Am I the only one in this team who is not Ultraman?

Page 311

"You've done your best."

Zetton tried to comfort Leo, even though he knew it was a weak attempt. After all, it took Leo, Hyperion, Galactron, Renina, Demaga, and Ultimate Grand King over an hour of arduous work to successfully widen the crack.

“But if I had arrived even a minute earlier, more people could have survived.” Leo looked at the report in his hand. “I really came too late.”

Leo took a deep breath and ordered the remaining Bishops of Gloca to begin cleaning up the battlefield. It was time for him to give everyone an explanation.

Chapter 610 Recycling the Beginning

Something was off. When Gento finished his medical check-up and left the medical department to enter the ESCG command room, he sensed something was wrong. What was going on with this strange atmosphere?

To be honest, this isn't an armory, and Leo's return is a good thing. Although the casualties this time were quite high, why is the atmosphere so silent that it's unsettling?

Captain Stringman had intended to lighten the mood, but he subconsciously glanced at Leo, who didn't even look up to greet him and say "Welcome back" as usual, but instead kept his head down and busy.

The sound of keyboard typing, even more intense than the mahjong clatter on New Year's Eve in the Asian branch, clearly indicates that Leo is currently quite busy; he may have just returned.

"Captain, how are you feeling?" Leo looked up at Gento, his usually calm eyes showing a rare concern. Gento subconsciously touched his chest. "I'm fine."

As the plasma crystal pillar was planted in the ground to dispel the darkness, the light it released also healed most of Gento's injuries, though he was still a little uncomfortable.

The same was true for Gamu and Fujimiya. Although they did not appear on the front lines, they both expended considerable energy to stop the darkness from encroaching on the entire Earth. One helped Renlong regulate the earth's veins, and the other stopped the raging sea.

"It's good that you're alright." Leo nodded calmly. "Take a rest for a while. Send me a copy of all the data and reports from the time I was away. I'll look at them after I've arranged everything here, and we can also have a meeting."

Gento's heart skipped a beat. He suddenly understood why everyone looked so grim. After all, some of the data hadn't looked good while Leo was away. But how should he put it...?

Leo didn't look at Gento's gaze, but instead lowered his head and continued working. Although he had just returned, there was a lot to do. The shelter they had planned was too conservative. The area affected by the ultimate darkness was too large, and no one had been prepared for it beforehand.

Besides that, there's the issue of personnel replenishment... The timing of this war was incredibly precise, coinciding perfectly with the critical points of preparation for both sides. The reason the human side was able to hold out for over an hour was because Gatanothor and Grimd, as a precaution, didn't use their full strength.

The Asian branch, the European branch, the American branch... all suffered considerable losses, while the African branch, due to issues such as population distribution, was able to extend its battle lines.

The branch that suffered the least damage was undoubtedly the Australian branch. With Gatanothor's barrier in place, a group of five emperors could only watch helplessly from the outside without Gatanothor taking action, unable to break in at all.

The new arrangements and plans have all been finalized, and the rest can be left to Galatrom. Leo let out a long breath, and thinking of those who had sacrificed their lives, he couldn't help but clench his fist, making a crisp crackling sound like popping beans.

However, they couldn't dwell on this for too long now, as time was still too tight. Leo opened the report sent by the String Man and began to read it. As he read, his brows suddenly furrowed.

It was very quiet, as if the great battle that had nearly plunged the entire planet into darkness half an hour earlier had never happened. Today seemed peaceful.

There were no monsters suddenly appearing and wreaking havoc in the city, nor were there any aliens suddenly declaring that they would occupy the Earth. None of the monsters that used to appear all the time were visible today.

But for the people at ESCG, it wasn't like that. Seeing Leo's brows twitching uncontrollably, their hearts skipped a beat.

"Daigo, Komon, you've lost thirteen fighter jets in a month, two fewer than last month. You two have made significant progress. Captain Hebikura of the armory just asked me to tell you that he'd like to treat you to a meal and a couple of drinks next time."

Daigo and Komon, whose names were called out, lowered their heads and dared not speak. They awkwardly picked at their shoes with their toes, feeling a little uneasy. If you were to ask who they were most afraid to see in the entire TPC, it would definitely be Captain Hebikura and Grandpa Ye Hu.

This time, in order to go to the moon, they even found Golza to send them the plane. Want to have a couple of drinks? I'm afraid they'll be hunted down and killed if they actually meet those two armory managers. The number of plane crashes in three months is almost the same as in a year in the old team.

Seeing that the two team members were in an awkward situation, Captain Gento felt it was necessary to step in and help, after all, they had finally caught their breath. "Vice Captain Leo, actually I think..."

"Captain Stringman." Leo glanced at him coldly, sending a chill down Stringman's spine. "Captain Stringman, can you explain why I couldn't contact you when the monster appeared last time?"

Oh dear, Gento's heart skipped a beat. He couldn't even remember which time Leo was referring to last time. After all, why would Leo need to contact him? His prestige and power were higher than his own as the captain.

"Ah... well, Daigo and Komon, you two were really too careless." Gento changed the subject, looking at the two with a regretful tone, "The crash is a small matter, but safety is a big deal. You two will have an extra hour of flight training time today, so get to it!"

Daigo and Komon breathed a sigh of relief, nodded gratefully to Captain Gento, and then looked at Leo, "Vice-Captain, we'll go train now!"

"What's the rush?" Leo reached out and pressed down on the helmets of the two men, his eyes cold, as if he were looking at an alien enemy.

"Anyway, it'll only be a short while of training, nothing serious will happen. Or are you hiding something from me?"

With a thud, not only Daigo and Komon, but also Captain Gento almost dropped their coffee, Kai and Fujiwara Juri nearly dropped their bread, and Fujimiya and Gamu's typing suddenly stopped.

As expected, Leo was not surprised by this reaction at all. After all, from the first day he joined ESCG, he realized that the atmosphere in the team was not right.

Later we found out that this team was full of talented people, but he himself had something to hide from everyone, and he was the one who kept it a secret the longest. Even the Dark Shadow Mage and the others were fooled many times.

Moreover, compared to others, his secret was far too significant. After all... he couldn't very well say that the absence of monsters and aliens today was probably because he had given those guys a holiday.

Who would believe this? But having been gone for so long, Daigo and the others must have noticed the problem. Leo scratched his head, feeling like he was being isolated.

"Tell me honestly, where were you every time Ultraman appeared?"

As the two people the armory hated the most, Komon and Daigo remained silent, Gamu and Fujimiya lowered their heads, and Kai and Fujiwara Juri chose to remain silent and quietly shrink away to pretend to be invisible.

Even Captain Hiruma Kanjin only dared to hold his coffee cup and remain silent.

"Captain, why couldn't I get through to you when Blaze appeared?" Leo dropped a bombshell right off the bat. If Gento didn't know that Leo had figured out his identity after he said that much, that would be really strange.

Seeing Gento's unsure of what to say, Leo looked at the others who were trying to minimize their presence.

"Daigo and Komon, where are you two every time I go to look for you after a plane crash? Don't you know that combat equipment records video?"

Speaking of this, Leo can't help but cover his face. The Pal that my dream developed is indeed useful, but the problem is that the recording system exists separately, and every time, Galatron has to help delete the recording.

“I dream and Fujimiya, when you two shout ‘Gaia’ and ‘Agul’, can you please keep your voices down if you don’t know how to turn off your microphones? The medical department told me to be careful to protect my ears.”

Speaking of this, Leo can't help but shake his head. In the beginning, these two didn't even bother to hide their transformations. That time, they just shouted too loudly, and as a result, Leo's microphone exploded.

Fujimiya was the first in the team to be exposed. Leo initially thought that these guys were well hidden, but later Galatron, who controlled the global surveillance system, told him that this was not the case.

"Kai and Fujiwara, your acting skills are really good, but please remember to find a place without surveillance cameras next time you transform."

"So am I the only one in this team who won't turn into Ultraman?"

Leo was heartbroken and clenched his fists. He just couldn't understand it. Director Sawai certainly didn't make any deliberate choices in personnel selection, but why was ESCG's configuration so extraordinary?

This brings the matter to light; Leo now knows everyone's identities, and there's no need for anyone to harbor any illusions.

Seeing Leo's excited, tavern-like demeanor, Daigo couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "But Vice-Captain, can't you transform into monsters and aliens?"

"Is this why you beat me up?" Leo glared at Daigo, referring, of course, to the time when Plasma Gomora appeared disguised as a Uroga, when he and Plasma Gomora were one body.

"I didn't destroy the city back then, why are you all so upset?"

Even so, Leo was too embarrassed to continue, after all, he had only been beaten up once or twice, but his MK2 had really beaten Daigo and the others to a pulp. Judging from this incident, the training results were not bad.

"...But, Captain, you really didn't look like a good person back then."

When I dreamt of the captain, Gento subconsciously looked up, then realized that it wasn't him being called. He was used to it.

Leo was speechless at Meng's words. This guy was really hitting a nerve, making it sound like he didn't want to be a good person. Didn't he have no choice? The Urokashian was a complete idiot who inexplicably fell into the plasma universe and became material for the project.

"Sigh, is this the Earth Defense Force or the Land of Light's Earth office?" Leo crossed his arms and rolled his eyes.

"So, Vice-Captain, you really are Knicks, right?" Although it was already pretty much certain, Fujiwara Juri still needed to confirm it again. Leo also sighed and nodded in acknowledgment.

"Vice-Captain, you've been keeping this from us for so long." Hong Kai looked at Leo with a hint of resentment. All along, they had been keeping things completely transparent to Leo, but they thought he was just a human with strong physical abilities.

"Who's hiding it from you? My full name is Leo Nix, you just didn't notice!" Leo teleported in front of Kai and tapped him on the head.

Having spent over ten thousand years in the plasma universe without being able to communicate with people, and now with so many things to do, Leo's temper is a bit irritable.

Even if he already knew, the thought that he was the only one out of eight people in the team who wasn't Ultraman was too much for him, especially since he had grown up watching Ultraman.

Now it was Daigo and the others' turn to be embarrassed. Indeed, they hadn't noticed this obvious problem. Fujiwara Juri had no choice but to change the subject, "Then why did the vice-captain use that Gomora to disguise himself as a Uroga?"

"Because I don't want to be discovered." Leo sat back in his chair, resting his chin on one hand and holding a document in the other, saying as he read.

"At that time, in order to slow down the Dark Shadow Mage and to complete the Plasma Crystal Pillar, my body had to remain in the Plasma Universe, and only my spirit could attach to Plasma Gomora."

“But if Gatanjee and his men find out, they will definitely come to arrest me. Of course, I have to hide well, otherwise I won’t be able to lure them to help me open the passage.”

This matter is complicated to explain in a short time, but fortunately, Leo explained it in a simple and easy-to-understand way, and Daigo and the others finally understood what was going on.

However, even the most educated members of the team, Gamu and Fujimiya, were deeply shocked by Leo's incredibly complex background and family history.

"So, Vice Captain, the light we usually see inside you is because you have a plasma spark inside you?"

"Correct."

"And the Dark Shadow Mage mistook you for Dark Zagi because you are filled with ultimate darkness and are also Reiblood?"

"Yes."

It can't be blamed on anyone; Leo never expected the composition of his body to be so complex. The monsters under Renina's command, along with Renina herself, were truly a handful.

Daigo and the others couldn't process so much information at once. They felt like the world had misjudged Leo yesterday, and had misjudged him again today.

"In any case, the vice-captain's return is ultimately a good thing. Now that Gatanothor and the others are also suppressed, we have enough time to regain our momentum!" However, Leo shook his head.

"No, we don't actually have much time."

These words made everyone's hearts skip a beat. Leo pulled up the global distribution of the plasma crystal pillars and it was not hard to see that most of them were distributed on the nine ley lines.

"Although the plasma crystal pillar can suppress the ultimate darkness, it cannot last for too long; that is not its fundamental function."

"The reason why they are able to suppress the ultimate darkness is that Gatanothor and Grimd do not intend to fight me at this time. They are waiting for the Dark Shadow Mage to break the seal as well."

Gatanothor and Grimd knew very well what kind of power Leo was now. If they fought Leo to the point of mutual destruction, allowing the Dark Shadow Mage to reap the benefits, who could accept that situation?

Once the Dark Shadow Mage's true form breaks free from the seal, it means that the ultimate darkness will be fully awakened and unleashed. Even the Plasma Soul of the entire Plasma Universe plus the Plasma Spark of the Land of Light will not be able to completely suppress such darkness.

"The plasma crystal pillars will buy us at most two days, at the very least one day. During this time, we need to relocate everyone to the top of the ninth ley line to protect them, and then... fight the darkness."

"Are you confident?" Gento asked instinctively. Leo didn't answer directly. "Even if you're not confident, you still have to fight, right?"

The arrow was on the bowstring and had to be released. The problem of the ultimate darkness was unavoidable, but the strangeness of the outbreak of darkness was something that Daigo and the others had not even sensed beforehand.

"Why did the darkness on the other side of the River of Oblivion erupt?" Gu Men was still very confident in the seal on the River of Oblivion.

“It was Masaki and Kirino who did it, but only the two of them know why. It couldn’t have been just to prevent Gatanothor and the others from resting.”

Perhaps to prevent their plan from being discovered and targeted, Masaki Keigo and Kirino Makio only said that they were trying to maximize Leo's chances of winning. But no matter what, Leo believed in them and believed that they wouldn't just die like that.

But the first step of the plan was indeed accomplished. Gatanothor and Grimd were unable to completely escape the effects of the seal, and the ultimate darkness they had originally mastered was showing signs of going out of control.

However, he still needed to make thorough preparations. Leo already had a plan in mind, but he wasn't sure if his plan would succeed.

He couldn't tell anyone that the seal on the Dark Shadow Mage's true form was about to disappear, and that He was definitely monitoring everything happening here in secret. He couldn't afford to be careless.

What else is there to say about Chapter 611?

Now that things have come to this, there is no need to hide Leo's identity anymore. After learning that Director Sawai and Chief Yoshioka already knew, Daigo and the others were a little depressed.

Since everything had been laid bare, everyone simply gathered in the ESCG command room. Even Dr. Tango and Dr. Otomo were present, along with Raymond and the various team leaders.

But after hearing Leo recount the story from the deal between Reiblood and Delacion to the birth of the personality named "Leo" and his arrival on Earth, everyone couldn't help but sigh that it sounded far too eerie.

"So, whether it's the Dark Shadow Mage, Gatanothor, or Grimd, they're all essentially connected to you, Vice-Captain, right?" Kaito still felt a little confused after hearing this, but at least he could understand the situation.

Simply put, the Dark Shadow Mage was born from the fusion of Leo's original Battle Gear and the Red Orb. The core of Gatanothor's former master, the Dark Lord Zoth, and Grimd's light half were also Leo's raw materials.

“Yes, it sounds hard to imagine, but that’s really the case.” Leo scratched his head. Jugglus thought for a moment, “So, does that mean this is a family conflict?”

"Don't talk nonsense, my girls are very well-behaved!" Leo quickly retorted, "However... although I already knew your identities, with so many of you together, how should I put it, there are really a lot of Ultramen."

Leaving aside the seven members of ESCG, there's Haruki from the Armory, Yuuki, Yuma, and Kaito, Musashi who just arrived with Dr. Otomo, and Hikari and Mebius whose identities aren't really concealed. That makes seven people in total, not even counting Masao Asami and Kazuma Asuka.

Although Dr. Otomo and Dr. Tango had guessed some of this, they did not expect the number to reach this level.

They didn't even expect that Jugglus Juggler was one of them. He rarely made a move, and no one noticed him after he transformed into the Five Emperors because there were just too many Five Emperors at the time.

"We're the only three of us here who use monster powers." Leo took out the Ultimate Fighting Necklace and placed it on the table to show his stance. Gento took out the Shining Stone, and the ESCG members all took out their transformation devices.

Having said all that, Kaito pulled out the Max Spark, and the others followed suit, displaying their transformation devices. This could be considered a show of honesty and openness.

Faced with Gai's urging gaze, Jugglus sighed, took out the Dark Ring and placed it on the table. But to everyone's surprise, the Dark Ring moved slightly on the table, slowly moving towards Leo, and then retracted a little.

It was as if they were testing something. Jugglus glanced at Leo with some doubt, and after thinking for a moment, the latter reached out his hand towards the Dark Ring.

Now the Dark Ring got really excited and flew straight at Leo, but it was startled by the burst of dark sparks and ran back to Jugglus's side.

"Why are you arguing with him?" Leo withdrew the Dark Spark. Rukiel was really jealous even of this. The consciousness inside the Dark Ring was very weak, at most a child, simply attracted by Leo.

[I don't care, you already have me, what's with this little thing that hasn't even grown its feathers yet?]

Luciel's displeased voice rang out beside Leo, which the Dark Ring could hear as well. She secretly vowed to make the Dark Spark wait, for when she was strong enough to change things!

This little incident left everyone bewildered. They couldn't hear Rukiel speaking, except for Jugglus Juggler, whose face was grim. But everyone was pretty sure of one thing: Leo really did attract all sorts of strange things.

When Leo noticed that the white patterns on Raymond's fighting device had all turned gold and the blue had become deeper, he said, "Raymond, it seems you've made quite a bit of progress lately."

“But we still can’t get Gomora and the others into the EX stage. It feels like something’s missing.” Raymond tried to clench his fist. Leo thought for a moment and said, “Besides having a clear goal, entering the EX stage requires more of an emotional outburst.”

"So how did Leo manage to evolve Zetton to the EX stage?" Raymond thought for a moment, thinking that this name shouldn't be too wrong.

Leo didn't seem to care about Raymond mixing up the generations; he just waved his hand casually, "Ah, it's nothing. I died once back then."