Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

That must have been tough on him.

"Sigh... How unfortunate. I thought being exiled here by Academy City was bad enough."

"Why were you exiled here?"

"Not long ago, I saw a girl who could generate electricity, and then I helped her solve some things related to her sister. After that, I was thrown here by the people of Academy City."

It seems that Touma Kamijou also knows about the Misaka Sisters.

Yan Ming nodded, indicating that he understood.

Click.

At that moment, the door was opened.

"Oh my, isn't this Touma?"

"This must be Touma's friend, right? Nice to meet you! It's really great to see you here!"

The people who came out of one of the doors were Touma Kamijou's parents.

Needless to say, her mother's words had already been replaced with Index's appearance.

As for what the father said…

Yan Ming narrowed his eyes slightly and moved closer to Kamijou Touma.

"Has your father always looked like this?"

"Huh...?"

The other person blinked in surprise, and at that moment—

Boom—

A series of tremors suddenly came from not far away.

"Huh? This...this is an earthquake?"

The house was shaking violently, but Yan Ming realized that this was not a simple natural earthquake.

There are people... fighting over there.

"Excuse me, I'll be right back in a minute."

"Huh? Where are you going?!"

Ignoring the astonished gazes of the three people around him, Yan Ming sprinted straight ahead.

"This is…!"

On the other side, Kanzaki Kaori, who was tidying her clothes by herself, also sensed a strange aura.

Not far away, Misha stood alone on the beach, a strange light flashing in her eyes.

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"How boring."

Now, only Gates was walking around the hotel.

Woz said he wanted to try the hotel's food and stayed there alone, but Gates wasn't hungry, so he went out for a walk by himself.

"After thinking it over and over, it seems that I haven't found any information about that guy, Sougo."

Although Woz told himself that as long as he traveled with that guy named Tokiwa Enmei, there was a chance he could find Tokiwa Sougo's whereabouts...

It seems like the chances are slim now.

Standing in the sunset, Gates gazed at the distant setting sun, his heart filled with complex emotions.

"Why did I decide to travel with them in the first place?"

Even Gates himself couldn't explain it all.

Was the reason I followed these two people really... just because I wanted to find information about Sougo?

"Traveling? You really have a leisurely lifestyle."

"what?"

A sense of hostility came from behind.

Gates quickly turned around and looked at the bushes not far behind him.

"Who is it?!"

The man who slowly emerged from the bushes was a man dressed in familiar clothes.

That outfit was exactly the same as the one Woz was wearing.

"Oh, I almost forgot."

The man leaned against a tree, chuckling as he looked at Gates.

“You are Geiz Meikoin from another timeline, not the partner of Tokiwa Sougo whom we manipulated as a puppet.”

What are you... saying?

This guy knows... about Tokiwa Sougo and his past?!

Under Gates's gaze, the other party slowly pulled out a black and white object from behind his back.

Space-Time Driver.

"Why do you have that?!"

The man remained silent.

He calmly attached the driver to his waist and then took out a blue and red watch face.

After aligning the dial, he immediately pressed the button on the dial.

"Zamonas!"

"As per Lord Sougo's orders, Meikoin Geiz... I will eliminate you and the new Zi-O in this other world."

Volume 5, A Certain Magical Index: Chapter 150 A Kamen Rider Not Belonging to the Heisei Era

What's up with this person?

Gates had no memory of the man in front of him, and he couldn't understand why such a guy would have a Kamen Rider transformation device.

Reality doesn't allow Gates to indulge in wild fantasies.

The man wore the watch face on his belt, and a huge rotating red and blue icon immediately appeared behind him.

"Transformation."

He twirled his belt rapidly.

The icon immediately corrected itself, and a high-heat shockwave exploded around it, accompanied by a burst of flames, which sent Gates flying.

A deep red glow filled the man's entire body.

After everything had dissipated, he appeared before Gates wearing some kind of armor.

"Rider Time! Kamen Rider Zamonas!"

A red and blue outfit, gold shoulder armor, and a cape-like garment.

Kamen Rider Zamonas.

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"In the name of the great Timekeeper, I will utterly annihilate you here, you lackey of the Demon King!"

boom--

In the blink of an eye, the enemy's figure had disappeared from sight.

As soon as Gates recovered from the shockwave, his body was already grabbed by his opponent.

"You bastard!"

Zamonas slapped Gates away.

His body rolled on the ground, and after feeling the real force on his face, Gates' expression became completely filled with rage.

"No matter who you are... I won't let you get away with this! Transform!"

"Rider Time! Kamen Rider Geiz!"

After the crimson light faded, Gates also completed his transformation and charged towards Zamonas.

However, this powerful figure from the mysterious organization Timekeepers did not panic.

Instead of responding to Gates's direct punch, he used his superior speed to grab Gates's fist.

Click.

However, by simply twisting his wrist, Gates nearly broke his arm.

"Gaaaaaah—!!"

"So weak."

Boom! Zamonas raised his right leg, and the deep blue light transformed into a shockwave that pierced into Gates' abdomen.

Having suffered a direct impact, Gates fell to the ground for the third time.

"Aren't you going to use your resurrected Geiz? If you fight me in this weak form, you'll really die, won't you?"

"You... bastard..."

Gates struggled and quickly got up from the ground.

Are you kidding me...? How does this guy know about the resurrected Gates?

He couldn't use that form right now, and the opponent's strength... was at least equal to, or even stronger than, Zi-O's second form.

Gates, in his current form, has no chance of defeating his opponent.

but--

'We have to at least get through this phase!'

Gates kept a close watch on the enemy while taking a slight step back.

He ripped a watch face off his arm.

"Ghost!"

"Armor Time! Open your eyes! Ghost!"

Orange-black armor covered his entire body, and the knightly power, which housed the strength of a great man, was completely under Gates' control.

He immediately leaped into the air.

Under the orange light, Gates' body floated directly in mid-air.

boom--!!

After flying to a height of nearly fifty meters in one breath, Gates instantly accelerated towards the ground and attacked the enemy with a flying kick.

The two sides are intertwined on the ground.

Zamonas raised his right arm and used his shoulder armor to completely block Gates' kick.

"Now!"

In that instant, Gates' body transformed into a phantom-like spirit.

The spirit-like Gates passed right through Zamonas's body and instantly transformed back into a physical form the moment he appeared behind him.

Zamonas clearly felt an incredibly powerful impact coming from the back of his head.

But he just gave a bored laugh.

Then—they easily dodged it.

"Varied--?"

The attack I finally managed to unleash... was just dodged like that?

When Gates came to his senses, he saw the red and blue figure retaliate with an overwhelming spinning kick.

At the critical moment, Gates quickly transformed his body back into a spirit form.