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Chapter 396 Kamen Rider Nasca's Collaboration with W; Sudo Kirihiko's "Last Words"

The Sonozaki family home, underground.

Sonozaki Ryubei held Mick in her arms, standing in front of the Earth Well, gently scratching Mick's chin, seemingly lost in thought.

At that moment, a series of faint footsteps suddenly echoed in the empty underground space.

Following the underground passage, Sudo Kirihiko arrived at a spacious area.

This underground space was not unfamiliar to Sudo Kirihiko.

Upon seeing Sonozaki Ryubei standing before the Well of the Earth, Sudo Kirihiko quickly stepped forward and said, "Grandpa Sonozaki..."

"Kirihiko-kun, you've arrived." Sonozaki Ryubei waved to Sudo Kirihiko without turning her head and said, "Come on over."

Upon hearing this, Sudo Kirihiko swallowed the question he was about to ask and quickly went to Sonozaki Ryubei's side.

"Kihiko-kun, I know what you want to ask. Bird Memory was indeed given to those children by me." Sonozaki Ryubei turned to look at Sudo Kihiko and said.

"Why?!"

"Twelve years ago, we obtained Earth's memories here, and the Gaia Memory was born from here. Although we have been researching it for twelve years, Earth's memories are still full of mysteries. Therefore, experiments are necessary. In other words, our museum must allow the Gaia Memory to circulate in Fuuto. Among them, the Bird Memory is the one I am most interested in." As she spoke, Ryuhei Sonozaki typed a few words on the keyboard.

At this moment, the lampposts standing in this empty underground space also changed from soft white light to a cold blue light.

A stream of colorful data also emerged from the Earth Well before their eyes.

"How is it? Isn't it beautiful?" Sonozaki Ryubei said, her eyes filled with fascination as she gazed at the dazzling stream of data flowing from the Earth Well.

"But they're still children!" Sudo Kirihiko said angrily to Sonozaki Ryubei, his attention not on appreciating the beautiful scenery.

"Precisely because they are children," Ryubei Sonozaki said with a smile, her hands behind her back, "only children who haven't yet reached adulthood can provide more accurate data. Based on their pure and innocent spirit and body, Bird Memory will evolve rapidly. And, in the near future, it will break through its limits."

"Breaking through the limits? Does that mean the human using it will die?" Sudo Kirihiko asked.

"Their deaths were not meaningless, and the data obtained from them will make a significant contribution to the purpose of our museum," said Ryubei Sonozaki in a very indifferent tone.

"I won't let you do that!" Sudo Kirihiko was furious and immediately took out the Lost Driver and placed it on his waist.

"Nasca!"

"Hen Shin!"

A flash of yellow lightning disappeared in an instant, and Sudo Kirihiko transformed into Kamen Rider Nasca.

Nasca raised his hand, and the Nazca Holy Sword materialized in his hand.

Then, Nasca stepped forward and placed the Nazca Holy Sword against Sonozaki Ryubei's neck, his tone no longer gentle, but cold and sharp.

"Tell me, how can she be saved!"

With her hands in her pockets and a faint smile on her face, Sonozaki Ryubei seemed completely unconcerned about the Nazca sword held to her neck. Instead, she looked at Nazca with interest and asked, "Kirihiko-kun, are you planning to betray Foundation X? Or do you really see yourself as a Kamen Rider protecting Fuuto?"

"That's none of your business! Just tell me how to save her." Upon hearing this, Nasca immediately moved the Nazca Holy Sword forward a few steps, the sharp blade almost touching the skin of Sonozaki Ryubei's neck.

"All we need to do is pinpoint the location of the Bird Memory within her body and destroy it. But what do you plan to do now that you know all this?" Ryubei Sonozaki asked again.

"Of course, we'll destroy Bird Memory," Nasca said.

"Hahaha..." Upon hearing this, Sonozaki Ryubei couldn't help but burst into laughter, saying, "Kirihiko-kun, you really do think of yourself as a Kamen Rider."

"What's so funny?"

"Kihiko-kun, the X Group is far more complex than it appears," said Ryubei Sonozaki, looking meaningfully at Nasca.

"What are you trying to say?"

"It's nothing, you'll find out soon enough." Sonozaki Ryubei laughed heartily, in a very cheerful mood. "Kirihiko-kun, if you don't go now, it might be too late to stop it."

"Damn it!" Upon hearing this, Nasca also retrieved the Nazca Holy Sword, turned around, and used super speed to leave the underground.

……

Narumi Detective Agency.

"She's asleep." Akiko Narumi sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Akane Egusa lying on the bed, her breathing becoming steady, and whispered.

"You're tired of crying, aren't you? How pitiful." Akiko Narumi stood up, walked over to Shotaro Hidari, and said.

"I'm going to Feng's Barber Shop." Shotaro Zuo stood up from the stool, picked up the down jacket draped over the back of the chair and the hat on the coffee table, and said, "At least, I need to let the boss know that Akane is safe and sound."

"Be careful on the road," Akiko Narumi said, then turned to Philip, who was studying the Bird Memory, and said, "In short, the matter is temporarily resolved."

"Maybe so," Philip said without looking up.

He was very interested in this Gaia Memory that could not be destroyed by W's ultimate move.

This is the first time since he and Shotaro became W that a memory has been unable to be destroyed by W's ultimate attack.

Just as everyone at the detective agency went about their own business, Jiang Caoqian, who was lying on the bed, suddenly opened her eyes.

Her eyes were dark and bluish, as if she had been poisoned.

Jiang Caoqian quietly got out of bed and walked over to Philip, who was studying Bird Memory.

Hearing the footsteps, Philip looked up and saw Jiang Caoqian staring blankly at the bird memory in his hand.

Startled, Philip had just stood up when Jiang Caoqian slapped him to the ground. The bird memory in Philip's hand also slipped out of his grasp, slid a distance on the ground, and crashed into the steps in front of the detective agency.

Thanks to the enhancement from the bird's memory, Jiang Caoqian, though still a minor, has already surpassed the strength of an adult.

The commotion of Philip falling to the ground also caught Narumi Akiko's attention. When she saw Egusa Akane staggering towards Philip, Narumi Akiko was startled and quickly got up to block her way.

"Akane!" Before Akiko Narumi could even get close, Akane Egusa pushed her to the ground, then pushed Philip, who had already sat up, down again.

"I want Bird Memory, I want to keep flying!" Jiang Caoqian cried hysterically.

"What's going on?" Akiko Narumi asked, looking at Akane Egusa's hysterical state and turning to Philip.

"The negative effects of the memory are much greater than we imagined. We absolutely cannot let her get her hands on the Bird Memory again!" Philip stared at Jiang Caoqian's bluish eye bags; her signs of poisoning were more severe than those of an average adult.

As he spoke, Philip turned and pounced on the bird memory that had fallen to the ground.

However, Jiang Caoqian was faster than Philip. With a light jump, she leaped over Philip and Narumi Akiko, landed in front of the detective agency's door, picked up the bird memory on the ground, pushed open the door, and ran out.

Seeing that he couldn't get the bird memory, Philip took the opportunity to throw a signal transmitter onto Jiang Caoqian's sweater.

"Something's wrong!" Akiko Narumi exclaimed anxiously as she watched Akane Egusa run away.

"Contact Shotaro immediately. I've placed something similar on her," Philip said, taking out a signal transmitter.

"A signal transmitter? When did you put it there?" Akiko Narumi glanced at the signal transmitter Philip had taken out, but didn't dwell on it too much. She quickly got up from the ground and called Shotaro Sato.

Shotaro Hidari, who had just left the Wind Barber Shop and boarded the Tough Guy bike, also received a call from Akiko Narumi.

"What?! Akane stole the bird memory and ran away?" Shotaro exclaimed in surprise, as if he had realized something, and quickly lowered his voice to ask.

"That's right, Philip placed a signal transmitter on Akane. You need to find Akane quickly!" Narumi Akiko said.

While looking at the signal appearing on the Spider Watch, Shotaro replied, "Location confirmed. I will definitely find Akane."

Inside the Feng Barber Shop, the owner, Jiangcao, also heard Zuo Xiangtaro's words and hurriedly pushed open the door, anxiously asking, "Xiaoxiang, what's wrong with Xiaoqian?"

"It's alright, just wait." Shotaro smiled at the boss of Jiangcao, picked up the helmet and put it on, then rode the Hardman and followed the location provided by the Spider Watch.

Please!

Riding the Tough Guy, Zuo Xiangtaro quickly found Jiang Caoqian walking aimlessly on the street, using the location provided by the Spider Watch.

Shotaro stopped the car, looked at Akane's retreating figure, and called out, "Akane!"

Jiang Caoqian turned around and looked at Zuo Xiangtaro.

Shotaro Hidari lifted the visor of his helmet, then took off the helmet, jumped off the vehicle, and said, "Give me the bird memory!"

Jiang Caoqian shook her head, picked up the bird memory, and pressed the button on the memory.

"Bird!"

"No way, I want to keep flying!" Jiang Caoqian laughed maniacally, pinching the bird memory and shoving it directly into the interface on her arm.

"No!" Shotaro exclaimed in surprise.

But it was too late. The dark red data stream instantly covered Jiang Caoqian's entire body. In the golden bird feather light effect, Jiang Caoqian transformed into a bird hybrid that looked exactly the same as before.

"Hahaha, this feels amazing!" The bird hybrid let out a crisp laugh and staggered towards the sea.

Seeing this scene, Shotaro cried out in anguish, "Why, why did things turn out like this?!"

With that, Shotaro took out the W Driver and placed it on his waist.

Inside the Narumi Detective Agency.

Philip glanced down at the W Driver that had appeared at his waist, closed the wordless book in his hand, and said, "Shotaro, Bird's control is still unknown. If we fight rashly, she might die."

"But only we can stop her!" Shotaro said, taking out the Ace Memory and pressing the button on it.

"Joker!"

"Cyclone!"

"Hen Shin!"

"Cyclone! Joker!"

Green and purple lightning bolts radiated from the center of the W Driver, and green and black armor fragments, accompanied by howling winds, covered Shotaro Hidari's body.

The bird-like hybrid turned to look at Kamen Rider W and chuckled, "Want to play with me?"

As it spoke, the bird hybrid flew into the sky, playfully flinging many feathers at W below.

Seeing the feathers flung out by the bird hybrid, W quickly dodged to the side.

After shedding these feathers, the bird hybrid turned and flew into the sky.

W watched the bird hybrid's retreating figure and immediately used the stag beetle phone to call the Cyclone Sprinter.

Then, W jumped on the Tough Guy and chased after them.

Faced with the feathers constantly being flung out by the bird hybrid, W, riding the Tough Guy, could only keep dodging.

Soon, the Cyclone Sprinter arrived, drifting in front of W and blocking the feathers flung out by the bird hybrid.

After switching from the Tough Guy to the Tough Guy Fighter, W rode the Tough Guy Fighter and chased after the bird hybrid flying in the sky.

"Oni-san, I'm here!" The bird hybrid flew back and forth in the air with a playful laugh, dodging the energy blasts fired by the tough fighter jet while constantly flinging countless feathers at W.

W piloted the tough fighter jet, continuously firing energy blasts to shatter all the feathers flung out by the bird dopant, and then kept firing energy blasts at the bird dopant.

Although the bird doppelganger skillfully dodged most of the energy blasts, one still managed to hit her.

"Ugh!" The bird hybrid let out a scream. The pain in her back seemed to enrage her, and green light emanated from her head, chest, and claws.

As the green light faded, the bird hybrid evolved. Its previously ferocious bird head became even more ferocious, and the small claws on its chest turned into a pair of sharp claws. Furthermore, a pair of sharp claws grew on its hands.

The evolved bird hybrid continuously condensed dark red energy balls from its chest and hands, throwing them at W, who was piloting the tough fighter jet.

Faced with the powerful bombardment of bird dopants, W was in dire straits for a time.

"Bird's attack power has increased, has it evolved?" Philip asked.

Under the powerful bombardment of the Bird Dopant, W could only turn around and escape in his Hardman Fighter. After maneuvering with the Bird Dopant in the high sky above Fuyu City for a while, W was still shot down by the Bird Dopant and fell from the sky to a coastal area.

W got up from the ground, dodged the energy ball thrown by the bird dopant once again, and reached out to pull out the Ace Memory and replace it with the Trigger Memory.

"Cyclone! Trigger!"

After switching to Gale Trigger mode, W materialized a trigger magnum from his chest and engaged in a firefight with the bird hybrid flying in mid-air.

"Bang bang bang!"

The emerald green spiral bullets fired from the trigger Magnum collided with the dark red energy ball flung out by the bird dopant in mid-air, both exploding with a bang and canceling each other out in mid-air.

"Ugh, this is never going to end! What am I supposed to do?!" Shotaro grumbled irritably as he exchanged fire with the bird hybrid.

"The only way to save her life is to precisely destroy the Bird Memory within her body," Nasca said, emerging from a nearby alley.

"Kihiko?" W was also taken aback when he saw Nasca appear.

But W was momentarily stunned, and the energy ball thrown by the bird dopant landed on W's chest, knocking him to the ground.

Nasca rushed in front of W, slashing his sword to deflect all the energy orbs flung by the bird dopant. Without turning back, he said, "I'll tell you the location of the memory, then you can attack!"

"You're here to help us?" Philip asked with interest, looking at Nasca who was blocking their way.

"Hey, what's the wind blowing today?" Shotaro asked.

Upon hearing this, Nasca turned to look at W and said, "Didn't I already say? I love this city too."

With that, the two scarves on Nasca's back transformed into a pair of crimson-gold wings, allowing Nasca to fly in front of the bird hybrid. He then swung his sword and slashed at the bird hybrid's abdomen, causing it to lose its balance and plummet towards the ground.

However, the bird hybrid quickly regained its balance and turned around to throw a series of dark red energy balls at Nasca. Nasca dodged the energy balls, swung the Nazca Holy Sword in her hand, grabbed the bird hybrid around the waist, and brought her to the ground.

Before the bird doppelganger could even get up, Nasca appeared behind her, took control of it from behind, and said, "I'm making the Bird Memory resonate with my Nazca Memory..."

Before Nasca could finish speaking, the evolved bird hybrid broke free from Nasca's grasp, turned around, and grabbed Nasca's breastplate with its claws, sending sparks flying.

Nasca immediately rushed forward and grabbed the bird doppelganger's arm, trying to subdue it.

"Let me go!" The bird hybrid struggled violently, repeatedly pounding on Nasca's body with its free hand.

Nasca grabbed the bird doppelganger's other hand, regaining control, and said, "Behave yourself!"

After saying that, Nasca made the Nazca Memory in the Lost Driver resonate with the Bird Memory in the Bird Dopant's body.

A yellow halo also shone on the surface of the Nazca Memory. This yellow halo passed through the Bird Doppelganger's body, causing the conspicuous emerald on the Bird Doppelganger's waist to emit an emerald green light.

Immediately afterwards, the light spread towards the bird hybrid's abdomen and finally stopped at its chest.

The bird memory is located in the center of the pair of bird claws on the chest of the bird hybrid.

"Kamen Rider, this is where the Bird Memory is located!"

"I understand," Shotaro replied.

"Let me go!" The bird hybrid struggled even more violently.

"Attack now!" Nasca shouted.

"Watch me hit it on the first shot," Philip said.

"Bat!"

W took out the Bat Camera, mounted it on the trigger magnum, then raised the head of the Bat Camera as a sight, and pulled out the trigger memory and inserted it into the trigger magnum.

"Trigger! Maximum Drive!"

After W closed the trigger of the Magnum, he slowly raised the trigger and aimed at the bird hybrid's chest.

Meanwhile, a sniper beam appeared on the head of the bat camera. After locking onto the bird memory inside the bird doppelganger, W immediately pulled the trigger.

"Trigger Bat Shooting!"

The muzzle of the trigger magnum was enveloped by a swirling emerald green vortex.

The next moment, an energy bullet composed of whirlwinds shot out from the muzzle of the trigger Magnum and pierced straight through the bird memory in the bird dopant's chest.

"Ah!" The bird hybrid let out a scream before exploding.

After the flames from the explosion subsided and the smoke cleared, Nasca stood in the still-burning flames and held Jiang Caoqian in her arms in a princess carry.

A dark red bird memory chip popped out from the bio-interface on Jiang Caoqian's left arm and then fell to the ground.

With a cracking sound, the bird's memory shattered into several pieces.

"Good technique," Nasca praised.

"What a mess!" Shotaro complained, quickly ran to Nasca, and took Akane Egusa from his hands.

Jiang Caoqian also woke up at this time. After the memory was shattered, the toxins in Jiang Caoqian's body also seemed to have disappeared.

"Shotaro-nii-san?" Jiangcaoqian looked at W, who was hugging her, with a puzzled expression.

"Akane, are you alright?" Shotaro asked as he put Akane on the ground.

"Yes, thank you."

"Thank you so much, you've been a great help to us." Shotaro looked at Nasca and thanked her.

"This time, we can't do it on our own," Philip said.

"Heh, I never thought you'd thank me one day," Nasca said with his hands behind his back.

"Crack!"

Nasca's blue armor dissipated into countless fragments. Sudo Kirihiko pulled a small Fuuto-kun keychain from his pocket, tossed it to Shotaro Hidari, and said, "While I'm gone, I'm entrusting this city to you!"

Shotaro reached out his left hand and took Fuuto-kun's keychain, then quickly asked, "While you weren't here? Hey! Kirihiko, where are you going?"

Sudo Kirihiko did not answer Shotaro's question, but smiled slightly and warned, "You must be careful of the museum and the X Foundation. Their power is beyond your imagination. Do not try to challenge them before you have sufficient strength. That's all I have to say."

After saying that, Sudo Kirihiko put his hands in his pockets and left the coast.

"His tone sounds like he's giving his last words," Philip said, rubbing his chin.

Shotaro lowered his head, looking at the Fuuto-kun keychain in his hand, and fell silent.

"What's this?" Philip asked, looking at Fengdu-kun's keychain.

"It is a precious treasure."

I have something to do tomorrow and the day after, so I'll be taking a two-day break. There will be a make-up update for any team-related side stories, as usual.

(End of this chapter)