"Well, I'll visit again in a few days." Seeing that Higashi Kotaro was a little entangled in his own problems, Casto was not reluctant, and smiled and turned into a ray of light and floated into the universe.

Kotaro Higashi opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything.

"Brother Kotaro, it's hard to see other people from the Land of Light coming to visit Earth, why don't you keep him here?"

Kenichi Shiratori, who had been keeping an eye on the outside in the room, saw Casto leave like this, and hurriedly ran out, and asked Higashi Kotaro curiously, "When the other Ultra brothers come to Earth, won't we all receive them?" ”

Higashi Kotaro sighed helplessly, then shook his head.

Although he had complained to Castor before that Taylor still regarded him as a young man, he actually asked his brothers to take care of him when he left, and he didn't understand what the human lifespan was like.

But in fact, during the years that he had been running the House of Ultra, and during the years that he had been separated from Taylor, he had actually seen his 'half-brothers' every year at the 'Ultra Festival'.

Beidou won't talk about it, Hayada and the others really regard Higashi Kotaro as their own brother. That said, Taylor doesn't seem to be their own brother.

In short, before Mebius came to Earth, everyone gathered at the House of Ultra every year, including Minami Yuko, and at that time, all kinds of former children, including Kenichi Shiratori, would come from all over the world, and everyone would have a happy holiday.

It stands to reason that the House of Ultra will take in everyone who comes here and is homeless, whether it is a human or Ultraman, and it is obvious that Castor should be taken in as well.

However, Higashi Kotaro is also helpless about this, it is such a coincidence, because tomorrow is the time for him and another old friend of his to meet once a year.

"Wait, if it's going to be the 'Ultra Festival' right away, it means that tomorrow will be the day when that strange man will come to visit again!" Kenichi Shiratori looked at Higashi Kotaro's tangled gaze, and finally reacted, "I only come here for half a day every year, and I bring a lot of food to visit everyone, a strange man who doesn't get old, what's called Mr. Kiriki, right?" ”

Kotaro Higashi nodded, this was a secret of the House of Ultra, a secret that even the Ultra brothers didn't know, and even Tairo probably hadn't noticed.

"By the way, Kenichi, speaking of which, you don't know, how did I and Mr. Kiki meet, right?"

"Yes, Brother Kotaro, you and he seem to have known each other for many years, wait? Didn't Mr. Kiriki know him when he was Taylor? That guy looks like an alien! ”

"Well, it's not."

A long, long time ago, probably before Kotaro Higashi joined ZAT, when he was still a sailor traveling around the world, he was shipwrecked on a small island in the sea, where he met a man in a strange black and white shirt

Forty years ago.

Young Kotaro Higashi grabbed the wood and was washed up on a beach by the waves, he felt that his whole body was full of soreness, although it was not the first time that he was adrift at sea, but every experience made Tokotaro have a feeling of the rest of his life.

"Hey! Is this a sailor? A sailor who can't even conquer the sea? Suddenly, a man in a black and white shirt walked towards Higashi Kotaro step by step from the beach, mocking as he went, "I said why I didn't find it after going around, it turned out that I was conquered by the sea." ”

"Bastard, don't talk nonsense, I jumped off the boat on my own initiative." Kotaro Higashi, who was originally a little exhausted, heard the words of the man in front of him, and suddenly began to get angry for some reason, shouting, "The next route of the boat I was originally on was not going along with me, so I took the initiative to jump off the boat!" ”

"Oh~It's kind of interesting~" The man's face showed a look of surprise, "But, how are you going to get there?" ”

"Destination? There is no destination! The sea will tell me where I'm going. Higashi Kotaro pulled off his clothes little by little, wrung them out and threw them on the rocks on the beach, and then turned his head to look at this strange man, "Tsk, I didn't expect that there would be a very fashionable-looking man like you on such a deserted island, it's really strange~"

"Fashionable! Are you telling the truth? Do you really think so?!! ”

"Of course, don't look at me like this, I should have been to all the metropolises in the world, and the most fashionable people in there should be like this, right?" Kotaro Higashi looked the other party up and down for a while, and then took the initiative to stretch out his hand, "My name is Kotaro To, may I ask who you are?" ”

"Just call me Wuqi." The man seemed to be in a good mood and stretched out his hand happily, "You are very discerning, in order to reward you, I will invite you to dinner." ”

"Invite me to dinner?" Now it was Higashikotaro's turn to wonder, "Is there anything on the island that you don't invite, either game, fruit, or fish, you mean you want to help me grill?" There's no need anymore. ”

Higashi Kotaro looked left and right at the island, and then at Kiki in front of him, "Look at you, you should be a rich man who took over the island, right?" Do you know what kind of sea this is? ”

"Which sea do you want to ask me?" Wu Qi didn't understand Higashi Kotaro's words, but Higashi Kotaro's next sentence made others numb, and I saw Higashi Kotaro say without hesitation, "I remember when I got off the ship before, I was only one strait away from my destination,

I should have been floating for five hours, and since I was on the wrong side now, I had to build a raft and continue to drift. ”

Wu Qi:.

It's good, I feel it, it's such a brainless operation, it's so nostalgic.

"Idiot! Do you know that rafting on the sea, damn it, what you say is true?! ”

"Of course, I've always been like this, I'm a sailor."

"What a sailor are you! You're an idiot! Mariner? Why don't you say you're the sun?!! ”

"Why are you angry? Also, Why am I the sun? Higashi Kotaro looked puzzled, he saw that the man named Wuqi in front of him seemed to be really angry, and cautiously persuaded, "It's okay, you see that I haven't had an accident for so many years, and it will be fine." ”

Wu Qi gritted his teeth and silently said in his heart, "This idiot will be fine, he hasn't made contact with Tailuo yet, according to the timeline, he really won't die, relax!" Torrecchia! ’

"Mr. Kiriki?"

"Ah!! You're so annoying!! From now on you shut up for me!! Wu Qi shouted angrily, then turned to leave, "Stand here and don't move, wait for me, I will invite you to dinner when I say I'll invite you to dinner!" ”

Higashi Kotaro stood in place confused, he didn't know why the other party was so angry, and he didn't know why the other party insisted on inviting himself to dinner, on such an island, what else could there be to eat?

A few minutes later, when Kotaro Higashi saw Kiri again, he was stupid, because Kiritsu actually walked over with a cake.

"Now, eat the cake!" Kiri condescendingly looked at Kotaro Higashi, who was sitting on a mountain stall and was lighting a fire, "And, you have to say that the cake is better than tuna!" ”

Higashi Kotaro glanced at Kirichi up and down, and then said uncertainly in a confused but grateful tone, "Eh, is there any doubt about this?" Cake must be better than tuna, right? ”

Wuqi: ?????

Higashi Kotaro took the cake suspiciously, then unpacked it, and muttered while eating, "Thank you so much, this is a lifesaver, calories are too important to me at this time, but this cake is really delicious, I am tired of eating fish at sea, I just thought about this sweet bite." ”

Wu Qi:.

Shouldn't it be like this, shouldn't the script be, this guy doesn't say this sentence alive or dead, and then he goes to the sea to fish alone, and he taunts him while eating cake in front of him?

"Anyway, I had a really good meal." Kotaro Higashi said with some emotion, "I don't know where that guy got the cake, but if I didn't have that cake, maybe I'd have to catch the fish myself, and it would be troublesome." ”

"And then?" Kenichi Shiratori asked curiously, "Then Brother Kotaro, did you take the raft and start drifting again?" ”

"And then." Hearing Kenichi's question, Kotaro Higashi suddenly became a little twisted, "You may not believe Kenichi when you say it, and then that guy asked me to shout at the sea for half an hour that the cake was delicious, and then he sent me, no, it should be said that it was 'thrown' into a port."

Kenichi Shiratori: ?

"Throw to" means

"One second I was shouting at the beach that the cake was delicious, and the next second, I was shirtless in a port."

"Mr. Ewuqi is quite humorous." Kenichi Shiratori felt that this matter was full of bad taste.

"Ah~ Anyway, it's an interesting adventure." Higashi Kotaro didn't care, but said with a smile on his face, "That guy, really counting, it should be after that time, I became friends with him." ”

"And then you're going to meet once a year?" Kenichi Shiratori asked curiously, "Then does he know that Kotaro-san you later became Ultraman Tairo?" ”

"I don't know." Kotaro Higashi shook his head, "It's strange, in fact, I only saw him again after I separated from Taylor. ”

"Wait, that is, more than twenty years ago, after the events of Saurus?"

Kotaro nodded, although he always remembered each other, but in the twenty years after that, the two of them didn't actually have contact, but after he and Taylor separated, that guy actually came to the door.

"It's a pity." Higashi Kotaro said with a smile, "Otherwise, maybe that guy and Taylor will become good friends, but I don't know what kind of cosmic person that guy is, and he never says it when I ask him, it's really strange." ”

"Kind of suspicious."

"What?" Higashi Kotaro was stunned for a moment, he didn't hear much what Kenichi Shiratori meant.

"Brother Kotaro, you see, when you first met, it was actually the time when Ace and TAC were paired, right?"

"That's right, the two of them, Beidou and Nan Yuzi, have been here every year before, and Beidou will show off his achievements every time, you should know."

"That's right, were the enemies of the earth at that time the Apoll people?" Kenichi Shiratori analyzed very seriously, "Kotaro, you see, when the Awa people were fighting, you met Mr. Kiriki for the first time, and you haven't seen him since.

And then after the resentment of the Yabo people revived and Saurus appeared, you saw Mr. Kirichi again, is there a possibility, Mr. Kiriqi, in fact, is it the Yabo people?! ”

"Really?! Probably not."

"Do you think, Brother Kotaro, I was less than twenty years old when Mr. Kiriki met me, and now I'm forty, but he's still only twenty years old, he must be a cosmic person, right?"

"Well, he really didn't deny that he was a cosmic." Kotaro Higashi nodded.

"When the Apo people appear, he appears, and when the Apo people disappear, they disappear, you see that they are all cosmic people, and the time is still the same, this is too much of a coincidence, right?"

"It's like. It's a little bit. "Kotaro Higashi was a little shaken.

"No, it's too dangerous, I'll tell guys to go!"

"Don't! Kenichi, don't do that! Seeing that Kenichi turned around and was about to run, Higashi Kotaro stopped the other party, "Even if it's a cosmic person, even if it's an Awa person, I believe that Kiritsu won't be a bad person." ”

"Aha, isn't it very touching, 'Mr. Kiki'~ Even if you are from Awa, that guy from Kotaro Higashi is willing to believe you, ahahaha!!" Above the sky, Casto, who had been watching the play, finally couldn't help but laugh, "Don't hide, I know you're nearby." ”

Beside Castor, a dark shadow emerged little by little, and I saw Torrecchia gritting his teeth, looking at Higashi Kotaro and Shiratori Kenichi with an angry face, "Idiot's friend is also an idiot, a child taught by an idiot. Also idiots!!! ”

"You're right here." Casto turned his head to look at Torrecchia, "Every year when you meet Higashi Kotaro, the balance of light and darkness in your body must be very uncomfortable, right?" ”

"Tsk, you've been pinched~Mr. Casto~" Torrecchia leaned slightly in the void, as if leaning against the back of a chair that didn't exist, and said, "I didn't expect you to follow, but that's interesting, isn't it?" ”

"Interesting? I'm decades behind you. ”

"It's interesting, it's because there are people like you in the Land of Light that I want to believe that the universe will become more interesting."

"Hey, every time I meet with Higashi Kotaro, I have to stay in another dimension for a year to recuperate, is it worth it?"

"Is it worth it?" Torrecchia shrugged, "It's only a few decades for us, but I've been wandering for I don't know how many decades." ”

(End of chapter)