Return of Ultraman (帰ってきたウルトラマン)

RETURN OF ULTRAMAN

DUEL UNDER THE SETTING SUN

You can see it too The Star of Ultra

Far away Alone on Earth

Dedicating his life to defeating monsters

Any moment now He'll reach the burning town

With the echoing roar in his ear

He's returned He's returned

Ultraman

Featuring Protean Monster Kingmaimai.

By train?!

That's right.

It's uncertain if the frequent earthquakes near Ryujindake are because of a monster.

If we show up saying we're from MAT, it could unnecessarily worry the locals.

That's why I had you dress like this.

After nightfall, I'll send the MAT Vehicle to the location.

Until then, gather all the info you can. That's all.

-Yes, sir! -Yes, sir!

Well, we'll be going.

W-We're off.

Wait!

Wait, wait!

Kid! You, kid! Hey!

Hey, kid. How do we get to the forest park?

It's this way, of course. Right, kid?

No. It's this way.

One...

Hooray! They fell for it!

I'm really very sorry about that.

Honestly, I'm his father and that boy's mischief

drives even me crazy.

It's no good if it drives you, his parent, crazy.

When we bought that land from Real Estate Sakaematsu,

we expected not only the good natural environment and hot springs,

but a getaway Spot's most important element, the local's kind compassion.

We strained our wallets to buy it.

Then along comes your boy.

I know our children shouldn't have asked him to do their summer insect gathering.

But he said, "I'll do it," then had them buy him things like ice cream all summer!

How disgusting.

Then, he said rhinoceros beetles and stag beetles are too "normal,"

he packed a box full of these disgusting bugs we've never seen in Tokyo before.

Oh, an earthquake.

That was mid-sized one.

Besides, you know,

the guide never said this place had 30 earthquakes a day!

That Real Estate Sakaematsu is a sham!

Speaking of those bugs, did you know?

We checked an insect encyclopedia back in Tokyo, and what do you think they were?

They're all some bug called a "something-snail"

that come from horse... you know, a horse's...

Bugs from horse manure, huh?

I'm terribly sorry.

Our children were laughing stocks at school!

I was so frustrated, honestly!

Yeah, I'm really sorry about it. Oh!

What are you doing?

Um! Uh, well... Oh!

It's coming! it's coming! A mid-sized one is coming!

You're quite a strange man.

I can sense it.

You might call it a sixth sense.

Ouch!

What do you mean, "sixth sense"?! Honestly!

That's the police for you.

And they called this a "choice cultural environment."

I'm really sorry.

Well then...

I'm really sorry for troubling you like this every day, officer.

It's nothing. Please, please.

The house with the persimmon tree... Their Persian cat is today's victim.

The persimmon tree house?

He cut all of its whiskers clean off.

That little brat. Honestly.

Excuse me.

Is this the Nohara residence?

Yes, that's me.

I'll be off.

Oh, thank you very much.

Did Taro do something again?

Huh?

No, I came here to see Mr. Sakuta Nohara.

Oh, Sakuta Nohara would be me.

Well, p-please have a seat. Please.

Taro, you idiot! Taro bullied us!

What's with that look?

Keep doing things like this

and you'll end up the kind of person who I have to lock up.

Why did you end up as such a troublemaker?

Did someone say something to you?

"Something"?

Well...

Hmm, you know...

Something.

Then it's true.

Huh?

What's true?

It's really true. That talk.

"That talk"?

That talk about my real father.

-MAT? -Yes.

So the recent rumblings and earthquakes are a monster's doing?

No, we're not certain of that yet. But...

Well, you're the monster-specialty police after all.

By the way, I heard the Ryujin Tunnel construction had problems

since it's a steep, rocky mountain.

I know what you probably think, but that accident was just a normal landslide.

It had been raining for a long time.

There'd been crumbling since a few days before that,

but the tunnel was almost through so everyone was excited.

No one was paying attention to that stuff.

Ryujin Tunnel was dug from this side and the Tatsunoguchi side like this.

At the time I was...

Heave ho, heave ho, heave ho.

Hey, you hear something?

No.

Listen.

Huh?

Hey!

Hey!

That's them! The Tatsunoguchi guys!

We're though! We're through!

Hey! I'm Hikota Obayashi, age 34!

I've got a beautiful wife and a newborn boy at home!

I'm Sakuta Nohara!

I'm 34!

I had a wife but she ran out on me!

Don't be stupid, you moron!

I see.

So you knew.

My mom...

I hear she abandoned me and ran off to Tokyo after that.