Land of Light Roundup: Starting with Meme Playing

Kaito Toma suddenly looked up, "Lately I've been feeling really listless..."

"How could a member of DASH say such a thing?" Mizuki Koishikawa teased.

In the next shot, Kaito Toma's face, distorted beyond recognition, appears on screen.

This is a dream.

The audience understands.

"I had a strange dream..." Kaito Toma said suddenly, shaking his head as if in a nightmare.

"Dream?"

“In my dream, I wasn’t a member of DASH, but a playwright. Our world was the environment that the playwright described in ID. He was troubled every day because he couldn’t write a script.”

"Is that so..."

"That dream was so realistic that for a moment I couldn't even tell if I was a member of DASH or a playwright."

Kaito Toma's face was full of confusion. What exactly had happened recently?

What's wrong with me?

What happened to this world?

Suddenly.

He had a momentary illusion.

Who am I?

Am I dreaming, or am I in what is called "reality"?

……

Ultraman Universe (Main Universe Timeline)

Kingdom of Light.

Inside the Spark Tower conference room of the Land of Light.

"You have absolutely no memory of this?"

The crowd stared at Max, who shrugged. "I have absolutely no recollection of that. I only remember fighting a spherical monster, that monster..."

Max shook his head. "Anyway, the battle was a blur. I don't know how I felt. Kaito never told me about it either. Maybe it really was just a dream, as that woman said. It's just a special kind of dream, and even I was drawn into it..."

"Is this so..."

Zoffy and the other guys looked at each other in bewilderment.

"Although we would like to help, this situation is clearly not our strength. If we get involved, we might end up getting ourselves into trouble too."

Zoffy's words made Gio nod in agreement; it was indeed true!

"Look at the video!"

……

"Perhaps you're dreaming of being Ultraman Max?"

Faced with Toma Kaito's doubts, Koishikawa Mizuki's voice suddenly became eerie... and Toma Kaito also noticed something. When he looked at Koishikawa Mizuki's face again, he was suddenly shocked.

Then, Mizuki Koishikawa's face transformed into the face of the monster maker's woman.

"It's a dream..."

Awakening once again.

but……

It's not Hasuma!!!

Instead, it's Kaito!

Kaito, dressed in a blue kimono, appeared at Hasunuma's house. He looked at everything... Just as he was about to stand up, he saw the door behind him flashing a blinding blue light.

"That is……"

Kaito Toma slowly walked into the portal of the blue light.

next moment.

The DASH combat command center came into view.

but……

Strangely, everyone in the DASH combat command room remained completely still!

It looks like a stone sculpture!

Time stood still, and the audience was very calm. Compared to what had happened before, it was like time had stopped and everyone was busy—it was all just a drop in the ocean!

Kaito Toma was clearly panicked. After responding to the calls one by one, he stopped in his tracks, staring blankly at everything...

"What's wrong with everyone?!"

Just as he finished speaking, Ellie, who had been standing still, suddenly let out a strange laugh.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Each laugh was completely different, which startled Kaito Toma, who turned sharply to look at Ellie, "Ellie?!"

But in an instant, he realized something was wrong.

Ellie is a robot; it's absolutely impossible for her to make such a sound.

So……

Kaito Toma's voice suddenly turned serious.

"Who are you?!"

Ding!

Ellie's soft laughter suddenly turned deep and powerful!

"Hahahahaha!"

The woman appeared before him again.

"Face the truth: this world is nothing more than a meticulously crafted story conceived by some screenwriter!"

"You are just playing roles assigned to you by others, saying predetermined lines, like pieces in a game of chess."

Kaito Toma's expression changed, and he suddenly realized what was happening.

"Then, who am I, really?"

The woman's face reappeared on camera, but this time it was distorted.

Beneath her distorted face, the words she spoke seemed like established truths.

The voice came from beneath a distorted face, a mocking smile that seemed to sneer at the world.

"You are you, yet you are not you."

Chapter 182 The Rise of Ultraman Max! Shaking the Heavens! Who Created Whom?!

Like waking from a nightmare, Hasuma once again awoke from a nightmare from which he could not escape, a nightmare that felt like a quagmire.

The audience listened intently to the background music after Hasuma awoke, the soundtrack changing like an old-fashioned slideshow, as Hasuma was now deeply immersed in an endless dream.

Am I Kaito, or is Kaito me?

Is Kaito's dream about me, or am I dreaming?

Did I create the monster, or did the monster depict me?

Chaos, utter chaos!

Just like the woman's words.

Everyone in reality lives in an illusion.

But it seems I've said something similar myself!

What's wrong with me?

This is a question that not only Hasunuma wanted to ask, but also the audience wanted to ask!

What exactly happened in this video?!

Max, Lotus Pond, Woman, Monster!

What exactly is this?

In front of the camera.

Bathed in the warm, bluish light, Hazunuma repeatedly washed his disheveled head with water, and when he looked at himself…

"Uh-huh?!"

Once again reverting to his former form, Kaito retreated sharply, pressed himself against the wall, and stared in horror at his reflection in the mirror.

Back here again!