The story we started

[Looking at the burned face of Zai Mokuza on the surveillance camera, and the faint blood seeping from the collar below, Ebina Hime couldn't help but sigh, and said with a tone of heartache and helplessness. ]

[“Your current injuries are not much better than Kousaka-kun’s. Even if you have strong recovery abilities, you can’t waste your body like this.”]

[“Don’t always care about others and ignore yourself. If you get hurt, there will be people who will feel sorry for you. Don’t think that no one will worry about you…”]

【"Fool."】

……

[“Interesting. I didn’t expect Lin Duo to be able to make something like this?”]

[Somewhere in Tokyo, Baruba, wearing a white gauze dress, stood at the top of the roof. The strong wind from the high building blew her clothes, which were blown tightly to her body, revealing her graceful curves like the distant mountains in spring.]

[She looked at the endless high-rise buildings in her field of vision, and her eyes became excited as if she saw something interesting.]

[“…What should we do with the weapon that Rindo created? Should it be counted as a special target in the game like Kuuga?”]

[A low, hoarse voice came from behind her, and a man wearing thick black silk clothes, a white scarf around his neck, and holding a black abacus in his arms walked slowly to Baruba, his brown eyes hidden by his hair looking in the same direction as hers.]

[“That’s pretty good, isn’t it? After all, the Lindo of this era can use their own civilization to create their own ‘warriors’. According to the rules of ‘Kikiru’, the Lindo warrior who uses this weapon will also be eligible to participate in the game.”]

[“What do you think? Ra-dorudo-gu.”]

[“…I have no objection.”]

[Baruba said to the man beside her without turning her head, and the man she called Dorudo was silent for a while, and then gave his answer in a cold voice.]

"ra-dorudo-gu? Gurongi with the second prefix "ra"?"

The name that Baruba said attracted the attention of many people in reality. When they noticed that the prefix of this new Gurongi was the same as hers, "RA", they couldn't help but take a second look at the seemingly ordinary man in the light curtain.

After all, among all the Gurongi that have appeared so far, the one with the prefix "ra" has a ra-baruba-de that appeared before. And based on her slightly transcendent status among the unidentified life forms and her responsibility of preparing for the game but never participating in it, everyone speculates that she should be a person similar to a referee.

There is no need to say much about her strength, whether it was her single-handedly injuring No.6 who had once defeated Zaimokuza in human form, or her record of brutally torturing the leader of the "zu" group, even the stronger "me" group were in awe of her, and the bloodthirsty No.23 did not dare to make the slightest move that would overstep the line in front of her.

All of these things show how terrifying and powerful the Gurongi with the prefix "RA" are. According to the analysis and inference of many people based on the footage of Baruba's attack, their strength is far greater than all the unconfirmed life forms that have appeared so far. It is estimated that only the "GO" group, which has been known to exist since the beginning of the story but is still shrouded in mystery, can be compared with them.

Kyoto, Kitauji High School.

"Mr. Zaimokuza and Mr. Kousaka, it's already difficult enough for the two of them to deal with the current unconfirmed life forms. Do they have to fight such an unfathomable enemy in the end? It's really hard work."

As Nozomi Usagi looked at the new enemy that appeared on the light screen, she couldn't help but mourn and pray for "Yoshiki Zaimokuza" and "Kousaka Kyosuke", who were the main fighting forces of the human side.

"…Although I am a useless person and cannot help you in any way, I will at least cheer for you."

She glanced at the golden flute mouthpiece that was stuffed into her backpack and exposed through the unzipped rip, and a hint of sadness flashed across her eyes.

[“…Since we have decided to include this Lindo warrior in the game rules, do we need to change the rules?”]

[“After all, based on the strength he showed in this game, except for those few, most of the ‘me’s’ are no match for him. In addition to Kuuga, should we change the future games to two people in a group? This way, it will be easier to match the number.”]

【"unnecessary."】

[Faced with Dorudo's proposal, Baruba dismissed it lightly. ]

[“After all, according to the process, there are only a few ‘me’ games left, and then it’s ‘go’s’ turn, so there’s no need to change the rules of the game.”]

[“Although the combination of Kuuga and Go is undoubtedly an invincible opponent for ‘Me’, if their strength is only as good as what they have shown so far, then it is just right for the players of ‘Go’… No, maybe the difficulty is still too low.”]

[“So we will continue with the current game rules, but we will change the game score for Kuuga. Now Kuuga and Go will share the same score. Only by defeating them together can we get the special target score of the game. If we only defeat one of them, it will be considered a failure.”]

[“Remember, dorudo.”]

[Baruba turned his gaze to look at Dorudo beside him. His pair of eyes with rose-red corners were like an ancient well sealed for many years, without any emotion in them.]

[“This ‘Kikiru’ is to select players who are capable of advancing to the ‘Game of White and Darkness’, and what ‘He’ expects is an opponent who can reach the ‘ultimate’ realm on his own, rather than a fake selected by teaming up.”]

[“In his eyes, even among those players who ‘go’, only a few have the possibility of advancing to the next level. The rest are just nutrients provided to Kuuga and the winners. However, if a player who can exceed expectations appears, ‘He’ will also be happy.”]

[“So the game doesn’t need to be lowered in difficulty. Even now, I think that once the players who ‘go’ start the game, they can’t be stopped by Kuuga alone. It would be too easy to advance, and the players selected in this way would be too weak. So I’m also thinking about how to solve this problem.”]

[“And now, Lin Duo has given us the answer.”]

[She turned back to look at the tall buildings in the distance again, and the irises of her brown eyes suddenly turned golden.]

[At this moment, Baruba's sight went beyond the continuous high-rise buildings and the countless crowds of people blocking his way, and he saw everything that happened on the river bank.]

[Looking at the unconscious Kousaka Kyosuke and Zaimokuza beside him, her eyes narrowed slightly, and the light in her eyes faded back to its original color under the cover of her eyelashes.]

[“Kuuga and Go, a pair of ‘warriors’, will be the best whetstones for the ‘Go’ group. They may also defeat all the ‘Go’s’ and finally come before ‘Him’ to become the strongest opponent.”]

[“As for the remaining guys who failed to advance?”]

[“The last ‘be’ was cleaned up the day before Biran started the game… Do you think ‘He’ would care about that kind of waste whose strength has no future?”]

【"……learn."】

【Faced with the answer given by Baruba, Dorudo was silent for a while, and finally responded in a low voice. 】

[It turned and walked back, and as a gust of wind carrying sand and dust passed by, its figure disappeared above the building.]

……

【Tokyo City, near a tributary of Tokyo Bay. 】

【“…”】

[Looking through the telescope at GO's helmet being taken off, the girl put down the telescope with a numb expression, revealing Kousaka Kyosuke's handsome features, which showed a sense of determination and unyielding even when he was unconscious.]

【Snapped! 】

[She suddenly slapped herself without holding back, leaving a small red slap mark on her pretty face that was only the size of a palm.]

[“Hmm, it doesn’t hurt? Hey, hey, hey?”]

[The girl who was covering her cheek while talking on the phone suddenly laughed foolishly, with a sense of extreme collapse and despair in her voice.]

[“Sure enough, I must be dreaming, otherwise how could I see Kousaka Kyousuke as the one wearing armor? Yes! This must be the case.”]

[The girl was smiling as she spoke, but this smile somehow gave people the feeling that she was crying.]

[She raised her right hand with the instrument in a shaky motion, and spoke to the instrument on her arm with a smile on her face.]

[“Then, let’s check again.”]

[“S-level authority verification, search for information, all information about Kamen Rider Kuuga.”]

[——"S-level authority verification passed, query begins."]

[——"Keyword: 'Kamen Rider Kuuga'."]

[——"Start query——Query ends, screen projection."]

【Di-】

[After the instrument on the arm lights up red, a screen is projected in the air in front of the girl, showing all the information about Kuuga that she had searched for last time.]

[The smiling girl read the whole thing from top to bottom at a glance. When she saw the last line of words, the smile on her face was still there, but it was strangely frozen and empty.]

[She looked up again at the photo with a resolute expression on her face at the top, and then looked at the line of words at the bottom. Tears gradually seeped out of the corners of her eyes that were narrowed into crescents.]

【“…Oh, so I’m not dreaming.”】

[After the words fell, the atmosphere in this corner suddenly became dead silent, which made people feel creepy for no apparent reason.]

[“——Uwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!”]

【"Meow!?"】

[After an unknown amount of time, a loud wailing sound came from the corner, scaring a black cat passing by on the eaves so much that it missed a step and fell down.]

[“Wuwuwuwu! What the hell is going on? Where on earth have I come to?!”]

[“I want to go home! Uwaa ...

[In a dark corner, a girl curled up against the wall, rubbing her eyes and crying. The sincerity of her cry was enough to make the listeners cry. The grief and despair in it made the listeners empathize with her and couldn't help crying. Then they wondered what happened to the owner of this cry that made her so sad.]

[On the interface projected in front of the girl, three lines of text were displayed at the bottom. Each stroke of the text was neat and powerful, as sharp as a knife.]

[Code name: Kamen Rider Kuuga.]

【Human body gender: male.】

【Name: Kyosuke Kosaka.】

30. Who started the story? Two in one

Chiba Prefecture, Sobu High School, Health Center. bookzun.com

"……what?"

At this moment, everyone's pupils were reflecting the last line of "Name: Kousaka Kyosuke" on the interface on the light screen. They all felt that the line of white font was so dazzling, absurd, and even funny.

In the next moment, everyone shifted their gaze to Zaimokuza in the front. All kinds of colors appeared in his eyes, flashing and disappearing into the depths of his pupils.

At this moment, Zaimokuza's expression as he was watching the light curtain was also very interesting. He looked at the line of text with a dazed look in his eyes, feeling as if he had not woken up from a dream.

It was not a sweet dream, nor was it a nightmare. It was just a weird dream that was so absurd that it made people neither laugh nor cry.

"What exactly is going on?"

His murmurs represented the doubts rising in the hearts of everyone here, and they also eagerly hoped to get the answer to this scene.

According to the information revealed by the light curtain before, the girl's origin is known to be from a future more distant than that of "Yoshiki Zaimokuza" and "Kousaka Kyosuke". So it makes sense in theory that she has information about major events that are about to happen in that future. After all, the scene in the light curtain is the "future" for them now, but for the girl it is the distant "past" before she was born.

Therefore, many people have prepared themselves in their hearts that they would not be surprised even if they heard some shocking information from this girl later. After all, it is an "established fact" that has been confirmed in the distant future. For observers outside the light curtain, it is like listening to the director holding the script telling them spoilers.

But now the information revealed by this "director" still far exceeded everyone's expectations.

Especially Zaimokuza Yoshiteru and Kousaka Kyosuke, who were the parties involved, were deeply shocked.

"According to the information from the future in the hands of this girl, everything that happened in the time and space where I am in the future is extremely different from what she knows, but..."

Zaimokuza looked at the line of words and his eyes gradually began to widen, almost popping out of his sockets.

“If the source of the information in her hand is reliable, then… that means the person who originally wore the spiritual stone belt called ‘Yamadam’ on that day and transformed into Kuuga to fight those unidentified life forms was not my future self, but——”

"——The real transformer is 'me'?"

Kyosuke Kousaka stared at the line of font that displayed his name, and his mind felt blank.

Now there was only one thought in his mind - it was a mess.

It's messed up, everything is messed up.

Ever since that video and this light curtain appeared one after another, they have had countless questions and have been waiting for this light curtain to give them answers to these confusions.

At the beginning of the video and the screen, the dilapidated Tokyo is shown. What happened in the future between the time when "Kousaka Kyousuke" and "Zaimokuza Yoshiki" teamed up to defeat No. 22 and this period of time? Is it confirmed that all life forms have been annihilated? Why did Tokyo burn into such a dilapidated state?

——And is the protagonist of this "story", Zaimokuza Yoshiteru, dead or alive in the end?

They had originally expected that this light curtain would be able to answer this series of questions for everyone, but as time passed, not only did these doubts not show any sign of being resolved, but more new doubts continued to increase as the story progressed, and the truth became increasingly distant.

This makes all the characters that appear in the two projections feel as if they are in a maze shrouded in fog. They seem to be running towards the finish line, but in fact they are just going around in circles in vain, and will never know where the exit that represents the truth and the answer is.

Especially the information disclosed by the light curtain this time, it directly put a black curtain on top of the fog again, covering the last bit of light, leaving everyone with only pitch-black darkness ahead without any glimmer of light to guide the direction.

Kyosuke Kousaka felt this even more clearly, and there was even an inexplicable sense of horror surging up from the depths of his heart, making him shiver uncontrollably.

Since in the history of this girl who came from the future, the original Kamen Rider Kuuga was Kyosuke Kousaka, why is it Yoshiki Zaimokuza now?

What kind of changes have occurred in the meantime that have led to such a huge deviation?

He couldn't help but have the illusion that he was like a young child in a dark forest, running in panic but unable to find the way out.

And in the darkness of the surrounding woods that was imperceptible to the naked eye, there were countless pairs of cold eyes staring at him, their pupils bloodshot and cold, like a brutal and bloodthirsty predator staring at a piece of food that had broken into its hunting ground.

"This is really... far beyond my expectations."

In the unnamed pure white land, Xu Guoliang, who was sitting on a chair, was also watching this scene on the screen, his brows deeply furrowed, his pupils moving around as he thought.

In order to gain more power of faith, he turned off the previous video and chose to compose the "story" with a more magical projection light screen. The result was very impressive, and the power flowing into his body was more than several times more than before.

As expected, humans are a group of creatures who will only sincerely believe in the "gods" that they used to disdain, only when a miracle that is truly beyond their comprehension appears before them.

Just like the primitive people in ancient times who bowed down to the lightning wood that was ignited by the thunder, no matter how much time has passed, human beings either fear like a tiger or have a fanatical reverence that is the opposite of fear towards things that are beyond their understanding.

But at this moment, compared with the gradually increasing physical strength, Xu Guoliang cared more about the "story" that was embodied by himself. Now a corner of the truth was finally revealed in front of him.

"Although I realized something was wrong at the beginning, I just had to make the best of it at that time, so I didn't think too much about it."

"But I have to admit that this intelligence still exceeds my expectations and confirms some of my speculations."

Xu Guoliang pushed the glasses on his nose, stroked his smooth chin with his fingers, and muttered to himself.

"At the beginning, my original choice for Kamen Rider Kuuga was Hikigaya Hachiman, but later on, by mistake, I chose Zaimokuza Yoshiki, so I subconsciously attributed all the strangeness and incongruity I felt to the wrong choice at the beginning, and turned a blind eye to it."