Masked Rider, but kindhearted

Sonosaki Wakana was about to breathe a sigh of relief when a voice that made her annoyed suddenly came.

A middle-aged man wearing a high-end suit and holding a bouquet of roses walked past the yawning young man and jogged to catch up with Sonosaki Wakana.

"Miss Wakana—" He moved the large bouquet of roses away from him, revealing an ugly face with half a silly smile, "Please date me!"

The middle-aged man knelt on one knee, holding the bouquet in the air, looking confident.

I've been working hard all day, I'm exhausted, and I keep running into people like this...

"Tsk," Sonosaki Wakana habitually tsk-tsk'd, glanced at him a few times, frowned and said coldly, "Why should I date a man like you?"

"I'm very rich. I'm the president of a company at the age of 35, and..."

As he spoke, the middle-aged man kept kneeling on one knee and moved forward.

Before Sonosaki Wakana could say anything, the middle-aged man excitedly stood up and grabbed her wrist, "I will make us happy..."

"Why are you still touching me!" Sonosaki Wakana slapped him in the face, and the flowers in his hand fell to the ground.

"You ungrateful bitch!" the middle-aged man roared with a ferocious face.

Suddenly, a hand reached out, grabbed his collar and lifted him up.

"Who are you, kid? Just because you're handsome you can do whatever you want? Stop meddling in other people's business!" The middle-aged man looked unhappy.

Seeing him like this, Tendou Souji sighed, threw him to the ground, and said as a matter of course:

"Would you look up at the sun and ask, 'Why do you shine?'"

Sonosaki Wakana watched the show with great interest. Thanks to this strange man who called himself "the sun", she calmed down a lot.

The middle-aged man wanted to attack again, but was knocked to the ground by Tendou Souji in two or three moves.

He yelled in frustration, "Is it so great to be able to fight?!", then took out a black memory stick and inserted it into the socket on the right side of his chin.

The black memory was absorbed into it.

"Tsk," Sonosaki Wakana put away her smile, frowned, and quickly reached for the memory stick in her pocket.

【Masquerade】

The sticky white liquid wrapped around the middle-aged man's head, forming a monster head that was mainly black with white twisted rib-like forks all over it, and disgusting compound eyes were opened between the bones.

Apart from the head, there was nothing unusual about his torso. At least his clothes were not torn and he was still in human shape.

[Masquerade] is the standard equipment for the grassroots soldiers of [Museum]. He spent a lot of money on the black market to get it.

As long as he has this, he will be able to do anything!

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man roared and punched Tendou Souji.

I had been looking for the monster for a long time, but unexpectedly it appeared right next to me.

"Oh? You're lucky," Tendo Souji raised his eyebrows. He watched the entire transformation process calmly.

"Question—" Tendo Souji stood still, taking the opponent's continuous attacks without any need to transform, "Have you ever killed a human?"

Look how brave this man is.

The middle-aged man stopped, bent over with his hands on his stomach, and laughed as if he had heard a joke: "Who would remember that kind of thing? Anyone who gets in the way of my success must die!"

"Is that so..." Tendo Souji drew his sword, "I understand."

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Cavalier Terrier Encyclopedia:

[Mysterious Journey to Fengdu]: A radio program hosted by Ruolai, reading letters from Fengdu listeners about urban legends.

[naturally]: Ruolai’s famous song, which can be searched on NetEase Cloud Music. It is very nice.

The original protagonists Shotaro and Philip are both her loyal fans. In the novel "Z Heir", it is mentioned that Shotaro sang all 28 of Sonosaki Wakana's singles since her debut at a karaoke bar (although he fell ill after singing).

Chapter 9 Sonosaki Wakana, are you awake?

A sword pointed at the head.

Sure enough...When facing a monster, the knight can avoid death by controlling the strength of the kick, but he still can't survive if he cuts off the head directly.

Tendou Souji concluded in his mind and turned to leave.

Behind him, the baffling corpse of the strange man dissipated like dust.

Seeing this scene, Sonosaki Wakana silently put away the [Clay Doll Memory] in her hand.

As if possessed by some mysterious force, she took the initiative to shout towards the handsome figure: "Thank you for saving me. May I ask—what is your name?"

——The password is correct.

Tiandao Zongsi stopped and pointed to the sky with one hand: "Grandma once said that you are the one who walks the way of heaven and controls everything. Tiandao, Zongsi."

After saying this, the man basked in the sunshine and left without looking back.

It seemed as if saving a beauty was a trivial matter like eating and drinking. Even Sonosaki Wakana's beauty couldn't attract his attention.

What... What a disgusting and arrogant man.

Sonosaki Wakana is very confident in her charm and she is sure that this is not her problem.

She was a little unsure how to describe her feelings at the moment:

It is neither love nor gratitude.

...More like curiosity—she had never seen a man like this before, so she couldn't help but be a little concerned.

"Hey—where are you going?"

"Maybe... save the world?"

What the hell, this man is sick...

Sonosaki Wakana hesitated for a moment, then trotted after him, bag in hand, panting, "You look tired. Do you want to go to my house and rest?"

This man looked like he hadn't slept for three days and three nights. His eyes, on his resolute face, showed obvious fatigue...

She remembered how bad she felt the last time she worked overtime - so she blurted it out.

After she finished speaking, she realized how shocking and shameless her words were, and quickly turned her face away, not daring to look at him.

She really couldn't figure out what she was thinking. She was a single beauty living alone!

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After the death of his mother and younger brother, the huge Sonosaki family changed.

The eldest sister's personality is disgusting, and their father is obsessed with selling memory cards, turning Fengdu into a testing ground, and does not regard them as family at all.

Since then, she has used her salary from working at the radio station to buy an apartment of about 40 square meters to live alone, and she would rather not go back home than go back.

Thinking of this, she felt even more ashamed and angry—that house only had one room! Sonosaki Wakana, are you awake?!

"Okay." Tiandao Zongsi agreed naturally.

He looked at the woman in front of him, a little confused as to why her face was so red. Was it because the stalker just now made her angry?

"——?"

Sonosaki Wakana looked up in surprise. She didn't expect the other party to agree so readily.

Doesn't he think he's a pervert?

"Please, please follow me." Sonosaki Wakana completely lost her usual ladylike aura. She spoke quickly and softly, then took the lead as if running away.

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In what Sonosaki thought was an awkward atmosphere, the two of them came to her house in silence.

Tendou Souji followed the woman whose name he didn't know into the room and looked up, taking in the small room.

The room was cramped, but fairly tidy and clean, with a pleasant, light scent of laundry detergent and shower gel.

On the left side of the door is a small kitchen, not to mention pots and pans, there are not even bowls and chopsticks. Tendou Souji sighed in his heart, thinking that the cooking skills of girls nowadays are worrying.

To the right is the closed bathroom, and in front is the simple living room, which only has a lazy sofa and an old-fashioned TV on the TV cabinet, with a small rectangular coffee table in the middle.

At the end was the other person's room. Out of politeness, he didn't continue looking around, but just sat down on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest.

"That..." Sonosaki Wakana got stuck in the middle of her words and swallowed them back.

The first thing she did when she got home was to rush into the room to take emergency shelter and quickly sort out her scattered underwear.

When the results came out, I found that this mysterious man had fallen asleep leaning against the sofa.

In fact, she had a lot of questions: Why was he so tired, why did he carry a sword, why was he so skilled...

——Although [Masquerade] is a mass-produced memory used by the most basic miscellaneous soldiers, it should not be something that ordinary humans can handle.

But seeing his expression, the words on the tip of my tongue couldn't come out...

Well, anyway, it was me who offered to bring him back to rest.

Looking at the other person's frown while resting, Sonosaki Wakana was a little curious about what he dreamed about.

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In a dream.

In the vast white sky and earth, Tendou Souji seemed to hear someone calling him.

He wanted to respond to the call and stretched out his hand, but when he opened his eyes, he was suddenly back to darkness and his whole body was in pain.

He felt around and realized he was buried under rubble.

He struggled to free himself, but the huge rubble pressing against his waist and legs remained motionless, and the pain in his body intensified as he moved.

"Meteorite...Shibuya...will die?"

Tiandao Zongsi was talking in a dream.

It seemed like his entire body was bleeding, and perhaps a few bones were broken, and he was getting colder and colder.

In the boundless darkness, the clouds dispersed and the moonlight shone in through the gaps between the rubble.

Tendo Souji accidentally saw a flower bud shining. He heard the sound of the hem of his clothes fluttering in the wind and forced himself to raise his head.

"It's okay...I'm here with you."

The man, whose face couldn't be seen clearly in the moonlight, smiled gently and said to him.

The man disappeared after saying this.

After a long time, Tendou Souji regained some strength.

"......Xu?" He seemed to see his sister waving at him.

Countless illusions came to him: his parents who were killed by monsters, his sister Shuhua from the Tendō family, his sister Kusakabe Xu who was a bug, and himself, Kusakabe Souji...

Tendo Souji suspected that he was in a nightmare, but in his confused memory, the feeling of holding Xu's young and soft hand was real.

"...Xu? Yes...I should hold on firmly..."

"Grandma once said...the one chosen by fate...is me."

When he thought of his sister and what his grandmother had said, Tendo Souji felt that he couldn't give up here.

Facing his sister's waving phantom, he stretched out his hand towards the shining bud like trying to catch the moon from the bottom of a well.

But it's always just a little bit short, and I can never touch it.

Just when Tendo Souji held his breath, ignoring the pain surging through his body, and seemed about to touch the flower bud...

The mountain of rubble collapsed mercilessly, burying him.

——Tendo Souji suddenly opened his eyes, cold sweat soaking the fabric on his back.