My youth story cannot be a knight war

In the boys' dormitory of Advanced Training High School, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka, who was sitting on a chair, narrowed his eyes suddenly when he heard Gooma's words on the screen.

This sentence was the final word on his previous guess, completely confirming Ayanokouji's guess.

"Sure enough, there are more than one 'N' Group Gurongi like Zero!"

Ayanokouji tapped his fingers on the desk, making a crisp sound, and looked thoughtfully at the notebook he had opened on the side.

It happened to be the page belonging to Kuuga, and at the very bottom was a line of words:

"Through Yukinoshita Yukino's discovery, it has been confirmed that Warrior Kuuga and Gurongi are of the same kind. Gurongi's rank system should be applicable. Considering the previous Kuuga's performance in the memories passed down by Zaimokuza Yoshiki's Yamadam belt, it is tentatively assumed that he is at the same rank as the unidentified life form No. 0—'N'."

It now seems that the word "temporarily" in the above paragraph should be crossed out.

According to the speculation of "Yukinoshita Yukino", those Gurongi should regard Kuuga as their own kind. For these monsters, the current human view of family is completely different from theirs. Perhaps the connection between blood is not important, what is important is the source of one's own power.

Although it is unclear whether Kuuga is a replica of Zero, the spiritual stone at the core of its power is the same as the source of Gurongi's power, which is now basically certain.

And considering all the Gurongi's attitudes and various behaviors towards Kuuga, he should be another "N" besides Zero - specifically referring to the previous generation of Kuuga. Ayanokouji is skeptical whether "Yoshiki Zaimokuza", who is the current Kuuga, has the ability to become "N" again.

"And Number Three said it wanted to become the fourth 'N' of the Gurongi clan... If we don't rule out the possibility that it's too low-ranking to know certain secrets, then that means there were originally at least three Gurongi in the 'N' group!"

"There's another 'N'. Besides Kuuga and Zero, the Gurongi clan has at least one other being of the same level who can rival them!"

The fingers tapping on the desk stopped, Ayanokouji took the notebook, flipped through it quickly, and stopped at a certain page.

He looked at a certain sentence recorded on the full page of information and muttered to himself.

"Could it be you...?"

"Those whose lives are corrupted will inevitably become its apostles. The chief of the apostles is 'Golden Darkness', the apostle who controls disease and disaster, and is also the first apostle."

Ayanokouji's fingers stroked the record he had written, especially the last four words "First Apostle". His brain, known as the greatest masterpiece of the White Room, began to work rapidly.

——According to the information implied by Number Three's words, Number Zero, whose real name was Daguba, was not originally a member of the "N" Group, but became the new "N" after defeating the previous "N".

Only after defeating the previous "N" can one become the new "N"... In other words, the Gurongi hierarchy should be very similar to the system of the feudal era in Eastern countries. There is only one supreme ruler allowed within the race, and there can only be one "king", instead of using a ruling model based on a "council of elders" like in the feudal era of Western countries.

And only after defeating the previous 'N' could one become the new 'N' - Ayanokouji, who was good at playing word games, subconsciously felt that this process might have a deeper meaning.

Only one 'N' can exist at a time. Does this refer to a simple hierarchy, or does the power of 'N' literally only allow one Gurongi to possess it?

If the "Golden Darkness" recorded as the first Angel in the "Alpha Obelisk" is really the "N" Group Gurongi before Zero... where would it be now?

Dead? Ayanokouji shook his head, not wanting to make a conclusion so easily.

Although the Gurongi clan should only allow one "N" to exist, this does not necessarily mean that the current "N" must kill the previous "N". After all, the logic of these monsters is different from that of humans. The winner of a power struggle will of course choose to kill the loser, but this is a decision based on the desire for power and fear of retaliation. This is not necessarily the case for the Gurongi who have no such worldly desires.

Compared to death, Ayanokouji prefers another possibility.

"The third 'N'..."

"Could it be that it is also sealed?"

38. The truth of the story (4k)

An unnamed pure white land.

Or it can be called the center of the world, the realm of gods, heaven...any name is fine, in short, this is what people generally call the place where gods live.

But unlike the image of the classic Christian God that many people imagine, who is dressed in a white robe, sits on a rattan chair, has a white beard and kind eyes, and is surrounded by countless beautiful angels, the God here is just a bespectacled otaku, a poor guy who is homeless to some extent and has been sentenced to a suspended death sentence, and can only try his best to save himself.

And now, this 'god' who didn't look like a god was sitting cross-legged on a futon, with his upper body leaning on a concrete furnace of fallen nations. He reached out and took a senbei from the plate of senbei on the stove and started to gnaw on it. His eyes behind the glasses were like a dead fish. While he ate the senbei until the crumbs were all over the table, he reached his other hand into his pants and scratched his itchy buttocks... A thick, homely aura that had become tangible filled the air, like canned pickled herrings, which was unbearable to look at.

Once a homebody, always a homebody. Even if he could pretend to be serious, his true colors would be exposed after just three minutes. In this place where only one person existed, Xu Guoliang persisted for a short while before choosing to let himself go and do whatever he felt comfortable with.

If Christians knew their gods were so depraved, would they suffer a mental breakdown, tear up their scriptures, and then burn themselves to death? Xu Guoliang would often muse on these occasions, transforming his imagined despair into a gluttonous feast, devouring a mountain of barbecue he had conjured up, and each time, he found it incredibly delicious.

"Exactly...even this demon is here?"

Xu Guoliang looked at the Gooma lying on the ground, struggling and babbling a lot of key information on the exclusive four-meter square light screen in front of him. He looked thoughtful and bit the round rice cracker in his hand, leaving a clear tooth mark.

"Those whose lives are eroded will inevitably become its apostles. The chief of the apostles is 'Golden Darkness', the apostle who controls disease and disaster, and is also the first apostle."

Previously, in the previous chapter of Light Curtain, when I saw "Yukinoshita Yukino" translate this sentence from the "Alpha Obelisk" which was unheard of in the original work, although he was posing like a standard Commander Ikari, his eyes behind the reflective glasses were completely blank and confused.

Perhaps due to the information gap between people in the light curtain and in reality, many people may regard the object described in this passage as a record of Daguba, the King of Gurongi. But as a die-hard Kamen Rider fanatic, how could he not know who this description is referring to?

Because of this, Xu Guoliang felt that the development of the plot was becoming more and more absurd. It was just as outrageous as the situation where Mr. Wang next door took his children to do a paternity test and found out that all of his children's biological fathers were the victim next door who was cuckolded by him.

Although the name "Golden Darkness" has never appeared in the original work, Xu Guoliang, who once bought the complete setting collection of "Kamen Rider Kuuga", knows very well that whether it is KUUGA or Daguba, their names are "Black Darkness" and "White Darkness" respectively. They are the names given by the ancient Lindo and Gurongi according to the appearance and body color of their respective ultimate forms. None of them can be related to the name "Golden Darkness".

Although it has never appeared in the original work or the setting collection, if we infer based on the logic of using the color of the ultimate form's appearance before the name "Dark", such a Gurongi does indeed exist.

N-Gamio-Zeda, the wolf-type Gurongi, is a character known as the Wolf King in the special effects circle.

It is another king of the Gurongi clan besides Daguba. Like the Ultimate form of KUUGA and the Ultimate form of Daguba, it is a powerful existence known as the "Ultimate Darkness". In terms of pure status alone, Gamio can be said to be on par with the former two.

In addition, Gamio also has a unique ability that neither KUUGA nor Daguba have, which is that it can summon a mysterious black fog that can cover the entire planet over time, and this black fog also has an extremely terrifying effect.

This black fog has a function similar to physiological selection. If people are covered by it, they will die in pain, but those who meet the conditions will be physically transformed into Gurongi by the black fog, and this transformation is permanent. Even many special effects fans believe that this ability is the "ultimate darkness" that the Gurongi clan has been searching for.

Precisely because this black fog has such an outrageous effect, regardless of its lethality, if we only talk about the threat it poses to the human race, it can be said that no other Gurongi can be compared with Gamio. As long as it is given time, it can really completely wipe out the human race from the planet in fact.

This ability also fits the second half of the sentence translated by "Yukinoshita Yukino", which says 'He is the apostle who controls disease and disaster, and is also the first apostle'. Disease is the deadly poison, and disaster is the assimilation of erosion.

But it was precisely because Xu Guoliang guessed that the person named in this record was Gamio that he found it outrageous.

Although they are both Gurongi, N-Gamio-Zeda is not a character in the special effects drama "Kamen Rider Kuuga" at all. Instead, he appears in another special effects drama, "Kamen Rider Decade", which is known as the "abandoned project remake machine" in the special effects circle.

As the name suggests, all the abandoned plans in previous Kamen Riders have started a second life in this special drama. To a certain extent, the villains in these abandoned plans are even more famous than the protagonists.

Gamio is the protagonist of "Kamen Rider Decade". He is the first world that Kamen Rider Kadoya, nicknamed "Pond Guardian" and "Little Ming Brother", faces when he and Kuuga, who is transformed by Yusuke Onodera, face the first level BOSS in another parallel world belonging to Kamen Rider Kuuga.

In this battle, Gamio was defeated by Xiao Mingge and Onodera, who had not yet obtained the final enhanced form.

——That's right, a Gurongi from the 'N' Group who, according to the setting, could kill two people instantly with a wave of his hand was actually defeated by two Kamen Riders in their initial forms. The rawness of this battle was probably like Jiang Gan challenging Lu Bu holding a Fang Tian Hua Ji with a small dagger, and then the more than one-meter-long Fang Tian Hua Ji was directly cut in half by the palm-sized dagger during the battle. Then, Lu Bu, who could kill a hundred Jiang Gans in seconds with his bare hands, decisively surrendered to the other party after seeing the broken weapon, and shouted "Bu is willing to worship Jiang Gong as his adoptive father!" It was as magical as that.

The combat logic of Kamen Rider in the last decade of the Heisei era, which took ten years and nine works to build, collapsed beyond description. This battle also officially opened the precedent for the collapse of Kamen Rider's combat power. In this sense alone, Gamio can be said to be a benchmark character, although it is purely negative.

It is precisely because of this collapse in combat power that "Kamen Rider Decade" is still regarded as a cult work by many people in the special effects circle. Although it has been criticized by many people, some of the information contained in it is indeed worthy of attention.

Among all the abandoned characters that appeared in "Kamen Rider Decade", Gamio is definitely the most famous character, because its origin is not as simple as other characters being abandoned, but there are really clues about its existence in the original work of "Kamen Rider Kuuga".

This stems from a piece of Gurongi parchment with no meaning in the original work. In addition to the tattoo patterns of No. B1 and No. 0, there is also a wolf-shaped pattern on the parchment. The representative totem of Gamio who appeared in "Kamen Rider Decade" is very similar to this pattern, and in fact it was indeed redesigned based on the wolf head pattern on the parchment.

Later, Xu Guoliang learned that the authorities had actually intended to have the character Gamio appear in Kuuga's original work, but not in the orthodox TV series. Instead, they planned to appear in the orthodox movie version. The parchment in the TV series was paving the way for its appearance in the movie version. When Baruba faced Xun Ichijo questioning the truth of the ultimate darkness, he said, "Rindo will become like us." In fact, he was telling him about Gamio's existence and abilities in a very obscure way.

The truth of the "ultimate darkness" that was not explained in the TV series will also be completely revealed in the movie, giving this story a perfect ending.

And then... then, nothing happened.

Due to various force majeure reasons, the movie version of Kamen Rider Kuuga was cancelled. Gamio went from being the high-profile final boss to a symbol nailed to the pillar of shame. The truth about "Ultimate Darkness" and "Kikiru" also became a prehistoric sinkhole in the history of knights that can never be filled, and the pit is filled with the wails and resentments of special effects fans.

But now, all these signs in the light screen indicate that Gamio is very likely to exist in this "story", in the story he created.

No, now it can no longer be said that this is a "story" he created... Xu Guoliang lowered his head, and a trace of gloom flashed across his eyes as he gnawed on the rice crackers.

Although he is a otaku, he is after all a top student who has been admitted to a top 985 university through hard work, and he was selected into the Department of Mathematics and Physics which focuses on logical thinking. The structure of his brain must be extremely excellent compared to ordinary people, and no matter how bad it is, it can't be that bad.

During this time, he reviewed all the strange behaviors and aspects of this "story" in his mind again. The more he reviewed, the more he discovered many details that he had overlooked before, but now felt very wrong when he thought about them.

One of the things that is wrong is that the relationship between the characters is too perfect and too realistic, without any sense of incongruity.

This seemed to make no sense. Why was a perfect and reasonable relationship between the characters wrong? Xu Guoliang hadn't thought much about it before, but now that he thought about it, it was full of weirdness.

You know, although Zaimokuza Yoshiki is the protagonist, he essentially used the characters from the anime novel "My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected" and applied them to the special effects drama "Kamen Rider Kuuga".

But how could a light novel-adapted anime youth romantic comedy and a live-action special effects work, whose creative concepts and logic are so different, be forced together without any sense of incongruity? This lack of incongruity is the biggest incongruity!

And once one suspicious point is discovered, the following suspicious points pop up like mushrooms after rain.

"Zaimokuza Yoshiteru" has the same elemental abilities as Gurongi, "Kousaka Kyosuke"'s past and reasonable changes in personality, and the protagonists and supporting characters of two different works meet each other, and as the plot develops, they reasonably become comrades-in-arms who entrust their lives to each other. In the third chapter, "Zaimokuza Yoshiteru"'s unknown past in the original work and the completely different development that follows... Until now, after all the secrets of Gurongi that have not been revealed in the original work, as well as unheard-of settings, have appeared together, Xu Guoliang finally confirmed his guess.

Everything he saw now was not just a "story" created by his own abilities. The story displayed on the light screen was a world with self-consistent logic and a complete system, where the past could be traced.

——In other words, it's not just a created world or a fabricated future, but a story and world that already exists! It's a world that exists in its own right, different from the original works of "My Teen Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, As I Expected" and "Kamen Rider Kuuga", but it actually exists, a different world with a different story!

In the words of "Kamen Rider Decade", this is another parallel world belonging to Kamen Rider Kuuga!

So of course Kuuga's transformer could be Hikiko Hachiman, Kousaka Kyosuke, or even Zaimokuza Yoshiki, just like in another parallel world, Kuuga's transformer is not Godai Yusuke, but Onodera Yusuke. In this new knight story, they are the Kamen Riders belonging to their own world!

The choice of Zaimokuza Yoshiteru as the protagonist was indeed an accident, but what if he had the potential to become a knight? What if the aforementioned individuals actually possessed the potential and character to become knights? The difference would simply be who plays the protagonist and who the supporting role. Perhaps the story's ending would also be different depending on the choice of the protagonist.

These people may each represent a different world line, but the one chosen by themselves, Zaimokuza Yoshiki, became the world line we see now. The rest of the world line choices may be determined by the choice of the joint points and become another unobservable world.

No... Actually, now that I think about it, this ability of mine is full of problems. Xu Guoliang looked at his hands and frowned tightly.

Why is my ability to make up "stories"? This ability is too specific, too deliberate.

And why, when I first acquired this ability, was I determined to create a story specifically for Kamen Rider? Compared to the current trend of Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Super Sentai, and even Pretty Cure, whose popularity has waned due to the constant release of Phantom Gods and blockbusters, aren't these stories any better? They need to have the right perspectives, the right combat power, the right settings... and so on?

Xu Guoliang was suddenly stunned. Setting?

Setting? Kamen Rider? My ability is to make up "stories"?

"Story" and Kamen Rider...are they settings?

My ability allows me to make up... or rather, find "stories" belonging to Kamen Rider?

Kamen Rider and... "Story"?

——In Kamen Rider, which knight is related to the concept of "story"?

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey...isn't this joke a bit too outrageous?"

Xu Guoliang's expression suddenly twisted violently. He looked at his hands, then raised his head to look at the golden light screen in front of him. His expression was so wonderful that it was hard to describe.

Now that I think about it, doesn't this horizontal golden screen give me a sense of déjà vu? And its ability is precisely to display "stories"? Xu Guoliang's eyes twitched, and he couldn't decide whether to say something beginning with the letter F.

"All of this - could it really be you who's behind this?!?"

39. Determination (6K)

【Tokyo, Toshima-ku, Ikebukuro. 】

【01:26 PM】

Zaimokuza sped down the road in his 2000, the sharp roar of the engine echoing throughout the street, and his eyes beneath his helmet were filled with anxiety.

"Region-wide notification! Region-wide notification!"

[A rapid alarm sirens sounded from the car's front communicator, and the voice of Gokou Ruri was heard.]

"Case 34 has appeared in Shinjuku and attacked a passing taxi. The driver and the passenger have all been killed. Nearest police officers, please provide reinforcements immediately! I repeat, please—"

【"Damn!"】

Upon hearing this, Zaimokuza couldn't help but curse out loud. He slammed the brakes, and the motorcycle's rear wheels, suddenly stopped, combined with inertia, pulled the motorcycle into a perfect semicircle on the road, then carried Zaimokuza back in the direction they came from at a high speed.

Zaimokuza twisted the handlebars again with his right hand. The red flames from the tailpipe grew blue under the sudden increase in power. The entire motorcycle, carrying him, sped at a speed too high to be seen with the naked eye. From the perspective of the surveillance camera, it looked like a large peregrine falcon flying low over the road.

After sending Kousaka Kyosuke to the hospital, Zaimokuza was unable to even wait for him to wake up before immediately returning to the front lines. During this time, Zazaru committed another crime, melting the elevator and the employees in the building into liquid.

[And it was at that moment that Zaimokuza, who had arrived at the scene, was struck by inspiration when he saw the interior paint of the elevator, which had been melted down to the point that only the iron shell remained. He called Gokou Ruri, who already knew his identity, and after verifying it, he finally discovered Zazaru's crime pattern and the rules of the game.]

This guy was actually killing in order according to the color chart. Based on the next color after the elevator, the police deduced that Zazaru's next target would be buses. They immediately called the Ministry of Transportation and ordered them to immediately stop all bus operations.

[But the speed at which Japan's bureaucracy operates is something only those who understand will understand.]

Although the lower-level staff did quickly implement the order after the upper-level staff had finished their wrangling and passed it on, they were still a step too late. Zazaru had already committed the crime, and he committed three crimes in a row.

[And if we follow the inferred target, Zazaru's next target is orange, and we add the newly inferred requirement of "moving box", then this one meets the conditions.]

[That is JR Mitaka Station in Mitaka City, Tokyo, where the Chuo Line Shinkansen is located.]

If true, the scale of this crime is no joke. Not only is the number of victims likely to far exceed the previous ones, but while it's speculated that Zazaru's next target will be the Chuo Line, it's just speculation. It's not as easy as saying to stop a Shinkansen line based on speculation without any evidence.

This involves too many aspects of normal operation. Not to mention issues like inconvenience for residents, the financial losses alone are substantial. Furthermore, if such a high-profile intervention is required every time an unidentified life form commits a crime, there's even the risk of paralyzing the city's operations. The resulting losses would be so immense that no one could bear the responsibility.

But there's no other way. Even if it's just a possibility, Zaimokuza must head to Mitaka City now. With Kousaka Kyousuke unconscious from his injuries, he's the only one capable of fighting Zazaru. Unless the Self-Defense Forces are deployed directly, the police can only delay the Gurongi of the GO Group at best, and won't be able to kill them like they did with the Gurongi of the ZU or ME Groups.

【Di-】

【"Um?"】

At this moment, the car's communication system rang again, signaling an urgent call. Zaimokuza's heart skipped a beat when he heard it, and a sense of foreboding followed.