Chapter 88: Earth: How Can You Sleep at a Time Like This? (15)

On Gaia Earth, Jojo still did not know that his brief act of cooperation with Belial had left Hikaru to carry the blame.

When the day came for Hikaru to fall into darkness, the spectacle would no doubt be unforgettable.

At the moment, Jojo had not dismissed his transformation. He still wanted to think further about skill fusion.

It had to be said, Ultra telekinesis was a skill shaped almost entirely by will.

The successful fusion of the light sword skill had stirred even more ideas in Jojo’s mind.

But before he could continue testing, he suddenly sensed something strange in his body.

Though his consciousness had entered the subspace, Jojo could still perceive the condition of his physical form.

Back in reality, he opened his eyes where he lay in bed and looked toward his wrist.

The bracelet had already manifested on its own, the Y-shaped energy core flashing, the steady thump of a heart-like pulse warning of a new intruder.

"Damn it, not again!"

Glancing at the clock on the wall, he saw it was one in the morning.

Already irritated at being forced into overtime, Jojo frowned and activated his sensing ability.

Inside one building, two men were working late into the night, discussing the victims.

"We asked them to contribute funds to help the people attacked by the monster, but they simply would not listen."

"Ah... organizations like ours really cannot do much, can they?"

"Don’t be discouraged. Even if there is only one victim, so long as we can help, it is better than helping no one at all."

"True enough. Huh? What is that!"

A deafening boom.

A massive oval object, like a many-faceted crystal mineral, crashed down nearby.

Flames and blast light surged into the sky; surrounding buildings collapsed, and the two men were instantly caught in the impact.

The Light and Heat Demon Stone, Rezaite.

Still in its oval, faceted state, Rezaite rapidly turned red-hot and began to sink slowly into the ground.

Taking in the situation, Jojo’s bracelet flashed, and a silver-white teleportation curtain unfurled.

At the same time, XIG had already detected a new intruder arriving on Earth.

The Lightning Team, dispatched first, reached the scene.

On Lightning Two, Kitada looked down at Rezaite below and could not help asking, "What is that thing? It’s so hot."

The same scene was also being observed from the XIG command room.

Yamato stepped up to the main screen. "A nuclear core. The intense heat emitted by the flying object is causing the nuclear core to begin melting!"

"Commander." Atsuko called to Ishimuro and reported, "There are natural gas pipelines directly beneath the object!"

A structural diagram of the site was brought up by Atsuko.

Seeing this, Chiba’s face tightened. "If that thing touches the gas lines, the city will be engulfed in a gas explosion!"

"How long to clear the gas?" Ishimuro moved beside Jogi, his expression grave.

After a quick calculation, Jogi answered, "At least eighty minutes!"

"No good! We do not have that much time!" Yamato warned.

Though Jojo was not there, Ishimuro was a military strategist by nature.

He remained calm and swiftly formed a response, issuing orders. "Chief Tsutsumi, use liquid nitrogen bombs to cool it down!"

"Understood." Tsutsumi Seijo turned and headed out of the command room.

Yamato hurried after him. "I’ll go help too!"

The Peace Mark and EX units deployed, racing at top speed toward the site.

Tsutsumi arranged their formation on the squad channel. "After launching the liquid nitrogen bombs, destructive hot winds will form around the target. The moment you fire, retreat immediately!"

"Understood!" x3

The three members of the Lightning Team grew solemn.

The general communications channel carried Atsuko’s report: "Evacuation within the mission area has now been completed."

Just as she finished, she received a communication from Jojo.

"Don’t start the operation yet! There are still two victims at the site! They’re in the building to the right of the monster!"

"What!" Hearing this, Ishimuro went to Atsuko’s side. Seeing that Jojo seemed to be at the scene, he immediately believed him. "Chief Tsutsumi, suspend the operation for now!"

"Atsuko! Notify the Seagull Team to launch!"

As the air base sounded its broadcast, the Seagull Team, already on standby, flew out in their rescue craft.

Meanwhile, inside the building at the scene...

Ruins and broken walls filled the area, with shattered steel reinforcement exposed within them.

Hirakawa had been fortunate; aside from some cuts on his face, he was still able to move.

But Nishitani, near him, had suffered a broken leg and could not move.

"Nishitani, Nishitani, are you all right!" Hirakawa crawled out from beneath a desk.

Seeing Nishitani lying on the floor, he hurried over and shook his body. "Don’t fall asleep! Stay with me, stay awake!"

"My leg! I think my leg is broken!" Pain shot through him, and Nishitani’s face twisted in agony.

"Hold on!" Hirakawa said, preparing to help him up.

At that moment, Nishitani suddenly noticed the three craft of the Lightning Team circling in the sky.

"Wait! Hirakawa, look. Is XIG about to launch an attack?"

Hirakawa looked up and immediately saw the three fighters in the night sky.

"We have to find a way to let the rescue team know—mobile phones!" Hirakawa said, panic in his face as he frantically searched himself. "Here, here..."

Sweating profusely, he pulled something from his pocket, only to find it was a lighter. He flung it to the floor.

Then, in his panic, he remembered the phone had been left on his desk. He quickly dropped to the ground and started groping around.

At that critical moment, the roar of engines sounded, and the Seagull Team’s rescue craft appeared.

"Hirakawa! Hirakawa! It’s the rescue team!" Nishitani shouted in delight.

Jojo had been using his sensing ability to observe the situation the entire time. The two trapped victims were rescued by the Seagull Team without injury.

His gaze then shifted to Rezaite, and at that same moment the rescue craft withdrew.

A vortex-like current began to swirl violently around Rezaite’s body.

It was sinking deeper into the earth, and was about to reach the nuclear core.

Now that the rescue craft had moved clear, Tsutsumi immediately gave the order. "Lightning Team, move out!"

"Understood!" x3

The Lightning Team’s three fighters had already been waiting. As one, the pilots pressed the attack.

Several liquid nitrogen bombs streaked out, all of them striking Rezaite’s body and erupting into a great spray of white freezing agents.

Boom.

A destructive hot wind swept in all directions.

A circular shield appeared before Jojo, blocking the onrushing energy. Even in human form, this skill could still be used.

He fixed his eyes on Rezaite. The creature’s temperature had been cooled for the moment, but it was not over yet.

Rezaite’s body suddenly deformed. Four red limbs shot out like towering pillars, piercing every building in their path.

Sensing the abnormality in the ground beneath him, Jojo contacted the XIG command room through his communicator.

"Commander Ishimuro! Have the Geio Base transport anti-gravity missiles as quickly as possible!"

"The red gravity vortex it released earlier increased its own mass to more than eighty times normal, and it is still rising!"

"It has to be stopped at once. Destroy the gravity field on its body, or the entire Kanto region will sink and be annihilated!"

The End.