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Haruki was eventually employed at STORAGE, and is the latest addition to the team. While assigned to pilot Sevenger, Haruki was killed in a battle against an extraterrestrial monster, but Ultraman Z arrived and bonded with Haruki to revive him, after which they both defeated the monster. Chant My Name!

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Riku entrusts the Earth to Haruki

Haruki met with Riku Asakura, who chased down Gillvalis to Earth, cooperating with him to defeat it. After the battle, Riku explained who he was and that he was investigating the Devil Splinters, which Z never told Haruki about. The Man Returns!

Later on, Haruki went to rescue Riku when he was abducted by the Valis Raiders under Celebro/Shinya Kaburagi's control, to extract the Belial Factor from him and create the Belial Medal, allowing the villain to transform into various Belial Fusion Monsters. After defeating them with the help of Ultraman Zero, Haruki sent Riku off, as he went to fight other monsters rampaging throughout space because of the Devil Splinters, and made a promise between each other to continue to protect the Earth. His Majesty's Medal

Red King A appeared while Haruki went back to his hometown on the anniversary of his father's death. He fought Red King as Ultraman Z and killed it, before Red King B appeared as well. Haruki realized that they were simply protecting their egg from human activities, and suffered from guilt from his previous killings as a result, having been reminded of his own father's deeds. He protected Red King B and its egg from King Joe STORAGE Custom's Pedanium Particle Cannon and allowed the monster to retreat underground. What Must Be Defended

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Haruki loses his fighting spirit

Still being affected by his trauma, Haruki was also hesitant to fight against Grigio Raiden, when he saw it crying in pain from being modified into a biological weapon. This causes him to lose his fighting spirit and be defeated by the monster twice, while Yoko killed it using King Joe. The Cry of Life

When a Kanegon showed up during Haruki's night shift and ate the Ultra Medals, Haruki had to tell Kanegon about the Ultra Medals for each of his forms in order to get them back before they were digested. In the process, Haruki explained his conflicted feelings to Kanegon, allowing Z to finally understand Haruki's internal turmoil. Following the battle against Grigio Raiden, the members of STORAGE had a party to celebrate King Joe STORAGE Custom's victory, with Haruki wishing he could travel back in time to eat Bako's tuna again. However, the party was interrupted by Bullton attacking. When Haruki attempted to board Windom, he kept being sent back in time due to his subconscious desire to eat the tuna again. Yoko telling Haruki what she had learned about the properties of the fourth dimension caused Haruki to try to focus on boarding Windom, but his subconscious instead sent him back in time to when his father was alive. This in turn allowed Haruki to ask his father for advice, finally restoring Haruki's will to fight as one with Z while remembering the ones he was forced to kill. Transforming into Z, Haruki and Z used all three of their forms in the ensuing battle, ultimately using Beta Smash's Energy Rope to send Bullton flying before changing into Alpha Edge and finishing it off with the M78 Style Shining Tornado Slash. Four-Dimensional Capriccio

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Haruki obtains the Belial Medal with Juggler's help

The day after, Riku contacted Haruki and asked if he had defeated any strange monsters recently. Bullton's defeat had caused the space in the area to destabilize, causing Greeza to spawn. Haruki and Riku team up once again to fight against Greeza, but their efforts were in vain, and Geed had been absorbed by the monster to trap it between reality and unreality, sealing it in its first form. He had told Haruki that a "needle" existed beyond the void, and gave Z his Ultra Medal for later use. Pondering on what they should do, Z and Haruki concluded that they needed a "power beyond logic" to defeat Greeza. With Jugglus Juggler's help, they obtained the Belial Medal from Celebro. After forcing the Belial Atrocious Medal into the Z Riser, Z achieved his newest form - Delta Rise Claw. With it, Z and Haruki save Geed and retrieve the Beliarok from inside Greeza, and used the weapon to seal Greeza away. Soon after the ordeal, Geed gave his Ultra Medals to Haruki and entrusted the Earth to him and Z before leaving. A Warrior's Duty Because of Hebikura's decisions to defy orders from Director Kuriyama, then possessed by Celebro, STORAGE was disbanded and replaced by GAF's new robot unit SAAG, and Haruki was moved to the security department instead. D4 Individual Tomorrows After Haruki and Z extracted Yoko from Ultroid Zero's cockpit because of her getting knocked out by the D4 Ray's backlash, Jugglus Juggler revealed his true identity and motives to them. Prelude to a Nightmare Celebro, possessing Director Kuriyama, transformed into Five King while Juggler transformed into Zeppandon to fight over Ultroid Zero, with Haruki and Z joining the battle. However, due to exhaustion from a previous battle, Z was defeated and Haruki fell unconscious. Celebro threatened to kill Haruki if Juggler had not given up Ultroid Zero, causing him to relent and retreat.

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Haruki awakens next to his comrades.

Celebro took this opportunity to retrieve the Belial Medal as well. When Haruki came back to his senses, he transformed to fight against Ultroid Zero, piloted by the Celebro-possessed Yoko. It evolved into Destrudos shortly after and shrugged off most of Z's attacks, before blasting him with the D4 Ray. The damage was great enough to cause Z to separate from Haruki, as his body could not handle another transformation. Haruki reawakened surrounded by his former STORAGE team members, planning to take the SAA units back to fight Destrudos. The Game to Extinction

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Haruki transforms for the final battle.

After managing to regain control of the SAA units, Haruki and Juggler used them to fight Destrudos and were later joined by Kojiro Inaba piloting Sevenger. Using King Joe, Haruki plunged through Destrudos' chest, and somehow connected with Yoko inside, freeing her from Celebro's influence and regaining the Belial Medal. As they both fell from the sky, Haruki's resolve reached Ultraman Z and allowed him to transform once more. Fighting a difficult battle, Haruki and Z were on the edge of losing until all their fellow STORAGE members cheered them on, giving them the strength to overcome Destrudos and destroy it oAfter the whole ordeal, Haruki bid farewell to his friends, though he assured the rest of STORAGE that he wouldn't be gone from the planet for good, and would soon return to Earth to celebrate Bon Festival and New Years Day. Haruki then travelled into space with Z to explore the universe.He was mentioned by Ultraman Geed. Z explained that Haruki had temporarily separated from him to help an alien civilization rebuild from damage caused by the Devil Splinters.

Z also calls out for Haruki's name in episode 9 when transforming into Deathcium Rise Claw. Haruki was in pursuit of an Alien Barossa who had stolen King Joe STORAGE Custom from STORAGE. He and Z fell into a wormhole opened up by a Bullton that the Alien Barossa had, and fell into Ultraman Trigger's universe, getting his Z Riser and Ultra Medals stolen by the alien in the process. Haruki was inside the fallen and deactivated robot when GUTS-Select found and brought him in the next morning, where he met Kengo Manaka and traded their experiences as Ultramen. To provide Haruki with a temporary means of transformation, Akito Hijiri gave him a GUTS Sparklence and a GUTS Hyper Key, which he used to fight against Alien Barossa with Ultraman Trigger's help. Inter Universe

Haruki stayed for a while and Akito finished the other Hyper Keys for him, creating them based on the data of the Ultra Medals so that he can use his Ultra Fusion forms. The cybernetic life form Dada PDO-3 invaded the Earth, causing havoc by hacking various devices until it reached the Nursedessei and proceeded to get it to fire the Nurse Cannon. Its attempts were stopped by Haruki and Kengo, who shot at the safety locks to deactivate it before it managed to fire. Dada then hacked into King Joe STORAGE Custom, forcing Haruki and Kengo to transform and fight it.

After the battle, Z gathered the pieces of King Joe, using the Beliarok to return to STORAGE. The Propagating Invasion Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z

Some time later, the Z Riser was repaired, allowing Haruki to use it to transform again.

Haruki came back to Trigger's universe to look for the escaped Celebro, who had come to this world looking for a way to control monsters. He arrived and fought a Pagos before talking to Kengo, who had just lost his ability to become Trigger since his Hyper Keys went missing. He then decided to work with GUTS-Select to retrieve the Hyper Keys, tracking one down to a forest where the Leyrah cultists awaited to ambush them, with Celebro present possessing one of the cultists. Haruki and Kengo gave chase to the one Celebro possessed as he had the Multi Type key on him, but when Haruki pinned him down, Celebro had already left. He was then knocked on the back of his head by another cultists Celebro possessed, and was out cold while Kengo transformed into Trigger and fought against Gazort, and then Genegarg and Deathdrago.

When Haruki reawakened, he transformed into Z to help Trigger, using Gamma Future and Sky Type at first before changing to Beta Smash and Power Type to counter their strength in a wrestling match, defeating the two monsters with the Zestium Beam and Deracium Beam Torrent respectively. However, Z began to go berserk and revert back to his Original form with a red eye, as Celebro had managed to take control of Haruki prior to his transformation. He attacked and defeated Trigger and shot at Zabil, allowing him to escape and drop his disguise as Ryuichi Tokioka as he prepared for his transformation into Evil Trigger.

As Zabil completed the ritual needed to gain the "light", Celebro, still possessing Haruki, transformed into Z again for security. He attacked the Nursedessei and fought with Trigger Dark when he appeared, until Evil Trigger joined the battle. Kengo managed to recover the GUTS Sparklence and Hyper Keys and joined the battle, successfully helping Haruki expel Celebro from his body, returning Z to normal. The three of then then ganged up on Evil Trigger, who was going mad with his obsession with the "light".

Trigger Dark and Z then fought Destrudos, who was summoned by Celebro, but were starting to get overwhelmed until Yuna gave Trigger a fragment of the Eternity Core at the cost of Yuzare's ring and the Eternity Core's ruins itself but allowed Trigger to become Glitter Trigger Eternity. Trigger Dark and Z fire their finishers at Destrudos and finished it off before helping Trigger fight Evil Trigger, who had grown to giant size because of the overflowing darkness within him. After a short fight, the three of them fired their signature Ultra Beams at Evil Trigger, who shattered into pieces. Z and Haruki use the Beliarok go back to their world after Celebro had been recaptured.