I, Madoka Kaname, am just a Kamen Rider passing by

If Artemisia saw correctly, her boss was snoring... But at this moment, it would be better to describe it as a girl's light snoring, right?

It's still snoring, but if you change the way you say it, it suddenly becomes more elegant and noble. After all, this is a privilege that only beautiful girls have.

Her boss was really sleeping defenselessly. It was not a disguise. She would only let down her guard when she subconsciously believed that the environment was safe. When she was still in DEM, even when she was asleep, her body was always alert to the surroundings.

Artemisia was almost shot in the shoulder by Tanya when she woke her up late at night to handle an urgent mission.

Thinking of this, Artemisia let out a long breath and turned her gaze back to the girl.

——Takamiya Mana.

He was captured by DEM Club 30 years ago and turned into an old popsicle. He was only freed from the ice in recent years. After being brainwashed and bewitched, he is now working as a magician for DEM Club.

He is a senior who is in the same situation as my future self.

However, Artemisia did not show any flaws on her face.

As a former member of the British anti-elf force and a soldier, Artemisia has received strict professional training and will never laugh no matter what happens...

Unless you can't help it.

Until now, she still remembered vividly the image of her instructor, a silly muscle brother named Joestar, who was in charge of her, with screaming bandanas all over his body, wearing women's clothes, rolling on the ground, posing in "seductive" postures and flexing his muscles.

As a price to pay, Artemisia and another young magician from Africa had their training load tripled, and were limited to completing it within one day.

"So... you found my unconscious store manager near the Tiangong Tower, and you sent her back?"

If there were no flaws in Artemisia's memory, she would remember that her boss should have gone to Tiangong Tower to meet Kurumi by holding Niya's collar.

Now that he has been brought back by Mana, I guess something unexpected must have happened along the way, right?

But based on Mana's calm attitude and kind eyes, Artemisia felt that she was really just sending the "unconscious" (sleeping) store manager back.

Mana Takamiya did not discover the secret about this store and Faust.

Artemisia thought so and took her hand off the hilt of the lightsaber at her waist. She shrugged helplessly, as if she was used to this situation.

Seeing this, Mana tilted her head curiously and asked softly, "Is the store manager always like this?"

"Yeah, this guy often says he's going out to play, and then he disappears. Today was no exception. He just said he was going to the market to buy some food, but he disappeared for the whole day. I'm considering whether to call the police."

"Is the store manager really just going out to the market today?"

Inexplicably, Mana lowered his head and asked this strange question, but Artemisia still replied in a complaining tone: "Yes, you push the work of the store to me all day long. You are such a headache. What's wrong?"

The tone is perfect, the vocals are perfect, the emphasis is perfect.

The combination of these three perfectly highlights the character that Artemisia has been building for a long time.

Artemisia continued to maintain the image of a wage earner who was troubled by her troublesome boss, and Mana just stared at her quietly. His inorganic eyes made people inadvertently think of a certain obscene origami master.

"Uh um... ahem, nothing much, I'll leave her to you from now on."

Artemisia took the pink-haired ball from Mana's hand, and at this moment, from an angle that Mana couldn't see, she winked at Artemisia playfully.

——This guy has been pretending to sleep from the beginning!

……

"Sure enough, in the end, am I just overthinking it?"

Staring at the two figures until they completely disappeared, Mana rubbed his sore eyes.

Although she subconsciously felt that the store manager might have some connection with the elves that she didn't know about, Mana was willing to believe it. She didn't want to doubt the store manager who had shown kindness to her.

After all, it was the store manager who told her about the current home address and situation of Mana Takamiya's brother, Shido Gokawa.

"Well, let's go back. The door should be open for me."

Answers to the many questions that Shidou might ask, such as where Mana lives, what she does, and whether she's in school, all need to be prepared in advance.

Honestly speaking, Mana's current job as a magus is something she can't openly talk about. Even if she did, it would cause trouble to her brother who is just an ordinary person.

Mana has no memory of the past, and even the information about her brother was analyzed from the faded old photo embedded in her arms.

In a sense, it was also thanks to Nightmare, or should I call her Tokisaki Kurumi.

If it wasn't for chasing her, Zhenna would probably have had a hard time getting the chance to go to Tiangong City on vacation to look for his relatives.

There are some expectations.

A reunion with my elder brother.

By tomorrow morning, everything will be clear, including my past, former identity, and former friends.

However, what she didn't know was that this brother was not that "brother".

For Somiya Mana.

Gokawa Shido is just an individual who has a similar face and the same genes as Soumiya Shinshi, but is not the same individual.

When two people have the same face, the same genes, and the same memories, can they be considered the same person?

Unfortunately.

That will not work.

Even if the same body is replicated and infused with the same memories, it is nothing but a fake fabricated in vain.

However, even if she knows the final result, Mio still won't give up, right?

People only have one life, and Chongmiya Shinshi is no exception.

Trying to bring the dead back to reality is a futile act.

Just as Mana turned the corner, she accidentally caught a glimpse of two girls with long pink hair and silver-purple hair respectively walking out of a convenience store on the street. The one with pink hair kept "scolding" the other, but the girl being "scolded" just seemed to be enjoying it, which gave Mana, who was watching, a sense of déjà vu.

Does that pink-haired ball over there look familiar?

"They probably just look similar... Yeah, probably."

After all, there are seven billion people in the world, so it is not impossible that some of them look alike.

"However, with that temperament and figure, it is difficult to distinguish him from the store manager just from a distance."

Chapter 171 Come on, Miss Mana!

Itsuka Shido.

He is a student at Raizen Metropolitan High School, and is dating two girls, Tobiichi Origami and Yatogami Tohka. According to the testimony provided by his best friend Hiroto Tenmachi, he seems to be a lolita complex, because many people who know Shidao have said that they have seen him taking the two lolis to the amusement park.

A scumbag man who is dating five women, three of whom are underage girls, and the Gokawa harem.

The above is the information Mana learned about her brother from Homura Akemi and Madoka Kaname. Her visit to the Gokawa family this time was not only to meet with her brother and ask him to answer her questions, but also to fulfill her responsibility as a sister and bring Shidou, who was heading towards the path of a scumbag and there was no return, back on track.

Correcting her brother is not only her duty and responsibility as a younger sister, but also her right.

Come on, Miss Mana.

We can’t just sit back and watch our brother about to violate Japanese criminal law.

Gently pressing the doorbell, Mana took a deep breath.

To be honest, she was a little nervous, but also extremely excited. It was impossible for her to not be happy to meet and get to know her blood relatives, and she could feel the resonance between them.

Just based on this sense of connection that can be understood even through the wall, Shinna can conclude that Shidou is her brother.

Click.

With the sound of the mechanism popping open, the door of the Gokawa family slowly opened.

"Onii-sama...wait, who are you?!"

The person who emerged from behind the door was not Shidou, who was smiling gently and kindly as Mana had imagined, but a girl wearing an apron who looked two sizes bigger than Mana.

Apart from the fact that there are no teardrop moles at the corners of their eyes, their long flowing blue hair is let down, and their front armor is much fuller than that of Gangbanzhen, the two of them are simply cast from the same mold, and there is no sense of incongruity in saying that they are sisters.

Facing Mana's question, the blue-haired girl showed a troubled look.

When I was cooking early in the morning, an unfamiliar child suddenly rang the doorbell and asked loudly who I was. Did Shizhi have to report to others that he was cooking for the elves in his own home?

Moreover, the title of "Brother" is retro and stereotyped, quite like the style of thirty years ago... What's wrong with you, little sister?

However, given that Shiori's own memories before being adopted by the Gokawa family were also very vague, she had no way to directly deny the fact that Mana might be her sister. What's more, the two looked too similar, and the throbbing feeling from the blood in her body also made Shiori hesitate.

Anyway, it would be better to try to ask the other party's purpose first, right?

"Um, this is the Gokawa family, who are you looking for?"

"Yeah, of course I know this is the Gokawa family. Ah, how rude. I'm really sorry for not reporting my name right away. My name is Takamiya Mana, and I'm Gokawa Shido's biological sister."

——Takamiya Mana.

It’s the same surname again. The sports watch in Shiori’s hand also says 1987, Takamiya.

Hmm, I have a headache.

The moment Mana said that last name, fragments of memory flashed before his eyes, and a vague scene of snow and blood suddenly appeared in Shiori's mind, like a pulse running through the brain, countless electric currents passing through the circuits formed by nerves stimulating the memories blocked deep in the brain, but all this happened in just a few tenths of a second, so Mana did not notice Shiori's abnormality.

"What's wrong? Is there something strange stuck on my face?"

Noticing that Shiori was staring straight at his face, Mana scratched his cheek feeling somewhat at a loss.

"No, nothing. This is not the place to talk. Come in first."

Your own biological sister?

Although Shiori still doesn't know whether the other party's words are true or not, because of the resonance between blood, she is willing to give Mana a chance. If everything is as true as what Mana said now, then isn't this an opportunity to find out Shidao's true identity and the identity of his parents?

There's nothing to lose anyway, so why not give it a try?

At this moment, a complaining voice sounded from behind Shiori. Kotori, who had abandoned her innocent and cowardly white headband and always remained in commander mode, walked out of the living room curiously, "You're so slow, sister, what are you doing? If you're selling something, just chase her away. If the family needs anything, just tell Reine or Kannazuki. After all..." They in Ratatosk lack everything except money.

Every month, they just help to compensate for the damage caused by the elves and Tohka's food expenses. No matter which of the two is taken out separately, it is a huge amount that ordinary people cannot pay. But for the wealthy Ratatoskr, it is not a problem at all. After all, they are the only two manifestation device manufacturers in the world. With a near monopoly, Ratatoskr cannot be short of money.

Although doing so might be suspected of misappropriation of public funds, the attitude of the top leaders of the Round Table Council was that as long as Flaxinus could produce sufficient results, they would turn a blind eye. After all, there was no need to delve into such matters.

"Wow? He doesn't look like an ordinary salesman. Really, uncles are no longer acceptable these days. Do these rubbish companies that sell cheap goods choose to hire underage girls to maintain their sales? They are really unscrupulous."

Kotori, a junior high school student, resolutely ignored the fact that she was essentially an underage girl hired by Ratatoskr, and sighed with her hand on her forehead in a mature tone that did not match her appearance.

"I'm not a salesman. I'm Shido Gokawa's blood-related sister! In other words, my real sister!"

"what?!"

Hearing this, Kotori quickly turned her head towards Shiori, but Shiori just nodded silently, agreeing with Mana's statement.

This courage to speak frankly is indeed very much like Shidou.

......

"Hey, Lin, are you hiding something from me? You've been acting strange lately, always absent-minded. Miss Lingyin has complained about the coffee we brewed several times... Although the taste is great for ordinary customers who can't appreciate "black hole" coffee."

Only the coffee that Li Lin brews absent-mindedly has a taste that ordinary people can enjoy. Once she gets serious and injects soul into the coffee, only Murasame Reine can enjoy the mystery of the black hole.

Holding her chin with one hand, Xiaoyuan raised her eyebrows as she looked at the pink-haired girl playing with seafood pasta with a fork.

"Ahahahaha, how is that possible? I'm just in a period of burnout. It's the May Sickness that's postponed to July. That's fine. By the way, how are things going at school? The final exams should be coming up soon, right?"

Li Lin changed the subject in a clumsy and blunt way.

"..."

Sure enough, this idiot is hiding something from me again, and it's very important.

Needless to say, the tacit understanding cultivated over the years made it easy for Xiaoyuan to understand Li Lin's inner thoughts.

Chapter 172: Stepsister and Real Sister

On this morning, a week before the start of summer vacation, Shiori finally understood something.

——Shido Gokawa is a man with a story.

emmmmm...I seem to be Gokawa Shido.

Shidou is not a child of the Gokawa family, but an adopted son. In simple terms, if that was really Shidou's biological sister, then Shidou's surname should have been Takamiya, which is the surname written on the sports watch in his hand, but what about the so-called 1987?

Is it a reference to the year? Or is it a code for some device? Well... Generally speaking, for a special effects movie like Kamen Rider, there should be other upgrade or evolution parts. At least Shiori saw three electronic watches of different colors fixed on the arm of Woz that Akemi Homura turned into, but since there is no other watch on hand to compare with it, all this is just Shiori's guess.

And the biggest problem is that his memory is unclear. Apart from the fact that he was adopted by the Gokawa family, even his impression of the fire in Tiangong City five years ago is very vague. In layman's terms, there is a partial loss of memory.