Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

A burst of purple light flashed, and Yan Ming's body instantly transformed into a purple and silver transformation form.

Zi-O II.

Even after seeing the ultimate form that could control all of time, Tid remained calm.

"No matter what you're going to do, I won't let you continue like this."

"Alright... It's just a pity that no matter how much control you have over time, there's one thing you can't stop me from doing."

Immediately afterwards, Tede seemed to completely disregard Yan Ming and dashed forward.

Yan Ming showed no mercy, immediately raising his sword and slashing straight at Tide's body.

To be precise... it was what he was holding in his palm.

boom--

The entire arm was severed along with it, and the next moment, the almost shattered dial of Another Ethereal flew into the air.

Under everyone's gaze, time stood still.

Then, when time resumed its flow, the clock face in front of me was completely destroyed.

Not even a single fragment remained.

Boom! A faint explosion erupted in mid-air, even affecting Tide, who was sent flying backward.

Yan Ming gently waved the sword in his hand, and for a moment, the atmosphere in the entire room became extremely quiet.

It seems that everything is over.

"Yan Mingjun! Are you alright?"

Ryotaro and the others hurriedly ran to the back of the house, and Yan Ming nodded nonchalantly.

"Good! We don't know what that bastard was planning to do, but we did stop him, right?"

Momotaros's tone became increasingly passionate.

"This way, we can consider it a way of preventing something bad from happening. Perhaps, in the future, all those bad things will be changed because of what we've done!"

"But, senior... wouldn't this mean we've changed the time without permission?"

"Huh? It seems so."

"What do you mean by 'unauthorized changes'? What's the point of having such a terrible future? Rules are just rules, the train conductor and the others will surely understand!"

That's what they say—

Teed, who had been lying on the ground, slowly got up from the ground, keeping his kneeling position and his head slightly lowered.

"…whee."

Then, a strange laugh suddenly came from his mouth.

"Hehehehehe—!!! Thank you, thank you so much!!"

"What...?! What's wrong with this guy?!"

The sudden action startled the other demons and the others, and even Ryotaro paused for a moment.

Only Yan Ming.

Although others couldn't see it, the expression on his face actually appeared rather somber.

"Is it the same as what I saw?"

"Eh?"

Everyone looked at him with puzzlement, while Tide slowly stood up from the ground.

And at that very moment.

"Waaaaah!!"

Yuzuki Hana, who should have fainted to the side, suddenly appeared in pain and began to convulse on the ground.

"That's right... You can't change the future. Even if you could see the future or change it, it wouldn't matter. In this worldview, your insignificant ability is meaningless!"

Even after losing an arm, Tide's expression still looked unusually strange.

It's just like a child seeing a toy and getting excited.

"Let me tell you, it's something from the future that you could never guess... the whole truth!"

Then, Teed turned his attention to someone else.

Ryotaro.

The young man, being stared at like that, suddenly felt a sense of disbelief.

"Could it be...? How is that possible...?"

"Yes, the truth is actually quite simple."

Then Teed pointed to Yuzuki Hana on the side.

"That magical girl is someone who is similar to you but completely different... Nogami Ryotaro."

"Since you're from the future, you probably already know that this guy's ability allows him to travel to different parallel worlds. But in reality, every time he travels to a world that's attacked by the Witch's Night..."

"The world we are in now is one of them. This is the human world after the Witch's Night swept through it. But... why is this? Why does this guy have abilities that ordinary magical girls don't have, and why does he always travel to such absurd futures?"

"That's because she—she's an extremely unique being within this entire 'worldview,' she's the world's…singularity."

Singularity...?

"What the hell did you say?!"

Momotaros was completely dumbfounded.

Even Ryotaro was the same, and even Yan Ming was taken aback.

“This wasn’t predetermined from the beginning… Oh, right, it’s fine for you to know all this, or rather, I need you to understand it clearly, so… I’ll tell you everything.”

So—Teed smiled strangely and began to explain to them.

"Worldview... In terms of explanation, it includes each world and all the parallel worlds that have been created or have not yet been created related to it... That's what we can call it. To put it simply, it's like a work's IP itself and all its derivative works? That's the feeling."

"Originally, there should have been a very powerful concept of force in this worldview... called the 'The Law of Cycles,' which seems to be a very macroscopic absolute system that could operate at the moment of the birth and death of witches and magical girls."

"However, it seems that due to someone's mysterious interference, the concept called the Law of Cycles was not born. As a result, the position of the concept that should have been maintained for the subsequent operation of countless parallel universes was left empty."

After hearing what Tide said, Yan Ming, who was standing to the side, seemed to understand something.

So that's it... So this is what Kuzuha Kota meant when he said 'a powerful being that should have protected this world'?

"In this situation, it seems that this world created the concept of singularities to make up for this deficiency... However, it is completely different from Ryotaro Nogami over there. This is not just a singularity of time, but a singularity of the whole world!"

You're talking about the world's singularities...?

"That's right, that's right. You all know the specific effects, right? This magical girl has the ability to travel between different parallel worlds. Every time she arrives at the corresponding world, it will cause that world to suffer from a huge disaster similar to the Witch's Night... These are all effects of world-class singularities."

Of course, according to Tide, this so-called world singularity is only limited to within this worldview.

Once you leave the world associated with these magical girls, for example... and come to a world associated with Kamen Riders, the singularity properties unique to that world will completely lose their effect.

"Uh... the world's... singularities... its worldview..."

However, these things are a bit... uh... for the minds of Momotaros and the other Otherworldly gods.

"It doesn't matter, it's okay if you guys don't understand, you just need to understand one thing."

And so—Teed pointed again at Yuzuki Hana on the other side.

"That means this girl has a very significant effect on my plan."

Om-! !

Suddenly, another strange force suppressed the previously restless, pitch-black radiance of the Jade Moon Flower.

"...What did you do to her?"

In an extremely rare occurrence... Ryotaro actually glared at Teid with hostility.

"That's a scary guy, but if I hadn't done that, that girl over there would have turned into a witch in an instant."

"what?"

"Believe it or not, the Demon King standing next to you should know the current situation better than any of you, right...?"

Everything was just as Tide had said.

In fact, the moment he swung his sword, Yan Ming, as the second-generation Zi-O, had already activated his ability to foresee the future.

The future he saw was naturally the future where Yuzuki would become a witch... If things were normal, he would only need to reverse time and completely rewind Yuzuki's time back to normal... or even back to before she became a magical girl.

But just as he was thinking this, something unprecedented happened.

That is, when Yan Ming had this idea, the entire timeline he was observing began to explode.

That's right.

This world, composed of countless infinite parallel universes interwoven together... a world even more vast than that, a world that cannot be encompassed even by the term "multiverse," will completely collapse and then explode.

It might sound like a fantasy, or even unrealistic.

But this is precisely what the Demon King, who controls the concept of time and space, can witness.

In other words, from this point onward, it has little to do with "time" alone.

"That's right, you can observe the destruction of all the multiverses... but you can't stop it, or rather, if you try to stop it, all the multiverses, along with their entire worldviews, will explode, and then that will affect all the other worldviews around them!"

A single planet can harbor hundreds of millions of life forms... not to mention a universe, countless parallel universes, and the vast worldview that encompasses all of this.

Yan Ming's ability to control spacetime as the second-stage Zi-O allows him to clearly understand the seriousness of the problem—but it is the only thing that prevents him from solving it.

Forget about exaggerated terms like "multidimensional universe explosion." Even if it were just a universe explosion... the explosion of Earth alone would be a significant problem for Yan Ming.

In the simplest terms, it means that the nature of the force is acceptable, but the magnitude is insufficient.

The interference power of Zi-O II alone is far from enough for Yan Ming to save so many worlds.

"So? You're not capable of intervening in something this outrageous right now, are you? With your current level of ability, which at best can only pause the time of the entire universe, you'll never be able to stop something like this in your lifetime! Understand?!"

As if to mock the other party, Teed shouted loudly from where he stood.

"Just now, the Another Kuuga Control Watch that you destroyed was used to control this magical girl's level of despair... to keep her perpetually on the verge of despair, at least that kind of thing can be done—"

Bang——! !

The words had barely left his mouth.

In an instant, the purple blade that struck pierced through Tide's chest.

"Forehead…?!"

Momotaros and the others were all taken aback, and even Teed himself stared at them in disbelief…

"Have you finished speaking?"

A sound so calm it was almost eerie.

"Well then, thank you for all the information you've provided... You may leave now."

Blood was flying everywhere in the room.

Because that merciless demon king simply drew his sword.

*Thud!* Then, Teed's lifeless body collapsed to the ground.

Volume Nine: The Demon King Appears: Chapter 425 A Man Beyond Madness

The body in front of me fell to the ground.

Momotaros and his group hadn't even realized what was happening, and by the time they did, it was all over.

"Hey…"

Slightly startled, they all looked at Yan Ming.

"You...you just killed him like that? Weren't you supposed to keep trying to get information out of him?"

"There's no need to ask anymore, because no matter how much you ask, this guy won't say a word."

After pulling the sword out, Yan Ming casually flicked it to shake off all the blood.

"Moreover, there's no point in just dealing with this body."