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The story is about a magical girl Sakura Kinomoto from Tokyo and a Taoist boy Li Syaoran from China who work together to capture a magic card called the "Clow Cards".
Although it is obvious at first glance that it is a shop selling cards, and there are unsurprisingly many Clow Card blind boxes in the food and toy shops on the street, the plot design is unexpectedly good, the actors Sakura and Syaoran are both very cute, and even Ling has watched a few episodes.
When Sakura Kinomoto captured the Clow Cards in the TV show, she wore clothes made for her by her friend, the needlework boy Syaoran, which was really attractive. He made a set for her in every episode, and none of them were repeated, which was enough to make every little girl fascinated.
But Ling is not a magician waving a magic wand, she is an Ultraman Warrior.
"Wait, isn't the clothing on the hanger next to it the same one that Sakura wore on TV yesterday?"
"Yes, it is our Daidoji Group that provides the costumes for that crew, and each set of clothes will be launched on the market from now on. We have accepted private customization before, and my mother said that they are selling very well. By the way, although the plot says that the clothes were made by Li Syaoran, the costumes of the actor Sakura were actually designed by me." Tomoyo said proudly.
"Let me see - this is the clothes I wore when I captured Shadow. The red hat and cape make him look like Little Red Riding Hood. So cute. This is the blue and white clown clothes I wore when I captured Water. There are also clothes for Rain and Fantasy. Ah, there are also pajamas for Flying in the first episode."
Ling also looked for them row by row and found that every set of clothes that appeared in the previous plot could be found here in its original form.
"Haha," Tomoyo smiled, "Did Ling watch every episode?"
"Ah, this..."
Indeed, Ling didn't just watch a few episodes, she watched every episode. But I feel a little shy to say it out loud, watching "Magical Girl" is like an elementary school student - wait, she is either a 17-year-old high school student or an elementary school student.
That's fine.
"Don't worry, the clothes I make for Reiya will be a hundred times prettier than Sakura's!"
That wasn't what she was worried about, well, not exactly.
"But, it doesn't matter what clothes I wear after the transformation, right?" After all, the giant body condensed by Gaia's light is used after the transformation, not her. It doesn't matter what clothes I wear.
"A sense of ritual, a sense of ritual! The sense of ritual before transformation is also very important. Come on, try these two pieces first, I'll see if the size needs to be modified."
Without waiting for Lingye to refuse, Tomoyo took the clothes and forced them on her. Lingye would not refuse, in fact, beautiful clothes are attractive enough. And Tomoyo was right, the clothes made for her were indeed more beautiful than the ones worn by "Kinomoto Sakura" on TV.
Well, it's like the difference between excellent level and orange equipment in the game.
TAC Headquarters, Tokyo Five Lakes
"I don't agree with this matter anyway. I think it's too hasty to let him join the team so easily."
"What did you say? He is a senior of the MAT team. He had great achievements in fighting against monsters. Beidou, you actually said 'careless'. Do you have any respect for your seniors?" Yamanaka scolded, "Besides, after all, wasn't that how you and Nan Xizi joined the team?"
"But, that's not what I meant. I mean, we should be more cautious. This Go Hideki was recorded as having died in battle. I remember we all paid respects at his grave during the Heroes' Memorial Ceremony at the beginning of the year, didn't we?"
"That's a cenotaph! The team member explained that he fainted at the time, and soon after he woke up, he found that MAT had disbanded. He did not choose to return to the Defense Force, but chose to travel. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. After all, the top leaders of the Defense Force are very concerned about our front-line team..."
"In the mountains!" Captain Long, who had been sitting quietly and listening to the team members' quarrel without saying a word, suddenly spoke.
"Sorry," Yamanaka also realized his slip of the tongue. After all, the leader of the defense force is their superior, so some things can only be kept in mind. "Anyway, since Team Leader Xiang still cares about fighting against the Ultra Beasts and protecting the Earth. He is willing to return to the team, I think we have no reason to refuse, not to mention that he has brought back such a powerful weapon!"
A few days ago, the super beast Zaygun attacked. Before Beidou and Konno arrived at the scene in their Jaguars, the super beast had already disappeared. But according to Yamanaka, he was the first to arrive at the scene in his plane, and the monster did not disappear on its own. At that time, Yamanaka saw a man on the plane, who used a powerful ray gun to bombard the super beast, which caused the super beast to escape with injuries.
Afterwards, he found the man named Xiang Xiushu, and unexpectedly discovered that he was a former member of the MAT team. More than a year ago, the Balt aliens invaded the earth, and that was the last battle of the MAT team. Xiang disappeared after fighting against the Balt aliens and the space dinosaur Jetton. At that time, he was defined as a sacrifice in the MAT file, but he was still alive.
After using the weapon called "Ultra Ray Gun" to drive away the Ultra Beast, Hideki Go expressed his desire to join the TAC team to Yamanaka. In Yamanaka's opinion, he had no reason to refuse the other party.
"But I still feel that this is inappropriate." Although he couldn't tell what the problem was, Beidou still subconsciously thought that something was amiss. "I think we should be more cautious about joining TAC."
"you!"
"Okay," Long said, stopping the two from arguing, "That Xiang was injured a little before, and he should still be in the Central Hospital. Beidou, since you have doubts about him, then I'll leave it to you to investigate."
"Okay, captain, I understand." Beidou Xingsi saluted with two fingers and walked towards the door.
"Wait, Beidou-kun." Nan Xizi stood up from the computer and handed a document to Beidou, "This is the information about Xiang Xiushu that I just found. It may be useful."
"Oh, thank you for your help, Nan."
It seems that I was not careful enough. Beidou took the information and took a look at it.
"Have you been an orphan since childhood? Well, you used to be a racing driver." Beidou looked at him, his expression gradually becoming solemn.
This Xiang Xiushu's experience is indeed tragic.
He grew up in an orphanage and aspired to become a racing driver, but retired due to an accident. Later, he went to work at Sakata's auto repair shop and lived with Sakata's family. As a civilian, he was once on the verge of death in order to save people during a monster attack. He was appreciated by Captain Kato of MAT at the time and joined the MAT team.
The Sakata family where Go stayed had three brothers and sisters who depended on each other for survival. Among them, the younger sister Sakata Akiko even had an engagement with Go, but in the battle when the Nakel aliens invaded the earth, Sakata Akiko and Sakata Ken both died, leaving only the youngest brother Sakata Jiro in the Sakata family.
"--He finally died in the battle against the Baltic people." Beidou read softly and closed the file.
This is all the records about Hideki Go in the MAT archives.
Chapter 18 Goodbye Go Hideki
A black panther patrol car with the TAC logo on it drives through the streets of Tokyo.
"Someone you know?" Tomoyo asked.
"Yes, it's Brother Beidou. He helped me before and he's a very good person." Lingye watched the patrol car disappear around the corner before turning back and saying, "He's probably on patrol. He looks very busy."
"That's true. It always makes people feel at ease when the TAC team is here."
It's the rainy season in midsummer, and the streets of Tokyo are scorching hot. It rained yesterday, but the temperature didn't drop much. Instead, the hot and humid weather made people feel even hotter.
“Will there really be penguins in the aquarium in such hot weather?”
"The penguin house is kept at a constant temperature of -15 degrees Celsius. Air conditioning is a great invention."
If there were no air conditioning, I really don’t know how we would get through the summer. Reiya and Tomoyo both think so.
Of course, this is just their opinion. In the 1970s in Tokyo, even in the capital, very few families could install air conditioners. Most people only had electric fans.
Also walking on the streets of Tokyo was a brother and sister.
"Jiro, would you like a cold drink?"
Rumiko was going to the library to borrow some books today. She had a paper to write this semester and a defense to attend. In short, it was a lot of trouble. She was worried that leaving Jiro alone at home might cause trouble, so she brought him along.
"Yes! I want a cone."
"Okay. But after I buy you a cone, you have to behave yourself today. Don't make noise or bother others in the library later. You can find a book you like to read."
"I know. Really, I'm already twelve years old and will be in junior high school next year. I'm not a child anymore. It's okay to be home alone."
"That won't work. I promised Xiangjun that I would take good care of you."
Rumiko left for a moment and soon came back with a double-decker cone, with two cone handles sandwiching the thick ice cream in the middle.
"Wow, it's the deluxe version." Jiro took it with surprise, and saw that Rumiko's other hand was empty, "Sister, don't you want cold drinks?"
"I won't eat it."
"Ah, I see. Girls can't have cold drinks for a few days every month." Jiro took a bite of the ice cream and said with a satisfied look. In fact, this was also what he heard from his classmates, and he didn't understand what it meant at all. "What a pity, the cone is really delicious."
"What are you talking about? You're such a smart kid. Whose child is this? I don't remember teaching you these things!"
Rumiko pretended to hit him, but Jiro dodged nimbly, turned around and was about to run away with a laugh, but he inadvertently saw a passerby passing by behind him.
"Oh."
"Woo——"
Both of the people who collided fell to the ground. The force of the collision was not actually that great, it was just that one person was caught off guard and the other suddenly turned around and lost his balance.
"Oh, sorry!" Rumiko quickly apologized on behalf of Jiro, not only because it was obviously Jiro's fault, but also because the person who was hit was a little girl younger than Jiro.
"Are you okay, Reiya?" Tomoyo looked at Reiya who fell to the ground. What just happened was so fast that she just reacted.
"It's okay." Ling also stood up and patted her skirt. She didn't even feel any pain from the slight fall, let alone getting hurt. But she was holding a cold drink in her hand, and now that it fell on the ground, she obviously couldn't eat it.
"Jiro, where is your apology?" Rumiko was furious when she saw Jiro still sitting there in a daze.
Jiro, however, had not yet recovered from his shock. He stared at the girl he had knocked down and murmured, "Like a doll!" Then he realized what he had said. He blushed and lowered his head, not daring to look at her again. "Yes, I'm sorry."
"Ah, your clothes are all dirty!"
After being reminded by Rumiko, Lingye realized that the white short-sleeved shirt she was wearing had just been hit directly by Jiro's cone, and a large piece of colorful ice cream was stained on it.
"Really? I'm so sorry. This kid is just like that, always rough."
Although he usually liked to talk back to Rumiko, Jiro was speechless at this moment. Instead, he blushed and his eyes moved around unconsciously.
"There's a restroom in the mall over there. I'll take you there to clean up." Rumiko took out a handkerchief from her bag and helped the girl wipe herself, but found that it was not clean at all.
Ling didn't refuse either. It was indeed uncomfortable to have ice cream on her body.
TAC Central Hospital
Beidou Xingsi stopped the car and took a fruit basket from the passenger seat. It was Nan Xizi who reminded him. Although it was actually an investigation, since he was visiting a patient under the pretext of a visit, he couldn't go empty-handed.
After asking the nurse at the front desk, Beidou quickly found Xiang Xiushu's ward and knocked on the door. A hoarse male voice came from the ward.
"Please come in."
After opening the door, Hokuto Seiji saw the man named Go Hideki mentioned by the Yamanaka team member. Just like the photo in the profile, he looked exactly like the former MAT team member.
"Hello, I'm Hokuto Seiji from the TAC team."
"Hello, Beidou-kun, I'm Go Hideki. I'm here, but why are you bringing fruit, including watermelon? It's expensive, right?"
"I came to see how you were doing."
The two of them exchanged a few meaningless polite words. Beidou peeled an orange for Xiang Xiushu, and then moved his eyes to the head of the bed, where there was a peculiarly shaped weapon, which looked like a laser gun, or a laser cannon.
"Is this what Beidou wanted to see?" Xiang Xiushu took the orange and thanked him, broke off a bag and tasted it, then picked up the weapon.
"Ah, I heard from the members of the Yamanaka team that this is a very powerful weapon. When Zaygon showed up a few days ago, he injured the super beast with just one shot and repelled it."
"Yes, this is the most powerful weapon I have spent more than a year researching. I named it 'Ultra Ray Gun'. I want to join the TAC team with it, so that I can also contribute to protecting the earth."
Beidou did not respond to his desire to join the TAC team, and it was not something he could influence.
"Can I see this gun?"
"Of course, just be careful not to fire it accidentally."
Beidou took the 'Ultra Ray Gun', but he was not a researcher, and after looking it over, he could not see anything. The hospital was not a shooting range, so he could not test fire it.
"Can I take this gun with me and study it when I get home?"
"That won't work."
"no?"
"Yes, this gun is only for me to use." Xiang Xiushu said as he snatched the ray gun back, and his words were less polite. "If someone takes it apart and tinkers with it, it will be broken."
"You should believe in the scientific research level of the TAC team—"
Beidou had only said half of his words when the hospital floor suddenly began to shake. He quickly held onto the bedside table next to the bed to keep his balance and avoid falling.