Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

boom--!!

Immediately, the two enormous forces clashed.

At the front of the God Train, a huge yellow mouth, with a power sufficient to shatter both the concepts of time and space, relentlessly tore at everything directly in front of it.

The shockwave from the collision even tore apart the surrounding train tracks.

The spacetime portal formed by the train of gods behind them was thus distorted, with countless shimmering colored electric currents crisscrossing back and forth in the air.

Click, click, click—

Then, a huge crack appeared.

It wasn't on Yan Ming.

Rather... it's the front of that train of God.

The sharp teeth that could shatter spacetime shattered one after another, and iridescent energy surged into its interior like a torrent.

Yan Ming's body was like a drill, rushing straight into the train and emerging from the rear.

Moments later, an unparalleled amount of energy burst forth from inside the train.

Buzz—! Yan Ming raised his hands, and the spatial power originating from Galaxy Woz circled around the sky, enveloping all the explosions in a circular shape.

The explosion lasted for a full five minutes. During that time, if Yan Ming hadn't used his spatial powers to create a protective shield, the entire city of Mitakihara would probably have been reduced to nothing in an instant.

After that, everything finally came to an end.

After confirming the situation in the air several times, Yan Ming finally returned to the ground.

"it's over…"

"But...why? We already destroyed that train, so how could it possibly reappear?"

Yan Ming did not answer Gates' question, but instead silently gazed at the nearby city.

The city has been reduced to ruins due to battles with the monsters from before, but thankfully time is still frozen in time.

Following Yan Ming's will, time began to flow backward at an alarming rate.

Everything has returned to the time before those witches appeared.

Yan Ming looked around at his surroundings. The people on the street, the magical girls, and everything else had returned to normal.

However, he did not adjust the time any further forward.

Then, he took off the watch face from his waist and deactivated the transformation.

Time, which had been frozen, resumed its flow, and the three who had been united as one were reunited as three people.

They stood there on the street, while people continued to walk by. No one knew what had happened before.

Is that all?

"I have dealt with all the damage and casualties caused before... How is the situation in North America?"

"Gates and I solved the secondary phenomenon of the God Train together, and we weren't even witnessed by anyone, my Demon King."

However, when Wozniak said this, his expression was somewhat complicated.

"what happened?"

"...Before we arrived there, we witnessed the local magical girls battling the God Train."

Then, Wozniacki's tone became somewhat heavy.

"Although Geiz and I prevented the situation from getting worse in time, the magical girls' consumption of Soul Gems is unavoidable, and they must have accumulated a lot of consumption by now."

"Then later, I'll use Decade's power to go to America, and then reverse time there too—"

"...Even if we do that, what happened there has already been reported and spread on the internet, and all sorts of comments have started to emerge. My Demon King...you can't stop this from happening."

Woz couldn't help but sigh.

"The best way to completely resolve this is actually to turn back time to before all of this happened, but if we really did that..."

In this world, Teed still exists. Even though his time manipulation abilities are no match for Yan Ming's, he still possesses a certain degree of resistance.

Moreover, he would absolutely not allow Yan Ming to obstruct his plans.

Ultimately, just like he did before, once Yan Ming reverses time, he can bring countless witches back into the world... and naturally, he can also recreate countless magical girls.

It could even evolve into an even more dangerous future.

"Tidot's true form has become so confused that it's impossible to know where it is. This is different from Tiamat's situation back then. There was still a connection between that Mother Goddess's avatar and her true form. Even if it's a dimensional connection, we can still capture it with the power of Zi-O's third form."

"But this time is different... My Demon King, Teed is truly capable of completely separating his main body from his clones, and can treat his clones as truly independent individuals and existences without any problem."

Teed, on the other hand, concealed his true identity in an unknown location, continuing his plans in a state completely undetectable.

If we disregard everything, there is still a way to eliminate him. If we destroy the entire Mitakihara City, including its base, in one fell swoop, there might be no problem.

But neither Yan Ming nor anyone else could possibly do such a thing.

Now, things are becoming increasingly complicated.

The three continued to stand on the street, each with their own distinct expression.

"hateful…!"

Gates suddenly swung his fist, a move that drew surprised looks from passersby, but he didn't seem to care.

"That coward only knows how to hide!"

"There's no use in worrying, Gates-kun. We should be more concerned about the magical girls than about these things."

Now, whether due to social paradoxes or racial differences, magical girls' status in this world has gradually begun to become unfavorable.

The more things develop in this direction, the more likely those naive and unconventional girls will be to reach the brink of despair.

Only Yan Ming, under these circumstances, remained focused solely on the most crucial aspects.

“We have uncovered most of Tide’s plan, and now only the most crucial part remains.”

"Plans, plans... What on earth is that bastard thinking?"

"In the end, things like magical girls shouldn't have been his concern in the first place. Now, magical girls have become one of the core elements of his plan... It's really hard to imagine."

Woz shook his head, still racking his brains for ideas.

"Where exactly is the key point? Although these magical girls were all created by Teed himself, we can't deduce Teed's true plan from them alone..."

"It would be great if there were some standout features in this situation."

"You make it sound so easy, highlighting something like that isn't as simple as it seems—"

Thump—then Gates bumped into it directly.

It was Yan Ming walking ahead of him.

He suddenly stopped, causing Gates behind him to bump into him accidentally.

"Ouch... You should at least watch where you're going."

"..."

But Yan Ming seemed to have thought of something, and slowly opened his eyes wide.

"Isn't the highlight always there?"

"…What?"

"The person who has always been the focus of Teed's attention, valued, and taken special care of, the person who has not been discarded as a disposable pawn despite so many changes in the plan, isn't that the prominent point in this whole situation?"

"Hey, everyone understands this logic, but the question is, what exactly is it? This so-called 'highlighting point' isn't so easy to find—"

"No... Mr. Gates, haven't you thought of that yet?"

After Yan Ming's explanation, Woz suddenly understood.

"She's been by Teedo's side for so long and nothing's happened. While the other magical girls are in despair, she's never had any of these troubles from the beginning. Isn't she always been there?"

Gates stood there, stunned.

The three people's minds kept overlapping and converging various pieces of information, focusing on one person.

She was a magical girl.

"Yuzuki...Hana?"

She was the girl who appeared by Teedo's side for inexplicable reasons from the very beginning and was constantly saved by him.

There's no reason... Ultimately, a man like Tide has absolutely no reason to pay attention to a girl like that.

Ultimately—

Where did Yuzuki Hana come from? And why is she here?

"Let's go."

After confirming the new target, Yan Ming looked directly at the two people beside him.

"The real result will soon be revealed."

The three continued walking to the end of the street and began their new goal.

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Mami Tomoe was in a daze for the entire morning.

She dared not talk to her classmates like she did yesterday, and she didn't even dare to mention her own affairs.

This continued all day until school was over, and she finally felt a little better.

then…

"...That's a lie, isn't it?"

On my phone, there's been a surge in news about magical girls.

It seems that some strange phenomenon has occurred in the United States. Scientists say that this phenomenon is similar to the Tunguska event, but after that, groups of witches have been constantly appearing and causing destruction all over the world.

As a result, many people concluded that all of this was related to magical girls.

People online began to believe that the constant attacks on various countries by magical girls were due to their existence, and that this inexplicable explosion that swept across the United States was also caused by the existence of magical girls.

Even worse... some people think that magical girls are the embodiment of a curse, witches who should have been banished in history, or spies planted by aliens.

All sorts of comments, no matter how you look at them, seem extremely exaggerated. Before this, people would probably have just thought they were all jokes.

But now things are completely different.

After packing her things, Mami Tomoe walked straight out of the school gate—

"what…"

She saw it; a group of girls were walking by.

Those people were all the ones who told me yesterday that they wanted to try becoming magical girls after school.

"that--!"

At that moment, Mami Tomoe felt as if she had seen a glimmer of hope and couldn't help but call out.

"You made a promise yesterday, right? After school today, you were planning to—"

“…Mami-senpai, um.”

"...Well, how should I put it..."

—Huh?

Mami Tomoe froze on the spot, because those girls…

They all used euphemistic language and looked at her with...slightly fearful eyes.

"As I thought, I should just... let's just forget about it."

"I've talked to my mom, and she still doesn't agree with me."

"I've thought about becoming a magical girl before, but... actually doing it is still quite scary."

Similar words, all sorts of content, were like tiny needles, piercing Mami Tomoe's heart with a small but sharp pain.

But that wasn't the worst thing for her.

"Um, Mami-senpai..."