On the edge of a European-style town with a strong Christmas atmosphere, an old man in a suit carrying an old suitcase opened the door and entered the dusty villa.
Because it had been without its owner for so long, the originally luxurious villa looked a little dilapidated, and there were even a lot of fallen leaves in the living room.
But the balcony window was accidentally broken by that little bastard throwing stones.
The old man shook out his clothes, opened the dustproof cloth covering the table and chairs, put down the suitcase and took out a portable instrument.
This is a space-time prediction disk he invented in order to pursue Unity. It may seem like a childish handiwork, but it actually contains a lot of his hard work.
And years of hard work have finally come to fruition.
This time, for some unknown reason, the usually unreliable space-time disk suddenly accurately predicted the area where Unikin would appear.
Right here in my hometown.
Picking up the kettle and taking a sip, the old man smacked his mouth and touched his gray beard, then glanced at the empty living room with a pair of slightly lonely eyes.
Fast forward 60 years.
It seemed that he only had a little obsession with Unity in his life.
With blurred vision, the lively scene from my childhood reappeared in the living room, where the family was busy decorating the living room for Christmas.
"Yes, it was the day when I decorated the Christmas tree with my mother and sister..."
The old man looked out at the balcony with nostalgia.
In order to find red fruits to decorate the Christmas tree and make his family more happy, he went to the forest behind alone that night. Although he could not find the fruits no matter what, he met Eugenia for the first time under the moonlight.
Beautiful creatures that have never been seen before, mythical beasts that only exist in legends.
It would be great if other people could see it too.
Thinking like this, when he grew up, he became a research scholar and has been working hard in this way.
However, each time Eunicin only stayed for a while before disappearing. The most recent time was when I saw Eunicin's tail in the Irish forest.
The old man woke up from his memories and began to repair the problematic time and space prediction disk.
"Um?"
After debugging for a while, the old man suddenly paused, turned around and looked behind him in confusion, and found that there was nothing before he immersed himself in operating the instrument again.
"You're really old and suspicious."
"call!"
The breeze blew the curtains, causing the door to make a slight noise.
Natsuki glanced at the old man while maintaining the state of quantum movement, left four ash tree branches, turned around and left the living room.
He had already read Dr. Guli's thesis, and he also knew that the other party wanted to use ash tree branches to build a magic circle based on myths and legends to trap Unikin.
Legend has it that Unikin can be captured with wood and stone. The wood is called the cosmic tree, and ash tree branches must be used. The stone is a crystal that can serve as a container.
It's just that the ash tree belongs to the state-owned forest, and the old man is very unlucky. It's Christmas Eve soon, so he hasn't been able to get the branches successfully.
Natsuki thought about returning to the small town neighborhood.
He doubted whether Yunikin could really be captured, but it didn't hurt to try.
Even buying some time to collect data is good.
"Where have you been, Consultant Gao Shu?"
In the neighborhood, Kenjiro Kiba and Sheen took Ellie to buy a lot of Christmas gifts. They were surprised when they saw Natsuki returning empty-handed.
"It's a rare trip to buy some gifts, consultant."
"Oops," Kinjiro Kinjiro checked the shopping list in frustration, "I forgot the gift for my nephew!"
Xia Shu smiled and had no intention of buying gifts: "Have you seen any magical phenomena during this time?"
Although it's not Christmas Eve yet, as Eunigin approaches, special afterimages have already appeared.
Just now he saw the phantom of Unikin flying in the sky, but it was so brief that almost no one noticed it.
"Miraculous phenomenon?"
Sean scratched his head.
"By the way, the patrol police and forest rangers came here before and said that someone cut down a lot of ash tree branches. I don't know who is so evil..."
"That's not what I meant."
Natsuki interrupted.
"Let's wait until Christmas Eve, then we will come again."
"Christmas Eve?" Kenjiro Kiba said blankly, "Counsellor, you don't really believe the lies of that liar doctor, do you? I bet that it is absolutely impossible to see Yunikin!"
"I've seen it too." Natsuki looked at Kenjiro Kidi with a subtle expression.
"Consultant Gao Shu, this joke is not funny at all."
"Beep beep beep!"
While yelling, Kinjiro Kinjiro freed his hand and took out the vibrating personal terminal.
"Ah, it's Kaito and the others who were on the complicated patrol today. They probably asked us to help buy Christmas gifts. Really, I can't even hold them in my hands..."
"I'll buy it for them." Xia Shu smiled and took over the terminal communication.
He has no relatives in this world, and Lilica's gifts have been prepared a long time ago. As for everyone in DASH, it would be a Christmas gift to bring these people to meet Unikin.
After all, it is a mythical beast that ordinary people cannot see.
"By the way, Ellie," Natsuki remembered, "I found an interesting piece of artificial intelligence information that may be helpful for you to learn human emotions, so I will treat it as a gift and transmit it to you."
Ellie showed a humane expression of joy: "Thank you, consultant."
"You're welcome."
Natsuki nodded slightly.
The artificial intelligence I dream to develop is far less mature than this world, let alone compared to Ellie.
But it seems that it would be okay to compare and give it as a gift.
Ellie is pursuing human emotion, and even a little help is far more valuable than any other gift.
…
Tokyo Bay Port Area.
Toma Kaito ended the communication and turned to Mizuki helplessly: "We are both so unlucky that we have to patrol during Christmas."
According to the speculation of consultant Gao Shu, there should be some kind of conspiracy behind the King Airei incident, so DASH has been conducting a secret investigation.
Recently it seems that we finally have a clue.
"It seems like the two of us always act together..."
"Um."
Ruixi responded with a lukewarm response, leaning against the harbor guardrail and not looking very energetic.
"What's bothering you?" Touma Kaito asked with concern.
"Team Kaito," Mizuki glanced at Touma Kaito with a complicated expression, "Aren't you ever afraid? Monsters come one after another. Maybe when you turn into Ultraman and fight, you will really die."
"So this is it."
Touma Kaito reacted, scratched the back of his head and said.
"I can't say for sure, I'm definitely still scared, but even if I'm scared, I still have to transform and fight... Moreover, after transforming, I don't have time to think about other things. Wouldn't it be nice to win?"
"Is it such a simple thing?"
Ruixi laughed at herself and looked at the sea.
"I'm probably a coward. I've been scared even in my dreams recently. I'm not as brave as Kaito's team members."
"How could it be?" Touma Kaito shook his head and said, "Didn't Team Rishi transform and save me several times? And Team DASH usually risks his life..."
"That's different."
A wry smile appeared on Ruixi's face.
Daily DASH battles and turning into Ultraman battles are completely different things.
The latter is horribly stressful.
"beep!"
Ruixi still wanted to speak, but their personal terminals suddenly rang at the same time.
"Kaito, Mizuki, something happened!" Hijikata said with a heavy voice, "There is news from the orphanage that Ririka is missing! Go to the scene immediately to investigate!"
"What?"
Ruixi and Ruixi looked at each other with greatly changed expressions.
"Does the consultant know?"
"I don't know yet, but I guess it will be soon," Hijikata frowned, "The most important thing now is to find out what happened? There have been several missing reports, but I always feel that this is not an ordinary disappearance..."