Crossover Anime: This is not pure love at all

My name is Megumi Kato.

I've always been a very plain girl. I'm not ugly, but I'm not pretty either.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be so inconspicuous.

But even someone like me has a childhood sweetheart.

His name is Kuroe Minoru, and he's just an ordinary person like me.

He has an average appearance, average athletic ability, and average academic performance.

Although we're childhood sweethearts, we've only grown up together; we've never really known each other.

Even when we were assigned to different classes at the beginning of each year, he never seemed to recognize me.

But that's enough.

All I need to do is silently watch over him...

……

But one day, he seemed to suddenly become a different person. After he saved Miura like a hero, everything changed.

He became popular with girls and good-looking, no longer as unknown as before.

When I saw him chatting happily with other girls.

I feel terrible, and I don't know what that feeling is like.

But I have a strange feeling... if I don't do something now, I'll never have another chance.

……

Kato Megumi watched from afar as Kuroe Minoru was talking to Kitagawa Kaimu.

My fingers turned slightly white from clenching them so tightly.

In her line of sight, a hot girl with dazzling blonde hair and a great figure was hugging Kuroe Minoru tightly, burying her face in his chest and crying.

Students passing by cast disapproving glances and pointed fingers, as if Kuroe was a heartless scumbag who had started a relationship only to abandon it later.

Hei Jiang, on the other hand, looked utterly hopeless, his hands dangling in mid-air, unsure whether to hug or push away, his entire body stiff as a piece of wood.

"..."

Kato Megumi took a deep breath, a resolute glint in her eyes.

……

Kuroe Minoru looked at Kitagawa Kaimu, who was crying while hugging him, and subconsciously raised his hands.

With so many people watching, it wouldn't be good if anyone thought he was taking advantage of the situation.

"Hey! I wasn't modified! Can you please stop crying?"

"R-really?"

Upon hearing this, Kitagawa Kaimu looked up at Kuroe Minoru with teary eyes, her voice trembling slightly from sobbing.

"Of course, of course! And let go of me first! Everyone's watching!"

"oh oh……"

Hai Meng sniffed, then reluctantly let go of his hand, but still looked him up and down with her red eyes, as if to make sure there was nothing strange about him.

"Then how come you suddenly became so...so beautiful?"

"Um... well... don't ask too many questions about Kamen Rider."

"Eh—Kamen Riders have such amazing abilities?" Haimeng blinked innocently.

Hei Jiang breathed a sigh of relief; thankfully, he had managed to get away with it.

The onlookers, seeing that the story wasn't going as they had imagined, grew bored and dispersed.

"So, what brings you here to wait for me at our school gate today?" Kuroe Minoru quickly changed the subject.

"Ah! That's right!"

Hai Meng seemed to suddenly remember something important, clapped her hands, and pulled her phone out of her bag.

"Look!"

Haimeng held her phone screen close to Kuroe Minoru's face and opened a shaky video that was clearly filmed due to shaky hands.

The background of the video is a dimly lit street with flickering streetlights.

"This is what I did last night on my way home. I twisted my ankle, and I was going to film it to send to my friends to complain, but I accidentally filmed this instead..."

In the footage, the camera shakes because Hai Meng's hands are trembling.

A bald middle-aged man dressed in sportswear, looking like he was going for a night run, was walking leisurely down the street, and the direction he was heading was right where Hai Meng had been!

Suddenly, he stopped and looked around, as if he were looking for someone.

After a while, he seemed to have failed to find it and, somewhat frustrated, stopped a tired-looking office worker who happened to be passing by.

Then, a chilling scene unfolded!

The middle-aged man suddenly ripped open the shirt covering his stomach, revealing a gaping maw full of fangs where his belly should have been!

"Whoosh—!"

A long, sticky tongue shot out from the large mouth and instantly wrapped around the terrified office worker.

Amidst a strange light and a teeth-grinding squeezing sound, the living person was compressed and flattened, eventually turning into a transparent acrylic standee!

The middle-aged man picked up the standee, examined it with disdain, and muttered under his breath, "Tsk, what a gloomy-looking guy..."

He then casually stuffed the sign into his pocket, put down his clothes, and continued running forward.

The video ends abruptly here.

"I was terrified. As soon as he left, I ran away for my life..."

Hai Meng gripped her phone tightly, her face pale, clearly still feeling lingering fear as she recalled that scene.

"Why didn't you contact me on Line immediately after this happened?" Kuroe asked, frowning.

"Because...because the heroes in tokusatsu shows always have to hide their identities, right?"

Hai Meng lowered her head, poking at each other with her two index fingers in a wronged manner.

"I was afraid that contacting you casually would expose your secret or disturb your daily life... But I was so scared. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw that monster turning people into signs, so I couldn't help but come to find you today..."

No, no, no, Line should actually be fine...

Hai Meng suddenly raised her head, clasped her hands together, and looked at him with pleading eyes: "Please, Hei Jiang! Go and defeat that monster!"

"Of course, there's no need to ask, it's what I should do anyway."

"but……"

Kuroe Minoru stared at the blacked-out phone screen, his eyes instantly turning icy cold.

A huge mouth on its belly, a long tongue, turns people into cardboard cutouts...

Isn't that Sugar Man from Kamen Rider Gabe?!

"Where do you live? Or rather, where did you film this video?" Kuroe asked in a deep voice.

"It's in Hanamigawa Ward, about five kilometers from the school..." Haimeng answered honestly.

No wonder!

Kuroe suddenly realized.

The system's radar warning range is only five kilometers (this has been changed). Hai Meng's home is more than five kilometers away, which is beyond the system's scanning range.

No wonder the system hadn't issued an alert, which is why he only just learned that sugar people existed in this world.

Thinking about Sugar Man's actions in the original work, Kuroe Minoru unconsciously clenched his fists.

Kuroe is a typical example of human supremacy.

The Sugar People, a species that uses humans to make drugs, are even more disgusting than Orphnoch and Zerg!