pjbooks Chapter 374 Daughter of Time, Farewell Under the Stars!
Chapter 374 Daughter of Time, Farewell Under the Stars!
On the streets shrouded in night, the engines of SUVs roared deafeningly.
It conveyed the tension of racing against time to every viewer.
[Rene was so brave! She went to shut down the machine herself, which meant giving up her last chance to escape!]
[This foreshadows their work on Nebula 3.]
Going to the energy plant at this time would be like walking right into a trap; it would be completely surrounded by the defense forces and elite youth squads.
[Rene: Am I, a dead woman, afraid of a bunch of living people?]
As predicted by the comments, the area surrounding the Binhe Heavy Industry Zone Energy Plant was now filled with heavy armored vehicles from the Integrated Defense Force.
The blinding searchlights illuminated the night sky in a ghastly white light, as the defense forces' special operations units were deployed everywhere, ready for action.
On the horizon not far away, the raging ancient monster Calbas was taking heavy steps, its eyes bloodshot as it approached the factory.
Its modulator, stimulated by the high-frequency waves emitted by the factory's giant turbine, is driving it to destroy everything in its path.
Musashi, holding Renee's hand, used the cover of night to sneak into the factory's control center.
However, just as they arrived at the control room door...
A cold, hard gun barrel was aimed directly at Musashi's chest in the dim light.
He is the vice-captain of Mizuha.
She and Fengchui had just arrived and stood there, looking at the two panting people with complicated expressions.
As the vice-captain of the elite youth team, she knew better than anyone the danger of the biochip inside Renee's body, and she also understood the importance of prioritizing the greater good.
The air in the control room seemed to freeze for a moment.
"Musashi".
"I know you did nothing wrong in this whole thing."
"But I can't let you leave now, no matter what."
Musashi instinctively shielded Renee behind him, clenching his fists tightly, his gaze meeting Mizuha's without flinching.
"Vice-Captain, only she can stop this machine!"
"If we don't shut down the turbine, Karbas will destroy this place, and the lifeline of most of the city will be gone!"
Mizuha's hand holding the gun trembled slightly.
Renee gazed calmly at Mizuha:
"If it were me, I would have done the same thing. So... if you were me, I believe you would have done the same thing."
Sigh, things have come to this point, and it's not easy for anyone.
Releasing someone at a time like this would likely result in a military court-martial.
[The vice-captain must have been under immense pressure!]
Why do women have to make things difficult for other women?
At this moment, her clear eyes gazed calmly at Mizuha, completely at ease.
After a brief standoff.
Mizuha slowly lowered the gun in her hand.
She looked at the two young people in front of her, a helpless yet relieved bitter smile appearing on her lips.
At this moment, the pursuers had caught up!
"What do you want to do?"
boom! ! !
Before anyone could react, Mizuha had already fired a shot.
The shot destroyed the door lock.
"Hurry up and go in, I've changed my mind."
"Thank you, Vice Captain!"
Musashi nodded gratefully to the vice-captain and Kaze, who were holding off the pursuing defense forces, and immediately led Renee toward the control panel.
Time was of the essence, and Karbas's roars could even penetrate the thick walls.
Renee quickly sat down in front of the main computer and began typing rapidly on the keyboard.
Subsequently, with Musashi's cooperation.
"Sizzle—Clang!"
With a dull metallic scraping sound, the giant turbine deep inside the factory, which had been emitting ear-piercing high-frequency noise, began to rapidly slow down.
Just a dozen seconds later, the maddening buzzing sound completely disappeared.
Outside the factory.
Karbas, who was wreaking havoc, suddenly stopped.
The modulator in its brain stopped working instantly because it lost the high-frequency stimulation.
The monster, which had been beaten senseless, shook its huge head, and its pale eyes gradually regained their clarity.
It stared blankly at the buildings it had destroyed, seemingly completely unaware of what had just happened.
"The monster has stopped advancing! Our chance has arrived!"
The defense commander roared into the walkie-talkie.
"Full firepower! Force it back!"
"Boom boom boom—!"
Dense artillery fire exploded beneath Karbas's feet, and the ancient monster, now docile, let out a pitiful whimper.
He then turned around and frantically dug into the ground, intending to escape back into the depths of the earth.
The crisis seems to have been temporarily averted.
Musashi and Renee stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in the control room, watching Karbas leave safely, and both of them breathed a long sigh of relief.
However, just when everyone thought the dust had settled.
"boom--!!!"
A blinding dark purple beam of light suddenly descended from the sky and struck Karbas, who was trying to escape!
Make Karbas scream in agony!
The violent explosion unleashed a sea of fire, and the raging blast instantly sent several armored vehicles of the defense forces flying.
……
Musashi stared intently at the raging sphere outside.
That's the culprit behind everything, Uroga.
He knew that the only one who could stop this monster was Ultraman Cosmos.
He slowly stood up, his hand already inside his robes, grasping the cold, gleaming sun and moon.
However, his hand froze in mid-air.
If she transforms, if she defeats Urog... and is destroyed as the mother, the biochip inside Renee's body will instantly become ineffective.
Renee will die completely.
Musashi's body was trembling violently.
He turned around and glanced at Renee, who had just stood up, his eyes filled with pain and struggle.
"Go."
"Rene said softly. Her voice was calm, without a trace of fear of death."
Musashi gritted his teeth, his eyes instantly reddening.
"The only way to save Karbas and protect this city now is to destroy that cosmic life form."
"But...but I just can't bring myself to do it!"
[Waaaaah, the child was stabbed to death!]
[Don't stop me, I'm going to send the screenwriter razor blades! Why did they have to treat this star-crossed couple like this?!]
[Musashi really can't bring himself to do it; if he kills the alien, he'll lose his wife!]
[This alien is utterly despicable; he used Renee's life to kidnap Musashi!]
[Alas, the kind-hearted Master Gao just can't bring himself to do it...]
Moonlight streamed through the broken windowpane, falling on Renee's bloodless face.
She looked at Musashi, a gentle smile curving her lips.
"Ultraman Cosmos, you're too soft-hearted."
Renee took a step forward and gently grasped Musashi's trembling hand.
It was obvious that she had recognized Musashi's other identity.
"If I continue to live in this false state in this world, you will definitely hesitate and not want to kill that cosmic life form."
She lowered her head slightly, looking at their clasped hands, a hint of regret and relief flashing in her eyes.
"From the first moment I saw you, I felt like I had known you before."
Renee's voice was very soft; she was afraid of shattering this last bit of beauty.
"But that was just a false memory implanted in my brain by that cosmic life form."
"It was also a trap he set to control me."
Musashi looked at her, and tears finally welled up in his eyes.
"but……"
Renee looked up, her eyes glistening with tears, but her smile became incredibly radiant.
Even so, I still feel it's wonderful to have met you again.
She released Musashi's hand, took two steps back, and looked at him solemnly.
"I hope you can personally restore me to my human form."
"To become the same Renee who wanted to create the 'Daughter of Time' in that universe."
Musashi stared intently at the girl in front of him.
In her eyes, he saw her dedication to her dreams, her acceptance of fate, and a deep and selfless love.
He wiped away his tears fiercely, his eyes becoming more resolute than ever before.
Musashi suddenly turned around, facing the rampaging Uroga outside the factory, and raised the Sun and Moon Together in his hand high.
A golden halo has already appeared on the transformation device.
"Gauss—!!!"
A dazzling light shot into the sky, dispelling the surrounding darkness.
But this time, the light was no longer a gentle azure.
Within the beam of light, Ultraman Cosmos's body underwent a dramatic transformation.
Red stripes spread across his body like burning flames, and the lines on his head became even sharper.
Corona Mode!
Faced with a despicable enemy who used Renee's life as a bargaining chip, Gauss abandoned all mercy and preaching.
Upon transformation, it immediately enters a battle form representing absolute power and rage!
However, the background music for the battle was not as exciting as before.
Instead, a mournful piano solo flowed slowly, each key falling as heavy as lead...
"Bang!"
Gauss's heavy body landed on the ground, causing the earth to tremble.
He did not adopt the gentle Tai Chi starting stance he usually did.
Two light-emitting bullets directly blasted the purple energy ball in the sky back to its original shape!
Uroga's true form appeared.
Gauss clenched his fists and adopted a highly aggressive fighting stance.
Upon seeing this, Uraga let out a strange hiss and launched the first attack.
Relying on its strange abilities, its form blurred and vanished from the spot in an instant.
The next second, Uroe appeared out of thin air behind Gauss, and the spikes on her arm slashed fiercely at Gauss's back.
Gauss reacted extremely quickly, turning around abruptly and raising his arm to block. A muffled "bang" was heard, and sparks flew everywhere.
Gauss swung a powerful punch at Uroga's chest.
But Uraga's body transformed into a ball of light again and vanished instantly, easily dodging the attack.
[These aliens are so annoying! They keep using teleportation to fly kites!]
[Gauss didn't waste any words, he switched to Corona Mode and attacked!]
Musashi is truly enraged this time!
[Uroga's move is disgusting; if he can't win, he runs away, then launches a sneak attack.]
The piano melody in the background music suddenly speeds up, with the low-pitched chords striking again and again like the tolling of a bell.
Using unpredictable teleportation, Urogah constantly appeared in various corners of the factory, sometimes launching destructive orbs and sometimes ambushing with spikes.
Despite his immense strength, Gauss was unable to use it because he couldn't pinpoint the enemy's physical form. He was repeatedly struck, and the color timer on his chest began to flash rapidly red.
"Ding-dong! Ding-dong!"
The alarm blared through the night sky, and Musashi's anger and anxiety continued to build during the battle.
Just as Gauss was once again knocked to the ground by Uroga from a blind spot, and Uroga was about to unleash his strongest beam of light to deliver a fatal blow at the critical moment.
Renee, inside the control room, covered her forehead.
Just when Gauss couldn't find Uroga's trail, she saw Uroga's reflection in the water...
"Unforgivable!"
Renee bit her lip hard, and with amazing willpower, she forcibly reversed the synchronization between her consciousness and the chip!
Outside the factory.
Uroga, who was preparing to launch an attack, suddenly froze.
It was originally invisible, but it has been exposed!
It clutched its head in pain and staggered backward.
"Now!"
Renee shouted with her last ounce of strength in the control room.
Gauss grasped the meaning instantly.
He suddenly leaped up from the ground, his hands rapidly gathering a vast and intense red energy of light in front of him.
The compassionate warrior showed no hesitation or pity this time.
Gauss suddenly swung his palms out, and a high-temperature destructive beam of light, "Blazing Shockwave," carrying an aura of destruction, struck Uroga's chest directly.
"boom--!!!"
With a deafening roar, Urogia transformed into a rain of fire that scattered across the night sky.
The battle is over.
The piano melody gradually slowed down, each note like a tear falling into an abyss.
Until the last, lingering note faded slowly into the silent night sky...
In the control room, only Musashi remained.
The girl who made a wish in the universe has vanished into the light...
In Musashi's hands, it seemed as if her last warmth still lingered.
A night breeze swept by, lifting a yellowed photograph from the ground.
That's a photo of Renee in her work clothes, standing in front of the Nebula 3 model, smiling brightly.
Musashi picked up the photo, pressed it tightly to his chest, tilted his head back, and let the tears fall silently.
The performance was accompanied by a soothing yet slightly melancholic piano ending, and countless tears from the audience.
The seventh episode of "Ultraman Cosmos" has officially ended.