"It's dangerous there, get down quickly!"
Daigo snapped back to his senses, his pupils shrinking as he shouted anxiously to Moroboshi Na above.
Seeing the dangerous spot where Moroboshi Na stood, Daigo didn't stop to wonder why a woman would appear in such a remote place.
Especially with that unusual white hair, and her ability to stand at such a height.
Moroboshi Na moved her hand away from the giant stone statue and looked at Daigo with a hint of interest, rubbing her chin.
After a brief glance, Kiana looked in the direction Daigo had come from, where others had also broken in.
"Looks like I have to go."
A mysterious curve formed at the corners of Moroboshi Na's mouth, her smile enchanting. Then, she jumped backward and disappeared within the Pyramid.
After Moroboshi Na disappeared, four people ran out from behind Daigo and stood beside him, looking at the three giant stone statues in shock.
Daigo looked toward the shoulder of the central giant's stone statue and whispered,
"Just now, there was a white-haired girl..."
"What white hair? Daigo, what are you talking about?"
Munakata, the deputy captain of GUTS, frowned, clearly not hearing what Daigo was muttering.
"There was someone there just now..."
Buzz—
Mid-sentence, a frequency that seemed like a call echoed in Daigo's mind, circling his ears like tinnitus.
Subconsciously, Daigo slowly shifted his gaze to the face of the central giant.
It seemed as if He was calling out to him...
Daigo didn't know why he felt this way.
'There is only one way to revive the giant, and that is for Daigo to stew into... to become light.'
The words of Yuzare suddenly came to mind, and his brain automatically completed the part she hadn't finished before vanishing.
For me to...
Become light?
Daigo walked toward the giant stone statue somewhat uncontrollably. At that moment, the chubby Horii behind him picked up the communicator, his eyes widening.
"Two heat sources have already reached the vicinity!"
"No time to waste here. Let's get back to the GUTS Wing immediately. Daigo, come back! Prepare for battle!"
Munakata's voice snapped Daigo out of his inexplicable trance.
"Ah... Roger!"
After a brief daze, Daigo straightened his back and responded.
The group quickly left the Pyramid and ran toward the fighter jets.
On the way, Daigo vaguely felt someone watching him. Looking to the side, he spotted the girl he had just seen...
She was sitting on a large tree, swinging her legs and looking at him with interest.
Thinking about the two monsters nearby, Daigo wanted to warn her to leave.
But...
Just as he was about to speak, the girl vanished once more, and a light, pleasant voice suddenly rang in his ear.
"O successor of light..."
At first, the voice sounded solemn, but then the tone shifted abruptly:
"Hurry up and log on so I can give you a good thrashing! How dare you kick This Young Miss out!"
"???"
Daigo was completely bewildered.
What on earth? He couldn't understand a thing—successor of light, logging on, or whatever.
But he understood the last sentence: she wanted to hit him...
But he didn't seem to have provoked her, had he?
"Daigo! What are you dazing off for? Keep up!"
"Oh...! Coming!"
Shinjoh's voice came from ahead, prompting Daigo to hurry over.
He felt that this mysterious girl probably wouldn't have any issues. He'd deal with the monsters first.
Once Daigo and the others boarded the fighter jets, the ground shook. A monster with armor-like plating on its head and rock-like muscles on its body emerged from the ground beside the Pyramid.
Skree—!
A bird-like cry came from the sky.
A giant monster resembling a red pterosaur descended from the sky, landing at the other end of the Pyramid.
After the two monsters appeared, the mountain-like camouflage covering the Pyramid fell away, revealing the giant Pyramid hidden inside.
The two monsters turned their gaze toward the Pyramid that made them feel agitated.
"Gaa—"
"Skree—"
The two monsters let out sharp cries and slammed their claws into the Pyramid's structure simultaneously.
In just a few strikes, the Pyramid dissolved into particles of light and dissipated into the air.
At that moment, two GUTS Wing fighter jets swept over the monsters' heads, launching an attack on them.
The attacks struck the monsters, creating a shower of sparks, but had no other effect.
"Golzan and Melba. Their goal is clear: those three giant stone statues."
Moroboshi Na looked at the two monsters, whose eyes never left the statues even as they were being attacked.
The two supporting statues were already empty husks without energy, but the one in the middle was a physical body.
While it was sturdier than those two empty shells, it wouldn't be able to withstand many hits from these things, would it?
As she thought, Golzan and Melba moved. Their claws had already reduced the two husks to rubble.
Golzan continued its attack on the central statue, while Melba turned its head toward the two fighter jets that had been harassing them.
"Endless, isn't it!"
Melba opened its large maw and screeched, its eyes glowing slightly. Two beams of light streaked across the sky, shooting down GUTS Wing 1.
Inside GUTS Wing 1, Daigo was piloting alone. He was currently frantically operating the controls, trying his best to prevent the craft from crashing and exploding.
On the other side, Golzan had already pinned the Tiga statue under its feet and was stomping on it repeatedly.
"Hiss, still can't transform? I guess I'll have to do it..."
Moroboshi Na reached into her collar and pulled out a purple diamond-shaped necklace with a slight crack. A deep blue glow flickered in her eyes.
The diamond-shaped necklace she pulled out, named the Kiana Glowstone, also flickered in response.
Inside the purple diamond gemstone, stars like a galaxy were shimmering, full of mystery.
Just as Moroboshi Na was about to transform, a streak of light flew from GUTS Wing 1 into the chest of the trampled Tiga.
After the light entered the body, the timer on Tiga's chest turned blue, and his arms crossed in front of his chest to block Golzan's next attack.
"Looks like I won't need to step in."
Moroboshi Na breathed a sigh of relief and tucked the still-warm necklace back into her collar.
Due to the earlier spacetime storm, her health bar was currently low, and she was in poor condition.
So, she preferred not to transform if possible; it was better to let her body recover.
Since she was a new member of the group and hadn't finished exploring the chat features, Moroboshi Na didn't know that the Tavern existed as a sanctuary for recovery.
Otherwise, she would have gone there to recover long ago.
Watching Tiga's skilled combat instincts, Moroboshi Na knew that the one controlling the body now probably wasn't that rookie of light.
Instead, it was the last remnants of energy hidden within that body that were in control.
Essentially, it was a tutorial for Daigo—a Tiga pilot's manual so simple even a fool could understand it.
After a series of exchanges, Tiga kicked Golzan away and struck a pose, gathering light to finish off Melba in one go.
Right then, a sudden change occurred.
A vortex of clouds flashing with lightning suddenly coalesced in the sky.
"Spacetime fluctuations?!"
Moroboshi Na's brows furrowed tightly as she stared at the anomaly in the sky, her right hand on her chest, ready to take out the Glowstone and transform at any moment.
Zzt-zzt—
Boom—!
Two bolts of lightning struck down, hitting the fleeing Golzan and the Melba that was about to be struck by the light beam.
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