Kamen Rider: Evolution

"But by gathering us together, you've actually concentrated our fighting power, and you monsters have gathered together as well," said Touma Kamiyama, looking up at the densely packed monsters on the mountainside.

These strange people don't seem to be very intelligent.

If they were truly intelligent, they should have used their group advantage to outnumber and eliminate the enemy directly. Why bother mixing up the stories?

Logically speaking, they must have some other purpose.

As a novelist, he placed great importance on the logic of his story, but clearly the logic of the strange man in front of him was flawed.

"But we outnumber you by a lot," the red-haired man said dismissively after hearing Touma Kamiyama's words.

"It'll be easier for us to rule the world if we gather together and eliminate them all! Charge!"

At his command, the strange figures from various worlds halfway up the mountain raised their weapons and charged towards Kamiyama Touma and his group with shouts.

"I won't let you succeed!" Kamiyama Touma drew his holy sword and shouted, "Henshin!"

We can only finish the game first and then talk about it later.

The others also transformed, and a battle between the Knights and the monsters began.

Just as this fierce battle broke out, a boy with a mushroom haircut, wearing a white shirt and black trousers, appeared out of nowhere on the top of a mountain.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, spread out the drawing board in his hand, and while watching the battle raging across the mountains and fields, he wrote and drew on the board, looking just like an ordinary sketching boy.

"I've found you, Shotaro Ishinomori."

Jiang Xia, who was observing from the mountaintop, noticed Ishinomori Shotaro the moment he appeared.

Although he was just an ordinary boy without any power and with an average appearance, his authority over this world was frighteningly high.

He was the original creator of Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. Even though many things that came later were not created by him, he is just as significant to the Heisei series as the original Kamen Rider Kuuga.

Without him, there would be no origin.

Under Jiang Xia's watchful gaze, Ishimori Shotaro completed the first draft of his vision of a hero.

The blank white paper is divided in two, and two warriors with completely different appearances stand on either side of the picture.

The one on the left is a dragonfly warrior wearing a helmet and with two round eyes. He also has a long brocade ribbon tied behind his neck, and his body is covered in bulging muscles.

Although it wasn't colored, Jiang Xia was able to tell from Ishinomori Shotaro's decent drawing skills that he had drawn Kamen Rider 1, the number one from the Showa era.

On the other side of the blank canvas, there are two round eyes connected together on a helmet, and a warrior dressed in what looks like sportswear, with a half-length cloak draped over his back.

The origin of Super Sentai, the first Akranger among the Secret Gorangers, but also without color.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar figure appeared beside Shotaro Ishinomori, who was painting.

This was a middle-aged man with neatly combed black hair. He wore a black collared shirt over a long black leather coat, and black clothes.

In any work, this kind of outfit is usually reserved for the main villain; the protagonist wouldn't be dressed in all black and then sneak up on a child from behind.

"Did you draw your hero?"

The middle-aged man in black walked over to Ishinomori Shotaro and sat down, supporting himself on the grass with his hands.

"It is you."

Shotaro Ishinomori glanced at it and said.

He knew him; it was he who brought him into this world, saying he wanted to help him paint the hero in his own mind.

He said his name was Asmodeus, which is the name of one of the seventy-two demons in Solomon's mythology, ranking thirty-second, and also representing the king of demons.

"Hmm, let me see if I've been of any help."

Asmodeus pointed to the Holy Blade and the All-Powerful One who were fighting and said, "I've shown you so many heroes, you must have learned a lot."

"Thank you, I have indeed learned a lot." Shotaro Ishinomori sincerely thanked him: "Everyone you showed me is very cool. Although they are not what I imagined, they have given me a lot of inspiration. These heroes are really strong and cool."

"Would you like to see the heroes I drew?" Shotaro Ishinomori asked excitedly, mentioning his newfound creation.

“Oh, then I really want to see your work.” Asmodeus’s pupils contracted to the size of pinpoints when he heard Ishinomori Shotaro’s words, but they quickly changed. His long eyebrows twitched and his face showed surprise.

"Let me show you. I've made my decision. After graduating from high school, I'll become a manga artist. I've even thought of a name. I'm going to use manga to tell the stories in my heart. The one on the left is called Kamen Rider, he's number one. The one on the right is called Akaranger, he belongs to the Super Sentai."

Shotaro Ishinomori handed the drawing to Asmodeus, pointing excitedly at his work, his face beaming with the joy of sharing.

Through the heroes Asmodeus showed him, he found his dream, and inspiration was constantly colliding in his mind, sparking all sorts of indescribable and wonderful ideas.

Although he is still in school and doesn't have much time to draw comics, he can record these inspirations in writing first, and then officially start creating after he finishes his studies.

"I see. Your future is sure to be very bright."

Asmodeus flipped through the line drawings created by Shotaro Ishimori one by one, his expression and tone becoming increasingly excited.

His hands trembled so much that he could barely hold onto the drawing, as if he had seen some very precious treasure.

But contrary to the excitement in his words, his eyes suddenly turned cold, and in the end, they even emitted a chill.

However, he used his sketches to conceal his chilling gaze, so Ishinomori Shotaro, who was immersed in the inspiration that was forming in his mind, did not notice the gaze that seemed to want to devour him alive.

After reviewing the drawings of Kamen Rider 1 and Akaranger by Shotaro Ishinomori, Asmodeus slowly stood up from the ground, holding the drawings in one hand.

"I think so too. I will pass on the hero in my heart to every child, so that they will understand that this is a story of justice."

Shotaro Ishinomori reached out his hand to Asmodeus. "You've finished looking at it now, can you give me back my drawing?"

“Okay, I’ll return the drawing to you.” Asmodeus smiled and handed the drawing back to Shotaro Ishinomori.

"Thank you again for showing me the story of the hero." Shotaro Ishinomori smiled and nodded, preparing to take the sketch Asmodeus handed him.

Just as Shotaro Ishinomori reached out and took the drawing.

"Pfft!"

Hot blood gushed out from Ishinomori Shotaro's abdomen, instantly staining his white shirt red.

A sharpened dagger was stuck right in Ishinomori Shotaro's abdomen.

Just as Asmodeus was about to return the drawing to Shotaro Ishinomori, a dagger slid out from his sleeve and, using the drawing as cover, stabbed Shotaro Ishinomori in the abdomen.

With a single, decisive strike, he twisted the hilt of his sword fiercely, feeling the blood of the Creator God gushing from the Creator's body, splashing a warm spray onto his chest.

Asmodeus casually tossed the sketch in his hand to the ground, and with a push, Ishinomori Shotaro instantly fell to the ground, the gushing blood staining the ground red in the blink of an eye.

"It's a real shame, I didn't want to kill you."

Asmodeus sighed and shook his head. He crouched down and looked into Ishinomori Shotaro's still-bright pupils, as if asking him why.

Shotaro Ishinomori stared at him in disbelief, his eyes wide. He was the one who brought him into this world to see heroes, so why was he trying to kill him now?

His dream was just beginning to sprout, but he no longer had the chance to see the hero in his heart born; he was dying.

"Fine, since you're so eager to know, I'll let you die knowing why." Asmodeus straightened his black leather jacket. Black was good; it could conceal the bloodstains after a murder, not to mention it was a high-end waterproof one.

"I brought you to this world to interfere with your creative desires by using heroes you are not familiar with, so that you will be unable to draw stories about Kamen Rider and Super Sentai in the future. In other words, we will use the power of God to eliminate the heroes and then drive you out of the story world to achieve our plan to rule the world."

“But I didn’t expect that my actions would actually help you and strengthen your resolve to create,” Asmodeus sighed. “This puts me in a difficult position.”

"Generally speaking, the characters in a story can never harm the author, even if the author is powerless, because the so-called ability settings are all written by the creator, and no matter how strong the fantasy is, it cannot be changed."

"So I made two preparations in advance. Although the story is fictional, words can affect real people. In other words, fictional characters cannot directly influence the creator, but they can indirectly influence them through other means. The dagger that was stuck in your body came from your real world."

“Of course, only things from the ‘real world’ can harm you, the creator god.” Asmodeus looked down at Ishinomori Shotaro’s pupils, which were slowly losing their light, and said softly, “Don’t worry, creator god, I will continue to write your story. Heroes will disappear one by one, and villains will rule the world. Isn’t that an inspiring example?”

"The puppet controlled by fate killed its creator and freed itself from its destiny. How inspiring and successful!"

Asmodeus looked into the Creator's now dim and lifeless pupils, raised his arms and laughed heartily. The troublemaker was gone; now it was his turn.

"boom!"

A sudden burst of light and explosion abruptly interrupted Asmodeus's laughter; it was a powerful explosion coming from below the valley.

He turned his head and saw that below, the Saber, represented by Touma Kamiyama, and the fully transformed Kaiser Goshikida had each transformed into their final forms and were rapidly eliminating the corresponding monsters and villains.

"Why haven't the heroes disappeared?! Even if Shotaro Ishinomori died, it's not enough?" Asmodeus's expression changed.

Asmodeus then turned his attention to Shotaro Ishinomori, either because he hadn't killed him yet, or because some other event had occurred that he was unaware of.

"Could it be!"

A deep crimson light filled Asmodeus's eyes, and his pupils instantly contracted to the size of pinpoints. He had found the reason why the heroes had not disappeared.

The uncolored drawing that he had just thrown on the ground was now covered by Ishinomori Shotaro's own blood.

Kamen Rider 1 and the Secret Goranger Akaranger were both stained crimson with Ishinomori Shotaro's blood.

The moment the color was filled into the red-stained drawing, a crimson beam of light shot into the sky from Shotaro Ishinomori's body.

The bright red figures of Kamen Rider 1 and Akaranger solidified into physical form within the crimson beam of light.

In an instant, countless Kamen Riders and teams emerged from behind Kamen Rider One and Akaranger.

At the moment when the fiftieth Kamen Rider and the forty-fifth Super Sentai were gathered, a crimson shockwave suddenly erupted outwards from the center of the pillar of light floating in the air.

"Aaaaaah! How could this happen?!"

Asmontis was hit head-on by the impact.

As punishment for killing a god, he was attacked with pain a thousand times greater than being slowly sliced ​​to death, and his body was blasted into pieces in a fraction of a second.

His army, which he formed by uniting the Super Sentai and villains from the Kamen Rider world, and which aimed to rule all the worlds after the heroes disappeared, was instantly reduced to dust by the impact of this god.

The scene freezes here, a crimson pillar of light stands on the ground, and Jiang Xia's figure slowly emerges.

He looked down at the dead Shotaro Ishinomori and sighed, "So this is the source of the crisis. It seems that after your death, although Kamen Rider continued, a very serious problem arose."

Then, in a flash, he exited the world of Oma Zi-O's memories and returned to reality.

Chapter 597 The Root

“I know the cause of the crisis. It’s because the author, Shotaro Ishinomori, was killed in the past. But what exactly is the crisis? Why did you bring me to this world?” Jiang Xia asked after snapping out of his memories of Oma Zi-O.

Oma Zi-O did not answer, but instead stretched out his finger and drew a line in the air in front of him.

A pale golden ray of light shot out from afar, stretching far into the distance.

This line also separates Jiang Xia and Oma Zi-O.

"What is this?" Jiang Xia shifted his gaze to the light that had been drawn out in front of him, radiating a warm and gentle glow. It was like a stream that emitted a warm yellow light, flowing continuously forward.

At that very moment, a great deal of information emerged from the light, forming a series of images that appeared before Jiang Xia's eyes.

Kuuga and Daguba's blood-soaked battle atop the mountain, Agito's punch towards the gods, Ryuki's knightly war, Faiz's burning life...