Unable to pay off my debts, I had no choice but to become a Kamen Rider.

Asano Yu looked in the mirror, lowered his gaze to the viewfinder, focused, and took a picture of himself in the mirror.

[Kamen Rider: ???]

[Level: LV4]

Height: 192cm (adjustable)

Weight: 83kg (adaptive)

Punching power: 4

[Kicking Power: 8t]

Jumping ability: 25m

[Speed: 100m/3.7s]

The handsome young man in the viewfinder is still blurry, but rows of data are listed on the photo, much like some kind of game cards.

Although this panel clearly belongs to that knight, it seems to not exist in this parallel world.

Asano Yu had only been in this world for two or three weeks. Instead of inheriting the family fortune, she inherited student loans and student grants.

Although he was admitted to Aoyama Gakuin University, one of the top five private universities, he didn't know where the original owner of this body had borrowed the loan from. The interest was so high that it compounded, leaving him with no money left.

I tried investing in stocks, lotteries, and even sports betting, but the world is strange; there were no industries or teams I recognized, so I had to give up in the end.

So, in order to pay off his debts, Asano Yu had to work odd jobs everywhere. Fortunately, a senior introduced him to a tokusatsu (special effects) film set as an extra, which gave him a relatively stable side income.

The weather was hot, and the monster suits were mostly heavy and meant to be beaten up, so surprisingly not many people wanted to be one.

Although the hourly wage isn't very high, it's already quite good as a part-time job with a fixed time and place each week and a considerable amount of time to slack off.

Of course, the most important thing is that Hayami Miyuki is rich and powerful; she used to get paid just for making her laugh.

Then Asano Yu found this magenta flat-sided twin-lens reflex camera on the set.

And then—

He became a passing Kamen Rider, and began hunting insects, monsters, and even other creatures disguised as humans, according to the camera's instructions.

So far, Asano Yu has completed two hunts: one was wiping out all the cockroaches in the rented house, and the other was the LV5 alien insect monster he encountered yesterday.

As for the rewards, Asano Yuya had a hard time seeing what he had received from his own panel.

All he knew was that as the red label merged into his body, his fatigue from the battle was swept away, and he even felt as if his internal organs had been strengthened.

As for the camera, it seems that only I can use it.

He once lent his camera to his colleagues on set and his classmates in college, and without exception, they all took clear and complete photos.

Even the photo taken last night, showing the woman in white elbowing the alien insect monster, is just a blurry photo to others, barely recognizable as a human figure.

In their hands, this flat-sided twin-lens reflex camera was just an ordinary toy camera, and the photos it produced were unremarkable.

Therefore, both his colleagues on set and his classmates in university unanimously agreed that Asano Yu had extremely poor photography skills.

After checking his appearance in the restroom, Asano Yu turned and left, since staying too long would raise suspicion of him stealing his salary.

But as soon as his left foot left the bathroom, he saw a group of people at the end of the corridor, talking about the television above them.

He couldn't help but slow his pace.

Because the one leading the group was his senior, Duanmu Jun, the lead rider in the tokusatsu film he was currently involved in.

"Roar, the great hero has arrived..."

He suddenly glanced at Asano Yu, a meaningful smile on his face.

Asano Yu hesitated for a moment, but since he couldn't refuse, he could only turn the camera on his chest to the side.

A hero? What hero? Could it be that my transformation into Kamen Rider Decade last night has been discovered?

No way, I clearly transformed in the toilet stall... Could it be that Duanmu Jun happened to be in the next stall at that time?

Asano Yu couldn't figure out how she had been exposed, but she had no choice but to approach the group.

Upon closer inspection, Asano Yu noticed that the television on the wall was broadcasting news about the person who hit someone on the street in Shibuya turning himself in.

Upon closer inspection, it really was the woman in white from last night!

Asano Yu only remembered that he made her practice Kun Kun's Iron Mountain Lean for two and a half hours before allowing her to leave. He never expected that she would turn herself in in the end.

"If this kind of scum hadn't suddenly repented, he would never have been caught. It seems Asano's photos did a great job, didn't they?"

Duanmu Jun picked up the blurry photo in his hand and examined it again. The woman in white in the photo and the woman with her eyes blurred in the news were extremely similar.

"Although the photo is blurry, the tension in the person's elbow strike is evident..."

"They even managed to photograph the woman who was knocked to the ground so hard. I guess Asano's camera does have some use after all!"

Another colleague interrupted Duanmu Jun before he could finish speaking.

Asano Yu didn't know what to do, so he could only nod with a wry smile, pretending to be shy as he accepted the compliments, and then occasionally say something like, "Actually, it wasn't my doing."

Although the photos were still blurry in the eyes of this group, they captured both the arrogant and domineering perpetrators and the victims lying on the ground, which was practically evidence.

It's no wonder they would connect the thief who turned himself in in the news with the photo of Asano Yu.

"But you also mentioned some strange person wearing pink earlier—did you take a picture of them last night?"

While everyone was engrossed in discussing Asano Yu's photo and the incident with the human-bumping tribe, Duanmu Jun walked over and started talking to Asano Yu about something different.

Duanmu Jun is handsome and tall, about the same height as Asano Yu. He tied his curly hair into a ponytail, which always swayed when he walked.

He is usually very easygoing and always says that he is timid and afraid of trouble, but when he plays a Kamen Rider, he always has an indescribable fierceness.

"Pink clothes?"

Asano Yu naturally chose to play dumb.

"Look, the police have also mentioned the recent increase in suspicious individuals and the persistently high number of missing persons—"

Duanmu Jun directed Asano Yu to look at the television, which was indeed discussing missing persons cases and suspicious individuals.

"I thought you were assigned to take photos? What if you encounter any strange people?"

Duanmu Jun was quite concerned about the safety of his juniors, and with the addition of the president's daughter with her eccentric temper, he always had to be on guard.

"Stop dawdling, let's continue filming!"

Soon, the crowd's discussion was interrupted by a clear and loud urging. Duanmu Jun stuffed the photo into a brown paper bag on the side and then handed it back to Asano Yu.

"Say it or not! Here you go, today's photos are quite interesting too!"

With that, he turned and walked toward the dressing room, ready to enter the studio as a Kamen Rider at any moment.

As everyone scattered like startled birds, a woman wearing denim shorts, a loose jacket, and a baseball cap swayed her hips and entered Asano Yu's line of sight.

She is Hayami Mitsuki, the daughter of the president of Toga, and also Asano Yu's senior from university.

She held today's script in her hand, glanced at Asano Yu listlessly, and then pointed with her chin to the emergency staircase on the side.

Left with no other choice, Asano Yu followed with the photo in her arms. The two turned a corner and stood at the top of the stairs. She leaned against the door, while Asano Yu stood on the side of the handrail.

"What about today's portion?"

Hayami Mitsuki reached out to ask Asano Yu for the paper bag in his hand, and the latter had no choice but to hand it over obediently.

She quickly counted them; twelve, no more, no less.

"Very good, be at this address at 4:30 this afternoon to meet this person."

As she spoke, she took out her phone, seemingly typing something. Then, Asano Yu's phone buzzed in her pocket. She took it out and saw a restaurant address with a photo of her and a strange woman.

On the left is the aloof Hayami Mitsuki, lightly made up, envied by others, but expressionless, like an ice queen. On the right is a beautiful girl as energetic as the sun, wearing a JK uniform, is she playing a role-playing game?

"This is?"

"Stop talking nonsense. You just go when we tell you to, and you do what we pay you, right?"

"That's true..."

Asano Yu wanted to get more information, but she shut him down with a single sentence.

Hayami Mitsuki is known for her bad temper; she's not only cold and aloof, but also always arrogant.

But she was surprisingly easy to talk to—at least when Asano Yu asked her to help him find a part-time job, she really listened and was willing to help.

"She will tell you the specific requirements."