Accused

Accused (告人 Tsugebito) is the forty-second chapter of ULTRAMAN by Eichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi.
== Synopsis ==
Dan spares Seiji. Bemular claims to oppose the Star Cluster Alliance. Edo shows Seiji the culprit behind his airplane incident. 
== Plot ==
It turns out Dan only knocked off Seiji's helmet with the flat of his blade. He spares Seiji because he does not find someone pretending to be Ultraman enough of a threat for elimination. Seiji stands up, picks up his helmet and left arm, and flies off. A relieved Shinjiro asks if it is OK to just let him leave. Dan predicts Seiji has learned his lesson and will stop pretending now. When he asks the helicopter hovering overhead to transport them back to HQ, Shinjiro asks him if he is really an alien. Dan confirms this.
In the Alien City, Bemular tells Yapool the energy cycle of his suit is failing by the day. Yapool says he overdid it, causing his body to weaken. However, Yapool knows Bemular came for something else. Bemular asks him why he still has a connection with Seiji Hokuto. Even though he was the one who brought Seiji to Yapool, it was to save Seiji's life. If Seiji keeps his antics as Ultraman up, the Star Cluster Alliance will eventually get wind of their existence and realize the death of that family was staged. Yapool knows this, as he is the one who sheltered that family as Earthlings. However, Bemular comments Seiji only cares about the family's daughter. He now asks why Bemular is back in action again after they both went into hiding in the wake of that airline incident twelve years ago and after the Star Cluster Alliance formed an alliance with Earth. Bemular's answer is simple: He is buying time to take on the Star Cluster Alliance. Otherwise, he would not be in the form he is now.
Seiji is talking with someone over the phone on a park bench at night. He tells "Yuko Minami" not to worry and wishes her goodnight. Then, Edo appears and asks if he can sit next to Seiji. At the SSSP HQ, Ide shows Shinjiro the raw footage of the airline incident twelve years ago. Bemular floats in the wake of the incident. Shin tells them the incident took place five years before the Star Cluster Alliance made contact with Earth. When they did, Bemular resurfaced. Even so, they are not entirely convinced this was an attack by Bemular. Recently, the SSSP learned there was an alien family belonging to the Alliance's advanced research team on board the airline. The "incident" may have been an assassination attempt on the family by Bemular or the Star Cluster Alliance. If it was an assassination attempt, the culprit is hiding a grand conspiracy. Ide then shows them the real issue: there was a survivor of the incident, Seiji Hokuto.
Back at the park, Edo explains to Seiji aliens were behind the assassination plot. Seiji angrily glares at a picture in the folder Edo gave him. It shows an armored arm holding a two-pronged hatchet...
== Appearances ==
=== Ultramen ===
* Shinjiro Hayata
* Shin Hayata
* Dan Moroboshi
* Seiji Hokuto
=== Kaiju ===
* Yapool
* Bemular
* Yuko Minami (Indirectly)
* Edo
* Ace Killer
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