Masked Rider, but kindhearted

Grandma once said that the greatness of the sun is that it can even illuminate the dust!

Ming Hai Shouji's suspicion of this young man had not been completely dispelled, but he still felt bad and asked in a low voice:

"Besides making takoyaki at this stall, what else do you do?"

Well, there's nothing wrong with exploiting intelligence gaps to get what you want, but relying on deception to gain sympathy goes against the original intention.

"You seem to have misunderstood something?" Tian Dao Zongsi noticed the man's expression and said calmly,

"My grandmother once said that life is about moving towards a distant goal. I am just walking firmly on my own path."

Ming Hai Shouji was a little confused. Was the implication that he should stop meddling in other people's business and checking the household registration?

"Understood." To maintain his image as a mature and tough guy, he pretended to understand and nodded. "I can give the detective assistant a try. At least you're an eyewitness, which should help solve the case."

What he didn't say was: in order to protect the stability of Fuuto, he had to temporarily keep this young man by his side and observe him - if he was the mysterious Kamen Rider, he could prevent him from using this power for evil;

If he is just an ordinary person, there is nothing wrong in helping him when he is in trouble.

"Uncle, what's your name?" Tendou Souji suddenly asked.

"Uncle!" Ming Hai Shouji was deeply shocked. Is he so old?

"Narumi Shokichi," he replied, suppressing the slight annoyance in his heart, "Hey, you, it's common sense to introduce yourself first when asking questions, right?"

Tiandao Zongsi slowly raised his index finger to the sky, bathing in the sunset, "Grandma said that you are the one who follows the way of heaven and controls everything."

"So what?" Ming Hai Shouji was speechless. This guy seemed to have a second-year syndrome.

"Tian Dao, Souji, so it's okay for me to be your assistant, right?"

Seeing Ming Hai Shouji nod, Tendo Souji walked past him and walked forward along the street on his own.

After walking a few steps, he stopped and looked back at Ming Hai Shouji who was standing there in confusion.

Ming Hai Shouji was even more confused than him: "You've never been to the office, how do you know how to get there?"

"Isn't this normal?" Tiandao Zongsi said as a matter of course.

This is a straight road with no forks. Ming Hai Shouji came here on foot and bought takoyaki, a food that doesn't taste good when it's cold.

It means the destination is very close to here.

It was getting late now and many people had gone off work, but detectives had irregular working hours, especially during the investigation.

He bought two servings of takoyaki and he didn't have a wedding ring on his hand, so he ruled out buying it for his wife.

To sum up, there is a small probability that it will be brought to the children after divorce, but a high probability that it will be brought to the colleagues in the firm.

Tendou Souji made this judgment almost instantly, and continued to move forward in the direction where Ming Hai Shouji came from.

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Cavalier Terrier Encyclopedia:

[Sudo Kirihiko]: Sudo Yukie's brother and the husband of Saeko, the eldest daughter of the Sonosaki family. He changed his name to Sonosaki Kirihiko after marrying into the family.

The creator of the Fuuto mascot, a fan of Fuuto and the top-performing memory salesman.

Probably a tragic villain with a bottom line (superimposed: purely personal opinion) known as "brother-in-law"

[Museum]: Gaia Memory Underground Trafficking Organization, centered around the Sonosaki Family

[Knights and Monsters]: The setting in Kamen Rider W: Kamen Rider W and others transform through a driver using a special memory. In essence, the armor is flesh and blood or skin, and there is no difference from the impure body. Therefore, in the eyes of ordinary people, they look the same as monsters.

Kamen Rider Saber setting: The driver (belt) will transform the power in the fantasy driver book into energy and infuse it into the body of the transformer through the driver?, and form armor through the power of the holy sword, so it looks like a real knight in armor.

Chapter 6: Young Shotaro Sa

He understood Ming Hai Shouji's doubts, but he was too lazy to explain - if he was stopped by Ming Hai Shouji, he would just turn around, but the other party's reaction proved that his analysis was completely correct.

As a famous detective in Fuuto, Ming Hai Shouji scratched his head and couldn't figure it out, so he had to follow the young man's footsteps. He called himself a "tough guy" detective, but apart from basic analysis, he often relied on intuition and frequent field work to solve cases.

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As dusk falls, in Fuuto, at the Minghai Detective Agency.

As Tendo Souji walked ahead, he saw the black sign of the firm. It had only two floors and was not very large.

He shook his head slightly, feeling that it was a little different from what he had imagined - it wasn't that he looked down on them, but seeing how professional Ming Hai Shouji was and their cooperation with the police, he thought it would be a more powerful firm.

Ming Hai Shouji didn't notice, but instead introduced it with a touch of pride amidst his emotion:

"Fengdu, a city famous for its clean energy and tourism, is also notorious for its high costs and low incomes—I've also worked hard for many years..."

"Not bad," Tendo Souji did not discourage him. This was indeed something to be proud of.

Ming Hai Shouji pushed open the door and led the young man into the office.

Small but complete.

Tendo Souji walked up the wooden stairs to the second floor. The hall was the office area, and there were several small rooms with closed doors.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone through the blinds onto the oak floor. On the right hand side of the door, a map of Fengdu and case clippings were pasted on the edge of the metal filing cabinet.

On the left is a long wooden table with an old desk lamp turned on, emitting a dim light.

There are a few hats hanging on the shelf at the end, and there is a mirror opposite.

A young man was buried in the files piled on the table, and the tip of his pen made a scratching sound on the notebook.

Tendo Souji turned his head and saw that the young man should be Uncle Minghai's disciple, Shotaro Sae?

He looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a white shirt and a dark school tie fastened at the collar.

The stubble slightly covers the eyebrows, the jaw is tight, and the brow bones are prominent.

His eyes are sharp but his cheeks still have some baby fat, making him look resolute and a little immature.

Ming Hai Shouji took off his white hat and put it on the coat rack, then handed over the bag of takoyaki.

Shotaro Zuo looked up, holding the cold coffee cup, his hair matted to a few strands by sweat. "Master, have you got the new information on the wedding case?"

"Takoyaki? - Why is it in a bag?" The boy opened the bag and was shocked by the mixed balls.

"Shut up, hard-boiled guys should learn to endure all kinds of harsh external factors!" Ming Hai Shouji said seriously, and sat down next to the boy, importing the video from his mobile phone to the old-fashioned computer on the table.

"Yes, Master!" Zuo Xiangtaro nodded vigorously. He noticed the key words and suddenly changed from being depressed to being full of fighting spirit.

The master is a man among men, and he also wants to become a real tough guy!

"Hey, this takoyaki is actually quite delicious!"

Amid the boy's exclamation, Tendo Souji stood in front of the metal filing cabinet, examining the case clippings on it.

The video file was still uploading. Ming Hai Shouji patted the boy's shoulder and introduced him:

"Shotarou, this is Tendo Souji, the new detective assistant."

Upon hearing the voice, Tiandao Zongsi turned around and nodded in response, then continued to check the information.

Strange people appear and disappear, mysterious salesmen, underground transactions in Fudu...

Ming Hai Shouji saw that the young man had his back to him, staring intently at the information on the cabinet, and reluctantly introduced it to him symbolically:

"Tiandao, I introduced this guy to you on the way: this guy is my recently acquired, useless disciple, Zuo Xiangtaro. He's been with me since elementary school and high school. I don't know where he got this perseverance... He's been following me for a few months after graduation."

As if hearing praise, Zuo Xiangtaro swallowed the meatball in his mouth, puffed out his chest and said proudly: "After all, uncle, you saved me. I also want to be such a reliable and handsome man."

"And you taught me that—perseverance is also one of the elements of being a tough guy!"

Ming Hai Shouji laughed in silence.

'Didi'

After the video was uploaded, Shotaro Zuo didn't care about the takoyaki he hadn't finished eating, and came over to watch it with sauce still on his mouth.

Tendou Souji had almost finished browsing the information posted on the cabinet, and slowly walked over to stand beside the computer to watch.

The short videos and information played earlier were basically groundless urban legends - only one or two were testimonies from surviving eyewitnesses, and the experiences of the rest can be imagined.

Until the video of the wedding scene——

"Isn't this Brother Tiandao!?" Zuo Xiangtaro shouted, and Ming Hai Shouji next to him also frowned.

In the slightly shaking and sometimes blurry picture, a handsome and seemingly harmless young man suddenly transformed into an armored knight and defeated the spider man.

Ming Hai Shouji noticed that this guy seemed to transform with the help of a long sword and a strange book in his hand.

He subconsciously touched the belt hidden under his clothes. He himself transformed by relying on the Lost Drive to filter out toxins from his memory. Tiandao also had a similar thing on his body to hold books.

Precise and ruthless swordsmanship, elegant body movements, and clean and neat flying kicks to resolve battles... He deliberately concealed his identity and approached the agency. What was he planning?

As he watched, Shokichi Narumi's pupils constricted. This spider monster was not dead yet - he had defeated every [Dopant] he had defeated so far.

Either die on the spot, or survive for a short while before being infected and killed by the toxins in the memory.

How is this possible...

The [Skull] memory in his hand was specially made by his childhood friend, Sonosaki Fumie, and is also equipped with a Lost Drive.

If it was a commercially available item that could kill someone from the toxins simply by undoing the transformation, then the only outcome after being defeated would be death.

Ming Hai Shouji concentrated on observing the long sword at Tendou Souji's waist, unable to figure it out.

The boy suddenly jumped up from the swivel chair and pounced on the table. He almost put his nose against the screen and repeatedly paused on the knight kick scene.

He gasped, making an outstanding contribution to global warming.

Shotaro Sae's cheeks flushed with excitement, and he repeatedly turned his head to compare the person in the video with Tendo Souji in front of him.

"Eh?!" The boy's voice ended with the hoarseness that was unique to voice change. "Tendo, are you Kamen Rider? That, that... urban hero!"

His fingers unconsciously scratched the peeling paint on the corner of the table, his eyes wide open and staring straight at Tendou Souji.

He suddenly reached out his hand cautiously to the other's waist, his Adam's apple rolling up and down for a long time before he could utter a complete sentence: "Brother Tiandao, let me touch this sword."

Tendo Souji remained silent, ignoring the boy's movements, and simply asked calmly, "What is Kamen Rider...?"

This word was also mentioned in a book written by that godlike young man who called himself Kamiyama Touma...

Do you mean the form after transforming with the holy sword?

In this city, or in this world...are there other Kamen Riders?

Kamen Rider, superhero, monster, heading towards a destructive ending...

Tendou Souji silently pondered the connection between these words.

His thoughts were interrupted by Shotaro drawing his sword.

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Cavalier Terrier Encyclopedia:

[Shotaro Sae]: Shokichi Narumi was rescued by the grass monster in human form and thought he was a man among men. After many years of entanglement, he became his disciple and was influenced by his master to embark on the path of Kamen Rider.

[Sonosaki Fumion]: The mother of one of the protagonists, Philip, childhood sweetheart of Narumi Shokichi, the creator of Lost Drive, W Drive and some special memories. She often appears in TV shows wearing a mask and is also known as the Masked Woman.

Chapter 7 Princess Wakana

Shotaro Zuo touched his sword and said a little embarrassedly: "I heard that there are strange people called [Dopant] in Fengdu from time to time."

"There is a person who looks like a skeleton. He also looks like a [Dopant] but he has been protecting humans. No one knows his true identity.

——Because he is a hero who wears a mask to fight monsters, and often rushes to save people on a motorcycle, people call him "Kamen Rider"

"Skeleton... why not call him Ghost Rider?" The first thing that came to Souji Tendo's mind was a skeleton riding a ghost fire motorcycle.

Shotaro Sae suppressed the saliva that was about to flow out as he touched the sword, tilted his head and thought:

"It's not really a skeleton, it still looks flesh and blood, but the head is more similar. My classmates call him Kamen Rider Skull."

"Hey, I have an idea," Zuo Xiangtaro suddenly raised a finger and said excitedly, "This new knight uses a sword and a book.

How about calling it Kamen Rider Gleam?

Uh...Tendo Souji couldn't quite keep up with his train of thought. Is there any connection between the sword, the book, and the flash...