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

As the electronic synthesized sound effect came from the direction of the end of the road, Ye Yang was getting up from the ground. His magenta armor was covered with dust and gravel that he had picked up when he fell after Li Wujiu forcibly interrupted his ultimate attack.

When he heard the first syllable of that sound effect, he felt as if he had been frozen in place by something.

He had heard that voice countless times on the screen in his previous life. Every time Decade activated his final form, the belt would display this iconic list of riders.

He slowly turned around and looked at the figure walking towards him from the backlight of the setting sun at the end of the road.

The magenta armor reflected a warm yet chilling light in the afterglow of the setting sun, just like the armor he wore.

The breastplate and shoulder armor are inlaid with Rider cards of twenty main Riders, from Kuuga to Zi-O.

The Decade crown on his head is raised vertically, with a Decade exclusive Rider card embedded in the center, and above it is Zero-Two's exclusive Rider card, which gleams with a very faint golden light in the setting sun.

What is most eye-catching is the long magenta cloak behind him, with densely packed knight cards printed on both sides.

With a K Touchscreen 21 terminal hanging from his waist and a Diendriver, the same model as the one used by the final rider, casually carrying it in his hand, he walked calmly towards the battlefield.

Ye Yang's lips moved several times, as if something was blocking his throat.

He wanted to shout that name, to rush over, to say "You've finally come," to say "I've practiced for so long just so that one day I could stand in front of you," but all these words were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single one.

He could only stand there, watching the magenta figure approach, its emerald green compound eyes shining like two stars just pulled from the seabed inside its helmet.

Hai Dong Daiki stood on the other side of the road, lowered the Diend driver from the muzzle of the gun, and casually slung the gun over his right shoulder.

He tilted his head, watching the figure walking towards them, his blue compound eyes gleaming slightly behind the helmet grille.

Then he sighed and muttered in a voice only he could hear, "This is terrible—now I don't even have a chance to show off. I was hoping to impress Ye Yang, but this guy stole all the limelight the moment he arrived."

The three Lin sisters also looked up from the shattered ice crystal fragments.

Lin Ying looked at the magenta figure in the distance, then at the Imperial Knight in front of her, and frowned slightly.

Her gaze darted rapidly between the two magenta armored warriors several times.

The Decade's armor features clean and simple lines, while the new knight's armor is more elaborate, with knight cards embedded in the shoulder and chest armor, and a long magenta cape on his back.

She tilted her head slightly and said in a serious tone, "Ye Yang's armor—it's similar to his, but his armor has a lot of cards on it. And his cloak—Ye Yang doesn't have a cloak."

Lin Yumin brushed the stray hairs, wet with ice water, from her forehead, her gaze shifting back and forth between the two Imperial Knights.

"And the sound effects are similar too. The voice announcing the scene just now is from the same source as when Ye Yang transformed, but with an extra long string of rider names. It sounds like some kind of form upgrade—his armor should be an advanced version of the Decade armor."

Lin Xingran shook the last ice crystal off her hair, put her hands on her hips, and looked up at the armored warrior walking towards her in the sunset.

She squinted and observed carefully for a while, then tilted her head and said in a gossipy tone:

"It looks impressive, that's for sure—did you see those cards on his shoulder armor? Each one represents a knight, right? But to be honest, I find this armor rather awkward—especially that cape on his back."

"Look at that cape, it's so long, and it's covered in cards—won't you step on it during a fight? What if you get caught on a branch? What if the enemy grabs you? And capes, while they look cool, are really useless in actual combat—"

Before she could finish speaking, Lin Ying and Lin Yumin simultaneously reached out and covered her mouth.

Lin Xingran's mouth was covered by both hands at the same time, and she could only make a series of indistinct whimpers, but her eyes were still glaring defiantly at the magenta cloak that was fluttering in the evening wind in the distance.

Wei Cang stood up from the ground. He had been swept back several steps by the flood and then trapped by the ice for a while. Even though he had strong defenses, he was still struggling to withstand it.

He twisted his neck, his cervical spine making a few dull cracking sounds, and then locked onto the new magenta armored soldier.

He didn't care who the other person was or how strong they were; in his mind, there was no defense in the world that he couldn't break through.

He pushed off with his right leg, and his whole body shot out like a heavy cannonball once again.

He put all his strength into this punch; he wanted to smash this new armored vehicle to pieces, just like he had smashed that off-road vehicle earlier.

Kamen Rider Decade 21 stood still without dodging. His posture was casual, his cloak fluttering slightly in the evening breeze behind him.

Wei Cang rushed forward, raised his right fist high, and then slammed it down hard. The wind pressure generated by his fist made his cloak billow backward.

Imperial Knight 21 raised his right hand, slowly clenched his fist, and punched straight at Wei Cang's fist, which was several times larger than his own.

The two fists collided in mid-air, producing a crisp yet dull sound of bones cracking.

The sound was exceptionally clear on the empty highway, and Wei Cang was sent flying by the punch.

His massive, imposing body tumbled through the air several times before crashing through the windbreak forest on the other side of the road, snapping several large trees, and finally slamming into a field, kicking up a cloud of mud and grass clippings.

He lay in the center of the mud pit he had created, his right arm hanging at an unnatural angle at his side, his fingers still twitching unconsciously.

He opened his eyes and looked at the setting sun, the image of that punch replaying in his mind, and then let out a muffled groan filled with disbelief.

Lin Xingran broke free from her two older sisters' attempts to cover her mouth, sprang to her feet, and screamed in a completely unladylike voice in the direction Wei Cang had flown:

"Holy crap! One punch and he's dead! That was a behemoth that the three of us ganged up on for ages and couldn't budge an inch! We couldn't drown him, we couldn't burn him, we couldn't freeze him! He didn't even flinch when he used his energy barrier to hold off my Fire Phoenix! And that newbie! One punch and he's sent him flying! Just how many tons of destructive power did that punch have?!"

Xiao Qing paused for a moment at the edge of the road. She stood on the trunk of a windbreak tree that had been knocked askew, her short, silver-gray hair brushing slightly against her eyebrows in the evening breeze.

Wei Cang was sent flying by a punch, and there was a new enemy on the other side wearing crimson armor. This enemy's combat power was obviously far superior to that of the Imperial Knight and the Final Knight.

Xiao Qing doesn't like doing business at a loss. It's true that she joined Zero to fight against strong people, but she also doesn't want to be punched into mincemeat by a strong person.

She glanced down at the direction Wei Cangfei had flown off to, then at the Imperial Knight 21 who was still slowly lowering his right fist, before sheathing her wrist blade at her waist and disappearing in an instant.

She planned to go to the mud pit first to retrieve Wei Cang and check if he was still breathing before deciding whether to continue the fight.

Now only Li Wujiu remains in mid-air.

He hovered above the horizon, which was tinged with pale gold by the setting sun, his dark gray trench coat fluttering in the high-altitude air currents.

He was able to forcibly interrupt the Decade Knight's Knight Kick with a mental attack just now, and he didn't believe that this new armored warrior could be completely immune.

He condensed his mental energy into sharp strands and pierced directly into the brain of Quasi-Decade 21, only to find that he could not feel anything.

Li Wujiu narrowed his eyes slightly; his mental attack had no effect on this new armored warrior.

He abandoned psychological attacks and instead used the most direct and violent method.

He raised both hands at the same time, spread his fingers and grabbed downwards, and dozens of heavy pebbles on the road were simultaneously peeled off the ground and floated around his body by his mental power.

Dark flames simultaneously ignited on the surface of those rubble, burning silently in the evening breeze and slightly distorting the surrounding air.

He pushed his palms forward, and dozens of boulders burning with black flames traced burning parabolas in the air as they blasted towards Imperial Knight 21.

This was dark energy he absorbed from a fallen Silent Beast during a mission years ago; it could burn away the defensive coating of high-level armor.

Decade 21 lowered his head and pulled out the same Diendriver as the Final Knight from his waist with his left hand.

He took a card called "Final Attack Ride: Final Rider" from the card box at his waist with his right hand and casually stuffed it into the Decade Driver slot on the right side of his belt.

Then he raised his left hand and casually patted the trigger device on the side of his belt with the heel of his palm.

"Final AttackRide—Di-Di-Di-Diend!"

A semi-transparent array of cards appeared one after another in front of Diendriver's gun muzzle. He raised the gun and casually swept it into the air, the muzzle drawing a smooth arc.

Then he pulled the trigger, and a blue energy ray, several times thicker and brighter than the energy beam fired by the big tree in the east, shot out from the muzzle, leaving a dazzling trail that swept across the entire sky.

The giant rocks burning with black flames were all pulverized the moment they came into contact with the energy rays, and the stone chips and sparks intertwined in the air to create a spectacular scene.

The energy beam continued its relentless advance, hurtling straight towards Li Wujiu.

Li Wujiu was shocked. He raised both hands at the same time to gather a black energy shield in front of him, and then poured all his mental power into the shield.

The energy beam struck the shield, causing countless cracks to appear on its surface. The cracks spread rapidly from the center outwards, and then the shield shattered.

The residual energy shockwave sent Li Wujiu flying, tearing several holes in his dark gray trench coat.

His body tumbled several times in the air before transforming into a shooting star and disappearing into the twilight at the edge of the sky.

Decade 21 slowly lowered the muzzle of Diendriver, the gun still emitting extremely fine white smoke.

He turned his head, glanced at the final rider standing beside him through his emerald green compound eyes, and then gently weighed the Neo Diendriver in his hand.

Kaito Daiki looked up at the Diendriver in Decade's Complete 21 hand, then looked down at the gun in his own hand.

He remained silent for a long while, then raised his hands above his head and said in a tone that indicated he had completely given up the struggle:

"I'm done playing, I'm done. The same gun is a railgun in his hands, but a toy gun in mine. He can shatter an entire Stonehenge with one shot, but when I fire a shot at that big guy, it doesn't even leave a mark."

"The difference is too big—it's not fair! He definitely did it on purpose! He knew I was here, so he deliberately used my gun to unleash my finishing move and then hit it even better than me! He's getting revenge for the time I stole the treasure from him!"

He angrily shoved the Diend driver back into the card slot on his waist, took several steps back, and leaned against the trunk of a windbreak tree that hadn't yet been broken by the roadside.

He crossed his arms over his chest, using silence to express the dignity of a Kamen Rider.