Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

"That's true for the Kamen Riders outside, but! It's not true for the people who came with Anya!"

Anya patted her chest, seemingly to attract the children's attention.

"Um, my name is Anya Foggie, nice to meet you!"

"And then I hope everyone can listen to me talk about how these Kamen Riders have helped Anya and Anya's parents these past few days..."

The children approached Anya one after another, gradually becoming engrossed in what she was saying.

Everyone sat together in a circle, and Anya sat in the middle and began to tell them stories.

From initial unfamiliarity and rejection, their relationship gradually began to grow closer.

These are human children.

If they communicate sincerely, they will surely be able to understand each other's thoughts and trust each other.

Joel and Lloyd gazed at everything before them with deep emotion.

"I have a feeling... our Anya has grown up."

“I feel the same way, Mr. Lloyd!”

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Volume 4, Knights' War: Chapter 106 Why can you trust others?

"Is that so?"

"Yes, and when Brother Yan Ming was by the lake, he just scooped up all the little fish and shrimp in the water in a flash!"

"Whoa whoa--!"

"Then, what about his previous ability? Didn't he just use something like a wall to build the wooden house in one go?"

"Uh... well, anyway, that's one of Brother Yan Ming's abilities! If he wanted to, he could even pull the moon down from the sky!!"

"Pull the moon?!"

"Wow, that's awesome! It sounds so cool!"

"That's right—!"

In short, through a series of boastful claims, Anya finally managed to make these children realize just how powerful Yan Ming was in her mind.

Of course, she also boasted about other Kamen Riders during this time, such as Geiz, Denji, and Kusaka Masato, but none of them were as exaggerated as Yan Ming.

In Anya's words, Yan Ming became a superman who could fly to the heavens and dive into the earth, shatter Mars with a single slap, survive flying into a black hole, and even instantly fly over to fight off monsters if someone cried for help on the other side of the universe.

It felt like they were omnipotent.

"But...aren't you scared?"

"Afraid...? Why?"

Anya seemed slightly puzzled by the questions posed by these teenagers.

"After all, uh... with his incredible abilities, won't he really hurt you?"

"No, that's never happened."

Anya shook her head and said very seriously.

"Although we haven't known Brother Yan Ming for very long, he has protected us many times. Anya doesn't think that Brother Yan Ming would do anything to hurt us!"

"Really?"

The children looked at each other in bewilderment.

"But he's a Kamen Rider... My parents told us that all Kamen Riders are the embodiment of evil and will bring us misfortune—"

"So that's why! Brother Yan Ming and his friends are completely different from those Kamen Riders outside!"

Anya stood up and spoke loudly to the children.

"To this day, none of them have ever harmed us, not even once. They have fought against those knights and monsters to protect us more than once! They would never do such a thing!"

"Ania has always believed this, and never thought that Brother Yanming and the others would be bad people!!"

Hearing Anya's words, the children all became somewhat bewildered.

They were, after all, just kids about the same age as Anya.

The reason why they feel repulsed by the Kamen Riders is because their parents have always instilled in them the idea that "Kamen Riders are beings that bring misfortune to the world".

Hearing Anya say this, they began to have some doubts about whether the ideas their parents had instilled in them were correct.

Actually...

"I...I don't actually think those older brothers are bad people."

One of the boys said this after careful consideration.

“Sister Nazhu said they lived in this village to protect us, right? And they haven’t done anything bad so far, I don’t think they’re bad people…”

"Me too! If it were one of those Kamen Riders we've seen before, they would have kidnapped us all already! Just like they kidnapped my parents' friends..."

"That's what I think too..."

"Me too…"

Anya blinked, unable to suppress a look of surprise.

"He's actually hanging out with the village kids..."

at this time.

The young man from before and his companions came from the vicinity.

The young man wearing the hat frowned as he saw Anya chatting happily with the village children.

"What's going on? Why are the kids who hang out with the Kamen Riders playing with the kids from our village?"

"I'm telling you, there should be a limit, shouldn't there?"

His companions also looked at him with displeasure.

"How long are you going to keep targeting those Kamen Riders? Half a lifetime? Or a lifetime? They're all different, so why do you think they're all villains?!"

"If that's the case, what evidence do you have to prove that they are different from the Kamen Riders outside?"

The young man then noticed Lloyd and Joel standing to one side.

He sized up Anya and the couple, his disgust growing even stronger.

"In fact, there should be quite a few people who think like me, and you yourselves know that very well."

"That...that's indeed the case."

"No one wants to be around guys like Kamen Rider. Even if they don't do anything intentionally, they will only bring disaster to humanity. Just being around them means you could face the risk of death at any time."

Moreover… the young man’s expression twisted completely when he recalled that all his relatives had died at the hands of those guys.

"I'll never forget that scene... Tsk! Isn't it these guys who ruthlessly stole away our human lives?!"

"What do you mean, fighting for justice? Fighting those monsters to defeat evil? Don't be ridiculous. Because of them, the entire human civilization on Earth... has been destroyed! The cities we live in have been destroyed by them!"

"How can I accept the existence of people who killed all my loved ones? Even if they didn't do these things, they are Kamen Riders, and they are fundamentally different from us humans!"

"So you're going to target those kids too? Indiscriminately, rejecting everything related to Kamen Rider... Is this your choice?"

"Ah, yes, that's exactly it."

The young man looked at Anya, who was having fun with the children.

"It's not just me, ninety percent of the people in this village think the same way, not to mention guys like this who are willing to hang out with Kamen Rider...it's just—"

As a result, those words reached the ears of the people nearby.

Joel and Lloyd had already heard everything he said, and these words immediately caused Joel to widen his eyes in disbelief.

"How dare he say that...? That's outrageous!"

"Miss Joel."

After quickly taking his wife's hand, Lloyd calmly looked at the young man.

"Could you let me handle this?"

Soon after, the young man saw Lloyd walk over to him.

Ah, yes, this guy is the same.

When the young man recalled that Lloyd was among the people who had been with Yan Ming, he immediately revealed an extremely unfriendly look.

What do you want?

"It's nothing, young man."

"Young man...? I'm already nineteen years old, and you still call me a young man?"

"So what if you're nineteen? It makes no difference."

Lloyd suppressed a mix of emotions within him.

He took a deep breath and looked at the young man with a rational gaze.

"I know it's impossible for you to trust Yan Ming and the others."

"But... I just want you to understand that they won't harm the innocent, and those of us who are with them won't do anything to make things difficult for the people in this village either."

Lloyd tried his best to reason with the other party.

“I learned about your situation from the village chief. We are actually like you; we have lost people around us in the past because of the battles between Kamen Riders and monsters.”

"But... we can't generalize and see all Kamen Riders the same just because of our past experiences, right? If they really wanted to hurt us, wouldn't it be easy for them? Why haven't they made a move yet?"

"Give them a chance, try to trust them, they won't do anything bad to us... so—"

"That's... ridiculous."

what?

Lloyd paused slightly, while the young man in front of him simply stared at him coldly.

His companions were also shocked by his actions.

"They won't hurt us...? They'll protect us? Then why are people like them only showing up now? Where were they when those guys killed my parents?"

"What do you mean you can understand me... Don't be ridiculous! Do you even know how many people in this village have lost their loved ones because of those Kamen Riders?!"

"Don't try to lecture me with your experiences. Do you think your and that bunch of kids' obsession with those guys is enough to convince anyone? After all, are those guys with that kind of power even human? You're just associating with a bunch of people who aren't even human—"

thump—

Consciousness was interrupted, and all the words I wanted to say seemed to be stuck in my throat.

Before the young man could even realize what had happened, he collapsed to the ground.

"Well--?!"

It was Lloyd who punched the young man directly in the face.

He simply couldn't stand it anymore.

That calm, indifferent expression, and that slightly outstretched fist, completely froze the young man's thoughts.

"Mr. Lloyd!"

Joel seemed shocked by this as well. She had thought about fighting the young man herself, but she never imagined that her husband would fight him in her place.

The children in the distance also noticed this and began to discuss it in shock.

"Oh, Anya! There's a fight going on over there!"

"Huh...? It's, it's Dad?!"

"What? That person is your father—Hey Anya!"

Anya then ran directly to Lloyd and Joel's side, looking at the young man lying on the ground with some shock.

"Dad... Dad..."

"It's alright, Anya, don't worry."

The young man wiped his mouth and then slowly got up from the ground.

At that moment, he heard footsteps behind him again.