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

Pretending to know nothing is far more blissful than knowing everything.

So until nightfall, Asano Yu observed Hayami Mitsuki's remaining time with the attitude of an outsider.

One reason is that after he fell asleep in the morning, he felt no sleepiness at all, so he was naturally unable to fall asleep.

Secondly, the news of Hayami Mitsuki waking up alarmed many members of the Knights Association, so she didn't have a chance to rest.

Therefore, Hayami Mitsuki asked Kirishima Chinatsu to help her change clothes and bathe, then dress her up a bit more smartly, like in her dream, in a suit and tie, and then use makeup to cover up the fatigue on her face.

Asano Yu sat in the corner of the room the whole time, and sneaked out to buy discounted bento boxes around 8 or 9 pm.

I don't know if it's because the surrounding wilderness is bad or for some other reason, but many bento boxes are only 20% off, and if you're lucky you can find 30% off, and then there aren't any cheaper ones.

In the past, the seafood section would usually have plenty left over, and the discounts would be the biggest. However, none of the supermarkets nearby had any. After going to several places, I could only find some raw food, such as beef at half price.

But it still costs 600 yen.

I haven't been working these past two days because of my dream, and I feel bad about spending more money on food for tomorrow and the day after, but there's nothing I can do, so Asano Yu can only accept it.

Not long after returning home from shopping, most of the people who called themselves "doctors" but were actually from the "Knights' Association" left. Hayami Mitsuki lay exhausted on the bed, seemingly telling the Knights' Association everything that happened in her dream.

The Knights Association did a lot of work to verify the authenticity of those contents, which was exhausting.

"Have you had dinner yet?"

Asano Yu placed the things she bought on the bedside table, and the plastic bags and table made a rustling sound, which made Hayami Mitsuki turn over and look at Asano Yu standing beside her.

She didn't say anything, she just rested her head on her arm and looked at him.

"Although I don't think you'd like eating these low-nutritional-value things I bought—"

He still brought out a discounted bento box.

"After I'm discharged from the hospital, how about you give me a small promotion?"

Hayami Mitsuki refers not only to her work on the tokusatsu set, but also to her seat in the Knights Guild.

For the past few hours, she has been working hard to clear Kamen Rider Decade's name and telling the members of the Rider Association, including Shin Koizumi, in great detail how he saved her in her dream.

Among this group of people driven by justice, Shin Koizumi is considered one of the more rational ones. So while others were filled with righteous indignation over the attack on Mitsuki Hayami by Kamen Rider Decade, she remained rational.

However, this rationality can accept the stories that happened in Hayami Mizuki's dreams, but it cannot accept the claim that "the Agito Driver was taken to transform into Agito in her place."

She believed that Hayami Mitsuki wasn't so foolish as to whitewash her enemies, so she had no objection to the fact that the Kamen Rider Decade in her dream had indeed helped her.

Ultimately, how could someone who has just woken up possibly know about the Knights Guild's secret—that their headquarters, which was under construction, had been kicked through?

Strangely enough, in Shibuya, there was a construction site under renovation, which was intended to rebuild an abandoned building and make it the future headquarters of the Knights Guild. However, unexpectedly, a construction error occurred this morning, and the building was penetrated directly from the third floor!

They initially thought it was a crane malfunction that caused the heavy object to crash through the three-story building, but the site's surveillance cameras indicated no construction error, leaving it an unsolved mystery.

However, despite not knowing anything about the matter, Hayami Mitsuki was able to accurately describe the wound on the third floor and bluntly stated that it was caused by Agito in his Decade form.

Koizumi Shin believed that Hayami Mitsuki wouldn't joke about something like this, and he had also done a check-up, so he believed that Decade had indeed entered Hayami Mitsuki's dream world through some means.

However, believing this doesn't mean believing Hayami Mitsuki's obviously deceptive claims:

[Perhaps they took my belt because I couldn't unleash Agito's full power?]

[Maybe they know that my transformation again will have side effects or something?]

【maybe……】

In the end, even Hayami Mitsuki herself gave up on her sophistry and fell silent.

Therefore, the Knights Association's attitude towards Decade softened slightly because Decade helped Hayami Mitsuki in the Dream World. However, they still could not tolerate Decade's attack on Hayami Mitsuki and the theatrical driver.

Therefore, the Knights Association will drop the warrant for Decade's arrest, provided that he returns the Agito Driver.

Therefore, Hayami Mitsuki decided to continue with her plan from before she fell into a coma, and recruit Asano Yu into the Knights Association.

He can choose not to register or operate as Kamen Rider Decade; he can continue to be his underground hero. However, joining the Rider Association would better protect his daily life and personal safety.

In particular, the safety of Asano Yu, who is human.

As for why he was unwilling to appear in public as Kamen Rider Decade, who knows? Perhaps he didn't want too much attention, or maybe he hoped not to be bound by an organization like the Knights Guild?

To be honest, Hayami Mitsuki couldn't guarantee Asano Yu's absolute freedom after joining the Knights Association. After all, even she, a semi-retired patient, would be bothered all day by various things.

"A promotion? Won't that make things difficult for you inside?"

Asano Yu raised an eyebrow and looked at the woman on the hospital bed with a faint smile.

"Probably. Given my status and position, probably not many people would dare to object—"

Hayami Mitsuki blurred her identities as the team leader on set, the president of the club, and the secretary of the Knights Association, responding to Asano Yu's equally ambiguous question with this ambiguous statement.

Because there were listening devices in the room, the two of them were playing dumb, knowing the truth only to each other.

"Never mind then, if it's not difficult, then forget it."

Asano Yu said this deliberately, which earned him a glare from Hayami Mitsuki.

Now her interactions with Asano Yu are less awkward; it's more like chatting with a close friend. She's started using harsher words to retort and has become a little more casual.

"You just want me to be happy?"

"Who told someone to give me more troublesome work?"

"Who is this person?"

"Miss Hayami."

"She's a senior student."

"Yes, miss."

The two bickered in their usual way, then looked at each other and smiled.

Hayami Mitsuki sat up in bed, moved closer to the bedside table, rummaged around inside and found a rice ball. 89 yen, it didn't look like anything special, but she still chose to eat it—

Because the others don't look very appetizing, and some are raw, so they at least need to be cooked.

Please.

She took a bite of the dry rice ball; the seaweed on the outside wrapped the old rice that had been stored for who knows how many years, and inside there was only a little bit of salted pork floss.

He couldn't help but exclaim in his heart: Is this what Asano Yu usually eats?

But Asano Yuu, who usually only eats this kind of thing, gives off a strange sense of security at this moment:

"Okay, sleep peacefully."