Kamen Rider from the ancient times

"Is this your home?"

Kawahara followed the child to a residential area.

Seven-year-old Shingo Hisanaga undoubtedly knew where his home was, but looking at the building in front of him, he hesitated, nodding and then shaking his head.

His home address was correct, but the building in front of him gave off a feeling of familiarity mixed with strangeness.

"Shingo, do you remember today's date?" Kawahara asked, looking down at him.

“I remember!”

Shingo Hisanaga suddenly perked up: "Today is January 29, 2000, the day before 'Kuuga' premiered!"

In this world, the Kamen Rider series has been rebooted after being suspended for several years, which is why Shingo Hisanaga is particularly looking forward to it.

On that very day, he was inexplicably attacked by a strange man.

Kawahara crouched down to look him in the eye and smiled, "But today is 2018!"

"Eh?"

Shingo Hisanaga was stunned.

Kawahara stood up again and looked at Ichito Ken in front of him: "Want to go in and take a look? What your home will look like in twenty years?"

Shingo Kuenaga: "..."

The experience of time travel was indeed a bit beyond the scope of a seven-year-old child, but after regaining his senses, Shingo Hisanaga nodded with a hint of curiosity and anticipation.

There was no one in the house, so Kawahara simply led Shingo Hisanaga inside, acting as if they were returning to their own home.

The room on the second floor, belonging to a certain young man, was filled with Kamen Rider merchandise. The table and display cases were piled high with dolls and belts, and the walls were decorated with different Kamen Rider posters and shikishi (art boards). His collection was even more extensive than that of the owner of a used general store.

Shingo Hisanaga, who was the first to enter the room, exclaimed "Wow!" with his eyes shining. Although he didn't recognize a single Heisei Kamen Rider, it didn't stop him from being attracted to these cool and stylish Kamen Rider toys.

After picking up a Kuuga doll from the table, Shingo Hisanaga suddenly remembered something and said to Kawahara with delight:

My little brother is about to be born!

"Ok?"

Kawahara, who was examining the toys, looked down.

The seven-year-old boy laughed heartily, "Mom moved into the hospital two days ago. He should be born around the same time after 'Kuuga' starts airing!"

He was attacked by a strange man who suddenly appeared on his way to the hospital to visit his mother today (2000).

Shingo Hisanaga has always longed for his younger brother, whom he has never met.

Then this expectation was also placed on the upcoming "Kamen Rider Kuuga", because he knew that he would meet his younger brother at this moment.

"Do you really like Kamen Rider?" Kawahara suddenly asked.

"Yes! I like it very much! Although we haven't officially met yet, I will definitely protect our Kamen Rider together with my brother in the future!" Shingo Hisanaga showed a childlike smile.

"Protect...your Kamen Rider?"

Kawahara was slightly taken aback.

Shingo Hisanaga looked at the Kuuga doll in his hand and gently touched it with great joy.

Although he has never officially met either his younger brother or the Kamen Rider, Shingo Hisanaga's expectations for both are the same.

This child harbors happy hopes for the future.

Kawahara looked at the table and saw a stack of A's on the exam paper. He reached out and moved the messy books and supplies in the corner, and then found a student ID card that had been replaced.

The name on the student ID is—Hanaga Tou.

"I see. So he's your younger brother. He is indeed a high school student this year (2018)." Kawahara chuckled.

"what? What?"

Upon hearing the information about his younger brother, Shingo Hisanaga eagerly tiptoed to see it as well, and Kawahara bent down and handed him his student ID.

The headshot on the student ID showed a high school student with a fake smile, the same strange young man Kawahara had met at the Bay Square. Now he finally understood why the other man had attracted him.

Given that the boy is related to and has a deep connection with the singularity, something mysterious must have happened to him.

Shingo Hisanaga took the student ID, stared at the photo on it for a long time with wide eyes, his eyes sparkling.

This is his younger brother, who will soon be living with him.

Kawahara gazed at Hisanaga Shingo, a smile involuntarily appearing on his face. At that moment, he sensed something and turned to look towards the door.

Ding Ding Ding-

The creaking sound of the iron gate being opened came from the courtyard.

Then came the sounds from inside the house, followed by hurried footsteps approaching from afar, and finally, a figure appeared at the doorway.

The high school student, feeling dejected, returned home and looked up at his study. There stood two people, one tall and one short, both strange and familiar. Strange because he didn't recognize them, and familiar because—

The "mysterious entity" lurking within him emitted a sharp, explosive sound at that moment!

Kawahara's brow twitched at that moment, and he leaned back slightly, his expression strange as if he had been unexpectedly provoked by something.

The high school student took a step back, his face filled with astonishment.

He naturally recognized the two people as well.

The strange white-haired man from the square has actually caught up with us, even though he's dressed normally now.

[Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!]

This time, without needing any prompting from the voice inside his body, the high school student panicked and ran away as soon as he saw a strange stranger barging into his house without saying a word.

"Huh? When..."

Shingo Hisanaga also realized what was happening at that moment, and seeing the high school student who looked exactly like the one on the student ID, he subconsciously called out.

Hisanaga paused for a moment as he reached the top of the stairs. He turned back to look at the child who was looking at him with a face full of joy. After a moment of confusion, he quickly ran downstairs.

As if a ghost was chasing him, the high school student looked back at the house and ran out of the yard in a panic.

Shingo Tsunaga was somewhat bewildered: "Huh?"

"You scared him, didn't you? Look, his older brother is even younger than him?"

Kawahara glanced at Hisanaga's retreating figure, then at the seven-year-old elementary school student, Hisanaga Shingo, who was surprisingly calmer than an eighteen-year-old high school student.

It feels perfectly natural to blame the elementary school students.

But the elementary school student was quite logical: "It must be that our sudden appearance here scared him, so let's leave!"

Shingo Hisanaga neatly placed the Kuuga doll and his student ID on the table. After seemingly lingeringly glancing around at the different Kamen Riders in the room, he pursed his lips and turned to leave.

Kawahara followed them out of the room and saw a pile of fine gravel scattered in the corridor and at the top of the stairs, which hadn't been there before they arrived.

The sand was pale and fine, like time that couldn't be grasped through fingers, flowing all the way to the courtyard gate.

—Otherworldly God.

Only the Otherworldly Gods can bring such Sands of Time.

The "Imagin" from the world of Kamen Rider Den-O is a spiritual energy entity born from the emotions of future humans.

Because they are born from the human mind and consciousness, they need to make a contract with humans and fulfill their contractual desires "in any form" before they can obtain a real physical body from human imagery and travel to different timelines through human desires and obsessions.

The sharp, explosive sound that came from Hisanaga's body just now was undoubtedly from an otherworldly being that had possessed him.

That boy made a pact with the Otherworldly God.

The reason why the Otherworldly Gods want to make contracts with humans is mostly to return to the past timeline and change history by disrupting the timeline.

As long as the altered history is connected to the "future of Otherworldly rulers," then they have succeeded. Kawahara pondered the methods to free the possessed Otherworldly from its contractor: one was for the contractor to voluntarily relinquish their wish, and the other was for the contractor's wish to be fulfilled.

However, most contractors are targeted by the Otherworldly Gods because the other party is deeply obsessed and therefore unlikely to give up their wishes.

Unless you beat them up.

But Hisanaga is Shingo's younger brother, so it seems a bit rash to solve the problem by beating him up.

And more importantly—

Why did the Otherworldly God seek out Hisanaga? What is the other's obsession?
Moreover, the aura of that otherworldly god was somewhat...

As Kawahara was pondering this, a loud explosion suddenly came from not far away, followed by a green tornado falling in front of them.

Upon seeing this familiar scene, Shingo Hisanaga quickly hid behind Kawahara, but the next moment, he suddenly remembered something and looked worriedly at the location of the explosion.

That's the direction we should leave!

Kawahara was looking at the tornado in front of them when he heard this. He glanced at the smoke rising not far away and then patted Shingo's head.

"Don't worry, there's a Kamen Rider there."

Perhaps we should first pay attention to the oddball W who came knocking on our door.

Hearing this, Shingo Hisanaga immediately felt relieved. He grabbed the hem of the man's clothes, who made him feel safe, and asked with concern, "What should we do? Should we run away?"

In other words—can you beat them?

Kawahara found it amusing to read that meaning into the child's earnest, dark eyes.

"Probably not."

……

……

——Bang!

Hisanaga, who was fleeing his home in a panic, bumped into a boy who was lying in wait at the corner.

"Ouch!"

"hiss……"

The person opposite him plopped down on the ground.

Hisanaga staggered a few steps, clutching his chest where the other person's head had hit him, and looked up in confusion. He saw the boy opposite him wearing a magenta outer robe, rubbing his head and looking at him awkwardly.

"I'm sorry..." Tokiwa Sougo said awkwardly.

Upon seeing the boy, Hisanaga was stunned for a moment before suddenly realizing what was happening. He stepped forward with barely suppressed excitement and exclaimed, "Sougo! You're Tokiwa Sougo, right?!"

[Yes, yes, yes! That's ZiO, but let's not stop, let's run a little further!]

The voice inside him spoke with even greater urgency.

The person who had been following Hisanaga since school was Tokiwa Sougo.

Since Tsukuyomi, from the Time Clan of the Kamen Rider Zi-O world, is a time traveler from 2068, logically no one in this era should know Tsukuyomi (from the Kamen Riders' perspective)—but Hisanaga Toru acts as if he already knows her identity.

As a result, he was targeted by Tokiwa Sougo and Meikoin Geiz, who had also come to this world.

However, Tsukuyomi suddenly and inexplicably lost her memory. She assumed the identity of a student and treated herself as an ordinary person, so Gates went to the other side to protect the amnesiac Tsukuyomi.

Tokiwa Sougo is tasked with investigating this strange high school student.

"Excuse me, do you know me?"

Tokiwa Sougo asked tentatively at this moment.

Upon seeing the Kamen Rider himself, Hisanaga Touma temporarily abandoned the incessant chatter of the Imagin and excitedly grabbed Tokiwa Sougo's right hand, pulling him up from the ground while shaking hands with him as if at a fan meeting.

"Of course I recognize you! I've finally found you!"

With a bright smile, Hisanaga said, "I'm Hisanaga, born on January 29, 2000. Because I repeated a grade, I'm now in the same grade as Sougo!"

"……Uh?"

Tokiwa Sougo paused upon hearing this: "So you meant, you knew I would definitely come?"

"That's right, because I possess the power to attract Kamen Riders! Seeing is believing, and I'm so happy to meet you real Kamen Riders today!" Hisanaga Toru laughed.

"You really dare to say that... I feel like that person is about to catch up, can we leave quickly?"

The voice of the Otherworldly God had become weak and feeble.

Tokiwa Sougo was also somewhat puzzled by these words.

He was about to ask something more when Tokiwa Sougo, with keen senses, suddenly pounced and knocked Hisanaga Toru to the ground!
"Danger!"

The moment the words fell, a ball of energy fell from the sky, exploding violently where they had been standing!

"Boom——!"

Sparks and pebbles flew everywhere. Caught off guard, Hisahito was still in shock. The life-or-death crisis made him tremble with uncontrollable fear.

Tokiwa Sougo immediately looked in the direction from which the attack came, and saw two ferocious Other Riders walking towards him from the end of the street.

—Outlier OOO and Outlier Fourze!

"Have they come looking for us again?"

With a solemn expression, Tokiwa Sougo took out the Time Driver, put it on, and immediately activated the ZiO watch face.

In an instant, a giant golden clock unfolded behind him, accompanied by the ethereal ticking sound. Tokiwa Sougo struck a pose and shouted!
"Henshin!"

Rider Time!

Covered in black and magenta armor, Kamen Rider ZiO, having completed his transformation, clenched his fists and charged towards the two Another Riders opposite him!
boom--!
A battle is about to break out over there.

Before Hisahito could recover, a raging green tornado suddenly descended from the other side of the street, and amidst the flying sand and stones, the strong wind also threw his mind into turmoil.

Because he realized that location was his home!
The Otherworldly God intensified his persuasion at this moment.

[I really can't take it anymore. More and more monsters are coming to this world. Now, ZiO, you've seen them too. Let's end this soon!]

"I……"

[If this continues, your house will collapse! — Even if your wish is fulfilled and these Kamen Riders and monsters disappear, the damage will be irreversible!]

"but……"

That awful man is pursuing you too!

"..."

Hisanaga, sprawled on the ground, glanced at Kamen Rider ZiO being ganged up on by two Another Riders, then at the explosion coming from the direction of his house. He swallowed hard and took a deep breath—

"I have one last wish!"

Ahh...

In the next moment, just as the Otherworldly God was about to collapse and wail in agony.

Hisanaga gritted his teeth and said, "Let me see Kamen Rider Kuuga. As long as I see him, my wish will be fulfilled!"

Upon hearing this, the Otherworldly God's spirits lifted!
It ends as soon as you see it.

The contract is established!

...(End of chapter)