Chapter 97: 93 Iron Man Behavior

"Fuck, this asshole is insane!"

Qi Ming stared at the scene, dumbfounded.

No wonder it’s the [Hunter Knight Sword]—“Even if Earth must perish with Boga Ju, it’s worth it.”

He cared nothing for the innocent caught in the crossfire.

Only kill the enemy; ignore collateral damage.

In that split second, Qi Ming immediately used the Ultraman Arbitrary Key to draw in the life energy generated after Lagun’s death—a tiny green glow.

[Access/Convert].

At a time like this, obviously convert.

Star's gift: 1

Amplification: 7/10.

“Tiga!” Qi Ming kept manipulating without pause, spinning and striking the dial, finally transforming into Tiga at the last possible moment.

“Shhh!” A silver-white stream of light surged upward; Ultraman Tiga appeared before Kendros, raising his arms to block Shikari’s Knight Beam.

Seeing this, Seiichi Tanaka relaxed.

Others’ hearts, moments ago about to leap from their chests, slowly settled; their scattered souls gradually returned.

“Thank goodness—it’s Tiga! We’re saved!”

“Tiga is on our side; this blue Ultraman doesn’t care if we live or die!”

“This blue Ultraman wants to kill us all.”

“Looks like not all Ultramen are good guys.”

Those who had just walked through the gates of death had their hearts pounding wildly—of course, they had no patience left.

Seiichi Tanaka heard these words and felt a pang inside.

“That figure… is it him?” He stared at Shikari, wrapped in the Armor of Vengeance, his gaze puzzled.

Emi, at that moment, had a thought and privately messaged Qi Ming via the PDI communicator: “Qi Ming, that was too close.”

No response.

The moment the Ultraman appeared, Qi Ming vanished.

This made Emi more convinced her “unrealistic” guess might be true.

Seeing Tiga suddenly block his beam, Shikari was taken aback.

“What are you doing? Why are you interfering!” That was Shikari’s first words upon regaining his composure.

Boga Ju, sensing the intense light radiating from Tiga, also adopted a defensive stance.

But Qi Ming ignored them for now.

He spun and delivered a powerful roundhouse kick, sending Kendros’s round body flying and snatching the atomic bomb from its grasp.

“Pity—if Lagun had survived, I might’ve considered using [Cell Restoration Beam] to restore it… Sigh.”

After a brief moment of reflection, Qi Ming fired an uncharged Zepellion Beam straight at Kendros, reducing it to scattered fragments.

Another green glow entered the Arbitrary Key; Qi Ming chose conversion again.

Thus, both prey drawn by Boga Ju were eliminated—she ate none.

“You Ultramen… are disgusting…” Boga Ju growled a low battle cry.

Qi Ming: “Something even more disgusting is coming.”

The next instant, Tiga and Shikari advanced together to attack Boga Ju.

Though they had no coordination, two-on-one was still too much for Boga Ju.

Especially since one of them was Tiga, transformed by Qi Ming—each move was lethal.

She hadn’t consumed enough; before evolving, it was nearly impossible to defeat two Ultramen at once.

Thinking this, Boga Ju activated her teleportation again to flee.

Qi Ming, with his lightning reflexes, caught the brief pre-motion of her teleport—but didn’t interrupt it.

Because Boga Ju was also a “bomb.”

Once killed, the energy gathered inside her would ignite, triggering a massive explosion—the original series claimed it could obliterate half of Japan.

If we killed Boga Ju here, the offshore base would be destroyed too.

At that moment, the Feiyan-2, piloted by Yamnaka and Kishida, flew beside Tiga.

Kishida shouted: “Ultraman Tiga, the wormhole over Tokyo is opening—please come with us to stop it!”

The wormhole is opening… Perfect timing.

Qi Ming weighed the atomic bomb in his hand, then prepared to fly off.

At that moment, Shikari—who had radiated a “Keep Away” aura all along—spoke to him: “Don’t interfere with me again, or I won’t spare you!”

In his view, if Tiga hadn’t shown up, Boga Ju wouldn’t have been startled away—he could’ve seized the chance to kill her mid-battle.

Qi Ming: “?”

You’re upset you couldn’t blow up Boga Ju with the bomb? Now you’re whining?

He could no longer tolerate it. Following his instinct, he stepped forward and delivered a direct front kick straight to Shikari’s chest.

Understand this—I’m not a meek little kitten like Mebius who takes punches without fighting back.

Shikari, caught off-guard, was kicked backward, plunging into the sea and sending up a huge spray of water.

“Look! The Ultramen are fighting each other!”

“That guy deserves it—he nearly got us all killed!”

But after letting out his anger, Qi Ming didn’t pursue further—time was critical; he immediately flew toward Tokyo.

At Tiga’s Composite Form’s five-Mach flight speed, he arrived in Tokyo in the blink of an eye.

The [Celestial Realm] had already been torn apart by the typhoon monster Barikain and Gu’eba Sa—completely destroyed.

But the two monsters didn’t leave after eliminating their foe.

They stared upward at the expanding wormhole, from which something seemed about to emerge, their postures tense.

“Don’t worry—I’m here.”

The next instant, Tiga flew toward the wormhole, atomic bomb in hand.

He struck the bomb with precise force, confirmed its detonation sequence had begun, then hurled it into the wormhole.

“Boom!” The next moment, a brilliant flash of light pulsed deep within the wormhole.

A radiant explosion!

Under the violent energy surge, the entire wormhole destabilized and finally collapsed.

The sky returned to normal; after the typhoon passed, sunlight shone brightly, the heavens clear, the air fresh.

Barikain and Gu’eba Sa departed; Tiga flew toward the horizon, de-transformed, and reverted to his human form.

“That was too close…” Even with Qi Ming’s composure, he was drenched in sweat—this had been a hair’s breadth escape.

He had barely subdued Shingo Masaki and Aizen Makoto, and now came the Hunter Knight Sword and the deranged Hiroya Fujimiya.

One crisis barely ended, another arose—no peace at all.

“But at least humans saw that some Earth monsters react to cosmic threats—maybe that’ll reduce internal conflicts from now on.”

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About [Kendros]: a few more words.

This creature debuted in episode 7 of *Ultraman Leo*, “The Heart of a Handsome Man,” and is why I classified nearly all early Leo monsters as C-rank.

In this episode, Leo’s reaction to the sword-leaf’s iron shuriken was truly…

At the time, I even wondered if early Leo couldn’t even beat the two lowly prison guards from *Ultraman: The Galactic Odyssey*.

(End of Chapter)