As a weirdo, I like being a Kamen Rider

Lin Chen slowly emerged from the shadows, looking in the direction the sports car had disappeared, and murmured, "Murakami Kyoji and Smart Lady."

He had previously assumed that the Orphnochs hunted humans because their minds had changed after awakening their powers, and they had been blinded by their immense strength, completely abandoning their humanity and moral principles. Now, it seemed that it was far more complex than that.

The rules of this world are far more cruel and complex than he imagined. Lin Chen suppressed his emotions and walked up to the man who was still trembling in a daze.

"I originally thought you were one of the few Orphnochs who wanted to coexist with humans, but now it seems you're just too cowardly to do evil."

A cold voice rang in his ears, and the man shuddered, abruptly looking up at Lin Chen in front of him, his face filled with panic: "Who are you?! When did you get here?!"

Lin Chen didn't answer his question. Instead, he looked at him calmly and directly questioned, "Now, are you planning to start attacking humans?"

The man's face was deathly pale, his eyes were panicked, and his voice was full of helplessness and despair: "No, I don't want to, but if I don't do it, I'll definitely be executed!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to have been completely driven mad. He sprang up from the ground, turned around and ran away, screaming incoherently, "Don't force me! Nobody force me!"

Watching his hasty retreating figure, Lin Chen did not immediately chase after him, but stood quietly in place, his eyes deep.

"Lets see."

Lin Chen muttered to himself, his expression complex. He wondered if he would have ended up like this if he hadn't awakened the system, or if he would have directly attacked humans. He stopped thinking about it and followed, silently trailing behind the snail Orpheus.

...

In an ordinary apartment.

The room was empty and sparsely decorated; it looked like the typical dwelling of a young person living alone. At this moment, the snail Orpheus was starving, as if it hadn't eaten properly in a long time, and was tormented by both hunger and fear.

He didn't bother to tidy up; he rushed to the dining table in the living room and frantically devoured everything edible on it. Bread, cookies, snacks, fast food—whatever it was, as long as it could fill his stomach, he stuffed it all into his mouth, wolfing it down without any order or method.

In just a few minutes, he devoured all the food on the table, leaving not a single crumb.

But he still didn't feel full. He turned around and rushed to the refrigerator, pulled open the door, and found it empty except for a lone cabbage.

An ordinary person would never eat raw cabbage, but he was so hungry at the moment that he didn't care what he ate. Without thinking, he reached out and tore off a large piece of cabbage leaf, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it up. The raw, cold cabbage leaf was chewed into tiny pieces in his mouth.

Lin Chen watched all of this from the shadows.

Just as he was engrossed in eating his lettuce, the apartment door was pushed open from the outside.

When the homeowner returned home from get off work, he opened the door to find a strange man inside, wolfing down his food. He shouted angrily, "Who are you?! What are you doing in my house?!"

The sudden reprimand instantly shattered the snail Orpheus's tense nerves.

He shuddered violently, his body reacting instinctively. Gray spiral patterns instantly appeared on his face, and strange energy fluctuations surged around him, transforming him into the snail Orphnoch form in an instant.

His first thought was only one thing: run.

He instinctively turned around, bracing himself to smash the window and escape. But just as he was about to move, the Smart Lady's warning from the previous night flooded his mind.

He stopped running away.

Don't run! If you run again, you'll die!

The fear in his heart completely overwhelmed his instinctive cowardice. He turned around, gave up the chance to escape, and walked step by step toward the middle-aged homeowner at the door.

The homeowner was just an ordinary office worker who had never seen such a bizarre and terrifying non-human monster. He was so frightened that his legs went weak and he collapsed on the ground at the door, trembling all over. He didn't even have the strength to call for help, and his eyes were full of despair.

The snail Orpheus approached step by step, its mouth slowly opening, its soft mouthparts gradually extending and deforming, protruding forward, ready to launch a hunt at any moment.

If he just does that, he won't have to be executed.

"Do we really have to do this? Once we take action, there will be no turning back."

Lin Chen's voice rang out from behind him. Snail Orpheus turned around: "It's you! You strange fellow! Don't get in my way!"

Seeing his near-collapse, Lin Chen sighed softly in resignation.

Before he knew it, he had been influenced by Shotaro and started to soften his heart.

"Since you're going to stop me, then you should die in his place!"

Driven utterly mad by fear, the snail Orpheus lost all reason. With a roar, it charged straight at Lin Chen with a desperate, all-or-nothing resolve.

Lin Chen raised an eyebrow slightly. Facing the fierce attack, he slightly shifted his body, causing Snail Orpheus to miss his target, lose his balance, and lean forward. Lin Chen took advantage of the situation, raising his hand and delivering a swift elbow strike to Orpheus's back.

A dull thud rang out, and Snail Orpheus crashed directly to the floor. He struggled to get up and fight back, but as soon as he propped himself up, Lin Chen's foot stepped on his back, pinning him firmly to the ground, rendering him unable to move.

"Let me go! Let me go!"

The snail Orpheus struggled and twisted its body desperately.

Lin Chen bent down slightly, looking down at him, his tone calm yet carrying an undeniable sense of pressure: "I'll give you two choices. First, if you insist on attacking humans, I'll deal with you now. Second, give up attacking humans."

The moment the words fell, the terrifying aura of a high-level tiger-type Orphnoch crashed down like a mountain.

Faced with this aura, the snail Orpheus couldn't even muster the thought of resistance; its body stiffened, and it dared not struggle any longer.

After a long while, his voice trembled with tears, and he murmured desperately, "But... even if I don't attack humans, Faiz from Smart Brain will still come to kill me..."

Seeing his broken and helpless state, Lin Chen released his foot from his back.

"Faiz? Are you willing to believe me?"

Freed from its restraints, the snail Orpheus slowly rose from the ground, its markings gradually fading away, and it transformed back into a human.

He could clearly sense the terrifying power remaining on Lin Chen's body, a power far exceeding that of an ordinary Orphnoch.

Her legs buckled, and she collapsed to her knees, her voice choked with sobs and pleading, "M-My lord! You are so powerful, please save me! I really don't want to die!"

Chapter 181 Little Ma

Lin Chen looked at the snail Orpheus in front of him. He quickly calmed himself down and decided to take the creature away from the apartment building.

The middle-aged homeowner slumped to the ground, trembling uncontrollably. Seeing this, Lin Chen gently crouched down and silently released a wisp of spiritual energy to envelop the other party's consciousness.

This force slowly calmed his panic. After doing all this, Lin Chen casually took out a stack of 1,000 yuan in cash from his pocket and stuffed it directly into the homeowner's hand as compensation for Snail Orpheus's earlier trespassing and wanton search for food.

The homeowner, still dazed, clutched the money. Gradually calming down, he stared blankly at the two men, his earlier fear gone.

Lin Chen didn't linger any longer. He got up, took Snail Orpheus, and walked out of the apartment building.

They had only taken a few steps when the snail Ophie beside him began to dawdle, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated. After struggling for a long time, she finally spoke in a low, hesitant voice: "Sir... that landlord, is he really not going to call the police? Actually, I don't care what happens to me, but it's your problem if you get targeted."

Lin Chen was slightly taken aback upon hearing this. He truly hadn't expected that this timid snail, Orpheus, would actually have the potential to be a lackey. She had only just recognized him as her backer, yet she was already starting to worry about his safety.

"It's nothing," Lin Chen replied casually.

He sighed inwardly, realizing he'd really made a mess of things. The easiest thing to do would have been to simply kill him or leave him alone; why had he gone and softened his heart? He knew perfectly well that he couldn't survive in this Faiz world. His only goal was the Orphnoch king born in this world.

Even though the Evolutionary Memory helped him completely solve the fatal flaw of Orphnoch's eventual desertification, no one can refuse true immortality.

As they walked and pondered, the two unknowingly arrived at the Tokyo Bay waterfront park. A gentle breeze rippled across the sea, carrying a light mist, and the view was expansive. Just as Lin Chen was pondering what to do next, a piercing scream suddenly rang out beside him.

"what!"

The sharp scream interrupted Lin Chen's thoughts. He frowned, turned around, and said irritably, "What are you yelling about?"

Snail Orpheus froze on the spot, his body trembling slightly, his eyes fixed on the viewing railing not far ahead, his voice shaking: "M-Master! It's Faiz!"

Lin Chen followed his gaze and, sure enough, saw Faiz, a black and red creature, fiercely battling a gray-white figure on the open ground of the observation deck ahead. The crisp sounds of their fists colliding could be heard from afar. It was Orphnoch, Kiba Yuji, Little Ma.

Lin Chen stopped and observed, having made up his mind. The person currently using the Faiz belt is Kaidou Naoya, who is under Smart Brain's control. Rather than letting the company exploit this top-tier belt, he'd rather keep it for now.

As for why the two started fighting, we have to go back a few minutes earlier.

On the viewing platform, Naoya Kaidou stood alone by the railing, his back to the boardwalk behind him, gazing at the surging waves of the sea.

"So you did come after all." Hearing footsteps behind him, Kaidou Naoya turned around, his tone tinged with mockery: "You should know why I called you here."

He slowly turned around, casually flicked his little finger with a roguish and disdainful gesture; it was the booger he had just rubbed off his nose.

"To be honest, I've disliked you from the very beginning," Haitang Zhiye said bluntly.

Kiba Yuuji was perfectly aware of Haitang's intentions. After Murakami Kyoji took over as the new president of Smart Brain, he clearly expressed his disgust for Orphnochs like him who wanted to coexist peacefully with humans and refused to hunt their own kind.

Furthermore, Naoya Kaidou's sudden acquisition of the Faiz belt made his true intentions impossible to conceal.

“I know your purpose.” Yuji Kiba’s eyes were firm as he spoke earnestly, “But I can’t let you defeat me, because then you’ll truly have no way to turn back. Smart Brain is just using you. And you don’t want to do that, do you? Execute someone like yourself.”

Upon hearing this, Kaidou Naoya immediately retorted, "What are you talking about? I'm not like you guys."

As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled out his Faiz phone and started typing rapidly.

"5-5-5!"

A mechanical electronic voice announced: "Standing By!"

"Transform!"

Haitang Zhiye also clipped his phone into the belt buckle and pushed it down.

"Complete!"

Crimson photon blood gushed from his belt, flowing rapidly along the lines of his body and spreading outwards. Layers of black knight armor covered his body, with silver lines outlining the sharp and sleek contours of the armor.

After transforming, Naoya Kaidou slightly moved his neck, and his joints made a cracking mechanical sound.

Seeing this, Kiba Yuji on the opposite side no longer hesitated. His face lit up with gray-white patterns, his skin turned gray and distorted, and his body deformed. In an instant, he transformed into a horse-shaped Orphnoch.

Without another word, the two clenched their fists and charged at each other, igniting a fierce battle. It was at this moment that Lin Chen, accompanied by the snail Orpheus, arrived at the battlefield and witnessed the duel from afar.

The battle between the two quickly came to an end. Naoya Kaidou raised his hand, drew his Faiz fist gun, and pressed the kill command.

Faced with a fatal blow, Kiba Yuji neither dodged nor resisted, but stood quietly in place, calmly awaiting the attack. He knew in his heart that Kaidou Naoya was incapable of delivering a truly ruthless blow.

As expected, the fist-gun, imbued with terrifying destructive power, finally came to a halt just centimeters away from Kiba.

Yuji Kiba looked at Faiz's trembling hands and said calmly and confidently, "I was right, wasn't I? You don't want to do it at all."

Before he finished speaking, Kiba Yuji conjured a long sword in his right hand and thrust it out without hesitation, pressing it against Faiz's chest and exerting force.

Bang!

The powerful impact sent Faiz flying, crashing heavily onto the grassy bank. Her belt, unable to withstand the force, came loose and fell to the ground.

As the light faded, Kaidou Naoya was forced to deactivate his transformation. He clutched his aching chest and lay disheveled on the lawn, his face pale.

Yuji Kiba slowly walked up to him, his Orphnoch form gradually fading, returning him to his human form. He looked down at the disheveled Kaidou, his tone somewhat admonishing: "Calm down, think it over carefully."

After saying that, Kiba Yuji said no more, turned and left, leaving Kaidou Naoya alone in the same spot.

Watching Kiba's departing figure, Kaidou Naoya was filled with resentment and frustration, and slammed his fist hard on the lawn.

Having watched the entire battle, Lin Chen turned to the snail Orpheus beside him and said calmly, "Go, pick up that belt. With it, you won't have to fear Faiz's pursuit anymore."

Snail Orpheus stared at the Faiz belt in the distance, then looked at Kaidou Naoya lying on the ground, his eyes twitching repeatedly. Finally, he gritted his teeth, made up his mind, and ran wildly towards the lawn.