As a weirdo, I like being a Kamen Rider

"Bang—!"

The entire suit of armor cracked open like a spiderweb, and Kusaka was sent flying backward, crashing into a pile of rubble. The Kaixa belt automatically disengaged, slipped off his waist, and rolled a long way away.

Kimura Saya caught sight of Soga collapsing and reverting to her transformation. In a panic, she forcefully broke free of her restraints to rush to her aid, immediately creating an opening. Kageyama Saeko seized the opportunity, stabbing her heavily in the shoulder armor with her rapier once more, while simultaneously whipping her side with her whip.

Under the double blow, the Delta armor shattered, and Saya fell heavily to the ground, clutching her shoulder and groaning. The Delta belt slipped to her side.

Tsurugi Ichiro's long whip curled up the Delta belt on the ground, and Saeko Kageyama also picked up the Kaixa belt. The two of them casually weighed it in their hands, as if they were weighing two weightless spoils of war.

Just then, the roar of an engine tearing through the air suddenly came from the distant street.

The motorized Pegasus sped through the billowing dust, and Qian Qiao, sitting on the motorcycle, could see the scene in the ruins from afar:

Soga and Saya lay on the ground, while three Orphnoch figures stood in the center of the ruins, each holding a knight's belt. He slammed on the brakes, the tires screeching as the motorcycle slid sideways to a stop at the edge of the rubble.

The silence in the conference room continued; no one answered Lin Chen's question.

Lin Chen didn't intend to waste any more time with them. He tapped the table and called out to everyone present to stand up.

His tone was clear, leaving no room for ambiguity or hesitation: "Since you are unwilling to answer this question, let's go back to yesterday's meeting."

Those willing to accept the desertification inhibitor and forgo superhuman powers for a normal lifespan, stand on the left. Those who insist that the Orphnochs are an evolved species destined to rule humanity and refuse the inhibitor, stand on the right.

Let me make this clear from the start: I don't accept fence-sitters here.

As soon as he finished speaking, a murmur of commotion rippled through the room. Murakami's confidants were the first to rise and quickly move to the right. The remaining decision-makers exchanged glances, hesitated for a few seconds, and then some of them followed suit.

Initially, only a few high-ranking officials from the research department were on the left. The wavering faction in the middle hesitated for a while before gradually splitting to either side. Within half a minute, the entire room was clearly divided. Lin Chen stood quietly beside the main seat, observing without revealing any emotion on his face.

Just then, Smart Lady strode in from outside, the sound of her high heels on the carpet sounding particularly hurried in the quiet meeting room. She walked to Lin Chen's side, leaned slightly, and whispered her report in his ear.

Upon hearing the news, Lin Chen's previously calm expression darkened, and a chill ran through his eyes.

Leaning back in his chair, Murakami Kyo, who had completely ignored the faction, noticed his expression change drastically and a barely perceptible smug smirk appeared on his lips, looking as if victory was in his grasp.

Hanagata noticed Lin Chen's sudden change in mood and immediately stepped forward, lowering her voice to ask what was wrong.

Lin Chen turned his head and, in a voice only the two of them could hear, briefly recounted the attack on the laundromat and the theft of his two belts. Hanagata frowned, his expression also becoming serious.

Lin Chen's gaze fell on Murakami, and he knew in his heart that the original plan to gradually resolve the conflict and the idea of ​​dealing with it gently were no longer feasible from this moment on.

Without further hesitation, he raised his hand and waved it, causing gray ripples to spread across the void beside him, and a dimensional wall slowly unfolded.

Sudo Kirihiko emerged from the spatial passage, still wearing his suit. He initially looked somewhat surprised, but upon seeing Lin Chen's cold and gloomy expression, he immediately composed himself and stood at attention.

The high-ranking members of the faction present witnessed this seemingly out-of-nowhere spatial teleportation technique and immediately began whispering amongst themselves, their faces filled with shock. Only Murakami Kyoji remained unmoved, merely raising his eyes slightly. He himself possessed a similar ability and was not surprised at all.

Lin Chen didn't waste any more words explaining. He glanced at Hanagata and Kirihiko, his tone crisp and decisive, carrying an unquestionable resolve: "There's no time to deal with them right now. These opposition members in the arena are your responsibility."

Kirihiko nodded. As a former museum executive, he understood Lin Chen's meaning perfectly, and Hanagata, who founded the Brain Company, understood it as well.

The dimensional wall lit up again with a faint light. After the light flashed, Murakami, who was sitting in a chair, and all the opposition leaders standing on the right, along with Hanagata and Kirihiko, were all enveloped by spatial power and instantly disappeared from the conference room.

Those high-ranking officials on the left who supported the use of the drug witnessed this scene, their faces filled with fear, murmurs of dismay, and uneasy glances exchanged.

Lin Chen had no time to soothe their emotions. A dimensional portal opened behind him once more. He glanced at the remaining people, said, "Everyone do your job. Further instructions will be given in a unified manner," and then stepped into the spatial portal, his figure disappearing as soon as he entered.

The huge top-floor conference room suddenly emptied, leaving everyone staring at each other in bewilderment.

The cold white lights remained on, but everyone knew that from this moment on, the world at Smart Brain had completely changed.

Chapter 219 Response

Seeing that Takumi had returned, Keitaro suddenly leaned out from behind half of the broken wall and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Takumi! Catch! Transform quickly!" He was holding the Faiz belt that he had dug out from the rubble and threw it with all his might in Takumi's direction.

After getting off the motorcycle and taking off his helmet, Qian Qiao raised his hand and steadily caught the belt without the slightest hesitation, then fastened it around his waist.

"Standing by!"

"Complete!"

Crimson photon blood rapidly spread throughout his body via the tubes, and the Faiz armor gleamed with a cold, hard light amidst the billowing dust. He reached behind him and retrieved the photon sword from his motorized steed, his gaze fixed intently on the three figures in the center of the arena.

Upon seeing this, Kitasaki scoffed, his heavy dragon-shaped Orpheus armor fading away, revealing his baby-faced boy form. He gestured with his chin toward Kageyama Saeko, who was carrying two belts, his tone utterly uninteresting: "Just Faiz? How boring. You two are enough to handle an opponent of this caliber."

He pondered for a moment, weighing the Delta belt in his hand, and replied, "No problem, leave it to us."

After saying that, he turned his head and exchanged a glance with Saeko Kageyama. The two understood each other without saying a word, and the Orphnoch exoskeleton covering their bodies simultaneously disappeared, and in the blink of an eye, they returned to their normal human forms.

Before the Kusaka group could even wonder what these Orphnochs were up to,

Then, Saeko Kageyama raised her hand and fastened the Kaixa belt around her waist, pressing the button on her phone with her fingertips; Takuma also fastened his Delta belt at the same time and held the transformation device to his mouth.

"Transform!" X2

"Standing by!"

Two electronic sound effects rang out simultaneously, and a silver and an orange-yellow photon blood spread rapidly along the tubes. The orange-yellow Kaixa armor and the black Delta armor covered their entire bodies almost at the same time, their compound eyes lit up, and the two knight figures stood side by side.

Kitasaki took two steps back, leaned against the broken wall, crossed his arms, and stared at the scene with great interest.

The battle has begun.

Zhuo Mo Yilang, wielding the assembled Delta pistol, launched the first attack, his fingertip pulling the trigger, sending three bright silver heavy light bullets straight towards Qian Qiao's face. Qian Qiao had already drawn his crimson photon sword, sidestepping and swinging it to block. The light bullets struck the blade and exploded into blinding light fragments, the shock making his arm slightly numb.

Before he could even get his footing, Saeko Kageyama had already closed in with the Caesar Blade Spear, now in sword mode. The bright yellow blade, wrapped in a sharp wind, slashed diagonally at his waist. Inui twisted his waist and raised his sword to block the attack. With a clang, the impact traveled through the blade and into his wrist, causing him to involuntarily take a half step back.

The two worked together seamlessly, one at a distance and the other close.

Delta Station was positioned at the edge of optimal firing range, and every shot locked off Qian Qiao's evasive maneuver. The heavy light bullets grazed the armor and exploded, forcing him to shrink into a small area and parry.

Kaixa pressed forward relentlessly, his blade slashing, sweeping, and cutting attacks aimed straight for vital points, his moves swift, precise, and ruthless.

Caught in the middle, Qian Qiao was overwhelmed. His photon sword could block the frontal slashes but not the side and rear projectiles. After only a few rounds, his shoulder armor and lower back were grazed by the light projectiles, leaving several charred dents on the armor surface. His steps also became heavier.

Seeing the opening where Qian Qiao swung his sword to block the heavy frontal slash, he pondered and fired two shots in quick succession, aiming straight for Qian Qiao's right wrist holding the sword.

Forced to retreat and defend, Qian Qiao deflected his attack, narrowly avoiding a fatal blow, but lost his balance in the process. Seizing this momentary opening, Kageyama Saeko sheathed her sword, twisted her body, and delivered a powerful kick to his chest. With a dull thud, Qian Qiao slid backward several meters, his boot carving two deep furrows in the gravel.

Barely managing to steady himself with the photon sword, Qian Qiao gritted his teeth, knowing he couldn't withstand the combined attack of the two under normal circumstances. His left hand swiftly reached for the acceleration timer on his waist, put it on his left wrist without hesitation, and pressed the timer button.

"Start Up!"

The moment the electronic sound ended, the surrounding wind, along with the movements of the two people opposite them who were preparing to attack again, all suddenly slowed down.

With a burst of power, Qian Qiao transformed into a streak of black light and shot forward. In his accelerated state, the silver photon blood surged and heated beneath his armor. Without using any unnecessary moves, he charged straight at the nearby Kageyama Saeko, his right leg taut and kicking out fiercely.

"Crimson Smash!"

The first crimson drill slammed solidly into the center of Kaixa's breastplate. Before the impact could dissipate, Qian Qiao spun around, delivering a second and third heavy kick to different spots in quick succession.

With a light touch of his toes, he swept towards Takuma Itsuki in the distance. The light bullet fired by Delta was still suspended in mid-air and had not flown half a meter. Just as the red afterimage entered Takuma's pupils, he was hit by heavy kicks to his waist, abdomen, chest, and shoulder armor.

After twelve deep red drills landed, the ten-second acceleration time came to an end.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"Time Out!"

The notification sounded, and the world returned to its normal flow. Two deafening explosions rang out almost simultaneously, and Kaixa and Delta's armor shattered into particles of light. Kageyama Saeko and Takuma Itsuki both groaned as they fell into the rubble, their belts flying off their waists with the force of the impact, crashing to the ground a few meters away.

After landing, Inui staggered half a step, his accelerated form fading away. He had just glanced at the fallen belt when Kusaka Masato, who had been watching the battle, lunged straight at the Kaixa belt, intending to retrieve it.

But before he could even touch it, a whooshing sound rang out, stopping him in his tracks.

"That's not something you should touch!"

Kitasaki, who had been watching the fight, was still tossing pebbles in his hand, clearly indicating that the attack just now was his doing.

He slowly straightened up and took two steps forward, his gaze sweeping over Takuma and Saeko Kageyama, who were sprawled on the ground. His tone was full of frustration at being disappointed.

"What a waste." He scoffed. "He's got two knight belts in his hands, and he can't even handle Faiz."

Zhuomo lay prone in the pile of rubble, offering no rebuttal.

"Alright, go rest somewhere else. Looks like I'll have to do it myself." With that, Kitasaki's body swirled with gray light, preparing to transform into an Orphnoch again to deal with Inui Takumi. Just then, a flash of gray light appeared, and Lin Chen stepped out from behind the dimensional barrier.

His gaze swept over the mess on the ground, then turned to the three people in front of him. His tone was calm, yet carried a heavy sense of oppression: "The three of you, I thought that after yesterday's failure, you would make the right choice. I didn't expect that you would disappoint me so much."

Kitasaki, who was channeling the power of Orpheus, stopped the gray light surrounding him. The nonchalance on his baby face vanished, replaced by an unprecedentedly solemn expression. The pain of yesterday's battle at the junkyard was still etched into his bones, and he knew better than anyone the terror of the person before him.

Saeko Kageyama and Itaro Takuma gritted their teeth and quickly stood up, staggering to stand beside Kitasaki. The two exchanged a quick glance, their eyes filled with astonishment. Murakami had clearly said he could keep Lin Chen at headquarters, so how could he have appeared here out of nowhere?

Zhuomo suppressed his pounding heart, took half a step forward, and said stiffly, "Disappointed? New president, you think too highly of yourself. We are Lucky Four-Leaf Clover, not dogs you can order around!"

His tone abruptly changed, and he raised his hand, shouting loudly towards the broken walls on either side of the ruins: "Stop hiding! Mr. Murakami anticipated this move, so come out!"

As soon as the words were spoken, more than a dozen figures emerged densely from behind the broken walls around the ruins and from the edges of the rooftops. The distorted forms of various Orphnochs were all revealed.

Lin Chen glanced around, his expression completely unfazed. Instead, he chuckled, "This is your trump card? I thought you could come up with something new." His disappointment was undisguised.

"Stop being so arrogant!" Zhuomo took a step forward, staring at Lin Chen and gritting his teeth. "The three of us are indeed no match for you, but a dozen or so Orphnochs working together can wear you down! I don't believe you're so strong that you're unreasonable!"

Lin Chen didn't argue with him: "Alright. Judging from this situation, it's pretty much all the village's assets. Let's settle it all at once to avoid trouble later."

As he spoke, his gaze shifted slightly, sweeping over the cluster of houses behind the ruins. The panic and fear of the ordinary people seeped into his senses through the walls. Lin Chen frowned slightly: "But the battlefield can't be here."

Before he could finish speaking, he raised his hand and waved it, and a huge gray dimensional wall suddenly unfolded in the center of the ruins. Before the dozen or so Orphnochs could react, the gray light enveloped them, along with Kitasaki and the other two, as well as Lin Chen himself, and they were instantly swept away by the dimensional wall.

The light flashed and disappeared in an instant.

The once crowded ruins and open space were now mostly empty, leaving only rubble and lingering dust.

The people in the laundromat stood there, stunned, for a long time.

"...What happened?" Kusaka was the first to come to his senses, frowning as he stared at the empty space. "How did that guy suddenly appear? And take everyone away?"

Takumi also deactivated his transformation, his brows furrowed as he stared at the spot where the dimensional barrier had disappeared.

Just then, Keitaro raised his hand somewhat awkwardly and said in a soft voice, "Um... it's me."

All eyes were on him. Keitaro scratched the back of his head, a little embarrassed, and explained, "When your belt was stolen and you were about to collapse, I remembered that Mr. Lin Chen left his contact information before he left."

He said...that he admired my dream of making everyone happy, and that if I ever encountered any problems I couldn't solve, I could call this number to find him. Without thinking much of it, I dialed it…

The gray light suddenly dissipated, and Lin Chen, along with more than a dozen Orphnochs, landed on the boundless wilderness.

The wild grass was blown flat by the strong wind, and a fierce battle had already broken out in the distance. The muffled sounds of energy explosions carried on the wind, rising and falling.

The Orphnoch, in his flower-like form, stood in the center of the battlefield, his body covered in hard scales, a pair of spiraling horns on his head gleaming with a cold light. As a superior Orphnoch, he possessed both super-accelerated mobility and heavy melee combat capabilities, allowing him to control the pace of his battles at will.

He exerted force with his feet, explosively charging forward, his curled horns on his head serving as piercing weapons; each high-speed thrust and impact easily pierced the Orphnoch's body.