Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

They are still bound by the laws of the old world.

"Wait... if we go by what you say—!"

"A magical girl who is transformed by the power of another timeline, even if her physical body is in this timeline, is essentially still a magical girl from another timeline, and still follows the original magical girl rules of the Kyubey clan..."

When Wozniacki said all that, all three of them understood.

They all understood what Tide was thinking.

And at that very moment—

All three people simultaneously felt a slight tremor.

"what?"

Gates looked at the table in surprise—the water in the glass was also sloshing slightly.

Was it... an earthquake?

Compared to Gates' reaction, the first person to react was Yan Ming.

It was as if he had foreseen something.

"Go outside and take a look."

Yan Ming immediately stood up, opened the door, and the three of them came out together.

And then... it wasn't just them, but everyone around them, or even the whole world, saw it.

Something carrying a faint golden light was rapidly exploding towards the distant sky.

—Buzz!

The light, spreading like ocean waves, moved so fast that people could only catch a fleeting glimpse with the naked eye before rushing away into the distance.

"What on earth is going on?!"

"...It was a violent tremor of spacetime."

Relying on the power of Zi-O II, Yan Ming is becoming increasingly sensitive to changes in the concept of "spacetime".

"Something is attacking this place from the outer edge of spacetime, as if it's slowly gnawing away at time."

"Could it be... Mr. Gates, take a look online! There must be some new news!"

With no information about the Oma Tales Advent Calendar - KT now being revealed, the internet has become their biggest intelligence tool.

As soon as Gates turned on his phone, brand new news popped up all over the screen.

No… it can’t really be called news, because it happened so suddenly that reporters didn’t have time to investigate.

However, a large number of things uploaded by ordinary people have already been posted online.

It was like a video... It captured a scene where golden ripples suddenly exploded in mid-air. The person filming the video uploaded it to their account at the last second before the thing was about to hit them.

And then—the latest information.

One of the cities in the United States of America, located in North America, was instantly and massively impacted by that immense force.

"Unbelievable..."

The United States, located on the other side of the world... actually suffered such a blow?

However, no matter how you look at it, it couldn't possibly be a natural disaster, especially considering the previous circumstances—

"This is the work of the God Train... That guy Teed is actually launching an attack on other countries?"

"Is that guy trying to move the battlefield to America?"

Gates frowned and immediately took out his belt and watch face.

"Then let's do as he wishes. Let's go straight there and settle things with him one last time."

"No... he did it on purpose."

"Intentional? What did you say?"

"I've already read about the power of the God Train in that book. Although it takes time, its power is enough to destroy all timelines in theory. That kind of power cannot be explained by destroying a city."

If Teed intended to use the power of the God Train to directly destroy the timeline—perhaps the entire Northern Hemisphere would have already fallen.

In that case... it would be far more than just the destruction of one city.

"That guy is deliberately sabotaging the city, deliberately luring people out from there."

"Who are those people who are there...?"

"Magical Girls".

Yan Ming spoke directly the words he was gradually coming to understand.

"Teed's real purpose is to make those magical girls hated because of this series of changes, and then—"

"When despair takes hold, they all turn into witches."

Volume 9, The Demon King Appears: Chapter 406 A World Gradually Reversing

After combining all the known information, a conclusion was finally reached.

"Gates, Wozniak, you told me about this before, right?"

Yan Ming looked at the two people beside him.

"On the ghost train, Teed suddenly appeared and personally saved the group of magical girls."

"That's true... there really is such a thing."

"Actually, this was deliberately staged for others to see... or rather, it was staged for you and those magical girls to see."

"what?"

Gates was stunned for a moment after hearing this.

"From the very beginning, the purpose of the magical girls in the Teid Contract was to turn them into witches. If I'm not mistaken, those witches that were reported on the news this morning and that appeared frequently last night... should all have been transformed from the magical girls you met on the ghost train."

"To become a witch... I remember that the prerequisite for a magical girl to become a witch is to first be in despair."

This made Gates even less able to understand.

"There's no reason for this! Those kids only experienced one battle, and they've already become so desperate? They can't be that fragile!"

"The emotions brought about by that experience are not quite there yet, but—the prerequisite for becoming a witch is not just despair in body and mind."

So you mean—

"It's the Soul Gem."

Yan Ming added to it again.

"The Soul Gem is an important thing that stores the soul of a magical girl. If it is not purified from time to time with the Grief Seed obtained after defeating a witch, the user may also become a witch."

"The reason for this judgment is a girl I saved before who was about to be contracted by Tid. She knew nothing about the connection between the Soul Gem and the Grief Seed. Tid only told her that 'becoming a magical girl will grant her unparalleled power.'"

"what does that mean?"

"This means that from the very beginning, Teedo never discussed the risks of the Grief Seed and witch transformation with the magical girls he had made a contract with."

Because these magical girls were formed through contracts using the Grief Seeds that Teed brought from other worlds, they are not bound by the laws of this spacetime and still face the danger of becoming witches.

And Teed just happened to grasp this point.

After all, the race called the Incubators no longer exists in this timeline, and the remaining magical girls are not in danger of becoming witches. They don't even have any related memories, so no one knows the relationship between the Grief Seed and the Soul Gem...

In this situation, when Teed made contracts with others, he did not tell them anything about the Seed of Grief and the Soul Gem.

All the girls who were bound by contracts used their powers as a matter of course... without any restraint.

No one noticed that the Soul Gem needed purification.

"How is that possible..."

This conjecture greatly surprised Gates.

"But...they should at least have defeated the witch, right? After defeating the witch, wouldn't those Sorrowful Seeds pop out? They could just use that purification to deal with them!"

"Logically speaking, that's true, but if that were the case, they wouldn't have become witches, right?"

"..."

"Although I don't know exactly what happened, I guess that Teed continued to deceive those girls on this basis, taking back the Seed of Grief from their hands, and then turning the Seed of Grief into witches again and throwing them back into the city... and then letting the magical girls destroy them again, and then taking them back."

It's like a factory assembly line, and during this time, Teedo will also contract new magical girls... so it's truly never-ending.

"The ghost train doesn't need anyone to operate it; as long as someone is inside, its functions can be activated automatically."

"In other words, there was no need to put so many magical girls on the train. Just one person would have been enough. Tide deliberately brought so many people along to wear down their spirit and magic."

This is just acting; these magical girls... are still being used as pawns by the other side.

"These girls have never purified their gems until now, and they have been using their magic without reservation. With this added, they will soon reach the critical point... and eventually, they will become witches."

"If the witch transformation occurs on a large scale, the magical girls who have no experience in dealing with it will be unable to handle it on a large scale, which will lead to a flood of social opinions. This will cause more magical girls to be unable to cope, and will cause all sorts of problems. As a result, the scope of the witch transformation will spread wider and wider."

"Wait, wait a minute! If you're going to say it this way, the effect will spread incredibly fast, and now, with magical girls everywhere in the world..."

Gates was speechless for a moment.

He briefly imagined that kind of future... it would be a devastating end.

Their true goal is to plunge all these magical girls around the world into despair.

"And then, if I'm not mistaken, this was also an act for you."

Yan Ming continued to tell Gates an even more terrifying truth.

“He deliberately let you see this, and then you will come back and tell us about it, and I will analyze it and come up with this analysis result.”

"In the end, the three of us would naturally assume that Teed's goal is what we have concluded... and then we would try to stop him, thinking that this is his real purpose."

"Wait... you mean, making all the magical girls despair isn't his ultimate goal?"

"Have you ever considered that for Tide, as a Time Jacker, getting a bunch of magical girls to become desperate actually helps him?"

Gates was speechless once again.

Woz, standing to the side, didn't say anything from the beginning, just listened quietly to Yan Ming's explanation.

"What he wanted was for me to analyze the matter as a matter of course, and then to use that matter to stop him... which was exactly what he wanted."

"In that case, no one will know what Teid's real goal is."

The three people were clearly standing outside.

But the surrounding atmosphere became gloomy as a result.

The sun was shining brightly today, bringing a wonderful feeling of warmth to people.

But to the three of them, the atmosphere at that moment was like a gloomy apocalypse.

Everything seemed to become clear and visible.

But the further Gates looked ahead and the more he understood what Teed was going to do, the more a chill ran down his spine.

What exactly...what does he want to do?

"Besides these, there are things like ghost trains and trains of gods that haven't been taken into account, which means our intelligence is still insufficient."

At this point, Yan Ming looked up at the distant sky.

"But I think we'll have an answer soon."

Why do you say that...?

“…I understand what you mean, my Demon King.”

Woz finally spoke up.

"You think Teed would choose this time to appear before us, and even use the power of the God Train...is that right?"

To be precise—

then.

Just as if in response to Yan Ming's words, reality... began to gradually crumble.

"That guy should show up now."

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