their former adversaries have successors—this cannot be called mere homage.

Homage is a term used from the perspective of the work's appreciators.

But for a story that actually happened, they usually call an extremely meaningful coincidence:

Fate.

Fate lets the descendants of heroes and the descendants of invaders confront each other again.

Fate also ties together those related between fathers and sons, and between arch‑enemies.

It was so years ago, and it should be so today, years later.

Facing fate, they never fled, always confronted it, and must strive to win.

That is why, upon receiving news from another world, they rush over without hesitation—only to face an Earth whose environment is completely different from anything they have encountered before.

An overly chaotic world, a situation where one does not know where to begin, and the difficult reality of investigation.

Fortunately, there is a reliable local contact.

This is said to be a youthful alternate‑world isotope of Gurara, though to Sai Luo he feels more like Fujide Matsu—especially since he seems to have turned his wristlet into a staff, occasionally planting it in the sand.

That always carries a hint of aloofness coupled with courteous manners, which only intensifies the sense of déjà vu.

But déjà vu is just déjà vu; when originally entrusting the investigation to Jie De together, Sai Luo still harbored some doubt that the other could not handle it, as well as the unease of offloading the heavy workload onto them.

And the result……

Lin Dun proved his work efficiency in less than a day.

"We've arrived, this is the place."

The person who had been walking quietly ahead, occasionally probing the ground with his staff, suddenly stopped, raised his iron staff horizontally, and pointed its tip toward the sky.

That space then rippled, revealing a tall, narrow outline like a standing mirror, and showing the chaos beneath the mirror surface.

The giant wolf clashed teeth with the pitch‑black blade, the bell‑like double staff scrambling time as it weaved through the ring of identical figures.

Beyond the two battlefields, a blade light sliced across the nearby mirror, stretching several meters—when Aomo lightly touched the mirror's edge with his staff tip, tilting it and shifting the view, the sharp wall formed by the wolf chief's great sword and the angled hilt blade intertwined, and that blade light was just a small spill from that wall.

And the true barrier was so tightly woven that it even made one wonder whether the two of them didn't care about hurting each other.

Thanks to that, they easily blocked all the aliens' attacks together with their bodies.

"These few women are quite capable," Sai Luo exclaimed.

Although the VR recording had shown a few clips of the enemy ambushing and felling aliens, that performance obviously could not match the frontal confrontation unfolding before us.

"It won't last long," Aomo shook his head, lifted his gaze to Hei'an Gona who was currently facing off against Zaluo, "I'll create a disturbance later and take those three assistants away."

This door‑blocking plan isn't especially reliable either, after all, among the aliens that Aomo doesn't even fully recognize, there are plenty of those with strange abilities, just like the insect face now appearing behind Lapulan De.

Teleportation is merely fairly common, not exactly strange, and even if put positively, it heavily depends on the user's skill.

Given their reactions, when an enemy appears behind them, one can instantly turn and slash while the other continues to act as the door‑guard.

Their full rapport and trust, firm belief in each other's ability, is evident, yet such coordination is just as awkward when facing the aliens' bizarre tech gadgets.

Before those things even appear, Aomo has already begun plotting a retreat route.

It's not that they can't fight; there's evidence that the whole building is illegal, so they wouldn't lose if they started a brawl—but looking at Hei'an Gona, he couldn't help but have that original suspicion rise again in his mind.

"Knocking them out outright would also work," Sai Luo said, flexing his finger joints.

"No, don't move, not only don't move, but don't even reveal your identity—do you remember what we talked about yesterday?" Aomo looked at him, his gaze very serious, "You are quite well‑known here."

Such seriousness also made Sai Luo fall silent for a few seconds, then he impatiently complained, "…Cut the formalities at a time like this!"

He raised his arm and began a warm‑up exercise that seemed meaningless.

"When do we start?"

"In ten seconds…… no, right now!"

When he saw the sharp‑angled figure suddenly turn into a mass of shadow that wrapped around Zaluo and even began to swell its body, Aomo immediately lifted two cards.

Meierba

Card use, summon dark clouds.

Nikajiaqi

Card use, force down air pressure, create a dizzy zone.

Then another two cards, not in hand but slicing into the mirror like blades, together with the 'Igalichuren' that rushed in at that moment.

Mechanical Gomora

Card summon, release mechanical super‑vibration wave at the room's edge.

Reginede

Card summon, fire upon Hei'an Gona!