Is there Kamen Rider 01 in Date Away?

"This woman is not human, she's an elf. Rather than that, how about you pay more attention to Mr. Hiden?"

"Rei-kun!"

I don't know when Zhenlian had already untransformed and fell to the ground. There were many bullet holes on her body. Although they were shallow because of the armor protection, the number was terrifying. And the broken arm was still bleeding.

"Zhen Lianjun! Zhen Lianjun!"

Shiori cried and shook Manren's body, hoping that he would not lose consciousness.

But in Zhenlian's eyes, the world became increasingly blurred.

Chapter 17 Zeya's Gift

Fortunately, before AST arrived, Shiori evacuated with the unconscious Shinren.

Sitting on the bench outside the Fraxinus medical room, Shizhi was somewhat dazed and in a trance.

Compared to the ruins after the space earthquake, the bloody scene can make people more aware of the danger of Kuang San and arouse more fear. In addition, Mana killed Kuang San like a killing machine, and Zhen Lian had one hand broken by Kuang San.

At this time, the door of the medical room opened, and Shizhi came back to his senses. He immediately asked the medical staff anxiously: "How is Zhenlian-kun? Is there anything wrong?"

The medical staff nodded: "Hiden Shinren is fine, he just lost too much blood temporarily. His hand has been reattached with a manifestation device."

Shiori rushed into the ward impatiently to check on Shinren's condition.

"You can't run in the ward. Don't you understand such a simple truth?"

Manren, wearing a hospital gown, sat on the bed and complained about Shiori as if nothing had happened.

Compared to before, Zhenlian's face has become more rosy and her expression is very peaceful. This also makes Shizhi feel relieved.

"That's great, Zhenlian-kun, you're okay. I thought you were dead..."

Shizhi placed his hands on his chest and could feel that his heart rate was gradually returning to normal, but for some reason his tears still flowed uncontrollably.

"Shiori, what's wrong with you?"

"Hmm?" Shiori realized that he was crying, "How strange... Manre-kun is fine. Why am I crying..."

"Don't worry, I'm here. I'm immortal." Shinren held Shiori's hand and said confidently.

Suddenly, Zhenlian's demeanor suddenly changed, she revealed a wicked smile, and then retracted her arm.

"Hmm?" Shiori, who still felt his hand being held, lowered his head in confusion, only to find that what was holding his was a severed hand!

“Aaaaaaah——!” Shiori was frightened and threw away his severed hand, while the culprit, Manren, laughed so hard that he choked.

"Hahaha... I was just kidding. It's just a toy, a toy." Manren showed her intact right hand and turned it around for Shiori to see as if for display.

"Wow...Manre-kun is too much." Shiori wanted to be angry but still couldn't help laughing.

[Compared to a sad face, a smile really suits you. 】

Looking at Shiori's smile, Mayune thought so.

"Um... Reine just brought your lunch box over, and I've finished it. It's delicious. Thank you..." Zhenlian scratched the back of his head and turned his head slightly to thank Shizhi. Now he still hasn't gotten used to thanking someone seriously, so he finally chose to turn his gaze away from Shizhi.

"Eh?"

Shizhi was a little surprised. Rather than wondering when Reine brought the lunch box from home, Shizhi was more curious about how Zhenlian could eat it.

After all, not only was the bento mixed together due to the previous fall, but some of the dishes also became cold and hard due to time, so the taste and texture were naturally greatly compromised.

"I'm not kidding you. Look, I licked the lunch box clean."

As if she was afraid that Shiori wouldn't believe it, Zhenlian took the lunch box from the bedside table and showed it to Shiori. The entire lunch box had been eaten clean as if it had been washed.

"That... is very delicious. If possible, I can do it next time..."

"Sure." Shizhi Qiang answered first, "If Zhenlian-kun wants it, I can make hundreds of copies!"

--split line--

In the abandoned factory in Dawn City, Mie should be making new extinction keys at this point in time, but today she has to welcome an unexpected guest.

"Nightmare, I don't remember allowing you to come and go here as you please." There was no intention of welcoming Kuang San on Mie's cold face, and her hand had already grasped the key in her pocket.

"Don't look so scary. He's just being kind enough to return the things." Kuang San waved her hands to show her helplessness, then threw the key of Aikalu in front of Mie.

Looking at the key on the ground, Mie frowned: "Xun, why didn't you retrieve the extinction key?"

Hearing Mie's accusation, Xun shrank back in fear, not knowing how to explain the situation: "Um..."

"Xia Xun, I told you that those useless emotions will only hinder Ark's plan. This will not happen again." Mie snorted coldly and did not intend to pursue Xun's fault.

"Ah, please don't ignore my feelings. If it weren't for your Magia getting in the way, I would have handled my matter beautifully before Miss Shiori found out. How do you plan to compensate for this loss?" Although Kurumi had a smile on her face, Xun and Mie clearly felt the heavy murderous aura in the air. If they didn't give Kurumi a reasonable answer, then the cooperation between the two parties would probably end here.

Mie closed his eyes and thought for a while before speaking: "I understand."

After saying that, Mie stood up and handed a Extinction Sublimator and a brown Extinction Key to Kuang San.

"Oh, is this thing your answer?" Kuang San looked him up and down, seemingly not very satisfied with Mie's apology.

"Don't you want us to help you invade DEM? The more troops, the better. I have adjusted the extinction key. The Magia created will absolutely obey your orders. But after Magia is defeated, please be sure to return the extinction key to us."

"I accept this apology."

Kurumi didn't expect to rely on Magia's fighting ability, but was attracted by the absolute obedience. To be honest, she wanted to borrow three more from the Thunder of Destruction, so that the four clones that gave her a headache could be a little more obedient.

--split line--

Shiori had to make dinner, so he didn't accompany Mana to finish the final check. Not long after Shiori left, Kotori and Reine came to the door.

"My dear commander, what brings you to the ward?" Zhenlian leaned lazily against the head of the bed and spoke in a somewhat annoying tone.

"Hmph, I just thought that your performance was pretty good this time, so I came here specially to praise you. You should accept my praise with tears of gratitude." Kotori turned her head away proudly and snorted, putting on a condescending attitude.

But of course this couldn't fool Zhenlian. After all, from the previous phone call, it could be heard that Kotori was so anxious that she was about to cry.

"Manren, we're here to thank you. Kotori is just not good at expressing herself, but actually she is very grateful to you. I'm also very grateful that you saved Koori." Reine sat aside and acted as Kotori's translator.

After her true feelings were exposed, Kotori simply turned her head and ignored everyone.

"Let's get down to business, Zhenlian. We're here to ask a favor of you. You should be familiar with Xiaozhi's situation."

"Yeah." Shinren nodded. Although Shiori thought she had concealed it well, Shinren could still see that she was in pain and scared - her sister Mana was like a killing machine, and Kurumi brutally slaughtered humans. Shiori herself was an ordinary female high school student, and these things were indeed very heavy for her.

"You want me to comfort her, right? But, this kind of thing..." Manren said and looked at Kotori beside her.

After noticing Zhenlian's gaze, Qinli said, "Don't look at me. I'm afraid that if I see my sister's decadent look, I will lose my temper. If my sister was my brother, I might even slap her."

Lingyin nodded, "Kotori's way of comforting and soothing her is... a little special. So I think Shinren, who can understand her situation, is more suitable."

Reine was right. As a junior high school student, Kotori would naturally face numerous prejudices and difficulties as a commander in Ratatosk. If she didn't protect herself with such a thorny appearance, she would definitely collapse. So if Kotori tried to comfort him, the effect might not be very good.

"I understand."

"Finally, I want to tell you that Zea manipulated Franxinus's device to transform a room last night. I think it's for you."

"For me?"

Lingyin's words surprised Zhenlian a little. She immediately got up from the hospital bed and prepared to go and check the room prepared for her.

--split line--

Even though it was late at night, the things about Mana and Kurumi kept lingering in Shiori's mind, making it impossible for Shiori to sleep.

Shizhi got up from the bed, walked out of the bedroom, and prepared to go to the refrigerator to get some herbs to make a bowl of soothing soup for herself. But when she opened the refrigerator door, the scene in front of her made her wonder if she was dreaming.

“Hey hey hey! What’s going on?”

Inside the refrigerator was not the food I had bought before but a brightly lit laboratory!

Chapter 18 Key Recovery Work

What is going on? Why is there a strange laboratory inside my refrigerator?

Shizhi pinched his face hard. It hurt a lot. He was not dreaming.

Looking at the new world inside that was beyond his cognition, a few beads of sweat flowed down Shizhi's forehead, but he still bent down and went in to see what was going on.

This laboratory was not as dirty and dim as the villains' laboratories in the movies. Instead, it was well-lit and unusually clean.

There is a workbench in the middle of the laboratory. Several robotic arms extend from the ceiling above, and it can be seen that they are used for work on the workbench. On the computer screen are some densely packed codes that give people a headache just by looking at them, as well as several bottles of Lijiankang that have been finished.

[Is this... a key? There doesn't seem to be anything printed on it.]

Shizhi picked up the slightly familiar sublimation key on the unfamiliar workbench. However, this key was not the same fluorescent yellow as the sublimation locust, but bright red, and the clean body of the key also showed that it was only a semi-finished product.

Suddenly, Shizhi felt something cold pressing against the back of his head, and his whole body froze.

[It’s a gun! ]

"Put down the key and put your hands up!"

A strange and deep voice came from behind Shizhi. With a gun pointed at his head, Shizhi could only obey the gunman's command.

"Acting cute!"

"Eh?"

The command, whose content and voice were totally inconsistent, stunned Shiori. She even forgot her situation for a moment and wanted to turn around to see who had issued such a ridiculous order. However, the gunman did not give her this opportunity, but used the sound of the firing pin to remind Shiori of her current situation.

"Do you need me to repeat myself?"

"Oh, that... NicoNicoNi~?" Shiori could only be forced to do Yazawa Nico's signature cute pose as if he was doing business, and finally made a heart shape with his hands.

"Hahahahaha——!" The gunman behind him couldn't help but burst out laughing when he saw Shiori's appearance.

"That voice is!" Hearing this familiar voice, Shizhi finally knew who the guy behind him was. He turned around with a shy and angry look on his face, "Hiden Manren!"

A minute later

"It's just a harmless prank. You're too cruel..."

Zhenlian no longer had the arrogance he had a minute ago. He just sat on his work chair and sighed. The two red scratches on his face showed that he paid the price for his bad joke.

"Hmph!" Shiori also turned his head and snorted, which was rare. This also allowed Zhenlian to see the few similarities between the two sisters of the Gokawa family.

But instead of throwing a tantrum, Shiori has a lot more questions to ask Manren.

"Mare-kun, what's going on here? Why does the refrigerator at home lead to this strange studio?"

"That's what you're talking about." Shinren turned around in her work chair, seeming to like this studio very much. "Kotori told me that Zeya recently made a studio without permission, which is the one we are in now. Because it involves the key, it belongs to me. I set up a portal for Zeya's convenience. As for why it is a refrigerator, there is no other meaning. It is just a coincidence."

Manren was not lying. The teleportation location did not seem to be that precise. Before the refrigerator, the portal had been randomly set to under Tohka's bed, Yoshino's closet, bathing machine and even the toilet. In such a comparison, Manren chose the refrigerator.

"Mare-kun, are you making the key?"

Shiori picked up the big red key. In the past, she might never have dreamed that this small thing actually contained such powerful energy. Elves, Kamen Rider, AST and Ratatosk, there are still too many things in this world that Shiori doesn't know.

"Make it? I don't have that ability. I'm just a repairman, how can I make cheats by hand?"

Shinrei took the big red key from Shiori, and then took a pen-shaped tool on the table that was a bit like a soldering iron, pressed the switch and emitted a green laser. With Shinrei's quick operation, a simple buffalo was etched on the big red key, and then a line of standard English "Crushing Buffalo" was engraved.

"Crushing Buffalo? Is it crushing buffalo?" Shiori read out the English words on the key. Looking at Manre who was holding the key, Shiori felt that he knew too little about the boy. "Manre, what do you mean by repairing?"

"Literally. I don't know why I have the knowledge to repair these things." Zhenlian put the repaired crushed buffalo key back on the table, then opened the drawer, which contained five keys densely packed inside!

Shiori was stunned by the astonishing number of keys: "Blue whale, penguin, lion... plus the buffalo just now, there are a total of six! Zhenlian-kun, where did you get so many keys?"

"Where else can it come from? Of course it's Ratatosk. But it seems that Kotori doesn't know the origin of these things either." Manren shrugged helplessly. After all, he was just a maintenance worker.

"Hmm? There are still two that haven't been repaired yet."

Shizhi found two severely damaged keys on the workbench, one blue and one orange. Although they were severely damaged, it was not difficult to see the animals printed on them if you looked closely.

The blue one is the wolf and the orange one is the cheetah.

"These two are too badly damaged to be repaired. But thanks to these two as blueprints, I was able to repair them so quickly."

Shinrei picked up the two scrapped keys and said. At this time, Shiori noticed that when Shinrei talked about the two keys, a subtle sadness appeared on his face. This expression was only for a moment, and perhaps Shinrei himself did not realize it.

"Right! Let me show you this! The Authorized Destroyer. It may not be repaired yet, but its power is guaranteed!"

Zhenlian proudly took out a weapon that looked like a grenade launcher. The gun body was rectangular like a briefcase, and the caliber of the muzzle alone showed that this thing was quite powerful.

Zhenlian excitedly said that with this she could make up for the shortcoming of not having long-range means, and the situation in which she could only be used as a living target by Kurumi would definitely not happen again.

Hearing Manre mentioning Kurumi again, Shiori gradually became confused again: "Hey, Manre-kun. It may sound unpromising to say this, but I really don't know what to do about Kurumi's matter now..."

Hearing Shiori's words, Zhenlian stopped, and after thinking for a while, she did not give an answer, but asked Shiori: "Shiori, do you want to save Kurumi?"

"After all, I'm the only one who can save you..."