Walking into a narrow alley or a wide square with an unobstructed view, he suddenly looked back, and Hayada lost count of how many times he repeated this behavior, and what he saw was still empty.

Along the way, he always had a vague feeling that someone was following him, but no matter how much he searched, he couldn't find it.

[Am I too sensitive?] 】

He couldn't help but laugh at himself secretly, picking up his former identity, it was inevitable that he was a little overly nervous, and everyone was suspected of aliens disguised along the way.

[I'm almost sixty years old, who would be interested in a bad old man like me? 】

Hayata's mood at the moment was mixed with excitement mixed with a little doubt.

It has been 40 years since the first Ultraman was defeated by Jeton and brought back to his hometown by Zofie to the Ultra Star, and the scientific search team completed its historical mission and was disbanded.

During this period, the members of the scientific search team also underwent many changes.

First of all, the Japanese scientific special search team was reorganized and absorbed by the Earth Defense Force, Hayada Shin and Iate Kazuchi became members of the Defense Force at the beginning, because of their hard work during the Korte team, plus the aging of the team, they switched to civilian work and no longer fought on the front line; Captain Muramatsu Toshi, team members Fuji Akiko and Arashi Daisuke were discharged from the army and embarked on their own life paths. Isamu Hoshino, a reserve member, was influenced by the genius and funny Iate Kazuchu team member, and embarked on the path of science and became a scientist working in a private organization. Since then, the original members of the universe have never met again. Captain Muramatsu wanted to gather the official team members for a party, but until his death ten years ago, this wish could not be realized, and the funeral personnel still did not gather.

The turning point of events happened three days ago, when he received a mysterious letter in the hallway.

"Ladies and gentlemen of Team Cote, at this moment, I have something to say to you, please come to Captain Muramatsu's residence."

The letter was not signed, and naturally there was no way to speculate on the sender.

From the beginning of the "everyone", he speculated that his friends for many years should have received the same letter, driven by curiosity, and came as promised. In order to show solemnity, he also deliberately changed into the clothes of the year.

・・・・・・

2-chome Yanaka, Muramatsu's old house.

Because of the suspicious delay along the way, the other old friends have already arrived.

Pushing open the wooden door, Hayada happened to see Fuji Akiko, Iate Kazuhatsu, and Arashi Daisuke all working together on stationery.

"Akiko, at the beginning, Lan hasn't seen you for a long time."

"Hayata-kun."

It's one thing to guess in advance, it's another thing to actually see it, and the old people can't hide their excitement when old friends reunite.

"Wait a minute."

Seeing that his former partner had the posture of rushing up, Hayada Shin was not in a hurry to catch up on the old days, and came to the spiritual seat of Captain Muramatsu, clasped his hands together, and bowed reverently.

・・・・・・

"This letter, you wrote it, Akiko, right?"

Hayada handed the letter he had received to Akiko.

has been friends for many years, and they are very affectionate, and they use the nickname of each other at any time.

"No, no, no, it's not me."

Akiko was surprised, "I thought it was you, Hayata-kun, who wrote it in order to confess that secret to us~"

In the early years, when she was still working in the Cotter team, the summary report of each team member after each battle was handed over to her to summarize, so she was no stranger to the handwriting of each team member. The handwriting of this letter is obviously in the style of Hayata, and she thought that Hayada wanted to surprise everyone, so she deliberately didn't say it in front of Yichu.

"Secret?"

Hayata was inexplicable, "What secrets do I have?" ”

"The secret is—"

The three former teammates read in unison, "Hayata-kun, you're actually Ultraman!" ”

"Eh, me, is it Ultraman? It's not funny. ”

At first, Hayada thought that everyone was joking to liven up the atmosphere, but when he saw the solemnity on their faces, he couldn't help but suppress his smile.

"Why do you think so?"

"Because, every time Ultraman only appears when Hayata-kun is not there."

For many years, Akiko would always think of this when she recalled the past battles of Team Kote.

"Some of the methods that I came up with, Ultraman would actually know and adopt them, and at that time I felt that he should be a high-IQ cosmic person, and he trusted us enough."

When I first observed Ultraman from the perspective of a scientist, I had already discovered some of Ultraman's secrets.

"Moreover, Hayata-kun, your physical fitness is a little too good. Before Ultraman appeared, your physical fitness test scores were always inferior to mine, but then you suddenly surpassed me. There are a lot of dangerous tasks that I need to think about before I go to complete them, and you take them without blinking an eyelid, and finally come back intact, and every time you don't see anyone at a critical moment, then I suspect that Hayada is Ultraman. ”

The friends told all kinds of suspicious things about Hayada back then, and Hayada didn't rush to refute, but listened quietly.

Then, he slowly revealed a big secret that he had hidden for many years.

"Actually, there's one thing I haven't told you all this time - I've had amnesia."

Since Hayata chose to say it at this time, it was naturally inseparable from what they were talking about.

"When exactly is the memory?"

Ichichu hurriedly asked.

"It's the memory of Ultraman's appearance on Earth and the time he left Earth."

"In other words, Hayata-kun, you didn't know about Ultraman's existence."

Akiko said strangely.

"That's weird, weren't you on the Science Task Force back then?"

"Moreover, on several occasions you have expressed your firm statement that Ultraman is a partner of the earthlings and will never harm us."

Arashi added.

"All my memories of the giant known as Ultraman are all from your dictation and the materials of the team, and I have not actually seen it."

"Is it possible that Jetton was hit on the head at the end, and he had some memory impairment?"

One offered a possibility.

"At first, I did think so, but this memory disorder seems to be selective."

"Selective?"

"It's weird, I remember everything else, but it's just the part about Ultraman that is missing. As a member of the Cotter team, the last moment he was still tracking the red and blue light balls over Longsen Lake, and the next moment it was more than a year later. Even though everyone heard about my battle with monsters in the past year, there was always something plausible, like an unrealistic dream. ”

"Anyway, Hayata-kun was relatively taciturn at that time, and it was not easy to be seen if he was replaced for a while."

Seeing that the atmosphere was depressed, the atmosphere was active at the beginning, just like back then.

"Maybe Ultraman disguised himself as Hayata-kun and spent some time with us?"

"So, how do you explain that?"

With a clay sound, the coffee table made of heavy wooden planks seemed to be made of clay, and a corner was pinched off by Hayata.

This kind of strange power, no matter how you look at it, doesn't look like what humans should have.

The guys, no, the old guys, were all stunned by Hayata's behavior.