Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

However, he absolutely did not believe he would lose, no matter what.

The heavy atmosphere gradually became more solemn. He and Gates stood together in front of the young man, who was just one person, in this spacious, temple-like environment.

"...Let's go."

There's no room for further nonsense.

The two took out their respective drivers and, under the calm gaze of the other, each put on their transformation items onto their belts.

A series of intersecting flashes of light.

Reappearing before the Right Flame were a silver-purple figure and an orange-black figure.

Kamen Rider Zi-O, Second Form.

Kamen Rider Geiz, Revive: Fierce Form.

The two men looked heavily at their enemy, while their enemy looked at them with ease.

"Let's begin the battle then. Just so you know, I won't be leaving you with any intact corpses!"

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For an instant.

The fire on the right raised a third hand from behind, and an invisible impact came crashing down on the two of them.

Boom!! Yan Ming and Gates leaped into the air at high speed, and the ground beneath their feet instantly shattered.

They cannot confront the fire on the right head-on; they would absolutely be no match for it.

"Let's split up and act separately."

After leaving those words, Yan Ming's body vanished from the spot in an instant.

The fire on the right disagreed.

A series of intertwined afterimages flashed from behind, and Yan Ming directly swung his strongest ultimate sword at him from behind.

Bang--!!

However, the blade was instantly stopped by some invisible force.

"I hope your plan isn't as naive as I think, otherwise—"

Yan Ming then came to his senses and observed the future that was about to unfold.

That was a future where I would be attacked and blown away without warning.

"You can't change anything!"

Boom! A burst of light from the riot erupted in front of us.

However, Yan Ming was not flustered at all, and took the opportunity to retreat sharply to the back.

His body seemed to be buried in an invisible wall; in fact, he had removed his entire existence directly from the current world's timeline.

In this way, Yan Ming can theoretically avoid all attacks, but his body cannot withstand the environment outside the timeline for a long time, so he cannot stay here for long either.

However, this way, the attack from the right side of the fire would miss, and he would not be knocked away in the future.

That instant.

Yan Ming, who was outside the current world's timeline, directly saw a golden attack hurtling towards him.

boom!!

Before he could even react, his body had already moved, suddenly returning from the distant timeline to the original timeline. However, even so, he still couldn't shake off the attack from the right side of the fire.

The moment Yan Ming landed, he was instantly bombarded by golden light and sent flying backward.

My whole body instantly experienced an unimaginable sense of destruction.

"What... happened...?"

Rising from the pile of countless broken rubble, Yan Ming realized that the future he had just faced... had not been avoided.

No, that's not right—theoretically, I should have already cleared all of Right Fire's moves, so there's no way he could hit me.

"I've already said it, I hope your plan isn't as naive as I think. You don't really believe that walking your dog around like that will allow you to evade my power, do you?"

As if sensing Yan Ming's confusion, Right Fire couldn't help but laugh.

"Let me tell you, no matter where you run, no matter what kind of defense you use, angle, distance, strength, these are not problems."

However, at this moment, Yan Ming's body could no longer be seen by the fire on the right.

Because he accelerated his own time in an instant and suddenly slowed down the time of the fire on the right.

Under the influence of this dual temporal force, everything around becomes virtually still.

Yan Ming accelerated the speed of time, instantly arriving in front of the fire on the right, but at that moment—

The golden strike blasted his body away once again.

Boom!! The second time, Yan Ming was directly knocked into the wall behind him. He quickly got up and saw the moment when the fire on his right swung its arm at him again.

If we could stop his time the moment he launched his attack, we might be able to stop it.

With this thought in mind, time around Yan Ming instantly stopped flowing, and the body of Right Fire also stopped in place.

It worked; time was indeed stopped.

—Yan Ming's body was still sent flying.

Boom!! Countless piles of rubble were blown apart again, and his body was sent flying hundreds of meters backward.

The next instant, time, which had been frozen, resumed its flow.

"...truly unrepentant."

Right Fire smiled indifferently, took a step forward, and instantly appeared in front of Yan Ming.

"You still don't understand the nature of my power?"

Even if the Right Flame stopped explaining, Yan Ming had already truly understood how his power worked.

First, it needs to be clarified that—

No matter how Yan Ming tried to stop time, even if his ability to stop time worked on the Right Flame, even if his body was no longer in this world, even if he had already escaped the timeline—

The attack from the right side of the fire still could not be dodged.

"Distance, speed, strength, ability, defense—no matter what you use, you can't dodge or withstand my power!"

He revealed the true nature of his power.

"Normally, I should have been able to knock you down instantly with a wave of my hand, because the power I release is just enough to defeat you. But you keep getting up, and I'm starting to wonder if you're even human."

The words fell.

Yan Ming ignored a single word from Right Fire. He raised his sword and unleashed a powerful strike imbued with energy.

"Zi-O's strongest! Overlord Slash!"

"Humph."

Boom—the blade was once again blocked by an invisible force.

"I've already said it."

The fire on the right didn't even move its own limbs; it was just using a third hand to attack.

"I don't need—defense!"

Because any output weaker than his overall strength will be neutralized by his power, no matter what kind of enemy it is, as long as it is weaker than his overall strength, he will kill it instantly, no matter where it is.

The moment the next blow lands, Yan Ming will probably be sent flying thousands of meters away.

before that.

Instead, he took a step back, and another figure came directly in front of him.

"What…?"

Boom! Something happened that surprised the Right Fire slightly.

The one who took the hit was not Yan Ming... but Gates.

In his fierce form, Gates arrived in front of Yan Ming just before the attack was judged as an "enemy," and allowed the Right Flame's attack to judge him as an "enemy."

The thick armor instantly provided him with powerful defense, and even when the power of the fire on the right suddenly increased to the level that could destroy a city, it was blocked by Gates in an instant.

Taking advantage of this time difference in the attack, Yan Ming unleashed his prepared slash head-on.

Gates, standing beside him, also raised his weapon.

The two attacks merged, transforming into a purple-orange light that instantly exploded towards the fire on the right.

The battle fortress known as the Star of Bethlehem continues to be shaken.

Volume 5, A Certain Magical Index: Chapter 219 A Gradually Disadvantaging Situation?!

In a moment of crisis, Woz took Touma Kamijou back to the original ground.

"Are you OK?"

"Ha... I'm fine, but Yan Ming and the others..."

"Do you still have the mind to care about my Demon King? Take a good look at your current physical condition. I won't have time to worry about you from now on."

Given that Yan Ming's side could be in danger at any moment, Woz couldn't just stay safely on the ground.

But Touma Kamijou still refused to give up.

He forced himself to his feet, even though his limbs were almost stiff and powerless, he still intended to stand up again and walk towards the fire on the right.

"Hey! That's thousands of meters in the air. You can't possibly get up there by yourself."

"But you can do it with your power, right?"

Faced with Touma Kamijou's words, Woz could only choose to remain silent.

Indeed, if it were Woz, he could easily move thousands of meters into the air using his own abilities. Even if Touma Kamijou had Imagine Breaker, which could nullify all supernatural powers, Woz could still take him back to Bethlehem using his unique methods.

"My demon king's task for me is to protect your safety and keep you away from the battlefield."

"Should I stay away from the battlefield? Then do you know that the primary target of the Right Flame is me?"

Touma Kamijou was determined not to compromise on Woz's claims.

"Do you know that if I leave, it means that guy will stop at nothing to chase me? To get my right hand, he will ruthlessly destroy cities and countries alike! Wherever I am, I will suffer the same fate. Do you think there is any place that is safe?"

"So what are you planning to do? Are you planning to dig a two-meter-deep hole and crawl into it?"

"Since there's no way to escape... then of course we have to confront that guy head-on."

Woz frowned; he simply couldn't understand Touma Kamijou's thought process.

"Get this straight, you don't have any superhuman strength or extraordinary physique. You're just an ordinary person... except for your right hand, but with that little bit of strength, you can't possibly be of any help."

"Even so, I still have to go, because that guy still holds the Spirit Gear that controls Index... If I don't destroy it in time, Index will continue to suffer!"

"That kind of thing can be handled by my Demon King. Besides, you know that you are now the main target of the Right Flame. Have you thought about what will happen if you recklessly go back up like this?"

At this moment, Touma Kamijou couldn't help but recall what Yan Ming had said to him earlier.

"...You're just a burden to us right now. I don't know how powerful your right hand is, but if my Demon King and Geiz are distracted while protecting you and get injured, or if the Right Flame takes your right hand and causes you to become even stronger, or something like that..."

"If that kind of thing really happened, how do you think it would end up?"

In that case, I'm afraid no one will be able to stop the fire on the right.

Touma Kamijou really wanted to refute him. He wanted to say that he had come this far through sheer willpower, and that he had to protect that nun personally no matter what.

But Wozniak is right.

At times like these, the fight should be left to those who are capable of fighting.

"hateful…"

The boy clenched his fists in frustration, forced to suppress all his anger and sadness.

"Damn it, this is outrageous!!"

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The battle is still ongoing.