Ultra: Heroes Don't Ask Where They Come From

Taro is a special series of works. During the entire Showa period, it stands out among other long-running Ultraman series with a length of 53 episodes, except for the outlier Cosmos.

As the finale of the entire work, it is also different from ordinary ones.

In the final theme of the whole story, Narimitsu Taguchi, who is good at writing deaths and grand scenes, wrote a story that changed the previous Ultraman endings. It is a story in which only one person fights in the end, and in the sadness, it is also filled with motivation and optimism.

"Goodbye, Sora."

Xia Long held Sora in his hands and lifted him up gently. The winged life was about to fly into the vast universe.

"Goodbye, Xia Long. I will never forget it."

Sora also said very seriously, he searched left and right in his spaceship and finally took out a piece of jewelry.

"Xia Long, you are very powerful, so I won't give you a weapon. But I will give you this bracelet instead. On my planet, jewelry originated from exorcism tools. I hope it can help you avoid danger and seek good fortune. But you seem to be in battles often, like the Ultra Brothers, so it may break sooner or later. If that's the case, I will give you jewelry again when we meet again."

"I didn't expect you to be so good at talking. Okay, next time we meet, I'll ask you for another piece of jewelry. But if you want a gift in return, I don't have anything to give you..."

"It's okay, you've already delivered it."

"Goodbye, Xia Long!"

Sora waved vigorously to Xia Long before entering the spaceship, and Xia Long also waved to him. The Eridanus people got on the spaceship. The small spaceship started slowly, rising forward, entering the atmosphere, and entering the brilliant universe.

"Fukin will accompany you, thank you, Sora." Xia Long put the bracelet made of dark red stones on his wrist and raised his hand towards the small shadow of Sora's spaceship in the sky. In the sunlight, the shadow was only a tiny dot.

"I will never break this ornament. Bye."

In the distant sea, it was also night, and the ship was transporting goods, heading towards Japan in the vast ocean. It was dark all around, even the lake was rolling with night waves, and only the ship with lights on was like the only thing in the vast ocean, slowly moving forward in the sea.

But in the deep sea, an unknown sea beast broke everything. There was no professional radar equipment on the ship. Before the steel underneath was bitten through, they didn't even realize that a giant beast had arrived around them silently and bit through their lives along with the ship.

This ship was not one transporting oil, but because the bottom was bitten open, the fuel leaked. Coupled with the noise of the bite, all the awake people on the ship realized that the ship had suffered an unexpected and extremely terrifying disaster. The captain who woke up rushed to the bridge and shouted for a distress signal to be sent out, but the capsizing of the entire ship was an irreversible fact.

The huge force hit the steel fortress again and again, the ship broke into pieces and sank into the sea, and all the life on it disappeared. Before the distress signal was received by people farther away, everything here ended at the hands of the beasts in the deep sea.

When the Sete fighter planes arrived in the dark night, they only saw the wreckage of the ship in the dark ocean.

Fuel polluted the ocean, and the metal remains of the ship cast uncertain shadows in the flames caused by the explosion.

"My father will be back soon!"

Kenichi Shiratori said excitedly that he was wearing a birthday hat on his head at the moment. This was because his father calculated the time so that when he returned to land from the ocean, he would just catch up with his son's birthday.

But sometimes work doesn't always go as planned, so this opportunity to catch up is rare.

Although they don't see each other often, the relationship between father and son is very good thanks to his father's careful support, so Jianyi also cherishes this opportunity of his father returning home.

There was another child with him. This child's father was in the Izu waters. Judging from the time, he should be back in a few weeks.

He happened to be at Shiratori Kenichi's house, so he celebrated with Shiratori. Both of their fathers were about to return home, but Funai Yu's father was not, so he was not here at the moment.

Higashi Kotaro was not here either, he was still in the Set team, so only Shiratori Kenichi's sister Shiratori Saori clapped to join the two children's joy. Of course, she was also happy that her father was coming back.

However, for Jianyi's friend, the happy mood quickly disappeared.

There was a suspected monster attack on a ship in the Izu Sea, and his father was on that ship.

"Why my dad!"

When Jianyi visited his friend's house, he happened to see this scene. He didn't know what was going on, so he seemed a little helpless.

The friend was so angry that he made a mess in the room. When Kenichi came, he was smashing a Rubik's Cube to the ground. Kenichi wanted to go forward and found a Taro puppet under his feet.

"Ichiro..."

Jianyi didn't know what to say, he just called out the name, and the rest of the words were stuck in his throat, unable to echo with the air.

Kenichi's friend, Ichiro Nakanishi suddenly turned his head and looked at Kenichi, his eyes full of tears. He didn't know how long he had been destroying his room. When he saw Kenichi coming, he seemed unable to control his emotions, and his pupils filled with tears left water marks again. He stopped and spoke forcefully.

"Why, it's my dad... Why, my dad is going to die..."

"...The next time a monster appears, Taro will definitely defeat him."

As he said this, Kenichi felt his heart was empty, as if there was another kind of terror growing inside him. Although he felt sorry for Ichiro, he couldn't help but think of it.

My father, is it possible that he will die next time?

Taylor, please, please save my father, please don't let him die, okay?

The Set team at night. Due to the incident in the Izu Sea, the Set team organized a night patrol on the ocean.

However, due to the possible mobility of the monster, it is unrealistic to hope that the monster will stay in the Izu waters, so the Set team has patrol routes in all near-shore areas. On this day, when Kotaro and Kitajima were patrolling, they received a distress signal.

By the time they arrived in an emergency, the ship had been destroyed by the monster. What was even more surprising to Higashi Kotaro, who was driving the fighter jet, was that he recognized the ship. This was the ship driven by the captain, Shiratori Kenichi's father.

Kotaro's first reaction was to transform into Taro, but when his hand touched the Ultra Badge, he suddenly looked at Kitajima beside him.

"Oh no! The ship has been destroyed. If we launch an attack now, the ship will explode!"

Bei Dao slammed his hands on the console and said through gritted teeth.

The monster was very close to the ship, and when they arrived, the monster was still destroying the ship. If they launched an attack at this time, the ship, which had also leaked fuel, would inevitably be affected by the attack of the Set team and a huge explosion would occur.

Kotaro wanted to transform, but his spirit realized that if he transformed at this time, his identity would definitely be discovered by Kitajima. It is Ultraman's rule that humans cannot know Ultraman's identity.

But if I don't transform, how can I save these people?

Kotaro's face was covered in cold sweat, and his hand that touched the Ultra Badge was trembling slightly. During the time he hesitated, he didn't know whether sparks occurred somewhere on the ship, or the monster's attack caused something, the ship exploded violently, and the flames that shot up into the sky engulfed the entire ship in an instant. The flames were blazing, and sparks were floating on the ocean.

In Higashi Kotaro's eyes, fire was burning.

When Kotaro came to the Shiratori family, Shiratori Saori opened the door with a grim expression and quickly gave Kotaro a forced smile. But when he arrived at the living room, Shiratori Kenichi was crying because the news of Captain Shiratori's death had come.

The Shiratori family is a single-parent family. What's even worse than Ichiro Nakanishi is that they only have one father.

Higashi Kotaro didn't know how to face Shiratori Kenichi, and at this moment, the earth shook outside and a monster appeared.

Higashi Kotaro transformed to fight against it. In the middle of the battle, Balki appeared. It turned out that this monster was a biological weapon of Balki. However, even facing the attack of two people, Taro still did not show any weakness. When he destroyed the monster with the fully charged Stream Ray, Balki had already seen the situation and slipped away early.

Higashi Kotaro looked for Kenichi Shiratori everywhere and finally found him in Tokyo Bay, but at this time Kenichi Shiratori was smashing the Ultraman dolls in his collection, including Taro and Ultra Father.

"Jianyi!"

Kotaro wanted to talk to Kenichi, but Kenichi ignored him and smashed the Ultra Doll in his hand.

"...You don't understand my feelings, Kotaro-nii. If Taro could come, he could kill the monster, but why, why didn't Taro come when Ichiro's father and I died!"

These words hurt Kotaro, and he subconsciously touched the Ultra Badge on his arm, but his eyes became firm after a while.

He half squatted down and spoke to Jianyi seriously.

"Jianyi-kun, are you a weakling?!"

"No!"

"No, you are, because you always want Taro to help you! How are you going to live if your father and Taro are gone?"

"I........."

Jianyi couldn't answer.

Because for this child, the only person in his family now is his sister Saori.

"Kenichi, Taro is doing his best."

"how do you know."

"Because I am Taro."

Normal people would not believe this kind of thing, but when Kenichi looked into Kotaro's brother's eyes, he paused.

Kenichi couldn't help but believe Kotaro.

Kotaro took the badge off his shoulder and showed it to Ken.

"This badge was given to me by Mother of Ultra. It allowed me to become Taro, but now, I don't need it anymore."

"what......"

"You rely on Taro, Kenichi-kun, but humans can't always rely on others to survive. From now on, you have to survive on your own. Not only you, but I should do the same."

Kotaro stood up, holding the badge in his hand, and walked to the beach.

"Kotaro-nii..."

The sea breeze blows across the sea surface, and the sky is covered with clouds, yet it is still clear and blue.

"I used to rely on Taro, and so did humans. We all relied too much on Ultraman, but now, I should live independently."

After saying that, Kotaro raised the Ultra Badge and waved it from a distance.

With a powerful throw, the badge disappeared.

"I see, you are Ultraman Taro!"

A voice sounded from behind, but it was not Kenichi's voice. Kotaro turned around suddenly and saw a life-size Balki. Kotaro immediately protected Kenichi and said calmly;

"I'm not Taro, I'm Kotaro."

"Hahaha, I don't care about that. You've abandoned Taro's symbol. From now on, the Earth is mine!"