[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn":3,"chapter-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-97":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Ultraman Arbitrary Key: Dawn",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2261314,4413,"Chapter 97: 93 Iron Man Behavior","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-97",97,"\u003Cp>\"Fuck, this asshole is insane!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming stared at the scene, dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder it’s the [Hunter Knight Sword]—“Even if Earth must perish with Boga Ju, it’s worth it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He cared nothing for the innocent caught in the crossfire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only kill the enemy; ignore collateral damage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Access\u002FConvert].\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a time like this, obviously convert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Star's gift: 1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amplification: 7\u002F10.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tiga!” Qi Ming kept manipulating without pause, spinning and striking the dial, finally transforming into Tiga at the last possible moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shhh!” A silver-white stream of light surged upward; Ultraman Tiga appeared before Kendros, raising his arms to block Shikari’s Knight Beam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Seiichi Tanaka relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Others’ hearts, moments ago about to leap from their chests, slowly settled; their scattered souls gradually returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank goodness—it’s Tiga! We’re saved!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Tiga is on our side; this blue Ultraman doesn’t care if we live or die!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This blue Ultraman wants to kill us all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Looks like not all Ultramen are good guys.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who had just walked through the gates of death had their hearts pounding wildly—of course, they had no patience left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seiichi Tanaka heard these words and felt a pang inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That figure… is it him?” He stared at Shikari, wrapped in the Armor of Vengeance, his gaze puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emi, at that moment, had a thought and privately messaged Qi Ming via the PDI communicator: “Qi Ming, that was too close.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment the Ultraman appeared, Qi Ming vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made Emi more convinced her “unrealistic” guess might be true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Tiga suddenly block his beam, Shikari was taken aback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you doing? Why are you interfering!” That was Shikari’s first words upon regaining his composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boga Ju, sensing the intense light radiating from Tiga, also adopted a defensive stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Qi Ming ignored them for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He spun and delivered a powerful roundhouse kick, sending Kendros’s round body flying and snatching the atomic bomb from its grasp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pity—if Lagun had survived, I might’ve considered using [Cell Restoration Beam] to restore it… Sigh.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief moment of reflection, Qi Ming fired an uncharged Zepellion Beam straight at Kendros, reducing it to scattered fragments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another green glow entered the Arbitrary Key; Qi Ming chose conversion again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, both prey drawn by Boga Ju were eliminated—she ate none.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You Ultramen… are disgusting…” Boga Ju growled a low battle cry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “Something even more disgusting is coming.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Tiga and Shikari advanced together to attack Boga Ju.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though they had no coordination, two-on-one was still too much for Boga Ju.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially since one of them was Tiga, transformed by Qi Ming—each move was lethal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t consumed enough; before evolving, it was nearly impossible to defeat two Ultramen at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Boga Ju activated her teleportation again to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming, with his lightning reflexes, caught the brief pre-motion of her teleport—but didn’t interrupt it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Boga Ju was also a “bomb.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once killed, the energy gathered inside her would ignite, triggering a massive explosion—the original series claimed it could obliterate half of Japan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If we killed Boga Ju here, the offshore base would be destroyed too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the Feiyan-2, piloted by Yamnaka and Kishida, flew beside Tiga.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kishida shouted: “Ultraman Tiga, the wormhole over Tokyo is opening—please come with us to stop it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wormhole is opening… Perfect timing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming weighed the atomic bomb in his hand, then prepared to fly off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Qi Ming: “?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’re upset you couldn’t blow up Boga Ju with the bomb? Now you’re whining?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could no longer tolerate it. Following his instinct, he stepped forward and delivered a direct front kick straight to Shikari’s chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Understand this—I’m not a meek little kitten like Mebius who takes punches without fighting back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shikari, caught off-guard, was kicked backward, plunging into the sea and sending up a huge spray of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look! The Ultramen are fighting each other!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That guy deserves it—he nearly got us all killed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after letting out his anger, Qi Ming didn’t pursue further—time was critical; he immediately flew toward Tokyo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Tiga’s Composite Form’s five-Mach flight speed, he arrived in Tokyo in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The [Celestial Realm] had already been torn apart by the typhoon monster Barikain and Gu’eba Sa—completely destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the two monsters didn’t leave after eliminating their foe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They stared upward at the expanding wormhole, from which something seemed about to emerge, their postures tense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t worry—I’m here.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Tiga flew toward the wormhole, atomic bomb in hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He struck the bomb with precise force, confirmed its detonation sequence had begun, then hurled it into the wormhole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom!” The next moment, a brilliant flash of light pulsed deep within the wormhole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A radiant explosion!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the violent energy surge, the entire wormhole destabilized and finally collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sky returned to normal; after the typhoon passed, sunlight shone brightly, the heavens clear, the air fresh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Barikain and Gu’eba Sa departed; Tiga flew toward the horizon, de-transformed, and reverted to his human form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That was too close…” Even with Qi Ming’s composure, he was drenched in sweat—this had been a hair’s breadth escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had barely subdued Shingo Masaki and Aizen Makoto, and now came the Hunter Knight Sword and the deranged Hiroya Fujimiya.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One crisis barely ended, another arose—no peace at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But at least humans saw that some Earth monsters react to cosmic threats—maybe that’ll reduce internal conflicts from now on.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>——————————\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About [Kendros]: a few more words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>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.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this episode, Leo’s reaction to the sword-leaf’s iron shuriken was truly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, I even wondered if early Leo couldn’t even beat the two lowly prison guards from *Ultraman: The Galactic Odyssey*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1048,"2026-06-19T16:40:33.318Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","cc7a794462237161ce1eceda7bb366396c050aa53a7859cd1f11b4749aa15c89","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-98","ultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-chapter-96",547,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fultraman-arbitrary-key-dawn-cover.jpg"]