As a weirdo, I like being a Kamen Rider

As Fang Ace charged toward him with a gust of wind, Lin Chen moved swiftly, transforming into a streak of dark golden light and instantly appearing behind his opponent. He then stretched out his arms and firmly gripped Fang Ace's arms, immobilizing him and preventing him from launching any attacks.

Despite being tightly restrained, Fang Ace remained restless, struggling desperately. He jerked his head back, his hard helmet slamming against Lin Chen behind him, attempting a headbutt. However, the impact struck Orga's armor with only a dull thud, posing no threat whatsoever.

"Well done!" Shotaro's voice rang out again, his tone slightly relaxed. "I'll go into the Earth Library to find Philip now!" As soon as he finished speaking, his consciousness sank completely into the Earth Library space.

Inside the Earth Library, countless towering bookshelves stretched into the distance, many of them engulfed in flames, flames leaping wildly, creating chaos. Shotaro, frantic with worry, dodged the burning bookshelves while anxiously searching for Philip amidst the intricate sea of ​​books.

On the shore, Lin Chen held the Fang Ace captive, patiently awaiting the outcome. Not long after, a clear voice came from within the Fang Ace; it was Philip, who had regained his senses: "Lin Chen, let me go. I'm alright now."

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen immediately understood that Zuo Xiangtaro had successfully awakened Philip's consciousness, and the crisis that had spiraled out of control was now completely resolved. He released his grip and took a few steps back, deactivating his transformation.

Shotaro's voice was full of apology: "I'm sorry to have troubled you again." After saying that, he removed the memory from the Lost Driver and deactivated W's transformation.

The moment the transformation ended, Philip's legs went weak, his body swayed, and he looked like he was about to fall straight onto the beach. Lin Chen reacted quickly and stepped forward to support him.

At first, Lin Chen thought it was a side effect of losing control after transforming into the new form, so he quickly asked, "How are you? Is there anything seriously wrong?"

Philip waved his hand and explained with a wry smile, "It's nothing. I've been doing weight loss training, so I was already a bit tired. After all that, I just ran out of energy. I'll be fine after a rest."

Relieved to learn that the other person was unharmed, Lin Chen relaxed. He activated the dimensional barrier again: "Let's go back first." The two stepped into the spatial passage together. Seeing this, Philip's tired body radiated barely suppressed excitement: "Was it you who helped me with this ability before, Lin Chen? Can I study it?"

Back inside the office, police officers had already arrived. Kurata Kenji and Aso Fuyumi were both handcuffed and awaiting further instructions.

As agreed with Shotaro Sato, Fuyumi Aso cooperated fully and voluntarily confessed everything to Inspector Rinno. She not only revealed her and Kenji Kurata's past actions, but also confessed all of Kenji Kurata's crimes of impersonating a Kamen Rider.

After hearing all the testimonies, Inspector Renno suddenly realized what had happened and exclaimed, "I knew it! How could the Kamen Rider who protects Fuuto suddenly become a criminal? Someone was impersonating him!" He immediately ordered his officers to put Kurata Kenji and Asou Fuyumi into the police car. The sirens blared, and the police car sped away from the street, disappearing from sight.

Officer Renno and Officer Makura did not leave immediately. Considering that they were all old acquaintances and the office had been so badly damaged, they stayed to help clean up the mess with Akiko.

While everyone was busy, Lin Chen helped the exhausted Philip through the door. Upon seeing the two, Akiko immediately stopped what she was doing and quickly walked over, asking with concern, "Philip, what happened? Are you hurt?"

"It's nothing serious, just exhaustion. I'll recover after a rest," Lin Chen explained simply. Fortunately, the firm's base inside was unaffected. He helped Philip into the base and laid him on the sofa to rest.

After settling Philip in, Lin Chen also left the base and joined the packing and tidying team.

Not long after, Shotaro Hidari and Sougo Tokiwa, who had been out, returned to the office. As soon as they entered, they saw broken furniture and scattered debris, a truly appalling scene.

Shotaro instinctively clutched his head with both hands and let out a wail: "Oh my god!"

Everyone present assumed he was distressed by the damaged office and cast understanding glances his way. But no one expected that Shotaro would completely ignore the broken tables, chairs, and decorations around him, rush to the pile of torn papers in the corner, kneel down with a thud, and scream at the shredded paper with heart-wrenching despair: "My books!"

Seeing his expression, everyone present had a few black lines appear on their foreheads, and the atmosphere instantly became absurd and hilarious. Akiko, without saying a word, took out her signature green slippers and slapped Shotaro Hidari on the back of the head.

With everyone working together, they worked for quite a while and basically finished cleaning up the clutter on site. The only remaining task was to remove the garbage.

Seeing that no help was needed for the time being, Officer Renno and Officer Makura politely said goodbye and turned to leave.

With the tidying up finished, Shotaro sat alone on the steps by the door, looking at the few books he had painstakingly pieced together, as well as his hat, with a look of utter despair on his face.

Seeing his appearance, Tokiwa Sougo mistakenly thought that Hidari Shotaro was sad because the agency had been destroyed and suffered heavy losses, so he quickly stepped forward to comfort him: "Don't be sad, senpai, I have a way to restore it."

Lin Chen looked over upon hearing the sound, feeling a bit curious. He saw Tokiwa Sougo walk straight to the center of the room, and everyone present stopped what they were doing, staring at him with puzzled expressions, wondering what he was planning to do.

Sougo looked around the damaged room, then raised his hand and snapped his fingers lightly.

The next second, a scene that would shock everyone's worldview unfolded. The broken and dented furniture began to automatically piece itself back together, the cracks on the floor slowly disappeared, and the wounds of varying depths on the walls, inflicted by the Fang Ace's sharp blade, gradually healed. Scattered items flew back to their original positions.

In just a short while, the detective agency was completely restored to its pre-incident state, with no trace of damage whatsoever.

Shotaro was stunned at first, then rushed to his bookshelf and carefully examined each book. He found that all the books were intact and couldn't help but kiss the cover of one of them.

At that moment, Philip, who had recovered his strength at the base, also came out and witnessed the whole process. His eyes lit up, and he immediately moved closer to Tokiwa Sougo, asking curiously, "How did you do that? What kind of ability is that? Can you let me study the principles behind it?"

When Philip pressed him so directly, Tokiwa Sougo scratched the back of his head a little embarrassedly and replied with a smile, "Actually, it's just my ability, only a temporary time reversal."

Seeing this, Tsukuyomi's expression turned grim. Her tone was serious as she asked, "When did you acquire this ability? How come I had no idea?"

“I awakened it when I was very young,” Sougo answered truthfully, “but I don’t really like using this power, so I’ve never shown it to anyone.”

Tsukuyomi pressed on, "Why didn't you tell us about this ability sooner?"

Zhuang Wu shrugged, looking completely at ease: "You guys didn't ask me before."

This answer completely unsettled Tsukuyomi. Her brows furrowed, and her tone became more serious: "Tell me honestly, are there many things you're hiding from us? Besides time travel, do you have any other abilities?"

Faced with Tsukuyomi's relentless questioning, Tokiwa Sougo did not hide anything and told her all the powers he currently possessed. "Besides time reversal, I can also stop time and accelerate time. Just recently, I also awakened the ability to foresee the future, but this ability can only show scenes decades in the future, so it's basically useless."

After hearing this long introduction, Akiko, Shotaro, and the others present couldn't help but exclaim in amazement, and they discussed it among themselves, marveling at how amazing this power was.

Only Philip seized upon the suspicious point and earnestly raised his question: "Back at Shawood Tower, someone activated time stop, freezing everyone present, including you. But you yourself possess the ability to stop time, so logically you should be completely immune to this effect. Why is that?"

All eyes immediately turned to Tokiwa Sougo, awaiting his answer.

Zhuang Wu smiled faintly upon hearing this and said in a relaxed tone, "Oh, you mean that matter? I just deliberately didn't resist at the time."

The implication was clear: as long as he was willing to take the initiative, the opponent's time-stopping technique would be of no use to him.

Lin Chen, who had been silently observing from the sidelines the entire time, overheard the entire conversation. He maintained a calm expression on the surface, but inwardly he became wary.

This little devil is acting strangely; he seems to be playing around, as if he's following a set script.

Chapter 156 Darling, let's go to hell together!

Since the scandal involving the fake Kamen Rider ended, the Narumi Detective Agency has never been able to have any peace and quiet.

Tokiwa Sougo and Tsukuyomi practically hounded Hidari Shotaro every day, repeating the same thing over and over: they wanted him to pass on the Rider power of W to them. They wanted to obtain this power to rewrite the collapsing future.

When the agency was destroyed, Sougo used his time-reversal ability to restore everything, and Shotaro was actually very grateful for that; he remembered the favor. But favors are one thing, and principles are another.

Fuuto remains shrouded in the darkness of the Sonozaki family, with the Gaia Memory lurking everywhere. He is the Kamen Rider protecting this city, and he cannot easily relinquish his power.

Moreover, Sougo had already stated that the root cause of the future's destruction was the theft of W's power. As long as he held onto this power, the future would not be destroyed.

Tired of being bothered by the two day after day, Shotaro simply found a moment to slip out of the office and deliberately avoided them, leaving them with nowhere to turn.

He wasn't worried that the kid wouldn't be able to find him and would break through Philip's defenses, because Sougo didn't dare to approach Philip at all. Ever since Philip learned that he possessed time-manipulation abilities, every time they met, he would drag him along to ask questions and frantically study the principles of time.

Each time, it was Sonozaki Wakana who made timely communication to save Sougo from trouble.

Shotaro slipped out of the house and went to his usual barbershop, the Wind Barber Shop, intending to relax and get a quiet shave.

There weren't many customers in the shop. As he lay down to apply a face mask, he noticed a stranger next to him also shaving. The two started chatting casually, and the man proudly announced that he was the designer of "Fengdu Jun," the mascot of Fengdu.

Shotaro was both surprised and delighted, and immediately ordered a Fuuto-kun keychain. This man was none other than Sonozaki Kirihiko, who had come out to clear his head.

A series of recent misfortunes had left him feeling overwhelmed, so he sought out this highly-regarded barbershop to clear his head. He deeply loved Fengdu and paid special attention to everything related to it.

Two people, each with their own secrets, set aside all their opposing identities and chatted happily, laughing heartily. Neither of them realized that the kindred spirits they were having such a good chat with were actually their destined mortal enemies.

It wasn't until the shop assistant came forward and removed the hot towels from their faces that the two people finally came back to life.

The moment their eyes met, the air seemed to freeze completely.

After a moment of surprise, the two got up in perfect unison and rushed out of the barbershop, heading straight for the open space outside. A fight was about to break out.

Shotaro immediately contacted Philip to prepare to transform, but Philip was comforting Wakana Sonozaki at the time.

A few days ago, for some unknown reason, Sonozaki Wakana was confined to her home by her father, Sonozaki Ryoubei, and was not allowed to step out of the Sonozaki Manor. She was also being watched over by a strange woman.

That woman was very strange. Whenever she wanted to become a hybrid, the memory would inexplicably end up in that woman's hands. Moreover, that woman also annoyed her a lot. She looked like a high school student, but she insisted on acting like an adult.

After being urged for a long time, Philip finally ended his call with Wakana. He and Shotaro, transformed into Wing, fought against Kirihiko's Nazca Dopant form, but because the Nazca had awakened its super-speed, they quickly fell into a disadvantageous position.

Kirihiko's blade was pressed against Shotaro's neck, the outcome decided by a mere inch. But at this crucial moment, Kirihiko suddenly withdrew his power, deactivated his transformation, and exuded an aura of utter lifelessness, devoid of any fighting spirit.

Shotaro was full of doubts and was about to ask why when the barber shop owner rushed out in a panic, calling his name.

Kirihiko chose to leave the battlefield, but did not go far, and Shotaro also deactivated his transformation.

The boss, looking distressed, asked Shotaro for help, saying that his 15-year-old daughter, Jiangcaoqian, had been missing for two days and was in great danger all alone.

Shotaro and the boss were old acquaintances, and Shotaro had always treated Akane Egusa like his own younger sister. He accepted the request without hesitation. When Shotaro returned to the agency, he found the room in complete disarray, a mess of various traps set by Philip.

Shotaro returned to the office alone, only to be speechless at the sight before him as soon as he entered.

The entire room was a mess, filled with traps set by Philip. Having just suffered a defeat in the battle against Nazca, Philip remembered the Fang Joker form he had used last time, but he couldn't find it anywhere in the agency. Considering that the little Tyrannosaurus Rex had its own consciousness, he simply set up traps all over the agency in an attempt to capture it.

Shotaro didn't have time to worry about these things. He went straight to the Queen and Elizabeth to ask for information and quickly got a clue: Jiang Caoqian had been hanging out with a group of delinquents under the highway bridge recently.

He immediately took Akiko and rushed over, and sure enough, they found Akane and a group of thugs.

Shotaro patiently lectured Akane, telling her that her father was constantly worried and unable to eat or sleep, and urging her to go home immediately. However, fifteen-year-old Akane was in her rebellious phase and hated her elders' lectures. Annoyed by them, she turned and ran away.

Just as Shotaro was about to give chase, several delinquents on bicycles blocked his way.

Fujikawa Tomoma, the leader, looked arrogant and warned Shotaro, the strange old man, not to meddle. After saying that, he took out a Bird Gaia Memory and casually handed it to Kanemura Yuichi next to him.

Without hesitation, it plugged into the interface, instantly transforming into a Bird hybrid and charging towards Shotaro to launch an attack.

Shotaro quickly called for Philip to transform, but Philip on the other end of the phone sounded incredibly excited, talking to himself about how he had caught a giant rhinoceros beetle in a trap.

Shotaro was speechless and helplessly reminded him that now was definitely not the time to catch bugs!

After Philip finally came to his senses and completed his transformation, W switched to Luna Metal form and easily suppressed the Bird Dopant with his agile movements and the advantage of his long staff.

One of them couldn't withstand the onslaught and was quickly defeated, collapsing to the ground in agony as his transformation ended.

Just as W reached out to retrieve the Bird Memory, Fujikawa Tomoma suddenly rushed up, snatched the Memory, and inserted it directly into his own body, successfully transforming!

Everyone present was completely stunned. Gaia Memory has always been compatible with specific users who have undergone a special surgery. There has never been a precedent of two people being able to transform in turn using the same memory. This completely overturned everyone's understanding.

Having completed his transformation, Tongma dared not linger in the fight and immediately fled the scene with Jiang Caoqian.

Hidden in the shadows, Kirihiko witnessed this scene and was equally shocked. This was completely beyond his comprehension. He immediately went to find Sonozaki Saeko to confront her and demand an explanation. However, Saeko's attitude was perfunctory; she simply said she would handle it and dismissed him.

Afterwards, Shotaro went to the hospital to visit the injured Kanemura Yuichi and learned the truth from his girlfriend Kubota Yayoi.

Ever since Touma obtained the Bird Memory, the group of boys have been taking turns transforming into it for fun. Later on, Touma's mentality became completely twisted, and he began to actively transform into it to hurt people. Yayoi also revealed that Touma's next target is the Kazemen Ramen shop.

Shotaro and Akiko rushed to the ramen shop to stop him, and sure enough, Touma had already transformed into the Bird hybrid and was ready to cause a ruckus.

Just as Shotaro was about to transform, Philip came running up, panting and excited.

Philip finally discovered the triggering mechanism of the Fang Memory through experiments—it would automatically appear when the user was in extreme danger. To verify this theory, Philip deliberately went to dangerous places, putting himself in peril. Sure enough, when Philip faced the bird dopant alone, the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared on its own and jumped onto Philip's hand.

Without further hesitation, the two immediately teamed up and transformed into their Fang Ace form.

The black and white form appeared, its overwhelming power instantly crushing the entire field. The Bird Dopant's attacks were rendered useless, completely suppressed. After just a few moves, Tongma was completely reduced to his original form, and the Bird Memory was ejected from his body.

Strangely, this memory, which had gone through a fierce battle, did not break or become unusable as usual.

Just as Shotaro was wondering, W's attention was drawn to the screaming Touma, whose hand was burned beyond recognition. He quickly went over to check.

Kirihiko slowly appeared, picked up the memory, and explained Touma's current physical condition: "This method of using the memory is wrong, which is why this situation has occurred."

Shotaro was instantly enraged and angrily questioned Kirihiko why he sold such a dangerous thing to underage children.