Kamen Rider from the ancient times

"Kunaga Shingo..."

The alien W approached slowly with a sinister smile.

"Hey, count your sins!"

Although he was saying the exact same lines as Kamen Rider W, it sounded particularly eerie and chilling coming from Another W's mouth.

Shingo Hisanaga stood close to Kawahara, but the next moment, he felt a force push him away, and the person in front of him took a step forward.

A dazzling golden light emanated from the man, his shoulder-length hair turned platinum blonde, his white cloak fluttered gently to the ground, and a black and gold Yaguru belt emerged from the light around Kawahara's waist.

Upon seeing this, the alien W, who was about to accelerate its charge, stopped in its tracks!

Kawahara slightly raised one hand, and golden light condensed into black muscles on his body. Fiery red exoskeleton armor covered his chest and joints, and finally, crimson compound eyes lit up on both sides of the horns on the head of a stag beetle.

—Red All-Powerful Kuuga!
Shingo Hisanaga, standing behind him, brightened up, his anticipation and joy evident in his eyes.

“Kuga!”

Although Shingo Hisanaga had never watched a single episode of a Heisei Kamen Rider series, he was completely accurate in reviewing the publicly available information before Kuuga's premiere.

He knew that this was Kamen Rider Kuuga!
Compared to the unknown Kamen Rider he had seen in the plaza before, Kuuga's form was the most exciting to him.

Because the day Kuuga was born also meant that his new life was about to begin!
“Kuga!”

Shingo Hisanaga shouted with delight again.

Kawahara turned to look at Shingo Hisanaga, the words "Not Kuuga" about to slip out caught in his throat, but in the end he said nothing, only extending his hand to give the child a thumbs up.

Shingo Hisanaga didn't know what it meant, but he still smiled and gave him a thumbs up.

Kawahara smiled and then looked at the outcast W.

"Another Rider..."

A cold voice chuckled: "I hate twisted Kamen Rider stuff like you the most."

The alien W growled unhappily, cautiously pacing around him without launching an attack.

But the next moment, the fiery red figure flashed past, and a sudden, enormous force slammed into it, leaving a long trail of sparks in the residential street, like splashing waves crashing into the wall at the end!

"boom!"

The thick courtyard wall crumbled and collapsed, and the smoke from the explosion was swept into the sky by a green gust of wind that rose from the ground.

The alien W struggled, but with its head being pulled by the back, it couldn't break free from the shackles above its head. The warrior standing in front of it was like an insurmountable mountain, his dark hands like iron clamps, and a dangerous and scorching aura enveloped the entire battlefield.

When Kawahara saw that the alien W was still moving around energetically, he grabbed its head and slammed it hard onto the ground!
"boom!"

The bricks and soil in the yard flew up, and Alien W sank into the ground like a headless shovel.

Its exposed arms braced against the pit, trying to pull itself out, but the next moment a foot stomped heavily on its back.

A shockwave erupted around them, causing the already collapsed ground to sink even further.

Kawahara stepped on the alien W and knelt down on one knee. A rather sinister and cold voice came from the warrior who was radiating a holy aura at this moment.

"Who sent you?"

A gurgling sound came from beneath the soil. Kawahara listened for a moment, but finding no answer, he stomped down harder.

"Is it the Time Calamity, or Oma Zi-O?"

"Or is he the leader of the Otherworldly Gods?"

"Shocker? X Group?"

Kawahara recounted all the possible masterminds he knew. The Time Jackers and the corrupted Oma Zi-O (as well as Another Zi-O) could both have dispatched Another Riders, and since the enemies were targeting the Singularity, it was also possible that they were from the future Imagin team. As for Shocker and Foundation X, their composition was simply more mixed.

Kawahara could sense that although people had fabricated the story of Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider actually existed in this world.

So what caused them to disappear?
Perhaps it was the Otherworldly Gods who changed history.

As long as singularities exist in the world, history has a chance to be reversed back to the correct timeline, based on the "time" of life in those singularities. This is why Shingo Hisanaga was targeted by his enemies.

So, the key to solving all this might be the era in which seven-year-old Shingo Hisanaga lived—2000!
Moreover, it was a very special date.

The day before Kuuga started airing!
Someone changed the point of divergence that led to the birth of the real Kamen Rider from that time.

As Kawahara stepped on the alien W, he pondered, feeling as if he had touched upon the truth of the world.

But just as he was about to lift Another W out of the pit and throw it into the air to finish it off, Another W's right arm, which had been struggling, suddenly turned into bright yellow soft tissue, which flew up like an octopus and wrapped around his right foot that was stepping on the other's back.

"Luna!"

Another Rider is the other side of the original Kamen Rider, and even surpasses the original Kamen Rider in power. Therefore, Another W can also transform into different Gaia Memory forms just like Kamen Rider W.

The yellow tentacles gripped Kawahara's ankle and flung him away!
Swah——

Kawahara performed a side somersault in mid-air and landed on the ground. Immediately, a Pegasus Crossbow appeared in his hand, and he pulled the trigger at Another W without stopping for a moment!
The crossbow bolt, swift as lightning, arrived in front of Alien W in an instant; having just pulled itself out of the ground, it had no time to dodge.

However, at this very moment—

The golden crossbow bolt, trailing a long, lightning-like tail, froze in mid-air, flickering like the unstable, colorful light glitch on a television screen.

"Ok?"

Kawahara suddenly realized something and turned around without hesitation, rushing towards Shingo Hisanaga, who was hiding behind a telephone pole.

But the moment he made a move, his elusive figure froze in mid-air, and the entire space seemed to be paused, the whole world suddenly falling silent.

"I almost misjudged the situation. I didn't expect you to be able to act even at this level."

A light, mocking laugh drifted over.

At the end of the street, a gloomy-faced young man in a black special forces uniform walked out. He looked at the frozen red Kuuga with disdain, twisted his neck from side to side, and raised his left hand to touch his chin.

Kawahara saw a black symbol resembling a sun ring engraved on the back of the other person's left hand.

An unusual aura emanated from this person.

It was an enemy of a type I had never seen before.

"Well, let me introduce myself~"

The young man spread his arms wide, as if showing off, and said with a smile, "I am the Super Time Jacker, Tid!"

—The Time-Trapper?
Kawahara automatically removed the preceding praise; the only Time Jackers he remembered were Swartz, Aura, and Ur.

However, the reason why Aura and Ur were able to become Time Jackers was because Swartz, who was a member of the "Time Clan," gave them power. In other words, the Time Jackers were created by Swartz.

He had never heard of any Time Tribulationers outside of this realm.

In that instant, Kawahara suddenly remembered the poster he had just seen on the street for the "Kamen Rider Zi-O Spring Movie".

Oh……

It seems he hasn't seen a single theatrical version.

...(End of chapter)