Chapter 49: Unfulfilled Promises

"What does the world look like after death?"

The first time this question was asked, Ashin was only ten years old and he had witnessed the death of a cat.

Ashin was born in a very ordinary family, and her mother was very opposed to having pets at home, thinking that whether it was a cat, a dog or a rabbit, it would only add a lot of trouble. After another request, Ashin only received a scolding. However, in order to satisfy the desires of the heart, children often do things that surprise adults.

A few days later, a rat somehow ran into the house, making it difficult for the family to sleep at night. A few days later, Ashin's mother was surprised to find three newborn baby mice in a corner of the closet. It's the size of a little finger, it doesn't even have any hair, it's pink, and it's soft. Ashin's mother pulled the closet and screamed, as if she had seen a tiger. Until she alarmed Ashin's father, she was still screaming on the sidelines. The father used a nylon bag with three baby mice and threw them away. In those days, for the sake of the three little mice, they washed their clothes for several days.

"Why don't you buy a cat so there won't be any more mice?"

Ashin took the opportunity to suggest.

A few days later, when Ashin returned home, he found a new guest in the entrance of his house.

It was a young cat, looking a little bad, reluctant to move, as if it had not eaten enough, and had no energy at all. The kitten squatted on the ground as if it was afraid of the cold, and its whole body was curled. The back is hemp gray, a bit like the hair of a little squirrel, but there is a large piece of white on the chest, like a white rabbit. The fluff on a kitten is soft, but it is rarely shiny.

"Are you satisfied? Catching mice is a hassle, and you're so grateful for having the heart to do it. ”

At the other end of the hallway, the two stood side by side, looking at him. The father seemed to be smiling, and the mother was helpless.

Ashin was severely punished, but he didn't care anymore, the goal had been achieved, and even if he was punished, he felt that it was worth it.

When he first came to this house, the kitten was still a little scared, but he didn't run around, and looked at him cautiously. So, Ashin took a bath for it, and deliberately vacated a few boxes containing his baseball souvenirs and made him a small bed. The bed was made of old baseball gloves and many pairs of torn soccer socks. Don't look at the cat's eyes, it is always looking at people half-open and half-asleep, but it is very awake, and whoever treats it well will be close to whom. At first, instead of sleeping in the little bed that was made for it, he sat on a bench or on a sewing machine, his eyes fixed on you. Ashin approached, and it hid under the bed, and there was really nothing to do with it. So Ashin had to ask it to sleep on the high-end bed again and again, and caught it to sleep with his own hands. I usually go to buy some cat food or something to bribe him, and finally make it admit that he is the "master". Ashin discovers that his own cat is different from other people's homes. In addition to playing with string balls and playing with cat grass, it also likes to watch TV. As a result, there is often such a scene in Ashin's house -- a cat and a child watching a baseball game at the same time, the kitten squatting on the coffee table in front of the TV, and Ashin is not far behind the kitten, and the kitten is much closer to the TV.

Ashin thought that the so-called happy life would continue until one day he saw the kitten's death. At that time, it could no longer be regarded as a kitten, because under Ashin's careful care, he had already entered the prime of a cat from being 2 years old. It is estimated that he accidentally ate a rat killed by rat poison, and it fell to the ground with a spasm, and the scene was very scary, and Ashin still remembers it clearly. The cat, which was lying on the ground in pain, suddenly foamed at the mouth, and a terrible call came out from its snort, and its round body was flipped 360 by a powerful force, and the soft hair on its abdomen bulged upward. The four legs, which are always bent, seem to have overcome the laws of biology in an instant, stiffly stretching towards the sky, and the muscles of the whole body contract, and they are hard to the touch, like frozen fish in the refrigerator. At that time, Ashin left tears in his eyes, and he finally understood that meeting meant separation, and survival meant death.

============================================================================================================== the return of the miracle wrist chakra was unimaginably smooth, and none of the effective means that Mo Yu imagined to be needed to confront Masaki head-on were used in the end. By the time he returned to the ward, the Miracle Wrist Chakra was already lying quietly next to his pillow.

[Conjecture 1: Masaki's conscience found out, so he returned the wrist chakra]

Mo Yu denied this ridiculous idea at the first time.

Masaki's character is there, although he is not a big traitor, but it is not much easier for a paranoid scientist to hand over a rare research sample than to extract a tooth from a tiger's mouth.

[Conjecture 2: Masaki has finished researching, so he returns the garbage that has been invalid to himself.] 】

New speculations were once again rejected in the bottom of my mind.

What is the miracle wrist chakra, what is the secret of Miles, even Mo Yu, who is a transformer, has not yet figured it out, how can Masaki find the truth in just one month. After all, no matter how strong he is, he is just a human being. And if that's the case, he shouldn't wait to show his superiority in front of Mo Yu, instead of silently putting down his wrist chakra and leaving.

[Conjecture 3: Minako made a special trip to find Masaki for herself and asked for it back. 】

It's also unlikely, Minako is just an ordinary girl, and she doesn't know where the point of disagreement between Masaki and Moyu is, let alone the importance of the miracle wrist chakra to Moyu and Masaki. Even if she knew, it would be too fantastic for her to steal the wrist chakra from Masaki's heavily guarded laboratory to herself.

Anyway, the wrist chakra has returned, so he simply let go of all restraints and make bold conjectures.

[Could it be that he ran back? 】

This conjecture had just emerged, which made Mo Yu suddenly feel shocked. The most taboo thing in the world of tokusatsu is inertial thinking, and since even such an unreasonable thing as crossing can happen, what else is impossible? Mo Yu remembered the silver giant that flashed in his mind again. There must be some kind of connection between the wrist chakra and the giant, but he can't grasp it yet.

[Miracle wrist chakra, if you really have life, please tell me, the answer to everything.] 】

Even though Mo Yu prayed in his heart, the wrist chakra still did not respond. That deep blue, in Mo Yu's eyes, was a pool of stagnant water, without the slightest wave.

"Sha~Sha~"

The sound of tiptoeing walked re-condensed Mo Yu's scattered thoughts.

What a nasty little ghost!

Ever since we met near the baseball stadium, I've been secretly following me. Obviously, he had already dumped him halfway, but somehow, this kid was always able to sneak up in the end, and now he actually followed him to the hospital, which is really annoying.

"What the hell do you want?"

============================================================================================================== "What does the world look like after death?" ”

When his young son suddenly asked this serious question, Ashin's father couldn't help but froze.

It's just the death of a domestic kitten that actually made the son ask the ultimate question that humans seek.

Ashin wanted to know, and he wanted to know, that in all the kingdoms of the world, human beings had always imagined what would be left behind when they died. People are always trying to explain in various ways that after death, there is something in the body that continues, and there is a soul alive. People have always wanted to prove that there is something eternal about human beings who have more than just a body.

Once upon a time, in ancient Egypt, people built tall tombs like houses to bury the dead. The families of the deceased put food, clothes, plates, cups, and money in the graves, and they put everything necessary for life. In the minds of the ancient Egyptians, death was only the beginning of another life, a journey of another new life in another strange land. The ancient Egyptians imagined the human soul floating like air, searching for it, ready to attach itself to a new body, such as a baby in the making, or waiting to enter a resurrected body.

Hundreds of years later, thousands of years later, when these tombs were discovered, the contents remained intact and nothing was touched. The dead man did not eat anything and did not spend a penny. He didn't travel far, his body was always there. However, the ancient Egyptians prepared the necessities of life in the tombs in the same way that they built large tombs, to show people that after death, everything is not over.

"There."

It was already dark, and he pointed to the starry sky in the night. The father did not want to be perfunctory, he felt that he should give his son the right ideas.

"Look at the stars. They were all creatures who once lived on the earth. Your grandparents, as well as their ancestors before them, are part of these countless stars. ”

"Kittens too?"

"Well, kittens too. According to ancient legends, for every creature that dies on the earth, there is an additional star in the sky, and they shine their light on the descendants who live on the land. ”

Romantic rhetoric often contradicts objective and fair science and technology, but this is a unique perception of life for fighter pilots. Flying tens of thousands of feet above the ground, there are no people, no language, but they are not lonely, at this moment, they are closer to the souls of their ancestors than anyone else.

The young Ashin, looking at the 10,000 stars twinkling in the night sky, felt the vastness of the universe and the shock of life for the first time.

"I've decided!"

Ashin waved his little fist, "When I grow up, I will definitely go to the universe to look for the star that the kitten has become." ”

"Well, when the time comes, we'll go together."

"A liar must swallow a thousand needles~"

Childhood always fades away. As he grew up, Ashin was finally convinced that after death, people were just a mass of corpses that would rot and deteriorate, but at this moment he could no longer be spoiled by his father - his father had really turned into one of the stars in the sky. The promise made between father and son can never be kept.

Yes, the missing father is the pilot who disappeared in the light, the bird hippopotamus. And this boy in the rebellious period is the future hero, Ultraman Dinah, and Nobu Asuka. However, at this time, he was just an ordinary teenager.

"What do you want to do with me? I told you, I'm just a human being. ”

Nobu Asuka, the hero of the future, Mo Yu, a visitor from another world, the friendship between the two across time and space, the story they weave together, starts now.

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PS: Asuka was not a good baby when he was a child, and one of his favorite things to do was to step on the ant nest (Dai Nari himself said ~), so this original plot is quite in line with his character, in order to buy a cat, to catch mice, to arrange such a "complicated" prank, is his limit. Don't think that Asuka can be used as combat power now, he is now fighting soy sauce at most, and Mo Yu is not enough to drive child labor. In the author's childhood, one of the author's favorite films was not Diga, but Dinah. The finale is also very shocking, watching the birds being swallowed by the black hole is a pain in the author's heart, which has only recently been cured. If Asuka had already met other Ultramans when he was a teenager, how would his life have changed? Even a small thing in life can affect a person's growth into a completely different being. The depiction of flying birds can be regarded as the fulfillment of a long-awaited dream of my youth.