"Tiga."
As they were talking, Hikari suddenly called out to Yu Zhou.
"What is it?" Yu Zhou asked, walking over with curiosity. "Something wrong?"
Hikari hesitated a little. "This weapon… it might no longer be able to change shape."
"Eh?" Yu Zhou blinked. "Why not?"
"After fusing in the fragments of the Giga Battlenizer, its hardness became extreme. It simply cannot be reforged again," Hikari explained.
"Then why was it possible before, when you melted the fragments in?" Yu Zhou recalled. Last time, the fragments melted in perfectly—so why not now?
"That was possible before, but after melting, the material transformed into something entirely new, something I've never seen. That's why it can't be done again." Hikari said apologetically.
"Ah… maybe it's just fate." Yu Zhou sighed and accepted the flat, disk-like weapon from Hikari.
Looking at it, he felt like crying and laughing at the same time. A flat pan? Really? Was this divine will?
"Don't be sad. At least it still works," Hikari comforted him. "You should give it a name—it's your weapon, after all."
"Fine." Yu Zhou nodded helplessly, staring at the pan-shaped weapon, trying to think of a fitting name.
"It's made from the original Zepelio Flame Sword and fragments of the Giga Battlenizer," Yu Zhou muttered. "Then… it should be called…"
"The Ultimate Light Pan!"
"How's that? Sounds good, right?"
"So that's how Senior Yu Zhou's weapon came to be," Dyna murmured nearby.
"That name… hmm… not bad at all!" Hikari said after a moment of hesitation. A weapon like this? First time seeing it—just call it a pan.
With no better option, Yu Zhou transformed it back into his bracelet and stored it away.
While the lab was still under repair, Yu Zhou's thoughts turned to the reconstruction of the ancient city of R'lyeh.
"Hikari, are your building materials expensive?" Yu Zhou asked suddenly, curious about the materials.
"Expensive?" Hikari shook his head. "There's a star that produces this material specifically, so for the Land of Light, these are trivial."
"I see…"
"Charija, we're heading back!" Yu Zhou called as he left the Land of Light, flying toward the asteroid where Charija had been waiting.
"Did you finish your mission?" Charija asked as Yu Zhou arrived.
"Not entirely—but I got something else," Yu Zhou replied, showing a row of high-tech-looking bracelets on his arm.
"What are those?" Charija asked, puzzled. Did Yu Zhou just steal from the Land of Light?
"These are spatial bracelets. The Land of Light has a vendor for them, and they came with some building materials. I'm taking them back to help rebuild R'lyeh."
Hikari had provided Yu Zhou with several bracelets containing building materials—trivial items for such a great scientist.
"I see…" Charija nodded, relieved. So it wasn't theft after all.
Charija placed the suitcase on the ground, adjusted it, and soon a white light circle formed a wormhole.
"Let's go."
In an instant, both were drawn into the wormhole.
On the R'lyeh ruins, they landed safely. Yu Zhou immediately headed to the reconstruction area to meet Camearra.
"Camearra, I brought you something good." He emptied the building materials from the bracelets into the storage area.
"These… are crystals from the Land of Light?" Camearra immediately recognized the material. She had been there before, after all.
"Exactly!" Yu Zhou nodded. "I went there and got some back."
"You can use these to build structures—they'll be beautiful."
"Indeed." Camearra smiled. Crystals everywhere, shining in the sunlight—the architecture of the Land of Light was truly magnificent.
TPC helpers who saw all these crystals thought only one word: extravagant.
Yu Zhou took a few for himself, planning to sell them in his own world for some extra funds. After all, no one minds more money… except those few truly indifferent elites.
Yu Zhou also discussed returning to his own world with Camearra. She wanted to accompany him but couldn't leave the reconstruction of R'lyeh unfinished.
He reassured her he would return, so she should focus on rebuilding the city first.
"If only I could travel to specific destinations at will," he sighed. So far, every time a spatial vortex transported him, the destination was random. Perhaps he could ask the red-dress girl next time.
Time passed quickly. The day came for Daigo and Rina to depart for Mars, and the ultimate saga reached its final chapter.
Yu Zhou and the Victory Team stood in the spaceship corridor, bidding farewell.
"Finally, we have to part. It doesn't feel good," Shinchou admitted, feeling sad. He was close to Daigo, and separation tugged at his heart.
"Hey, bro, why are you crying?" his younger sister Mayumi teased, pulling at him.
"I'm not crying, idiot," he said proudly, masking his emotions.
"At times like this, you have to smile and send them off," Horii encouraged, though he too felt a twinge of sadness.
"It's fine. Daigo can always come back," Yu Zhou shrugged, smiling reassuringly.
"True," Nozawa nodded.
"Daigo, Rina, be happy!" Captain Megumi cheered.
"We will!" Daigo and Rina smiled at her in agreement.
At that moment, a young man in an orange TPC uniform appeared from the corridor carrying a box.
Daigo felt a strange familiarity.
"Have I seen him before?" he wondered, unable to recall. Yet he vaguely remembered the young man calling him "senior."
"Yu Zhou, do you know him?" Daigo asked.
"That's… our junior," Yu Zhou replied with a smile.
The young man was none other than the future Dyna Ultraman, Noboru Asuka.
"Junior? Why do I have a faint memory of him calling me senior?" Daigo asked, confused.
"I have that impression too," Masaki nodded.
Yu Zhou leaned closer and whispered to them both: "He will become a new giant of light."
"What?!" Daigo and Masaki were stunned. Another Giant of Light… right in front of them?
"But he won't be an ancient Earth warrior," Yu Zhou added. "His origin isn't fully clear yet."
As he spoke, Asuka removed his cap, bowed politely, and continued walking forward.
"Do your best, junior!" Daigo smiled and nodded.