The story we started

[“It’s okay~ After all, there has been no news about those monsters for almost a month. They may have been dealt with by the No. 4 and Officer Kosaka we met before. It will be fine.”]

[“Yeah, you’re still considering it, right? Xiaolu.”]

[Kinbuki, who was holding a piece of chocolate cake, said worriedly without even bothering to wipe the cream off the corner of his mouth.]

【Hirasawa Yui chews bread with a (?????) look on her face: “?”】

[“It’s okay, don’t worry! Even if those monsters are still alive, they haven’t appeared for such a long time. It’s impossible for them to appear just when we go there, right? How can it be such a coincidence!”]

[Taizhong Ritsu confidently patted his chest with his right hand, which was flatter than his best friend's, and took a bite of the tiramisu in his left hand.]

[“What about Xiao Mio? She probably won’t agree with us doing this. How are you going to convince her, Xiao Lu?”]

[“Jie jie jie——”]

[In response to the question "Kotobuki?", Tianzhong Ritsu suddenly laughed like the protagonist in the recently popular fantasy comedy "Battle Emperor", and said with a sinister expression like an ancient county official. ]

[“Why do we need to ask for Mio’s consent? Let’s just get on the bus first and buy the ticket later. Then we can lie to her and say we’re going on a self-driving tour to Kyoto. Let your driver disguise himself. By the time we reach the destination, the matter will have been settled! Mio can’t run away even if she wants to. She will have to obey me obediently! Hehehe~”]

【Qinfu?: “…”】

[Nakano Azusa: "..."]

【Hirasawa Yui: “(??????)???”】

Unidentified life form No. 4 from the future: "Uh..."

A certain future police officer Kosaka: "...6."

"Although the purpose is good, how can we describe this behavior... standing on the stage to perform a play with flags all over the back?"

Shizuka Hiratsuka rubbed her numb eyebrows and complained speechlessly.

"To explain it in modern terms, this behavior is called flaggling, and it happened when those Gurongis committed crimes again... This is not called helping a friend overcome his trauma, this is called murder, and by the way, suicide."

Hikigaya Hachiman also sharply criticized Tianzhong Ritsu who made this decision in the light curtain.

"I feel that this girl has the potential to be the second generation of Liu Jinjinjin, and is expected to inherit his legacy."

"Who is that? Hachiman, that doesn't sound like the name of a neighboring country, with three repeated characters? Or is she a Japanese with the last name Liu Jin?"

This unheard-of name made Zaimokuza scratch his head, his face full of confusion.

"There is a former internet celebrity in a neighboring country. The most famous incident was that he teamed up with a dog to plot the murder of his best friend. It seems that even his personal image has been made into a bathroom carpet over there. I heard that it sells quite well."

Akiyama family.

"Xiao Lu!!!"

Unlike her initial ignorance, Akiyama Mio received a call from her parents after the video ended. After hearing their explanation, she already knew that the beautiful black-haired sister in the video was actually her future self.

After seeing her good friend actually harming her in the future, she had tears in her eyes and grabbed Tian Zhongli's neck and shook him wildly. The other party, like herself on the light screen, was also shaken and had afterimages and his eyes rolled back. Because it was too much of a déjà vu, people could not tell which side was the reality.

"I-I was wrong--I was wrong--forgive me--Xiao--Miao--!"

Tianzhong Ritsu's wails echoed throughout the house, sounding like the cry of a monkey.

【At the same time, in an abandoned factory somewhere. 】

[In a hidden room in the factory, old newspapers are scattered all over the unpaved floor.]

[And if you look closely, the front page headlines of those newspapers are all about reports on unconfirmed life forms. ]

[“You can’t be wrong, this era is…”]

[A clear and inexplicably animal-like voice echoed in the room. A figure sat by the window holding a stack of newspapers. The discarded cardboard that blocked the window was illuminated by the window, and the thin black figure with long hair below was also highlighted.]

[The helmet was taken off and placed beside her right foot, with her long hair still hanging down. The mysterious woman, who was a woman, looked at the headline on the newspaper with her mouth open and her eyes a little dull.]

["The unconfirmed life form number 22 is the end of the world, the 4th chapter is the surprise of the power!". 】

[Under the capitalized title, there is a high-definition picture - a red warrior with flames all over his body leaps up and somersaults, kicking the strong weirdo with rhino horns below him. Flames gather from all directions to the bottom of his feet into a red fireball, illuminating the whole world.]

[“This is the legendary——”]

[“Kamen Rider… the era where ‘Kuuga’ is from!?”]

14. The Node of Destiny/Behind the Responsibility 9 in K

[“If, if I can get his help, then maybe I can…!”]

[Looking at the news in the newspaper, the mysterious woman could not hide her excitement and held up the instrument she had disassembled for repair. 700txt.com]

[“Please, please don’t let the information query center break down!”]

"Is this person the suspected time traveler from before? And she's actually a girl?"

Zaimokuza outside the light curtain was a little surprised. He was very concerned about this character who had appeared before, but he didn't expect him to appear again so soon.

"Now it seems that the premise of 'suspected' can be discarded. This person is indeed a genuine time traveler, and based on what she said, she should be from the future."

"And it will be a future even more distant than the future shown on this screen a few years from now!"

"Traveling through time and space... I never thought that the future would actually develop this kind of technology that only exists in science fiction movies."

Hikigaya Hachiman said this with deep eyes, his heart was filled with turmoil that was difficult to calm down.

Although he doesn't care about changing his miserable past, when the technology of traveling through time and space is really confirmed, who can really remain calm?

This is traveling through time and space! Traveling through time and space! ! ! ?

The power that countless people in this world dream of is now truly displayed in front of everyone through the light curtain.

"While it is indeed shocking that time-travel technology really exists, there is one thing that concerns me even more."

Yukinoshita Yukino smoothed the surprise in her eyes and turned to notice another noteworthy point in the words of this time traveler.

"This person from the future, she calls the future Zaimokuza-san... the legendary Kamen Rider Kuuga?"

"Kuga's name is a homophone of Zaimokuza-san's transformation into a warrior, but could the prefix Kamen Rider be a name or codename given to him by people in the future?"

"Kamen Rider...Kuga?"

As he whispered this name, the light in Zaimokuza's eyes grew brighter and brighter, like a model artist seeing a life-size Gundam figure.

Hikigaya Hachiman, who was standing by, saw his expression. He knew very well what kind of person Zaimokuza Yoshiteru was, so he turned around silently and covered his ears with his hands under the puzzled look of Yukinoshita Yukino.

The next second, excited shouts resounded throughout the health room, startling even those who were eavesdropping outside the health room.

"Cool! Kamen Rider Kuuga, this name is so cool!!!!"

"You're so noisy, you gay bunny! This is the health room, keep your voice down!"

[“Is the information query center still operational?”]

[The mysterious woman opened her mouth and shouted at the instrument, and the instrument, which had been silent, lit up after hearing her voice, and the light from the lit screen illuminated her pair of moist chestnut eyes.]

[Beep. 】

[The lighted instrument screen projects a light screen in the air in front of her. On the light screen is a rotating hour hand with the loading progress displayed in the center.]

[59%...85%...100%. 】

[“Voiceprint confirmation passed, activation begins.”]

[“Confirming——3, 2, 1.”]

[An inorganic female voice sounded, and every time the second counted down, the woman, or girl, became more and more nervous, and a pair of hands wrapped in gloves clenched into small fists.]

[“Confirmation completed, the information query center is operating normally.”]

[“That’s great!”]

[For the first time, the girl felt that the female voice in the instrument, which she had always thought to be inhuman, was so gentle and kind at this moment that she almost cried with joy.]

[“A-level authority verification, searching for information, fake, all the information about Kamen Rider Kuuga!”]

[The value of intelligence has a lifespan.]

[In the girl's time, many pieces of information that are now considered top secret have lost their inherent value over the course of time. A similar example is the method of making nuclear bombs. This top secret intelligence from World War II has basically gone from having the power to change the entire era to worthless waste paper in modern times.]

[But there are exceptions to this. Even time cannot completely erase its original value. Just like the question she is looking up at this moment, at least a certain level of authority is required.]

[In the girl's organization, these intelligences that require A-level or higher permissions to query all have such value without exception. The senior people in the organization call this intelligence:]

【The node of destiny.】

[As the name suggests, this information represents the key nodes in human history. If we use the human body as an analogy, it represents the most important organs such as the “five internal organs and six bowels”.]

[In the future with time-travel technology, the protection of this information is of paramount importance. Once it is discovered and used by someone with ulterior motives, the consequences will be disastrous.]

[And for the human history of this era, the information the girl is looking up at this moment has such value. 】

[——That is all the information about the unconfirmed life form No. 4, and even his true identity.]

[“A-level authorization verification passed, query begins.”]

[“Keywords: 'Kamen Rider Kuuga'.”]

[“Error! Error! Insufficient member permissions. The permissions required to search for intelligence are S-level!”]

[“How could this happen… That’s right!”]

[The girl, who was originally full of excitement, suddenly became stiff after hearing the prompt from the instrument. The atmosphere around her became extremely lost, like a rabbit that couldn't find its home.]

[Just when she was about to despair, the girl suddenly remembered something. ]

[Before I set out, my superior, who I had only contacted through instruments and had never met, sent me an encrypted message with a key and a sentence.]

[——If you encounter urgent information that is beyond your authority, use this password. It can only be used once.]

[“If it’s that key…will it work?”]

[The girl whispered hesitantly. After all, even A-level authority cannot query this information, so it is estimated that only the legendary S-level authority can do it.]

[But does her boss, whom she has never met, really have such authority? She is very skeptical about this.]

[But in the end, the desire to go home still overcame her wavering heart. The girl bit her lip and tried her best to input the key she had memorized before into the light screen in front of her.]

[——And the result was far beyond her expectations.]

【Di-】

[“Ah!?”]

[Just after the girl entered the password, the instrument in her hand made a loud sound and vibrated, frightening her so much that she threw the instrument to the ground with a scream.]

【“Key loaded—Verification passed.”】

[“Authorization verification: S-level.”]

[“S, s!? Is this really S-level authority!?”]

[The girl was almost stunned by the sound of the instrument, and her mouth opened so wide that she could almost swallow an egg.]

[“Information query passed——Kamen Rider Kuuga.”]

[Just as the girl was still in shock, a large "pass" appeared on the screen projected by the instrument, and then it switched to the information interface she had searched for.]

[A clearly pigmented head photo appears on the screen, reflected in the girl's eyes.]

[“Is this person… Kuuga, the unidentified life form number four?”]

[Looking at the photo on the screen, the girl's mumbling echoed in the empty building except for her.]

……

【Tokyo City, a tributary of Tokyo Bay. 】

【11:39 a.m】

[After venting her shame and anger, Akiyama Mio, feeling exhausted physically and mentally, put Tianzhong Ritsu, who rolled her eyes, back to her seat, and looked sideways at the river and high-rise buildings in the distance outside the window in a trance.]

[Although she was tricked by the light music club led by her best friend, there was one thing Akiyama Mio did not tell them, that is, she had already decided to come to Tokyo again. ]

[But I didn’t come with a group, I came alone secretly. 】

[In the past few months, Akiyama Mio has been recovering from psychological trauma under the guidance of a psychologist. One of the methods is to listen to the other party's advice and recall the good things to fight against the shadow left by the horrible experience. ]

[And the more he recalled his experience of being attacked by the unidentified life form No. 6, the image of another figure became clearer in his mind.]

[That was the red warrior who appeared in time and saved him when he was about to die at the hands of No. 6.]

[During the past few months of treatment, Akiyama Mio has been following the situation in Tokyo through various channels, and has long known what kind of existence the warrior in red armor who saved her was. ]

[Unconfirmed life form, number four.]