Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

Boom! At this moment, even its back and all four sides were surrounded by golden light.

The golden energy drew ever closer, but the king who had caused it all simply gripped the hilt of his sword with both hands, planted it in the ground, and calmly gazed at it.

dead.

The final moment of the trial had arrived, and then—absolute golden light erupted from the ground, completely burning away the last vestiges of the alien Agito's body.

No Another Rider's watch flew out; instead, a young man who looked like a thug lay on the ground with lifeless eyes.

The battle is completely over.

A one-sided, predictable ending.

Yan Ming drew his sword again, while Gates slowly walked to his side, looking at him with a somewhat bewildered expression.

"So that's how you use that knife. I've never seen Sougo attack like that before... I've learned something new."

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Volume 5 of A Certain Magical Index: Chapter 180 Decade

ended.

The last of the alien beings, Agito, has been defeated. And with the end of Yan Ming's actions, this city... no, perhaps the entire world, will soon be plunged into an unprecedented and massive riot.

That would not only plunge the world into chaos, but also make things even more difficult for Yan Ming and his team.

This would mean that the existence of Kamen Rider and similar characters has been exposed to the world.

He has to turn this situation around.

But what should we do?

Rewinding time could indeed change everything, but as mentioned before, with Touma Kamijou around, Yan Ming couldn't guarantee that things wouldn't change after rewinding time.

…and that’s why he chose to send Gates around the world to rescue those infected.

"Have you got all the data?"

"Ah...it's just as good."

Through the connection between the two knight systems, a long string of data instantly appeared on the helmet system interface in front of Yan Ming.

Those are spatial coordinates.

All of this location information was recorded by Gates while dealing with the infected people; it showed the location of all the infected individuals.

Using this coordinate information, he can accurately locate the situation of those infected.

If you have the spatial coordinate information, you can also know their timeline information.

correct.

By doing this, Yan Ming could choose to rewind the timelines of these selected individuals, rather than rewinding the entire timeline on a large scale.

If all the memories of the infected people are restored to their previous state, then they will not remember what they have experienced. This is a good thing for them, and another good thing for Yan Ming and others.

"Then let's get started as soon as possible."

So Yan Ming stretched out his hands.

A pale purple light enveloped him.

Another completely different invisible force instantly enveloped the entire city... and then the coordinates of the infected people on other continents.

Yan Ming had Gates personally deal with the infected people so that he could collect their coordinates. Once he had a clear grasp of the location information of all the infected people, he could directly control their time.

It's not about simply backtracking the entire world at once, but rather selecting a certain number of people and backtracking them on a fixed number of individuals.

Just how precise would time manipulation be to achieve this effect? ​​From a physics perspective, it's infinitely more complex than using the most sophisticated microscopes for cellular-level manipulation; it's simply beyond human comprehension.

"Ugh..."

"What... happened..."

Soon, all the people who had fallen to the ground regained consciousness.

When they woke up, they looked around blankly. All they could see were the streets, undamaged, and themselves lying on the ground.

To prevent them from becoming suspicious upon seeing the damaged environment around them, Yan Ming even remotely manipulated the time in the vicinity, reverting the damaged buildings back to their intact state.

Why did I collapse here?

"I remember I came out to buy groceries, and then..."

"I don't remember at all..."

"And there are many other people lying here too, what exactly happened?"

The people at the Daihasei Festival were also bewildered. To them, they were just sitting in the stands, but they vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Touma Kamijou, standing in the center of the stadium, watched this scene with utter shock.

"Time has been reversed? Could it be that Yan Ming did it?"

Just as those who regained consciousness were about to see them transformed, Yan Ming and Gates had already fled the scene and run to the top of a tall building.

"So what's next? What should we do?"

"Find the mastermind behind it all."

As someone who has always fought using this power, Yan Ming cannot easily let go of the person who caused all of this to turn out this way.

Ur and Aura.

The fate of those two guys was already sealed.

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Then, they ran at top speed.

Ur and Aura recklessly roamed the city streets, sometimes passing through alleys, and sometimes even weaving between skyscrapers.

"Hey! Aren't those two guys... wanted criminals?"

"It's definitely them!"

"Hurry! Stop them!"

Once the guards realized who they were, they immediately set up various barriers in front of the road.

Ul and Aura no longer had time to care about them.

"It's in the way!!"

The two men raised their hands in succession, freezing time, and then the invisible spear formed from the solidified time instantly blasted the fences away.

As they fled at breakneck speed, they kept glancing behind them.

No… we couldn’t find that guy.

“Ur…!”

"What are you doing, Aura? Hurry up and run for your lives! If you get to Swartz's side, you might be able to stay away from that monster..."

Just as Ur responded to Aura in this way, he finally noticed the look of horror on Aura's face.

A very bad feeling began to spread through my mind.

He quickly stopped and turned around, only to realize that the frozen time had been forcibly released at some point.

The sound that only thick armored boots make when walking on the ground.

A person appeared before them, dressed in silver and purple armor, looking as majestic as a king.

Devil.

When Ur realized that the being who had been hunting him was right in front of them, his mind completely went blank.

bang——

He fell to the ground with a thud, his expression blank, and kept backing away.

"...What, what do you want to do to us?"

no respond.

The figure in front of them slowly approached without making a sound.

But this is precisely what terrifies Ur the most.

"Don't come any closer...don't come any closer!!"

Aura was completely numb, while Ur, as if grasping at a last straw, kept reaching out his hands towards the figure in front of him.

Time stopped, time reversed, time compressed, and all sorts of spears formed from frozen time—basically, throw everything you can at it!

Then, during the period of stillness, the other person continued to walk around freely.

The reversed time is restored to its original state in less than a microsecond, and the compressed time also returns to its original time structure.

Those spears that attempted to pierce the opponent's chest couldn't even scratch the silver outer armor.

He just kept getting closer.

When Ur reached the very back, he realized there was no way to retreat.

Ruined.

What will this monster do to me next? What fate awaits me?!

He couldn't imagine it.

Then, directly opposite them, the Demon King, who arbitrarily manipulated time and space, reached out his hand to them with abandon—

But in the next moment, he threw punches and kicks backward.

boom!!

Yan Ming threw a punch at the person behind him, and the figure that was closing in on him was sent flying.

Clang—!

The figure that was knocked away crashed into various signs behind him, and when he stood up again, both Ur and Aura regained consciousness.

They all realized who the person who had been knocked away was.

"Swartz...?"

The man in purple clothes dusted himself off and looked at Yan Ming as if nothing was wrong.

"You're much stronger than I expected... the new Demon King."

If you look closely, you can see that the backs of both of his hands are covered in bloodstains.

"I stopped time the instant you attacked, and even compressed a large amount of time into a shield covering my hand, but I still got hurt... Amazing, your ability has completely exceeded my expectations."

"What exactly do you want to do, Timebreakers?"

The Three Calamities were now right in front of him, so Yan Ming directly asked them questions.

"Why did you come to this world? Why did you join forces with demons? And why did you attack us?"

"Hmph... Then please allow me to ask you a question as well: what brought you all here in the first place?"

For a moment, Yan Ming didn't know how to answer him.

Swartz's expression was serious as he glanced at Ur and Aura behind the other man.

"Those two, though just pawns, will be of great use to me in the future... Could you please give them to me instead, Demon King?"

Swartz had barely finished speaking.

Before he knew it, that figure had already appeared behind him.

"—!!"

He quickly realized what was happening and compressed all the power of time into his hands, using it to shield himself as much as possible.

too late.

Using time acceleration to arrive behind his opponent, Yan Ming simply gathered his energy slightly and threw a punch at Swartz, hitting his vital point head-on.

After being hit head-on, Swartz's body flew out again like a tire ejected in a car accident.

"Cough cough..."

However, despite suffering such a huge attack, Swartz was surprisingly unharmed.