Kamen Rider from the ancient times

Hiden Aruto's happiest childhood memories are filled with time spent with his Humagear father.

Therefore, he had deep feelings for the Humagears and naively believed that all Humagears, like his father, possessed sincere feelings and dreams.

Although they were originally man-made tools, from the moment the satellite Zea broke through the technological singularity and began to truly evolve, these human-created robots also gained the opportunity to acquire "life".

Because he had placed so much love in his father, Hiden Aruto could not accept that the person who caused the Humagears' rebellion twelve years ago was actually his father.

“When I arrived, he was indeed discussing the ‘launch of the satellite Ark’ with another Humagear, although it could also be a misunderstanding,” Tsukasa Kadoya said.

"how come……"

Hiden looked bewildered.

Although Tsukasa Kadoya added a final sentence, it did nothing to comfort anyone.

Kawahara thought for a moment: "No wonder Sougo always wants you to shut up."

Tsukasa Kadoya: "? Hello?"

Due to the interference of the Time Jackers, the world twelve years ago had already been occupied by the Humagears. Therefore, the three of them could only sneak into the Hiden Intelligence Group to avoid being seen and heard when they returned this time.

The entire factory was filled with Humagears working there.

They need to understand the history of today.

Hiden Aruto seemed somewhat absent-minded, but he was familiar with the routes of the Hiden Factory and easily led the two to an empty computer room.

"We should be able to find it here..."

The current situation is that the satellite Ark, which aims to destroy humanity, has been successfully launched, while it is not even clear whether the satellite Zea has been created.

But Zea definitely still exists.

Under the operation of either the flying electric vehicle or a human, a piece of data and coordinates appeared on the computer.

Kawahara appeared behind him, looking at the computer screen: "Just tell me which one is Ark and which one is Zea."

"Huh?" Hiden Aruto was taken aback upon hearing this.

"Wait! I'm talking to you..."

Tsukasa Kadoya quickly pulled Kawahara aside.

Just then, a deep voice suddenly rang out from the doorway: "Who are you?"

The three of them turned around suddenly and saw a middle-aged man wearing headphones standing at the entrance of the server room. This man was none other than Humagear!

However, none of the three were prepared for battle.

Hiden Aruto suddenly stood up: "Father!"

This Humagear was given the name "Hiden Kiyo," and in the original, correct history, before the Dawn Town explosion, he was responsible for taking care of Hiden Orito's growth.

However, Hiden Kiryu simply stared at Hiden Aruto with a blank expression, his gaze no different from that of someone looking at a stranger: "Who are you?"

Hiden Aruto quickly pointed to himself: "Me! Aruto, I'm the grown-up Aruto who came back from the future!"

Hiden Kiryu stared at him, his pupils flashing with data: "Who...is Aruto?"

"what?"

Hiden was stunned.

Kadoya Tsukasa said thoughtfully, "Because of the Time Jackers, you died along with your biological parents several years ago, so in the current timeline, Hiden Kiryu has never taken care of you."

"how so……"

At this moment, Hiden or human truly felt the horror of history being distorted, and he looked at his hands in disbelief.

"Then who am I now? Why am I still here...?" "Emmm..."

Tsukasa Kadoya glanced to the side.

Kawahara stared intently at Hiden Kiryu, then suddenly spoke up: "The satellite Zea's capabilities are already capable of predicting the past and future. Before I returned to this timeline, I met with Zea after its launch failed."

Upon hearing this, Hiden Kiyoshi turned to look at him, his emotionless expression making him appear as a pure human-machine hybrid.

The other two were somewhat confused.

Kawahara continued, "Although it did not launch successfully in the altered history, it was still connected to Hiden Aruto from the beginning. So at the moment history was changed, it was certain through Hiden Aruto's memory loophole that history was altered twelve years ago."

Then Zea decisively issued orders to the resistance, instructing Fuwa Isamu and Yaiba Yua to bring Hiden Aruto to the survivor base.

“Perhaps you don’t understand yet, but this ability is actually quite incredible,” Kawahara said in a low voice.

"No! I think I understand what you mean!" Tsukasa Kadoya suddenly said.

"..."

Kawahara looked at him speechlessly.

Tsukasa Kadoya smiled confidently: "You mean to say that since the satellite Zea knows the truth in the future, it means it knew what would happen twelve years ago, right?"

Kawahara was noncommittal.

I guess this guy really understands the gist of it.

The key point is that the satellite Zea is connected to Hiden Aruto, or rather, to "Kamen Rider Zero-One".

Kawahara first encountered Kamen Rider Zero-One not through Hiden Aruto.

Rather, it came from Zea's memories.

The first Kamen Rider of the new generation was not quite what he had imagined. From the very beginning, he used Zea's power to transform. In some ways, Hiden Aruto and Zea were even like a symbiotic entity.

As an artificial intelligence, the satellite Zea has been evolving, and the Humagears have also begun to break through the technological singularity, gaining true life and emotions.

So in the distant future, the satellite Zea might evolve to the stage of becoming a "god," which would be similar to the state of Kuzunoha Kouta after he became the "Origin Man"—regardless of the past or the future, it could calculate and deduce, and then convey this information to its past self.

“However… after all, it’s just a machine created by humans,” Kawahara said cryptically.

Even if the satellite Zea could deduce everything, it could not control everything, because humanity is the center of the past and the future, not to mention that there is an even more powerful satellite, Ark, that rivals it.

The Time Jackers altered history through forceful means, and Zea, wanting to restore history under Ark's control, could only rely on human methods.

Although the Humagears rule the world, Zea and Ark control them, so in reality, it's just a war between two "artificial intelligences with different ideas about humanity."
Kawahara looked at Hiden Kiryu and said, "Because of the satellite Zea, you remember Hiden Aruto, right? Although you have never seen him in your current history."

Hiden Aruto didn't actually understand anything, but he understood the sentence, and immediately looked at Hiden Kiryu, who remained unmoved, with hopeful eyes.

After a long pause, Hiden Kiryu, expressionless, finally spoke: "In order to destroy humanity, I developed the Zero-One Driver, but at the very moment the Zero-One was perfected, my database connected to a satellite that had never existed before—Zea."

Kawahara nodded: "I understand. So that means there's only one Ark satellite in the sky right now, and not Zea, right?"

Fei Dian Qi Xiong remained silent.

Kawahara continued, "Then I can bomb it however I want without any problem, right?"

Fei Dian Qi Xiong: "..."

Tsukasa Kadoya pulled Kawahara aside again: "Wait... I'm telling you, our goal this time is just to get the Zero-One Driver and then destroy Another Zero-One, right?"

Kawahara looked at him with surprise: "Has the destroyer of the world become so law-abiding?"

Tsukasa Kadoya gritted his teeth: "You're such a hypocrite!"

...(End of chapter)