Is there anyone who really wants to be a partner of justice?

After getting the answer from Akiyama Li herself, Mai lowered her head and asked, "Why... am I really worthy of you going back through time and space to save me again and again, Li?"

"Worth it!" In response to this question, Akiyama Li changed her previous weak attitude and nodded decisively: "Maybe... that was something that happened many reincarnations ago. You didn't experience it, so you don't feel anything.

But! For me, a weak person who was abandoned by my family, deceived by my friends, deceived by the church, and pushed into the sacrifice ceremony without knowing it! The helping hand extended at the last moment was the only light in my dark life!

"Mai... no matter what others say, it was your kindness that saved me and pulled me out of the abyss... so! No matter how many times! No matter what the cost! I will save you, Mai!"

Akiyama Li excitedly told Mai what was in her mind, and her thoughts went back to the beginning of it all...

Akiyama Li, 26 years old, is an ordinary girl who is unemployed after graduation, has no goals in life, and lives in a big city in a daze. In the melting pot of Tokyo, there are too many young people like Li who can't see the future and can't go back to the past...

It’s not that she doesn’t have passion, but no matter how much that passion burns, it can’t illuminate the confused future. In the end, the passion burns out, leaving only dead ashes.

At the age of 26, she was in the prime of her life, but Akiyama Li could only live in a crowded old apartment that was barely big enough for a tatami mat. She fiddled with her resume, which she had revised countless times, and then sent it out, watching numbly as it fell into the sea without any response...

The job she wanted was to sit in an office and be a professional woman, but reality told her that all she could do now was to be a waitress in a fast food restaurant.

She put on a face that was meant to be funny, faced all kinds of harassment from outsiders, had a meager salary, lived in the worst house... and in such an environment, she didn't even dare to say no...

She knew that with her conditions, she could do some jobs that required selling her body to lead a better life. However, whenever she saw her former friend returning home in a daze, covered in makeup, drunken, and with a dazed look on her face, Akiyama Li immediately gave up the idea.

Her current life only made her feel depressed and hopeless, but that kind of life made her feel suffocated and terrified...

So, for several years, Akiyama Li had been living this kind of poor and muddled life, confused and without a future, until one day, her friend knocked on her door and recommended the Samsara Society to her...

Akiyama Li initially rejected this reincarnation church, but after several contacts, the church sent her some daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil and salt, and after learning that as long as she joined the church, the church would give members some daily necessities every month, Akiyama Li was really attracted by it.

At the beginning of the Samsara Society, she felt that the Samsara Society was really great! It felt much better than being at home! At home, she had to accept her mother's cold eyes and her father's scolding.

But in the Samsara Club, I can make friends with many young people like myself. They are all talented and speak nicely. I love being in it!

However, as the time spent in contact with the Samsara Society grew longer and longer, this false beauty was eventually torn apart...

It turned out that the reason why her friend enthusiastically invited her to join the club was because she could get a considerable amount of money by recruiting people to join. In fact, she was being sold out by her friend!

The reason why so many people spoke so kindly to me after I joined the guild was because they had chosen me and wanted to use me as a sacrifice...

Sacrificial offering... Akiyama Li has almost only seen this word in novels. She never thought that one day she would actually encounter one in real life, and the person being used as a sacrifice... would be herself!

After learning the truth, Akiyama Li wanted to resist, but what greeted her was beatings, kicks, insults and scoldings from other members. Those members who had been kind to her in the past tore off their disguises and vented their malice on her!

Idiot, bitch, pig, worm...

One after another, insulting words came out of the mouths of those members who once encouraged her to live a serious life, hitting Akiyama Li's heart hard.

She finally understood that in this world, no one would express kindness to her for no reason. Behind all the kindness, she had to pay a price...

Just when Akiyama Li had completely given up hope and accepted her own ridiculous fate, she came...

She would always remember the first time she saw Mai...

"You are... Akiyama Li, right? I finally found you! That's great! I've seen your photo! Don't worry! I've already contacted the police, and I'll work with them at the rally in a few days, and then I'll get you out!"

At that time, she didn't believe a word the girl said. After experiencing too much malice, she had completely given up the desire to pray to anyone.

During the days and nights in the Samsara Society, she even hoped countless times that the sacrifice would come soon so that she could escape from this world that made her suffer...

Therefore, even though Mai came to find her many times in the next few days and told her about the plan of the joint police to defeat the Samsara Society, Akiyama Li still had no intention of believing it. In her opinion, not giving away Mai, the "traitor", was the last bit of kindness she could leave to the world...

Therefore, on the day of the sacrifice ceremony, Akiyama Li did not take Mai's plan to heart, but just silently accepted her fate of death...

Even though the entire venue had fallen into chaos, the sudden attack by the police interrupted the sacrificial ceremony, the fire pit used for sacrifice was overturned, and the raging fire burned the entire church, but Akiyama Li still chose to die, because she had given up on herself...

Perhaps those who spoke ill of me were right. I was nothing but a useless parasite, an incurable fool...

Just before she plunged into the blazing fire, someone she didn't expect threw her to the ground...

"Ha...ha...ah~youkada~I saved you. Hahaha~Li! I brought the police to save you! I didn't lie, did I? Do you believe it now? Ah!!! It hurts!"

That night, in the midst of a blazing fire, Akiyama Li looked at the girl who was like a fool, shouting in pain and laughing as she frantically tried to get rid of the flames on her clothes.

The girl who was grinning like an idiot gave her the feeling that a crack suddenly appeared in the dark cell called the world that locked her up, and a ray of blazing warm sunlight shone in from outside the crack...

And at that moment, the gears of fate began to turn...

From then on, Akiyama Li felt like a stray cat adopted by Mai, even though the owner's own conditions were not much better.

He lived in a shabby apartment that was almost the same as his old one, and his job was quite unstable. He was always clumsy and got into a lot of trouble. He went to the police station to pay tickets more often than he went to the bank to withdraw money.

However, even so, the owner seems to be determined to keep this stray cat.

Through Mai's request, she got a new job and became a new reporter like Mai. Her daily job was to ride on the back seat of Mai's electric scooter and go to every corner of the city to search for news, big or small.

In her eyes, this girl who would get indignant at injustice, cry bitterly at tragic things, and weep with joy at happy things, seemed to be someone who did not belong to this world. She made her feel a little bit of indignation, and she made her feel scared...

He was afraid that the girl in front of him was just a figment of his imagination, and the real him was still tied up in the dark cell of the Samsara Society, where no light could be seen.

During that period, she always had nightmares, and every time she woke up from a nightmare, it would wake up Mai who was beside her. Mai would patiently soothe her to sleep again and again... Although, the ending was usually that Mai would coax herself to sleep before she could even close her eyes.

However, when the real touch of Zhenyi reached her, nothing could make her fall asleep more peacefully than this. At that moment, she hoped very much that this peaceful sleep of the two of them together could last forever... forever...

After getting along with Mai, Li once again regained her faith in life, and for the first time had a little expectation for her future. At the same time, she also understood that there are indeed kindest and most benevolent people in this world.

And Akiyama Li will always cherish Mai's pure and foolish kindness without any distractions...

Even though her life was still poor, she felt an unprecedented feeling of happiness...

But all this warmth and warmth completely collapsed when they were involved in the cruel game called Knight War...

The arrogant Iron Soldier, the extremely cruel King Snake, the brutal and warlike Big Tooth, the overbearing Kaiqi, the sinister and mercenary Yuanqi... one after another, the knights with distinct personalities and fighting on their own are testing Mai's will to stop the great war between knights.

However, Akiyama Li, who has witnessed the worst side of human nature, knows very well that none of these knights are good people, and they are definitely not people that Mai can convince with kindness.

Therefore, in order to protect Mai, Akiyama Li also chose to become a knight, the night knight who guards Mai, the Night Knight.

However, what Akiyama Li did not expect was that these knights who participated in the battle were just appetizers. Above all these difficulties, there stood an existence that could not be disobeyed... Odin!

Therefore, at the end of the war, she could only helplessly watch as Mai endured the final attack from Odin in order to protect herself, and died in her arms...

She didn't want to accept it! She couldn't accept it! She couldn't accept this kind of ending no matter what! Ye Qi, who was completely in deep sorrow, let out a miserable scream.

It seemed as if God heard the girl's wailing. At that moment... time stopped, and an unknown woman with a face covered with line mosaics appeared in front of her.

"Can't accept it? Do you want to change? Are you willing to accept the test of reincarnation to save her?"

"I am willing to do anything! As long as I can save her! I am willing to do anything!"

"It's not me who tells you to do something...it's you who decides what to do..."

The unknown woman said this and handed her a card with a clock engraved on it.

"This is the arrival of time. With it, you can go back in time and save everyone you want to save. However, you will also have to bear the karma and pain brought by reincarnation, and you may get lost in the cycle of time and space again and again."

Looking at the cards in her hand, Akiyama Li suddenly recalled the truth she had learned in that dark cell. In this world, there is no kindness without reason. Every kindness has to pay a corresponding price...

The price...

Then pay it! As long as it's for Zhenyi! No matter what the price! She is willing to pay it!

"TIME VENT!"

Chapter 138 Bai Youxia

"Why do you give Akiyama Li time to come? Don't tell me you are doing this just for fun?" Shinichi frowned and asked Bai Youxia curiously.

Although he had no right to criticize others for what they did, he actually didn't like the behavior of arbitrarily arranging and controlling others. Moreover, in his impression, the Bai Youxia he knew was not someone who would do such a thing.

The Bai Youxia he knew was a girl whose words revealed childishness, who was a little naive and immature, but kind-hearted and a little introverted, even shy when joking.

The Bai Youxia in front of him was somewhat similar to the introverted girl in Zhenyi's impression, except that she looked a little more mature. However, her words and deeds were completely different from the image he had in mind.

This made Shinichi alert and he wondered if there might be another nesting doll. The Bai Youxia in front of him was actually another person.

After noticing that Shinichi had a suspicious frown on his face, Bai Youxia quickly shook his head and said, "Don't slander me so casually! Am I that kind of person? I'm a very kind-hearted person! I'm not a tax evader like you who's full of evil tastes!"

"Uh..." Shinichi scratched his head awkwardly after being suddenly asked. In order to avoid embarrassment, he continued to ask: "Then can you also explain the purpose of your actions? Your actions have trapped everyone in this world in the cycle of reincarnation."

"If I say that the purpose of giving Akiyama Li the time to come is actually to save this world that is about to go into a vicious cycle, do you believe me?"

"..."

Shinichi remained silent about Bai Youxia's explanation. Not knowing the whole story, he was skeptical about Bai Youxia's explanation.

And Youxia also sensed Shinichi's suspicion, so he sighed and explained, "Alas... Shinichi, you should have noticed that if Odin is allowed to continue the Knight War that takes place every 25 years, then the end of this world is doomed to be destroyed by Odin.

After all, human will has its limits. After decades of perseverance in this world, Odin's psychology has become alienated. He has become more and more paranoid and crazy. He has increasingly come to believe that he is a god who can dominate life and death in the world.

If we cannot stop this knight war from continuing, if one day in the future, Odin becomes insane and opens the mirror world, just like God in the Bible sent down a flood to cleanse the entire real world, then the whole world will be over.

Moreover, this is not the most terrifying thing. What is even more terrifying is that even Odin himself in this world did not notice that the mirror world is evolving and will soon evolve into an existence that he cannot control..."

As he spoke, Bai Youxia took out a card box and transformed directly into Odin. Then he knocked the ground with the staff in his hand. Under Zhenyi's surprised gaze, the surrounding environment folded and changed like a kaleidoscope, and then the two of them appeared in the mirror world out of thin air!

"This……"

Shinichi looked around in amazement. He was not only surprised by the magical ability of Bai Youxia, who had transformed into Odin, to lead people through the journey, but also by the strange ovaries that covered the entire ground around him, densely packed like the facehugger's nest in the movie "Alien".

There were oval-shaped blue giant eggs standing around Shinichi and Bai Youxia, and the blue giant eggs were shaking from time to time, making people realize that life was growing inside these eggs.

Looking at everything in front of him, Shinichi thought for a moment and asked, "Is this, evolution?"

Bai Youxia looked at Zhenyi with admiration and nodded, "Yes, this group of mirror beasts are evolving. In fact, this is the inevitable outcome of every mirror world in the multiverse. Life will seek a way out and a direction for evolution, even mirror beasts are no exception.

Over time, this group of mirror beasts will gradually grow from being mere minions that were casually eliminated by the knights into powerful monsters that meet the standards of contracted beasts. Later on, the mirror beasts will gradually evolve into existence that the knights cannot possibly deal with.

By that time, even if Odin's spirit remains stable, he will find it difficult to cope with the army of evolved mirror beasts. By then, with the destruction of the stabilizing device, this world is doomed to be invaded by the mirror world."

Shinichi looked at the countless mirror beast eggs around him and asked curiously, "Is there no way to solve this problem?"

Bai Youxia responded as a matter of course: "Of course, if there is no salvation, I will not stay here... and the key to saving this world lies in Akiyama Li and Mai.

The time card given to Akiyama Li is the key to getting everything back on track."

"What's the use of that Time Advent card?"

"Well... it's a secret~ I can't tell you Shinichi yet~"

Seeing that Bai Youxia was actually keeping him in suspense, Zhenyi curled his lips and said, "You've really changed a lot... In the past, you would usually cry and ask me for comfort when you encountered something bad, and you would listen to everything I said and be very obedient. Now you can even keep your brother Zhenyi in suspense."

"Hehe~ After all, I am a senior who traveled through time before Shinichi. I am no longer the same as before."

"Ha... okay, if you don't want to tell me, then forget it, but... you really have done your best. You have been watching from the very beginning of reincarnation to now... how many years has it been?" Shinichi sighed.

And Youxia waved her hands and said, "No, I'm not stupid enough to keep my real body with me. My current state is just a clone."

"A clone?" Shinichi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Your current posture... a clone?"

Bai Youxia immediately puffed out his chest and said proudly, "Of course~ Zhenyi, you can't regard me as the soft and cute girl who used to send you 'QAQ' every day in private chat~ Since I traveled through time until now, because of the difference in the speed of time, I have spent a hundred years here, right? I have experienced a lot of things and I have grown up.

Now in the Kamen Rider multiverse, I am a very important existence. There are many things I need to do. How can I really let my main body stay in such a small world? Therefore, a clone is enough. "

Shinichi folded his arms, looked at the old friend who had changed a lot, chuckled and nodded, saying: "Well, you have indeed grown a lot... You finally stopped being naive, right~"

Hearing Shinichi's praise, Bai Youxia also murmured with some emotion: "Ah... yes, the me in the past... was indeed too childish... In the final analysis, it was just that I had nothing better to do, and I was full and sentimental all day long, and I felt that life was painful every day.

When you really die and travel through time to a completely unfamiliar world, after experiencing all kinds of beatings and tests, you will no longer feel that life is so painful. You will no longer have wild thoughts about inexplicable things, and you will no longer be sad about trivial things.

Finally, looking back, I still find that what you said is right. No matter how many psychological problems you have, they are no longer a problem when facing the pressure of survival. As long as you experience enough pain, your fragility will be hardened...

Even in this other world that countless people imagine, it is not a world where innocence can survive. So, I finally abandoned those naive and childish ideas and learned to grow into a person with a heart as strong as iron like you, Shinichi..."

Listening to Bai Youxia's narration, Zhenyi chuckled and shrugged, saying: "I don't have much to say, I'll just give you one sentence, oh, not much~"

"Pfft~ Then should I reply, Arigato?"

"Haha~ Anyway, I see that you are finally no longer the idiot who posts on QAQ every day, who constantly worries about the changes in his interpersonal relationships, and who runs to me in private chat to seek comfort because of his crazy internal consumption.

I am no longer the silly girl who would listen to a song on NetEase Cloud Music and then go to the comments section, get so excited by the random stories in the comments that I would drop pearls in the middle of the night, and even recommend songs to me. My congratulations are from the bottom of my heart, not a joke. "

Listening to Shinichi recounting his embarrassing past in detail, Bai Youxia's cheeks behind his mask suddenly turned red with shame!

Bai Youxia angrily knocked on his scepter and shouted, "Stop talking about that! That was all so many years ago! I've already said that I'm different now!"

"Hmm~ But to me, it seems like it was before yesterday~ Even... including the day you died..."

"...There's no need to talk about that...It was all my fault when I was young and ignorant. When I think back on it, I feel that I was very stupid and naive at the time..."

"Yeah, you screwed me over when you closed your eyes... I was shut up for a long time. I wasn't that shut up when my dad died, because he died because he was stubborn and refused to admit defeat. Your death... is my responsibility."

Shinichi seemed to feel tired, so he sat down cross-legged and continued, "Auntie kept telling me not to take it to heart, but how could I not take it to heart? At that time, I had such a thought in my mind... If, when you asked me at that time, I answered yes... would the ending be different?"

Bai Youxia also sat down with Shinichi, and muttered with emotion: "Actually, I have thought so before... At that time, you rejected me because our ages were not suitable, saying that the five-year age difference between us was too big. But now... I have surpassed you, Shinichi, and I am almost a hundred years old~"

"Haha~"

"Shinichi...if I ask you the same question now, how would you answer?"