Is there Kamen Rider 01 in Date Away?

"Eh?"

--split line--

October 10, Monday, 23pm. After a date with Yakuya in the morning, Shinren arrived at the meeting place that Origami had arranged - an empty alley.

The reason why they would arrange to meet here is either for illegal transactions or to silence people. If Zhenlian didn't have the golden ticket of immunity from death, he wouldn't dare to come here rashly to meet Origami.

Suddenly, Zhenlian heard a strange sound, and then what came into his sight was not origami but a silver metal can. The next second, a gas with a strange smell hissed out of the can.

It's hypnotic gas!

"What's up! It's terrible!" Zhen Lian covered her mouth and nose, but still inhaled a lot, and suddenly her whole body went limp.

Perhaps because Zhenlian is not a human, the hypnotic gas only temporarily made his legs and feet weak, but then Origami, wearing a gas mask, jumped up and rode on Zhenlian.

"Tobiichi, what are you doing..." Looking at Origami taking out a military dagger from her waist, Zhenlian squeezed out a few words from between her teeth, "Do you want to kill me?"

"I won't kill you. I'm just trying to ensure Shiori's safety."

"Huh? I won't harm Shiori."

"Bear with it, it will be fine soon."

As he said that, Origami began to untie Zhenlian's belt - this guy wanted to make Zhenlian a eunuch!

"Wait!" Zhen Lian shouted hurriedly, and then took out a photo, "Can this thing be exchanged for my brother's life?"

When Origami saw the photo in Zhenlian's hand, her eyes widened immediately - it was a photo of Shiori! And it was Shiori wearing a suspender swimsuit!

Although Origami has always had the habit of secretly taking photos of Shiori, and there are swimsuit photos of her, but even Origami only has ordinary swimsuits and the Sukusui version of Shiori, and there is no version of such a bold swimsuit.

Although Shiori’s face is blushing and shy in the photo, this expression is a plus for Origami!

"This... can you really give it to me?" Origami took the photo of Shiori in a swimsuit with trembling hands.

Seeing Origami's reaction, Shinren knew that her death-free ticket had worked. It turned out to be the right decision to have Shiori take a photo album overnight. Whether it was the costumes, poses, shooting angles, or lighting, they were all perfect. Even Shinren, the photographer, collected several of them.

Zhenlian immediately pressed the issue: "Not only that, I also have a complete set of Shiori's photo albums."

"I want to inspect the goods."

After taking the thick photo album and quickly flipping through a few pages, Origami's pupils began to tremble - cheongsam Shiori, cat-ear girl Shiori, cow suit Shiori, yukata Shiori...

Holy! This is holy!

Origami wiped the blood from his nose and said, "I want this photo album. Tell me, what's the price? Take off all your clothes and be your pet for a month, or give you 'Origami's one-month bathing ticket'?"

"How disgusting am I in your eyes?" Zhenlian rolled her eyes at the other party. Although the conditions offered by Origami were indeed very tempting and Zhenlian wanted to agree to them right away, Zhenlian's upper body was still stronger than his lower body.

"In exchange, go on a date with me this afternoon. And listen carefully to what I say."

"make a deal!"

Chapter 9 Two People Destined to Be Enemies

The sky to the west of Tiangong City has been dyed golden red by the fiery red sunset, which looks particularly beautiful. In the shrine of Tiangong City, the evening breeze blows through, causing the copper bells in the shrine to tinkle. The bells do not break the silent space, but instead highlight the tranquility of the moment.

At this time, Origami was sitting on the stone steps of the shrine taking a short rest. Looking at the full shopping bag beside her, Origami frowned - it contained cooking books, soybean flour bread, puppet costumes, the latest game cartridges from Huanmeng Company, the latest romance novels and Miku's latest album.

"Sorry for the long wait. You haven't opened the fortune stick you drew yet, right?" Zhenlian, who had just returned from the bathroom, came to Origami with a fortune stick.

"No." Origami replied briefly. Just now, Shinren had forced Origami to come to this very accurate shrine to draw lots, and said that it would only make sense if they opened them together, so she asked Origami to wait here for a while.

They both opened their lottery tickets at the same time, and they both frowned at the same time - their lottery tickets all had the word "very unlucky" written on them.

The fortune slip for Zhenlian reads:

[Very bad, the crackling black and red thunder will bring you misfortune.]

The origami fortune slip reads:

[Very bad luck. The past will cause you to fall into an abyss from which there is no escape.]

Although it's just a lottery, it is said that the lots at this shrine are extremely accurate, which will give people a more or less unpleasant feeling.

Regardless of what the ambiguous "black and red thunder" on Zhenlian's origami fortune meant, the content of the origami fortune made her, who had always been pursuing the purpose of revenge, very unhappy.

"Tsk." Origami clicked her tongue quietly and threw away the signature with inappropriate content written on it.

Zhen Lian also signed for it nonchalantly: "Superstition is really not advisable."

"Stop acting, Hiden Mare."

"Ok?"

Hearing Origami's sudden words, Zhenlian showed a puzzled expression. However, Origami was not fooled by Zhenlian, and continued to ask: "What is your purpose?"

Origami and Manren's date today was very ordinary. They first went for a stroll in the snack street, then went to the game hall to play games, went to see the latest romantic movie, watched the recording of the idol's concert on the big screen in Tiangong Square, and finally went to the shrine to draw lots.

Throughout the whole process, Origami felt something was wrong. The only thing wrong was that today's date was too normal.

Origami knew very well that it was impossible for Zhenlian to simply date her, and she must have other intentions.

Shinren didn't answer Origami's question, but asked a question in order to confirm Origami's authenticity: "By the way, Tobiichi. I remember you said before that you saw a Kamen Rider five years ago. What were his characteristics?"

Although Manrei's question was irrelevant, Origami answered truthfully: "A Kamen Rider who looks very similar to the Kamen Rider 01 you transformed into. To be more precise, a knight who looks very similar to 01's sublimated locust form."

[Correct answer. I can confirm it is not the Seven Sins.]

Zhenlian stretched and stood up: "You just asked me what my purpose is, right? What purpose can I have? I am a very vulgar person, I just simply want to date a white-haired beautiful girl."

"Don't give me that, Hiden Mana." Origami didn't buy it at all. Origami believed Mana was very clear about her feelings for Shiori, and a photo album of Shiori would allow Origami to do many things, even letting Origami take a bath with him, sleep with him, and play pet games.

But Zhenlian didn't.

Seeing that the attempt to deceive failed, Zhenlian shrugged and said, "I want to ask you, what we did today was normal, right? It was something that ordinary people would do, right?"

Origami nodded: "Yeah, that's undeniable."

Shinren seemed satisfied with Origami's answer, and continued, "Tohka is a frequent visitor to the snack street we went to before; Yoshino likes to take a walk in the shrine; Yakuya runs to the game hall every day after school; Yuzuru has been looking forward to the movie we just watched for a long time; Miku occasionally watches idol shows, although I think she might just be staring at the girls..."

Origami's eyes widened when she heard what Zhenlian said: "Wait..."

"Yes, this is Tohka and the others' daily life. It's exactly the same as ordinary people, right?"

Origami fell silent after hearing what Manrei said. Manrei didn't need to remind her. Just looking at Tohka, her classmate, she was just a cute girl with a little lack of common sense. Origami admitted that she almost forgot that Tohka was an elf Princess with an overall danger level of AAA.

Moreover, the young man in front of him was not a human but a quasi-elf, and he had defeated the strongest magician Allen Mira Mathers in the DEM raid not long ago.

Hearing what Zhenlian said, Origami frowned: "What do you want to say?"

"I'm just telling you that Tohka, Yoshino, Yakuya, Yui, Miku... and Kotori are not bad people by nature. They just want to live as ordinary people. I have investigated the fire in Amamiya City. There was an unregistered spirit at the scene. She is very likely the culprit who killed your parents."

"So you, or the organization behind you, will allow me to kill that unregistered elf?"

"..."

Impossible, Zhenlian knew this very well.

Witnessing her biological parents being killed by elves, it is impossible for Origami to let go of her hatred for elves. The possible endings facing Origami are nothing more than these: becoming a butcher who slaughters elves, dying at the hands of elves, not being able to seek revenge and dying with regret.

Neither ending is a good one.

"I won't advise you to give up your hatred or anything like that. After all, I still understand the principle of not advising others to do good without experiencing their suffering." Zhen Lian said silently, "I just want to say that if you really want to take action against Tohka and the others, you must get past me first."

That's right. Origami has her own obsession, and Zhenlian also has her own persistence, which is to protect the people she wants to protect.

When Origami heard what Zhenlian said, she did not show any shock, but was very calm, because that was Zhenlian's style.

"But remember to deal with me cleanly after killing me, otherwise Shiori will probably cry terribly." Manren smiled bitterly and made a hellish joke about his own death, then looked at Origami, "But on the other hand, if I win, I will ask Ratatosk to erase your memory of the elves and turn you back into an ordinary person."

Yes, erasing memory is the best solution that Zhen Lian can think of. Although it is very cruel and immoral to Origami, it is undeniably better than the previous endings.

It would be cruel to ask Origami to forget the death of her parents, so Shinren thought she had to do it herself.

The next second, the huge impact on Zhenlian's face caused his head to be knocked to the side.

Not surprisingly, Origami punched Shinren in the face. Shinren said nothing, but a stream of scarlet liquid flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"You're right." Origami trembled, squeezing out a few words from clenched teeth, "Hiden Shinren, you're right, maybe Yatogami Tohka and the others really don't have any bad intentions. But the existence of elves is wrong in itself. In order to prevent more people from experiencing the same tragedy as me, I will defeat not only the murderer who killed my parents, but all the elves!"

Origami raised her head and looked directly into Zhenlian's eyes, which radiated a cold light like metal: "I will defeat you as you wish."

Zhenlian wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said, "Me too, even if it's not for you, but to protect Shiori Tohka and the others, I will not lose."

After saying that, Origami turned around and left with a cold face, holding Shiori's photo album.

Looking at Origami's lonely figure in the sunset, Zhenlian couldn't help but sigh, and said to herself as if persuading herself: "This is the best. It's best for Origami to forget all this..."

Suddenly, as if an electric current flowed through Zhenlian's head, Zhenlian felt a sharp pain in her head.

"My... my head..." Zhen Lian covered her head in pain and fell to her knees. The huge pain made the world in Zhen Lian's eyes dark and upside down, gradually becoming blurred.

[It’s terrible, my consciousness is about to…]

——Perspective Change——

On the way back, Origami took out the raid sublimator and reconnaissance panda key and fell into deep thought.

This was given to her by Xun during the DEM raid in Jingshan City. The structure of this belt is very simple, and you can tell how to use it at a glance. As for the power of the sublimation key, Origami is very clear in her mind.

If you can really use this power well, maybe you can really have the power to fight against the elves.

Suddenly, Origami felt someone approaching him quickly. When he was about to fight back, his hands were clamped behind his back by the other person and he was pinned to the ground.

"Who are you..." Origami could only use the limited angle of her head to see the appearance of the person on top of her - he was wearing a black robe and her appearance could not be seen at all.

"Weak."

"what?"

"You are very weak. There is no way you can defeat Hiden Shinren now." Wang repeated, "I know you are very confused. Are you wondering whether to stand against Gokawa Shiori?"

"How is this possible!" Origami used her unlocking skills to break free from Wang's suppression, took out a pistol from her thigh bag under her skirt and prepared to shoot at Wang.

boom!

Wang kicked Origami's wrist, and the bullet deflected and hit the brick wall. The next second, Wang's fist hit Origami's lower abdomen directly, and the severe pain from the internal organs made Origami fall to the ground.

"So this is the only power of the magician that Ike has chosen?"

At the entrance of the alley, a girl with blonde hair approached Origami and Wang.

"Are you... Ellen Mathers?" Although the pain made the world a little blurry in Origami's eyes, she still saw the person clearly - the woman who was known as the strongest magician.

"DEM, why are you here?" Although Wang had her face covered, he could still feel that she was looking directly at Alan.

"Destruction Thunder, although Ike told me not to embarrass you. But if you dare to get in my way, I will definitely not show mercy." After saying this, Alan took out a laser dagger, "I have something to do with Tobiichi Origami, can you step aside for a while?"

"It doesn't matter. What you DEM want to do has nothing to do with me."

Suddenly, the death in Allen's sight disappeared as if he had teleported.

【So fast! 】

Allen looked for the trace of Wang vigilantly, but Wang's voice came from behind her. Allen turned her head and found that the other party had moved behind her without her knowing.

"No need to look for it. Although we have no grudges against each other, I still don't like you. Just consider this as a small, insignificant gift from me to you."

Origami saw it clearly. Two sharp claws extended from under the black robe on the arms of the dead man behind Alan. Then a whirlwind of snow rolled up and the whole person disappeared.

"Tsk, looks like a troublesome person." Allen just turned around, and all her clothes fell off like leaves blown by the autumn wind, breaking into neat strips of cloth. Now Allen was standing on the road wearing only underwear!

Allen's face immediately turned red: "You bastard——!"

In an unknown and deserted alley in Tiangong City, Alan's shameful roar echoed for a long time.

Chapter 10 A sudden inspiration

"Ugh... my head hurts..."

Shinlian opened her eyes blurrily, and saw the sky dyed red and golden. She sat up from the ground, shook her head, and found herself lying at the entrance of the shrine.

After confirming her location, Zhenlian shook her swollen head slightly.

"I remember that after Origami and I separated, I suddenly had a headache. Then I fainted..."

Zhenlian knocked his head in annoyance. Ever since being poisoned by Mie, Zhenlian always had occasional headaches or lost consciousness. Even Fraxinus could not find out what was wrong with Zhenlian's body.

I originally wanted to ask for a solution, but she really didn't know anything about it. She said that the only purpose of everything she did was to follow Ark's wishes.

Zhenlian scratched the back of her head in distress, then looked at her watch and took a deep breath - she was going to be late for her next date!

Without taking any time to think about why she fainted, Shinren ran straight to the next meeting place.