Chapter 130: 126 Spirit Woman

The scene was in chaos; the police felt utterly disillusioned.

It happened too suddenly.

A new monster appeared without warning, the kidnappers died, and the hostages were maimed.

Before the mighty monster, human grudges, loves, and hates were fragile and easily shattered.

“I’ll save the hostages!” Though Yamaguchi disliked Yuriko, he still charged into the flames without hesitation.

Qi Ming found a deserted spot, preparing to transform and eliminate both monsters at once.

But with a strange ripple, the woman in the yellow dress reappeared.

She was the subordinate of the giant tiger, a being like a “Chang Gui,” known in legend as the “Spirit.”

“Let Homugar remain as it is. Don’t interfere,” the female Spirit said to Qi Ming with a cold expression.

It was less a request than an order.

“Do nothing? Let it destroy the city?” Qi Ming glanced at the distant flame-wreathed tiger, which was gnawing on a gas storage tank.

The female Spirit: “No, you understand nothing at all!”

Same cryptic nonsense as the original plot, but Qi Ming wasn’t fooled.

“I understand perfectly—I’m going to kill it.” Qi Ming turned the dial.

“Qi Ming, what are you doing here!” Akihata suddenly appeared: “There’s a residential area near that fiery tiger—go help evacuate the civilians there.”

“Understood.” Qi Ming covered his watch with his sleeve again, thinking he couldn’t strike until the crowd was safely evacuated.

The Spirit in yellow vanished again; as long as Homugar’s production wasn’t disturbed, she didn’t care.

The Victory Team watched helplessly as the giant tiger sucked the gas tank dry, then collapsed and fell into a deep sleep.

“Tiger, giant bird—Tokyo’s turned into a zoo.”

After rescuing Yuriko, who had fainted from pain, Yamaguchi stared at Homugar, then at Teroches, utterly speechless.

“Is this tiger also nocturnal?” Akihata said, watching the deeply sleeping Homugar: “Let’s kill it now.”

The Defense Force had already prepared to act; the Victory Team couldn’t lag behind.

“Everyone, stop! Don’t attack this monster lightly,” came Emi’s grave voice over the comms.

Akihata: “What’s wrong?”

Emi explained: “According to the latest radar scan, the monster’s internal heat is continuously rising. If this continues, it will eventually explode from overheating.”

“A light attack might trigger premature detonation—ensure all civilians are clear of the danger zone.”

Nami Nishijo’s voice came over the comms: “How large is the blast radius?”

Emi: “Let me check… this monster can blow up half of Tokyo!”

At these words, everyone except Qi Ming trembled.

They’d thought Teroches was terrifying enough—this one was even worse.

Akihata hurried to negotiate with Defense Force’s Hiroyuki Hiiragi, who, upon hearing the potential consequences, immediately ordered his troops to stand down.

Even if he was aggressive and warlike, he wouldn’t gamble with Tokyo.

Hiroyuki Hiiragi paced irritably: “These monsters pose a grave threat to human survival—they should all be destroyed! Yet TPC wants to create monster reserves!”

Akihata awkwardly defended: “Well, just as humans are divided into good and bad, monsters differ too—they can’t all be judged the same.”

Hiroyuki Hiiragi still thought TPC was delusional: “You create monster reserves only to appease weak civilians and win their support!”

Qi Ming glanced at him: “Stop using this as an excuse—your opinions don’t matter.”

Words failed to connect; the two sides parted on bad terms.

Yamaguchi tugged at Qi Ming, who sat with closed eyes, waiting for civilians to reach safety: “Team Member Qi Ming, use your peerless predictive technique to tell us what to do!”

Qi Ming: “Have you heard of Homugar?”

Yamaguchi: “Homugar? The legendary creature said to trigger volcanic eruptions? Just an old tale invented to scare children.”

Another day of Yamaguchi performing as expected.

But Emi seemed thoughtful: “No—I once researched this out of curiosity.”

“Places where Homugar legends existed weren’t volcanic zones, yet volcanic eruptions still occurred there.”

Akihata: “So it’s a monster that forcibly alters the environment—no wonder Tokyo’s been so hot lately.”

Emi: “Also, in every Homugar legend, volcanic activity always occurred during a full moon.”

Morishima: “Today is a full moon! Qi Ming, even though this is an Earth monster, it’s already severely threatening human survival—we can’t just ignore it like we did with the giant turtle on Oulongdao!”

“But it’s strange—it lived underground before. Why come up to the city? Why not just explode underground?”

Qi Ming: “This tiger is pregnant. It came here to give birth. This species reproduces by transferring explosive energy to the unborn offspring, enabling new life to be born.”

Emi: “No wonder we detected two heartbeats inside the monster—it’s pregnant!”

Nami Nishijo, ever ready to assume the worst about monsters: “So that’s why each birth is accompanied by a volcanic eruption—the species’ survival strategy is to kill all nearby life so the hatchling can safely pass its juvenile stage?”

Qi Ming: “You can think of it that way. Either way, it’s not a good thing—kill it.”

After confirming all civilians in the monster’s vicinity had been evacuated, Qi Ming found another deserted spot and prepared to transform.

The Spirit in yellow reappeared to stop him, her tone filled with exasperation: “Why can’t you understand? Is Ultraman’s power meant only for fighting?”

Qi Ming’s voice was cold and hard: “I understand perfectly. And stop pretending innocence—you started this.”

If the monster had appeared due to underground development—a classic trope—there might be room for debate.

But from the legends passed down through time, this monster has always actively entered human territories to provoke.

The Spirit denied it: “My goal is for Homugar to coexist with everyone!”

Qi Ming nearly laughed in anger: “Coexist? You mean each birth happens in densely populated areas, turning people’s homes into funeral pyres for its offspring?”

“What kind of coexistence is that? Isn’t this just humans suffering one-sidedly? Coexistence doesn’t mean humans must endure savage monsters’ rampages.”

“If you truly want coexistence, don’t let it explode.”

The Spirit shouted at Qi Ming: “Why don’t you understand? Humans themselves draw life from their mothers!”

After this flood of words, even Kanami might be confused.

But Qi Ming was unmoved by this moral blackmail—he turned the dial: “First, when humans give birth, we don’t blow up a city.”

He turned the dial, bearing the silhouette of Gaia, toward the Spirit, speaking with the tone of an arbiter: “Second, I now use the power granted me by the Earth’s will to sentence you to death.”

He slammed the dial: “Gaia!”

(End of Chapter)