Kamen Rider from the ancient times

"scholar……"

"scholar……"

"Tsukasa Kadoya..."

In a somewhat unreal state of mind, I vaguely heard a steady and powerful voice calling out to me again and again.

The voice was faint and indistinct, and the consciousness being called did not respond at all, until a faint golden light shone for a moment in the darkness.

"hurry up……"

"There's no time..."

There is no time—

On the endlessly roaring wheel of time in the void of darkness, a crimson knight's emblem suddenly lit up, and then a figure tumbled out of it.

"Uh……"

Tsukasa Kadoya shook his head, still somewhat dazed, his vision blurred, as if all he could see was the golden light swirling around him.

He tried to move forward, but countless golden threads appeared on his body, binding his limbs and dragging him down toward the flowing golden river behind him.

Feeling the force being applied to him, Tsukasa Kadoya, who had been instinctively resisting, finally came to his senses.

This is a void.

He successfully arrived in front of the Wheel of Time!
Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly looked up and saw that the outer ring of the enormous Time Wheel was made up of layers of gears of different sizes. Those gears turned randomly, like the wheel of fate in a story, but it was not rolling forward.

Instead, a huge disc came hurtling towards them.

But there was no device in the center of the Wheel of Time, which was empty and reflected the darkness behind it.

In this void, everything it passes through will return to its original timeline, just like the Zero Train back then.

This time, Tsukasa Kadoya came directly from the Wheel of Time, so after he rushed out, he landed directly on the protruding device on the side of the wheel, where he was being torn backward by a powerful force of absorption.

"I see……"

He looked up at the top of the Wheel of Time, raised his hand and pressed it against the inner circle of the wheel, instantly revealing the knight emblems of twenty Kamen Riders.

This is what Kouta Kazuha meant when he said that one could only come into contact with this place by dying "outside the world".

Because their existence is locked by the "Time Wheel", the history of Kamen Rider can no longer be erased. If a Kamen Rider disappears outside the original timeline, he will be captured by the Time Wheel and sent back to the original timeline.

even……

Perhaps it's not just that.

As Tsukasa Kadoya moved across the metallic device, two illusory time hands, one long and one short, appeared from the empty center when he touched the middle.

The starting point of the two pointers is the black knight emblem that is almost integrated with the dark space.

"This is it."

Tsukasa Kadoya chuckled lightly: "Give it to me!"

As his voice grew louder, Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly reached into the knight's crest, and a flowing silver-white curtain appeared, while swirling lines appeared in the center of the previously empty roulette wheel.

hum-

At this moment, the enormous wheel of time and space suddenly roared, its layers of gears resembling a vibrating melody, causing one's consciousness and memory to become hazy.

On the wheel of time, the magenta Decade knight emblem flashed rapidly, and Tsukasa Kadoya's body lost all strength and fell uncontrollably into the golden river below.

There was absolutely no chance of resisting...

Is this how it's going to fail?

Just then, his hand seemed to touch something.

"scholar……"

Kadoya Tsukasa suddenly snapped out of his daze, his gaze clear as he stared at the dazzling golden light before him, a hint of malice flashing in his eyes!
"I am the destroyer of the world!"

The aurora curtain began to spread outwards from the center of his palm.

"It's Tsukasa Kadoya!"

As if triggered by something, the two time hands on the roulette wheel, which were originally stationary, began to rotate.

"Even more so—"

"Kamen Rider Decade!"

There's nothing that Tsukasa Kadoya can't do!
Swish!
As if the wind was whistling past his ears, one of the knight emblems that the hands of time had passed suddenly lit up with a fiery red light, and before Tsukasa Kadoya could react, another knight emblem flashed out a blinding white light!

Swish!Swish!Swish!
Then more and more knight emblems were awakened and lit up.

Kamen Rider Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, W, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive, Ghost, Ex-Aid, Build, ZiO!

The crests of more than twenty Kamen Riders shimmered with different colors, surging towards the center like rivers flowing into the sea.

Tsukasa Kadoya noticed the repulsive force weakening. Ignoring his surprise at the change in the Wheel of Time, he forcefully pulled the object out! "Whoosh—"

His body plummeted downwards due to the reaction force and the force of being swallowed. Tsukasa Kadoya quickly looked at the thing in his hand, only to see that it was a white Decade Driver.

Tsukasa Kadoya: "...Huh?"

Before he could even process what was going on, Tsukasa Kadoya's body was already being dragged down by the golden light, and the enormous Wheel of Time roared past him.

Then everything returned to calm.

……

……

"scholar?"

"scholar?!"

"scholar!!!"

The girl's shout exploded right next to his ear, and Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly opened his eyes with a start, only to see Hikari Natsumi holding a thumbs up in front of him.

"...Natsumikan?"

Before Tsukasa Kadoya could react, he instinctively covered his neck.

Mitsuka Mitsuka also put her finger down in annoyance.

"Honestly, this is worrying!"

"..."

Tsukasa Kadoya slowly sat up straight on the sofa, looked around, and realized that he was in a familiar, cozy photo studio.

Completely different from the desolation of another world.

He returned to the original timeline.

As Hikari Natsumi made coffee behind the counter, she muttered irritably, "Don't always leave suddenly and then suddenly reappear unconscious. It's really worrying. Before, the shop was suddenly covered with strange plants..."

"That's the forest of Helheim."

"Helheim? So it's already strange that a forest appears in a photo studio!" Hikari Natsumi glared at him.

Unsurprisingly, it was because this guy took the Light Photo Studio with him to another world that the photo studio automatically blended into the world's background, instantly turning into a botanical garden.

Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly added, "Oh, right, you can't eat the fruit that plant grows, or you'll turn into a monster!"

"Eh?"

Upon hearing this, Hikari Natsumi's expression froze.

Then she gasped, hurriedly dropped the coffee she had already brewed, and ran to the kitchen to pick out the fruit from the basket.

They almost became dessert.

Tsukasa Kadoya watched as Natsumi Hikari went off to do her work, then lowered his head and picked up the Decade Driver.

After going through all that trouble to reach the outside world and finally managing to make contact with the Wheel of Time, did you still fail in the end?

In the end, all that was brought out was this thing.

"This belt..."

Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly paused, stunned.

This seems to be the Decade Driver that he had from the beginning, which was later destroyed in the battle with Kamen Rider 3, and this lost belt reappeared in Kawahara's hands.

And now the belt is completely intact.

After giving his new belt to his other self in another world, Tsukasa Kadoya had lost the means to become Decade again. But unexpectedly, he suddenly got a Decade Driver.

Everything was just right.

After a thoughtful silence, Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly stood up and put on his driver.

Click…

The Decade Driver automatically popped out a belt to secure his belt, and the Knight Card Box also appeared at his side.

Sensing something, Tsukasa Kadoya opened his Rider Card Box and precisely drew an unfamiliar, jet-black card from among dozens of Rider Cards.

No! It shouldn't be unfamiliar!

Because Tsukasa Kadoya also briefly possessed this card once.

The warm afternoon sun shone through the window behind me, outlining golden patterns on the black card surface. It wasn't a traditional Kamen Rider image; it was just a pure black warrior emblem with four horns.

—Arcle Knight Card.

...(End of chapter)