Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

"But if this were a normal city, how would we get down? There's no hill or anything like that nearby..."

"No, Mr. Gates, take a closer look at the situation of those people below—"

At this point, Wozniak's tone changed somewhat.

Because by looking through the magnified camera, you can clearly see the facial expressions of most of the people below.

So… the people on the street immediately noticed the mysterious machine that had appeared in the sky. Some people took a few quick photos, but—

Most people's expressions remained completely unmoved by this.

That's right... It's like they don't care at all about the fact that 'huge spaceships are flying back and forth in the sky'.

"What's going on with these people?"

This surprised Gates even more.

"Aren't they even a little bit surprised that we showed up?"

"Land first. There's a large plaza nearby; we should be able to land from there."

"Hey... is this a good idea? A direct landing like this would probably cause a riot, wouldn't it?"

Although that's what Gates thought, Yan Ming didn't respond after that... It seems he was determined to land in the city together.

"Fine, if that's the case, I won't be responsible if it really causes any riots, okay?"

And so, the group simply stopped the Time Demon in a huge square and stepped down from it.

result.

About half of the people around were taking photos or something, but the vast majority were just busy with their own things.

Some people even glanced at Yan Ming and his group before casually walking away.

"...What exactly is going on?"

No one was surprised by their unusual situation; it was as if it were all perfectly normal.

"Hey Woz, is there anything recorded in your books over there?"

"Well... we've only just arrived in this world, so we can't keep track of things that quickly yet."

After hearing Wozniak's explanation, Gates seemed even more bewildered by the current situation.

The people around them completely ignored them, and even turning the huge spaceship into a small prop and putting it away... it didn't seem to arouse much interest in them.

"What...what should we do?"

"We could consider asking passersby in the vicinity about the situation first, since they don't seem to be too hostile towards us anyway."

Then Yan Ming continued.

"At least we can abolish what we just said, that this is just an ordinary city."

In any world, if ordinary citizens saw people like them landing directly in a spaceship, even if they didn't consider them aliens, they would definitely be very surprised and assume they were military personnel.

Although it seemed peaceful, with everyone busy with their own things, both Gates and Yan Ming could clearly see it.

This city, no—this world.

That must be quite something.

—Buzz.

Just then, a loud noise suddenly came from beside my ears.

"what?"

Yan Ming and the other two immediately looked around. The sound seemed to be coming from a nearby loudspeaker... in the form of a broadcast.

Upon hearing that sound, people who normally wouldn't react much no matter what happened suddenly perked up their ears and eyes and immediately stopped what they were doing.

"Wh-what?"

"It's the radio! Could it be—"

The sudden and drastic changes in the people once again drew Yan Ming and the others' attention, and then—

"Urgent Notice"

The female announcer's voice rang out immediately.

"City A has been subjected to a powerful bombing of unknown origin. The scale of the damage was initially assessed as ghost-level... but it has now been classified as a dragon-level disaster."

"All citizens are urged to immediately proceed to the nearest shelter. The Hero Association has issued a notice requesting... (repeated)... (currently)..."

The sound suddenly became as if it were being interfered with, gradually becoming distorted and chaotic.

The people around all looked terrified after hearing the sound.

"Hey...did you guys hear that? It's a Dragon-level monster!"

"It's hopeless! I'm definitely going to die this time... there's no way I can escape!"

"I...I've never even encountered a Tiger-level enemy before, how come I'm facing a Dragon-level enemy right from the start?!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Run as far as you can!!"

What exactly happened?

The commotion, screams, and sounds of people fleeing around them made the three realize an even bigger anomaly.

Followed by.

"Hey, I said..."

Gates suddenly looked at the two of them and couldn't help but say something.

"Did you feel the ground shaking violently...?"

The next instant, Yan Ming instinctively turned his head slightly to look behind him.

…then.

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Bang! ! !

A corner of the city called City A was instantly shattered.

An unparalleled explosion gradually spread, as if the city, and everything else, was about to be blasted away and vanish.

The huge plaza at the very center was instantly shattered, and the surrounding trams and all sorts of things gradually twisted apart.

A crater as large as a meteorite crater appeared directly in the center of the square.

Right there.

A figure several meters tall... looked no different from a human, but two things grew out of its head, its skin was a strange purple, and its muscles were taut.

"Is this the place?"

It spoke softly, right at the center of the explosion.

"City A, the city with the largest population... I think that's the rumor, but I have a feeling that not many people were killed just now."

Is it because it's in the center of the square?

It was impossible to mistake it for a human shadow; it wandered around until it found a tiny, indistinct figure near a pile of broken rubble.

"Waaaaah... Waaaah...!"

A petite young girl.

She looked to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, and even though there were horrifying signs of destruction all around her, she just sat on the ground and cried.

"Dad...Mom...Where are you...!"

Perhaps they got lost from their parents.

Thinking this, it approached the girl without saying a word.

He gently reached out his hand, using a gesture as if to gently pull her up.

—In an instant, the entire hand transformed into an incredibly ferocious posture.

Boom! In an instant, its body completely transformed into a monster.

With a ferocious and sharp posture, it mercilessly retracted its claws, and in just a moment, the girl, as tiny as an insect, would vanish.

Its purpose is to kill all of humanity on this planet.

then.

"...?"

They didn't catch it.

The utterly empty sensation left the strange man stunned, and even more astonishingly—

There were three people standing not far away.

One of them was holding the girl from earlier in his arms.

"Varied…"

After putting the girl down, Yan Ming gently patted her head.

"It's alright, you're safe now."

"But...but...Mom and Dad..."

"Don't worry about that... Woz."

"Yes, my Demon King."

The man in the trench coat beside him bowed respectfully, and then took out something strange from his pocket.

Buzz—! A spatial portal appeared beside the girl and sent her inside.

"…you."

The purple-clad figure took a slight breath, his expression gradually turning malicious.

Who is it?

"I mean, with that much destruction just now, could a lot of people have actually died?"

"What are you talking about... Didn't I already say that at the moment of the explosion, I used the power of the Galactic End to teleport everyone within the affected area to an area outside the range, and I also recorded the coordinates of each person. I will be able to send them back intact in a short while."

That's true... but is it really necessary for this to happen?

"Well, there were no casualties anyway. With my Demon King power, I can restore this level of damage in an instant. And... more importantly, isn't the questioning more important?"

"Uh...! Do I really have to ask that kind of guy?"

"It's precisely because it's such a unique existence that it's worth asking about."

The three of them were just chatting leisurely.

Completely ignoring its own existence, the purple monster twitched its eyes, and an indescribable rage erupted from its heart in an instant.

"Hey."

With its face covered in bulging veins, it stared intently at the three of them.

"Don't get too cocky!!"

boom--!!

The shockwave erupted again.

The purple-clad monster slammed his fists into the ground with such ferocity that it was more powerful than an earthquake, hurtling towards the three people in front of him at an incredible angle.

In this way, they are doomed, because ultimately, humanity is nothing more than such weak and pathetic creatures—

boom!

Some unseen force, in turn, neutralized all the previous impacts.

The purple monster stood frozen in astonishment.

And it seemed that the attention of the three people was also drawn to him.

The man standing in the middle of them was the one who had just been comforting the little girl.

It appeared to be dressed in black and purple stripes and seemed completely unafraid of me, slowly walking to a position about five meters away.