The Strange Cat from Fuuto

"You need to know that the Sonozaki family is a family chosen by Earth!"

"You must remember this well!"

"You must always remember this as a member of the Sonozaki family!"

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That night, the Sonozaki mansion was completely dark, and everyone was fast asleep. As for Fuuto, it presented a scene different from the daytime, with the dazzling neon lights turning the entire city into a city that never sleeps.

A bank in Fengdu was already closed. Several security guards patrolled the vicinity of the bank, shining their flashlights back and forth, not giving anyone a chance.

"Boom boom boom!"

The roar of a motorcycle engine shattered the silence of the night. A masked monster, carrying a large number of guns at his waist and a broken sword on his back, arrogantly broke through the bank's doors. The patrol officers rushed into the dusty bank the moment they heard the noise.

The bank was now in the midst of a blaring alarm. Under the blinding red light of the alarm, the strange man in the red mask transformed his left hand into a machine gun, firing back and forth. However, the guards, equipped with batons and stun guns, were no match for him. In an instant, most of them were slaughtered. Blood splattered everywhere, pooling into streams that flowed slowly on the ground. One guard after another was riddled with bullet holes, their eyes wide open and devoid of any light.

"Question: Who am I?"

The red-masked figure picked up a guard who was slumped on the ground and said mockingly, "Come on, guess who I am?!"

The guard, trembling like a leaf, stammered, unable to utter a single word. The red-masked monster spoke with great disappointment: "How boring. Remember this well, I am—Kamen Rider!"

"Remember this!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The deafening roar of the motorcycle faded into the distance, leaving behind only a wrecked bank and a guard slumped among a pile of corpses.

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"Lord Miku, there's something I need to ask of you!"

Sougo Ichiro approached Miku and spoke respectfully. Miku paused in his swaying long tail, letting Ootachi wipe the food crumbs off his beard.

"What do you want me to do?"

"I need you to help me take a test!"

"Target...location!"

"Kurata Kenji, the location is the Sherwood Building in the northeast of the West Suzumei area!"

"Ok!"

At the opportune moment, Obito installed the Earth Driver and inserted the memory into Miku. Amidst the emerald green hexagonal halo, Miku leaped out of the cat's den, its body stretching as it transformed into a hunched beast.

"It's so beautiful!"

Sougo Ichiro stared at Miku with a look of fascination in his eyes. "That's it! That's what makes the Memory so irresistible. Regardless of race, once used, it will lead to perfect evolution!"

Seeing Sougo Ichiro's lecherous expression, Miku got goosebumps all over. If it weren't for the need to survive, he would have wanted to beat him to death right now!

"I'm leaving...!"

"Wait a minute, Lord Miku!"

Miku stopped and looked at Sougo Ichiro with some confusion. Sougo Ichiro pushed up his glasses and said, "I hope that after you defeat him, you can equip him with that enhancer and then make him transform!"

"That's...all?"

"Yes!"

After hearing Sougo Ichiro's request, Miku vanished instantly, leaving only an empty cat bed. Since being shown the Earth Well by the old man, Miku's control over the Saber-toothed Tiger Memory has reached a new level. Now he can confidently say that there's no one else in the entire world faster than him!

In less than three minutes, Miku had traversed most of the city and arrived at the West Ringing area. "Sherwood Building, this must be it!" Looking at the building in front of him, Miku stopped and slowly walked into the building's underground parking garage.

"Bang bang bang!"

Upon entering the spacious lower space, Miku was immediately met with a barrage of gunfire. Casings fell to the ground with a crisp sound, and muzzle flashes licked the air. After nearly three minutes of frenzied firing, the sniper had to stop due to the overheating of his weapon.

"Phew, I've definitely blasted this guy to smithereens!"

"real?!"

Miku's voice rang out from the gunman's side. He hurriedly turned his head and saw a golden fang mask with indifferent, blood-red eyes, like a cat looking at a mouse.

They didn't take him seriously at all; a commercial memory chip, even one that was specially adapted, was not worth worrying about.

The gunman in the red mask quickly looked towards where Miku had just stood. After the smoke cleared, the ground was pitted and uneven, like a honeycomb briquette.

"This is impossible!"

The strange man with the red mask shouted in disbelief. The next second, he drew a broad, broken sword from behind him, while his left hand transformed into a two-foot-long, triangular military dagger, its blood groove gleaming with a cold light. With a flick of his wrists, the broken sword and the military dagger slashed towards Miku, completely blocking Miku's movement.

"Let's see if you don't die this time!"

The red-masked monster tested the sharpness of his weapon; to cut a hair in half was an insult. With just a light stroke, he could slice through a steel plate tens of millimeters thick as easily as a hot knife through butter.

"Boom!"

Miku easily blocked the two weapons that could be described as peerless divine weapons. Miku's right arm blocked the two giant blades, just like a dull kitchen knife cutting into thick cowhide, unable to penetrate an inch.

"aim?"

Miku, eyes narrowed, condensed an energy ball in his left hand and delivered a straight punch to the red-masked monster's abdomen. The energy ball exploded, sending the red-masked monster flying. Miku stomped on the ground, transforming into a blur as he rapidly approached the red-masked monster in mid-air. A whirlwind appeared out of nowhere in the spacious underground parking garage, crackling with electricity. The red-masked monster, like a tossed ball, whizzed through the air.

Finally, a Gaia Memory flew out of the red-masked monster's body, and Kurata Kenji lay on the ground, curled up in pain.

Miku, who had stopped, strolled over to Kurata Kenji and gently patted Kurata Kenji's cheek with her left hand. "So...weak!"

"vomit!"

Kurata Kenji gagged, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth. He looked at Miku and quickly backed away, his eyes filled with terror. Miku, witnessing this, made no reaction. He simply took the frame that Sougo Ichiro had given him from Kurata Kenji's body and placed it in front of him, his tone icy.

"Use it!"

Kurata Kenji cowered, burying his head deep in his chest, and did not respond to Miku. Miku spoke again: "Use...it!" After receiving no response, he reached out with his left hand, grabbed Kurata Kenji, and dragged him like a dead dog. He picked up his memory, inserted the box, and then pressed it.

"Arm!"

The memory flowed into Kurata Kenji's body through the bio-connection near his eye. Accompanied by Kurata Kenji's painful roar, a red glow appeared on his body. When the glow faded, a hybrid entity with an even stronger aura than the previous red-masked monster appeared in the underground parking garage of the Sherwood Building.

"what!!!!"

Kurata Kenji, who was shouting to the sky, had changed drastically. The weapons wrapped around his body were more advanced and more varied. He now possessed the firepower to win a small war. His red mask had become more ferocious, and his two long horns pointed diagonally to the sky. The broad-faced broken sword behind him had been completely repaired.

"Mission... complete!"

Miku looked at Kurata Kenji, whose appearance had changed drastically, took two steps back, and then disappeared in front of Kurata Kenji with a leap.

Chapter Twenty-One: The Sole Survivor of the Cage, the Birth of Medusa!

After completing the task assigned by Sougo Ichiro, Miku quickly returned to the Experimentation Department. Having just deactivated his transformation and settled into his cat bed, Saeko stormed into the department, her face blazing with anger. Miku glanced at her and obediently shrank to the very back of his cat bed.

He covered his head and ignored everything else!

"What's wrong, Saeko-san? Why do you look so angry?"

Sougo Ichiro pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses, a nauseatingly fake smile plastered on his face. Saeko took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.

"I heard you sent Miku on a mission?"

"Yes, there's a small matter that I need Lord Miku's help with, so I troubled him!"

"A trivial matter?" Saeko pulled a stack of photos from her pocket and slammed them in front of Sougo Ichiro. She angrily demanded, "Then explain to me what's going on here?"

Picking up the photos, Sougo Ichiro began to look at them. Each one depicted Kurata Kenji after using the enhancer, and Sougo Ichiro was thrilled by the ferocious appearance of Kurata Kenji in the photos!

"This is it, this is it!"

"My assumption was correct!"

"Hahaha!"

Saeko crossed her arms and looked at Sougo Ichiro, whose face was full of fanaticism and excitement, and felt a chill run down her spine. Perhaps this was why the old man in the family wanted him to stay in the museum!

His fervor and obsession with memory, along with his personal talent, were what kept the old man by his side. But it was mostly the old man's own abilities that mattered!

There's a reason why the fearsome emperor reigns supreme in the underworld of Fengdu for so many years without being able to shake his position!

And that is also my goal!

The emperor who transcends fear becomes the new empress!

"I hope that Mr. Sougo's actions will not affect my plans in the future!"

Saeko finished speaking coldly and prepared to leave. Just then, the lab technician in charge of Sougo Ichiro's fighting cage rushed over in a panic, "Lord Sougo, something terrible has happened! You'd better come and see!"

"What's wrong?!"

"In such a hurry!"

Sougo Ichiro, who was admiring Kurata Kenji's new look, responded with some anger. His face was quite unpleasant as he was interrupted while he was in the middle of his excitement.

You little rascal, do you think life is boring? How dare you disturb my sexuality!

"Oh my, it seems you have a lot on your plate, Mr. Sougo Ichiro. You still remember me!"

Saeko, always eager for drama, parted her lips slightly, her beautiful eyes filled with provocation. Sougo Ichiro's behavior greatly displeased her; making him miserable would make her feel better.

"Lord Sougo, all the experimental subjects in the cage you set up are dead!"

"Except for that woman, they're all dead!"

Upon hearing this, Sougo Ichiro grabbed the lab technician by the collar, lifted him into the air, and said in a chilling tone, "Explain yourself clearly, what exactly happened!"

"How can he speak if you hold him like that?!"

Saeko stood in front of Miku's cat bed, bent down, and dragged the reluctant Miku out. She lightly touched Miku's nose with her finger, ignoring Miku's utterly dejected expression. She smiled at Sougo Ichiro. Sougo Ichiro released the poor lab technician, straightened his clothes, and then walked down from the platform towards the cage he had specially prepared. Inside, except for a woman standing askew, everyone else lay on the ground, blood everywhere.

The woman in front of me had her head tilted to one side, one arm bent irregularly, her clothes tattered, revealing filthy skin in many places, and bloodstains between the fingernails of her ten hands. A bloody scar ran across her dirty face, and there was blood at the corner of her mouth, but she was smiling, smiling brightly and happily!

"Bang!"

"You said before, right? As long as I survive, you'll grant me all my requests!"

The woman's only remaining arm gripped the railing tightly, her face pressed against it, her eyes filled with madness and longing. Sougo Ichiro, who had been silent, looked at the woman before him and instantly understood everything.

This woman has gone mad. She has completely fallen into the abyss, and she has even conjured up a beautiful vision for herself: as long as she survives, as long as she survives, she will be able to get everything she wants.

Thinking this, Sougo Ichiro's eyes lit up with a smile. It seemed he'd have another new experimental subject! Grabbing the railing, he spoke face-to-face with the woman, "Yes, you survived. You can get everything you want!"

"Anything you want, I'll give you!"