I want to become a Kamen Rider

The pier on Qinglan Island was exceptionally quiet in the night, with only the gentle lapping of waves against the rocks. Fan Kang's figure stepped onto the island's solid ground with ghostly lightness, his steps so light he almost jumped.

"Hahahaha—!"

Uncontrollable, triumphant, and carefree laughter shattered the tranquility of the dock, startling several seabirds that were roosting nearby.

He stood with his hands on his hips, laughing heartily with undisguised pleasure and satisfaction on his face.

This trip was very fruitful. What was originally thought to be an exhausting sweep became easy and simple thanks to the help of Kamen Rider Kinto.

For someone who had been working himself to death for years, this moment was incredibly exhilarating.

After losing her memory, the silver-haired, gray-eyed girl became incredibly obedient, even more so than Mizutani Migoto. While his cheap apprentice could occasionally create some troublesome situations for him, the silver-haired, gray-eyed girl was simply pure and simple obedience.

Not only that, she doesn't have to pay wages for all the hard, tiring, and dirty work she does; she only needs to be provided with meals.

He used to scoff at the idea of ​​finding a beautiful girl, but now he sees it as a stroke of luck!

'Is there a sense of smug satisfaction in the fact that the anti-government regime uses child labor?'

Cupid, perched on his shoulder, timely poured cold water on him.

"She's clearly an adult."

"So you're illegally deceiving people? Exploiting their mental instability and tricking them into doing dangerous work?"

"She was clearly there voluntarily."

Fan Kang spoke with righteous indignation.

"Look how enthusiastically she calls her boss, and how hard she works!"

Cupid perched on his shoulder, continuing his seductive enticement:

'Doesn't Kang Jun find it suspicious? He can cooperate with your actions without any psychological burden, killing enemies like flies, yet he acts so cute and innocent in front of you?'

"Maybe they were just born with this kind of strong sense of justice and hatred for evil?"

'hiss. '

Kewpie gasped, continuing to do its part in global warming, though it still didn't know whether the thing would actually emit carbon dioxide.

"Kang Jun, you've made up your mind to hire that suspicious person, haven't you? Just because she can help you out and do some small favors, you're willing to abandon all your principles?"

"What do you mean 'just a small favor'? You've done me a huge favor! I've been fighting alone for so long, and this is the first time I've experienced having teammates. Besides, my principle is simply not to harm other people's feelings or trample on lives. There's no reason why I wouldn't allow others to join me. Even if it's those remnants of Destroy and Black Satan, as long as they're willing to reform and help me take down other dark organizations and save lives, I'll make an exception for them..."

'Survive?'

"Let them live a few more days."

'In a situation like this, according to the moral code of humanity, shouldn't you say give them a chance to repent and start anew, so they can live an upright life from now on?'

“Those guys have already shed blood. I have no right to forgive any enemy on behalf of any victim. Only the victim himself, and the victim's family and friends, can forgive them. My job is to send them to see the victim.”

His concept of good and evil is rather traditional. He stubbornly believes that there should not be a way for a person who has done all sorts of bad things to live a legitimate life as long as they show a little bit of kindness and repentance.

Although he once said things like, "A bad person can be redeemed by doing one good deed out of ten thousand bad deeds, while a good person can be no longer a good person if they do one wrong thing out of ten thousand righteous deeds. This is the common sense of humanity. What's the point of being afraid of being misunderstood or slandered if you're going to be a Kamen Rider?", he could only accept the latter.

He can tolerate being criticized for making mistakes, but he cannot accept criticism.

If repentance can be so easily achieved, then what about the lives lost?

Fan Kang changed the subject:

"Speaking of which, why are you so hostile towards Xiao Feng?"

'I don't know why, but whenever she appears, I always feel like my adorable mascot status has been stolen...'

Kewpie loudly complained.

"Here it comes! You even called out Xiaofeng! Just because she's a little easier to use?!"

"Otherwise what? Should I treat you kindly? What use are you besides making sarcastic remarks and jumping out to monitor me every few days?"

'Companionship.'

"..."

Fan Kang rolled his eyes dramatically.

Arguing with Kyubey is one thing, but there are indeed many suspicious points about the silver-haired, blue-eyed girl captured three days ago.

First of all, she is not a contracted knight with Kyubey, but transforms using a belt. And Fan Kang discovers something absurd about that belt that transforms her into Kamen Rider Kintoki... he can also use that belt.

When he borrowed Deepsea Shocker's Alien Rider Driver before, he realized that only Tina Hiiragi possessed the corresponding qualifications for the Alien Rider Driver, and he was able to use it by forcibly driving it while enduring the side effects based solely on the data on paper.

However, he was able to use the silver-haired, pale-eyed girl's belt because the belt's true owner had registered him as an "authorized user."

It wasn't that he tricked the other person after they lost their memory; it was the case beforehand.

Furthermore, the fact that the other party claims to be a "time traveler" is really too suspicious. Even if time machines are invented in the future, and even considering things like time paradoxes, it's one thing for future people not to come to his aid, but why would they specifically send a Kamen Rider who can't even take two of his moves with one hand back to the past to deal with him?

The world's population is not like that in many science fiction movies, where the total population is drastically reduced to highlight the grand scale of the scenes. This is basically due to his influence.

This is why he has been able to persevere. Even if no one thanks him or knows what he has done, a quick glance at the street and the genuine smiles on other people's faces will tell you that his perseverance has not been in vain.

Finally, the true identity of the silver-haired, blue-eyed girl was found in the Japanese household registration system; her name was Mimasaka Kaze.

Her father was Mimasaka Souya, who had worked as a detective before becoming a police inspector. He died three months ago while fighting against the Gurongi. Mimasaka Kaze is his orphan.

If I remember correctly, it was he who saved Mimasaka Kaze.

Based on his age, Mimasaka Kaze should only be fourteen years old at this moment. However, according to bone reading, the Mimasaka Kaze who follows him around calling him "boss" is at least twenty years old.

He was older than he was when he was a boy.

According to Japanese police data, 14-year-old Mimasaka Kaze mysteriously disappeared after her father's death in the line of duty. This new character is a "future version" that appeared out of nowhere.

Once time is involved, quantum physics comes into play, and quantum physics is characterized by chaos and mind-bending complexity. As a pragmatist, Fan Kang can only say that he should give up thinking about it and just accept that Mimasaka Kaze works well.

Humans live in the present; it's pointless to dwell on the past and future.

With that in mind, he returned to Azure Island, intending to retrieve some necessary items.

As night deepened, the familiar outline of Azure Island allowed his tense nerves to relax slightly.

However, this relaxation froze instantly when he rounded a thicket of bushes and his gaze fell upon the training platform.

Because, on the martial arts stage, he saw a figure that absolutely should not be there.

It's Hiiragi Tina.

The cool moonlight, like mercury spilling onto the ground, clearly outlined the scene on the martial arts stage.

Under the cover of night, the purple-haired girl clumsily repeated the most basic fighting moves over and over again—straight punches, side kicks, and rolls. Her movements were awkward and her power uncoordinated; each fall was accompanied by a dull thud and the sound of her body scraping against the rough stone surface.

That weakling who would cry from anger over having two comic books stolen is now, with an almost self-destructive and chilling determination, repeatedly pushing his body to its limits.

By the moonlight, he could clearly see that her knees were scraped in several places, oozing bright red blood mixed with grit, which stood out starkly against her fair skin. Sweat soaked through her hair, strands clinging to her pale, bloodless cheeks.

Subconsciously, Fan Kang prepared for battle.

Although he didn't know how this thing had fooled his eyes, the acting was too fake. How could a purple-haired dwarf put in such effort? It would be more like Mizutani Migen would do it.

Fan Kang has complained more than once that the world is really unfair. If half of Hiiragi Tina's talent were given to Mizutani Migen, and half of Mizutani Migen's efforts were given to Hiiragi Tina, he wouldn't be fighting alone until now.

He glanced at the martial arts arena with a cold smile, about to reprimand:

"Stop pretending, I know..."

But when the girl turned her head, she saw him.

Tears fell like pearls to the ground.

He looked incredibly pitiful, and Fan Kang sensed something was off, but he still forced himself to continue.

Even if you're faking crying...

The girl threw herself into his arms.

"how come……"

How could there be no murderous intent or hostility?

He froze in place.

The girl just cried, or rather, wailed. It was the first time he had ever seen her cry so loudly, as if she had lost the most important thing in the world.

Is the game save file gone? Or is the Kamen Rider merchandise broken?

Or has his misdeed been exposed?

Fan Kang began to feel guilty:

"That... the strawberry pudding you hid in the corner of the activity room... I actually ate it..."

The crying paused for a moment, but then grew louder.

"...And last time...that new set of rare comics you bought...I took it while you were away..."

The crying, punctuated by sobs, continued unabated.

"...That limited edition Coke you kept at the very back of the refrigerator in the activity room...I drank it all the day before yesterday..."

After confessing to all his crimes, the girl continued to cry. For some reason, perhaps fearing that he would flee, she held him tightly.

Fan Kang: "..."

He'd already said everything he needed to say, and there really wasn't anything else he could explain. The worst thing he'd ever done to Tina Hiiragi was steal her manga and freeload off her snacks, but he couldn't be too hard on her as the club president.

He took her out to fool around, shared delicious food with her, and stood up for her when others tried to take advantage of her.

Even though it's not perfect, I don't think it's too bad.

Compared to the crash of the spaceship and the invasion of the subterranean people, the crying girl in front of him is more worrying. He is fighting against so many of the former so that he will never see anyone crying in front of him again.

After waiting for a long time, the girl in his arms finally came to her senses. Fan Kang, who had been feeling hostility and murderous intent, felt a little relieved at this moment.

This is the Tina Hiiragi he knows.

"I'll bite you to death!"

The girl in his arms suddenly looked up, tears streaming down her pale face, her eyes swollen and red like two peaches, but in those tear-washed eyes, something beyond sorrow finally appeared.

She opened her small mouth, revealing her silver teeth, and he naturally stretched out his arm.

Then, click.

Something broke.

It wasn't his hand, of course, but her teeth.

"Waaaaaah!"

The girl cried even harder.

Chapter Sixty-Eight: Becoming Stronger

Deep within the Blue Island, in a general storeroom filled with old equipment and spare parts, permeated with the faint smell of machine oil and dust, a dim incandescent light barely dispels the darkness in the corner.

Fan Kang leaned against a dusty wooden box, looking helplessly at the purple-haired girl sitting tightly beside him, clinging to his arm like a frightened koala.

"I already filled your tooth, so don't look at me like that."

"..."

"Also, could you please let go of my arms? You're not possessed by Mizutani Migen."

"..."

"Come on, have something to eat to calm down. We can't order takeout here, but I've hidden some candy and snacks here."

Fan Kang tried to comfort her and attempted to pull his hand out of Hiiragi Tina's arms, but failed.

He had felt something was off from the beginning. The feeling he got from Hiiragi Tina was like that of an abandoned little animal. He didn’t know anything else, but that sadness was absolutely real.

That kind of sorrow only comes after losing something very, very important.

He waited quietly, letting her hold his arm, only awkwardly offering her a piece of candy or a potato chip every now and then. Time flowed slowly in the dim warehouse light and the beams of light from the floating dust.

After a long while, perhaps because she was tired from crying, or perhaps because the sweetness of the candy soothed her tense nerves, Tina Hiiragi's violently heaving shoulders finally calmed down completely.

Unexpectedly, after calming down, she didn't jump up and make a scene as she usually did after being teased, nor did she continue to cry. Instead, after taking a few deep breaths, as if she had made some great decision, she slowly raised her head, her red and swollen but unusually clear eyes looking at him with utmost seriousness.

"Minister, I have something very, very important to tell you."

After half an hour.