Masked Rider: Infinite Journey

"Sorry, I feel a little unwell. I'll be out for a while."

After Lan Guanghong left, Yuan Tai asked in a trembling voice: "Then do you know where the demon who killed my parents is?!"

Chapter 8: The Knights' Counterattack

In the bathhouse courtyard, Lan Guanghong sat silently on the steps, not saying a word for a long time.

He had no memory, but the remaining instinct in his brain told him that as a human being, he must never take the life of another person at will.

Even after becoming a Kamen Rider with overwhelming power, Blue Light Red always adhered to this bottom line. Just like the battle just now, Noah's soldiers had imprisoned and hurt him, but he never killed anyone in battle.

Therefore, when he learned from Irabu that the demons he had eliminated were actually transformed from innocent humans, a strong feeling of suffocation instantly surged into his heart.

At that moment, he felt that he was no longer a warrior wearing a mask to destroy demons, but an executioner covered in blood.

"Cough, cough!"

Lan Guanghong coughed dryly a few times and covered his mouth with his hand.

So sad!

"It's not your fault." Falia emerged from beside him, sat next to him and whispered comfortingly.

"Those people died when they transformed into demons. What you eliminated were just a group of walking corpses who only had the desire for destruction left."

"……Really?"

Lan Guanghong looked up at her, his eyes full of sadness and hope.

"Really? I'm a demon, and demons never lie!"

A translucent hand in a latex glove stroked the bluish-red cheek, and Falia smiled: "So, don't be sad."

"You didn't do anything wrong."

Blue light flashed with red eyes: "Devils can't lie, how do you prove it?"

"Hmm~, then I'll make an exception and allow you to ask me a difficult question. This time I'll answer it directly, so you know if I'm lying or not."

"But," she stretched out her index finger and swung it twice, "this is just once. If you ask me this kind of question again, I will refuse to answer it."

"Hmm." Lan Guanghong pondered for a moment and then said, "Then let me ask you, what kind of person am I in your heart?"

The seductive female demon answered without hesitation: "Tsundere, lazy, clumsy, erotic..."

"Stop!" Lan Guanghong shouted with a frown on his face.

"Are you sure this is about me?"

"Well, be confident, this is you!"

Blue light red: "..."

Falia covered her mouth with her fingertips and smiled very ladylikely: "But, you are strong and kind-hearted. I actually like you very much, sister~."

"Ugh~ so corny, stay away from me." Lan Guanghong waved his hands as if to drive him away.

"Look, here you go again, what a dishonest fellow!" Falia stood up, put her hands on her hips, and leaned forward. "According to what you said, tsundere men are not very pleasing. You could have been more frank with me."

"No!" Lan Guanghong turned his head and refused.

After learning that he was not killing anyone, Lan Guanghong untied the knot in his heart, and the man and the demon began to bicker with each other as usual.

But at this moment, Yuantai's roar and Xingshi's scream were suddenly heard from the house. Lan Guanghong's face changed, and he stood up and ran into the house.

"What's wrong?" he asked as he opened the door, and saw Yuantai with veins exposed all over his body, lying on the ground and screaming in pain.

"It's the rejection reaction of Kief's cells. If left alone, he will become an incomplete devil. We must send him to Noah for treatment as soon as possible!" said the tied-up Irabu with a serious expression.

Lan Guanghong glared at him: "Going to Noah? What on earth are you planning!"

"This is the only way to save him!" Irabu stared blankly at Lan Guanghong. "Besides, Dr. Karisaki, who's leading the experiment, has long been dissatisfied with the organization's practices. I'm confident I can convince him to help us!"

Hearing this, Lan Guanghong hesitated.

"Go!"

Before he could make a decision, Yukimi answered first.

She half-knelt on the ground, holding Yuan Tai in her arms while he was in pain, and said to Lan Guanghong, "I'm willing to take a gamble."

Aliangbu also looked sincere and nodded at him.

"Okay, I'll trust you this time!" Lan Guanghong reached out and tore off the hemp rope on his body: "Lead the way!"

……

Irabu borrowed a car from the road and drove away at full speed.

In the back seat, Xingshi was comforting the painful Yuantai, while Lan Guanghong was sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly resting with his eyes closed.

In fact, he was listening to Falia in secret.

"There's something wrong with the demon in Yuantai!"

"His demon hasn't manifested in the past two days, and I feel like there's a force in his body that's been suppressing the erosion of the demon cells, but it hasn't completely cured them."

"I suspect his demon did this on purpose!"

Lan Guanghong nodded imperceptibly to show that he understood.

His brain was working rapidly, and he began to analyze why the demon in Yuantai did this.

First of all, assuming that Yuantai’s demon is evil, then judging from the fact that he deliberately induced Yuantai’s deformation this time but then suppressed it, we can conclude that this demon is luring them back to Noah.

Secondly, the illusory demon is invisible to everyone except the host, but demons are an exception. Demons can see each other no matter what form they take, unless they hide in the host's body and do not come out.

So, why hasn’t Yuantai’s demon appeared in the past two days, and has been so low-key that everyone has ignored the existence of this guy. Is it because he is shy?

Definitely not, then the answer is obvious.

The devil doesn't want others to see his appearance, even Yuantai himself may not have seen it!

Combined with what Yuantai said yesterday when they were taking a bath, that his parents were killed by the devil, Lan Guanghong made a bold guess!

Hiss~, this demon is not just problematic, it's a huge problem!

Lan Guanghong didn't quite trust Irabu who was driving yet, so he took out his cell phone and typed out a text message and sent it.

The phone of Yukimi behind her rang, she opened it and read the message, her eyes immediately fixed!

"Shh." Lan Guanghong turned around and made a gesture to her to keep quiet.

Xingshi nodded, raised his phone to indicate that he had received the message and knew what to do.

Not long after, the vehicle arrived at the entrance of Noah's base. After Lan Guanghong got out of the car, he took out his belt without saying a word.

"Um...Araragi, you lead them to sneak in and find Dr. Karisaki. I'll draw the firepower of the armed forces."

"henshin!"

The blue light and red transformed at high speed, then leaped up and made a Showa sound.

"Taku!"

The Silver Knight flew into the third floor of the secret base. The next moment, the alarm sounded and artillery fire roared.

"..."

Irabe withdrew his hand that was trying to call out to Lan Guanghong to correct him for calling the wrong name, thought for a moment, turned around and said to Yukimi who was holding Genta's arm, "My name is Irabe, just call me Abe."

"Whatever your name is, now lead the way!"

"……Oh."

Chapter 9 The Real Devil

Beep~, beep~.

The shrill sound of an alarm echoed in the narrow corridor.

"So annoying." Lan Guanghong rubbed the armor beside his ear impatiently. "It keeps making so much noise. Are you trying to engrave it into my DNA?"

"Concentrate, there are more enemies coming."

Lan Guanghong looked at the large number of soldiers holding heavy equipment forming a defensive formation and curled his lips in disdain: "Hmph, a bunch of scum with a combat power of only 5. No matter how many more come, it's useless."

"Free fire!"

At the leader's command, all kinds of heavy weapons suddenly burst out with gunfire of different colors, and fierce firepower tilted towards the blue and red light.

However, such an attack, due to the excellent performance of the Bell Drive and Falia's unconditional energy supply, could not hurt Blue Light Red at all, and at most caused some hindrance to his progress.

Lan Guanghong pulled up his shawl to block in front of him and stepped forward to face this wave of enemies.

……

On the other side, because the blue light red attracted the enemy's large force, Abe, who was familiar with the structure here, successfully bypassed the surveillance and sneaked all the way to Dr. Karisaki Masumi with Genta and Yukimi.

The door was kicked open, and Karizaki was surprised to see three people suddenly breaking in.

"How could you guys..."

"The situation is urgent now, Dr. Karisaki!" Abe put away his pistol, and together with Yukimi, he supported Genta, who was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, and put him on the operating table.

When Karizaki Masumi saw this scene, he immediately understood what was happening. He tore off Genta's uniform and stuck a bunch of wires on his body.

The instrument started up, and Karisaki Masumi looked at the data displayed on the screen, shook his head regretfully and sighed.

"No, it's a serious rejection reaction. There's nothing I can do."

He paused and added, "The best way is to get rid of him before he turns into a demon."

"What did you say!" Yukimi pushed Abe who was blocking his way away and grabbed Karisaki's collar: "Are you saying you want to kill Genta?!"

"You used that devilish experiment to turn him into this, and now that you're done with it, are you going to kill him?"

Karisaki, who had long felt guilty about his evil deeds, could not utter a word with his lips trembling in the face of Yukimi's questioning.

"Answer me! You devil!"

"Calm down, Dr. Karisaki doesn't want this to happen either." Abe pulled Yukimi away and went up to persuade him, "Dr. Karisaki, you're in pain too, aren't you?"

"Commander Dongshan's actions have already crossed the bottom line of being a human. Your genius mind should not be used to conduct such a devilish experiment. Please use your talents for... Genta, for humanity!"

Masumi Karisaki looked at Abe with a sincere expression and Yukimi with tears in his eyes, and finally looked at Genta lying on the operating table and nodded slightly.

"If I want to save him, I have only one way."

"That is……"

……

"Falia, don't you think it's a bit unprofitable to come all the way here to fight just a bunch of these soldiers?"

"I agree. I also think we should do a big one."

"Well, let's tear down this devil's den while we're at it. It's a happy decision!"

Ever since learning that those demons were transformed from humans, Lan Guanghong decided not to escape anymore.

Treating ordinary people as experimental subjects and killing them at will has crossed his moral red line. In his opinion, people who can do such things and think it is justified are not worthy of being human beings. Such people are demons that must be exorcised!

Lan Guanghong randomly picked a lucky wounded soldier from among the wailing soldiers on the ground, held his collar with one hand and asked, "Where is your highest commander?"

The soldier turned his head away stubbornly, pretending to be determined to die rather than surrender.

"Okay, I like tough guys like you!" Lan Guanghong gave him a thumbs up, then raised his foot to pick up an electric baton, reached out to catch it, and threw it away with a snap.

He pointed the electric baton at the soldier's chest, and the blue arc crackled. "Will you tell me?"

The soldier remained silent.

Lan Guanghong moved the electric baton down and pointed it at three inches below his abdomen.

"you say……"

"Chief Dongshan is in the third-to-last office on the east side of the seventh floor. He's the one wearing a black suit and a blue tie, with brown hair and a sour face."

"You're smart!" Lan Guanghong put the man down and threw away the electric baton, which hit another lucky injured person.

“Yo hoo hoo…”