Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

He grabbed the other person's arm directly.

"—?!"

The purple scorpion warrior named Sword Scorpion was shocked. Before he could recover, Gates had already swung his arm.

He flung the scorpion's entire body away.

Boom! He crashed directly into the wall not far away, and in the almost frozen world of acceleration, countless chairs were also blown away.

A world of absolute speed that only two people can enter.

Sword Scorpion shook his head, then defiantly activated the device on his sword.

"Rider Slash!"

He filled his weapon with purple venom, enhancing its slashing power, and launched it directly at Gates.

Gates simply stood there, watching his opponent, and plunged the sword directly into his own chest.

— Swish.

Then, the blade pierced Gates' chest without any suspense... and missed.

Even though the opponent slashed several times, Gates' body only twisted back and forth like a phantom, without being injured at all.

It was neither a distortion of space nor a skill like an illusion.

…It's simple, it's just that it's too fast.

It's fast enough to exceed the Clock Up speed of Mach 50, fast enough to exceed the limits that the Sword Scorpion could imagine.

In an instant, the world seemed to be covered by a black and white painting.

In just a moment.

Gates suddenly appeared behind the opponent, and on the Scorpion's body... tens of thousands of attacks exploded one after another in a nanosecond.

The three Dark Knights were each knocked together by Gates.

It's about time we dealt with them.

His armor switched back to orange and black, and Gates gripped the chainsaw tightly once more.

Press the button on the weapon fully.

"Saw it down like crazy!"

It was a huge orange gear that swept out in a straight line.

It pierced through the bodies of the three Dark Knights in an instant, and the final explosion engulfed them all.

ended.

Whether it was the King Serpent, the Sword Scorpion, or the Ghost Vortex, all three deceased individuals vanished in the explosion.

In the dust of the explosion, Gates seemed to see a satisfied smile on a man's face at the last moment.

"...That's enough."

He simply swung his weapon and calmly exhaled.

"Those who are already dead, just go back to hell quietly."

The interlude ends.

Gates then turned his attention back to the train itself.

Volume Nine: The Demon King Appears: Chapter 399 - Is He Here to Save You...?

"...How's the situation outside?"

To avoid Geiz's attacks, all the magical girls from before have now taken refuge in the front carriage of this train.

They hid here, and every now and then they could hear the very turbulent sounds and impacts coming from the carriages behind them.

Anyone can imagine just how outrageous the battle that broke out in the rear carriages must have been.

"I don't know. Even if you look through the window on the car door, you can't see what's happening inside."

"I think the only solution in this situation is for someone to go out and open the door, then go to the back of the train to see what's going on?"

"Are you kidding me? Who would willingly do something like that?"

"Exactly! Just from the noise coming from behind, nothing good is happening in there!"

"...And that guy is really amazing. He's just an ordinary person...and he managed to defeat all of us magical girls with just his ordinary body. It's unbelievable."

"So you definitely can't win!"

Amidst the cacophony of the magical girls, Yuzuki Hana remained lost in thought.

By utilizing the Ghost Train's ability to defy the laws of physics and extending the length of its internal carriages, coupled with the train's ability to periodically summon dead warriors, Yuzuki believed that this should be enough to delay Gates to some extent.

They had absolutely no chance of defeating Gates; Yuzuki Hana had been certain of this from the very beginning.

Therefore, all she needs to do is delay the train long enough to reach its destination.

And at that very moment.

Suddenly, a string of dark characters appeared on the sign above the carriage.

"Ah! Look!"

"what? What?"

"What...is this?"

The magical girls looked at the standee with some surprise; it seemed to have... coordinates of a certain point in time written on it.

1431 5 Month 30 Day.

"1431...? What year have we arrived at?"

"What were we doing here hundreds of years ago?"

These magical girls were, of course, completely unaware of this situation.

However, Yuzuki Hana knew very well what it meant when this train arrived at its final destination.

"We have arrived at our final destination."

After saying that, she turned around immediately.

Does it mean "The task that needed to be done has been completed..."?

"So... does that mean we can all go back?"

"Not yet."

Faced with these questions, Jieyuehua shook her head.

"This train cannot function properly without people, so we have to stay here for a while longer."

"You're kidding, right? Didn't you say we just had to go with you and that was it? Why is it so complicated?"

"Ahhh~ I really want to go back and take a hot bath..."

"Hopefully that guy won't catch up again. He looks really scary."

"He's just... spouting things we can't understand at all. Who does he think he is? A teacher?"

Looking at the magical girls in front of her, Yuzuki Hana's expression remained unchanged, still calm and indifferent.

But in reality, she was already vaguely looking forward to it.

'...What a bunch of idiots! They can't even realize they've been completely used.'

Because she had been by the side of the man named Tede from beginning to end, Yuzuki knew this from the start.

She knew that all the magical girls who had been contracted by Teedo were merely his pawns.

These magical girls were doomed from the start, because someone like Teedo had said that he had no other intentions toward them, but simply used them as pawns.

Sadly, the girls seemed completely oblivious.

Most people here still believe that they are equals to Teedo... or that they are only helping him out of gratitude for turning them into magical girls, right? They probably all think that Teedo's actions won't affect them at all, and that they will have a good life after becoming magical girls, right?

What a ridiculous idea—Yuzuki felt genuinely sorry for them.

Although Yuzuki Hana didn't know how Tede would use them, she was certain he wouldn't value them.

That's right.

I am the same.

She was nothing more than a magical girl dragged out of another parallel world by that guy Teed, and merely a pawn he found to complete his own plan.

For Teed, valuing other magical girls, or even valuing himself, is absolutely impossible...

Boom! !

Just then, a loud noise came from the carriage door behind them.

"what?"

The magical girls all turned their gazes toward that door.

Jie Yuehua quickly turned around and stared wide-eyed at the door behind her.

"...How could that be?"

She immediately realized something.

Tide had told her beforehand that this ghost train possessed the ability to defy the laws of physics, freely change the size of its interior space, and occasionally summon powerful hostile undead warriors.

With these abilities, even if that man named Gates isn't defeated, he absolutely wouldn't be able to catch up with them, who have already escaped.

At least not in such a short period of time—

boom!!

The thought had barely crossed Jieyuehua's mind for less than a second.

The carriage door in front of them was blasted open.

The door was twisted and deformed as if it were a complete wreck, and it hurtled towards them like a cannonball.

"Huh—?!"

Led by Yuzuki, the magical girls all turned away in shock.

The carriage door flew straight into the depths of the room and was flung a great distance out of the carriage.

bang——

A figure walked in from the car door.

A strong sense of heaviness, so heavy that even their vision trembled—this was the most direct feeling the figure in front of them gave the girls.

His body was covered in orange and black armor, which resembled an iron wall.

Holding a weapon like a chainsaw, he took each step, causing the entire train traveling through the time tunnel to tremble.

"How could this be...?"

The magical girls stared in disbelief at the figure before them.

Although they had never seen him before, they could all tell that this person was the transformed form of the young man in black and red clothes from before.

But how much time has passed until now?

It took less than ten minutes, and during that time, various inexplicable obstacles were added—

In such a short time, the man who was trapped in the back carriage has already come out?

"...Who, who's afraid of him!"

At that moment, one of the magical girls suddenly shouted.

It seems that the other magical girls were also influenced by her.

"That's right...that's right! There are so many of us, we're not afraid of him at all!"

"He's just wearing some kind of armor from who-knows-where. I don't believe that with so many of us attacking together, we'd be afraid of just one guy—"

While the magical girls were chattering away, Gates wasn't idle either.

He raised his left hand and clenched it.