Ultraman: A good pilot doesn't choose his own Ultraman.

Knowing that the identity issue would be resolved soon, Jiang Yu stopped chatting with Onoda and declined her dinner invitation.

He didn't need to eat before he came into this world.

Jiang Yu had no appetite after his long-planned scheme had backfired.

"Hmph, you don't even need to eat, yet you claim you're not an alien."

Watching Jiang Yu enter the room, Onoda snorted coldly, "You can't fool a ghost like this."

That is to say, he realized that Jiang Yu was not some vicious alien. Otherwise, even if it was a life-saving favor, Onoda would definitely have notified Munakata to organize people to come and capture him.

After all, what vicious alien would work to pay rent?

"If he could help, things would be different with Xuena..."

Onoda looked up at the ceiling, his eyes filled with self-reproach and reminiscence, which ultimately turned into a sense of powerlessness.

"Forget it, why think that far ahead? Let's think about what to eat tonight first. Curry rice or maybe we should just buy a bento box or something."

Jiang Yu can refuse to eat, but Onoda cannot.

It's not like he's out there filming footage; given the opportunity, Onoda wouldn't let himself go hungry.

In the room, Jiang Yu opened his palm and stared intently at the round crystal on it.

It's not entirely accurate to say it's round, because its surface isn't perfectly regular; it's only roughly circular.

Under the room's lights, the crystal refracts a strange and beautiful light, resembling a natural work of art.

"As expected, it was too far away; I didn't absorb any of it."

Even though he was mentally prepared and had already been disappointed once, Jiang Yu still couldn't help but feel frustrated when he thought about it now.

Melba died too hastily; how wonderful it would have been to die in front of him.

That way, at least some waste can be utilized.

However, Jiang Yu also understood the difficulty involved; he hadn't initially set out for that damned Melba.

Compared to the battles between Ultraman and monsters that often destroy the surface environment, Jiang Yu prefers to deal with stone statues that have no power to resist.

It was purely by chance that I gained power for the first time.

Jiang Yu shifted his gaze from the crystal in his hand, lay down on the bed, stared blankly at the ceiling, and recalled the fantastical experiences of the past few days.

About ten days ago, Jiang Yu was just an ordinary college student on his hometown planet Blue Star, with only one year left before graduation, commonly known as a reserve officer.

While picking up a package by chance, Jiang Yu saved a toddler from being hit by a large truck, but accidentally bumped his head on the stone steps by the roadside.

A precise headshot, and he's dead.

Heaven help me, not only did good people not get rewarded, but Jiang Yu didn't even have time to format his phone.

Don't be afraid of being shattered into pieces, you want to leave your innocence in the world.

In short, Jiang Yu's innocence on Earth is probably gone.

Presumably because the cause of death was not being hit, Jiang Yu was not taken to the so-called other world in Japanese anime, but was instead carried by a round crystal to the world related to Ultraman.

It's called coercion because Jiang Yu had no autonomy whatsoever; wherever the crystal went, he went too.

The Ultraman Tiga world is the second world Jiang Yu has visited; the first was the Nexus world.

To be more precise, Jiang Yu arrived just as Nexter was having his final battle with The One.

It was during that fleeting glimpse that Jiang Yu witnessed another use for crystals besides time travel—absorption.

Crystal absorbed the power of both Nexus and the One during their final battle.

Following the principle of the eldest brother eating meat and the younger brother drinking soup, Jiang Yu also received some benefits.

Extraordinary physical fitness and immunity to hunger are among the factors involved.

After that, the crystal disappeared from Nexus's world again, taking Jiang Yu to the more familiar Ultraman Tiga world.

After all, he wasn't a die-hard Ultraman fan; he had only watched it as a child. Jiang Yu was more familiar with the more well-known Ultraman Tiga.

If Jiang Yu had known he would one day travel to the Ultraman world, he would have frantically watched the entire story beforehand.

Unfortunately, there are no "what ifs." Jiang Yu arrived without any warning.

According to the information conveyed by the crystal, Jiang Yu needs to gather more power for the crystal to be fully restored.

The crystal we have now is still an incomplete thing.

However, though small, it has all the essential parts; crystals are not without their merits.

For example, like this.

Race: human

Lifespan: 100 years

Life level: E (Earth humans)

Special traits: Superhuman physique, regeneration

Power collected: Proto-Beast 20%, Nexter 20% (can transform four times)

……

Compared to many system-based novels that Jiang Yu knew, this was already a very rudimentary control panel.

At least there wasn't a huge string of data densely packed together, making Jiang Yu dizzy just looking at it.

But that's the problem. Without any guidance, Jiang Yu had to figure things out on his own.

The collected Ultraman power can be converted into transformation opportunities, but the alien beasts cannot.

Jiang Yu didn't know at what level he needed to surpass ordinary humans on Earth, even though he had indeed gradually drifted far away from humans in some aspects.

There are too many questions that Jiang Yu needs to explore and resolve.

By the way, he really didn't lie to Onoda. On the crystal panel, he, Jiang, was just an ordinary human being from Earth. No deception!

"It's a pity that we missed the easiest stone statue to access. Obtaining other powers will be extremely difficult."

Jiang Yu closed his eyes, silently recalling the plot related to Ultraman Tiga.

I don't remember many of the details clearly, but I still vividly remember the evil Ultraman Tiga that Masaki Keigo transformed into and the pile of stone statues under R'lyeh.

"Although the conch is dormant, there is always a chance that it will wake up prematurely."

Besides, even if they could solve the infiltration problem, those vanguard Zoga aren't pushovers. It's unlikely that Nexter could handle a bunch of monsters.

After thinking it over for a short while, Jiang Yu immediately ruled out this suicidal idea.

Without transforming, he would have a hard time even withstanding the aftershocks of the battle between the brothers Tiga and Golzamelba.

Besides, even if you manage to get in by sheer luck, there's the Dark Trio waiting to revive inside.

Those three are unreasonable; if they recover and find strangers there, they'll most likely just kill them on the spot.

As for low probability, Jiang Yu is not used to gambling his life on luck; he still has a hundred years to live.

As for dying unexpectedly while saving someone, that's another story; that's how it is when young people are caught up in the heat of the moment.

"Phew, in that case, only the ruins that Masaki Keigo found are left."

Rather than letting him transform in the wrong way, it's better to absorb the power inside first, so that we can give Daigo a good opportunity to win.

Jiang Yu rolled over in bed, adjusting his angle to look at the starry sky outside the window, a hint of confusion in his eyes:

"Speaking of which, what was Masaki Keigo's company called again? Sadira, Serac?"

Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. I'll just ask Onoda to help me look it up tomorrow.

Since things have come to this, I might as well go to sleep.

After spending three or four days outdoors in the wind and rain, Jiang Yu was overwhelmed by exhaustion and soon fell asleep.