[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":18,"prevChapterSlug":19,"totalChapters":20,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":12,"translator":16,"content_hash":17},2261218,4413,"Chapter 1: The Morning Star Is Entrusted to You","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>\"Question: In a fire, you have six years with a dog you raised and a stranger child—only time to save one. Who do you choose?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The phone beside the desk vibrated once; Zhihu pushed this question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I choose to save the fire,\" Qi Ming answered, then continued yawning under the desk lamp, flipping through his roommate’s notes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was already 2:30 a.m.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This semester he was obsessed with his side job, living a life of \"mandatory classes skipped at will, elective classes always skipped.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With finals approaching, to make his grades look passable, Qi Ming chose to burn the midnight oil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ding.\" The phone vibrated again—this time, QQ News pushed a headline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half-asleep, Qi Ming glanced at the content—a blue luminous entity had landed on the Pacific Ocean; the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force had been dispatched to investigate, but a deep-sea operations vessel had lost contact...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, exhausted and drowsy, he finally collapsed, eyes shutting, slipping into unconsciousness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Qi Ming awoke, the ceiling above him was unfamiliar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was the ceiling with peeling paint and the blue ceiling fan? This wasn’t his dorm!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where was this... a bookstore?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wasn’t I supposed to be in my dorm? Who brought me here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this oddly shaped watch—when did it get on my wrist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming sat up, staring in shock at the unfamiliar surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Warm yellow lighting created a cozy, comfortable atmosphere; the air carried a faint ink scent, and the wooden bookshelves displayed volumes mostly bearing Japanese text on their covers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out of interest, Qi Ming had once worked for a translation group as a \"hero\"—he could read Japanese.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out a book with a striking title—*In Honor of GUTS, the Protectors of Peace*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>GUTS? Could this be the team I’m thinking of—the \"Victory Team\" from *Ultraman Tiga*?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned to the first page—it introduced Captain Moroboshi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Moroboshi\" and \"Captain\"—put together, they sent a chill down his spine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming’s gaze dropped to the accompanying photo—it really was him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That tyrant who struck with a staff and slapped around Hōsō, calling him \"idiot\" and \"shut up\"!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That logic genius who, after Hōsō risked his life multiple times to protect Earth, asked: \"Earthlings are fighting to protect Earth—what have you, an alien, done?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Isn’t he a UG member and MAC’s captain? How did he end up leading the Victory Team?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming flipped to the next page—Vice Captain Nishijō Nagi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She, too, was a \"quote machine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After seeing Nexus rescue humans from the Alien Beasts and move them to safety, she remarked: \"Two Alien Beasts are just fighting over food.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After being rescued from an Alien Beast encirclement by Hoshi Jun, she gritted her teeth: \"I’ll kill him myself!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming turned another page—Team Member Kishida.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the photo, his rigid expression matched exactly that of Team Kishida from *Ultraman Jack*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This guy was a stress case from the start. In the episode where Gudon and Double Tail attacked Tokyo, he spotted a rock resembling a monster egg, fired two shots, and declared it harmless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Gō Shūju wanted to investigate further and ignored his senior’s orders, Kishida flew into a rage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, when the monster egg hatched and trapped five people underground, he supported his uncle Commander Kishida’s plan to use explosives, disregarding the five lives below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next page—Team Member Yamaguchi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was even more extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In *Ultraman Ace*, he acted like he had multiple personalities—each episode began with him scolding Hokuō for one reason, then switched to the opposite reason to scold him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the episode where the Hippolytans invaded, he advocated handing over Ultraman Ace to the invaders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Captain Moroboshi, Vice Captain Nishijō Nagi, Team Members Yamaguchi and Kishida... what kind of \"ultimate team\" is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wonder how they even got along... whatever, as long as they don’t end up on my hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last page—Team Member Megumi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Megumi from *Ultraman Blazar*?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though she was once a hacker girl who breached national networks, compared to the others, she was already downright normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Moroboshi from *Ultraman Leo*, Nishijō Nagi from *Ultraman Nexus*, Kishida from *Ultraman Jack*, Yamaguchi from *Ultraman Ace*, Megumi from *Ultraman Blazar*—all gathered in *Ultraman Tiga*’s Victory Team? What’s going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Am I dreaming? Am I awake?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming pinched his cheek—the pain confirmed the horrifying truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had been transported—into a world where every Ultraman character had been gathered together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to his kindergarten teacher, when he was a child, other kids wet the bed randomly—he wet a Ultra Rod one day, a Blue Crystal the next; others were destined for Buddha—he was destined for Ultraman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now it seemed clear: this was a cursed fate!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of panic, Qi Ming sat on the walnut wood floor and forced himself to think calmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If reincarnation is real, then anything else that happens from now on won’t surprise me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, his gaze locked onto his right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This inexplicable transportation was almost certainly tied to the watch that appeared with him—it had brought him here, so it should be able to send him back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The watch consisted of a soft, wrist-like base and a movement. Atop the movement was a rotatable dial, with four glowing buttons arranged in a square.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after fiddling with it for a long time, it remained completely unresponsive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The screen showed nothing—not even the time—like it was powered off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried to check the back of the watch, but couldn’t remove it at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bound to me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming didn’t force it further. He turned on the television behind the bookstore counter, hoping to learn the world’s current news and avoid being completely blind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The TV broadcast an emergency alert: three monsters were converging on this place called *Tiga Land*; the Victory Team had been deployed to intercept them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the bookstore had no customers or staff—they’d all evacuated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming instantly recognized the three monsters: Golza and Melba from the first episode of *Ultraman Tiga*, and Garura from episode 39—all Super Ancient Monsters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More troubling was the combination: Golza and Melba together heading to the pyramid to destroy the statue—that was the plot of *Ultraman Tiga*’s first episode.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But with Garura added, Captain Moroboshi would likely face three enemies at once... unsettling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What should he do? The monsters were coming—should he flee to safety... or...?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming’s father had been a drug enforcement officer who never left the front line even after being shot; under his influence, Qi Ming had never been timid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hesitation and passivity were no solution—he would go to the front lines and see what this world was truly like.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that thought, Qi Ming opened the bookstore door and stepped out into the blazing sunlight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1119,"2026-06-19T16:40:33.318Z","Qwen3-Next 80B","a19f6625239cab733b23114389846751d5c3e9c2c599d083934850d928d1e896","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-2",null,547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]