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Chapter 101: Human Desire! The Roots Are Still Growing Deeper!
🕑 Added 2025-04-30 03:01:00 +0000 UTC~Ultraman Tiga World~
The GUTS team now gathered together with grave expressions.
"The Gijera flower? The cause of the ancient civilization's demise..."
Captain Iruma Megumi murmured, turning to Daigo to ask,
"Daigo, do you know anything more about this Gijera flower?"
Facing their expectant gazes, Daigo could only shake his head helplessly with a bitter smile.
【 As a flash of light appeared from underground roots, the Gijera flowers on the surface began releasing pollen into the atmosphere.
Investigating team members Rena and Shinjoh fell into a strange trance, casually tossing aside their detectors and creeping toward the flowers with blissful smiles.
"It begins!" The blue-robed girl seemed to sense something, staring strangely at Daigo. "Why don't you come to the dream world too?"
"Dream world?" Daigo, more confused than her, sensed danger and rushed toward Shinjoh and Rena!
He arrived to a bizarre scene - Shinjoh chasing butterflies in the grass with childlike joy, completely unresponsive to Daigo's calls. Rena kept praising the flower in her hands, utterly entranced.
"It's useless!" The blue-robed girl said dismissively. "Once in the dream world, no one wants to come back. Anyway, we're going to perish, so isn't it better to be comfortable?"
"Perish!" Daigo also saw her strangeness and demanded seriously: "Who are you?"
Then a voice-over sounded in the video!
As the narrator's voice explained: "Daigo brought Terra back to the base to save the Shinjoh and Rena and to solve the mystery of Gijera." 】
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~Projection of All Worlds~
"How terrifying! It instantly corrupted disciplined GUTS members."
"So the dream world is where pollen victims go? Does that mean that people who inhale the pollen will go to the world they imagine?"
"But why is Daigo unaffected? Because he's an Ultraman?"
"If people prefer dreams over reality...that explains the ancient civilization's fall."
~Naruto World~
"Dream world?!"
In the darkness, the old Madara Uchiha's face twisted with excitement.
"Just like Infinite Tsukuyomi! Hashirama, you're wrong - only dreams bring true peace!"
In his opinion, everything in dreams is so beautiful, with no more sadness and strife! No more partings of life and death; this is his way to achieve peace.
~Demon Slayer World~
Tanjirō's face darkened, recalling Lower Moon One, whom he had encountered on the Infinity Train before, whose Blood Demon Art made people fall into dreams.
In the dream, he saw his dead family, as if nothing had happened, living a normal and happy life; everything was so beautiful!
However, dreams are always illusory. Eventually, you have to face reality, even if reality is cruel, people must become strong!
~Ultraman Tiga World~
"It seems your training is not enough!"
Vice-Captain Munakata scoffed. Unlike him, who came from the Earth Defense Force, his will had already been tempered.
"As GUTS members, your will is so weak that you fall into dreams so easily."
Munakata's criticism made Shinjoh and Rena flush with shame. Since Daigo resisted, maybe they were just weak-willed.
【 At Headquarters, Horii and Yazumi were examining the flower Daigo brought.
"This is a new species that has never been seen on Earth! It's so rare!"
"Not new..." Terra suddenly interjected. "Gijera bloomed 30 million years ago, too."
Horii asked eagerly: "Terra, have you seen it before?"
Terra shook her head. "No, but father said they appear when civilizationsare near extinction. Gijera flowers will definitely bloom on Earth. That's what my dad said."
"What does your father do?" Horii couldn't help but ask, trying to get more clues from it!.
"Seeks new habitable planets," Terra replied simply, making Daigo recall the time capsule's words.
The camera flashed back —Daigo looked at Yuzare, who was emitting a faint white light in front of him, and asked excitedly: "With such advanced technology, where did your people go?"
Yuzare looked at Daigo, her expression unchanged, and replied calmly, "Some perished, and some moved to other lands. 】
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~Projection of All Worlds~
"This kind of civilization can be destroyed... Did it encounter a meteorite hitting the Earth? Or an ice age?"
"That is to say, this Gijera flower has existed for more than 30 million years! What kind of species is this? It can live so long."
~Type-Moon World in the ******* Worldline~
~Chaldea~
"What! 30 million years ago!
Doctor Roman was stunned.
Such technology from that era? Is this really a pre-program? TIt can accurately answer Daigo's questions after so many years...
Moreover, even civilizations with this kind of technology were destroyed. What catastrophe could destroy such an advanced civilization?
~Land of Light~
"30 million years ago?!"
Father of Ultra wondered if he misheard —he's only 160,000 years old!
He didn't expect that humans already existed at that time, and the technology at that time was not much different from now.
【 The scene pulled back to present —Daigo, who had finished his recollection, looked at Dina and knew that she was an ancient person who had visited Earth a long time ago...
"It's not good!" Yazumi suddenly screamed. "The vice-captain is...!"
On screen, even disciplined Munakata was doing mirror exercises, a Gijera flower in his room. 】
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~Ultraman Tiga World~
"Ahem..."
The previously critical Munakata now looked embarrassed. "
"Cough... This flower's effects exceed expectations. Even I couldn't resist."
Vice-captain Munakata coughed pretentiously to relieve the embarrassment.
Shinjoh and Rena stood straighter, as if saying that it was not that my will was not strong enough, but that the enemy was too terrifying.
【 Seeing even Munakata succumb, Captain Iruma paled: "The places where Gijera flowers are blooming are not only that field..."
At this time, the screen showed other places, but without exception, there were Gijera flowers everywhere, as if Gijera flowers were blooming in every corner of the world.
On the other side, after research by GUTS member Horii, it was found that Terra was not lying; this was indeed a creature from Earth.
"I told you!" Terra said smugly. "Gijera is a plant on Earth!"
Captain Iruma, realizing Terra knew secrets, asked gently: "If the pollen keeps spreading, what happens?"
"People die happily!" Terra said as a matter of course. 】
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~Projection of All Worlds~
"Painless extinction.... But weren't there Titans before? Didn't the Titans save humanity?"
"Could it be that humans destroyed themselves? Doesn't add up."
"Such a small flower destroying civilizations? Hard to believe."
The audience marveled at this tiny flower's apocalyptic power.
【 Then the screen turned, and the influence of the Gijerapollen had begun to spread to GUTS. Countless staff members were all intoxicated by it, with happy and joyful smiles on their faces.
Also, at this time, a man dressed similarly to Terra appeared at the GUTS headquarters!
Seeing the entranced humans, he sighed and walked forward.
At the GUTS headquarters, Captain Megumi Iruma, who had always been calm and composed, seemed to dream that she had turned into a butterfly.
She flapped her hands and muttered, "Fly, fly." No matter how Daigo called, there was no response.
The Chief and Horii, who were doing experiments, were also like this. One was lying on the sofa with a smile, as if he were living a retirement life in advance.
The other was holding experimental equipment, not knowing what he was doing, but they all had one thing in common: they were all happily addicted to it. 】
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~Projection of All Worlds~
"I really can't imagine that the always calm captain actually has such a girlish side."
"But this also means that... no one on Earth can resist the Gijera flower!"
"The civilization is doomed. They can't resist."
"Is this truly how the ancients fell?"
【 "How pitiful." Terra looked at Daigo and suddenly said, "Daigo, why not join the dream world? Alone..."
Before she could finish speaking, she lost her voice and fell on the table, just like a robot running out of power.
Daigo panicked and immediately stepped forward and kept calling. Also, at this time, the man wearing the same clothes as Terra appeared here.
"My name is Nook, I am this girl's father." Nook looked at the vigilant Daigo and slowly opened his mouth as Captain Iruma fluttered past like a butterfly.
Nook explained while checking Terra: "Her first planet visit excited her too much."
Then he lifted up his daughter and opened her head, revealing mechanical parts. 】
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~Projection of All Worlds~
"Wait...this feels wrong."
"How horrifying! Just opening her head?!"
"But if you look closely... this is a technologically modified person!! No wonder she is not affected by the Gijera flower!"
"So she is not a human, she seems more like a cyborg?"
【 Nook replaced a red liquid capsule in Terra's head, reviving her.
"What's that?" Daigo asked about the strange device.
"Gijera essence," Nook answered calmly.
"The flowers have two functions: creating happy dreams, and..." he gestured to Terra, "...preserving brain cell activity forever."
As he prepared to leave with Terra, saying Earth was doomed, Daigo exploded:
"Unreasonable!" Daigo became angry: "Who will destroy us humans?!"
Nook remained calm. "Humanity itself. Compared to 30 million years ago, humans haven't progressed at all."
A Titan flower appeared on the screen —the true Gijera.
"As long as it blooms, all humans will think that this world is paradise."
"So..." Nook looked at Daigo meaningfully, "Ultraman...loses his purpose."
"Is this how the Titans of light... left the Earth before?" Daigo wondered.
Nook explained the ancient fall: "For humans lost in happiness, the Titans of light became unnecessary."
"Then the last thing that descends will destroy everything! Terrible darkness, a huge nightmare demon."
Speaking of this, Nook's tone also became heavy, and then he looked at Gijera on the screen: "The flowers weaken at sunset," Nook added. "Their activity resumes at dawn."
Daigo had an idea: "Can't we uproot them at night?"
Nook smiled mockingly. "Some ancients tried. But Titans of light..."
Clearly recognizing Daigo, he said gravely: "Human desires run deeper than the roots of Gijera ." 】
