Chapter 978: NO. 101: Return, its name is Strange God

NO．101: Return, its name is Strange God.

This time, there was no dream.

The youth who simply woke up felt he couldn't exert any strength all over, yet inexplicably felt somewhat relaxed.

I… this is…

Awake? How does your body feel?

The observer still sitting opposite smiled and asked, making him realize that he had apparently fainted in front of the other earlier.

Still, still okay…

That pressure…… did he fail to withstand it again?

By now, he could understand what his previous faint had been like; although the information was only fragmentary, putting it together wasn't hard to grasp…… Of course, logical understanding and emotional understanding are two different things.

The youth still felt this kind of novel‑like treatment was too absurd—how had he ended up being targeted like this, and why would merely seeing that snake pressurize him into cerebral congestion and fainting?

It looks like it's not just polite talk; when the emotion that should have returned to oneself is taken by the other party, the 'vessel' instead becomes relaxed?

The observer glanced at the youth with some surprise, then immediately looked toward the battlefield on the other side where a booming sound came from.

If you think about those things now, will your head still hurt?

After a brief hesitation-filled silence, he answered somewhat unexpectedly, 'No.'

It seems the source of the chaos can't attend to that much anymore.

The observer stood up, and in doing so guided his field of view to that extent, the youth only then realized the surrounding chaos.

Everything else was toppled askew; the glass‑constructed shop doors and windows were even more filled with cracks, and this scene wasn't just before his eyes—it extended to every point visible at the edge of his vision.

In the distance, there were even buildings that had already collapsed, proving to him the fact that this place was a disaster site.

This is……

You should also have something you can do yourself—go find it; I've stayed here too long.

He said that, turned and walked toward the binary pattern that suddenly rippled beside him, causing the youth, who still remembered seeing the other's ability for the first time, to startle.

But the next second, another distant boom suddenly came, shaking him so he couldn't think of anything else; he could only look at the monster that slammed into the diagonally forward building, collapsing it and sliding ten or so meters, falling right before him.

Garuza?

He looked at the ultra‑ancient monster from Ultraman Diga that, aside from its neck weak point, counts as a formidable foe of Diga, sliding over; its head drooped onto the street a few meters away from him.

Rather than the lingering fear of almost being slain, there was also a sense of astonishment at seeing a model monster his fiancée loved come to life.

The youth, his eyes still locked on the giant beast before him, had already reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone; as he stepped back, he lowered his head and quickly scrolled through his contact list.

Meanwhile, he kept glancing at the distant giant beast.

He wanted to contact the other party, but he didn't forget to observe his surroundings; he saw the other completely dissipate into countless black mists, and, startled, he saw that the mist actually seemed to be spreading toward this side——

That mist had an inexplicable pull, reminding him of facing that snake, and it made him try to reach out again, but in the sudden roar he nearly fell over—then he saw a pitch‑black pair of massive legs, gleaming with metallic light, right before his eyes.

And the black mist abruptly shifted direction, shooting upward into the suddenly split‑open, wide mechanical cage‑mouth; it was only then that he noticed who owned those massive legs.

Demon God Zero……?

He saw the giant robot he had hoped for, feeling a somewhat Ye Gong‑loving‑dragons‑like thrill.

After all, there are many who dream of piloting a super radish, but what kind of bull demon is Demon God Zero?!

This √⑧ thing's piloting threshold is ridiculously high—high enough that even someone as strong as Dou Jia'er was once bound and brain‑washed by the various cables in the cockpit, and only in an environment as full of possibilities as a mecha film set could there be any chance of it being an ally.

At this very moment, when the opponent's eyes—actually invisible eyeballs—seemed to be constantly releasing golden currents toward him, he not only felt a sense of being locked on, but also seemed to see astonishment and ecstasy in those eyes.

Then, in the stiff motion of desperately trying to step back and flee, he stubbornly watched as the opponent's finger, still bearing a blade on the arm, reached toward him——

Bang!!!

Then his arm was repelled by relentless cannon fire and laser blasts.

After just a few seconds, amidst the continual massive tremors, the youth once again spotted the familiar figure—eyes blood‑red, body bristling with gun barrels, the steel dragon.

Gilbari s.

With not only full‑throttle firepower but also moving those legs ill‑suited for motion, he charged straight at Demon God Zero's arms—a posture that could be described as fearless of death, as if he were giving his all to protect himself……?

The youth suddenly felt a bit surprised, surprised that he would actually have such an over‑self‑conscious thought.

But hearing the observer's earlier account of the ghost‑lover, it didn't seem impossible; the only problem was that, though they all seemed to want to kill him, why would they do so……

No time to think; as Gilbari s rushed into his view and charged at Demon God Zero, he immediately turned and ran at full speed.

Even with human step frequency and stride, trying to outpace a form already over a hundred meters tall—where even Gilbari s looked like a dwarf before Demon God Zero—was virtually impossible.

But he still didn't want to stay in place.

He still remembered the observer's parting words, 'You should also have something you can do yourself,' and thought that this was indeed the problem he ought to consider.

He needed to set aside the identities and origins of those monsters and giant machines, focus on the present, and think that, while Gilbari s hindered the opponent, he at least ought to slip into the opponent's blind spot—but as he suddenly turned into a side alley, he saw standing there the pink‑haired girl who had just jumped down from the claw of the giant beast.

"Little Snake! I know you're probably completely bewildered right now, but we must now deal with these——"

"Just give the conclusion!" the youth bluntly interrupted, turning his head to see the rainbow‑scaled white snake appearing once more in his field of view—this time, the white snake's limbs were mutilated, half its head presenting a gruesome, bloody wound.

And it was lowering that wounded head toward him, almost entirely pressed to the ground.

"You have to go in!" the girl, who should have been startled by such a blunt interruption, replied without hesitation, "Fuse with it, use that divinity to summon other powers and seal the rampaging Demon God Zero!"

At the instant her words fell, that miserable‑looking white snake even opened its giant maw, teeth retracted.

Even with the teeth retracted, the flesh‑colored maw bearing a snake's tongue was still enough to make an ordinary person hesitate.

And yet the youth simply stepped forward.

"Good."

He answered bluntly.

"By the way, tell me how to summon a light screen; wouldn't that be more convenient than a phone?"

He said this as he walked, and the remark left the girl stunned for a moment.

But she quickly reacted: "Draw a circle with your finger at the point nine inches to the left of your field of vision! A perfect circle!"

The answer of '......' made the youth feel some difficulty.

But by now he had already stepped into the snake's mouth, and the giant snake didn't even hold out a moment before snapping its huge jaws shut.

Its raised head's skull face turned illusory and kept shifting, while its deformed slender body also began to reshape into the outline of a standing human.

The girl subconsciously touched her pocket, then her chest, only then recalling that she had just smashed her own phone moments before.

Or more accurately, she just wanted to crush Alexis inside the phone… but it's also hard to deny a destructive venting motive.

But just as she felt a bit annoyed, wondering how to tell Hei Qian that she needed a phone with the number unchanged, she suddenly heard the little snake's voice in her mind:

"Recite my name."

He said.

"Recite my name, then add the terms Reverse Rainbow, Heavenly Bow, and Wind and Water, and we can communicate this way—efficient and secret—and then, let's begin now."

"Tell me, which are allies and which are enemies, so I can consider how to direct the operation."