Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

Volume 5 of A Certain Magical Index: Chapter 166 The Other Knight Appears

"Alright, alright! Now that you're all here, enjoy the food I made!"

"It smells...quite nice."

"Right? Then let's eat and chat. We're all Kamen Riders, there's no need to be so confrontational!"

I sat in the living room, the air conditioning was on in advance, and a Manchu Han Imperial Feast was laid out on the table.

This lavish scene was prepared solely for these three people.

"Woz, explain."

"Yes, my Demon King."

So Woz opened the book and began to read the contents.

"Daiki Kaito, the Kamen Rider Diend user, is also someone who, like Tsukasa Kadoya, frequently travels to different worlds."

"He's also a thief who steals everything."

"Oh dear—that's so rude! Calling me a thief is one thing, but stealing everything is just not like me at all."

Hai Dong Da Shu pointed at Woz with some displeasure.

"Please call me the handsome thief, and I only steal valuable treasures; I don't even look at ordinary things."

"By the way, your book... seems more appealing than before."

Woz hugged his book tightly and looked at him with a very unfriendly gaze.

What exactly is your purpose in coming here?

"Well... I'll keep it short."

Then he pointed to the Manchu Han Imperial Feast on the table in front of him.

"Anyway, please sit down and eat first. Such good food will get cold if you don't eat it quickly, okay?"

The three looked at each other and eventually sat down.

"...It tastes pretty good."

After taking a few bites, Gates couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"But it's still a bit worse than usual. Hmm, regular meals are definitely better."

"Huh? No way? You guys have actually eaten food that tastes better than what I cook?!"

Hai Dongda was slightly taken aback. Gates glanced directly at Yan Ming, who was sitting next to him eating his meal without making a sound.

"...It's truly astonishing. I never imagined that the new Demon King would possess such remarkable abilities."

“Praising my Demon King is certainly acceptable, but… could you please tell us what your purpose is in coming here?”

"Just relax and don't be so tense."

Hai Dongda waved his hand and then sat down next to the group.

“You’ve already met Shi, haven’t you? That guy was running around trying to track down Tokiwa Sougo and the Demon King, while I’m running around trying to track down other things.”

"What I'm chasing is about a group of guys called demons."

demon?

Upon hearing the familiar words, the three people who were eating all turned their attention to what he was saying.

"You must have encountered those demons many times before, right? Me too. I've encountered countless demons in all the worlds I've been to so far, and this time is no different. I came to this world by following in the footsteps of some demon."

"You mean... there are demons in this world too?"

Gates was slightly surprised.

"Why haven't we met here yet?"

"Who knows? Maybe those guys are hiding? You never know."

However—this is not the main point that Daiki Kaito wants to discuss.

"The reason I'm here today is to tell you something."

He spoke in a somewhat mysterious tone.

"After my investigation with Shi, we learned that those demons... were actually a group of monsters that had been sealed away by someone in the past."

"The exact time of the seal is unknown, and the exact location of the seal is also unclear, but at least we know that these demons have existed for far longer than we imagined."

“Sealing… I remember that demon named Baal mentioned it before.”

His words directly triggered some of Yan Ming's previous memories.

Baal once said that it was only in a state of having just broken free from its seal, and its current power was not yet at its original peak.

Could it be that all demons are in the same state as it?

"How did these demons break through the seal? And who placed the seal? What was the reason for sealing these demons? And what exactly are these demons?"

"I'm sorry, even Shi and I don't know these things yet."

"Then what use are you? This information isn't very meaningful."

Gates spoke in a very fiery tone, while Hai Dong Da Shu could only wave his hand helplessly.

"However, at least we can deduce from this intelligence that the being that sealed them must be a very, very long-lived and extremely powerful being."

"This kind of thing is completely irrelevant, isn't it? The more important thing right now is how to deal with these demons, isn't it?"

The demons are scattered throughout various worlds, and the reason for their appearance is unknown, as is the reason for their attacks on the worlds.

“You seem to have frequent dealings with those demons, so I’m passing this on to you to see if it can help you in any way.”

What good will doing this do you?

"Perhaps... no? But I'm just a Kamen Rider passing through, so of course I should help my juniors out!"

"Who do you think would believe your nonsense?!"

While Gates and Haidong Daishu were arguing, Yan Ming suddenly raised his head.

Wozniak also clearly noticed his unusual behavior.

"What's wrong, my Demon King?"

"...Something seems off outside."

"Something's wrong? I didn't feel anything—"

Boom—

Gates had barely finished speaking when their house began to shake violently.

No… the entire street was shaking.

This was not an earthquake, because the tremors only lasted for a brief moment, after which they heard many people screaming and shouting outside the window.

"This is…!"

Wozniak and Gates both turned serious and walked out of the room one after the other.

At that moment, Daiki Kaito looked at the book on the table.

The Omaguchi Descent Calendar - KT.

Woz probably just went out for a quick look and didn't intend to leave immediately, so he didn't take the book with him.

No one noticed his actions.

Hai Dong Daishu raised his eyebrows slightly, and with a curious look in his eyes, slowly reached out his hand.

—Click.

Then, someone grabbed my arm.

"Haha..."

The person who was stopping him was Yan Ming.

He looked at himself calmly, as if he had already been aware of what Hai Dong Daiki had done.

"Hand over anything else you took."

"You're really something, I'm impressed."

With a helpless wave of his hand, Daiki Kaito had no choice but to take out the watch face of the resurrected Gates from his pocket.

"You were planning to steal mine, weren't you?"

"No, not really. I just borrowed them to take a look. After all, the power displayed by these two dials is far beyond what it used to be, so I'm curious whether these two things have evolved into the treasures I want?"

Yan Ming ignored his nonsense, snatched the watch face, picked up the book, and headed out the door.

Just a heads-up.

At that moment, Hai Dong Da Shu suddenly called out to him.

"The reasons behind those demons' actions remain unclear to this day, but... after investigation, I discovered that their actions almost always have one thing in common."

"That is... to follow the world that appears around you."

Yan Ming did not speak.

After listening to what Hai Dong Daiki said, he left the room without looking back.

Standing alone in the living room, Hai Dong Daiki took off his apron and stood with his hands on his hips, watching the spot where the three had left.

"Shilun Yanming... he really is a very powerful guy. No wonder he is the new Demon King whose strength even Shishi felt."

"However, it's quite obvious that the person who becomes the new Demon King will not be an ordinary person..."

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The streets outside have undergone strange changes.

He didn't have time to care about how Hai Dong Da Shu was doing. Anyway, he had already gotten the things back, and he probably wasn't interested in the remaining things.

The three of them went out onto the street and witnessed a scene of extreme violence.

"...What is that?!"

The streets were littered with overturned vehicles.

People similar to security guards came to maintain order, but they were all defeated by the rioters who instigated the uprising, and the armored vehicles were blown up.

Even individual buildings were damaged.

The entire street was in a terrible state of destruction, people were fleeing everywhere, the traffic system was completely out of control, and traffic lights and streetlights were falling over one after another.

But what truly shocked the three of them was not this phenomenon.

Rather, it's the thugs themselves who caused this phenomenon.

It was throwing a guard away with one hand. When it turned around, the three of them could finally see its full appearance.

Red and blue are interspersed.

It looks like technological armor, but it actually leans more towards bizarre biological armor.

Oily residue clung to the enemy's armor, and the continuous scratches made it look like armor plates worn for years.

The tag on the chest... has a black icon.

Image: "Illustration", Location: "Images/1656665917-100312401-108982703.jpg"

"Build!"

"Another Rider...and a Build at that?"

"Another Rider?"

Yan Ming stared at the monster that continued to wreak havoc on the street.

"Why is the Another Rider here? It was already strange that there was Another Dragon Fang before, what are they up to this time?!"

"Gates, let's deal with this first."

Woz quickly explained.

"As for Another Riders, you'd need a specific watch face or special power to defeat them. Right now—"