Kamen Rider from the ancient times

Kawahara didn't intend to scare the kind but immature general store owner, or any other passersby.

Because he scared himself too.

At that moment, as if sensing something, he almost instinctively connected with the Golden Fruit. Then, the familiar power flowed through his limbs and bones, which made Kawahara suddenly realize what he was doing.

Green Helium plants sprouted out of thin air from beneath his feet, climbing and spreading along his body as they grew and expanded in all directions.

Kawahara quickly stopped the erosion, and the pupil of his left eye had turned a mysterious dark red.

This is the power of the Golden Fruit.

—It also represents the power of the entire world.

Kouta Kuzuha, who has already become a god, is a special being.

Even in the chaotic ZiO timeline, the fact that Kota Kuzunoha became a god would not change even if he did not become Gaim.

Kawahara was also unsure whether he, who had hastily fused with the "Golden Fruit" at the time, had become a similar being, which was why he was able to survive the erasure caused by the power of spacetime.

But now that he has unintentionally awakened this power, he seems to have instantly understood the nature of this world, as if something has connected him to it.

Kawahara paused, looked up at the sky, and saw two golden lines appear around his dark red left eye, as if reflecting the sun and shining brightly.

Is there really no Kamen Rider in this world?
How could that be?

"boom!"

As if echoing Kawahara's thoughts at that moment, a huge emerald green tornado suddenly swept up in the distant city, accompanied by screams from some people. At that moment, a tiny figure was struggling in the tornado.

Kawahara then looked over, his excellent eyesight piercing through the chaotic outer layer of the tornado, and spotted the little child who had been swept up.

The grocery store owner also ran out at that moment.

"Oh my god... What, what's going on? And bro, what happened to you...?"

The boss glanced at the eerie tornado soaring into the sky, then at the man beside him who seemed to have suddenly transformed. He shook his head back and forth in shock, looking around as if he were extremely busy.

Kawahara slowly came to her senses, then waved the Rider Driver in her hand at him, a smile on her face: "Thank you, so I successfully transformed~"

"what?"

The grocery store owner looked over in bewilderment once again.

Then, to his astonishment, the man in front of him emitted a supernatural light and instantly transformed into a golden bolt of lightning, soaring into the sky!

"Ooh—"

Watching the beam of light crash into the emerald tornado, the elderly but still somewhat childish boss took a long time to recover from his shock, and then subconsciously murmured something.

"Fake...Kamen Rider?"

……

……

"Ahhh-"

The children, who were swept into the air by the tornado, were screaming and waving their arms when they suddenly bumped into a warm embrace, instantly shutting out all the fierce winds.

He paused for a moment, then looked up and saw a pair of peculiar eyes with a dark red circle flashing in the left eye.

Although the pitch black and dark red colors had an illusory and eerie feel, they were filled with a gentle smile, and the seven-year-old boy quickly relaxed.

wow——

A gust of air rose from the ground, and Kawahara landed safely on the plaza with the child, while the tornado behind them slowly dissipated.

The boy, still shaken, looked around before looking up at the person who had saved him.

The man's loose platinum blonde hair was reflected in those calm eyes that seemed beyond his years, and one could even vaguely see a faint, sacred, and ethereal glow emanating from him.

"Thank you," the boy said.

Kawahara smiled gently: "You're welcome. What's your name?"

“Shingo Hisanaga,” the boy said.

"Shenwu..."

Kawahara repeated the name, though he didn't know who the boy was, but the world's perception allowed him to discern the boy's special identity—a singularity.

In the world of Kamen Rider Den-O, "singularities" refer to humans who are not affected by time distortion.

If ZiO modifies a timeline, or if a timeline is destroyed, the future of everyone after that time will disappear, but the singularity will not be affected in any way.

Singularities exist at the intersection of countless timelines from the moment they are born, so even if one timeline disappears, they can still connect to countless other timelines.

Their lives lingered outside of time, like exiled wanderers, eternal and lonely.

If it were an ordinary world, then people in singularities would simply live ordinary lives. But if this world is filled with all sorts of chaotic things...

Therefore, singularities absolutely cannot remain uninvolved.

Even though they hadn't seen what caused the tornado, Kawahara seemed to have already guessed why Shingo Hisanaga had been attacked.

“Be careful!”

Shingo Hisanaga quickly said, "That guy is coming soon!"

That guy is—

Kawahara turned his head and looked around the square, where he saw two somewhat different young men walking towards them.

The reason they seemed different was because their demeanor was out of place in this "everyday" world; their facial expressions suggested that something unexpected might happen at any moment.

"you you you you……"

The young man with dyed yellow hair was wearing a dark blue baseball uniform and a black and red plaid shirt tied around his waist, exuding a hot street style.

The other person was pointing at Kawahara in astonishment, then at his hair and then at his body, before looking at the sky in shock, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't find the right words to express himself.

Kawahara didn't know how to express himself.

To become a god, one must turn white-haired—a tradition that seems to have started sometime ago, even though it was perfectly normal in the Blade world at the beginning.

Perhaps this is the aesthetic of the Golden Fruit...

Standing next to the blond-haired man was another young man in a khaki trench coat. However, compared to the hot-blooded style on the other side, the man who was thoughtfully observing Kawahara was clearly the composed type.

This combination of two people...

Kawahara has a familiar look to him.

Before they could say anything, the huge tornado that had previously dissipated rose up again from the ground. It was a poisonous emerald green, mixed with flying sand and dust, and headed towards the Bay Square where the crowd had gathered.

wow——

In an instant, the crowd that had been watching the spectacle scattered in a panic!

Shingo Hisanaga also became extremely nervous at this moment, and subconsciously took a step back, but then he turned around and ran over to grab Kawahara's clothes.

Kawahara looked down at him, then looked at the tornado over there, and saw a strangely shaped figure slowly walking out.

Finally, the raging wind subsided, revealing a strange figure whose body appeared to have been vertically split in two.

Its right half of its body was wrapped in dark green bandages covered in grime, while its left half of its black body was covered in ferocious thorns. With a half-smiling and half-crying expression, it resembled a strange monster with the characteristics of a "knight".

—Outlier W!

This is a form of "Kamen Rider" born from altered history, twisted by negative energy of hatred and resentment.

Shingo Hisanaga shrank back and clutched Kawahara's clothes tightly.

"Looks like it's the one that caused the problem, isn't it?"

The young man in the khaki trench coat narrowed his eyes slightly and said something, then raised his hand and took out a Rider Driver with a wrench. The blond guy standing next to him seemed to realize what was happening and also took out a Driver.

Kawahara glanced at their belts and officially confirmed the identities of the two men.

Kiryu Sento – Kamen Rider Build!

Ryuga Banjou – Kamen Rider Cross-Z!

However, in the blink of an eye, not only did Another W from the ZiO world appear, but Kamen Rider Build from another world also appeared.

This world is anything but ordinary!
...(End of chapter)