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[When Zaimokuza was puzzled, the voice that made him feel inexplicably sad continued to speak, with pleading and hope in the voice.]

[——"You will no longer be yourself."]

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「——"Before everything becomes irreversible, before you are turned into a ＃￥＃￥＃*＆——!"」

[The anxious female voice suddenly became disordered and disorganized, like a computer with a faulty program, and Zaimokuza also felt that his right fist, which had been caught, had regained its mobility.]

[But just when I came to my senses, I saw Biran's body flying close to me. ]

【“!”】

[Subconsciously, Zaimokuza swung his fist as usual, and a blow as bright as the sun hit Biran's back, knocking it flying vertically away again.]

[“Hmmmm!!!!!!”]

[The violent and scorching power of the fire element burst out from Zaimokuza's fist, turning into a fireball that sent Biran flying into the air. Its body flew toward the river bank with a shrill scream.]

[“What the hell!?”]

【When the screams of pain sounded, Zaimokuza realized something was wrong and turned to look at the girls standing on the river bank, his heart filled with fear.】

[Because the biran caught in the fireball is flying towards them! ]

[——Damn it! I attacked in the wrong direction because I was distracted!]

[“Click!”]

【Zaimokuza, realizing he had gotten into trouble, gritted his teeth, immediately bent his knees and lowered his body. The flames on his body suddenly became more intense and fierce, and the temperature of his entire body rose rapidly.】

[The rapidly rising body temperature seemed to ignite Zaimokuza's entire body. The fire element burned the fat, muscles, and protein in his body, and transformed it into a powerful force that spread to his limbs and bones. The surface of his body suddenly expanded, and hot sparks burst out from the soles of his feet! ]

【boom! 】

[The uplifted footsteps caused the concrete beneath his feet to crack, leaving two red footprints on the spot, and then the red body turned into a red meteor and rushed towards the shore. The air along the way was disturbed by the high temperature of his body, and the scene became distorted and chaotic.]

[“Aa ...

[When the members of the light music club on the shore saw the terrifying No. 23 flying towards them, they couldn't help but scream and fell to the ground hugging each other.]

[Just when Biran was about to fly in front of them, Zaimokuza, who was surrounded by flames, rushed to the front of the girls at an incomparable speed. With his red compound eyes, he looked at the unidentified life form that he was hitting in front of him, and his right foot kicked in the air with a red wave of fire! ]

【"drink!"】

[Just like intercepting a football, Zaimokuza's heavy kick landed on Biran's body with a roar, and the shock wave changed its flying trajectory from horizontal to vertical.]

[“——Kuuga ...

[After being hit again, Biran screamed in extreme pain and was carried high into the sky by the fireball on his chest.]

【--boom!!!】

[After it flew to a height of about 100 meters, the fireball formed by the powerful fire element on its chest suddenly shrank inwards, and then rapidly expanded in the next moment, swallowing up Biran's body and the surrounding space! ]

[The surface of this tributary of Tokyo Bay was instantly illuminated by a strong light, and a huge red fireball bloomed above the river, expanding at an extremely fast speed from a few meters at the beginning to a volume of about tens of meters.]

[Looking down from above, it was as if a sun had appeared out of nowhere above this tributary, the light was so bright that it was hard to open one's eyes, and even the water in the river below had risen a few degrees due to the temperature of the fireball.]

[As time passed, the fireball stopped expanding and slowly rolled back towards the center of the explosion. Finally, after being compressed to its limit, it turned into a red ripple that swept in all directions...]

……

【"Woo..."】

[Akiyama Mio, who fell to the ground hugging her childhood sweetheart, closed her eyes tightly. She felt the dark scene in front of her eyes suddenly become bright and dazzling, and the temperature around her also rose to a somewhat unbearable level, but the temperature and brightness gradually dropped afterwards. ]

【"Hahaha……"】

[But the imagined pain never came, only a heavy gasp echoed in my ears. ]

[This made the three girls lying on the ground realize that something was wrong, and they opened their eyes in confusion and anxiety.]

[Three pairs of irises of different colors reflected a red figure standing in front of them. The figure's body was shaking and curls of white steam were rising up. It condensed in the air for a long time without dispersing, proving how high the temperature of the steam was.]

[As they looked over, the last trace of flame on Zaimokuza's body also extinguished in the air, and he also exited the elemental awakening mode and turned back to his normal omnipotent form.]

【Looking at his back, Akiyama Mio was stunned. 】

[This familiar scene touched her memory, and the girl subconsciously recalled the unforgettable day a few months ago. ]

[This figure is exactly the same as the one that has appeared in Mio Akiyama's dreams over the past few months. He is tall and majestic. Just by looking at his broad back, a sincere sense of security gradually fills her heart.]

[And she would always wake up from the nightmare by saying the name of this figure, just like in the dream, and the soft sunlight shining on the bed sheet in front of her would dispel all the haze.]

【“Number…four?”】

[Taizhong Ritsu, who was in the middle of the three people, looked at Zaimokuza who was shaking all over, blinked his eyes with tears in the corners of his eyes, and said hesitantly. ]

【"Well……"】

[At the same time as she spoke, Zaimokuza finally reached his limit. ]

[Amid the exclamations of several girls behind him, he leaned forward and knelt on the ground, his palms resting on the grass that had been burned yellow by the intense heat of the fire.]

【"Hello!?"】

[“Ah, ah, ah!? You, you’re okay—”]

[The three girls who saw this scene screamed in panic.]

[But he stopped talking before he finished, and stared at Zaimokuza in front of him in amazement.]

[——Everything that happened before their eyes completely shattered their understanding of the unconfirmed life form No. 4, as well as their previous three views.]

【Om—】

[In the reflection of Akiyama Mio's shrinking pupils and irises, the red figure dissipated into red stardust with a faint and strange humming sound, and turned into a white-haired figure wearing a brown windbreaker.]

[Unidentified Lifeform No. 4, he changed from a "weird guy" to a "human" right in front of them, just like the prince in a fairy tale who breaks the spell and turns from a frog back to his original form.]

【"……ha?"】

[Her brain was completely frozen by this scene, and she felt that she was completely unable to think at the moment. She could only woodenly obey human instinct and make doubtful sounds from her mouth.]

[The reactions of Ritsu Tainaka and Yui Hirasawa were not much better. Compared to the more reserved Mio Akiyama, their eyes became small and their cherry mouths opened into bloody mouths that could swallow a goose egg.]

[“Haha… That’s what I should be asking.”]

[Zaimokuza turned his head with difficulty to look at the three stunned girls behind him. His face, which was almost peeled off by the high temperature, smiled very dryly a few times, but the severe pain from the burns all over his body caused his whole face to twitch, making his expression look more like a grin than a smile.]

[“Sorry, the attack just now accidentally hit you. Uh…are you okay?”]

[He looked at the completely dazed faces of the three members of the light music club and asked hesitantly.]

【"well?"】

[The three girls blinked their eyes in unison, and then gradually widened their eyes after coming back to their senses. The leader, Tian Zhongli, almost stared out of her eye sockets, with fine bloodshot veins climbing from the edge of her eyeballs to the center of her pupils, and her expression was extremely artistic.]

【“Hey hey hey hey hey!? You you you you you, you are actually a human!!!?”】

……

[“Who is that person! What the hell is going on!?”]

[Just when the light music club saw Zaimokuza's true face and fell into confusion, there was another person in the distance whose mind was even more confused than theirs, almost reaching the level of insanity.]

[The telescope slipped from the hands of the girl hiding behind the electric pole. The sound of it falling to the ground brought her back to her senses. She hurriedly picked it up again and held it in front of her eyes.]

[Looking through the telescope at the strange face of Zaimokuza who turned back on the distant riverbank, her pair of moist chestnut eyes were blankly fixed, like a coward who had gone insane after watching a horror movie.]

[“Not only is there the person who was not mentioned in the data before, but also the reason why ‘Gramm’, who was supposed to have made his first official appearance in the battle with Unidentified Lifeform No. 24, showed up now, and—”]

[“…Who on earth is this person??? Why does he look so different from the photo of Kuuga’s human form in the file!?”]

[What is going on? Why are the things that happened in this battle so contrary to the information I have? It can even be said that there is no similarity at all? ]

[It's a mess, it's all a mess! The girl with a splitting headache couldn't help but put her hand on her forehead, and her eyes began to spin in circles. She felt that the CPU in her brain was overloaded and had a burning smell, which represented a danger signal.]

[The girl was dumbfounded when Kousaka Kyosuke appeared wearing the G-series weapons. She rubbed her eyes red with her fists to confirm that it was not an illusion.]

[But before she could figure out what was going on with this person who had never appeared in the information and the armor, Graham, who appeared later, gave her a heavy blow, causing the girl to go black and want to faint.]

[What's going on here! Why would Gram, who should still be sleeping in the ruins of Kuroyama in Nagano Prefecture, appear at this point in time? He even intervened in the battle between Kuuga and No. 23? There's no record of this at all in the data! ]

[But compared to the scene that is now appearing, the people and events that were not recorded in the data before are just trivial matters and are nothing at all. ]

[——Because now even the most important person to ask for help on this trip, the Kamen Rider Kuuga's transformer, has a problem! That person's appearance is completely different from the photo I saw before! Where did that strange white-haired man come from! ? ]

[This can no longer be fooled by the universal excuse of "there is a slight error between the historical data and reality", right? The difference is so great that we can go to court and sue the author of the data for making up and distorting history! ]

[Although she thought so, the girl knew in her heart that the information could not be wrong.]

[Because the information I was looking for was written into the organization's confidential history classification. The files that can be classified as confidential have been verified thousands of times and can only be put in after being confirmed to be correct. They represent the most authentic original texts of all the key nodes in human history, without any modification or modification.]

[But if even data of this level can be wrong, then this situation cannot be simply dismissed as "serious".]

[Because this means that there is a traitor in the highest decision-making level of the organization, or even...]

[When she thought of the most terrifying possibility, the girl's petite body couldn't help but tremble. ]

[Because this may even indicate that there is a huge problem in the entire history of mankind so far! ]

[So rather than the information being wrong, the girl would rather believe that it was her own eyes that were confused because of traveling through time and space, which caused hallucinations when she was looking at the information, and confused the date of the information and the main characters of the event.]

[“Take another look. Maybe I really was wrong?”]

[With this ostrich mentality in mind, the girl trembled as she raised the telescope to her eyes again and continued to look in the direction of Zaimokuza and others. ]

【“——”】

[But the scene she saw through the telescope this time froze the girl's expression, and her eyes became empty.]

[She kept holding the telescope and looking into the distance, without changing her posture for a long time, like an exquisite stone statue carved by an art master based on a real person.]

……

[“Hmm…!”]

【"Hey! Are you okay? How are you injured?!"

[Zaimokuza tried hard to stand up, but eventually fell forward due to lack of strength.]

[Today, just like the last time he faced No. 22, he activated the element awakening mode three times. His body had long been as weak as an old man who was about to run out of energy. He had no strength at all.]

[When they saw Zaimokuza staggering and about to fall, the girls from the light music club finally came to their senses, and quickly stood up and ran over to hold him up.]

[But when Tianzhong Ritsu, who was holding his arm, just opened her mouth, she saw the severe burns on Zaimokuza's neck and face and the blood flowing from the wounds, and the words she wanted to say were immediately stuck in her throat.]

[“Woo!”]

[Akiyama Mio, who was holding Zaimokuza's other arm, also saw the horrific injury. She was always timid and afraid of bloody things, so she was frightened and closed her eyes tightly and turned her head to the side.]

[“Big Brother, you are seriously injured!? Bandages! Where are the bandages!?”]

[Among the three, only Hirasawa Yui, who was the most nervous, was not afraid, but she was also very panicked when she saw the wound on Zaimokuza's body that was constantly oozing blood and staining his clothes red. He raised his arms but didn't know what to do, and his face, which still had baby fat, was full of panic. ]

[“Don’t worry, I’m fine… um.”]

【Looking at the three girls in front of him with different panic expressions and the same worry in their eyes, Zaimokuza smiled weakly and spoke softly while enduring the pain. 】

[“How can you be okay? You’re already injured like this! Just for, just to… protect us.”]

[Taizhong Ritsu immediately put the shocking news that "Unconfirmed Lifeform No. 4 is human" behind her, looking at the seriously injured Zaimokuza in front of her, and remembering his previous actions to protect her group, the tomboy who had always behaved very boyishly actually became a little choked up, and her bright big eyes slowly began to moisten. ]

[“Don’t worry, I’m really fine. This level of injury will heal in about a day for me.”]

【“One day? Really?”】

[After hearing what he said, Tian Zhongli, who was deeply remorseful, suddenly widened his eyes and whispered in astonishment. ]

[“Ah? My body is a little different from normal people, so I recover faster! Just like what my boss said before - oh! I remember, it was "The vitality of a fool is stronger than the most tenacious cockroach in the world"! ”]

[“Puchi! What is that… They are just making fun of you.”]

[After hearing what Zaimokuza said, Akiyama Mio, who was also feeling a little sad, couldn't help but turn her sorrow into joy and burst into laughter, with tears flowing from the corners of her eyes with long eyelashes.]

[“Well, what the Minister said was always right. I am indeed an idiot…hiss.”]

[Zaimokuza said this with his usual cheerful smile, but he couldn't help but twitch at the end of his words.]

[…Um, are you——an unidentified life form, or a human?]

[Akiyama Mio looked at Zaimokuza's face with a smile on her face, and after thinking of everything she had seen before, she couldn't help but ask.]