Is there Kamen Rider 01 in Date Away?

"Hello, hey, hey, Lingyin. What are they doing?" Zhenlian pulled Lingyin aside and said quietly.

"Because White-haired Kotori is a new personality for them, everyone hopes to leave a good impression of welcoming White-haired Kotori."

"Why don't you stop them!"

“I think it’s still somewhat necessary.”

"I almost forgot that you are not a normal person either..."

A few minutes later, Shinrei and Shiori persuaded Kotori to come back. At this time, Kannozuki came to the three people who had just returned and said, "Commander-in-chief, Shinrei, Shiori, on behalf of all members, I want to apologize for our disrespect. I beg you to forgive us."

"It turns out that Mr. Kannazuki can be so serious sometimes."

"Hey, is this your first day meeting him? I have a bad feeling about this."

Seeing Kannazuki apologizing so respectfully, Kotori suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "Um... I don't hate you, I'm just a little scared."

"No, to express my apology. I am willing to bear the blame!" After saying that, Kannazuki immediately knelt on the ground, "Commander, please trample on me as much as you want! I can definitely make 24 different screams to please you! Shiori, I'm sorry, if you were three or four years younger, I would be very happy to be stepped on by you, but today my screams are exclusive to you, Commander!"

"What are you going to do to me (Kotori/my sister)? Pervert!"

The three of them stepped on Kannazuki at the same time, and Kannazuki shed tears of happiness: "Although it's not a pure loli trampling, I am still very grateful..."

Will the road of the white-haired commander really be as joyful as it is today?

Chapter 2 White-haired Kirori, an unqualified commander

"Ace o Eden? That's really concerning."

At 12:26 on December 0, Kotori was sitting alone in an empty meeting.

No, it's not quite accurate to say that she was alone, because there was a squirrel puppet shaking its body in front of her, and there was a loudspeaker under the squirrel puppet. The one who communicated with Kotori through this squirrel puppet was none other than Woodman, the founder of Ratatosk.

The Ace Eden mentioned by Kotori is the person in the fox puppet who proposed "quasi-elves weaponization" during Shiori's rampage. He is the largest shareholder of Asgardo Electronics besides Woodman, and is also the technical supporter and management department of the manifestation device.

Whether it was the display device used for treatment, the display device used for construction and repair, or even the equipment on Fraxinus's magician, Mana's Fenrir, and the leaves of the world tree, they were all under his management.

"I think Lord Ace is much more dangerous than other shareholders. If he is serious and not joking, I'm afraid he will take action against Fraxinus soon." The squirrel puppet made an old and helpless voice. After all, Ratatosk was not Woodman's empire alone. Although he was indeed the executive director, he did not have absolute power in the company. If he behaved inappropriately, the board of directors could vote to remove Woodman from his position.

To be honest, although the main purpose of Ratatosk is to protect the elves, only Woodman and Fraxinus's people really want to protect the elves, and the rest of the people all want to use the elves' spiritual power.

At first, Woodman wanted to protect the quasi-elf together, but was rejected with the reasons that "the quasi-elf is not a threat" and "the quasi-elf is not worth our investment." Therefore, after Woodman learned that Zhenlian lived such a painful life as an orphan, he felt deeply guilty towards him.

[Now that I think about it, Isaac's comment that he was "too conventional" really fits me. 】

Thinking of this, Woodman couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. He had to admit that if it was Westcott who managed Ratatosk, if it was Westcott who wanted to protect the elves, he would definitely be able to solve or control the potential threats in Ratatosk without too much psychological burden.

Now, compared to other shareholders who don't know how to use the spirits, Ace already has a way to use the spirit power of the quasi-elf. No matter what, this man's ambition must be stopped.

"In order to control the elves and your sister, Lord Ai Si will definitely attack you. Commander Wuhe, please be careful."

"Don't worry, as long as I'm here, I will definitely protect everyone in Fraxinus." Kotori stood up and saluted in a very standard military manner, "I'm betting on the title of Fraxinus's commander!"

--split line--

In an underground facility under the name of DEM in Tiangong City, Ace looked at the puppets in the conference room with a sarcastic smile on his face: "It's really ridiculous, these idiot shareholders. They clearly don't understand how to use spiritual power, but they are still clamoring there. They are really like idiots who suggest to scientists that rockets should be powered by coal."

After talking to himself, Ace stood up and walked out of the conference room to a warehouse full of mannequins. Of course, these were different from the mannequins used to display clothes in shopping malls. These were puppets made with a display device. Their essence was not much different from DEM's Bandersnatch (fantasy beasts). If you look closely, you can easily find that these puppets have gun-like drivers on their waists.

"Hit!"

Ace took out a military green key, activated the button on it, and inserted it into the Abaddon shooting sublimator on the puppet's waist.

"Authorise!"

The moment the key was inserted, the puppet pulled the trigger with its finger as if it had self-awareness.

"Think net Rise! Crowding Hopper! An attack method using various group tactics!"

The bullets fired from Abaddon's shooting sublimator immediately turned into armor and attached to the puppet's body, and the puppet transformed into a military green Kamen Rider shaped like a biochemical protective suit.

Kamen Rider Abaddon is a mass-produced knight based on the sublimated locust. In order to obtain sufficient spiritual power, Ace even made a deal with DEM, using an elf as a bargaining chip to obtain Ark's spiritual power, production tools, and venues.

And Ace also successfully used the raw materials and tools to create Kamen Rider Abaddon and a pair of the most perfect artificial quasi-elf warriors.

Now that everything is ready, he needs to find an opportunity to kick Gokawa Kotori out of the position of commander and bring Fraxinus, who manages the elves, under his own command.

"Hahahaha! HENSHIN."

"Imagine! Ideal! Illusion! Eden the Kamen rider! The Creator who charges forward beiliving in Paradise!"

In the darkness, the red lines on Kamen Rider Eden's body released a terrifying light.

--split line--

On December 12th, at 27: in the afternoon, the clock in Ratatosk's conference room moved slowly, and all the puppets in the conference room were silent. The reason was that Fraxinus's commander, Kotori Itsuka, was absent from this important meeting!

[She's already been late for more than 20 minutes. What happened to Commander Gokawa? I told her it was an important matter.]

Woodman, who was on the other side of the squirrel puppet, looked embarrassed. After turning off the microphone, he asked Karen, "Karen, can you contact Commander Gokawa?"

However, what Woodman replied was Karen shaking her head: "I can't contact Commander Gokawa's mobile terminal, and it seems that Commander Gokawa's private phone has also blacklisted all the members of Ratatosk."

"How could this happen..."

Even though the conference room was filled with cute puppets, it still couldn't resist the solemn atmosphere emanating from the people behind the puppets. However, in such a heavy atmosphere, only Ace was laughing secretly - Gokawa, Gokawa, I didn't expect you to jump into his palm by yourself.

At the door of the conference room, Lingyin realized that something was wrong and immediately called Shizhi.

Just as Shiori and Shinrei had just finished their duty and were about to go home, the cell phone in Shiori's pocket rang.

"Lingyin?"

Since the person coming was Reine, it must be about elves and Ratatosk, so Shizhi answered the call directly and turned on the speakerphone.

[Oori, is Kotori at your place? ]

"Not here, what happened?"

"It wouldn't be a tragedy that a super important meeting was held and no one knew where they flew to, right?" Zhenlian said half-jokingly after hearing Lingyin's words.

[Please find Kotori quickly. She skipped a very important meeting. If she doesn't come, I'm afraid her position as commander will be in jeopardy.]

"What?" X2

Hearing that Zhenlian's bad words had come true, the two of them hurriedly quickened their pace and rushed towards where Kotori might be.

--split line--

In the colorful coffee shop, Kotori, wearing a white headband, and a girl from the same class were enjoying parfaits like ordinary junior high school girls. The two of them were a very common scene at this time of year.

"Kotori, Kotori, do you have someone you like?"

"I love my sister the most!"

"So cunning! You always use this excuse! You must tell me a boy's name today!"

"Well, you mustn't tell other students." Kotori's face flushed slightly, and after thinking hard for a while, she said shyly, "His name is Fei..."

Just as Kotori was about to say the name, a fluorescent yellow flash appeared, and Kamen Rider 01 in the form of a shining locust appeared between the two of them.

"Hey! Brother Manren, why are you here!" Seeing 01 appear in front of her, Kotori widened her eyes in surprise.

"Of course I'm looking for you, you little rascal."

In order to find Kotori faster, Shinren even transformed and ran around the entire Tengu City. Now he can only pray that Ratatosk can help him wipe his butt.

01 picked up Kotori without saying anything. Just when he wanted to run away, the girl who was sitting with Kotori couldn't sit still anymore: "Who are you? Where are you taking Kotori?"

"Captain Delicious Underpants. As for where to take her, I can only tell you that it's not the place you think." After saying that, 01 rushed out of the coffee shop at an extremely fast speed and headed towards Ratatosk at full speed.

Seeing that the time was right, Ace spoke up: "Sir Woodman, taking advantage of this good opportunity, I intend to raise some issues concerning Commander Gokawa for discussion with you all."

Hearing Ace's words, Woodman broke out in a cold sweat. However, all of Ace's actions were reasonable and Woodman could not find a legitimate reason to stop him.

"First of all, what everyone is most concerned about is the previous incident of Gokawa Shiori's rampage, and the problem of Commander Gokawa. I guess at the critical moment of human survival, she did not activate Dainsleif to kill Gokawa Shiori because of her selfishness. The nature of this incident is so bad that I don't need to repeat it in detail, right? As the commander of Fraxinus, she clearly had the obligation to stop it, but she failed to perform her duties and was even late for such an important meeting today. It shouldn't be an exaggeration to describe her as dereliction of duty, right?"

"Wait a minute, thanks to the efforts of Commander Itsuka, there were no casualties in the Gokawa Shiori rampage incident. This point cannot be ignored." Seeing that this meeting was about to become a criticism meeting of Gokawa Kotori, Woodman hurriedly spoke to stop him from continuing, "And I believe he must have a special reason for being late for the meeting today."

"It is undeniable that it was the most perfect ending that time. However, if we look at the video of Gokawa Shiori's rampage incident, we can know that it was only after the Phantom appeared that the spiritual barrier around Gokawa Shiori was lifted. If the Phantom did not appear, who can guarantee that such a small probability event will occur next time? Isn't it too much of a joke to bet the future of mankind on an unknown miracle?" Ace had no intention of stopping at all, "Of course, it is undeniable that she has made a lot of important contributions to the work of sealing the elves. I know all about these things, and that's why I have to give advice. Commander Gokawa, who should have been the core of the cause of saving the elves and saving mankind, should be punished more severely if she is like this! It is because of her that the punishment should be increased!"

First, he ignored the result and made a big fuss about Gokawa Shiori's runaway incident, and even Kotori's previous contributions became a reason for increasing the punishment. In the end, he praised her to a higher position and then threw her down hard. Ace's rhetoric was truly vicious.

"Wait a minute! I will be responsible for the incident involving Gokawa Shiori! I will also compensate you for wasting your precious time this time."

"Lord Woodman, now is the time for you to make the most fair and just decision! Please don't do anything that would appear to be shielding Commander Gokawa! What we want is fairness, not compensation!"

Ace deliberately emphasized the words "fair" and "just", and immediately all the shareholders in the conference room began to whisper.

Just when the situation was about to develop in an even more unfavorable direction, with a loud bang, the door of the conference room was knocked open by an extremely violent impact. The door panel flew parallel to the table and was deeply embedded in the wall.

If everyone wasn't sitting here in the form of dolls, I'm afraid at least one unlucky guy would have half of his head cut off by the door panel.

"There...is an assassin?" One of the shareholders exclaimed immediately.

"No assassins. 01 is here to deliver, and we'll accomplish our mission." 01 pointed at Kotori who was still throwing a tantrum on his shoulder, "Who ordered Kotori Itsuka?"

【Great, I finally caught up. 】

Woodman breathed a sigh of relief at this time. Although the entire meeting was led by Ace, he believed that with Kotori's ability, the meeting would not develop in the worst direction.

"Ooooh! It's a squirrel!"

However, Kotori, wearing a white headband, did not turn the tide as Woodman had imagined. Instead, she squatted in front of the squirrel doll that symbolized the chairman of the meeting and poked it curiously.

"Five... Commander Gokawa?"

"Ah, why is it an uncle voice? It's not cute at all. I want to go home to find my sister."

Seeing Kotori's rude behavior, the shareholders who had been silent because of Manren's shocking appearance began to whisper again.

And Ace showed a mysterious smile - his chance had come.

Chapter 3: Betrayal of the Dead

In Ratatosk's headquarters, Woodman, sitting in a wheelchair, looked at the scenery outside the French window and sighed: "Commander Gokawa, I'm very sorry. I can only help you here. I hope you can turn the tide again."

If the black-haired Kotori had appeared at the meeting yesterday, perhaps things would not have gotten so bad. The biggest difference between Ace and other shareholders was that other shareholders only wanted money and power, and their goals were very clear, while Ace seemed to have no interest in Ratatosk's shares and power, or it could be said that these things were not worth his interest.

The most terrifying thing is not knowing what the other person really wants.

However, at this moment, a cold gun muzzle was pointed at the back of Woodman's head, and five or six Abaddon locust soldiers rushed into the chairman's office and surrounded Woodman.

"How is this possible? There is no way that Ratatosk's magic detector cannot fail to detect your arrival...ah!" Just as Woodman was surprised by the appearance of Abaddon's locust soldiers, he saw the Abaddon shooting sublimators and swarm locust keys on the waists of these locust soldiers.

The reason why the magic detector could not detect the locust soldiers' attack was because they were not driven by magic at all, but spiritual power!

"Lord Woodman, please cooperate with us. Otherwise, don't blame us for being rude. Please use your authority immediately to summon Ace Eden back to Ratatosk headquarters." The leading Abaddon locust soldier pointed his gun at Woodman's brow. Although there was no emotion in its voice, one could still hear the unnegotiable attitude of their mastermind behind the scenes.

"Subpoena requires my highest authority, and the method is only known to me. You dare not kill me." Although a few drops of sweat flowed down Woodman's forehead, he still planned to continue to mediate with the other party.

"Lord Woodman, you are a smart man. I hope you won't act on impulse."

The next second, Kallen was escorted to Woodman by the locust soldiers.

"I'm so sorry, Elliot." Karen, who was taken hostage, apologized to Woodman with an apologetic look on her face.

However, this group of AI dolls did not intend to let them continue chatting, and one of them pointed the gun at Kallen's temple.

--split line--

In the underground facilities of Ratatosk, everything was the same as usual, clean corridors, neat command room, Kotori Club members' activity room with obscene laughter from time to time. However, only those lifeless inorganic objects were the same as usual, and the crew members on the original Fraxinus were trapped in a dead atmosphere.

"Wang, Jin. Have you heard about Kotori?" Lei, who had just finished listening to the new commander's speech, sat on a chair and rubbed his legs that were sore from standing for the speech, and said to Wang and Jin, "Because she violated many regulations, she was punished indefinitely. Although the new commander named Ace advocated performing surgery to remove the spirit crystal and then erase her memory to turn Kotori back into an ordinary person, in the end it was the boss of Ratatosk who saved her."

Lei said this with a bit of annoyance on his face: "But it's really infuriating. They just transferred my respected commander away casually, and then brought that bastard who said bad things about Kotori to be my superior. What do they think of us? If it weren't for this thing on my neck, I would have resigned long ago."

To be honest, she really wanted to meet that guy named Ace. She really wanted to see who this guy was who could ignore the boss's words and why he was so wild. Fraxinus happened to be temporarily taken over by that guy recently, so Lei would go and give him a warning.

"So Lei is going to play some pranks on him?" Xun immediately got excited when he heard Lei was upset with someone, "How do you do it? Squeeze glue on the commander's chair or squeeze mustard into his coffee?"

"Xun, Lei. I think we should not be so impulsive." Wang said without looking up while fiddling with something that looked like a key. "After all, after tripping up Qinli, he was able to come here so blatantly. I don't think he was unprepared and without purpose. And I can smell a very unpleasant odor on that guy."

After hearing Wang's words, he did calm down a bit. The guy named Ace also brought a pair of twin girls with him, who were said to be his personal bodyguards.

Originally, Lei would not take human bodyguards, or even magician bodyguards seriously. However, the twins named Yan and Shan made Lei feel creepy. Lei vaguely felt that the twins seemed to be neither human nor magicians.

"What a disgusting smell! Has he not showered in several days?" Xun jumped to Wang's side curiously, "Hey, Wang, what have you been doing since the beginning?"

"I am making a key to use..."

Before she could finish her words, the door of the warehouse where the three of them were slacking off was opened, and the person who came in was none other than Ace.

【! ! ! 】