My youth story cannot be a knight war

"What do you want to do again?"

"Well~ I owe you a favor this time, so I have to repay you, right?"

Under Ye Shan's vigilant gaze, Sakayanagi fumbled behind her back with her hands, then pulled out a white postcard and handed it to him with both hands.

"This is my business card. If you need to whitewash a case in the future, you can call me. I'm willing to give you a 30% discount~"

"...Thank you so much, I hope I never need this number again."

With a sullen face, he snatched the postcard from Sakayanagi's hands, whose eyes were gleaming with money. With a twitching eye, Hayama chose to ignore the money-grubbing woman and walked around her towards his motorcycle parked in the distance.

"Bye~"

Looking at Hayama walking away, Sakayanagi, who was standing in the same place, smiled and waved goodbye to his back, watching him ride away on his motorcycle.

Beep beep beep~!

A loud horn sounded from behind. Sakayanagi's expression changed when he heard it, and he turned around with a look of surprise.

At the intersection not far behind him, another Porsche was parked. The driver's window was open, and a woman with long purple-red hair stuck her head out, looking at Sakayanagi with resentful eyes.

"You bastard... I told you not to come out alone, okay?"

"Kamiro-chan~ You're finally here!"

When the woman driving the car appeared, Sakayanagi's expression became extremely cheerful, and even her movements became like those of a pre-teen girl. She broke away from the reserved demeanor she had shown with Hayama earlier and skipped towards him.

"Ugh……"

The woman named Kamuro Masumi looked at Sakayanagi who suddenly lost her composure, sighed helplessly, and watched her with dead eyes as she opened the car door and got in.

"...Do you know? When you called me asking for help, I was almost scared to death! I rushed over here without even finishing my shower."

"I told you that the gangsters would definitely keep a close eye on you recently, yet you still came out here alone and flaunted yourself. Do you think my workload is too low and want to give me more pressure? Huh? Ah!"

"Well, don't be angry. You know I'll be fine."

Facing the resentful accusations from his secretary, Sakayanagi smiled and waved his hands in front of his chest.

"Although I can handle those thugs, it would probably make things awkward afterwards, and it would be difficult to deal with the witnesses. I called you here to avoid the hassle of cleaning up afterward, didn't I?"

"Hmph~ I think you're just trying to tease me. It's been so many years since you graduated from that crappy school, how come your bad personality hasn't changed?"

Kamuro snorted softly, reached out to pull the handbrake of the Porsche, glanced at Sakayanagi in the back seat and said.

"By the way, who was that man you were talking to just now?"

"Oh, you mean that one?"

Sakayanagi snapped his fingers and pulled out a business card from behind him. On the front of the card were written the four big characters "Hayama Hayato".

Just now when she was treating Ye Shan's injuries, Sakayanagi took out his business card without anyone noticing. Looking at the business card, she smiled and spoke.

"An interesting and kind person~ Just like you, Kamuro-chan."

"……Yeah?"

After hearing these words, although they had never met, Kamuro had already mourned for Ye Shan in his heart.

Because Kamuro knows Sakayanagi very well, he knows very well that anyone who adds the prefix "interesting" or "funny" to her words will basically become a synonym of the word "toy".

This guy has never shown any love for his toys. He always finds another one after breaking one. Rich women are so willful.

As Sakayanagi's personal assistant and also her "chief toy", Kamuro felt that it was a miracle that he had been able to tolerate this bad-tempered guy for so many years.

"Have you had enough shopping today? Let's go home quickly. If you're any later, you won't be able to make dinner."

Kamuro ended his moment of silence for Hayama after three seconds, rolled his eyes and said.

"Well, wait a minute, Kamuro-chan, I have another appointment today."

Sakayanagi smiled again, but there was a deep light in her eyes, like mercury glowing in the dark, which was particularly strange in the car without the headlights on.

"Drive to Fushimi Inari Taisha Shrine. I've arranged to meet the lovely messenger girl there. I'm hoping to get some inside information out of her~"

"It's up to you...but I advise you to be careful and not get out of control."

As if remembering something, Kamuro couldn't help but increase the strength of his hands gripping the steering wheel, and his eyes became inexplicably dark.

And in the darkness, a fear like a spike slowly emerged.

"That woman...gives me the same feeling as that man. Both are monsters who don't look like humans at all."

"Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Sakayanagi leaned her elbows against the open car window and casually threw out Hayama's business card. The falling path of the paper cast a long shadow in her silver-purple eyes.

"But what's that old saying? 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained.'"

"Yes, that's it."

……

beep beep-

When the cell phone vibrated in his pocket, Ye Shan immediately tightened the brake valve of the motorcycle, and the rear wheel of the motorcycle drew a graceful semicircle on the street and stopped.

He reached out and took out his cell phone. Looking at the unknown caller number displayed on the screen, his heart immediately tightened.

"...Hello, is this Scissors?"

After clicking the answer button, Ye Shan chose to ask first.

"Who are you anyway?"

It was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, but an extremely cold voice came from the other side of the phone.

In the antique shop, a figure, wrapped so tightly that it was impossible to tell their gender, stood by the table, holding a phone. In his leather-gloved hand, he clutched the note Ye Shan had left behind, and spoke coldly.

"You said you knew the inside story of this war...what's going on?"

"I'll explain the details to you, but before that, can I talk to you face to face?"

Ye Shan tightened his grip on the phone and spoke cautiously.

"Don't you think you should make it clear who you are before you ask to meet someone?"

He was unmoved by the voice coming from the other side, and instead let Ye Shan make the first move.

Knowing that this was a negotiation tactic, Ye Shan didn't say anything and immediately chose to reveal some of his information.

"My name is Hayato Hayama... Also, I'm Kamen Rider Ryuki."

"Ryuki? Are you the red knight that was with Knight before!?"

The voice on the other end suddenly became louder, and when the last name was mentioned, the ferocious hostility almost overflowed from the phone screen.

"Why did you leave me your phone number? Are you looking for a fight?"

"No, you misunderstood. I don't want to fight. The reason I left my number is simple: I just want to meet you and talk."

"Talk? Hehe~"

Scissors laughed, a laugh filled with disdain and sarcasm, and immediately planned to hang up the phone.

But Ye Shan's next words made him stop putting the microphone back into the landline and quickly raise it to his ear.

"I know you may not believe me, so let me tell you another thing."

With his eyes flashing, Ye Shan spoke.

"The organizer of this Knight War, Hikigaya Hachiman, was my former high school classmate and also my... best friend."

"!???"