Am I a Kamen Rider or the real young master who was switched at birth?

The moment the bat-like beast swooped down, its wing membranes made a tearing sound as it dived at high speed, like someone forcefully tearing a thick piece of canvas.

On that flat, triangular face, two rows of sharp teeth were bared, with bits of glass still clinging to their gaps from when he had been gnawing on the glass in the stairwell.

Ye Yang's feet were firmly planted on the cement ground, and he reached for the Decade Driver at his waist.

The driver automatically put on the device the moment it came into contact with the waist. The white base reflected a matte finish in the sunlight, and the crystal core glowed with a faint green light.

He deftly pulled a card from the card drawer on the left side of his belt, then flicked his wrist sharply.

The magenta control card flew from his fingertips, tracing a straight line through the air at such a speed that the naked eye could only see a thin magenta line.

The card spun as it flew out, its sharp edges cutting through the air with a piercing buzzing sound.

Before the bat-like beast could even react, the card struck it precisely in the center of its face, the immense impact causing its entire face to snap to the side.

The card didn't stop there; after hitting the bat-like beast's face, it bounced up, flipped in the air, and continued flying backward at an extremely fast speed.

Shen Yunzhou was clutching his injured arm, standing a few meters behind the bat-like beast, watching the battle unfold.

The card was like an extremely fine and thin razor; its sharp edge sliced ​​through the center of his right pupil, precisely cutting open his eyeball.

Shen Yunzhou let out a heart-wrenching roar. He covered his right eye with both hands, and blood gushed out from between his fingers, flowing down his wrist and into the cuff of his suit, staining the light gray sleeve a shocking deep red.

He staggered back several steps, his back slamming heavily against the hood of a black sedan before sliding to the ground.

He pressed his fingers tightly against his bleeding eye socket, his teeth grinding together.

"Ye Yang—!!!" His roar was squeezed out from between his teeth, and his still intact left eye stared intently at Ye Yang through the gaps between his blood-soaked fingers.

Hearing its host's scream behind it, the Bat-Monster instinctively turned around and glanced back.

In that instant of distraction, Ye Yang rushed forward. He took long strides, the soles of his canvas shoes making short, sharp scraping sounds on the rough ground.

He took off when he was two meters away from the bat-like beast.

His body spun half a circle in the air, his right leg extended straight out, and his heel precisely kicked the side of the bat-like beast's head.

The force of that kick was astonishing, and it made a dull thud upon impact.

Before the bat-like creature could even utter a scream, it was forcefully kicked back, its entire body flying out like a baseball being hit, crashing heavily into a concrete pillar several meters away.

The impact shattered several tiles on the pillar, and white debris rained down, covering the pillar.

Ye Yang landed steadily on the ground, his knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.

He straightened up, took a deep breath, and then extended his right hand.

The wind in the parking lot suddenly stopped for a moment, as if the air had been gently stirred by some force.

The blood-stained magenta card flew back automatically from the sky.

It traced a smooth arc in the air and returned precisely to Ye Yang's outstretched palm.

Ye Yang grabbed the handle on one side of the belt with one hand and pulled it outward.

The belt's mechanical structure made a crisp click, and the green light from the crystal core brightened instantly.

He aligned the card with the slot, his gaze calmly fixed on Shen Yunzhou, who was still struggling to stand up.

"Henshin".

The card slid into the slot. He gripped the handle with one hand and violently pushed it towards the center.

A crimson halo exploded from the center of the belt, close to the ground, and nine knight phantoms appeared and collapsed simultaneously, while the crimson armor materialized layer by layer.

The moment the helmet was completed, its emerald green compound eyes suddenly lit up in the afternoon sunlight.

Kamen Rider Decade stood in front of Shen Yunzhou.

Shen Yunzhou covered one eye, peering through his blood-soaked fingers at the armored warrior who had appeared out of nowhere.

His brain seemed to have been paused for a moment; he had watched Kamen Rider before he traveled through time.

He remembered Kamen Rider Decade. He remembered the magenta warrior who traversed all the Kamen Rider worlds. But this world shouldn't have Kamen Rider.

This world is the world of the urban romance novel he transmigrated into, a world only inhabited by silent beasts and awakened beings.

Kamen Rider is from another universe and shouldn't be here.

"What is this—Kamen Rider?! How can there be a Kamen Rider in this world?!"

Shen Yunzhou screamed frantically at the system in his mind: "System, talk to me! Tell me what's going on! Isn't this world supposed to be a story about a wealthy urban family? Why are there Kamen Riders? Didn't you say this world only has Awakened Ones and Silent Beasts? Explain yourself!"

For the first time, the system's sound became abnormal. Its cold, mechanical tone became intermittent, like an old radio struggling to maintain a signal during a storm.

"Warning—Warning—Unknown target unit detected—No matching record found in database—Unable to resolve—Unable to resolve—Host advised to evacuate immediately—"

"Warning—Warning—The system is attempting to restart the cognitive module—Restart failed—Restart failed—"

The system's last sentence trailed off into an eerie low voice, then fell completely silent.

Shen Yunzhou cursed. Before he could even stand up, a ball of orange-red fire slammed into his chest from the side.

The fireball exploded on his suit, the impact throwing him to the ground. He tumbled several times before coming to a stop.

A large, charred hole was burned through the fabric on his chest, revealing the scalded skin underneath, with tiny sparks still rising from the edges of the fabric.

He struggled to lift his head and saw Lin Xingran walking towards him, twisting her wrist.

Her steps were unhurried, but the anger in her eyes was more intense than ever.

"I've wanted to beat you up for a long time," Lin Xingran said through gritted teeth.

Shen Yunzhou scanned the battlefield with his still-intact left eye. Imperial Knight stood directly in front, Lin Xingran blocked the escape route on the side, and his Bat Silent Beast had just struggled to get up from under the concrete pillar, with black smoke still billowing from the holes in its wings.

He roared shrilly at the bat-like beast, "Useless trash! Come and protect me!"

The bat-like beast let out a low hiss, then flapped its wings and flew to Shen Yunzhou, using its tattered wing membranes to block Lin Xingran's attack route.

The bat-like beast opened its mouth and spewed a cloud of dark purple sound waves at Lin Xingran.

Just as Shen Yunzhou turned around to escape in another direction, Emperor Knight appeared out of thin air behind him.

Shen Yunzhou didn't even see how it moved. Just a second ago, the Decade was a few meters away, but the next second, the Decade's magenta armor filled his entire field of vision.

His intact left eye reflected the huge white X-shaped symbol on Decade's chest, and his pupil contracted sharply to the size of a pinhead.

Imperial Knight raised his right fist, the fist drawing a clean arc in the air before slamming it heavily into Shen Yunzhou's left cheek.

The dull thud of a fist striking a cheekbone echoed in the air.

Shen Yunzhou was thrown violently to the right by the punch.

His entire body flew nearly two meters off the ground before crashing to the ground.

His left cheek swelled up at a visible speed, and a gash appeared at the corner of his mouth, with blood dripping down his chin and mixing with the blood still flowing from his right eye.

Emperor Knight shook his right wrist, took two steps forward, then bent down, grabbed Shen Yunzhou by the neck with one hand, lifted him off the ground, and slammed him back down.

The dull thud of Shen Yunzhou's back hitting the concrete floor was even heavier than the punch from before, leaving several fine cracks in the ground.

Shen Yunzhou lay amidst the cracks, his chest heaving violently.

Suddenly, a strange red light flashed in his left eye. In his mind, he pressed the last emergency option of the system: "System—inject a powerful type of Gu poison into my body."

The system was silent for a second, then the still-sizzling mechanical voice replied with two words: "Received."

In an instant, Shen Yunzhou's body seemed to be ignited from within by some force.

All the muscles in his body swelled up at the same time, and the veins on his arms bulged out.

Something was moving rapidly beneath his skin, leaving behind winding ridges wherever it went.

A dark purple membrane grew along the edge of his right eye, which had been blinded by the card, sealing off the entire eye socket.

He tilted his head back and let out a roar that was somewhere between a human howl and a beast's howl, then raised his right foot and kicked the Imperial Knight in the abdomen with all his might.

Shen Yunzhou suddenly sprang up from the ground, his joints making an abnormal cracking sound.

He stood on the broken cement ground, his chest heaving violently. The bloodstains on his face and the dark purple film made him look completely different from the gentle and refined young master of the Shen family.

He pointed his index finger at Diqi, his voice rough and hoarse from the effects of the Gu poison: "You're not Ye Yang—who are you?"

Kamen Rider Decade stood there, tilted his head, and gently patted the armor on his chest with the back of his hand to brush off the dust that had accumulated during the impact.

"Just a Kamen Rider passing by. Remember that." His calm voice came through the helmet.

Shen Yunzhou's lips twitched violently. He stretched his right hand out into the air, and a dark purple energy vortex appeared out of thin air in his palm.

A greatsword slowly solidified from the vortex, its blade longer than his entire arm span, its spine covered with dense barbs, from which viscous black liquid seeped.

Embedded in the hilt of the sword is an organ resembling a heart, which makes a dull thud with each beat.

He raised the greatsword, which was completely disproportionate to his size, with one hand, took a step forward, and used the weight of the greatsword to slash at the Imperial Knight.

The blade whistled as it sliced ​​through the air, and the barbs on the blade gleamed menacingly in the sunlight.

The Imperial Knight slightly turned his body, and the greatsword grazed past his right shoulder, the blade less than a finger's width away from his crimson shoulder armor.

Shen Yunzhou's attack missed its mark, and his greatsword struck the concrete ground, splitting a crack nearly half a meter long.

The Imperial Knight had already circled around behind him.

Shen Yunzhou turned his head sharply, a hint of fear flashing in his intact left eye. He hadn't seen how the Imperial Knight moved at all.

Imperial Knight raised his right foot and his heel precisely kicked the center of Shen Yunzhou's spine in the back, the impact penetrating from his back to his chest.

Shen Yunzhou was sent flying forward, the tip of his greatsword dragging on the ground with a piercing metallic scraping sound. He staggered several steps before barely stopping, almost falling face down to the ground.

He regained his balance, then turned around and roared as he raised his greatsword once more, the tip thrusting straight at the center of the Imperial Knight's breastplate.

Imperial Knight dodged to the side, and the greatsword missed its mark beside him.

He didn't wait for Shen Yunzhou to sheathe his sword before raising his right leg high from the side.

His heel came down like an axe, striking precisely the spine of the greatsword.

The immense impact knocked the greatsword from Shen Yunzhou's hand, the blade slamming heavily into the concrete floor, with half of the blade embedded in it.

Shen Yunzhou gripped the hilt and pulled desperately upwards, causing the dark purple veins on his arm to bulge even more, but the greatsword remained unmoved.

Just then, a scream came from behind Decade.

The bat-like beast had somehow broken free from Lin Xingran's fiery suppression.

It swooped down from behind Decade, its two wingtips piercing at the back of Decade's head with intersecting bone spikes.

The Imperial Knight's emerald-green compound eyes flashed for a moment, then he swept a punch backward without turning his head.

The fist swept out in a semi-circle from behind, the back of the fist striking the side of the bat-like beast's head with precision. The force was so great that the bat-like beast's entire body swung sideways in the air, spinning as it flew to the side.

Lin Xingran stood a few meters away and saw the bat-like beast flying towards her. The corners of her mouth slowly turned up.

Her right leg below the knee was instantly enveloped in orange-red flames, which gathered at her ankle to form a scorching halo.

She took two running steps forward and then leaped high into the air.

She spun halfway in the air, then straightened her right leg, her heel striking the bat-like beast precisely in the abdomen with a fiery arc.

The flames exploded upon contact, and the bat-like beast let out a shrill scream as its entire body flew out like a volleyball that had been set ablaze, crashing into an empty car parked nearby.

The car roof was completely dented by the impact, the windshield shattered into a spiderweb pattern, and the anti-theft device emitted a piercing beeping sound.

The bat-like creature lay on the dented roof of the car, its wings twitching a few times, the flames on its wing membranes still burning.

Shen Yunzhou's hand was still on the hilt of his sword, but his eyes were fixed on Diqi.

The mad anger and resentment in his single eye subsided for a moment, replaced by a calculating glint.

He was breathing heavily, forcing a smile onto his swollen face: "Brother Ye Yang—you're probably not from this world either, are you?"

Kamen Rider Decade stood still, tilting his head slightly, without speaking or making any movement.

But Shen Yunzhou took this silence as tacit agreement.

He took half a step forward, then lowered his voice, speaking in a volume only the two of them could hear, and said with a grin, "Hehe—can we make up?"