The Strange Cat from Fuuto

"you...."

"I am no longer a dragon warrior, but a puppet. I don't want to sink any further, so Exaid, defeat me!!"

"While I can still control my body."

"Let me die as a warrior, not a puppet!!"

Graphite, roaring at the little angel, spreads his arms wide, while Miku's hidden system within the Knight System stubbornly struggles for control of the body.

"I see!"

He inserted the cartridge into the finishing move slot holder on the left side of his waist and then pressed it.

"Gekitotsu Critical Strike!!"

The moment the rousing crosstalk began, the little angel's eyes lit up.

"Let's do it!!"

Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Power of the Viral Imprint

"Let's get started!"

Graphite, struggling against the Knight System, roared at the little angel with all his might.

"Kimewaza!"

Gekitotsu Critical Strike! "

The rapidly flashing angel in the eyepiece gathered a massive amount of energy, which was then transmitted through the armor's energy conduction channels to the red blaster gauntlet on the left arm.

"Haa!!"

Swing your waist, sway your body, and throw a punch.

Three simple actions, yet they conceal a suffocatingly dangerous intent.

His left fist slammed out like thunder, and the Crusher Gauntlet shot out, spewing out pink and red flames from behind it.

While providing it with kinetic energy, it also enhances its lethality.

Enveloped in a thick layer of pinkish-white energy, the Crusher Gauntlets appeared before Graphite in the blink of an eye.

"That's enough!"

Graphite, whose face beneath the visor revealed a slight smile, closed his eyes.

"boom!!"

A massive explosion erupted, sending flames soaring into the sky. Graphite, having already endured the decisive blow from the Hua family's ultimate technique, was in a precarious state.

Even the swift and decisive resolution of the car and the Hua family's problems was due to the hidden tricks left by Miku in the Knight System.

"Is it resolved?"

The little angel, whose eyes held a glimmer of hope, suddenly narrowed his eyes and staggered out of the firelight. Graphite's armor was shattered, revealing most of his body.

As lightning crackled across the damaged armor, the Knight System stubbornly continued to report.

"Berserk mode activated, prepare...prepare...prepare...annihilate..."

The driver of the audio cassette shattered into a pile of fragments, but the crystal card inside remained intact. Instead, enveloped in a golden flame, it quickly disappeared into the spatial rift and vanished before the little angel's eyes.

"Thank you!"

Graphite, who had managed to give the little angel a thumbs-up, collapsed the next second, his body rapidly disintegrating into a data stream and disappearing into the air.

"We finally won!"

The little angel, who had fallen to her knees with a thud, looked relieved.

"Game Clear!!"

As a resounding clang echoed through the air, a bronze medal, serving as proof of passage, floated out from a giant block of color that appeared in the air and landed in the little angel's hand.

The badge features Graphite's face armor after transforming into a hunter, with a star in the center that shimmers with a faint green light, exuding a sense of life.

The moment the badge was obtained, the giant color block icon of Game Clear transformed into a spatial passage, with the real world on the other side.

"Oh right, Taiga and Kiriya!"

The little angel, remembering these two things, rushed towards them, only to find their already cold corpses.

"Hey?"

Supporting himself against the cart, Emu's eyes widened: "Wake up, Kiriya!"

"Wake up!"

But there was no response, and no one patted him on the shoulder anymore.

A moment later, the little angel carrying the corpses of Hua Jia Da Wo and Che Che staggered into the space passage, her expression tragic.

.....

The real world.

CatsDog, Inc.

Top floor office.

"Oh?"

Miku, who was clinking glasses with Mick, suddenly frowned. Mick then drank the golden liquid in his glass.

"What's wrong, brother?"

"Graphite has been defeated!"

With a swift swipe of its claws, the Hunter Crystal Card that Graphite had once equipped landed in Miku's claws.

"But thankfully, it's back!"

"The driver is damaged, but the crystal card can't be lost!" Miku stroked the crystal card, put the cup on the table, and walked towards the wall with the oil painting.

"Let's go check the battle records in the crystal card."

"Oh!"

With his tail wagging, Mick followed Miku, not forgetting to bring the two cats the leftovers. The two entered the alternate dimension where Eve was, and Miku, who had thrown the Hunter Crystal Card to Eve, instructed, "Eve, export the battle footage from inside."

"Yes, Master!"

Eve quickly exported Graphite's battle logs, projecting them onto a screen in front of Miku and Mik.

The two used the leftover food and drinks as a condiment for watching the video.

We finished eating and drinking, and also watched the recorded footage.

"Three against one, and two of them still got taken down. The Kamen Riders in this world are no good!"

Mick slowly wiped his mouth, his words full of disdain.

"Hey, it's just that their drivers and cartridges aren't as good as mine. Under equal circumstances, these three would win, and the casualties wouldn't be so heavy."

"Brother, you seem to have high hopes for them. But what's the point if they're all dead?"

"The person is dead?" Miku scoffed, looking meaningfully at the last scene in the video.

"No, how could I let the players leave so easily?"

"There's still more to play!"

"Really?"

"real!"

Saint-Gobain University.

CR.

"Tap tap tap tap..."

Heavy, scattered footsteps sounded from outside the ward, and Jing Feicai, her body wrapped in bandages, staggered into the ward.

Looking at the two corpses covered with white sheets in front of him, an expression of disbelief appeared in his eyes.

"What...what...what's going on with them?!"

Incoherent, Jing Feicai rushed forward, pulled back the white cloth, and saw Hua Jia Dawo and Cheche's calm and lifeless faces.

But no one noticed that beneath the white sheet, the viral branding marks on their palms were shimmering slightly, radiating warmth. The warmth traveled up their arms to their hearts.

"Flying Colors".

Poppy, looking dejected, approached Jing Feicai, who asked him, "Where's the intern?"

He's up there!

Pointing to Poppy in the second-floor lounge, he whispered, "He's up there. I told him to calm down on his own!"

"What on earth is this guy doing?"

Jing Feicai rushed up to the second floor, scanned the area, and found the little angel crouching in the corner.

"Interns, what exactly did you do...?"

Jing Feicai, who had been sternly turning the little angel around, paused in her harsh tone. The little angel, with tears streaming down her face, looked on with sadness in her eyes.

"Fei Cai, I couldn't save them!"

"I failed to do what I should have done!"

"I'm just so..." the little angel sobbed, burying his head in his knees. "So awful!!"

With a thousand words stuck in his throat, looking at the little angel's self-reproachful expression and sorrowful eyes, he could only let out a sigh.

"Ugh!"

"ah!!!!"

Just as Kagami Hiiro was about to comfort Emu, a scream loud enough to shake the roof came from the isolation ward.

"Something else has happened?"