Izumaru's travel notes

Chapter 90 Slow Growth

"Are you tickling me?"

Some time later, on the planet K76, Ultraman Zero was punching and kicking a monster with all his might. But facing Ultraman Zero's violent attack, Izumaru, who was sitting there with his eyes closed, was like a reef on the shore, standing firm in the face of the wind and rain.

"No, can you give me some reaction?"

Zero kicked Izumiru, but the other party did not move.

"…How do you want me to react? Ouch, it hurts! Master Zero is too strong. Is that so?"

Izumaru spread his hands and shook his tail, feeling somewhat helpless. It wasn't that he didn't want to fight with Zero, but that his sparring with Zero wasn't very effective. Zero's punch didn't hurt him, but if he punched him, he would have to retreat dozens of meters if he dared to take it head-on. He could only sit here and shake his tail.

"No... Then you can't just sit there and let me hit you, right? What's the difference between this and hitting a sandbag?"

"Yes, I can take a lot more beating than a sandbag."

Izumiru's honest words made Zero speechless. He didn't pay much attention to the class in the first place, and now facing this situation, he didn't know what to say to refute, but he just felt something was wrong.

"Forget it, let me fight you for a few moves."

He thought about it for a while. It was not a good thing to be beaten all the time. He had to practice, otherwise he would still have some problems controlling his strength. Just like his tail. After learning from Leo that he had an extra brain, Takamiya finally understood why his tail, which was originally used like an arm, became so clumsy. This was also why it sat there and shook its tail. It was because he had an extra brain, which was equivalent to one person using two controllers at the same time to play a two-player game at home, and his consciousness could not turn around.

"Forget it, I'll fight you first. The tail issue won't be fixed in a short while."

Getting up from the ground, Izumaru looked at Zero who was eager to try over there, smiled cruelly, and his body instantly left a shadow.

"So fast."

While exclaiming, Zero did not forget to dodge and counterattack. He lowered his body and tried to trip Izumaru to the ground with a sweeping kick, but missed. A chill came from behind, and Zero rushed straight into the sky without thinking. The ground exploded instantly, and between the collapsing rocks and falling stones, a purple fireball rose into the air and bit Zero tightly.

"Damn it, telekinesis?!"

Seeing this, Zero immediately went into the wind erosion forest. Due to the unusual geological structure, a large number of wind erosion columns were formed in an area of K76. Relying on the dense wind erosion columns, the purple flame exploded.

"Hey, that's all...what!"

Before he could utter the joking words, countless purple flame bombs whizzed towards him from the thick smoke, even faster than before.

"Damn it."

Seeing the rain of fire, Zero did not stop and quickly evacuated from here, but the rain of fire seemed to have consciousness, chasing and intercepting Zero. In the end, Zero was trapped in a space, and the dead end was inevitable.

"It's not over yet!"

He grabbed a wind-eroded column, broke it with force, and began to spin it in place. Zero used the thick wind-eroded column as a long stick and broke the inevitable death situation.

"If you have any other skills, just show them!"

Throwing the wind erosion column with only one head left, Zero was very arrogant, and a ghostly figure appeared behind Zero...

"Hey!"

The moment he felt the airflow behind him, he kicked Izumaru's head with a raging fire. This powerful kick should be invulnerable under the blessing of the fire. But this is Izumaru, a monster that has swallowed an endless sea of beasts and is infinitely close to the figure of The One. This kick is not quite right.

"Oh!"

In the flames, Izumiru easily blocked Zero's spinning kick and threw him to the ground with force. Sparks flashed in his mouth, lightning flashed from his horns, and the blazing demonic flames swept across the earth, and thunderclouds and storms surged across the sky...

“It’s a terrifying growth potential.”

Watching the fight between Zero and Izumaru, which was like a natural disaster, Leo sighed. This was not only for Zero, but also for Izumaru. I thought Zero was a rare genius for learning his moves thoroughly in a hundred years, but Izumaru had completely figured out Zero's strengths in just a few years and made a very effective counterattack.

"But compared to this... its tail has not made any progress at all. It's very strange. The growth of any organism is a positive effect, but this one has become a burden."

Astra watched clearly from the side. Although Izumiru suppressed Zero almost the entire time, it was because he did not use the power of his tail at all. The tail with a bunch of powerful accessories seemed to have become a counterweight used to balance the center of gravity of the body.

"This is probably the price. Possessing the emotions and thoughts of an intelligent life also weakens some of the innate abilities of this horrible body."

Looking at Izumaru fighting with Zero over there, Leo shook his head. In a sense, the world is indeed fair.

"No, no, stop."

After being hit by Zero, Izumiru rarely took the initiative to stop.

"Ah? You can't fight anymore?"

When Zero heard the other party call for a stop, his foot that was about to kick out got stuck in the air for a moment, feeling a little embarrassed. Then he saw Izumaru sitting on the ground, covering his head.

Just before, it tried to do two things at once, controlling its tail and body to fight with Zero at the same time. Although this made Zero busy for a while, it was also distracted by the frequent diversion of attention and was unable to defend itself, and was kicked several times by Zero. This was secondary. The main reason was that its head began to feel dizzy, so it had to pause forcedly.

"That doesn't make sense. His telekinesis level is ridiculously high, how could he have problems multitasking?"

Yizumairu sat on the ground, puzzled, and couldn't figure out why this happened. Aren't telekinesis and mental power the same thing? How could this happen?

"Leo, Astra, what do you think? What's the problem with it?"

"Huh?" The two were stunned at the same time, looking at King Ao who suddenly appeared behind them.

"…have no idea."

The two brothers looked at each other and shook their heads in unison.

"Haha, this little guy may have fallen into a strange thinking circle."

"Vicious thinking?" Leo and Astra were a little confused, but looking at King Ao's expression, he didn't intend to say anything.

"Hey, you guy."

Zero punched the other man on the head, "Are you still not recovered?"

"Should I give you a tail so you can feel it?" Yizumairu said unhappily.

"Oh? You have this ability?" asked Zero in surprise.

"Want to try it?" Izumi snorted coldly, suddenly swung his tail to knock down Zero, and then stepped on him.

"Another sneak attack!"