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

"Ah, as expected of a former AST member, Ms. Origami, your analysis is really good. She's much more capable than my slacking clones."

"Yeah, even the fans I mobilized haven't been able to find any traces yet."

Two elves, one silver and one bloody, walked out from the kitchen.

However, what concerned Origami was the traces of cream left at the corners of their mouths.

How come you two are cheating on each other even at this time?

"Tokisaki Kurumi and Yue...Miku, why are you two here too?"

Origami tried her best to ignore the fact that the two elves went to the kitchen to steal food, and asked them in a calm tone.

"That's really polite. After all, I'm an ally who saved the store manager's life. It's not surprising that I care about my companion's safety, right?"

"Well, Miss Kuang San said what I wanted to say."

Miku echoed Kurumi's words, nodding her head.

"Okay, let's go find Sister Yuan together. I have a bad feeling about this."

Having said that, two elves plus a Kamen Rider should not be completely powerless to fight back, right?

Origami thought to herself as she glanced at the belt around Allen's waist.

Chapter 203 The Lock in the Basement

It was a summer many years ago, just like any other, ordinary day.

Scarlet light flickered in the electronic prosthetic eyes, and from under the rust-covered mechanical body came the roar of the electronic devices and the radiator. The remaining half was different from the steel-cast part. It was a human body with flesh and blood, and the heart was still beating.

The pink hair is spread over the steel body, and the pupils, a blend of light gold and pink, exude an intoxicating color.

With the middle as the dividing line, machines and humans are completely cut into two parts, just like completely erasing half of a person's body from the world, and then filling the missing part with machines through technological means.

The bandaged hands gently pinched the withered flowers. The badly worn red mechanical device and four bottles were placed in the center of the flowers. As if commemorating someone, the "girl" half-knelt in front of the blooming flowers and stared blankly at the sky.

A half-human, half-machine monster.

If someone else who doesn't know the inside story saw this, they would definitely make such an evaluation, right?

Just standing next to her would make one feel physically uncomfortable. If the girl didn't wear a heavy robe to hide her figure, she probably wouldn't even be able to communicate with others.

But even so, there are still people willing to live with her and say good morning to her as their "sister" every morning.

——I feel happy every day. Am I doing well over there?

——Madoka...in that world after death.

Failed again.

Needless to say, losers have no need to find excuses for their failure.

It was her mistake that she failed to win over Shido Gokawa and the elves, and failure was only natural.

In the end, under the flower of death blooming high in the sky, only she and Madoka challenged Takamiya Mio.

——Click.

With the sound of the wooden door opening, the door of the confessional behind was opened, and a girl with long golden hair emerged from it, rubbing her eyes.

"Good morning, onee-sama."

——Hoshimiya Rokuko.

He was just out for a stroll, but ended up running into this distressed kid on the street. Even though they had a fight at first due to a misunderstanding over her appearance, after she won, Rokuko listened to what she said.

And he lived with her in this abandoned church. Through the windows whose glass had long been shattered, he could even see more than a dozen tombstones behind the church.

"Ah, good morning, Rokuko... Um, sorry, it took a little while to remember a friend. I'll make breakfast later."

Standing up shakily, Rokuko seemed to hear the wailing of aging mechanical parts.

"No need to force it."

"What nonsense are you talking about? As your guardian, it's only natural for me to take care of you, right? Well, although I may not be able to take care of you for too long..."

As she said this, a look of sadness appeared on the half of the girl's face that was still human, but that expression only lasted for a moment, so short that Rokuko felt it was just an illusion.

"In order to continue the future, I really have to use Kurumi's Eight Bullets..."

Under Rokuko's confused gaze, the thoughtful girl seemed to be muttering something.

"Well, let's not talk about that. Oh, by the way, it's time to comb my hair as usual. Damn, it's become like this in just one night. What will I do if I'm not with you in the future?"

Although she complained, the girl still did this thing that Rokuko looked forward to, just like her sister had done before.

The girl will help Rokuko tie his hair.

That’s all. The only simple care the girl can provide for Rokuko is three meals a day and combing his hair.

If there is anything else besides this, it is probably that the two of them climbed onto the roof of the church on a hot summer day, laid out plastic sheets in advance, slept on them, and looked up at the stars together.

However, as if he realized that there was something he had to do, today, while the girl was combing Rokuko's hair, Rokuko asked him a question he had been thinking about for a long time.

"Sister, why do you take such good care of Liu'er?"

"Why did you suddenly think of this, Rokuko?"

"I want to repay my sister, but...gifts and the like, but..."

I didn't know what to give. After all, Rokuko knew very little about human society, and he didn't even know the name of the sister who took him in.

"Who knows? I just simply hate seeing kids like you living on the streets."

To be precise, she was afraid that Rokuko, the human-shaped nuclear bomb, would explode on the spot. She suffered a lot when she encountered Rokuko in the past. God knows what she did or said to Rokuko after she went back to the past in the last week.

Reverse Rokuko and the like...that's a super scary existence.

In order to prevent her future self, that is, her in the next week, from making the same mistake, the girl cannot sit idly by and watch Rokuko wandering the streets.

"Rokuko! Asking for something in return is not love. Although I personally believe that if there is no mutual dependence and dedication, there is no real love, but I have to admit that there are many ways of "love" in this world that are completely contrary to my philosophy."

"I once had a lover who said this to me. She believed that love is the ability to give all your courage to the person you want to give to."

As the conversation stopped, Rokuko's messy hair was tied into three strands.

"The reason why I can stand here, ah, the reason why I met you, Rokuko, in this era..."

The girl's voice was trembling, but she finally kept these words deep in her heart.

——Just because of love, that's all.

No matter how many times you repeat it, you must achieve that goal.

Even in a desperate situation, I still wait and hope that my future self can go one step further until I reach the end.

......

Realizing this interruption was like having a very long dream.

When Rokuko woke up from her sleep, she was still in the abandoned church, but this time she was not upstairs, but in a basement built for some unknown reason. The elder sister, who had never allowed Rokuko to get close to her when she was alive, just warned Rokuko with a gloomy face. It is worth mentioning that her face was very red and she seemed to be very shy.

Moreover, she only came down every night to take some things out and throw them away. This was a scene that Rokuko accidentally saw when he got up to go to the bathroom at night one day.

After she "left", Rokuko finally had the chance to come to the basement, but she just looked at the chains on the wall and the dusty torture instruments piled in the corner in confusion, completely unable to understand why her sister would not allow her to come down.

After that, this place was still left idle by Rokuko.

But today, this place finally came in handy.

Looking at the unconscious pink-haired girl who was literally chained to the wall, Rokuko smiled innocently like a child who had received candy.

Chapter 204: Where are you touching, Rokuko?

Dark basement.

The only light was the flickering candlelight, but even so, the girl could easily make out her surroundings.

There were spider webs hanging from the ceiling that had not been cleaned for a long time.

Buried in the dust in the corner were a large number of torture instruments and bones stained with suspicious blood.

When she woke up, she was already here, her hands were tightly bound with shackles, and the collar around her neck was also chained to the wall.

I have absolutely no strength in my body.

It's not that this body was injected with strange drugs or cast with inexplicable magic limited to the butter world, it's just that it's simply dizzy and hungry because it hasn't eaten for a day.

After all, although it is a body of the Law of the Circle, it is essentially no different from a girl of the same age. The so-called "divine body" will also catch a cold due to the drop in temperature, will bleed when cutting vegetables, and will still feel hungry if you don't eat three meals a day. Similarly, humans also need the necessary sleep. It has all the characteristics that normal humans should have. If there is any difference, it is probably the inexplicable learning ability and memory.

When he was taking magic training in Germany, other magicians of the same period were still trying to fly using manifestation devices, but Tan had already started to perform fancy flying moves such as splits in the air and sidewinder maneuvers.

Of course, that is not something that belongs to a certain time traveler. If I have to describe it, it comes from the body's instinct. Simply put, it is the instinctive behavior of this body to absorb information and turn it into a passive skill.

However, even if she had a body that could be described as a genius template, she might as well be knocked out and taken away by the elf Rokuko?

The world of Date A Battle is like this: once you are endowed with a spirit crystal, you can instantly transform into a humanoid nuclear bomb, with at least the combat power to destroy a country.

In other words, in the world of most Japanese works, having good parents and being reborn with an SSS-level hidden bloodline is more effective than a hard-working supporting character training for more than ten years. Moreover, this is not an isolated phenomenon, but 80% of the protagonists have similar settings. Even the mainstream comics are mostly related.

"So, Rokuko, what exactly are you trying to do? You caught me, sealed my belt and black hole trigger, but you did nothing?"

"Huh, onee-sama, do you want Rokuko to do something weird?"

Rokuko touched his lips with his index finger and looked puzzledly at the girl who was hung up by chains with only her toes touching the ground.

"No! I'm just a little curious, that's all."

As an elf, or a girl chosen by Takamiya Mio, the source of all evil, she naturally cannot be ugly. Basically, every one of them is above the standard line, or even far exceeds it. However, Li Lin is already past the age of only looking at people's appearance. Compared with appearance, she cares more about an interesting soul rather than a good-looking appearance.

No matter how beautiful a thing is, if it is rotten and corrupt inside, in Li Lin's eyes it is nothing more than a pool of wriggling rotten meat.

Especially Takamiya Mio, she was so disgusting that she was even worse than the frog piss in the sewer. Li Lin even tried to let Artemisia or Alan go when he was waiting for Murasame Reion. The reason why he let her into the store was just because of his professional ethics that he greeted her with a smile.

"Curiosity? Sister is indeed the same sister that Liu'er knew. Curiosity is the greatest driving force for human progress. Of course, it is also the factor of human self-destruction. This is what you said to Liu'er back then, Sister."

With steps that Rokuko didn't recognize, he came to the girl's side, gently lifted her hair, and sniffed her carefully.

"Since it is Sister's question, then Liu'er naturally has no reason to hide it."

"If we only seal my sister's memory, some troublesome guys will come and disturb the world of two people between Liu'er and my sister. It would be better to deal with them instead of sealing my sister's memory. If Liu'er is the only one in the world who still remembers my sister, then you will have no other choice with nowhere to go, right?"

There was an innocent smile on Rokuko's face, but contrary to that smile were his extremely cruel words.

When will a person die?

Is it the extinction of life and body?

No, even if a person dies, the traces and memories she left in this world are still proof that she is still alive.

Only when a person is completely forgotten is he truly "dead".

What Rokuko is about to do is such a cruel thing. She plans to lock up the memories of everyone in the world who remembers Li Lin and make her something that belongs only to her.

"What did I teach you back then? Answer me, Rokuko, do you know how evil you are doing?!"

Even though Rokuko was rubbing his cheek and caressing his body affectionately, Li Lin still stared at this "sister" with disgust.

However, Rokuko did not feel confused or flustered by Li Lin's cold reaction. She maintained that pure smile without any malice.

Finally, Li Lin realized the key point he had overlooked.

And the "Li Lin" who came back from the future may have intentionally or unintentionally not conveyed this to Rokuko.

——Correct values.

To be precise, it is the three views and common sense that a normal human being should have.

You completely forgot to teach Rokuko, "I".

However, Li Lin couldn't rule out the possibility that his future self had been tricked once by his even more future self, so he deliberately tricked the present Li Lin again.

It’s all my fault anyway, so there’s no psychological pressure at all when I do the cheating.

Humans hurt each other all the time, not to mention hurting themselves.

It has been common sense since ancient times for me to be angry with myself. If you are unhappy, don't play.

Li Lin seemed to see his future self who looked exactly like him, standing right behind Rokuko, near the exit of the basement, staring at this side with a smile on his face.