Kamen Rider, but with a wild start.

After the conversation with Kurim ended.

As he walked down from the hospital rooftop, he stood at the corner of the dimly lit corridor and looked down at his palm with a somewhat bewildered expression.

—Recalling that time on the riverbank, when the hunter was about to leave on his steed, the Tracker, Kino called him back.

"Chase, I've been thinking about it, and there are some things I want to tell you alone."

"What do you mean?" the hunter asked, turning back in confusion.

"Because you are rigid enough. Whether as a mechanical mutant or a cloned human, your personality is inflexible and unchanging. You are very reassuring when it comes to entrusting things to you!" Kino said with admiration.

The hunter: "..."

The mechanical mutant was speechless for a moment.

Although it was a matter of trust being placed in someone, these words didn't sound like a compliment at all.

The hunters even started to take it seriously.

"You mean I'm not like a human being at all?"

“While becoming human is the ultimate dream for you mechanical mutants, my advice is that being three-tenths like a human is enough. If Chase, you really become a completely emotional human who can cry and laugh, I will find it disgusting,” Kino said tactfully.

"……nausea?"

Mechanical variant pupil earthquake.

After casually criticizing someone, Kino still had to explain things to him, but Chase was already in a daze, his mind filled with that word.

……

—After returning to the hospital.

The hunter, who had come down from the rooftop, saw Shidao Gang, whom he hadn't seen all night, sitting in the hall. He immediately walked over quickly, put his hand on Shidao's shoulder, and examined him.

"Gang, are you alright?"

"Hey, what are you doing? Stop trying to get close to me, it's disgusting!" Shijima Tsuyoshi slapped his hand away in disgust.

"nausea……?"

The hunter's body stiffened, and his pupils dilated in shock once more.

Although Shijima found his reaction a bit strange, he didn't pay much attention to it, and just frowned and asked, "What did you do last night? I haven't seen you since?"

The hunter snapped out of his daze and looked at him, but Shijima Tsuyoshi looked away again and said, "Just so you know, I accidentally lost your Tracker, but I'll find it again!"

The hunter, who already knew the truth, nodded after hearing this, showing little reaction—because he had already ridden the car back last night.

Seeing that Shidao had only finished speaking and then stopped, the hunter couldn't help but ask, "Is there anything else?"

"That's all." Shijima replied instantly.

"..."

Hunting: Stare

Shijima Tsuyoshi's gaze was clearly evasive.

After a while, Hunter reached into his inner pocket and was about to pull out the signal Mach when Tomari Shinnosuke walked over from the hospital corridor.

"Oh? Chase, you're back too!" Shinnosuke Tomari greeted him.

"How's the situation at Nissan?"

Shijima Tsuyoshi quickly went up to change the subject.

After returning last night, Shijima confirmed that Shinnosuke Tomari had not been attacked and had his belt stolen. Therefore, the guy who appeared at the time looked exactly like Kamen Rider Drive, which was very suspicious. Even the white-haired girl in the laboratory was shrouded in mystery.

Perhaps finding the matter too strange, Shijima no longer concealed the operation.

So he chose to take the person back to the Special Branch.

Shinnosuke Tomari frowned and said, "Although there are no external injuries, it looks like she suffered a brain injury and has lost her memory. We also have no way of knowing her identity for the time being."

Shijima Tsuyoshi looked gloomy after hearing this.

He gritted his teeth and punched the wall: "For a place like that to appear, it must be another experiment with mechanical mutants!"

Because of his identity, Shijima's complex feelings toward "mechanical mutants" couldn't be explained in a few words, so Tomari Shinnosuke didn't say much.

While patting the child on the shoulder to comfort him, Tomari Shinnosuke looked questioningly at the hunter beside him, who nodded back.

So when Shijima went to the ward to check on the "white-haired beauty with amnesia" whom he had brought back the night before, the two walked to a corner of the hospital corridor, and Chase recounted what had happened when he went to find Kino the day before.

"A plan to deal with the barbarians?"

This news is exactly what Shinnosuke Tomari was thinking.

Although Kino seems fine now, Banno Tenjuro remains a potential threat.

Regardless of whether that guy accidentally split into two different personalities, as long as Kino, who doesn't harbor much malice towards them, is inclined to deal with Banno, this is undoubtedly good news.

"When should we test the waters?" Tomari Shinnosuke asked excitedly.

"He said he promised to help Medic complete his super evolution, so let's wait a few days. Right now, Medic is still out looking for dogs," the hunter said.

"...Looking for the dog??"

……

……

A year ago, during the "global freeze" caused by 108 mechanical mutants, Mirei Hatori and her dog were involved in a car accident.

Medic treated Mirei Hatori and hid her in a coma in the base of the mechanical mutants, while the dog was sent to an animal shelter.

So she spent some time finding the dog she hadn't paid much attention to before.

Now, after meeting the dog's surprised and sincere eyes, Medic realized that she actually really liked the dog.

"Xiang?"

Medic squatted down, gently stroking the dog's fluffy head with his gentle eyes and brows: "So your name is 'Xiang'?"

However, she still didn't quite understand why the thing that Hatori Mirei projected the deepest feelings onto was a dog, rather than the person the other person loved.

"You mechanical mutants are too obsessed with humanity, so you've become a bit stuck in your ways of thinking."

Kino suddenly squatted down opposite her, startling Medic so much that she instinctively hugged the puppy tightly, as if guarding against a possible attack.

The dog wasn't afraid of the stranger at all; it even wagged its tail at Kino and its tongue lolling out looked like it was smiling.

Kino reached out and rubbed the dog's head, saying, "'Love' isn't just a feeling that exists in the human heart; any life in this world can have love."

Medic frowned after snatching his dog back: "What do you mean?"

Kino looked at her meaningfully: "The one who made you feel 'love' back then... might not have been that girl."

Medic: "..."

When Medic replicated a human, the first emotion she felt was love. Having gained "love," she also fell in love with Heart, the first person she cured. From then on, this love and desire became increasingly profound in her heart.

But if she loves Heart so deeply, why hasn't she undergone a Mega Evolution yet?

because……

The love she felt at that time actually came from the unwavering and steadfast trust that pets have in their owners.

Medic has always been misunderstood.

She stood there stunned for a moment, gradually recalling everything that had happened. That pure and sincere love rekindled in her heart, something so nostalgic and joyful.

A dazzling golden light emanated from Medic, instantly transforming her into an evolved form of a mechanical mutant. She then floated into the air, her red petals scattering like rose petals, and her originally orange-red body turned golden in the light.

Medical Machine Mutants - Super Evolution!

As Kino watched this scene, a certain background music seemed to be playing in his mind, and a gratified smile appeared on his face.

"This child is teachable!"

The medical cyborg slowly landed on the ground. She looked at her current posture with surprise and felt the surging and powerful force within her body.

Her long-awaited super evolution is finally complete!

Kino smiled and said, "Alright, Heart's injuries probably haven't fully healed yet. Quickly use your new power to heal him!"

Not far from the park, Heart, who had been searching for them, had been standing there observing for a long time. The medical mechanical mutant seemed to sense something and turned to look, its excitement overflowing.

"Lord Heart, I've also undergone a Mega Evolution!" Medic exclaimed happily.

"Medic, congratulations."

Heart smiled too.

Heart was genuinely happy for Medic's successful hyper-evolution, but a different, more subtle emotion was also lingering in his heart.

Heart looked at Kino: "So, all the promised numbers have been collected, right?"

Kino picked up the dog leash that Medic had thrown on the ground and took it by the leash. Hearing this, she just said without turning her head, "No, I said I'm not."

Heart narrowed her eyes slightly, her expression unreadable.

—But the barbarians who have transformed themselves into "mechanical mutants" are essentially super-evolved beings.

Before he knew of Kino's existence, he thought that Banno's approach to Medic was for ulterior motives, so he instructed Brain to hide in order to prevent Banno from having any conspiracies after he collected the "Promised Number".

It turns out the other party had no ulterior motives at all...

……

Kino simply turned and left with the puppy—he planned to go and beat up Brain.

In this way, the injured brain will seek treatment from Medic, and the pre-programmed virus program can then be transmitted to their digital core.

Just as Kino had no desire to fight Heart before, his feelings toward these mechanical mutants were also somewhat complicated. Since he couldn't make up his mind to completely eliminate them, he could at least limit them.

Kino picked up the slow-moving puppy and lifted it up to look at it with great interest.

"I guess I'm still pretty popular with those puppies, huh? I wonder how 'Bruman' is doing now, after things are all over here..."

I'm not going back to 1986!

I do miss those people a little.

However, now [Kamen Rider Chronicle] only has two chances to travel through time. He keeps one chance as a backup, and with the remaining chance, he and the Hunter need to devise a plan to test whether Tenjuro Banno is still around.

There are no more Kamen Riders to record in the 1986 and present Drive worlds. If he doesn't seek other solutions, he might get stuck if he returns to 2014.

So the next time he travels through time, he has to go to a world with a large number of Kamen Riders to bring the number of times he travels back to a safe range.

Under what circumstances would the number of Kamen Riders reach a "large" level?

Kino's mind was immediately filled with images of knight battles.

I have a slight headache...

Moreover, he not only needed a large number of knights, but more importantly, the knights' belts had to be easily accessible, since he also needed to be able to go and return quickly to avoid any mishaps.

In any case, at least two Kamen Riders should be included next time.

So, looking at worlds with a large number of knights...

……

Chapter 44 The Possibilities of Humans and Mechanical Mutants

"A murder scene?"

The green belt area surrounding the hospital.

When Kino brought the dog here, she saw a man pushing a girl's wheelchair to the steps of the walkway not far away.

If you push it one more step forward, the wheelchair can fall straight down from the highest point.

So, the girl in the wheelchair, who was already in a vegetative state, would either die or be seriously injured, and it's possible that she would fall into a deep, unconscious state.

Meanwhile, not far away on the other side, in a blind spot, Shinnosuke Tomari and Kiriko Shijima were chatting, completely unaware of the murder that was about to take place.

This was the first time Kino had encountered something like this, so he immediately took out his tablet to take a picture. However, the little dog he had brought along immediately started barking excitedly.

"Wang! Wang! Wang!"

The puppy tried to break free of its leash and run over, its barking startling the man not far away.

He looked around in a panic, but could only hear the barking of dogs and could not see anyone yet. Perhaps the passersby had not yet come this way. So the man gritted his teeth and suddenly pushed the wheelchair out!