Kamen Rider from the ancient times

Is the leader of Shocker Takumi Inui?
Absolutely impossible!
However, the soul of the Shocker leader residing in the time machine was connected with the will of Takumi Inui, and it even possessed the identity of Faiz in this world.

The Faiz signal was created for this purpose.

Upon seeing the Shocker leader with such a face, Kawahara remained silent for a long time before making a gesture that seemed to be a sigh of relief.

"So that's all you wanted to say."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly raised his arm, and the Faiz signal he was holding was separated from the time machine. As a result, the invisible threads seemed to be snapping one by one as they were being stretched taut. The Shocker leader, with his dry and clever face, screamed in pain again.

"How dare you! How could you—"

Intermittent electronic sound effects emanated from the mechanical sphere, and the projection of the Shocker leader began to flicker and disappear.

The dark red compound eyes coldly watched its struggle: "So you couldn't hear what I just said, Takumi Inui—Kamen Rider Faiz has never been afraid of death."

"You will definitely... regret it..."

As the last sentence faded, the Shocker leader's figure vanished completely as if a wire had been severed, and the invisible fluctuations connected to the Faiz signal also dissipated entirely.

But at the very moment Faiz lost contact with the time machine, a strange shock field suddenly spread out from them, instantly enveloping the surrounding space!

wow——

The air in the entire area seemed to distort in an instant, similar to the signs of the time machine being activated, and the surrounding space became stagnant and slow.

Kawahara paused, and when his gaze swept over Narutaki, he saw that the smile on Narutaki's lips had become so arrogant that it was almost ferocious and perverse.

"what have you done?"

His nerves heightened the crisis to its extreme; golden lightning flowed across the surface of his belt, but it seemed to be restrained by something and unable to be released.

Without waiting for Narutaki's reply, Kuuga's figure rushed towards the edge of this area, but in an instant he appeared on the other side of the non-opposite area.

"Ok?"

Kawahara, who had been teleported to the other side, was puzzled for a moment. Standing on the edge, he raised his hand and reached out, but his hand disappeared into the air in front of him, and the end he touched was nothingness.

Kawahara then walked in, and the scene before him seamlessly transitioned, and he found himself in another location within the area.

Are the spaces in this area interconnected?
still is……

Kawahara then conjured a Pegasus Crossbow and fired an arrow at the barrier opposite him.

"call out--"

An arrow flew out from the other side in an instant, whizzed overhead, then entered the barrier on the opposite side again, and then flew out from another position in an instant.

However, this situation did not continue indefinitely, because a crossbow bolt that had been flying out of nowhere finally struck something, and a dull thud came from the ground beneath their feet.

Centered on the time machine, it's like an open circular bubble, with an invisible force covering an area of ​​three zhang (approximately 10 meters) in both the sky and the earth.

Kawahara attempted to manipulate the surrounding matter with his ultimate power, but there was no reaction from the outside.

It seems that only this area inside is being reflected.

"it's useless!"

Narutaki's loud laughter rang out: "This area has been sealed off by the power of time. Time here is infinite! There is no past or future, no beginning or end, no beginning or end! You can't escape no matter what!"

—The power of time?
Kawahara looked at him thoughtfully: "And what about you?"

Narutaki, who was also there, didn't let her smile fade at all. She glared at him with burning hatred in her eyes: "Of course, I'm the final step to destroy you!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than a golden crossbow bolt pierced Narutaki's chest like lightning. Narutaki's body trembled, and then he looked at Kawahara with an even more ferocious expression.

"Looks like you can't wait to die!"

"You really aren't human."

Kawahara simply said that.

He looked at Narutaki's body and saw that there was no blood flowing out. The chest pierced by the crossbow bolt showed a familiar yet strange mosaic, which was slowly turning into gray light particles like data.

It was at this moment that Kawahara finally realized where the "power that resembled Tsukasa Kadoya" that he had previously sensed came from.

From Narutaki.

Narutaki actually obtained that guy's power?

Just as I was thinking of a world destroyer, the roar of a motorcycle came speeding by and quickly stopped in front of the abandoned factory where the flames had gradually died down.

"Kawahara?!"

Tsukasa Kadoya stared in astonishment at the dark figure confronting Narutaki, then quickly became angry, pushed his motorcycle aside, and strode over aggressively.

"I knew I was right, it was you who orchestrated all of this, Narutaki!"

"You've arrived, Decade!"

A sinister smile hung on Narutaki's face.

He then spread his arms wide and laughed wildly: "Too bad you're a step too late, Decade! Otherwise, I would really be looking forward to bringing you along!"

"Ah? What?"

The other party's words left Tsukasa Kadoya completely bewildered.

However, Narutaki's body quickly turned into a cloud of gray particles in his shocked gaze, flowing into the mechanical sphere beside him like a stream of light.

"He...he...he..."

Tsukasa Kadoya pointed at Narutaki in astonishment.

Kawahara's eyes flickered, and he immediately aimed the Pegasus Crossbow at the mechanical sphere, but his finger, which was about to pull the trigger, stopped when he sensed something.

Is it really feasible to destroy the time machine right now?
Up to now, Narutaki's actions seem to be deliberately manipulating things, even including intentionally revealing the existence of the signal Faiz.

Thinking of this, Kawahara quickly looked at Kadoya Tsukasa and reached out his hand, his fingertips just touching the edge of the circular force field.

"Wait a moment, Sir."

"Ok?"

Tsukasa Kadoya, who was about to step forward, paused.

Kawahara flipped his hand and took out the signal Faiz, handing it over: "Give this to Inui Takumi first. As long as he has this as an anchor, he should be able to continue living in the world of Drive."

Returning to the world of Faiz is probably impossible.

Takumi Inui from that world is already dead.

Takumi Inui as a human, Takumi Inui as an Orphnoch, and Takumi Inui as Kamen Rider Faiz have all died in history.

However, Takumi Inui, reborn from the hope of time and the world, can exist again in this world.

At that moment, Tsukasa Kadoya looked at the dark Kuuga standing there, giving him the signal Faiz, and a strange feeling rose in his heart.

He approached slowly with a strange look in his eyes, reaching for the signal motorcycle as he asked, "What exactly happened between you and Minglong here? Why did he—"

boom!
Just as Tsukasa Kadoya touched the edge of the area, he was instantly thrown back. Caught off guard, he landed on the ground in a daze.

Kawahara withdrew his hand thoughtfully: "So, isn't the outside a teleportation point?"

He thought Tsukasa Kadoya would pass it to the other side.

But since it has been determined that the outer perimeter of the area is a touchable boundary, it means that people outside can damage it.

"What...what's going on?!"

Tsukasa Kadoya snapped out of his daze and quickly got up and ran forward. This time, prepared, he exerted his strength and touched forward.

ka ka ka-

A force as fast as lightning emanated from the surface, and Tsukasa Kadoya gritted his teeth and groaned, then was once again thrown back several steps by the impact.

Kawahara, who was standing inside, then said, "Don't waste your time, just transform and attack this thing! Kick it with all your might!"

Tsukasa Kadoya glared at him: "You knew there was something wrong here all along, why didn't you tell me sooner? Were you just waiting to see a good show?!"

"Alright, alright, stop talking nonsense~"

Kawahara softened his tone slightly to reassure her.

Without hesitation, Tsukasa Kadoya took out the magenta Decade Driver and put it on, instantly transforming into Kamen Rider. Then, without thinking, he took out a Rider Card and inserted it into the driver.

Final Attack Ride!

'De-De-De-Decade!'

Swish swish swish swish ———

Dozens of card light walls quickly lined up in front of the dark Kuuga. Kadoya Tsukasa was indeed very unceremonious and immediately used his full power. Kawahara even suspected that this guy was prepared to kick him directly in one breath.

Then, in the next moment, Kamen Rider Decade leaped into the air, his figure quickly passing through each virtual Rider card, all his power converging into his right foot, which landed heavily on the transparent barrier!

"boom!"

This instant unleashed an extremely powerful burst of energy!

The spreading impact kicked up dust from the ground, and amidst the flying sand and gravel, Kamen Rider Decade remained suspended in mid-air.

Centered on his landing point, an almost tangible airflow formed a cone-shaped jet that drifted backward, while Decade continuously released power onto this completely transparent barrier.

sizzle-

A powerful electric current filled the air, and as it raged along the Knight Kick to Decade's body, it also flashed and outlined a circular shape.

"How could this be...this thing...!"

Tsukasa Kadoya's suppressed voice came out intermittently, as if he was enduring something.

Kawahara stood inside, and looking up, he could see the landing point of Decade's Knight Kick, spreading out like tiny ripples in a vortex.

Then this force seeped in from all directions, converging towards the central time machine. Kawahara turned around and saw Narutaki's virtual projection appear in front of the mechanical sphere, looking exactly like the Shocker leader from before.

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Narutaki spread his arms and laughed loudly: "Thanks to you, the power of the world's destroyer has long been at my disposal, Decade!"

A sudden energy fluctuation emanated from the time machine, instantly blasting Kamen Rider Decade away. Tsukasa Kadoya crashed heavily to the ground, his body swaying before returning to his human form.

"That's right, that's my power!"

Tsukasa Kadoya looked up in surprise.

At this moment, with the collision of the two different forces, the sealed area seemed to become a thunderstorm ball, with silver lightning raging everywhere, and sparks flying from the mechanical casing of the time machine that was hit.

But Narutaki wasn't worried at all about it being damaged.

Or rather, it's just waiting for it to erupt.

Kawahara's mood became extremely calm and indifferent at this moment. His dark and ferocious appearance was not afraid of the lightning that struck him, and Narutaki's image was reflected in his crimson compound eyes.

"Your target was me from the very beginning?"

Narutaki's real purpose was to trap him here.

"That's right!"

As if the moment of revealing the final scene had finally arrived, Narutaki became extremely excited and frantic, his eyes flashing with an almost obsessive light, but on the contrary, his expression was even more sinister and fierce.

"Why do you even exist in this world? Kamen Rider Agul!"

"Arcle?!"

"No! You're not a Kamen Rider at all!"

"There is no Kamen Rider like you in the history of Kamen Riders! Without you, everything in this world would have followed the normal historical trajectory, and none of those unnecessary things would have happened!"

"You should never have appeared in the world of Kamen Rider in the first place!"

Narutaki seemed to be talking incessantly, or perhaps he was hysterically venting his anger by roaring.

"So how did you even appear? I've searched everywhere for you, but you're nowhere to be found! You don't even exist in history!"

"Later I understood, I knew! You—Aguru—you are the culprit who distorted the entire history of knights!"

"Therefore, I will erase your existence!"

"I'm going to wipe you off the face of Kamen Rider history!!"

"You shouldn't even exist!!"

All the pent-up discontent and resentment in his heart burst forth. Even though neither of them understood where this extreme emotion came from, Narutaki undoubtedly hated Aguru's appearance. Kadoya Tsukasa stared blankly at Narutaki, listening to his accusatory and frantic shouts, and for a moment even forgot to react.

However, his mind was once again filled with memories of his conversation with Philip, and a sense of restlessness arose in his heart. His gaze fell on the same dark and calm figure as always.

To be fair, Tsukasa Kadoya was indeed very annoyed by this guy who seemed to be toying with him like a Shocker from the very beginning.

But it was this guy who gave him the most important help on his journey, so he unconsciously became very concerned about him. There is no doubt that they are companions.

"Well, you..."

Tsukasa Kadoya hesitated before speaking, as if he wanted to say something.

After a long silence, Kawahara looked at Narutaki, who was pointing at him and shouting angrily, with a somewhat complicated expression.

"And you, buddy..."

"So you really are a Kamen Rider fan?"

“It’s a bit disgusting.”

"..."

Apart from the raging silver lightning, everything around the barrier, both inside and outside, suddenly fell silent.

Finally, whether it was the lightning that finally struck the time machine's detonation point, or Narutaki who was provoked to completely erupt, he roared with a ferocious expression, and his figure exploded instantly like an aurora curtain made of mosaic!
"Boom——!"

At the same moment, the time machine shattered into points of light, and a silver wave of light, resembling an aurora curtain, spread out, then intertwined and entwined with the points of light formed from time.

The entire sealed space suddenly twisted strangely, as if a magnificent aurora was being born, or as if a shattered mirror was refracting patches of light, beautiful and bizarre, and in a daze, it even seemed as if one could see the birth and destruction of the world.

Narutaki's last voice gradually faded away amidst his manic laughter.

"This is a seal I've created by combining the power of time and the power of the world; you cannot escape! Aguru, erase yourself from the history of knights! Vanish completely from this world! Hahahaha—"

"What 'knight-centric' stan..."

Amidst the raging temporal storm, Kawahara watched as Narutaki's figure turned to ashes along with the time machine, and couldn't help but mutter a curse under his breath.

He never expected that Narutaki could be this crazy.

Without a doubt, from the moment he lured Tsukasa Kadoya into Shocker's ambush, Narutaki was planning to use all of this to lure him in.

The later-detained Tsukasa Kadoya and the newly created magenta Decade Driver were probably just experiments by Narutaki to transfer the world power possessed by Decade to himself.

Even the leader of Shocker was manipulated by that guy.

The purpose was to trap him at this moment.

Thinking of this, Kawahara looked down at the Faiz signal motorcycle in his hand. Since Narutaki hated his appearance so much and believed that his existence distorted the original history of the Riders, why was he so sure that he would take out the Faiz signal motorcycle for Inui Takumi?
This guy is really hard to understand...

So now...

Can the power of time, which distorts history time and time again, and the power of the world, which connects worlds time and time again, truly erase his existence?
Kawahara wasn't sure about this either, but in the dazzling aurora-filled spacetime storm, his dark form, just like Narutaki's earlier form, turned into particles and quickly dissipated.

He regained his human form, his slightly long, shoulder-length hair obscuring his expression in the raging wind, while Kawahara stared blankly at his own palm.

Just then, the invisible wall in front of him suddenly exploded with ripples.

"boom!"

Tsukasa Kadoya slammed his fist heavily against the barrier.

Amidst the flashing lightning, he continued to exert force inside, his brow furrowed as he shouted at Kawahara, "Hey! Can't you hurry up and think of a way to get out of there?!"

Kawahara seemed to snap out of his daze, looking at Tsukasa Kadoya with a slightly strange gaze: "Can my existence really be erased?"

"What are you talking about! — Narutaki is really crazy. Isn't history something we create ourselves? If your existence is erased, then our history will also cease to exist!" Tsukasa Kadoya roared.

"Not always……"

Kawahara said ambiguously, "In the history of Kamen Rider, I am indeed a 'non-existent' outsider. And as Decade, you should already know that Kamen Rider Agul never existed from the beginning."

Tsukasa Kadoya looked bewildered, his wavering gaze showing some hesitation, but then he angrily punched the barrier in front of him again.

So you're giving up now?!

"Just because of what that guy said?"

"Then how are you any different from the old me? Kamen Rider Decade never existed in the first place, and Tsukasa Kadoya's journey was a lie from the beginning. Are you trying to deny all of our past history?!"

"...Stop."

Kawahara looked at him strangely: "I understand, Shi, you'd better not say anything more."

This familiar vigilance made Tsukasa Kadoya choke.

Enraged, he clenched his fist again and swung it fiercely at the barrier in front of him: "At a time like this, you better get serious!"

boom--!
The air wall rippled violently, as if it were showing signs of cracking, but in an instant it became completely still again.

Tsukasa Kadoya was slightly startled, vaguely sensing the power he often used when traversing worlds, different from the Aurora Veil, but an innate quality.

Is this his world power?

At that moment, Kawahara, who was on the opposite side, also spoke up quickly.

"One more punch!"

Upon hearing this, Tsukasa Kadoya realized what was happening. He didn't say anything, but instead gathered all his strength and slammed down!
"boom--!"

The fist that landed on the barrier even emitted an arc of light, and at that moment, Kawahara on the opposite side also swung a palm at the spot where his fist landed.

A sacred and dazzling golden light instantly enveloped Tsukasa Kadoya's vision, carrying a strange attraction. Before he could recover from the light, he felt his fist touch something.

Tsukasa Kadoya jolted, instinctively changing his fist into a palm and grabbing the thing, then yanking it sharply—

Swish!
He stumbled from pulling too far back, lost his balance, and fell to the ground, staring blankly at what he was holding.

It's a red signal motorcycle.

Kadoya Tsukasa quickly turned his head to look at the barrier, and saw that Kawahara seemed to be holding a glowing golden apple in his hand. However, at this moment, an even more turbulent spacetime storm rushed towards the apple in his hand!

Although Tsukasa Kadoya had a vague idea of ​​what it was.

but……

The figure, washed away by the power of time and space, was also dissipating into particles, like sand and dust swept up by a gale, which drifted down and then merged into the endless storm of death, gradually disappearing without a trace.

Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly shouted, "Kawahara—"

"a little……"

Kawahara's helpless voice came from inside: "It seems to be getting a little out of control, this thing..."

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Kawahara used the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit to send out the signal Faiz. After all, that was his purpose in coming here, and he had to accomplish it no matter what.

But when he tried to maintain control of the space, the golden fruit that had been taken out also went out of control.

This is Kawahara's last trump card.

However, the spacetime power set by Narutaki's last strong will tried to erase its existence, but the power of creation within the Golden Fruit also tried to devour this power, and in the end, it seemed that the two things were going to perish together.

As the golden fruit in his hand gradually became transparent, Kawahara's fingers slowly tightened, his eyes filled with an inscrutable expression.

But is it really possible?
Can his existence really be erased?

Does his history really not exist?

The Black God sent him out of the world in a fit of anger, but he came back. It seems that he was destined to return to this world.

The time card that appeared in that woman's hand will inevitably reappear.

Because there is an unchangeable timeline...

As he recalled these thoughts, Kawahara's fluctuating emotions gradually calmed down, and then he directly integrated the soon-to-disappear golden fruit into his body.

Originally, we planned to nurture this golden fruit a little longer, but now we have no choice but to eat it for now.

In an instant, it seemed as if a platinum-gold light was flowing across his body, and a dark red hue appeared faintly in his left eye.

However, the signs of this shift quickly disappeared.

Without the protection of the Golden Fruit, Kawahara was completely enveloped by the spacetime storm. He then turned back to look at Tsukasa Kadoya, who had rushed to the barrier again, and a faint smile appeared on his face.

"Don't worry, Shi, my existence will not be erased by this force, and we will definitely meet again in the future."

"……what?"

Tsukasa Kadoya paused, feeling that these words sounded strangely familiar; the last time this guy wanted to enter the Well of Earth, he said the same thing.

However, he hadn't realized it yet at that time.

This time, however, his thinking was exceptionally clear.

"Are you kidding me?"

Tsukasa Kadoya gritted his teeth and shouted, "What does my future have to do with you! -- You know so much about me, right? But why should I listen to this vague stuff when I know nothing about you from beginning to end?! Who knows who you will be in the future!"

He seemed genuinely angry; his chest heaved violently with each angry shout, and his complex gaze was fixed intently on Kawahara.

Kawahara found it somewhat amusing at first.

In that sense, it seems that the steps in which he met Tsukasa Kadoya were indeed reversed; he met the future Tsukasa Kadoya first as the person he was in the past.

But when it comes to knowing something inside and out, it has nothing to do with when you first met it.

Then Kawahara laughed and said, "Alright, in that case, let's wait until 'we' meet again now, and then I'll tell you seriously about anything you want to know."

"you……"

Kadoya Tsukasa stared at him blankly, opened his mouth slightly as if to say something, but in the end he awkwardly lowered his head and looked away.

"You said it yourself..."

"I promise you."

Kawahara smiled slightly, the corners of his mouth curving upwards.

He felt his consciousness drifting away into the distance, a black curtain like quicksand falling before his eyes, much like when he was accidentally pulled offline by Swartz.

Then, on a whim, Kawahara suddenly said, "Oh, by the way, Shi, you'd better watch out for a little devil in the future!"

"what?"

Tsukasa Kadoya looked up blankly, but there was no one in front of him.

In the end, the people trapped in this space completely disappeared, merging into the storm interwoven with hazy colors. Illusions seemed to be reflected in the distorted aurora, and countless shadows overlapped in the fragments of a mirror.

Then, as if satisfied, a sigh was uttered, and the space sealed by the power of time and space suddenly exploded, instantly spreading out a magnificent and dazzling light curtain that swept across the entire world at an extremely fast speed!

wow——

The distorted history and the distorted world have finally returned to their original form.

It was a clear blue sky without any gloom.

……

……

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Special Investigation Division.

Shinnosuke Tomari, who had been sleeping on the desk, opened his eyes and looked at the desk in front of him with a dazed expression.

His gaze was fixed on the clock on the table, staring at the motionless hour hand. At that moment, his mind seemed to be a jumble of colors, as if he had thought of many things, or perhaps he was trapped in a nonsensical dream.

What happened in the dream?
I don't think I remember.

Just then, a piercing cell phone ringtone sounded.

Hikari Shinnosuke snapped out of his daze and quickly pulled out his phone to answer: "It's me, Hikari Shinnosuke."

[“Shinnosuke, Mechanical Mutant No. 102 has appeared. Move out immediately!”]
"Number 102...? Oh, oh, oh, I'm off now!"

Once fully awake, Tomari Shinnosuke grabbed his coat from the back of his chair and hurriedly ran out of the office.

The clock on the desk kept ticking forward.

...(End of chapter)